Where do you get your custom content?

[buddha pest]

How about keeping your "page" on the same one when you delete a skin, object, etc., instead of rolling all the way back to the beginning of the category?  It's a huge waste of time to be constantly clicking forward to the place where you left off if you're eliminating stuff toward the end of a long list. 

Is there a good reason why it rolls back like this? Is it something that could be changed one day?

I always say, "okay, I'm gonna delete tons of stuff today," and then it ends up being too tedious after about 10 items, and I give up.

My downloads folder is 1.45GB. Oh, how much faster the game could load.

[Rascal]

Oh dear - my already bulging downloads folder just got even fatter. 
One site I haven't seen mentioned is Genesims http://www.genensims.com/
They have good recolours of the maxis hair and some nice custom skin tones.

[laeshanin]

Use all those sites, and saw very few that I don't use. I quite like sims2sisters.sme.sk and love www.2-f0r-u.de as there are some really original meshes. However, my biggest failing are plants. I'm totally addicted to them and new terrain paints so I can build parks, gardens, desert features, beaches...blah, blah, blah...

[Brynne]

My downloads folder is 1.45GB. Oh, how much faster the game could load.

You're not kidding. I was testing a couple of things in my neighborhood, so I removed my downloads folder. The game loaded lightening fast. But of course my sims were all bald...

[rohina]

For the people who were commenting about needing more good stuff for men: I totally agree, and I did find some interesting things at parsimonious.org. If you are looking for different men's stuff, that's a place to go, and All about Style (http://all-about-style.com/index.html) has quite a lot of men's clothing, although some of it is less than aesthetically pleasing.

I get most of the hair for the sims in my stories from The Sims Resource, but it is a pay site.

edited to add: has anyone seen any good ancient greek and or roman clothing anywhere? I was thinking about doing a multi-generational story with a historical storyline.

[Motoki]

I've seen some Greek and Roman stuff yes, a lot if I can't remember where now though.  But here's a couple of male outfits from someone at MTS2:

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=86825

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=87694

There's also a satyr in the adult section who's, ahem, very alert.

Sussi Friberg has a nice Greek style female toga (a real one, not that college bedsheet crap)

http://www.sussissogoodsims.com/other.htm

And you could probably almost get away with using her Josephine dress for an ancient Greek or Roman setting:

http://www.sussissogoodsims.com/regency.htm

Doing a quick search, I found these couple on the exchange which aren't so bad for having to work with default Maxis meshes:

http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/sim_detail.php?asset_id=283769

http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/sim_detail.php?asset_id=175434

I know I've seen others and some hair too. If I come across any I'll post them.

[Lyall]

It ate my post. *pokes computer screen* Anyways...

Most of the sites I go to have already been mentioned. I'll try to put links that haven't been posted yet.

Motoki posted a link to SimderZ so here I'll post a link to a similar site, Artemistha's site:
http://artemistha.moonfruit.com/

Happy Honey Hunt has some nice clothes, among other things. I'm not too crazy about the other things, specifically the makeup, but there's some nice hair there and I think the site has started to put accesories too:
http://happyhh.s82.xrea.com/

China Fan Sims is a pretty varied site. It has clothes, makeup, genetics, lots, objects, etc.
http://sims.enorth.com.cn/

If anyone is looking for some good videogame Sims, I recommend Thunderbreak and Navetsea over at MTS2. Mimewhite has some fantastic Final Fantasy Sims too, but most people probably already know about him, what with him having made those Sepiroth and Cloud hair meshes and all.

I can't really remember any more at the moment.

[anyeone]

Do y'all not have trouble with downloads that were generated pre-University fubar'ing your installation?  Ever since University every time I try to download custom content it ends up hosing my installation and requiring a new OS install to clean up (and I only ever downloaded clothes and hair).  I have been totally afraid to download any content at all since installing nightlife for fear it would be even worse, but I long for some more options.

[Brynne]

I just found this one today.  EXCELLENT new mesh work!

http://www.11dots.com/

I just got that off Sims Showcase the other day. I've downloaded everything on that site!

[Brynne]

I'm trying to think of sites people haven't already mentioned.

SimsGogogo was a good site for male stuff for TS1 and he's recently started doing TS2 stuff. There's a yahoo group too and a link from his page to it:

http://simsgogogo.moonfruit.com/


http://hnote.net/

I am so glad that simsGogogo is doing TS2 stuff now! I used their skins for Joe and Gary in my TS1 game. They have really nice stuff.
And many of my TS2 guys wear outfits from h-note.
Good picks!

[yetyak]

Gotta love their Washington State Patrolman's uniform!! 

[reggikko]

Does anyone know of a site that does good teen boy clothes? I find their selection to be the most lacking. I tend to like quirkier outfits, not into the baggy sweatshirt or bad shorts looks. I also don't like anything with real name brands, like GAP or Tommy.

Motoki, several people are starting to make some good outfits for the fat lady mesh on MTS2. What I want for her is some dresses and I'd like the clothes to be available for her as an elder, so she doesn't suddenly shrink.  I need to learn how to do some of this stuff.

[Motoki]

Reggiko: Have you tried Sim Squirts? They actually have a fair selection of teen male clothing.

http://www.simsquirts.com/

And that's interesting about that 'fat' mesh. I like that one and use it but there really wasn't much for it at the time I got it.

And adult stuff can easily be made available for elder. I'm actually going through all the Maxis adult stuff and making everything adult or young adult available for adult, young adult and elder. I'm also unhiding some hidden outfits like the warrior woman and the female camo pants with suspenders and I'm making all the npc outfits buyable. I actually only need to modify the property values to do this so the actual package file is pretty small. It's not hard at all, just a lot of tedious work because I haven't found a way to edit the flags in a batch so I have to do them one by one and there's about a thousand entries. 

I'll post the files here when I am done or a link to them if they're too big to be uploaded.

[Brynne]

Many of my teen boys wear simsquirts stuff. That's a really good site.

[Motoki]

I didn't even realize until recently they had teen stuff. When I checked them some time ago I think it was just toddlers and kids, but now it's one of the better sites for teen boy stuff, not that there are many sites for them to begin with. 

Oh and does that 11 dots keyboard have the piano no fun bug? I've found most objects cloned from the piano tend to and Pescado's pianofix does not work on them either. 

[MokeyHokey]

There are some nice teen male clothes here, as well as some other nice stuff:
http://ts2.sim-placement.com/

And I can't believe no one has mentioned Holy Simoly.
http://www.holysimoly.com/index.cfm?go=home.welcome

Anyone remember PJ from SF? She has a site with some things for Sims2 now.
http://pages.infinit.net/origami/Atelier_Quebec/home.html

[SciBirg]

edited to add: has anyone seen any good ancient greek and or roman clothing anywhere? I was thinking about doing a multi-generational story with a historical storyline.

Try this link site: http://www.simplyelau.it/forum/viewforum.php?f=39&sid=535aa120fed9df6c1586b0247b25db05
I found some Egyptian stuff there at least, there may be more but now it is 4pm and work is out for the weekend.

Sims await!

Edit: Yeah, HolySimoly is my all time favorite sim site. It is the only site I have donated to in order to get their fantabulous donation pack.
Also Mango sims http://mangosims2.free.fr/ for objects and Simpathethic http://www.simpathetic.com/ for hair and clothes for my sims of color.

[reggikko]

And adult stuff can easily be made available for elder. I'm actually going through all the Maxis adult stuff and making everything adult or young adult available for adult, young adult and elder. I'm also unhiding some hidden outfits like the warrior woman and the female camo pants with suspenders and I'm making all the npc outfits buyable. I actually only need to modify the property values to do this so the actual package file is pretty small. It's not hard at all, just a lot of tedious work because I haven't found a way to edit the flags in a batch so I have to do them one by one and there's about a thousand entries. 

I'll post the files here when I am done or a link to them if they're too big to be uploaded.

Excellent. I did do that once, making some YA male stuff available for adults. I'd forgotten about that.

[Motoki]

I noticed the husband in your story has those male body bright blue pajamas for Elders made made Dgandy. Actually, it's sad but I knew where almost of your custom content came from lol.

[SaraMK]

Hey, I don't think anyone's mentioned http://www.simsandthecity.com/ yet. And http://www.misscutiepie.net/

[reggikko]

I noticed the husband in your story has those male body bright blue pajamas for Elders made made Dgandy. Actually, it's sad but I knew where almost of your custom content came from lol.

I surf quite a lot for new stuff. I've been to simsquirts, but never looked at their teen stuff. I think I didn't realize they had that. I used to be a furniture/decor junkie. Now I'm a clothes and hair junkie. I recently downloaded a whole bunch of male facial hair. The selection in-game leaves a lot to be desired and I like a nice mustache and/or well-kept beard on a man.


I'm probably one of the few that doesn't mind paying for stuff. I'm a member at TSR and Well-Dressed Sim and I often donate to other sites. I also donated to Holy Simoly for their donation pack. Awesome stuff in there. Shtinky does beautiful work.

[Motoki]

I actually didn't know about Holy Simoley, but I do have some of Shtinky's stuff from TSR. If anyone gets the Arizona set from Holey Simoley definitely check TSR because they have loads of recolors for it. They were on free rotation recently too, not sure if they still are.

I actually don't have a membership at TSR not only because I have issues with them (the boards and the 'management' not the creators) but also I think I would go nuts and spend way too much time and download too much junk if I did. TSR is kind of like the Exchange, not so bad if you know a specific item or creator to search for but otherwise you have to sift through a whole bunch of junk to get to the good stuff.

[Myrddin]

Geeze Louise guys!  I thought my favourite fansite list was big before.  Now of course due to my cc compulsion I have forced to check out all the sites that others provided and I'm sure my list will grow again.  And that means that I will be forced to spend hours editing my current abundance of items already in my game. 

Why oh why am I unable to resist custom content?! 

[Motoki]

Because Maxis stuff is mostly bland and boring (or way too flashy) and practically non-existant for certain genders and age groups.

[Myrddin]

Because Maxis stuff is mostly bland and boring (or way too flashy) and practically non-existant for certain genders and age groups.

No, no, that is why I started downloading.  I want to know, now that I already have more than enough, why I can't stop!