Hat Plays Sims

So! These are Medieval, Castaway, or East Asian (and occasionally fantasy) meshes that were created without pregmorphs. After that list, there's a list of meshes created without pregmorphs that were later given pregmorphs by talented meshers. Meshes that were created with pregmorphs in the first place are not included on this list. Please feel free to comment if you can think of any meshes I've missed.

This is not a wishlist. I neither use nor intend to use all these meshes for anything. I still want to keep the full list around as a database, and maybe as inspiration-- if you want to learn to make morphs, there are plenty of options here! But it's my blog so I'm putting a *star* next to the meshes I desperately want pregmorphs added to, anyway.

( Medieval Pregmorph Resource List )

So, aside from my main stickypost, I have a Hair To-Do List, a Pregmorph Reference List, and a Hats and Headwear Resource/Wishlist. This post is going to be MOSTLY a wishlist, but secondarily a resource post, partlyy because I want to kind of streamline my main wishlist. If I put all my clothing conversion wishes in there, I'd be... Well, I'd have a very long and untidy wishlist.

( Age Conversions )

( Custom Body Shapes )

Reference, not resource-- there is no Sims 2 stuff linked here, just a lot of SCA and nerdy research and other such goodies.

Since my particular area of interest is clothing, that's most of what I'll be linking to here. ( But first let me admit that this is in NO WAY a comprehensive overview of the ENTIRE Medieval period, which lasted from around 400 to around 1500 AD, depending on how close to Rome you were. )

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. )

On this fine Feast of Fools, I'm going to start off with the big one-- the Front-Laced Lady.


( I did this because I'm crazy. Don't worry, I'll give you the supplies to be crazy, too. )

OH MY GOD you guys we can have more than one baby outfit now. Did you know that? I did not know that. It's AWESOME. I make horrible high-pitched noises every time I think about it.

I didn't finish everything I wanted to, but I got a lot done.


( 'If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of sorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'' --TS Eliot )

So, when I saw Buggybooz's amazng Nooks and Niches and Folly Garden, I knew I had to put some of my favorite wall textures on there.

... "Some" turned out to be "forty-eight."


( 'Quid enim sanctius, quid omni religione munitius, quam domus unusquisque civium?' -- Cicero )

Kicking off (or finishing up, depending on how you look at these entries) my back-from-hiatus posts is something I decided I wanted when I started playing with Sherahbim's textures.

I really, really like Sherahbim's Lady gown. The textures are awesome, it's spiral-laced, the neckline lends itself well to either winterwear or drapey headcoverings, but it was only available in a dark red and the heavy trim at the cuffs and hem was a little daunting.

So I cut off the trim and fought with saturation and lightness and contrast until I had something I could run through various color actions. Then I did it for teens (who are not pictured because I forgot). And now you can have seventy-two recolors if you, like me, feel a need for simple High Middle Ages gowns in far too many colors.


( 'It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.' --Ninon de Lenclos )

So, some time ago, I put up some much-needed Medieval men's underwear, which you can find right here. And I was really happy with it! I still am, in fact, it's just that there have been some new meshes done, plus some conversions of some meshes, and in general it was just time to expand the chausseur's stock.


( I used up my one good tag about legs. )

Usually, when you're looking for clothing for your Sims, the only category where you don't have any problems finding a a good variety for all categories (but especially Casual and Formal) is Adult Female. For themed games, this is particularly true-- there are lots and lots of meshes for Medieval, Victorian, futuristic, steampunk, post-apocalyptic, classical Greek, whatever kind of ladies you can name... but good luck finding anything for toddlers or old men.

Weirdly, when it comes to Vikings, the womenfolk are a little bit left out. There are plenty of nifty, historically accurate (or at least plausible) recolors of Iamliz13's Rus Viking Tunic, and even age conversions for toddler through teen, but the Viking ladies get left out.

When I found a nifty mesh by Trapping, I knew I had to at least give it a try.


( Each woman wears on either breast a box of iron, silver, copper or gold; the value of the box indicates the wealth of the husband. -- Ibn Fadlan )