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#1 Old 11th Jan 2018 at 7:36 PM
Default Favorite Lamps & Ceiling Lights?
For me, Sims 2 CC is like books in real life -- you can never have enough; you always need more. I was considering my downloads folder recently and realized that I really don't have very many custom lights in it. In my early simming days I never paid much attention to or cared much about what the lights look like. Now that I work as an electrician I've gained an appreciation for attractive light fixtures (or, depending on the character of your sim, maybe gauche and ugly ones -- there are a lot of those in the world as well).

I started poking around to see what is available and discovered the brilliant lighting designs (pun intendend) of @mustluvcatz -- in particular, this lamp is ADORABLE, and I was also tickled to find these 2x2 fluorescent lights for a drop ceiling.

These days, of course, we're more likely to be taking those out and replacing them with LED fixtures, but they often look pretty similar.

So what are your favorite lights, or creators or sites for lights?
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#2 Old 11th Jan 2018 at 8:11 PM
My Oscar lamp!! I think I can honestly say that's one of my favorites, it finds it's way into a lot of the houses I build and decorate. Other than that, I won't be much help here as most of the lighting I have was made by me. I have a serious lighting addiction I think, lol.
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#3 Old 11th Jan 2018 at 8:12 PM
I love Numenor's Artemide Chimera lamps:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=120427
They have custom light definitions.

I also use these a lot:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=61539
Theorist
#4 Old 12th Jan 2018 at 1:17 AM
Ooooh, lights! That's one thing I love to have in game, I love all sorts of lights for some reason. Maybe because I always have lights on at daytime in rl, I don't always see so good. Also have a few night lights on during the night, this way I don't get blinded turning on lights in case I get up in the dark. Not sure what my favorites are, even ugly, funky looking lamps end up in my downloads. (:

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Alchemist
#5 Old 12th Jan 2018 at 3:21 AM
I love matchng light fixtures so anything that matches original maxis is fabulous!
Like these http://digitalperversion.net/garden...p?topic=32054.0
and these http://psychosim.livejournal.com/38327.html
and these http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=486344
and these http://digitalperversion.net/garden...?topic=31772.15
and HL just posted some brand spanking new maxis ones! http://gardenofshadows.org.uk/garde...6;topicseen#new
and all these are really cool for kids rooms https://www.thesimsresource.com/art...amps/id/266708/, https://www.thesimsresource.com/art...bear/id/266656/, https://www.thesimsresource.com/art...lamp/id/266715/
There are some lovely hanging lamps out there but, I dont know if its just me, but I find cc hanging lamps are quite often too low, and sims heads look like they knock on them, so quite often I tend to find a really nice table lamp I like the look of and put it on omsps upside down and shift it to look like a nice hanging lamp!

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#6 Old 12th Jan 2018 at 4:58 AM
The looking like they'd knock their heads on them is one of the reasons I've made so many lights/lamps. I always test my ceiling lamps in game to make sure they're not too low, lol. (I've also edited other ceiling lamps so they're not so low, but don't ask me to share them. I have no idea which ones they were these days.) Huge table lamps is the other reason.
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#7 Old 12th Jan 2018 at 6:31 AM
I don't use a huge amount of CC lights, but one fix I love is for the Maxis ceiling light-or what should be a ceiling light! http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=315720 Turns an annoying light into a very usable one.

These little lost and found ceiling lights http://modthesims.info/d/558551

MLC's candles. http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=586750 made them for me after all and candles suit nearly anyplace. 3 parts, plus the Christmas lights and any of her other lights.

I also like recolours of Maxis lights. Quite a few here on MTS. Michelle is always worth looking at for recolours.

Then I have a collection of lamps from I think it's the graveyard. Regular and children's. I'll have to look in game to see if they say who made them. Edit: Shows up as Dot and Raynus. Also check out BuggyBooz I have some cute lights from her.

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#8 Old 12th Jan 2018 at 7:09 AM
I use:

All the lights made by @mustluvcatz and @HugeLunatic. And, yes, Michelle - she has some lost and found lights too, which I use quite often.

And 33 lamps by Moune here: https://sims2artists.com/index.php?topic=4257.0
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#9 Old 12th Jan 2018 at 7:35 AM
**after seeing all the lovely light fixtures, I tried to contain myself as much as possible. "Now listen you," I whispered to myself. "you just reduced your 5GB Downloads folder to 4GB last night! Don't ruin it!"**

AH YES MY FAVORITE LIGHT FIXTURES YOU ASK? --The lantern from ATS' Country Kitchen is a personal favorite of mine. I also like to combine Built-in halogen spots by @TheJim07 with M&G's ceiling fans for my Tropical and Mediterranean homes.
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#10 Old 12th Jan 2018 at 10:33 AM
I also use those lights by TheJim07 They are found in some of my uploads and I've used them in several entries for building competititons! Can't believe i forgot about those, can't live without them.
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#11 Old 13th Jan 2018 at 11:37 AM
Well, well, well. Thanks to this little thread the "other creators" vs "me" count has gone up a bit. There were a few lights/lamps that I'd had in the past and lost some how. Now I've got them back!
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#12 Old 13th Jan 2018 at 12:26 PM
I have yet to see a ceiling fan light *wiggles eyebrows* ~ I know some of them can get hideous but the really classy antiques are so unffffff
Alchemist
#13 Old 15th Jan 2018 at 2:54 AM
Quote: Originally posted by kanzen
I have yet to see a ceiling fan light *wiggles eyebrows* ~ I know some of them can get hideous but the really classy antiques are so unffffff


I dunno if these are lights or not Kanzen, but I actually just found them the other day and just saw your post now! http://angelsways1.weebly.com/lighting.html
You could also cheat and pop Nix's invisible light over top so then looks likei t really is a light https://nixedsims.wordpress.com/201...nvisible-lamps/

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