is a Sims 2 fansite founded in early 2003. Yuichen and Kayleigh offer a variety of high quality custom content including clothing, hairstyles, accessories, housing, objects, and more.
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FAQs/Policy
Below are common questions we’ve received over the years. If you’ve got a question that doesn’t appear below, feel free to contact us.
Last updated July 28th, 2010.
- What are your usage terms/What is your Policy?
- How do I download?
- How do I install the content?
- I can’t find it!
- How do I use the maternity clothes?
- Can we be affiliates or exchange links?
- What’s with the offsite downloads?
- Where did you get…?
What are your usage terms/What is your Policy?
You may:
- Use in your game, duh.
- Show in stories, photo shoots, etc. Credit isn’t mandatory but would be appreciated ;)
- Use texture in whole or part for your own work as long as credit and a link back to UYS is present. Free sites only -NO TSR! This includes conversions to new meshes.
TS3: Feel free to convert TS2 items by Yuichen or Kayleigh (contact Iosiren for her own TOS) to TS3 but please send us a link so we can link to it, thus avoiding 18464 copies of it across the net. Standard policy applies.
- Include meshes with your recolors but provide credit and a link so downloaders are always able to have the most recent update.
- Package our items with Sims and lots — AS LONG AS they stay OFF the Exchange/TSR.
- Share links to specific pages freely with friends via email, message boards, etc.
- Edit our meshes to your heart’s content, but make sure to credit all those involved in the creation of the mesh and link back to UYS.
You may not:
- Use our work -meshes or textures- on anything you plan to upload to any paysite. This includes sites with just donation gifts. If you have to pay to get access to something it’s still pay, people!
- Deliberately re-upload our content so others can access it. Our site is perfectly open to anyone so there is NO need to re-upload!
- Include with anything you plan to upload to the Exchange or TSR. In other words: Keep our shit OFF the Exchange/TSR!
How do I download?
Each download is nestled in one or more appropriate categories. On the page below the preview image you will see a series of tiny icons. Here is a small key to help you.
Download link
Mesh included/creator link
Mesh or EP/SP required
How do I install the content?
All files are in *.zip format which makes the file smaller and faster to download. You will need a program that can unzip and extract files, such as WinRAR or 7zip. Windows computers (not sure about Macs) can recognize and house *.zip files, but using a program makes the process much easier and allows you to extract files in other formats, as well.
Once you have either of the above programs, right click or double click the *.zip file and select the “extract files…” option. A little window will come up of every directory on your computer. Navigate to the appropriate folder with your Sims2 directory. If however you downloaded a complete Sim or lot, it will be different. See more instructions below.
Clothing, accessories, objects, *.package format of walls and floors:
My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Downloads
Lots, Sims, *.sim2pack format of walls and floors:
Double click *.zip file and double click icon inside. The installer (either Sims2 or the Clean Installer -whichever you have) will automatically unpack the files to your downloads folder. If you’re only using the installer that came with the game the files will be bizarrely named with random numbers and letters.
Neighborhood terrains:
Extract *.sc4 and *.png files to My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/SC4Terrains.
Please note: Using the Clean Installer will not only make it easier to identify content from Sims and lots, but you have the option to deselect pieces of custom content packed with them. For example, you download a Sim and you liked everything on it except its hair. Deselecting the file labeled “Hair” will install everything but that. The Clean Installer also enables you to install a lot or Sim that has given you an error about Expansion Pack data on the regular installer. Get it here!
Also, if you have Nightlife you can add sub-directories (sub-folders) in your downloads folder. This will better organize your mass of files and make it easy to find something that has possibly caused your game errors.
I can’t find it!
Ask yourself these questions:
- Did you move the item to the right spot or try to extract a house to your downloads folder? Check the question above for instructions.
- Did you download the mesh? Nothing will work without its mesh.
- Do you have the expansion or stuff pack that may be required?
If you continue to have problems and all of these issues seem to be correct, there are more detailed instructions and help topics located on MTS and other popular download communities.
How do I use the maternity clothes?
A lot of clothing meshes have what is called a pregnancy morph. Some are able to be used without a hack (which I’ll get to in a minute) if it’s categorized as PJs, undies, active and swimwear. If it’s everyday… you can forget using it without some sort of hack, unless you don’t mind re-categorizing everything. Which is sort of excessive when you think about all the ridiculous clothes you’ll have to weed through for non pregnant Sims, to get to what you want. Besides, why do all that when there’s already something that enables planning outfits for everyday wear?
The Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit mod will let your Sim wear anything that has a morph. As not all custom meshes include pregnancy morphs you’ll only be able to use certain ones, but there are a good amount of meshes with morphs so you just have to work with what is available. Of course, as with any custom content, you will need to find the version of the files that are compatible with your game. Most CC is basegame compatible, but always make sure to look at all the information the creator provides in order to be completely sure.
Alternatively, there’s mesh replacements for Maxis clothing that add morphs, allowing your Sim to wear pretty much everything that’s already in the game. There are various sets of default replacement meshes at MTS.
Can we be affiliates or exchange links?
Send me an email about it and we’ll see :) I’m more likely to affiliate with sites I go to often or know the person/people behind it, but have no problem exchanging links with most sites. We’ve all got to start somewhere and I’d like to help those that are.
What’s with the offsite downloads?
Yuichen agreed to be an “exclusive” creator at Sims2Supernova and update monthly there. Sometimes we contribute to other forums as well. We don’t see anything wrong with it, so why should you? Who said everything we make has to be solely shared here at UYS? It’s our shit and we’ll do what we want with it.
Where did you get…?
Rather than making a huge credits listing, we will leave it at this: chances are it came from one of the websites on the links page, but if you’d rather not dig for it, send a message with a link to the download page and ask. We’d be more than happy to tell you where we got it, if we remember that is. ;)
Download link Mesh included/creator link Mesh required
