PBK Secret Santa 2020

GMDC Importer/Exporter for Blender 4.1+

You might have noticed that the GMDC importer/exporter by DjAlex88 doesn't work with Blender 4.1+. So I made a compatible version… with a new feature I needed.

Download on GitHub

I've never made a Blender add-in or coded in Python before, so I hope I didn't break anything.

Please let me know if it works the same as before once you have tested it.

So someone said to me that you can never meet a good person off the Internet. I want to prove them wrong. Reblog if you've met someone from the Internet and they've turned out to be one of the best people to ever exist.

Archiving the Keep

As some of you may have noticed, the Plumb Bob Keep site has been down for several days. At this time, we do not know anything about the future of the site; we have no contact with Sunni's family, who pay for it. Since the future of the site is uncertain, we are calling for all hands on deck to help us try to archive as much of the downloads as possible: images, text, links and actual download zips. We will primarily be using the Wayback Machine, but as Google searching was only turned on in the last year, many things will not be accessible. Fire_flower has created a spreadsheet to help organize the effort and allow us to see where the gaps are. This will be step one of the process, before we dive into our personal collections.

If you would like to help out, please add your name to the spreadsheet linked below. Large sections might need 2 or more people to team up. Please ask if you have questions over at the PBK Discord or fireflowersims or fracturedmoonlight via tumblr. Thank you so much for your time and help! PBK Archive Spreadsheet

Autonomous crafting for all teen+ Sims

I've never before been so happy to share a creation! Get ready to get crafting, because it's about to get autonomous! Released today in collaboration with the wonderful @joplayingthesims who has built a community lot for the mod, seen in the pictures below. Exciting!

In my game, I have a community lot with crafting stations for Sims who can't afford one, or don't have space for one. But as I visited it recently with one of my college students wanting to learn flower arrangement, I got a bit depressed by all the empty stations and the other visitors just standing around chatting. I wondered if anyone had added autonomy, and I came upon iCad's autonomy enabler. While neat, it only adds autonomy for the active household which is the opposite of what I wanted. So I made my own that enables it for visiting Sims as well, only to quickly realize how annoying that got. All these Sims asking me to pick a recolor for them, blergh! So I went on tweaking, fixing the annoyances as they came up, and here we are! Finally it is possible to have a lively crafting studio where all Sims participate, without being annoying for you the player! Are you excited? Because I am excited!

What does the mod do? - Enables autonomy on "make many" and "continue" (see readme for more info on why not make one) for all five original crafting types - Robots, toy making, flower arrangement, pottery and sewing - Does NOT charge your Sims money for background Sim crafting. Money sounds and visuals show for all Sims, but only your current households crafting charges household funds. - By default only autonomous on community lots. Has optional autonomy on residential/apartment lots, you can enable autonomy on those lot types by placing the Autonomy Toggler object somewhere on the lot (custom object made using parts of the FT crafting clutter, found in hobbies/misc for 1 simoleon). I set it up this way as residential autonomy sounds irritating to me, but I'm all about flexibility for the user. Perhaps you want to run arts classes at your residential playable school, or you simply like autonomy more than I do :) Please note that autonomy advertisement is tuned with community lot use in mind, so it might be higher than you'd want for residential. If there's interest I am happy to make a second version with lower advertising for those who primarily want residential use. If you are somewhat familiar with TTAB edits yourself, you can try changing attenuation code to low or medium to limit advertisement distance which will reduce appeal to Sims. - Fixes annoyances with background crafting, such as selecting recolors and pop ups about progress - Changes inventory mechanics to allow for owned studio-type use, in case you'd like a friendly owner Sim present to provide instruction. Crafting now only goes to business lot owner if done by an employee, otherwise crafting Sim gets the object. Includes home business, so if it bothered you that family members don't get to keep their work, this also fixes that. If that part annoys you, see readme for how to remove this feature.

Download mod on simfileshare

You might say "Okay well fun for you Gummi, but I don't have a community lot with crafting stations, so why would I need this?". Well fortunately Joandsarah has the solution for that problem! Check out the cute crafting studio she built to give all of you a place to start community crafting! Available on MTS

Conflicts: Only known conflict is iCad's original autonomy enabler, you have to pick if you want hers version of autonomy, or mine :) Readme contains breakdown of the functionality of all parts, to help you decide a load order should you encounter conflicts. It should be possible to resolve conflicts though if there are any others, so please report them to me :)

Credits: @joplayingthesims for collaborating with me and providing a lot that you can get started with if you don't have one, iCad at @dramallamadingdang for the original autonomy enabling mod, @cityof2morrow who helped playtest the mod

If anyone else builds a community lot intended for autonomous use, I hope you let me know somehow so I can add links to it in my post :) If any other modders see ways to improve on what I did, please feel free to do so :) I am hoping to eventually post an update that sends all crafting to inventory to fix the make one issue, and the station clogging that happens over time.

@staff @support what the heck, first @2fingerswhiskey and now I’m hearing about @amberdefault and @suratan-zir being deleted too?! what gives, bring them back, this is absurd

ANOTHER simblr deleted

First @2fingerswhiskey got deleted and now it looks like @suratan-zir too? She was just posting earlier today so I’m pretty sure she wouldn’t have deleted herself (I certainly hope not!).

@staff can you get it together and stop deleting people’s blogs? This is becoming ridiculous!

@2fingerswhiskeysims

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Pink Flashing Experience Research Survey!

Hi TS2 community, I am very interested in learning more about the way pink flashing happens or doesn't happen in different people's games. I have put together this kinda fairly detailed survey as a Google Form that hopefully can shed more light on the issue.

If you are familiar with your computer and graphics settings, you can easily finish the survey in about 5 minutes. If you need to look a few things up, it could take 10-15.

If you had flashing with some settings and resolved it, please consider filling out the form twice - once describing your experience before you fixed it and again for after. If not, please just use your post-fix experience.

Please, please reblog as data is only as good as the breadth of its sample. A summary of the results are viewable to all upon completion of the survey and I am happy to share more detailed findings with the modding community, just let me know.

So, Hum... I now have a lifejournal

Go Check it out, it has already some goodies:

http://sonikku3.livejournal.com/

Check-in tag

@mrs-mquve-cc​ did a general tag to anyone who saw the post, and I decided to be like... sure, why not?

Why did you choose your url? 

You know those times when you are in your teens, and you have that one stage you’re obcessing over a thing, and you merge that thing with another one of your favorite thing and you kinda go for that vibe... that’s my url in a nutshell I guess, too much into Wolverine, but it is still a simblr. How long have you been on tumblr?

A good while... 8-9 Years I think

Do you have a queue tag?

Nope

Why did you start your blog in the first place? 

Because I wanted to make CC specifically for Sims 3 and Sims 2, now I only want to do CC for 2, so... yeah

Why did you choose your icon/pfp? 

Because it goes back to what I explained in the first question, also it’s the cover of the first wolverine comic I’ve ever owned, and there’s also a bit of... “Ow the Edge” teen vibe as well... probably need to change that now that I’m thinking about that

Why did you choose your header? 

It’s like... default stuff, I liked it, it’s functional... I might change it too eventually

What’s your post with the most notes?

That has to be my coffeesmith project post with all the custom espresso bars and their espresso machine counterparts, aparently people really like those, though I might be concerned not everyone downloaded the proxy GUID mod that let’s the espresso bars spawn npc baristas if the lot is unowned... but hey, it’s other people’s games, not mine.

How many mutuals do you have?

Unsure and afraid to count, probably not that many, although I do try to follow back most people who follow me and also have a Sims 2 Simblr... so who knows

How many followers do you have?  How many people do you follow? 

207 Followers, and I’m Following 574 people.

Have you ever made a shitpost?

Oh have I ever made a shitpost... I’ve done a lot of shitposting, not here, but I have

How often do you use tumblr each day?

Daily, I have a tab open to check, specially to check fresh new CC

Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? Who won?

I haven’t, and I’d rather not throw hands, want to avoid conflict as much as possible, I’m not a very conflictuous person, it might happen, but I try my best that it doesn’t

How do you feel about ‘you need to reblog this’ posts?

Well, on one hand, I understand that people want the issues highlighted in those posts to have a broader reach, on the other, not everyone has to reblog everything, specially if they are trying to keep their blogs under certain themes, they’re fine, maybe a bit pushy, but they are fine, nonetheless.

Do you like tag games?

Depends of the game and if I’m feeling it to be honest, but for the most part, yeah

Do you like ask games?

Same response as the last, depends of the game and if I’m feeling it, but yeah, I do them too

Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?

I don’t check, probably there’s a couple of my mutuals with a larger following, but I see it more as a vast community rather than someone being Tumblr famous, Also, fame is subjective, I might think a lot of people I know have a large following, while in fact that might not be the case.

Do you have a crush on a mutual?

Nope

Alright, that wraps this up, I’m also gonna do a general tag, If you see this, feel free to consider yourself tagged.

It’s that time of the year again

Thanks to everyone’s generous efforts last year we Managed to exceed the 400$ Mark, which means that the requirements for this years donation drive have been reduced to reflect that, this year the goal is $313 to cover the website expenses, namely the hosting and domain name costs: You can help The Keep by donating through this years GoFundMe:

gofundme.com

Let's keep The Plumbob Keep going through 2024!, organized by Stanislav Syursin

Hello, my name is Stas, I'm a widower of Sunni, the founder of The … Stanislav Syursin needs your support for Let's keep The Plumbob Keep g