Minimalist In-game Loading Screens [Color options!]
- Replaces hood, subhood, downtown, CAS, YACAS, empty lot loading, going to a community lot, etc. The only things this does NOT replace are the splash screen when you start the game (check out greatcheesecakepersona's tumblr for ones that match Clean UI!) and family/vacation loading plus possibly walking to a community lot, none of which we do not know how to change yet. (the files are hidden somewhere)
- Up to 4K supported.
- Unfortunately, these are not animated and do not have a loading bar - like GCKP said, no one knows how to interpret/replace the RIFF files that contain the animations yet.
- Light colors come with a black bar because there is no known way to change the text color.
- No color banding! The shading on the options with bars has been properly dithered and looks smooth on any display.
Colors [only choose one]:
- White (Matches Clean UI!!)
- Black with or without bar
- Blue with or without bar (Matches Maxis Loading screen, Sims 4-esque)
- Purple with or without bar (Matches Maxis UI, pre-splash color, and the purple screen that shows up when you change the resolution.)
- A random green thrown in there. I doubt many people will use this one.
Thanks to a UIScript group name posted by tumblr @greatcheesecakepersona, I looked around in the basegame UI package at the group they specified and was able to figure out how the loading screen was stored.
Naturally, just like other parts of the game and its UI, such as the loading splash screen, it can be replaced - in this case instances that usually point to the Maxis loading animation (Riff) can actually be pointed to image files.
They're kind of TS4-like in that they don't differentiate between types of loading screen, but it is possible to.
Feel free to leave suggestions for colors, designs, icons, etc. for future loading screens!
Additional Credits:
greatcheesecakepersona, SimPE
Note from the Creator:
Loading - fixed shopping district.7z
| doesn't have green and purple because they were ugly
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Install Instructions
1. Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2. Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file.
3. Place in Downloads Folder: Cut and paste the .package file(s) into your Downloads folder:
- Origin (Ultimate Collection): Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims™ 2 Ultimate Collection\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows Vista/7/8/10: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Non-Origin, Windows XP: Documents and Settings\(Current User Account)\My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads\
- Mac: Users\(Current User Account)\Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads
- Mac x64: /Library/Containers/com.aspyr.sims2.appstore/Data/Library/Application Support/Aspyr/The Sims 2/Downloads
- For a full, complete guide to downloading complete with pictures and more information, see: Game Help: Downloading for Fracking Idiots.
- Custom content not showing up in the game? See: Game Help: Getting Custom Content to Show Up.
- If you don't have a Downloads folder, just make one. See instructions at: Game Help: No Downloads Folder.
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Updated: 10th Jan 2021 at 11:23 AM - clarification and organization; fixed shopping districts
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