Neighborhood Editors

These tools should work if you have The Sims 2 or its expansions for the PC. They allow you to modify your neighborhood and/or your Sim’s lots. To download the files, you may either click the ‘Download Here’ button to start the process or you may be directed to a specific site where you can download it from there. You can also view a larger picture of the program by clicking on the thumbnail image provided.

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Before you download: We are in no way responsible for the patches or programs on this site in terms on how they may effect gameplay. All of the files hosted on our site are virus free so you shouldn’t experience any issues on that matter, however some downloads may modify how the game performs or a game’s files. For the most part, we may not be able to help troubleshoot any problems with programs and/or patches – please check in with the original creator if you experience any issues. Thanks for understanding!

HoodReplace

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Creator: Mootilda
Source: Mod The Sims (MTS)

The HoodReplace program will copy any selection of: terrain, roads, bridges, trees and decorations from one Sims 2 neighborhood to another, completely replacing the selected elements from the existing neighborhood.

Because this program allows you to select which elements to copy, rather than having to copy everything, you can do things which used to be very difficult. For example: you can now add roads to a neighborhood without losing your existing neighborhood trees and decorations.

LotAdjuster

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Creator: Mootilda
Source: Mod The Sims (MTS)

The LotAdjuster allows you to modify a lot in “The Sims 2″ in a variety of ways, including

• Move a lot within a neighborhood; move a lot away from the road.
• Enlarge a lot over the road; allow building on both sides of the road.
• Enlarge a lot up to a size of 6×6, which is the EA-imposed TS2 limit.
• Add and remove roads; create a roadless lot; create a lot with multiple roads: corner lot, alleyway, service road, square.
• Shrink a lot; allow building to within one tile of the edge of a lot.
• Unlock tiles on a lot.
• Fix vehicle and pedestrian portal locations, as well as the location of the mailbox, trash can, and phone booth.

This version of the LotAdjuster works with all expansion and stuff packs, up to and including The Sims 2 Free Time.

The LotAdjuster is the successor to the LotExpander.

LotCompressor

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Creator: Mootilda
Source: Mod The Sims (MTS)

The LotCompressor will make your lots smaller, so that they are easier to share. A “compress all” feature allows you to compress all of the lots in an entire neighborhood or subhood.

Although I wrote this utility to help with sharing lots and neighborhoods, it can also help to reduce the size of your save game on your hard drive by permanently reducing the size of your lot bin and all of your community lots. Since community lots are not saved as you play, the size reductions will remain in effect unless you modify these lots.

The LotCompressor shrinks the size of your lots by removing several unnecessary images. The missing images are not necessary and will regenerate the next time that you save your lot. Removing these images can significantly reduce the size of your lot. As an example, the subhood that I compressed went from 45 MB to 20 MB (see attached images). Your results may vary.

LotExpander

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Creator: Mootilda
Source: Mod The Sims (MTS)

LotExpander allows you to expand lots up to size 6 x 6 with a few mouse clicks. You can change both, Width and Height, in one Cycle. LotExpander offers English and German language GUI.

You need Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to run LotExpander!

The program is using some DLLs from SimPE (included in Setup).

Big thanks for Quaxi for this and his whole work for the community!

LotExpander is released under GPL. You also can get the source code from the site as well!

Sims 2 Grid Calculator

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Creator: Thomas Wade
Source: Sims 2 Downloads

Use this to convert houseplan measurements into sims 2 grid squares.

TS2 Neighborhood Name Generator

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Creator: Judhudson
Source: Simprograms

What this program does is let you generate Names for your neighborhoods. With a thousand choices, you will have tons to select, and you can even mix/match the names to make your own! It can even be used if you are out of ideas to name your cities in SimCity 4!

Also, it is best that you download the Visual Basics Runtime Files that Microsoft provides at there website. You can download them here: Microsoft VB Runtime Files