Hey there. 🙂 I’m using the first page from this: https://nepheris.livejournal.com/60285.html
I use the resident information page to keep track of the households and individuals, and figure out what aspirations, hobbies, and whatnot to give them. 🙂

Hey there, sorry for the delay, my inbox never notified me of this message. I gave up a bit too early it seems, because this gave me the encouragement to learn a bit more about changing the terrain and I think it’s getting there. 🙂 Thank you for the suggestion I sincerely appreciate it.

Hi there, thank you I appreciate it. 🙂 I feel the same way, where I found them pretty unimpressive in TS3, but then again TS2 has always been my game.

So for the first, I had initially planned to make some beach lots, but unfortunately the terrain isn’t close enough to fit any proper beach lots that I’ve seen, and I don’t know how to edit that, so I sadly no.

As for the second, I do definitely plan on posting the neighborhood for download. I’m almost done with all the lots, and I’ll make a post for the download as soon as it’s ready. 🙂

Thank you so much, I’m happy you like it. 🙂 And sure thing. 

So in your Sims 2 folder in Documents (It will be something like Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods or Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Neighborhoods if you have Ultimate Collection) And go into the folder (NXXX the number will vary depending on the neighborhood) for the neighborhood you want to give a new icon. 

In the folder you should see 4 folders labeled Characters/Lots/Storytelling/Thumbnails, a bkp file, a package file, and a png named NXXX_Neighborhood.png. 

What I did was opened NXXX_Neighborhood.png in Paint (or whatever image program you prefer). The image will be 600×450 px in size. 

If you go into the Options menu in game, under Camera Options, make sure your Snapshot size is set to ‘Large’ and Quality is set to ‘High’. This makes your Snapshots 600×450 px. 

Then I took a snapshot in my game using the ‘C’ key. I found that snapshot in my Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Storytelling folder and opened it in Paint as well.

 On that snapshot in Paint I used Ctrl-A to select all, then Ctrl-C to copy. I switched to the NXXX_Neighborhood.png in Paint and used Ctrl-V to paste the new image over it. Then I saved it and now my NXXX_Neighborhood.png is the image I want for the icon. 

It should show up once you reopen your game. I hope this helps. 🙂

(Just in case here’s a link to another tutorial in case I explained it weirdly.)