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Sim….s portrait practice because I hate drawing them but I need to improve somehow right…

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been watching a lot of vanilla sims 2 players so as a result I've purged a lot of the cc I've been hoarding. Created a family to test a new lite version of gameplay - loving it so far. Less than 5 mins load time.

#so cute!

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#sims 2 #simspiration

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Here's a mod that replaces around 70% of base game hood dog noises with very quiet bird sounds.

*There's also an option to disable Pets EP animal sounds, but that will only be useful for people who don't use Pets EP features.

Less Dog Barking Sounds in Neighborhood View

and optional: no Pets EP animal sounds*

Download (SFS)

I used this tool (MTS) to browse TS2 .xa sound files.

More info below the cut:

'Less Barking in hood view' mod package contains 36 dog barking & howling resources that I've found in base game Sound/Misc file. Yes, 36 - and that's not even all (!)

Lot background sounds are a mix of base game sfx and a f*ckload of additional, louder barking that comes with Pets EP.

So without Pets you might also hear some distant, quiet barking, but it's sparse. With Pets EP, it gets louder when you move the camera near the lot borders. It seems certain objects also emit barking sounds, like the trash can and mail box (??). It can even be heard in CAS.

Those sounds really bother me, but I don't like to play with background sfx switched off and was looking for a solution. Unfortunately, there's no perfect one :( - most of the Pets Misc resources seem to use SPX1 sound file format and cannot be opened (or at least I have no idea how to open it). So I couldn't browse and remove only specific files.

2. edited Misc.package is a PETS EP game file with all sounds removed from it. Unlike the mod, this file has custom installation instructions - it goes into your Sims 2 game installation folder /The Sims 2 Pets/TS Data/Res/Sound/

If you replace that file, pets in your game will be silent. Some other sounds related to Pets EP might also be missing.

Base game background sounds like little birds singing, crickets, owls hooting at night are not affected.

*I've been browsing TS2 sfx resources for a while now, extracted various sounds and replaced some with existing resources ( I haven't managed to replace any with new files tho) - it is probably possible (?) but files need to be in .xa format.

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🍂

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the bicurious brothers and the strangtown teens :3

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👩🏾 twinning 👽

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Bella Goth has died on another lot.

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when i want to play the sims but

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ordinary saturday night

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Just took some final close-ups of my favourite parts of Pricklestone before I start playing :’)

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Campus Coffee House

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The weirdest thing happened today… I wish I had more screenshots to explain this but I just have to type it out. One of my sims asked out another sim on the date. Because of a glitch where the sim doesn’t get into the car to go on the date, I had him ask out a second sim and chose the taxi option.

Upon reaching the community lot, BOTH of the asked-out sims stepped out of the car with my asker sim. The first sim he asked considered herself stood up, got enraged, and walked away after giving my asker sim a shove.

After returning from the otherwise uneventful date with the second sim he had asked out, the first angry sim showed up at the home lot with a paper bag, which she lit on fire, and then ran away! (I have never seen this animation before.)

After stomping out and throwing away the bag (which turned out to be a stink bomb) the lot became covered in garbage which respawned after being picked up.

Has this happened to anyone else before?? What is going on??

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good advice

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ahh it’s so coooool