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I’ve been using dharden’s default replacement of Michelle’s remapped mesh of SnowStorm’s recolorable dollhouse (woah, what a sentence). I’ve also been using rebecah’s adult enabled dollhouse which is a clone of EA’s one, and therefore adds another dollhouse to the game instead of editing the original one. I wanted to apply her changes to the original dollhouse and at the same time use dharden’s default, so with the kind help of @hugelunatic I did it. I edited the texture and then asked Michelle if I could include her remapped mesh in my replacement, and she kindly let me.

So short said, my default replacement includes: 
- My retexture
 - Michelle’s remapped mesh (using dharden’s replacement) 
- SnowStorm’s recolorable dollhouse My bad! SnowStorm's dollhouse is not included in my download, you’ll want gdayars CEP-extra to make the dollhouse recolorable. And if the recolors don’t show up, follow this short tutorial by HL. 
- rebecah’s adult-enabled-edits 

Since this is a default replacement, you can only have one in your download folder, if you have any other replacements for the dollhouse you need to take them out before using this. The dolls used when playing are not affected by this replacement, but I recommend these by @decat2 (and lightned up by @keoni-chan) Edit: I shared my take on a doll default here! :-D

Additional Credits:
 Thanks to SimPE, Michelle for the remapped mesh, dharden for the replacement, SnowStorm for the recolorable dollhouse gdayar for the CEP-extra, rebecah for the adult-enabled-edits and to @hugelunatic for the help. :-) the file has been compressed!

Textures: @linacheries for the wall and roof, @shastakiss for the pirate woods,  Alice Vacca, evdakovka, pngkey, kmicican, freevector and wonderwall for the patterns I used.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Edit: Idk why the layout of this post looks so weird on phone, it looks ok for me at least on my pc.

yavannatw over at MTS where looking for this outfit as a default replacement for afbodymayor (it’s on sims2defaults, but the link is dead). I’ve made three defaults using three different shoeswaps meshes I found. You must choose and install only one of them. Shoes from left to right: tomwood1906, silivrin, olivespecter.

They all have fat morphs (yay!) and no ribbon. I also changed the shoe sound to heels. A small issue I noticed was a slight seam around the neck when in-game. I looked at the meshes in milkshape but couldn’t see anything off. I suspect it’s the same with EA’s original mesh. Nothing big though, I nearly didn’t notice it.

All files have been compressed to reduce file size. I think that’s all? If you notice anything weird, let me know! Excuse my lazy preview btw.

Edit 23/3: I completely forgot about bump-maps yesterday, and while I was at it I redid the files. I originally used olivemuenda/olivespecter’s DR but now I extracted all neccessary resources myself. Please re-download!

Edit 25/3: I noticed that my DR in CAS, if used with shift + n, will have a custom star and can be deleted. You should never delete EA clothing, it will corrupt your game if you do. I suspect it’s because I edited the shoe sound it got a custom star. I couldn’t get the file to work in the bins folder unfortunately, so please be careful to not delete it if you use the debug mode in CAS.

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Credits: tomwood1906 for the original outfit, silivrin for their shoeswap and @olivemuenda for their shoeswap. Plus anyone else these people would have credited :-)

Simonut over at MTS were using Artemida’s default from here, but didn’t like the ribbon. I did a quick mesh and texture edit using Artemida’s textures. This file is a default replacement for both ambodymayor and embodymayor, with fat morphs! Remember you can only have one DR for these clothes in your download folder at a time.

The file has been compressed to reduce file size. If you notice any problems, please let me know! 

Edit: forgot to mention, for some reason there’s two mayor outfits for men. A red tie and a blue one. My DR replaces them both, as seen in the picture :-)

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Credit: EA for the mesh and Artemida for the textures.

You know, I like the newspaper NPC in ts2 but the colors. What was EA thinking? and don’t even get me started on the shoes..

I shoeswapped tfbodypaperdelivery and tmbodypaperdelivery with shoes from EA’s tmbottomboardshorts (“converted” to females by me) and also edited the clothes + cap’s textures. I disliked EA’s hair, so I’ve also included a hair default replacement for tmhairhatballcapnpc and tfhairhatballcapnpc (which only affects the newspaper delivery’s hair). This default is a mesh edit by me of rented-space‘s 3t2 baseball cap, but with EA’s NPC cap (using fanseelamb‘s edited mesh on the male one). There were a lot of hair recolors/systems available for this mesh, so I’ve included many options but you have to choose one of them since they are all defaults. Of course, if you would like EA’s original hair you have that as an option as well.

I’ve changed and fixed things in both textures and meshes, therefore there’s some stuff I need to explain. This might be confusing since I have to use the word “newspaper” a lot (I’ve re-written this part so many times now lol). I tried my best to not make it confusing but if you really don’t understand or there’s some part you can’t grasp, then feel free to message me.

I’ll put the rest under the cut, since it’s quite long :-)

NPC Clothing

Fixed some clipping in the meshes

Erased some weird shadows on the clothes’ texture

Fixed the socks’ edges + erased EA’s horrendous shadows under the shorts + on the socks as well

Shoeswapped with shoes from tmbottomboardsshorts

For some reason, the socks on the male mesh is noticeable lower than on the female mesh. This bothered me so I edited the mapping on the male mesh to make the socks a bit higher, but this resulted in the skin’s highlight being moved a bit upwards. I personally don’t mind this, but I’ve included two files so you can choose if you want this change or not (meaning you have to choose one of them). I did it this way since I found it unneccessary to add a whole new texture just bc of some socks haha. You can compare them here.

EA originally added the texture for the newspapers in the bag on the back onto the clothing texture. What I did instead was making them a separate group, remapped them a bit and then texture referenced them to newspaper-inside-pages-clean-01_txtr (why I texture referenced it to the inside page is because I couldn’t get it to look good using the outside texture unfortunately)

If you choose to use my newspaper texture default replacement (for the object), the NPC clothing’s newspapers in the bag will automatically pick up the newspaper default replacement (like seen on the image). This means that you can use my NPC clothing default without using my newspaper texture default if you would like to. It will then use EA’s newspaper texture (or whatever default you have for newspaper-inside-pages-clean-01_txtr). If you on the other hand only install my newspaper texture default (for the object) and another NPC newspaper delivery clothing default (or EA’s for that matter), the newspapers in the bag on the clothing will not be using my newspaper texture (since it’s not a separate group and will be using the texture from the clothes’ texture).

NPC Hair

Included in the download is a default replacement for the newspaper delivery NPC’s hair. It’s a mesh edit by me of rented-space‘s 3t2 baseball cap, but with EA’s NPC cap (using fanseelamb‘s edited mesh on the male one). The hair textures were all 1024x1024, but I decreased them down to 512x512 since I tbh didn’t notice any quality loss but if you really want them in 1024x1024 you can easily replace the textures in SimPE. Also, the hair has some minor transparency issues but nothing too noticable, plus, the newspaper delivery’s hair is always blond and the transparency issues are nearly invisible on the blond hair.

There’s also a texture replacement for the caps included. I texture referenced the cap’s texture (on my mesh edit default that is) to uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblond_txtr and uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblond_txtr. This means that if you use my new NPC hair default, you will still need my cap texture replacement file, otherwise the caps will not be in my new color. In other words: both files are supposed to be used together. If you on the other hand would like to have EA’s original hair but my new cap, only install my cap texture replacement.

Since I texture referenced the cap’s texture, it is possible to use my hair mesh default replacement with any default for uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblond_txtr and uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblond_txtr you might have, it will automatically pick up your default (or EA’s original for that matter).

Newspaper Texture

My newspaper default replacement replaces EA’s boring monochrome textures with new, colorful pictures (+ nicer weather icons)! Textures defaulted are:

newspaper-outside-pages-clean_txtr

newspaper-outside-pages-dirty_txtr

newspaper-inside-pages-clean-01_txtr

newspaper-inside-pages-clean-02_txtr

newspaper-inside-pages-dirty_txtr

newsprintparticle_txtr

newspaper_printing_txtr

I’ve enlarged the clean pages (by using this) so the textures are now 512x512 instead of 256x256. The dirty pages are still 256x256 though as I didn’t see a need for them to be bigger. You can compare EA’s textures with mine here, the dirty textures can be compared here, newsprintparticle here and newspaper_printing here.

I have absolutely no idea when or how “newsprintparticle” and “newspaper_printing” are used, but I replaced them with colorful versions anyway. If you know, please enlighten me!

@itsdiamondeyesuniverse​ has a mod here which randomizes the NPC newspaper delivery hair (+ others) and smithycpl has a more realistic newspaper mod here which might be of interest to you. None of these are required for my defaults to work (but they are compatible), I just felt like recommending them :-)

As usual, if you have any defaults in your downloads folder defaulting the same thing as any of my files, you have to remove them before installing mine. If you stumble upon any problems or such, let me know! All files have been compressed to reduce file size. No merged versions available this time, to reduce any more confusion haha.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: 

@criquette-was-here​​, @deedee-sims​​, @dreadpirate​​, @episims​​, @serabiet​​, @taylors-simblr​​ and @poppet-sims​​ for their beautiful pictures I’ve used in the newspaper textures :-) thank you all again for letting me use them! I also want to thank simmer22 for helping me whenever I asked for help on MTS :-)

Weather icons (slightly edited by me) are from vectorstock, the pizza is this picture from simsfandom and the image used in the printing txtr is this. I’ve also used this image in the texture, but I genuinely can’t find the original source of it. Hopefully the simmer behind it will be ok with me using it. If you know who it’s from, please let me know so I can credit them properly!

@rented-space​​​ for the hair conversion and pooklet + lilith hair recolors, Lemonlion for defaulting the hair, @fanseelamb​​ for the edited male cap mesh, @selenaq13​​ for the remi hair recolors, @peppermint-ginger​​ for their hair colors, @taylors-simblr​​ for the poppet v1+v2 hair recolors, @krabbysims​​ for their hair recolors and Pooklet, Lilith, Remi, Zeusar, Poppet and TheRaven for textures/colors. Plus anyone else these talented people would have credited. All these hair systems are making my head spin lmao so if I missed anyone, please let me know. Otherwise, I think that’s all? Happy simming!

Edit: you might be interested in my mail defaults as well!

I’m back with another default! This time it’s for the mail delivery, and just like with my newspaper delivery defaults I have changed and fixed things in here as well. I’ll do my best to explain everything.

EA did a much better job with this clothing than with the newspaper delivery’s outfit, I’ll give them that. But once again; what was EA thinking when choosing shoes?? They are awful. Not anymore though! I shoeswapped afbodymaildelivery and ambodymaildelivery with MDP’s 4t2 shoes from here (recolored black by me) but with EA’s socks, bc.. idk. I’ll put the rest under the cut since I can’t keep it short ahah

NPC Clothing

Got rid of all shadows (AF+AM)

Made the color a bit more vibrant

Removed the logo on the shirt (AF+AM)

Improved the logo on the bag (AF+AM)

Fixed the logo on the cap (AF+AM)

Fixed the stripes on the shorts (AF)

Fixed the shirt (AM)

Fixed the belt’s “edges” to make them blend in more nicely (AF)

*Removed ribbon (AF) + added ribbon (AM)

Remapped the shirt a bit to better fit the non-ribbon version (AF) but it looks better imo with the ribbon as well so I kept it in both versions

Edited and added more details (belt etc) to the bump-maps (AF+AM)

*In other words, you can choose if you want the ribbon or not.

Another thing I’ve changed is the bag. It’s now a separate group and has it’s own texture (aubodymaildelivery-bag_txtr). I fixed the logo in Photoshop, but SimPE totally destroyed it again when importing the texture. It really bothered me, so I decided to do it like this instead so the logo can keep it’s quality. I also had to increase the size of uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblack and uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblack from 512x512 to 1024x1024 for SimPE to not ruin the logo on the cap as well. uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblack and uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblack is included in the clothing default, so it’s not a separate file.

NPC Hair

Included in the download is an optional hair default for afhairhatballcapnpc and amhairhatballcapnpc by me (replacing the hair for the mail delivery only). It’s a mashup (meshup? :p) of EA’s pixie hair and EA’s NPC cap. The male pixie hair is a conversion by Andie, and the cap on the male mesh is fansleelamb’s fixed male mesh. Andie’s TOU is to not restribute their meshes, but they haven’t been active since 2011 so I’m just going to cross my fingers and hope that they won’t haunt me down for this hahah. I had to get rid of the hair animation though, since it behaved really weird when I didn’t. I don’t have the motivation to dig into this problem deeper, so no animated hair it is. Sorry!

Unfortunately, you have to have university for my hair DR to work (I believe?). I extracted the resources from University, since I couldn’t get the hair default to work with the ones extracted from basegame (plus, de GPZS looked very different in those, and I wasn’t sure on how to edit them properly). I’m not sure though, as the files seems to have the same numbers, instances etc. So if anyone of you doesn’t have University, please try out my hair mesh replacement and let me know if it works! And if it doesn’t, anyone who wants to make it BG-compatible is more than welcome to do so, or if you know how I can make it myself I would be more than happy to learn from you.

The cap on my hair default is texture referenced to uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblack and uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblack, which is included in the clothing default.

There’s also three versions of this hair default available, which means you have to choose one. One of the files is texture referenced to EA’s afhairpixie textures from Freetime, the other one is texture referenced to EA’s afhairpixie from OFB (which I haven’t been able to test if it works as it should, so please let me know if it doesn’t!) and the last one is a custom version. The custom version is not texture referenced to any of EA’s txtrs, so for those of you who do not have OFB or Freetime or simply have a mesh default for afhairpixie you don’t want to delete, this is the file you want :-)

This means that if you have any texture default replacement for afhairpixie, my repositoried (aka my Freetime/OFB files) default will pick up that. I’ve made + listed some afhairpixie texture defaults here which are compatible with my mesh replacement. The ones I used in my preview here is deedee-sims recolors on shinasims’ alpha edit, which you can find in the link above. Since my custom version is not referenced to EA’s textures, you will have to swap textures in SimPE yourself if you wish to use any other textures than EA’s or shinasims’ alpha edit of EA’s textures (which are the custom versions I’ve included). If you don’t use SimPE and would like to get help with swapping textures, let me know! I’ll be more than happy to help you.

The female mesh pixie hair unfortunately has some small transparency issues in certain angles (which is weird, since EA’s original doesn’t have that). If anyone would like to try and fix it, you’re more than welcome to try and do so!

Bills Texture

Included in the download is also an optional, improved default replacement for the bills! Textures defaulted are:

mailbox-billsred_txtr

mailbox-billswhite_txtr

mailbox-billsyellow_txtr

mailbox-billsorange_txtr

The textures are still the same size (512x256) but I re-wrote most of the text to make it less blurry (more like, smashed random keys on my keyboard lmao). I’ve also replaced the stamps with colorful pictures. Some years ago, in Sweden we had pride stamps and I really liked those, so I thought it would be nice to have them here as well! I’m not part of the LGBTQ+ community (or at least, I don’t think so. But I mean, Bae Doona has tbh got me questioning my sexuality, not gonna lie) so I hope I don’t offend anyone by using it here. I totally support the LGBTQ+ community! Therefore I hope this comes accross as me being an ally, not “using” the flag or anything :-)

@itsdiamondeyesuniverse​​​​​ has a mod here which randomizes the mail delivery’s hair (+ others) and there are two bills mod here and here, which migh be of interest to you. None of these are required for my default, but they are compatible!

As usual, if you have any default(s) in your downloads folder defaulting the same thing as any of my defaults, you have to remove those before installing mine. Hopefully the anon who sent me this sweet ask a month ago sees this, and I hope you like this as well! :-)

All files have been compressed to reduce file size. Let me know if you stumble upon any problems, or if I messed up anywhere.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: @mdpthatsme​​​​​​ for the shoes, @fanseelamb​​​​​​​ for their improved male cap mesh, Andie for the ftm pixie hair, @hafiseazale​​​​​​​ for their preview of the Bella statue I edited a bit and used as a stamp, iconfinder for the leaf icon and pngio for the blue crown icon.

I think that’s all? Happy simming!

Am I the only one bothered by EA’s turquoise weeds? Or are weeds like this really turqouise? Anyhow! If you want them green and more pink/colorful, this default is for you ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)b

The file has been compressed to reduce file size and remember you can only have one default replacement for “weeds-surface_txtr” in your downloads folder at a time. Also, HugeLunatic has made the weeds buyable here :-)

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