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Nov 20, 2020

[Download] Working Replacement - Minimalist, clean Loading Screens!!

Thanks to a UIScript group name posted by @greatcheesecakepersona, I looked around in the basegame UI package at the group they specified and was able to figure out how the loading screen was stored.
Naturally, just like other parts of the game and its UI, such as the loading splash screen, it can be replaced - in this case instances that usually point to the Maxis loading animation (Riff) can actually be pointed to image files.
They’re kind of TS4-like in that they don’t differentiate between types of loading screen, but it is possible to. I didn’t includes icons on this one since it’s meant to be minimalist, and also i was lazy and didn’t have vectors to replace them with.

***this mod is separate from any clean ui mods but can be used in combination with them.***

Read details & download below!

Features:

Supports up to a 4K resolution.
Replaces all neighborhood loading, CAS and YACAS loading, going to a community lot, etc.
Unfortunately, NOT animated and does not have a loading bar - like GCKP said, no one knows how to interpret/replace the RIFF files that contain the animations yet.
Light colors come with a black bar because there is no known way to change the text color.
Unfortunately, it is not yet known how to change the family loading screen, but every other one is replaced.
No color banding! The shading on the options with bars has been properly dithered and looks smooth on any display.

Colors:

White (Matches Clean UI!!)
Black with or without bar
Blue with or without bar (Matches Maxis Loading screen, Sims 4-esque

Ugly ones:

Purple with or without bar (Matches Maxis UI, pre-splash color, and the purple screen that shows up when you change the resolution.)
A random green thrown in there. I doubt many people will use this one.

Feel free to leave suggestions for colors, designs, icons, etc. for future loading screens!