I always loved the Fireflies that your sims can catch if you have the Seasons expansion pack. By default, they are a luminous green, and give a green light.
4amMist did some beautiful recolours here on MTS that I use a lot, and I also made some different colours
here. However, all of these recolours affected only the fireflies themselves, and did not change the colour of the glow beneath the jar, or the light they gave.
Now, I have remade my recolours, as well as 4amMist's original colours, and have recoloured the light glow and transmitted light too.
Please remove any of my or 4amMist's recolours before using, and also any other mods you have which affect firefly colour. Choose only one colour- you can only have one in-game at a time!
My firefly recolours will break
Nopke's Smooth Firefly Jar Light Animation. Thanks to Nopke's generous sharing policies, I have used their original files to make versions for each colour with the smooth animations included. If you want to use these, remove Nopke's mod and replace it with one of my recolours. Again, use only one!
You may have only one colour in-game at a time, and whichever colour you choose, you may have either the original animation version OR Nopke's smooth animation, but not both.
The files with the original EA animations used are named:
simsample_Firefly[colour]Glow.package
The files with Nopke's smooth animations used are named:
simsample_Firefly[colour]Glow_NopkeAnim.package
For details of what Nopke's smooth animation mod does, please see their
original upload thread.
Use
7zip to unzip ONE colour to your Documents/ EAGames/ The Sims 2/ Downloads folder.
Delete the file and refresh caches to remove this mod.
Big Credits:
Many thanks to
4amMist, whose firefly default replacements I based these on. I remade their original colour choices- red, cyan, white- for this mod.
Top marks to
Nopke, whose firefly smooth animations I have reused here, to allow my recolours to be compatible with their mod. They made things easy for me by guiding me to the right resources!
Much appreciation goes to
vegan_kaktus and
Azelanne for the fabulous research
in this thread which helped me enormously.
Without the work of the above modders, I would not have made this mod- they did all of the brainy things and hard work! Full credit and big thanks is due to them. Their work is very much appreciated!