DOWNLOAD: Clean UI (v1.4)

The wait is finally over! After almost two and a half years in development with more than 2.800 images and 180 script files edited, you can now experience the first ever, modern and completely overhauled user interface for Sims 2 across all expansion packs! Please note that because of this, you need every expansion pack and possible also Mansion & Garden stuff.



You can find many more images in the flickr gallery.



Features:

- completely overhauled user interface

- various fixes and removed flaws

- removed deprecated buttons or ones that corrupt the game (optional, ex. delete family…)

- popular CC included to avoid incompatibility (Chris Hatch widescreen mods…)

- three new startup loading screens

- optional (new) Sims (and pets) in the menus

- cursors (inspired) from Sims 4



Recommended, compatible CC:

- No pause frame (Nopke)

- Pause overlay replacement (XanderGC)

- Default novel icons (Slig)

- Better Bubbles - Headline Texture Replacement (Eddysims)

- Pie Menu Text Strings Fix (Lord Darcy)

- No more loading the **** family (NickM406)

- Widescreen CAS camera fix (simminglena)

- More widescreen loading screens [1] [2] [3] [4] (various)

- Different menu background (if you don’t use a loading screen) (thepopeofbeers)



Recommended Clean UI CC:

These mods build upon Clean UI. Make sure they get loaded after the original Clean UI packages.



- Improved Pets UI (ethanmcgregor)

- New bigger panel for hobbies (ethanmcgregor)

- Connected Sim tree (ethanmcgregor)



Included CC:

These mods are already (optionally) included in Clean UI. If you use the standalone mods, the Clean UI style could be overwritten as they use the same image or script files. So make sure you don’t have the following CC in your Downloads folder:



- Widescreen CAS (Chris Hatch), optional

- Widescreen CAS with more columns (Chris Hatch), optional

- Widescreen change appearence (Chris Hatch), optional

- Widescreen buy/plan outfit (Chris Hatch), optional

- Widescreen collections (Chris Hatch), optional

- Colorful seasons icons (DanTheMann15)

- Fix subhood selection (Mootilda)

- UI Text Fonts Fix for AL/MG (DanTheMann15)

- Improved family tree UI (SixAM!), optional

- TS3 style mood background (hexagonal-bipyramid), optional



Changelog:

Since the release of Clean UI, four updates have been released to fix common bugs or annoyances. Check out all the changes here!



Installation:

Extract the zip archive and follow the installation instructions.



If you want to modify Clean UI, check out the Clean UI DIY Kit!

If you have any questions or problems, look at this post first. For any further questions or problems, feel free to send me a DM.



Credits:

Assistance for graphics:

@joyceaoconnor​ • @luanshku​ • @tony-veis • @pxlbob

Testing:



@realterminathan • @jessamica92-blog • @jennamaxon • @redplaysthesims​ • @tony-veis • @raydersims • @shadowefx • @eddysims

Loading screens assets:

ku & sagarvaghani on pngtree.com

Special thanks:

@cinamoons for motivating me to dig in the games UI files to make small adjustments… which resulted into Clean UI.



I also want to thank everyone who offered me assistance and motivated me during the long development with kind words! With Clean UI, I finally conclude my CC series for Sims 2. It was a wild ride and I’ve learned so much, but now it’s time to focus on something else and to actually play this wonderful game.