To use custom skyboxes, place the spawner object in the corner of your neighbourhood map or lot, depending on whether the skybox you downloaded is for the neighbourhood or your lot. And if you’re using the realistic water mod listed earlier, it makes for some truly beautiful reflections. It comes with a nice variety of different skyboxes you can use that are animated the clouds, stars and other details slowly move through the sky. My personal favourite is the animated skies collection.

Why? Custom skyboxes are a lot more detailed and add much more variation to the sky than just clouds. There is a mod to add clouds to the sky but I actually prefer to use custom skyboxes. Have you ever noticed that the sky in The Sims 2 looks very… flat? It’s the same tone of blue with no variation or clouds at all. It will make your ocean and pond water look more realistic, closer to how the water in The Sims 3 and The Sims 4 looks. If you feel like the look of your water could use an upgrade, I really recommend this mod over on Mod The Sims.

We really can’t fault The Sims 2 for having ugly water after all, the game is almost 20 years old and at the time, the water looked great! Still, it’s 20 years later and we can do a bit better with the water visuals. That just means The Sims 2 doesn’t recognize your graphics card so the program is asking you if you want it to fix that for you.Īnd you’re done! The Sims 2 should already look loads better but if you want to take things a step further and make the game look even nicer, here are some of the mods I’m currently using in my own game that you might enjoy as well. If you get a popup about your graphics card, just hit OK. Once it’s detected your settings, hit Save Files. Make sure Disable Sim Shadows is checkmarked if it isn’t already. Just open the program, select The Sims 2 from the dropdown list and hit Auto Detect.

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