HAIR DUMP V: SON OF HAIR DUMP

[hat_plays_sims]

This is not breaking my "No making Sims 2 stuff in August" rule. No, I made all these in July, and I needed a break from sewing (white lace dresses sell, but they are BORING to make and it wasn't what I wanted to do with those pieces so I'm sulky), so I said to myself, I said, "I'll make swatches and post a hair dump."

Yup okay, so. Twenty-one hairs, boilerplate goes outside like so:

Dude, twenty-one hairs. Image heavy behind the cut, yo.



Updated with a header and Sims File Share links as of May 25 2022!

NO PAYSITES. I use Pooklet's color actions, Pooklet says no paysites, so no paysites.

Meshes are included except where noted; yes, it is inconvenient that HP requires you to trot your butt over to MTS to grab her meshes, but hey. What can you do?

Swatches are included in the zip files.

Everything is always compressorized.

Poly Counts: I have no idea. I assume that HP is low, Rose is reasonable, the lone Peggy hair is probably high, and I don't know what SAU and Raon have reputations for.

Hairs are binned like so:
Dynamite-Depth Charge-Incendiary-Explosive-Pipe Bomb
Shrapnel-Safety Fuse-Volatile-Pyrotechnic-Smoke Bomb (hombrewed)
Land Mine-Fission-Grenade-Comburent-Mail Bomb
Flash Powder-Brisance-Primer-Molotov-Time Bomb
You also get a bonus all-ages Time Bomb as a custom.

If you hate my binning, change it. If you want the neons, do them. Feel totally free.

PLEASE feel free to also change the filenames on these folders. Or on the files themselves. They are ludicrously long because it's easier to shorten something too long than go "Okay, so WHOSE Rose D069 Volatile is this?" I don't even keep them that long in my own game. As a matter of fact, if you subfolder these too deeply, you'll hit the character limit and they won't show up. (If, however, your subfolders go Downloads > Genetics Hair > Hat's Ludicrously Long Folder Name, it will still work.)

Thanks go to Pooklet for her actions and assorted textures, to Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, to Rose, Raon, Hysterical Paroxysm, Peggy, Sim Artists' Union, and Tiggerypum for their meshes, to FantasyRogue for nipping the butterfly off of Rose Donate 041, to Bosie and Aikea Guinea for FtM conversions, and to Io, Ja, Bosie, HP, Alfred Askew, Stakeit UK, Rainkius, Rose, Cavilez, Cutthroat Dollie Destroyable, and FantasyRogue for textures I have used in full or in part.

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.




Magistrate
Rose 033/Pooklet and Rose textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
Because I can't quit poking at my Takemizu folder... Also because Pooklet's blacks are super pretty.
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Balancing Act
Rose 032/Pooklet and Rosetextures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
Basically the same as Magistrate, only with... a chair-shaped headdress thingy. Same textures, same alpha, different mesh, so Magistrate doesn't have alpha'd out wasted polys. Kinda nice!
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Bold Prince
Rose Gift 105/Io's textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
This one is actually slightly product-ish for me, but I really like the shape of it, so despite the fact that it looks like he could have some dippity-doo in his hair, I may someday have someone who needs this hair.
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Brazen
Rose Donate 023/Sims 2 Heaven and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
I like this mesh! I even kind of liked Rose's wet-look textures. But once I got used to Pooklet's textures, they were just too, too crunchy. This, I admit, is not perfect... but it's MUCH better than it was. The alpha nearly killed me; apparently I have no idea what to do when confronted with a layer mask.
BACK VIEW
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Coquette
Raon F54/Raon and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
Ohhh what a pretty hair this is. So sweet. And I have such a weakness for curls, you guys. SUCH a weakness. In fact, my weakness for curls is so great that I and my moderately badass graphics card are happily ignoring the fact that this hair has 18,600 polys. If your graphics card gets sad when you make it play with high-poly hair, you might want to skip this one.
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Drink To Her Charms
Raon F36/Sims 2 Heaven and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Adult-Elder
Even if they're just big loose curls. CURLS. GIVE THEM TO ME.
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Harvest Time
Rose 028/Rose textures heavily blurred/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
Okay, so Rose's original textures here were SO CRUNCHY. (Actually, I think this is a Maxis hair from OFB with some bits lopped off.) So I carefully cut and copied and motion-blurred tiny tiny sections of this hair to smooth it out, and THEN I Pooklet'd it. You guys, this one is a labor of love.
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Initiate
Hysterical Paroxysm's Seraph/HP textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Okay, so this is called 'Initiate' and she's in a red ninja outfit because in my game, people who join a religious order wear red before they really really take their vows... and shave their heads. Some more serious novices might just cut their hair very short. Textures are HP's own, but I lowered the contrast in order to make the curls look less greasyshiny, because BOY was that bugging me.
Hysterical Paroxysm does not allow her meshes to be shared anywhere but MTS, so go here for the mesh (get the standalone version).
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Intelligentsia
Raon F64 FtM by Bosie/Bosie's textures/Pooklet's actions
Young Adult-Elder
Looks like a real smart guy's hair, right? Of course right.
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Low Maintenance
Hysterical Paroxysm's New Roman/Alfred Askew's Model T textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
LOVE this hair. Seriously, I overuse it a LOT. It's one of those hairdos that never ever goes out of style, and I can't believe I forgot the female version. It's going on the list for next time. The textures are all Alfred, although I did add just a touch of blur so that the Flash Powder and Molotov textures came out looking a little softer.
Hysterical Paroxysm does not allow her meshes to be shared off of MTS, so please drop by here to nab the mesh.
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More Than He's Worth
Hysterical Paroxysm Gaius/HP textures/Pooklet's actions
Young Adult-Elder
OH GOD this hair kicked my ass. KICKED IT. I love Alfred's version but I'll have to decide I love it a LOT to recolor this mesh again. Also, because of how this hair kicked my ass (KICKED IT!), this is a 32mb download. Yeah. Don't say I didn't warn you. I don't even. MADNESS.
Hysterical Paroxysm does not allow her meshes to be shared off of MTS, so please drop by here to nab the necessary mesh.
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My Sweet Lamb
Hysterical Paroxysm Cherub/HP's textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
I do love this mesh. It's so curly! I've mentioned my thing about curls, right? Mmm curls. Anyway, this uses the exact same textures as the female version, with the contrast lowered to avoid that greasy look.
Hysterical Paroxysm does not look just go get the mesh, okay?
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One Hundred Strokes
Peggy 006108/Stakeit UK textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
It looks like it's being brushed out. Or at least it looks that way to me. It's not particularly Medieval, but I like it.
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Out of the Way
Rose Donate 061/Rainkius textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
Actually, I did apply Pooklet's textures to parts of this myself-- basically anything that wasn't curved. Oh curves. Bane of my existence. (I like braids as much as I like curls.)
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Reap What You Sow
SAU MYOS M27/Cavilez textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
I never ever have enough Peasant Guy hairs. It's easy to find something kingly, but something that looks like you've been out toiling in your fields all day and it's been a while since your last haircut WITHOUT looking like a big anime mop? That's harder to find.
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Sailor Lad
SAU MYOS M28/Cavilez textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Hey, it's ANOTHER decent peasant hair! Of course I had to do both. I NEED THEM.
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A Maiden's Simple Joys
Rose Donate 041, Butterfly Removed by FantasyRogue/FR and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
Okay, guys, if you prefer to use Rose's original mesh, um. You'll run into problems, because I didn't make sure the butterfly was prettily colored, so it'll match the hair. Sorry about that. Also, the mesh included here is a REPLACEMENT for Rose Donate 041, not a standalone mesh. If you have previous instances of this mesh with the butterfly, you should know that the last mesh loaded wins. Either replace them all with this one (names are the same so overwriting is easy) or make sure this one loads last.
BACK VIEW.
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Swept Away
Rose Donate 069/Cutthroat Dollie textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
I left the original barrette-thingy textures on this one, which appear to be rhinestones. On the other hand, from normal angles it's pretty hard to see them. Like Rose D061, I did retexture everything that wasn't curved, but Cutthroat Dollie Destroyable did kinda do everything else.
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Tea Ceremony
Rose 030/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
Because apparently I just can't have enough Takemizu hair. The Child age on this one does look a little weird around the forehead, but I left it anyway.
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Unsuitable For Elves
Tiggerypum's Male Elfbraid Hair/Pooklet and FR textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
So this hair is supposed to be an attempt at a Legolas look. It's even called Elfbraid Hair. But you know something? It COMPLETELY covers the normal elf ears. Bits of this use Ja's textures-- the whole top of the head is covered in curved hair she is responsible for, cos I lack the ability to warp.
BACK VIEW
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Wanderer
Raon F82 FtM by Aikea Guinea/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Young Adult-Elder
Careful, I think the ponytail doesn't bend so well on this one with the original (included) mesh. But hey, FantasyRogue has fixed it, so you should grab that even though I didn't know about it until after I posted. FantasyRogue is totally awesome, guys.
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Comments

[harpers_child]

i didn't grab all of these, but it was a very near thing. also you make me want to play a medieval themed hood. which i'm not until my sci-fi hood is up and running.

[hat_plays_sims]

Well, hey, hair's hair, right? I'm sure some of these would work well in a sci-fi 'hood.

I'm glad you liked them!

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks so much! I've been replacing all of my other retextures with yours.

FYI, Initiate seems to be linked to the wrong download. =)

[hat_plays_sims]

It should be fixed now-- thanks so much for letting me know!

And that is incredibly flattering-- I'm so glad you like them!

[fantasyrogue]

Pssst. Raon F82 FtM should bend a lot better with this http://www.mediafire.com/?jzzwzywnlnt

Also, more hairs! Thank you! :D

[hat_plays_sims]

Yay, meshfixes! I'ma go nab that, then.

Thank you and you're welcome!

[eefje00704]

I grabbed them all, as usual. Many, many thanks for improving my game once again!

Now, what do you have with curls anyway? Do you have them, yourself? Because I do, and it took me almost twenty years to come to terms with that.

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome! I'm glad you like them.

My hair is fashionably straight (and unfashionably fine), but I have always coveted curls. And Sims don't really have to work to maintain them. I wish there were more meshed curly styles around.

[eefje00704]

I think it's funny, how people with straight hair always want curls and the other way around.

Don't get me wrong, I love curly hair on sims too, and you're right, there's not enough of it. And as much as I love S2H's curly textures, the mesh will still look flat from other angles. I've been hoping that Nouk would convert the curly hair she made for TS3 to TS2, but it doesn't look like it so far. That one looked quite like my own hair.

[hat_plays_sims]

We always want what we don't have.

I'm hoping to mangle a couple more meshes with curly textures, but that's a ways off yet-- I'll have to see how my wicked plans go. I haven't seen Nouk's Sims 3 hairs... but then I don't pay much attention to Sims 3 whatsoever. Probably should, if only to beg for object conversions when Sims 3 Medievalish comes out.

[eefje00704]

I don't pay any attention to TS3 either, but when Nouk came back briefly last year in October and posted 2 Sims 3 hairs at Sailfinsims, that was pretty big news to me, as I'd thought she was gone for good. (I'm a huge Nouk fangirl) With her being back to TS2 now, I'm still crossing my fingers that she'll do those hairs for TS2 as well. I tried to look them up again just now on Sailfinsims, but they reorganized and now I can't find them or any mention of Nouk anymore.

I hope I can do some of those medieval conversions myself, if I can teach myself how to do conversions by then.

[eefje00704]

I found a picture: http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/search/label/Hair%20by%20Nouk It's the wavey hair. Looks a lot like mine when I comb it out, except mine becomes fluffier and bigger. Before it looks like big pipe curls. Not that that information is in any way useful to you :p

I'm going to stop bothering you now and let you get on with those miniature clothes.

[hat_plays_sims]

I have heard tell that it's harder to convert hairs from Sims 3 to Sims 2 than from Sims 2 to Sims 3. Something about groups, I dunno. I hope it can be done, that's a spiffy mesh.

I keep seeing LOTS of Sims 3 to Sims 2 object conversions, which pleases me-- I like their statues-- so I hold out hope for some of the spiffy stuff I've seen in screenshots, like statues and pillories. Although I'm actually not too wound up about the pillory-- I've already got a deco version.

[eefje00704]

Yes, I believe in Sims 3 it's all in one group, or something. I probably should have said remake instead of convert.

Ah yes, a pillory. I hope there'll be gallows too. And maybe some (not so) nice torturing devices. And that they'll have interactions that can be transported over somehow. Deco version are nice and all, but you can't put your sims in them :p Unless you've found a posebox somewhere to go with the deco pillory?

And god I have downloaded sooo many medieval 3d meshes that I want to make for TS2. I think I need 100 hours per day.

[hat_plays_sims]

Ayup, that's what I heard-- all one group. I guess you would need a full remake, but if the mesh is already built... I don't know, actually, because I don't know much about how hair meshes are constructed.

Actually, I think I could build a gallows myself, if I had a noose. (I may have a noose. I have no idea what kind of random deco crap I've got anymore.) But animations would be awesome, even if I don't know if they could be ported over. There seems to be a rack, but it also seems to be used for aromatherapy, not stretchskeleton. I WISH someone would make a posebox for things like a pillory. That would be pretty awesome.

I know how that goes, but now you've got me all interested!

[eefje00704]

A gallows is definitely on my list of 3d meshes to make into Sims 2 deco, but there are 2 nooses out there already that I know of, one by Billyjean/leehee at GoS, and one by Wallsims.

Note to self: add 'learn how to make poseboxes' to list of things to do (sigh)

Also, why would you use a stretching rack for aroma therapy? That doesn't sound very authentic to me ...

[hat_plays_sims]

Combining the basegame wood pillars, the trapdoor from Wood For Sims, a set of wooden stairs, somebody's beams (anybody's) and a noose would make a passable gallows that, while non-functioning, could at least be climbed up to.

Well. The woman on the site (and on the box art) is wearing hose, a cinch belt with metal grommets cross-laced, her pouch slung like a sword belt, a hat-free hairstyle that looks more 1942 than 1066, and a chemise whose drawstring violates both sumptuary laws and and the laws of physics (not even elastic will make that neckline happen) while the guy in the first featured screenshot-- the one with the sword to his throat-- is dressed like an extra from Xena: Warrior Princess.

I don't think EAxis is going for authenticity, here...

[eefje00704]

Point taken.

[ferretsims.livejournal.com]

Yay thank you so much, you've done quite a few meshes that I love & have had for aggeeesss but badly needed Pooklet's colours. Thanks again!!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome, and I hope you like them in-game! I have more I want to do in the fall, but I don't have my list together yet. (Folders sorted-- the hairs to replace with Pooklet'd versions and the hairs that need Pooklet'd versions along with Nouked versions or whatever, but I haven't made up a list yet. ... It's, um, about a hundred and fifty hairs so far, on top of the ninety-two I've already done, so... yeah.)

[jesslove]

I'm in love with the Raon/Rose meshes you chose for the ladies! I feel guilty snagging them all after you did all this hard work, so thank you!! :D

[hat_plays_sims]

Snag away, that's what they're there for! I'm so glad you like them.

[mister_sullivan]

Gorgeous retextures as always! I thank you!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome! I hope you enjoy them in-game.

Woo-Hoo!

[meshys_sims]

This is so perfect as I have not gotten my gift from the X-Mas in July yet... I really, really need to learn patience! I think this should tide me over until then!

Once again... ditching all the other (Rose/peggy/raon) REDS that are either pink or purple! WTF?!?!

"You're killing me Smalls!" Seriously, I think I'm about at 12 gigs of crap again... (and yes, that's all compressorized...) I'll suffer through a long loading time for beautiful matching hairs though! Thank you!! And I love the addition of the Asian hairs... I think I'm gonna have to get some fun ancient Asian stuff going so that my medieval sims can to on vacation!

Thank you for your hard work, especially on the HP hairs! I LOVE those ones and the Gaius hair is one of my favorites!

Re: Woo-Hoo!

[hat_plays_sims]

But if you're ditching your old hairs to install mine, surely you're saving space? Sort of? Right? (Probably not any more than I am, and on a lot of Rose hairs I keep ditching the originals in favor of the full-Pooklet versions... Along with any partial-Pooklet versions I've got. Right now, I actually have slightly less than two gigs of hair. When I finish with this... I do not know.)

You're welcome, and I'm so glad you like them! The Gaius hair drove me nuts, it really did. So many, many groups...

Re: Woo-Hoo!

[lissasims.livejournal.com]

I have about a gig of genetics. I always dump the old hairs in favor of the new ones, but because the new ones usually come in more colors, it takes up more space. :(

I love love love the braids and curls, and the men's hairs. Thank you!

Re: Woo-Hoo!

[hat_plays_sims]

Two gigs is actually my target number, I don't think I can function with much less than two gigs of hair. But then it's a themed game, a lot of the Maxis hair is useless to me, and I'll be replacing a LOT of my old hairs with the freshly-Pooklet'd versions as I get them done. Although considering I've got 133 hairs added to my to-do list and 94 hairs finished and 1.05 gigs in my Genetics Hair By Hat folder, I think I might be right around 2.5 gigs by the time I'm done. Not sure, though, since a lot of the new hairs are fairly small files.

You're welcome, I'm glad you like them! There can never be enough braids, curls, or men's hairs.

[bombardingsheep]

Holy crap, how long did it take you to do all these??? I just went and (re)pillaged the rest of your 'hair dump' entries.

Now I must go and start purging my DL folder for the gazillion duplicates I have. This is in no way helping to eliminate my downloading sim hair addiction XD (but I bow down to you for it, even though my DL folder strongly disapproves).

[hat_plays_sims]

... Well, I made my list of hairs on May 12, and I finished the hairs the last day of July and all the swatches for this dump yesterday... So a two and a half or three months? (Not bad for 92 hairs, if I do say so myself.)

You'd be amazed how much purging the duplicates can help! I'm actually under two gigs of hair for the first time ever-- which I'm sure won't last, but that's where I am.

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

These are beautiful! I will begin downloading as soon as I finish typing this comment. ;)

Thank you so much, Hat!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're totally welcome! I need to make sure I've got everything on the next hair to-do list that needs to be there and post it, too. I'm somewhere up in the 130 range.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey Hat,
I'm so happy you're sharing another hair dump with us ^^
I've come to tell you that your "Low Maintenance" hair doesn't show up in BS, and because I thought that the problem might be that the file name was too long, I tried to shorten it but the file is ... locked? And I can't double click it to open it in simPE either. I just thought I would let you know :>
-Isu from GoS

[hat_plays_sims]

That is so weird, and it's not the first time it's happened that someone hasn't been able to rename a file. I can't figure out why for the life of me-- I can open them and rename them just fine. Are you running as administrator on your computer? How deeply subfoldered are the files? I find that Downloads > Genetics Hair by Hat > [Almighty Hat] Silly Title (Relevant mesh and texture info, Pooklet'd) isn't too long for the game to parse, but that one got a longer folder name than most.

Try shortening the name of the folder as much as you can-- if you can't rename the folder, make a new one with a shorter name and just move the necessary files over to it. (I use HP Roman Model T (Low Maintenance) for mine, but it's in my Genetics Hair by Hat folder, which only exists so it's easier to keep track of what I've done.)

Do you have a whole lot of downloads? You may have run up against a file limit or something...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm having problems with the low maintenance download as well. I was able to extract and load several of your other files without a hitch but when extracting Low Maintenance from the zip file, I get an error telling me that it cannot find the specified file. I can't remove it's folder or child files. So bummed!

Of course, that error HAD to be with the one hair that I just adore for my male sims, eh?

[hat_plays_sims]

They all work fine in my game. Are you running as administrator, if you're on a Windows box? (If you're on a Mac, I can't even offer suggestions.) Do you usually have problems with compressorized downloads? Have you tried re-downloading the file? I know some systems have not only a filename length limit but a limit on the number of files the game can read, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Like I said. Superstar!! *Hark! I think I hear my CC downloads folder groaning!*

BTW, got your last message. Will do. Or in this case .... won't!

Wawabc

[hat_plays_sims]

Ye-ah, my hair dumps are probably quite hazardous to one's folders... Glad you like them, though!

Thanks heaps for that. It's... actually more fun and oddly more rewarding to play with heraldry yourself, though-- if you want any help finding resources, feel free to PM me. Everybody needs another addiction, right?