Simsanto Inc.

Yet another thing that has been sitting on the to-do list for years. I've had the messy prototypes of this in my files for ages but only just got around to making something uploadable. I pretty much don't use the food stand part of the food stands and just customize them with island counters/different barstools/whatever else, so I went the nuclear route and defaulted them by deleting all the mesh parts except for anything related to the stoves. I used a BV stove mesh for the AL diner stand and used the far east stove shadow meshes for all of them so there's no drop shadows for any bits of the stands aside from the stoves and to keep them looking consistent. Hood visibility was disabled. Stoves are also repo'd to the NL restaurant stove and have 2 recolorable subsets like it. I didn't think it was worth messing with the bhavs to stop barstools from spawning since they're easy to delete and replace.

Files go in the documents cep extra file since I had to make a combined cep-extra/default for this to work. I had to break the recolorability of the stand part of the food stands to have 2 recolorable ones on the stove. I didn't edit the textures. If there's any parts of the stands extracted as deco (I've seen this somewhere but can't remember where or if they're repo or standalone) that are repo'd to the stand around, they'll still work but won't be recolorable.

A couple of minor annoyances: I couldn't fully fix the thumbnail for the AL diner stand. The clickable area for the stand objects is larger than the the stove meshes. They seem to be resistant to the usual fixes for these issues

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I repo’d all the community lot speakers to the residential speaker so there would be more color options with far less recolor files. For whatever reason Eaxis made the meshes have different mapping and slight mesh differences between various EPs. I ended up using the NL version (and defaulting the res speaker with it) since it had better mapping than the BG version. I left out the metal, jam band, and new age speakers since they had entirely different meshes.

I also split them into 2 subsets, like some of the later EP ones are, to have the metal  part be shiny without making the rest of it look weird. I made both recolorable and made 3 recolors because why not. 

I enabled the NL textures and recolors for the BG speaker since they had the same texture setup. The OFB+ textures have a different arrangement so I made plainish recolors based off of the original textures (since the patterns on them didn’t translate well with the different mapping). I’m not too happy with the indie wave checker recolor, but included it anyway. Swatch

In addition, I edited and repo’d zeroth’s college rock and jazz speakers. 

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 I figured I’d get the next round of these out. This time, the defaults are: bridge (since an arch and that plumbob statue thing are slaved to it), cooling tower, dutch windmill, farm fields, lighthouses, monorail track, observatory, power plant, radio telescope, radio tower, silo, stone bridge, streetlight, sunken ship, the 4  terrain effects, water tank, water tower, and both wind turbines. I also defaulted the neighborhood cliffs with the textures from 

Only 2 weird defaults this time: the stone bridge is a shed and the streetlight is a trashcan. The rest of the mesh replacements are similar to the originals in type. I did salvage some of the eaxis deco with retextures and mesh tweaking, although I’m not 100% happy with them. Monorail track has options between a retexture and invisible track. The trees are just silent-dragon’s egg hunt oak and walnut tree defaults with more vibrant fall leaves; the other states are unchanged.

The only slightly high polycount mesh is the 4.5k power plant. The main possible issue is that many textures are kind of high-res

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Credits for the meshes and textures I mangled to make these:  Criquette, Chimerical, DeeDee, Freepik, Hafiseazale, Icad, Limonaire, misty-fluff, myfreetextures.com, nuttydazesublime, Shasta, Slig, Subtlepatterns, Suicideloversims, texturise.club, and anyone I forgot to list

Update Dec 18: Redid the default for the non-effect wind turbine. This version is a mesh replacement with a rename and it won’t effect the in-lot functional turbine’s texture like the previous version.

(Includes 10 billboards not pictured)




The next installment of the hood deco defaults finally exists after more off than on working on it for months. This batch is larger than the previous; the defaults are for: ancient henge, ancient Ruins, billboards, concrete breakwater, moai, some rocks, the rest of the signs, street banners, telephone poles, gate arch/flank, row of pilings, train track, and dino dig. As last time, metal is colored to almost-match criquette’s road signs, and either just mesh/texture defaults or more involved with custom txmt/txtr with default shpe/mesh and some thumbnail fixes. Some this time were renamed due to drastic changes between the vanilla and defaults. 

The train track is just an invisible mesh if anyone else wants to use cc tracks with just the train effect, probably not the most useful thing. The rock and sand peninsula had everything but the rock hacked off. It and the will stone replacement have a  choice of being slaved to the cliff rocks or BV beach rocks. There’s also a default of the 2 beach rocks to slave them to the cliff rocks instead since I’m anal about matching boulders (no change of the original texture for these two). The pennant string is my first mesh conversion. I don’t have TS3 so I converted this 3t4 version. 

Note that the ruins and henge meshes are 7.1k and 3.1k polys respectively, and the billboards are bit high res. The rest shouldn’t be anything computer-busting.

All files, compressed, included is a ‘’’’swatch’’’’ for almost everything this time since some defaults have nothing to do with the originals (like gates becoming public bathrooms). 

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Credits for the meshes and textures I mangled to make these:  Criquette, Chimerical,  Deeleesstuff,  Freepik, Hafiseazale, Krindershot, Limonaire, Lowedeus, Mustluvcatz, Simsinsania, Suicideloversims, Simsnowtato,  texturise.club, and whoever I forgot

 

I could’ve saved myself hours of time over the past several months , but no I had to nitpick the hood terrains to the point of making a set of them for my own use. Straight up dirt and concrete are useless for the hoods I make, so dirt is replaced with a mossy-ish terrain for my taiga hoods, and concrete is beachy sand. Lush and desert are more typical stuff. 

All of them have 512x512 in-lot textures with the rest being 1024x1024. I didn’t make a maxis road default to match these. I personally like Dreadpirate’s road defaults, but any ‘universal’ default would work with these (or if someone wants to make maxis roads with my terrains, that’s fine too). 

I also made matching terrain paints for most of the textures, 2 of which were previously made for the floating islands set. The only textures I left out are 3 of the ‘drydry’ textures for the lush terrain since they’re all very similar. I would’ve liked to make them more different, but Eaxis decided to make those tile instead of blend gradually into each other.

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Credits: CuriousB,  Voeille, Simsinsania, suicideloversims for the TS3 conversions, TS2 (I think that’s all of them?)

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