Happy 20th Birthday to The Sims 2!

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To celebrate the 20th devil nut anniversary of TS2, I present something I started over 9 months ago, have been working on periodically since then and FINALLY finished!



Back on New Year's Eve 2023, I was suddenly inspired to make formal gowns for my Deception IV sims for a New Year's party. So I went into a frenzy of converting some for their bodyshapes that took 2 days and gave me a massive eye strain headache. But it was worth it, even though I didn't have my gameplay hood set up yet I got some memorable pictures and expanded the project. Some are based on VERY old meshes and textures, which although in the spirit of commemorating 20 years of TS2, probably aren't to everyone's taste😅 But they're my taste, and a lot of love, as well as blood,sweat, and tears, went into them.

Without further ado, here's my first CC upload as Dark Side Princess, to celebrate 20 years of TS2 and coincidentially also 10 years since the release of Deception IV: Blood Ties!  (Not the same day. That'd be too much of a coincidence.)

 

The dresses with multiple recolors are repo'd to a required "TEXTURES" file so you can choose whichever bodyshapes you want. The single-recolor ones are standalone. They have all morphs, with Maxis hands and smooth hands meshes, so choose only one! Everything is BSOK'd but there's a non-BSOK'd option for the Maxis shape.
 
The only Deception ladies who didn't get a new dress are Lilia (she uses Maxis AF so I had something for her) and Ephemera (who's a recent addition to my game.) Lilia, the short one with the yellow pigtails in the previews, is an adult, I don't make clothing for other ages at the moment but conversions are always welcome.





Princess of Fate - Sussi Crinoline Dress Edit for AF, CPU, Vol Gal, Ren Gal, & Momma Lisa
as worn by Laegrinna

This is Sussi's crinoline gown with Martini's edit of Bloom's cleavage, and other adjustments to be closer to the Maxis body while still maintaining the corseted look (that waist was tiny).



There are 8 - the red one from here and a sapphire blue recolor I did for Laegrinna, and some with PVC corsets that I found on the Graveyard from Sussi's old site. Polycounts: 2152 (Maxis hands), 3960 (smooth hands).



DOWNLOAD Princess of Fate
SFS | Google Drive | Mega






Reunited Soul - Peggy gown with Sentate's Lilith Pumps for AF & CPU
as worn by Celia

Peggy's BM081007 gown shoeswapped with Sentate's Lilith pumps, which you can barely see due to the length of the dress. The textures are by Alisa from here, their TOU says not to use their textures but it doesn't seem like they've been active since 2014. I only needed this specifically for Celia so it's just the one color for AF and CPU (Ephemera does look pretty in it though, doesn't she?). Polycounts are 2188 (Maxis hands), 3996 (smooth hands).



DOWNLOAD Reunited Soul
SFS | Google Drive | Mega






Nightmare Princess - SimderZ Ribbons 'N' Bows Edit for AF, CPU, Vol Gal, & Dummy Thicc
as worn by Velguirie

This is a VERY old dress from SimderZ on a mesh that was... shaped. One sim leg could probably fit under the skirt 😂 But the style screamed Velguirie so I gave it a revamp for her. I added Bloom's cleavage (the original, as I was in the midst of the bodyshape swim/undies project and hadn't thought about separating Martini's edit). Then I did a couple more shapes, because Veruza would absolutely wear this and I thought it'd look great on Dummy Thicc too. Polycounts are 2188 (Maxis hands), 3996 (smooth hands).



DOWNLOAD Nightmare Princess
SFS | Google Drive | Mega






The Final Act - TSM Swan Gown for CPU
as worn by Freise

I only did this one for CPU, as it had Bloom's cleavage built into it and bodyshape WSOs make the boobs ridiculous. I had a hard enough time with boob scaling on Velguirie's dress so I didn't feel like doing any others, at least not for now. Please note  I removed the necklace entirely from the mesh since I prefer to use separate accessories. My edited mesh replaces Cynnix's so the recolors work with either. The CPU mesh only comes without the necklace.



There's 6 recolors: a white one by me, Skell's black one, and 4 of Furbyq's colorful ones. The original AF versions are included repo'd to the same texture file for convenience. Polycounts are 2991 (Maxis hands), 1799 (smooth hands).



DOWNLOAD The Final Act
SFS | Google Drive | Mega






Midnight Angel - Sussi New Baroque Dress for AF, CPU, & Ren Gal
as worn by Evelyn

Another of Sussi's meshes, which I also edited to make the waist not as tiny (like the previous one, my mesh file replaces the original). The textures are by Rock Chick/Neen (yes, from 2007, I still think they're gorgeous, I love old CC ok 😅)



I made 6 pastel recolors from Kinu's Kosmik and Aelia's Retro palettes. Polycounts are 2292 (Maxis hands), 4100 (smooth hands).



DOWNLOAD Midnight Angel
SFS | Google Drive | Mega






Sadistic Elevation - SimderZ Deadly V2 (on NL Brocade Dress) for AF, CPU, Vol Gal, & Dummy Thicc
as worn by Veruza

Another SimderZ outfit, I actually love their clothes (go ahead, tell me I have questionable taste). This is on the NL afdressbrocade mesh, which Warlokk already converted to CPU forever ago but it needed a preg morph.I couldn't do a smooth hands version for Maxis AF without making a default replacement, so I didn't for now - but I realized I like the original dress, well, at least the red recolor of it. It's wacky and kind of 80s-ish. I'll be making a default in the future.



The original texture was made to look like visible nipples under (presumably) latex, but I edited them out to make it more usable 😂 My AF recolor, labeled "edit,"does not replace the original, in case you want both. I'm not going to judge. Polycounts are 2134 (Maxis hands), 3945 (smooth hands).

DOWNLOAD Sadistic Elevation
SFS | Google Drive | Mega






Elaborate Decision - Sentate Willow Gown 4t2 for AF, CPU, and Dummy Thicc
as worn by Caelea

I saved this one for last because holy. shit. This mesh almost drove me to tears. Too bad Veruza, and not Caelea who this one was for, is the Daemon of Sadistic Torment because that's EXACTLY what this dress was. Although "elaborate" is also an apt description, the majority of the polys being in the ruffles.Those things were a bitch to reshape, which is why I only did 2 bodyshapes. The mesh had some bone assignment issues that Digi fixed for me, the AF one included replaces DeeDee's original so make sure to delete that one first.



There are 8 recolors - some of Oydis's Eos iridescents, Furbyq's and Pooklet's colors. Polycounts are 4556 (Maxis hands), 6364 (smooth hands).



DOWNLOAD Elaborate Decision
SFS | Google Drive | Mega


CREDITS:
Original meshes: Sussi, Peggy, AngelAmysxxx, EAxis (NL brocade dress; TSM swan gown converted by Cynnix), Sentate (TS4, 4t2 by @deedee-sims)
Bodyshapes: Warlokk, Digi, Frannysims
WSOs: Digi, Lifa, Monilisasims
Smooth hands: Tenshii~Akari
Textures & recolors: Sussi, Alisa, SimderZ, EAxis, Neen, Sentate, Skell, Furbyq, me
Color actions: Aelia, Kinu, Oydis, Furbyq, Pooklet