My Sims 2 ✨Aesthetics✨ (Defaults, Lighting, Mods, CC Style)

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  • čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
  • I thought it might be useful to explain what's behind my game's current visuals, also counting in things I don't want to use/change.
    ♦️ BEFORE YOU ASK ME ABOUT MODS OR CC, go here → / mertikora
    💎 Get early access to videos and other perks → / marticore
    Skin default → www.mediafire.com/file/6w3ez9...
    Eye default → app.box.com/s/2rmfxb7qkb
    Default Replacement Database → sims2defaults.dreamwidth.org/
    No more sandals → modthesims.info/d/354776/
    Baby default 1 → roguebotanist.tumblr.com/post...
    Baby default 2 → gardenofshadows.org.uk/garden...
    MM Lighting old version → www.mediafire.com/file/sa07uu...
    MM Lighting new version (includes installation instructions) → dreadpirate.tumblr.com/mmligh...
    Cinema Secrets Lighting → veronavillequiltingbee.tumblr...
    Shadow Fix → modthesims.info/d/569585/
    Neighborhood camera → modthesims.info/d/305352/
    No traffic in hood view → modthesims.info/d/272655
    Sky Fix → simnopke.tumblr.com/post/1355...
    Repository Project → / ts2repositoryproject
    fanseelamb → modthesims.info/m/117050
    4t2 hair database → docs.google.com/document/d/10...
    Michelle → modthesims.info/downloads/all...
    1-tile desks → modthesims.info/d/370799/
    IKEA extras (google this phrase for way more) → jodeliejodelie.tumblr.com/pos...
    Larger fonts (Needs, name baby etc.) → modthesims.info/d/563540/
    Larger change appearance window → simfileshare.net/download/110...
    Larger family tree window → modthesims.info/d/627300/
    More CAS columns → modthesims.info/showthread.ph...
    Bed sheets recolors → modthesims.info/downloads.php...
    🟣Discord: / discord
    🟠Instagram: / mertikora
    🔵Facebook: themarticore/
    ⚪Twitter: / themarticore
    🔴Polish channel: / @mertaodsimsow
    0:00 Intro
    0:31 Skin & eyes replacements
    1:52 Hair & clothes replacements
    2:42 Lighting system
    4:16 Neighborhood camera & sky
    4:56 CAS CC
    6:14 Recolors
    6:45 Furniture CC
    7:03 No custom genetics
    7:08 The UI
    7:49 Outro
  • Hry

Komentáře • 51

  • @Marticore
    @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +40

    Note: I don't actually have SkyFix because it's already included in custom lighting. But can be useful as a standalone mod!
    OK, I admit, I replaced the propeller hair with something quite different... sue me 🫡
    But another thing I would *never* replace are *FACE TEMPLATES!!!* Love them. I only installed a few custom ones.
    ...and the green baby bottle, it's too iconic 😆

    • @Tamatchi_
      @Tamatchi_ Před 3 měsíci +1

      SUE ME 💀🤣

    • @rianna_banana
      @rianna_banana Před 3 měsíci +1

      I have face replacements and I regret it deeplyyyyy!! My CC folder is a mess so I can’t find them 😂

  • @halpyhal
    @halpyhal Před 3 měsíci +68

    I am absolutely obsessed with hair cc with the maxis textures. Something about them is so crunchy, I adore it.

  • @Gleamiarts
    @Gleamiarts Před 3 měsíci +24

    blurple is my fave colour. plurple gang rise up

  • @__zy
    @__zy Před 3 měsíci +12

    Just wanted to mention that Nopke is Polish and that's how he describes the pronunciation of his nickname:
    “I’m Nopke - *Nop* is stressed, and pronounced like in _mo[nop]oly,_ *ke* - like in _[ke]pt_ or like the name of the letter K”

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +18

      Nopke is Polish?!?! You could just say "Polish pronunciation", I'll use it from now on!

  • @julteon
    @julteon Před 3 měsíci +10

    this video is gonna be the reason i finally try default replacements. ive been so scared of messing w the files but your game looks so beautiful!

  • @achraf3852
    @achraf3852 Před 3 měsíci +8

    I love watching your videos while sewing, makes me more precise and happy to work.

  • @ThatDayDreamer_
    @ThatDayDreamer_ Před 3 měsíci +11

    get well soon!
    I'm like you with the recolours of furniture (I have a lot of Michelle's from MTS recolours in my save for later)
    having way too much stuff is overwhelming to choose in Buy mode
    & a lot of the maxis furniture is really nice too imo
    I did however go on a binge of adding everything from MissMaxoid's LiveJournal cos I want all the DLC items (including the Sims 2 store specific items) 🙈😆

  • @Bumblebeatnik
    @Bumblebeatnik Před 3 měsíci +8

    I have a very similar aesthetic to yours, but mine leans a little bit more towards the original Silent Hill 2 but not as greasy looking. Thanks so much for uploading this, especially the wider CAS screen. :D
    I hope you get to feeling better soon, I hardly ever get sick either but when I do I'm down for the count for a couple days. xD

  • @squid5377
    @squid5377 Před 3 měsíci +8

    The only time I use Alpha hair is to differentiate Celebrity Sims (recreations like Avril Lavigne and Whoopi Goldberg or something) from casual Sims 🫠

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +5

      Celebrities gotta be ✨shiny✨

    • @squid5377
      @squid5377 Před 3 měsíci +2

      @@Marticore the hair might be shinier than the career of the sims sometimes though 😭

  • @Fairly-odd-kel
    @Fairly-odd-kel Před 3 měsíci +3

    Ooooo thank you! I've been looking for good Sims 2 stuff

  • @EsperElves
    @EsperElves Před 2 měsíci +4

    I never use visual CC because I prefer how the original game looks like. Actually, I really don‘t like this mod or CC with more modern graphics because it looks so off to me. One of the only things I‘d take into consideration is adding the skybox.

  • @uzay4242
    @uzay4242 Před 3 měsíci +1

    I was wondering about that dusk and dawn mod cuz it looks really pretty✨️ Also get well soon!!

  • @Jacksonsimmer
    @Jacksonsimmer Před 3 měsíci +6

    Thank you ❤❤❤

  • @lauralopezgarcia3621
    @lauralopezgarcia3621 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Omg where are your sims' lashes from? And the freckles? They make your sims so beautiful! Thanks for the video!

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +1

      My go to site is always good ol' ModTheSims, so this should be the first to go to find it :D

  • @fuwafuwamoth
    @fuwafuwamoth Před 3 měsíci +3

    thank you for this!! also the mediafire download for the old version of the lighting isnt working for some reason,
    not sure if im the only one experiencing this

  • @mariagamboni1017
    @mariagamboni1017 Před 3 měsíci +2

    Te amo Marticoreee

  • @punkd22
    @punkd22 Před 21 dnem

    love being a maxis girly but wish there were more maxis match hairstyles :( i am trying to learn how to make them myself but it is so hard!!

  • @InhumanRampage1000
    @InhumanRampage1000 Před 3 měsíci

    Hi Marticore. For me pinterest might be broken cuz it doesn't show the CC categories you've set up, might be a problem on my side. Before it broke, I remember seeing a mod on you pinterest that disables weather channel notifications, but the link didn't work or something like that. And googling didn't help, I might be missing something tho. Could you please share this mod if you still have it? Or at least tell where it's possible to find it. I've gotta farm science enthusiasm and I'm really tired of that notification anxiety lmao

  • @allyso0n._
    @allyso0n._ Před 3 měsíci

    sorry for the off topic but i need help.
    I sent my family on holiday in the takemizu village to a holiday home, only, after having furnished the house well I do not access the live mode... in the neighborhood marks that my family is in that house but I can neither see it and nor play, please I need help, is there any mod that can help me?

  • @reginageorge9289
    @reginageorge9289 Před 3 měsíci +8

    To me the eyes you are using are nothing like maxis match, they look pretty realistic to me almost like alpha

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +6

      They are in the Maxis Match section at Sims2Defaults! 😆

    • @lisa_g981
      @lisa_g981 Před 3 měsíci +10

      I’d say the eyes are definitely Maxis match, there’s no distinct shine in them like in alpha/realistic eyes. The skinblend, however, I would classify as semi-realistic because of the slight shiney texture and nose+lips details.

  • @alycegallagher5887
    @alycegallagher5887 Před 3 měsíci

    Where did you get the picture frame with the child’s photograph in it? (The one on the dresser 5 minutes in).

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +2

      That's Desk Locator for putting homework away properly

    • @alycegallagher5887
      @alycegallagher5887 Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@Marticore Thank you 🥰

  • @valve_of_sorrow
    @valve_of_sorrow Před 3 měsíci +2

    Dear Marticore, do you play Sims 3? If yes, do you have mods or something to make sims looks better, definitely, it depends on taste, but maybe you know something that can make them less "plasticky".
    Thank you very much :)

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +3

      Yes, I use some defaults and a little bit of reshade. You can find some of it on my Pinterest!
      Or if you speak Polish, there's a video on my Polish channel 😆

    • @valve_of_sorrow
      @valve_of_sorrow Před 3 měsíci +3

      Don't speak, but mostly understand.
      Serdeczne dzieki!

  • @Erecura
    @Erecura Před 3 měsíci

    What do you mean by 'Maxis match' or 'alpha' CC?

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci

      Alpha is supposed to be realistic, so it's most of all very shiny, and Maxis Match looks like it's from the game (more or less). Google it!

  • @metropolotankreyole
    @metropolotankreyole Před 3 měsíci

    Wait. So you don't have the mod so you can genetically pass the alien eyes anymore ? Si you can have a completely human baby with black alien eyes ? I tried to follow one of you link from another video, but the mod doesn't exist anymore I think.😢 I want it so badly.

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +4

      I do have the equal genetics mod and it still exists

    • @metropolotankreyole
      @metropolotankreyole Před 3 měsíci

      @@Marticore oooh, so to have alien colored eyes we juste need equal genetics ?

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +3

      Either Equal Genetics with the alien eye addition or CreatureFixes, I'm pretty sure

  • @franciliguori4689
    @franciliguori4689 Před 3 měsíci

    Which bed recolor are you using?

  • @rosariokaplan2837
    @rosariokaplan2837 Před 3 měsíci

    i hate how you have such hard accent

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +2

      Sorry

    • @lisa_g981
      @lisa_g981 Před 3 měsíci +27

      Then don’t watch the video if it bothers you that much? Not everyone is a native English speaker.
      And as a general rule of thumb: If you don’t have anything nice to say then don’t say anything at all :)

    • @CurlySpicyGirl
      @CurlySpicyGirl Před 3 měsíci +1

      Like you thought it was needed ? You should be ashamed of yourself. And I hope you at least speak two languages with a pristine accent.

    • @Marticore
      @Marticore  Před 3 měsíci +13

      Thanks guys 😎
      Well, all I can do about my accent at this point is try to speak as clearly as I can and improve it overtime (which it does). I don't control my speech apparatus that well 😆 And I wouldn't even want to speak without an audible accent.

    • @AntiAnte
      @AntiAnte Před 3 měsíci +12

      @@Marticoreoh my gosh please don't be sorry or insecure about it bcs a couple rude people! especially when it's quite pleasant to the ear 🩷