Frequently Asked Questions

This site is not endorsed by or affiliated with Electronic Arts, or its licensors. Lyran 2.0 is merely a private fan site. You download, install and use anything at your own risk. Everything on my site is free for you to download and use in your game, but you are not allowed to use my creations, or parts of it, for your own creations. Furthermore, you are not allowed to redistribute my creations in any way, with the exception of my walls/floors. You are allowed to redistribute my walls/floors in your houses, with credit. You may show my stuff in screenshots, preview pics etc. A link is nice, but not mandatory. All files on my site are compressed to save space on my server. They come to you either as .zip or .rar files. You need to de-compress them before you install them. WinRar will de-compress both .zip and .rar. If you have problems downloading and installing files correctly, please join my forum Simpixels & Graphics to ask for help. Unfortunately I do not have time to answer all questions individually via mail. DO NOT HOTLINK TO MY IMAGES OR FILES!

Objects

Object creating for The Sims 2 is still in Beta stage. I test all objects in my game game before I offer them to you, but each computer is different and there are no guarantees that things will work for you, just because they worked for me. All objects on my site have been made with SimPE 0.35 or later and should be compatible with future expansion packs. Download the files you want by clicking on the preview pics. De-compress the files with WinRar before you install. Install objects in your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads folder or create a folder named Objects in the same directory (yes putting objects in their own folder and/or creating subfolders work). All my object meshes are low or medium in vertex and poly counts, unless otherwise stated. All meshes needed for recolours to work are included. My objects are created with: SimPE MTS2 Mesh Tool MilkShape 3D UV Mapper Classic Adobe PhotoShop 6 You must have the Color Enabler Packages (CEP) installed to make my objects work in your game. Read about and download here. Make sure to check for updates now and then as well. Double-click the CEP.exe to install 2 files on your computer, one (_EnableColorOptionsGMND.package) in your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads folder and one (_EnableColorOptionsMMAT.package) in C:\Program(Files)\EA Games\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Sims3D. Just remove these packages if you want to uninstall CEP. Credits to Quaxi and Pinhead for SimPE, Numenor and RGiles for CEP and Miche and Delphy for Mesh Tool. Thanks also to Kiri, JWoods and Dr Pixel for help and inspiration.

Skins

Download the files you want by clicking on the preview pics. De-compress the files with WinRar before you install. Install all skins .package files in your My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Downloads folder (they can not be put in subfolders). Whole Simmies come as .Sims2Pack files, double-click to install automatically. All meshes needed for the skins to work are included, unless otherwise stated. Skins are created with Body Shop and Adobe PhotoShop 6.

Credits

Credits for meshes used in downloads can be found below the preview pics. Credits for files used in preview pics will show if you mouse over the pics.

Links and Affiliation

Feel free to link to me if you want to, it's much appreciated. You can either use the button below or a plain text link to www.lyran.net/ts2. Please upload button to your own server. I will not do regular link exchanging, since I have very little time to manage a large links section. I want to know people before I affiliate with them, so please don't ask me to affiliate unless we do know each other. I also don't want to have lots of affiliates, so please don't feel bad if I say no.

Tutorials and Help

I am unfortunately not very good at writing tutorials, or at explaining how to do things. Visit my forum Simpixels & Graphics to check out tutorials and make friends with the nice and helpful members. Mod The Sims 2 is a huge forum, where you can find the answers to all your questions about creating for TS2.