Replacement PC Screens
Updated Version please re-download and delete previous version. It is now renamed "Replacement Screens FT" so it won't auto overwrite!
You can now choose to download a "lite version" of these replacement screens. All images sizes were cut in half and are based off of optimized jpegs instead of pngs. Really it's just a smaller file size for your game to deal with. In-game images are only slightly more blurry than the non-light version.
It has completely took over my free time and I even required some outside help to get on the right track but I have finally completed something that has been bugging me since I could remember; Replacement PC Screens for the Sims 2. Now with brighter screens and new boot screens! Thanks Nix
Special thanks to: NixNivis for discovering why exactly the FreeTime screens were brighter than the base game. It doesn't make sense how the solution works all I know is that I just finished testing it and it does in fact work!
Special thanks to: The Ninth Wave for showing me how to even start this project
Special thanks to: DJS Sims for the compressorizer which has saved 20 MB of space from this package!
If it is too big and it might be I guess I'll have to make a more lighter yet hopefully not too pixelated version of the screens. I'll update this post again should that time come.
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Thank you Nix! I only wish they weren't so dim in the game cause the files I made are all so bright and colourful and you can even read the on text I wrote lol. If I knew how to write simlish I would have made it more simlish. One problem at a time though lol.
@BO: It totally is power!
Updated Version please re-download and delete previous version. It is now renamed "Replacement Screens FT" so it won't auto overwrite! You can now choose to download a "lite version" of these replacement screens. All images sizes were cut in half and are based off of optimized jpegs instead of pngs. Really it's just a smaller file size for your game to deal with. In-game images are only slightly more blurry than the non-light version.It has completely took over my free time and I even required some outside help to get on the right track but I have finally completed something that has been bugging me since I could remember; Replacement PC Screens for the Sims 2. Now with brighter screens and new boot screens! Thanks Nix
Special thanks to: NixNivis for discovering why exactly the FreeTime screens were brighter than the base game. It doesn't make sense how the solution works all I know is that I just finished testing it and it does in fact work!
Special thanks to: The Ninth Wave for showing me how to even start this project
Special thanks to: DJS Sims for the compressorizer which has saved 20 MB of space from this package!
If it is too big and it might be I guess I'll have to make a more lighter yet hopefully not too pixelated version of the screens. I'll update this post again should that time come.
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Filesize 2.82 MB |
File Name XGC - Replacement PC Screens FT.rar | # of Downloads 320
File Updated 07-07-2011
Filesize 909.35 KB | File Name XGC - Replacement PC Screens FT Lite.rar | # of Downloads 165
File Updated 07-07-2011
Filesize 909.35 KB | File Name XGC - Replacement PC Screens FT Lite.rar | # of Downloads 165
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#10
04-07-2011
NixNivis;6904 Wrote:This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time!I love it!! Great job, Xander!
Thank you Nix! I only wish they weren't so dim in the game cause the files I made are all so bright and colourful and you can even read the on text I wrote lol. If I knew how to write simlish I would have made it more simlish. One problem at a time though lol.
@BO: It totally is power!
#11
04-07-2011
Xander, if you're looking for a Simlish font there is one at InSim, here. 
I forgot to say that "Be Namma Freneshay" and "Chirper" made me giggle inanely, to the point where my dog gave me a Look.
Oh, and I found this in a post over at MTS:
It only works for the individual game, though.
I forgot to say that "Be Namma Freneshay" and "Chirper" made me giggle inanely, to the point where my dog gave me a Look.
Oh, and I found this in a post over at MTS:
Quote:If you are having issues with the Maxis computer screen being too dark, try using these cheats to fix it.
boolprop useshaders true
boolprop skiptangentsinvertexdata false
boolprop bumpmapping true
It only works for the individual game, though.
#12
04-07-2011
Thank you Nix, downloaded the font although now that I think about it my take on making it simlish seems to be going over well lol. I tried to add lots of Sims 2 style stuff to the images. It's too bad some of the screens are so dark because all my little easter eggs are lost 
