Hat Plays Sims

Beard Dump!

Oh my god okay, this was a WHIRLWIND of facial hair, you guys. Wait, lemme toss up the Hair Dump title card, because it's still useful here.



Behind the cut lurk twenty-six beards for your downloading pleasure.

Dump-format downloads inside the cut means boilerplate goes outside the cut-- and this time there is SPECIAL BEARD-DUMP boilerplate!

BEARD-DUMP SPECIAL: You can get your beards three ways: Unbinned, Binned, and Binned-and-Townie-Friendly. Unbinned is self-explanatory; all I did was correct the tooltips. Binning is a little special this time around.

Usually my binning follows the title card above, all nice and sifted into families. NOT THIS TIME. This time, each color is binned as its OWN family-- I swear I had a logical reason for this. Adults will keep their colors when they age up into elder... which means if you decide to give an adult a beard in his destined gray shade, when his hair goes gray, it'll match. It also means when a bearded adult ages up into elder, his beard will keep HIS color instead of choosing from one of four or five grays in the family randomly.

The second important thing to note is townie-enabling. After much debate, I did decide to townie-enable the mesh-less beards available to teenagers... but gray beards are only townie-enabled for elders, and colored beards are only townie-enabled for Teen (when available), Young Adult, and Elder. This is to prevent too much insanity when it comes to townies and NPCs spawning with mis-matched facial hair.

Townie-enabled facial hair will crop up between fifty and seventy-five percent of the time on new CAS or Body Shop Sims, NPCs, and of course townies, dormies, tourists, and the like. Usually it matches either well or passably, but sometimes (stubble, beards, and Synaptic Sim's sideburns all STACK) you may want to get a townie to a barber's chair. Boys will not randomly age up into stubble or full beards at the age of twelve.

I did NOT make new files for the binning and townie-enabling. You can pick and choose, but only between colors. I did think to include a guide with the downloads, but it's a text file (for ease of pasting if you want to change something), so remember not to actually put it in your downloads folder.

As-is, you can layer one stubble, one beard/mustache, and one set of Synaptic Sim's face fur muttonchops. I think it may be possible to at least add more layering capabilities to the non-meshed facial hair using this method, but I didn't think to try it before I started binning.

Okay, on to the usual boilerplate.

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, my policy says I want a cut (like that would ever happen), but Pooklet says no and these are Pooklet's actions. So no paysites.

PRAISE BE UNTO: Necrodog and Synaptic Sim for meshes, FantasyRogue, Pooklet, and Nouk for textures, Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Pooklet for making sure Project Mayhem worked with my copy of Photoshop, my lovely donors who make sure I can keep my photos online (which lets me post hair dumps at all), and you lot for downloading, comments, and in particular some feedback and hand-holding while I was working on this project.

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included unless otherwise noted. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Poly counts may vary.

ANNOYING THINGS I DO: Because I credit everybody in them, my folder and file names are stupidly long. Feel free to shorten one, the other, or both as you please-- better you edit them to suit your needs than I just name everything [COLOR NAME] and cheese everybody off, right?

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

Anything helps, yo.

Should you donate, you are entitled to make a request-- something off my hair list or my to-do list or even just a straight-up request, and if I've got the skills for it, I'll give it a go. (Once it's done, it's free for everybody to download, of course, and I make no promises about just when I'll get to something I promise to do.) I will also happily barter stuff on my to-do lists or requests for things I wish exsisted that do not yet exist or in-game preview photos of some of these hairs so I can upload them to GoS once in a while.

Yes, if you want to do the unnaturals, please feel free to do the unnaturals. I have no plans to do so. Just remember to credit properly-- I tend to use Nouk's waves, FR's braid, and a chunk of curve I stole off Ja's Uni ponytail default. (Also, to recolor easily, grab the Unbinned versions-- only black or multi-binned beards, stubble, makeup, and accessories will show up in Body Shop.)

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

There are twenty-six large pics behind the cut, cats and kittens. Dial-up users beware.

( Come on, you know you want 'em. )

Behind the cut lurk thirteen hairs for your downloading pleasure.

Since there are a zillion downloads inside the cut, the boilerplate goes outside the cut, so...

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, my policy says I want a cut (like that would ever happen), but Pooklet says no and these are Pooklet's actions. So no paysites.

PRAISE BE UNTO: The kind folks at MATY for their Castaway Stories extractions, Layana, and Aquilegia for meshes, Nou and Aquilegia for textures, Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Pooklet for making sure Project Mayhem worked with my copy of Photoshop (and for their textures), my lovely donors who make sure I can keep my photos online (which lets me post hair dumps at all), and you lot for being patient with my long radio silence.

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included unless otherwise noted. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Poly counts may vary; MAKE NOTES. 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: Because I credit everybody in them, my folder and file names are stupidly long. Feel free to shorten one, the other, or both as you please-- better you edit them to suit your needs than I just name everything [COLOR NAME] and cheese everybody off, right? Also, each hair color has an elder gray attached instead of only black. Feel free to re-bin everything and cut out the extra grays, or only use one family but swap out textures so your elders have some variety, whatever. Likewise, I bin using Pooklet's original scheme, because it's a nice easy default. I totally do not care if you re-bin things to suit your own tastes (but hey, every hair has a gray attached in case you need it!), and neither does Pooklet, so do whatever makes you happy, binning-wise.

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

Anything helps, yo.

Should you donate, you are entitled to make a request-- something off my hair list or my to-do list or even just a straight-up request, and if I've got the skills for it, I'll give it a go. (Once it's done, it's free for everybody to download, of course, and I make no promises about just when I'll get to something I promise to do.) I will also happily barter stuff on my to-do lists or requests for things I wish exsisted that do not yet exist or in-game preview photos of some of these hairs so I can upload them to GoS once in a while.

Yes, if you want to do the unnaturals, please feel free to do the unnaturals. I have no plans to do so. Just remember to credit properly-- I tend to use Nouk's waves, FR's braid, and a chunk of curve I stole off Ja's Uni ponytail default.

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

There are fifteen large pics behind the cut, cats and kittens. Dial-up users beware.

( Ethnic and Castaway/Twikkii Island hairs lie within )

Behind the cut lurk twenty hairs for your downloading pleasure. Because I have a massive hair dump for you guys tonight, I decided to divide by the sort of Sim I took pictures of. This is the Normal Female post, and all the pictures are of my nameless peasant chick based around Alfred Askew's Toothy template.

Since there are a zillion downloads inside the cut, the boilerplate goes outside the cut, so...

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, my policy says I want a cut (like that would ever happen), but Pooklet says no and these are Pooklet's actions. So no paysites.

PRAISE BE UNTO: Rose, Melodie9, Marja, Marko, Trapping, Sue of XM Sims, Lidiqnata, Hysterical Paroxysm, SAU MYOS, and Raon for meshes, Aquilegia, FantasyRogue, and Nouk for meshes and textures, Ja for her curved bit that I lean on far too much, Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Pooklet for making sure Project Mayhem worked with my copy of Photoshop (and for their textures), my lovely donors who make sure I can keep my photos online (which lets me post hair dumps at all), and you lot for your comments and support (and I totally consider racking up downloads to be support).

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included unless otherwise noted. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Poly counts may vary; I've started adding poly counts to the dump info (but I always manage to look at the poly count AFTER recoloring the hair). 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: Because I credit everybody in them, my folder and file names are stupidly long. Feel free to shorten one, the other, or both as you please-- better you edit them to suit your needs than I just name everything [COLOR NAME] and cheese everybody off, right? Also, each hair color has an elder gray attached instead of only black. Feel free to re-bin everything and cut out the extra grays, or only use one family but swap out textures so your elders have some variety, whatever. Likewise, I bin using Pooklet's original scheme, because it's a nice easy default. I totally do not care if you re-bin things to suit your own tastes (but hey, every hair has a gray attached in case you need it!), and neither does Pooklet, so do whatever makes you happy, binning-wise.

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

Anything helps, yo.

Should you donate, you are entitled to make a request-- something off my to add to my hair list or my to-do list or even just a straight-up request, and if I've got the skills for it, I'll give it a go. (Once it's done, it's free for everybody to download, of course, and I make no promises about just when I'll get to something I promise to do.) I will also happily barter stuff on my to-do lists or requests for things I wish exsisted that do not yet exist or in-game preview photos of some of these hairs so I can upload them to GoS once in a while.

Yes, if you want to do the unnaturals, please feel free to do the unnaturals. I have no plans to do so. Just remember to credit properly-- I tend to use Nouk's waves, FR's braid, and a chunk of curve I stole off Ja's Uni ponytail default, but anyone I credit, you should credit.

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

There are twenty large pics behind the cut, cats and kittens. Dial-up users beware.

( Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the hair dump. )

Behind the cut lurk thirty-one hairs for your downloading pleasure. Because I have a massive hair dump for you guys tonight, I decided to divide by the sort of Sim I took pictures of. This is the Odd post, which is full of pictures of fairies and Twikkii Islanders and Takemizu villagers and Dame Sir and a random toddler. And coifs. Which aren't weird, but they're formatted funny.

Since there are a zillion downloads inside the cut, the boilerplate goes outside the cut, so...

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, my policy says I want a cut (like that would ever happen), but Pooklet says no and these are Pooklet's actions. So no paysites.

PRAISE BE UNTO: Melodie9, Rose, Cynnix, Trapping, Tenshii Akari, and July 77 of XM Sims for meshes, Nouk and Aquilegia for meshes AND textures, Pooklet and Ja for textures, CuriousB for her Any Color You Like actions, Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Pooklet for making sure Project Mayhem worked with my copy of Photoshop (and for their textures), my lovely donors who make sure I can keep my photos online (which lets me post hair dumps at all), and you lot for your comments and support (and I totally consider racking up downloads to be support).

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included unless otherwise noted. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Poly counts may vary; I've started adding poly counts to the dump info (but I always manage to look at the poly count AFTER recoloring the hair). 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: Because I credit everybody in them, my folder and file names are stupidly long. Feel free to shorten one, the other, or both as you please-- better you edit them to suit your needs than I just name everything [COLOR NAME] and cheese everybody off, right? Also, each hair color has an elder gray attached instead of only black. Feel free to re-bin everything and cut out the extra grays, or only use one family but swap out textures so your elders have some variety, whatever. Likewise, I bin using Pooklet's original scheme, because it's a nice easy default. I totally do not care if you re-bin things to suit your own tastes (but hey, every hair has a gray attached in case you need it!), and neither does Pooklet, so do whatever makes you happy, binning-wise.

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

Anything helps, yo.

Should you donate, you are entitled to make a request-- something off my to add to my hair list or my to-do list or even just a straight-up request, and if I've got the skills for it, I'll give it a go. (Once it's done, it's free for everybody to download, of course, and I make no promises about just when I'll get to something I promise to do.) I will also happily barter stuff on my to-do lists or requests for things I wish exsisted that do not yet exist or in-game preview photos of some of these hairs so I can upload them to GoS once in a while.

Yes, if you want to do the unnaturals, please feel free to do the unnaturals. I have no plans to do so. Just remember to credit properly-- I tend to use Nouk's waves, FR's braid, and a chunk of curve I stole off Ja's Uni ponytail default, but anyone I credit, you should credit.

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

There are thirty-two large pics behind the cut, cats and kittens. Dial-up users beware.

( My god. It's full of hair. )

Twenty-six hairs for your downloading pleasure! I promised you a three-part dump and here it is (naming the four different edits of HIM666 Lord of the Manor and M&T Sims Cakestore Belle Unique slowed me down).

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 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, XM Sims, Gnat Go Splat, DJ Mur3, Fanseelamb, Talenzz, ZZ99, Tenshii Akari, M&T Sims Cakestore, HIM666, and Trapping for meshes, 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 for doing pregmorphs on assorted meshes and asking that I do long, straight hair that goes behind the shoulders (thus kicking my rear in gear to do hair dumps), Lothere and Albion for existing and providing inspiration (it is SO awesome to read someone else's story and go "Hey that's my stuff!"), 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, but I think everything in this batch is pretty reasonable-- most of it is on the old side. (Please alert me if I'm wrong about that.) 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...

Anything helps, yo.

Should you donate, you are entitled to make a request-- something off my hair list or my to-do list or even just a straight-up request, and if I've got the skills for it, I'll give it a go. (Once it's done, it's free for everybody to download, of course.) I will also happily barter stuff on my to-do lists or requests for things I wish exsisted that do not yet exist or in-game preview photos of some of these hairs so I can upload them to GoS once in a while.

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

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

( HAIR! Flow it, show it, long as God can grow it! )

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...

Pardon me while I rattle my tip jar.

Should you donate, you are entitled to make a request-- something off my hair list or my to-do list or even just a straight-up request, and if I've got the skills for it, I'll give it a go. (Once it's done, it's free for everybody to download, of course.) I will also happily barter stuff on my to-do lists or requests for things I wish exsisted that do not yet exist or in-game preview photos of some of these hairs so I can upload them to GoS once in a while.

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!

( Gimme a head with hair (HAIR!) )

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.

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.

( But you're just here for the hair. )

Here is the men's part of the hair dump. Technically, you're seeing this first, but I should be posting in quick succession.

( Men men men men manly men men men... )

Okay, so I leave for Disneyland at 6am tomorrow, and I still haven't put my build and buy stuff back in my downloads folder, so I come bearing the handful of hairs I managed to get Pooklet'd and named.

Because it's just not a download without a title.

Big fat images behind the cut, don't say I didn't warn you!

( Gimme a head with hair (Hair!) shoulder length or longer... )

Because there are so many downloads, boilerplate goes outside the cut.

ONE: No bloody paysites. Pooklet says no and these are her actions.

TWO: Yes, elders all have gray hair-- Pipe Bomb for Family 1, Smoke Bomb (a homebrew gray, just Time Bomb on Multiply over Mail Bomb) for Family 2, Mail Bomb for Family 3, and Time Bomb for Family 4. I'm a dorkbucket and every color has an elder gray attached. Feel free to re-bin these as you please, I don't even care. Time Bomb is included as a custom; you never know when you're going to need a white hair, I guess.

THREE: Binned! Familied! Compressorized! Tooltipped! Meshes included except when they came with a game! Swatches included in the download file so you know what's in there!

FOUR: Praise be unto Pooklet, whose color actions now work with Photoshop 6 and up! Praise be unto Ja, who causes Maxis meshes to be Volatile by default so that they may be fully Pooklet'd! Praise be unto Quaxi, who brought us SimPE! Praise be unto Theo, whose color binning tool is pretty easy to use! Praise Be unto 8K, Coolsims, Melodie9, Fantasy Rogue, and XM Sims, whose meshes work so well! Praise be unto Alkaloid, Amaryll, Bec, Cavilez, FantasyRogue, SimGoddess, and ZoeJ, whose textures I have Pooklet'd without shame! Praise be unto Lyn, who provided me with Photoshop!

FIVE: Um, my file names and folder names are a little on the ridiculously long side. Please do feel free to edit those down, especially if you subfolder deeply. (Better I overdo it and you edit to taste than under-do it and leave you going "Dammit, wtf is this stupid hair?" later, right?) Also, for some reason, Antihero required separate packages for Teen and Adult/YA/Elder. I have no idea why, but... well, there you go. I blame Maxis.