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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I wonder if EA changed the OBJD? Like they did with bookcases. That might mean that PRE FT pcs have brightness 1 and FT and beyond have brightness 2.
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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#13
06-07-2011
If anyone uses this and they aren't using a lighting mod in their game can they please let me know if the screens are still dark in their games? I have to know if it is just me because I am using GunMod's radiant lighting mod. Although that still won't explain why FreeTime's screens are showing up brighter. Grr I'm obsessing I know but I worked hard on the screens lol.
#14
06-07-2011
I just checked it in an AnyGame (that doesn't take 20 minutes to fire up like my full game 
), and it's the same there: The screens for the basegame interactions are darkish and FT ones are brighter. I bet Maxis changed changed something about the screens with the FT interactions (but were too lazy to go back and fix the old ones as well). 
), and it's the same there: The screens for the basegame interactions are darkish and FT ones are brighter. I bet Maxis changed changed something about the screens with the FT interactions (but were too lazy to go back and fix the old ones as well).
#15
06-07-2011
NixNivis;6971 Wrote:I bet Maxis changed changed something about the screens with the FT interactions (but were too lazy to go back and fix the old ones as well).
I wonder if EA changed the OBJD? Like they did with bookcases. That might mean that PRE FT pcs have brightness 1 and FT and beyond have brightness 2.
