HAIR DUMP VII: Revenge of Hair Dump, part One of Three

[hat_plays_sims]

I don't even remember how many hairs I have done. I hit twenty-three names and swatches and said to myself "That's a good number to post as-is."

Downloads are inside the cut, so the boilerplate goes outside the cut. The boilerplate is...

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, but Pooklet says no and these are her actions.

PRAISE BE UNTO: Nouk, for meshes and shiny new wavy textures that I shall be heartily abusing, Melodie9, for age and gender conversions of Maxis meshes, Ja, for textures I periodically pilfer, Newsea, Cevic, Callum, M&T Sims Cakestore, Lidiqnata, Helga, Yuxi, and Agustin for meshes (in this dump. More in others), Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Pooklet for her color actions and for making sure they work with various versions of Photoshop, Cynnix (not much in this one for you, I'm afraid, but I've got two more dumps this size to do and I'ma try and get them up today) for doing pregmorphs on assorted meshes and asking that I do long, straight hair that goes behind the shoulders, and to my generous donators, who made it possible for me to release twenty hairs all in one go without getting my Photobucket hammered.

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Polycounts vary; Melodie9's meshes are the same as Maxis, but you may assume Newsea meshes are on the high side. Elders go gray, but you also get Time Bomb in the custom bin, just in case Primer isn't platinum enough for you. All female hairs are maternity-wear enabled from teen and up, and all male hairs from YA and up, to stop the weird hair disappearing act that happens if you don't have a Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit hack (but why wouldn't you?).

ANNOYING THINGS I DO: My filenames are stupidly long, so please feel free to shorten them. Better you edit them to suit your needs than I hand you thirty different files that are all named VOLATILE and piss everyone off, right? Also, each hair has an elder gray attached instead of only being stuck to black or blond (because if you want to only keep four colors or something, this way you can swap out textures and still have all the grays. Or choose which color you want your gray carried on. Whatever). Feel free to re-bin things to suit yourself, or do the neons, or whatever. Go hog wild, seriously. Just keep it off of paysites and give credit where credit is due (which may vary per hair).

EVEN MORE ANNOYING: Everybody sees a hair dump, so...

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.

There are twenty-three large pics behind the cut. Dial-up users beware.

If you spot any broken links or other idiocy, please let me know!




A Little Drastic
Yuxi's MtF conversion of Callum's All-Ages OFB Caesar for Basegame/Maxis textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
There will not be a great variation of faces in these hair dumps-- however, short female hair will always be on The Guessing Knight up there. As usual, I try to stick to hair that would be at least a little appropriate to a Medieval game, although short hair on women in my game tends to signal either a woman of the church or a woman pretending to be a boy, as with Dame Sir up there.
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Angelic
Melodie9's All-Ages Halo/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
A long hair that doesn't fall over the shoulders for Cynnix
Nouk's waves. I dig them. And I'll say right here that it would thrill and flatter me if somebody wanted to use any of these hairs as default replacements. Thrill and flatter me to bits and pieces.
Angelic Back
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Bedraggled
Lidiqnata's FtM Conversion of Nouk's Long Wavy hair/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
He kinda looks like he's soaking wet. I think it's just something about that model, though.
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Can't Do a Thing With It
Lidiqnata Nicole/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
It just looks all long and striaght and soft and clean and like if you tried to style it, it would slip right back down again.
Front | Back
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C'est Moi
Cevic Jeanette for Men/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
By anon request, a hair that's fairly popular in places like Albion and Lothere, but would have been impossible to retexture without Nouk's luscious waves.
Back
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Chambermaid
Melodie9's All Ages Basegame Long Hair (also appears on maids)/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
I hate this hair. I hate how many groups it has, I hate how it crunches, I hate how it's mapped, and I damn near gave up in disgust. Not my best work, but maybe somebody else out there can look at it and turn it into something awesome. Waves nicked from Nouk's Valentines hair.
Left | Right | Back |
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Chevaliere
Melodie9's All-Ages Meg/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
This one is super, super cute from the front and was totally worth all the cussing.
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Chevalier
Melodie9's All-Ages Meg FtM/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
So cute I've got it for both genders! (Chevalier is French for knight or horseman. Chevaliere is the feminine form of the word.)
Back
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Elegant Simplicity
M&T Sims Cakestore Aromatic Basic/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
A long hair that doesn't fall over the shoulders for Cynnix
Simple, long, elegant, but still restrained and tidy.
Back
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Fresh and Simple
Agustin Jessica Simpson/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Young Adult-Elder
Because it's pretty, that's why.
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Fussbudget
Newsea YU028 Radar/Crab of Doom Alpha/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Doesn't this just look like the hair of some guy who just. Really. NEEDS everything on his desk to be at right angles?
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Good Starting Point
Melodie9's All-Ages Low Bun/Some Ja textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
I've mentioned the default thing, right? (This one needs work, I Pooklet'd right over the danged tiara, but that's easy to fix.) Anyway, you literally cannot go wrong with this hair. Contemporary? Victorian? Medieval? Regency? Greco-Roman? This hair works. Okay, so maybe not for Ancient Egypt or something, but it's just a nice simple off-the-neck hair, to which one could add a thousand hats and accessories.
Back
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In the Roman Fashion
Callum's Basegame-Compatible All-Ages Caesar/Maxis textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Hair of insane usefulness and simplicity, comin' at you in all Pooklet's naturals.
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Just Tie It Back
Melodie9's Basegame Ponytail/Ja textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Ponytails for everyone! I've been meaning to do this one since I did the Uni pony for men.
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Lioness
Melodie9's All-Ages Basegame Short Perm/Softened Maxis textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
This hair has a fivehead. Did you know that a high forehead was considered very beautiful on a woman in the Middle Ages?
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Nobody's Hero
Melodie9's All-Ages Basegame Short Hair/Softened Maxis textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Because simple male hairs are worth it. However, this hair does have kind of a seam that sometimes shows but is also present on the Maxis version. Handpainting failure?
Right | Left
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Ready for Bed
Helga 89/Fantasy Rogue and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
I'm not keen on the side part, but it looks like full, unruly hair tucked into braids before bedtime.
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Secret Garden
Melodie9 All-Ages Basegame Braids/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Because it is difficult to Pooklet Maxis hair, but not impossible! And some of it is greatly improved with slicker textures.
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Simplicity Itself
Helga 86/Fantasy Rogue and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
This one was kind of a right bitch to texture properly, but every now and then there's a hair you just WANT SO BAD that you don't care.
Back
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Soft and Straight
Agustin Tied Back/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
I'd love to dedicate this one to Cynnix, too, but it goes half over the shoulder, so I can't, quite. Still, it's a darned good hair for looking long and natural, and as such it rocks for Medieval games.
Back
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Tidy Creature
Melodie9's All-Ages Basegame Short Slick/Smoothed Maxis textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
If there's an FtM conversion of this hair around out there, would somebody point me at it? Do want, cats and kittens, do want.
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Tumbledown
Newsea J022F Freesia/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
I know this one's been Pooklet'd before, but I didn't like how the highlights fell and it lacked elder grays, so I did it again myself. Being Newsea, this is probably high-poly... but sometimes high-poly is too pretty to walk away from.
Side
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Uptight Princess
Melodie9's All Ages Basegame Poofs/Pooklet and smoothed Maxis textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
I had to, okay? It's not perfect (stupid hand-painting insanity mapping), it's not exactly Medieval, but it does look cute on little girls, and it's one of those meshes that Medieval Simmers look at and think "That could work!"
Back
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Comments

[eefje00704]

Ooh hairdump! Wavy hairs! Some hairs I've never seen! Eva getting overexcited ....
I'm coming back to download these later, but now I have to go and teach ...

[hat_plays_sims]

... Hairs you've never seen? I'm impressed, I didn't think there was anything particularly exotic in this one.

With any luck, by the time you get back I'll have a second one up. (It's naming them that's the hard part.) Have fun working!

[aquilegia]

I am amazed, impressed, and really excited that you retextured some base game styles. YAY. I will in fact probably be making some default replacements of them (One Ja version, one my own color selection of Flash Powder-Depth Charge-Incendiary-Explosive), especially as I started redoing some of the basegame textures myself. :D

[aquilegia]

ALSO, you want a conversion mesh of the shortslick hairstyle, you will get a conversion mesh. I find a lot of Maxis hair stupid easy to convert.

[(Anonymous)]

Beautiful work as always. Thank you!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome! I'm glad you like them, and I hope you enjoy them in-game!

[lalabubus]

I cannot thank you enough for the few simple ones I'd like to see improved for a long time and then finally found them here, like Tidy Creature, Nobody's Hero and Good Starting Point.

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome and thank you! I'm glad you like what you've found. Please keep in mind that Nobody's Hero and Tidy Creature are still Maxis textures, they've just been softened a bit. ... Okay Tidy Creature was softened a LOT, but it's still Maxis handpainting under a layer of meticulously assembled Motion Blur to un-crunch the textures.

I like so many of the base game hairstyles, especially for my theme, but they can be HARD to retexture.

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Oh my goodness, hair dump!! I've been waiting not-so-patiently for this!

And JEANETTE HAIR FOR MALES! I love that hairstyle! And now Rob can get his hair Pooklet'd just in time for his wedding (if not all of the Wedding of the Century)! Yay!

Holy cow, that's a lot of exclamation points ...

Anyway, thank you so, so much for this. Once you get done hair-dumping, I'm seriously going to have to go on a hair-culling. ;)

[hat_plays_sims]

Pssst don't load your game yet! There's a second hair dump coming in a little bit here and it's got a hair in it just for you!

Actually, there should be three hair dumps today, if I don't run completely dry on names.

And hair-culling is what I do every time I bin a batch of hairs. "Okay, that's done, it's working, let's ditch the original unless it's Nouked..." Once I finish my hair list, I get to dump all my old hairs back IN so I can fix up all my founders in the bin.

[ambient_ghoul]

Yay, more hair! I'll have to come back when my game isn't loaded up and pick out what I want. :D Thank you, Hat!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome, and thank you! I hope you find something fun!

[columnar]

Just when I told myself I needed to do a CC purge... sigh. Haha. Thank you! Downloading several from this post, and probably more from the others as well.

[hat_plays_sims]

Oh, but that's always what happens. You plan a purge or you cull a bunch of stuff and then along comes a post full of goodies...

[jesslove]

There's so much awesome in this post! My computer is sobbing, begging me to not download anything.

PS Thank you for posting this in Pixel Cuts! :)

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you and you're welcome! You might want to remind your computer that you could limit yourself to just one family, or that the Melodie9 hairs should be pretty easy to handle...

Pixel Cuts seems to be a good place to post (or link to) hair, so I figured why not?

[curiousb]

Most high praise to you, Hat, for sharing these, and your fascinating snippets of Medieval knowledge! All I have to say is that I was definitely born in the wrong century - with my forehead I would have been considered drop dead gawjus in the Middle Ages! (OK, maybe not the wrong century, when I come to think of it, given the frankly terrifying risks that came from simply being female.) :P

[hat_plays_sims]

If we're thinking of the same risks, they didn't really start to lessen until the turn of the twentieth century, and didn't really start becoming a thing of the past until the fifties and sixties. Childbirth is some scary shit.

Womenfolk used to pluck their foreheads to get a good high hairline. Not shave. Pluck. Owwww. (And then they put on veils and hats ANYWAY.)

Thank you and you're welcome and I hope you find something in this entry or the next one that tickles your fancy!

[digitaldollies]

I have to say that as usual I'm floored with the magnitude of your dumps. But this time, this time you have made me exceedingly happy, you've done several of the base game hairs that I was literally just looking at Saturday and wishing that I knew how to Pooklet. I'm so happy that I offer any gift* to you if you can get any of them defaulted. As well as all the other greatness you've been dishing out as of late. Seriously I'd like to do something great for you.

( *my gift is body/clothing meshing, because I have no money :) )

[hat_plays_sims]

... Well, I could try defaulting them--I think it's just a matter of finding the right textures-- but you'd have to tell me which ones you want done and maybe also give me some time... I'm so close to finished with my hair list that I swear I can taste it, and there are a few Maxis meshes (or all-age conversions) that I've yet to get to.

I could certainly think of a couple things I've been longing for lately-- can I drop you a PM? I need a break from trying to come up with names for hairs before I just start trolling TV Tropes and grabbing song titles before I name something Siuil a Run, anyway.

[oph3lia]

I love these, especially when you do things on my to texture list so it saves me doing them XD

By the way, when it comes to defaulting textures... which I would love to see... there are linked versions of maxis age conversion hairs that automatically pick up the default hair texture on MTS XD

[hat_plays_sims]

I've seen a couple of them! Not for all of the hairs I've done and I have no idea how to do it myself, but I've seen a couple of them!

I know the 'oooh now I don't have to!' feeling, because Aquilegia did it to me with her Castle Set braid and a couple other things. Such an awesome feeling when you can just go 'yay, all I have to do is download now!'

[(Anonymous)]

i m loving the curly new hair textures on the men and of course im liking all the redhairs too, since i h ave reddish hair also, , this is some big project you have been doing, inquiring minds like to know how long it take to do each set from start to uploading mmm. thanks for the hair dumps it been great.
fussbudget , chevalier and c est moi were the favorites here for me , i love the new curl textures being used, that is what i miss in sims for sure yeah. thank again very much for makeing these over horray!

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I'm so glad you like them.

As for how long something takes... well, if an individual hair takes me more than a couple of days of work, I'm liable to declare it unfixable. But I have to be in just the right mood to make hairs (at which point I tend to make a whole bunch at once, failing to shut down Body Shop so I can bin them until I have... oh, at least five, sometimes ten or twelve). Then I've got to make swatches and name hairs, and the naming can be HARD.

So things tend to back up while I get myself into the right mood to put swatches and cute names together, and then I post a dump. Because if I took in-game photos and posted each hair singly, I'd NEVER get anything uploaded.

[(Anonymous)]

from orange i used to hang at dlm site for ages , anyhow
i was asking how long it take to do the hair thingy
ah so it take a long time to do them i guess.
that fun to so im sure yeah i hate to upload , post pictures the end business of it all ooh yuck,be better if you had a partner to do all that then you can just do the creative part maybe ,but that me eh
i like the girl hair all smooth and sleek it so fancy somehow, mm and realllly short sassy hair is great on the gal , with great makeup , good earrings and dressing up to go out hehee. take care

[hat_plays_sims]

It takes me a long time to do them because I'm so bad about taking pictures. It can take anywhere from a few minutes to several hours to do each hair, but I'd feel terrible about uploading them without swatches. Even if I had someone willing to take preview pictures for me, I'd still want swatches in the files I upload... and with usually-seventeen packages of varying size, it takes long enough to upload my files that it wouldn't make sense to do that twice. So I put it off until I have enough hairs that I can post a whole mess of them all at once, and people feel dazzled because there are so many of them and don't mind that it's kind of a bulk-club post instead of a pretty boutique post (or so I hope).

I'm glad you're enjoying the hair!

[quinctia]

You did the Jeanette hair! *swoons*

As always, I like the mix of old and new in the hair dumps. I'm always glad to see someone share my appreciation for some of the more forgotten goodies. I only wish that I played period, or that you did more modern stuff so I had a use for everything!

Have you offered your hairdumps to Lothere? I <3 that story.

I really, really, really someone defaults your versions of these Maxis hairs, too, because they actually make me want to use them. And I've had hiders for [i]years[/i] of practically anything that wasn't mohawk-related for Maxis hairs. XD

[hat_plays_sims]

I did the Jeanette hair! It was by anonymous request, but apparently it's pretty popular.

The nice thing about Medieval hairs is that they tend to work for more contemporary periods, too-- long hair is long hair, whether it's 994 or 2011. I don't even stick to specifically Medieval styles as much as I try to stick to things that would've been physically possible during the Middle Ages-- nothing that requires mousse, for example.

Lothere has visited my dumps! Malcolm's been wearing my Unsuitable for Elves for a while now, and it makes me all giddy. I totally love it when I see other people's Sims wearing my hairs. It tickles me.

I use Ja's defaults, but even if somebody does default packages, I think I'll keep using hiders plus all-ages versions. (Although I totally welcome somebody using my textures on NPC hairs. Except the long/maid one, I don't like how it came out.) I'm generally pro-all-age everything.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't thank you enough Hat, they're beautiful!

Cynnix

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome! I don't think I have any more long-but-behind-the-shoulders hairs in the pending dump, but I'm more'n willing to do some if you find any you want.

[prosthetics]

Darnit! Just when i've pruned my hairs folder you release a bunch of new ones that I have to have! :p

[hat_plays_sims]

... Sorry? Or possibly thank you? I hope you enjoy what you just have to have?

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for the Newsea Freesia hair! I appreciate the added the elder grays. You're just great! :D

[maranatah]

I love especially the Maxis retextures! So awesome, thank you :)

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I think this was the first post where I'd actually tried to retexture Maxis hairs myself instead of just recoloring someone else's (Ja's, Aquilegia's, that gal who did the Natural Redhead Project over on MTS) textures. I'm still really proud of how Halo and Meg came out.

[the-isle-of-albion.blogspot.de]

Just to give you a heads up, the link to the 3rd from the bottom (Tidy Creature) appears to be dead. Seems mediafire's random file-slaying has struck again...

~Ann

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you for letting me know, and sorry to be so late getting back to you! I'm not on my Simming computer right now, but I'll re-upload it before the weekend's over.

[sushigal007]

Hey, just wanted to let you know the link for Newsea Freesia is down.