Category: Lighting -> Floor Lamps
Cost: $5
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EPs Required: None – base game compatible
I know, there are invisible lamps out there already (some of them made by me). There are ceiling lamps and wall lamps, and that’s great… but sometimes, you get the best lighting for your picture from a floor lamp. Problem is, when you’re setting up your photo shoot and finally have your Sims where you want them and the light where you want it and the camera where you want it, very often that floor lamp will be in your face (or at least taking up a significant part of the screen).
I don’t know about you, but I don’t like lamps in my face. 😛 So, I’ve made two invisible floor lamps to help with this.
Like with my other invisible lamps, there are two variations, one with a softer, yellow light and one with a harder, more fluorescent-ish one. You can of course have both in your game at the same time. Neither of them has a shadow, not even a sun shadow – but they do have a coloured recolour, so you can see where you’re placing them if need be.
I’ve also made it so that the lamps intersect both objects and Sims, so you can place them inside other objects without using cheats. You can even place them inside a Sim if you want to. (I’m not sure why you’d want that, but whatever floats your boat. 😛 )
“Yeah, that’s hilarious. No, really. I’m laughing myself silly.”
Nixed Sims 
Waaaaaaaaaaaaa I am taking them toooooo *0*!!!
This are really useful absolutely… I was using them and erasing them with PS XD!!!, but now that you have made them >w<!!! Thank you really TwT!!!!
I thought you might be interested in these. 😉 I must admit I made these just as much for myself as for others; I like floor lamps, I think their light is great for Sims especially, but they would always get in the way. Eventually, I got fed up with it and made invisible ones. 🙂
This is a cool idea. Thanks, Nix!
You’re welcome! 😀 Glad you like it!
My son is always making up nonsense phrases. One of the ones he uses in place of “Good Job” is “Excellent Plankton”. I will dub these lamps as Excellent Plankton.
“Excellent Plankton,” I love it!
I’m glad you find these Excellent Plankton, Nonni. 🙂
These look so useful! I’m bad at lighting previews and need all the help I can get so thank you very much! 🙂
Yay!
And yeah, I do not like taking indoor screenshots at all (which is probably why I try to take them outdoors as far as possible 😉 ), I always think they’re too dark. So the more lamps, the merrier, I say!
Thank you so much – that´s great and a beautyful addition to your invisible lamp set (which I use for every presentation of my buildings and recols)
Thank you! Glad you like it, and that you like my other invisible lamps as well! 😀
I’ve been using (since they were released) your invisible ceiling and wall lights in EVERY home. This will get much use as well.
Thank you! 🙂
That’s great to hear! Glad my lamps are proving to be useful! 😀
Thank you so much!
You’re most welcome – and thank you for commenting! 🙂
Good work,nixnivis.The files are really micro.Thats a good thing.
Do you know that you have invented the impulslaser? No,than have a look at photobucket under carolus-v2.
The first two pics.
Thanks a lot.Ad astra.
carolus
LOL, that’s brilliant! 😀 I must admit it took me a little while to figure out what was going on – but once I did, I was full of admiration, because it must have taken some dedication to set up all those “pulses” like that. Thanks for showing me!
And yeeh, the files ought to be tiny, there’s almost nothing in them. 😉 The meshes are a whopping 12 polys each, and the texture image for the yellow recol is just 64×64, so it’s not even 1 kB in size. And the invisible recol doesn’t even have a texture image, it’s just an almost-empty TXMT. And it’s the mesh and the texture that takes up space, so (almost) without those, the files are very light. Which is good if you want to do things like set up pulse lasers.