User:Zc456/NewSims2

New Sims 2, originally a fansite for The Sims 2 in 2003, is a re-implementation project led by Zc456. The effort is a combination of knowledge learned from nioTSO project and Sims 2 modding community to rewrite The Sims 2's engine from scratch using OpenGL. The project will start by understanding Body Shop, a standalone version of CAS (Create-A-Sim), and SimPE, an open source package editor.

Motives
The inspiration came from the fact that Maxis left the game so open for mods. and the fact that it relies on the DBPF format, under the .package extension. This format has been heavily reverse engineered and very well understood by The Sims community with SimPE being the most prominent tool in the community. This means that it's mostly a matter of re-writing the engine to bring Sims 2 to more players on different systems, since Aspyr did a lousy job, and make it more expandable, such as adding newer aspirations, wants, and fears.