hat_plays_sims | Hair Dump... Again

Entry tags:

Hair Dump... Again

Well, I've been home since Thursday night, I still haven't put my Build and Buy stuff back in my Downloads folder... but I come bearing, um. Twenty-one hairs in yet another hair dump. I SWEAR someday I'll put these up on Garden of Shadows, honest, with pretty in-game pics and everything, but right now? Goddamn I just want to share.

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

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.

Ariel
Ulkrshn 22/Xandher's textures recolored by Bedwyr/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Faithful Lover
Coolsims M70/textures by StakeitUK/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Frolicksome Maid
Newsea Oasis F/textures by StakeitUK/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

His Grace
Jade 05 FtM by Yuxi/textures by Yuxi/Pooklet's actions
YA-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Housewife
Dora Emon Mesh 03/textures by Yuxi/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Huntsman I and II
Huntsman I Ponytail requires Uni or Free Time/Ja's textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share
Huntsman II requires Uni or Free Time/Melodie9's All Ages Ponytail/Ja's textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Poet...
Sims 2 Store Wavylong FtM by HIM666/tweaked EAxis textures/Pooklet's actions
YA-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

... Laureate
Sims 2 Store Wavylong tweaked by Hysterical Paroxysm/tweaked EAxis textures/Pooklet's actions
YA-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Leonine
BeosBoxBoy's Tyler Hanson/Beos textures/Pooklet's actions
YA-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Lordling
Talenzz Kitamura mesh/Pooklet's textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Let's, Serf!
SimCribbling #5/Faceplug's textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Pinned and Twisted
Adele's Antoinette mesh/CutthroatDollie's textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Plaited Scholar
Sugar and Caffeine's Jake Sully Braid/Ja and Pooklet's textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Puckish
FantasyRogue's Late to the Party/FR's textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Sin of Pride
Augustin's Wavy mesh/Nissi's textures/Pooklet's actions
YA-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Sweet Princess
Marko 'Released' Mesh/Xandher's textures recolored by Bedwyr/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Vain Pixie
Sussi's 1600s Baroque Mesh/Coldfire's textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Wayward Son
David (requires Mansion & Garden)/Ja's textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder (teen required separate packages, I don't even know)
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Wee Sleekit (I was running out of titles.)
Coolsims F74/Morrigun's textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Winsome Wench
SAU MYOS 15/Nouked by Kale/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
DOWNLOAD on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share

Okay, and since there are twenty-two hairs behind the cut, let's put the boilerplate outside the cut.

One Fish: NO BLOODY PAYSITES. These are Pooklet's actions, Pooklet says no. So don't do it.

Two Fish: Binned! Familied! Compressorized! Meshes included except where you need an expansion pack! Swatches included in the download files!

Red Fish: Elders all have gray-- you get Pipe Bomb for Family One, Smoke Bomb (my homebrew) for Family Two, Mail Bomb for Family Three, and Time Bomb for Family Four. It is complete cluttery overkill, but every color has an elder gray attached, and you may count yourself lucky I didn't just do gray streaks or something. Feel free to re-bin and re-upload as you please, it doesn't hurt my feelings. Time Bomb is included as a custom for all (applicable) ages, since you never know when you'll need a white-haired toddler. Or something.

Blue Fish: Right, so, gotta thank Pooklet, Ja, Quaxi, Theo, Kale, Sugar and Caffeine, FantasyRogue, Bedwyr, Xandher, Ulkrshn, StakeitUK, Coolsims, Newsea, Dora Emon, Yuxi, Jade, Melodie9, Hysterical Paroxysm, HIM666, BeosBoxBoy, Talenzz, SimCribbling, Faceplug, Adele, CutthroatDollie, Augustin, Nissi, Marko, Sussi, Coldfire, Morrigun, Sim Artist's Union, and probably Nouk and always Lyn, because Lyn made sure I had Photoshop, and Photoshop is important.

I Do Not Like Green Eggs and Ham: OH PLEASE edit my file and/or folder names to taste; I made them ridiculously long so that they could be snipped down to fit folks' organizational systems. If you subfolder these too deeply, they could fail to show due to the name strings being too long. I mean, even I cut things down a bit. Better a ridiculously long filename you can shorten than going "Goddammit, which frickin' hair is this?" later, right?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

See, me, I'm trying to get as many (good) colors as possible of the hairs that really work for my theme, so... actually we'd probably balance out in the end. Early gray runs in the family, alas. Oh well, as long as it starts as a streak, it's still cool.

I should put up my 'I hope these are tiny mesh fixes won't someone take a look?' wish sometime soon. And yeah, crunchy textures are a right bitch when you can't properly retexture. *makes faces* I've got a retextured version of Flora 022 that I want SO bad (great Medieval style and the bangs come off beautifully, unlike a disturbing number of Nouk and Peggy hairs), but there are bits on the top of the head that are just flat blocks of color.

(Yay! Or possibly not yay, for the average Joe Simmer. Medieval Uni defaults are next (assignment, dorm door no-entry sign, diploma), and then I move on to Party and Games, Dining and Dating (actually a lot of text changes there), Hobbies, Health and Beauty Aids, Unleashed, and Miscellany. Not necessarily in that order, except Miscellany comes last in case I miss something. Although I may just start in on another Servo default, since it seems we're getting Creature Feature for June.)

True, true. I'm hoping I got my dad's hair, he's nearing 60 and there's still colour left in his hair.

Man, I took a look at that mesh just now. That texture.. not easy. It's mapped a lot like maxis meshes are mapped, painful to pooklet. Probably not impossible, but painful. It really does stretch and warp the texture around the head.

That are a lot of defaults. Fun stuff :D I'm looking forward to seeing what you defaulted, and how it looks and all that. You know I never use servo defaults, I end up just using sim-surgery on them for that humanoid (eh.. simanoid) android look. I did make a robot skintone just for them, so they still match my other defaults :P I like matching content XD

Mom's got color left in hers, but only toward the back. Dad's is salt-and-pepper all over. My grandparents all had gray or white hair (although two of them looked blond due to cigarette smoke-- don't smoke, kids!). And I have six or seven totally white hairs.

Yeah, I tried sticking the head bit from Ja's Uni ponytail on it, and it worked okay except for the part where the texture itself is slightly flawed. Doesn't bug me as much on the men's meshes, for some reason. (Likewise, Tig's male elf hair, which I surprisingly like in use but I'm hoping to steal more of Ja's textures if and when she gets down to the basegame hair it was cloned from.)

My testerhood has two servos at the moment-- Servo and Serviette. Servo got the humanoid look from Pescado's clothing tool, while Serviette is using Amaryll's androgynous default. I do seriously love the androgynous shape, but I don't so much like the steampunk look for my Medieval Sims. Besides, I've got this gold-oak texture set aside that I use on every piece of unavoidable technology-- cellular phones, handheld games, the remote control. That and some shiny gold runic lettering and maybe a plumb bob or two is my visual shorthand for A Wizard Did It. ... Cos I like matching content, too.

My grandparents all had white hair, but they were older (both my parents were the youngest children) and I'm pretty sure my grandmom on my mom's side dyed it nice and white later on, and permed it of course. (Smoking does all kinds of things to your body). My mom's hair is all grey by now.

Sometimes, for some hairs, you can resize the alpha and texture to 1024x1024, to get slightly sharper textures. Although it tends to do a number on the filesize. Maxis hairs are hard to retexture as are hairs that use parts from maxis hairs. Sometimes I think, yes, I'll do it. But usually that fades pretty quickly XD I'll let people that enjoy hair retexturing more do it, I only enjoy it in waves oddly enough. Probably because I always end up fixing meshes while I'm at it, and then I drain all the fun out of it with my personal brand of nitpicking.

My strangetown has a servo in it called Elliott, using a sim that I made for LL30sims (the site) originally, made over. I love him, he's so weird. I just surgery'd his appearance onto the actual servo, voila. But yeah, for medieval one would try something else. I'd need to figure out how to work it for ancient egyptians (when I finally get off my butt and make stuff for that, damnit).

Hey, a wizard did it is the best excuse. It always works. And with AL, you can have warlocks and witches, so just blame them! (but don't burn them at the stake please).

Mom started going gray early-- I don't know about my grandmothers, but they had five kids apiece, so... that'd do it.

I know how enjoyment in waves goes. Yes, I'll do this now! Oh man it is awesome! ... Man, now I'm getting good at this, I'm getting bored... Hey, that looks shiny! At least Simming is free?

I haven't played with SimSurgery yet-- I probably will as soon as I end up with some truly hideous NPC. Servo just has whatever face template popped up for him, because... he lives in the Testerhood. I beat the testerhood up. Someday it will explode. I will not be too sad, I'll just go "Oh well, it was only the testerhood" and go on with my day. Ancient Egyptian Servos... for some reason, all I can think of is the armor from the Stargate movie...

Man, if I had something that would LET me burn people at the stake, I'd totally find a use for it. I'm evil to my Sims, I think.

Heh, that probably did my grandmother in my dad's side hair in as well ;) (that and she was *old* by the time I was aware I had a grandmother)

Exactly. You start out all enthousiastic. And then it slowly peters down until you find something else shiny to focus on. I need to make sure I don't lose interest in sorting my hair folder, I need this mess sorted out because it's just a disaster area right now even WITH everything already subfoldered (I may have subfoldered it, but I am now not liking most of the binning, ugh, I am picky)

Face templates takes care of most of the NPCS beforehand though. I use toned down maxis templates and I find most npcs not all that hideous anymore. Poor, expendable, Testerhood XD

You know.. the Stargate thing's not a bad idea (love that movie). Although more.. simplistic, I think. Hmm... would be a pain to mesh though.

Lol. I'm evil in a gameplay manner (no free handouts for my sims, they have to earn their living, no cheats) but I haven't purposely killed a sim in a LONG time.

Yeah, Nana was old by the time I came around, too-- Mom was fourth of five kids, and there were nine years between #3 and #4... and another nine between #4 and #5. And Mom was thirty-three when I came along, so... yep.

I've resorted my hair folder at least three times. Sorting can be addictive, in its way-- put the things with the other things they go with. I think it's some kind of basic human need to categorize. One of the best things I did to my hair folder was to try and make sure everything had a picture of the original hair, which helped a LOT.

I have a mishmash of templates, but there are a couple I haven't found good replacements for yet... and some of the ones I like for other features have kind of huge eyes. If I didn't tend to end up with the same three or four female faces (Soft, Pointy, Bookish-looking, Exotic) when I make Sims, I'd try making my own templates. Reminds me, though, that I really do need to re-sculpt my founders and townies before I get started... which isn't a big deal due to the hair folder weeding that's happening alongside the rePookletting.

Simplified is good, and I couldn't guess how hard or easy it'd be to mesh 'em. I guess it depends on your flat planes? Or something?

I've actually only purposely killed one, but I had to in order to check out Zombie defaults. Zombie promptly fell in love with Lupe, and they have a disconcerting amount of hot dead-guy-on-werewolf ACR-inspired sex. Also, you can rest assured that one or the other will steal your newspaper in the morning. Life is strange in Tester Valley.

Yep, I know what that's like (although my mom was 29, but my grandma makes up for it for having had my dad at around 40)

Hm, it can be. It can also quickly get out of hand and then it just gets annoying and after a while you just want to say "f this!". Atleast for a little while. I just uploaded another 2 retextured hairs that resulted out of this whole sorting business >.< The picture thing is a good idea, atleast then it'll be easier to identify what's what.

I have Terrakosmos' atm, at some point I want to combine various face templates but I keep putting the whole "figuring out which ones I like" bit off. I'd make my own, but the point of face templates for me is to force my sims to occasionally breed with a sim that I didn't make. Variety is the spice of life and all that. While I can make sims that look different, there's still these features that are typically mine. Besides, my PT sims are already my sims, so there's atleast that XD

I'm afraid to check my npcs and townies right now with over half my hairs taken out ...

Hmmm, I could take a look sometime. But my list of things to do is epically long. I still need to start the first bullet point on said list! (that is the making of some male clothes. I've been busy with other stuff lately)

Aww... Zombie and Lupe. I think that kinda thing is cute. Zombies are great at newspaper stealings, as are werewolves. I used to keep a zombie around named Igor just to antagonize the neighbourhood. He would have lived in the mansion's basement, but his vampire housemate already lived there in his coffin :P

I think Tester Valley sounds like a fun place to live. :P

And that's why it's easier, at least for me, to stick to one folder at a time to tidy up. Not too long ago, sorted my default replacements in a reasonable fashion (damn do I ever have a lot of defaults), and technically I think I'm still cleaning my hair folder up and out-- if I rePooklet every Pooklet'd hair I've got, I can chuck the incomplete versions...

I've got a mix of Katuchan, Oepu, and Spookymuffin face templates, and one or two of 'em are still Maxis. My trouble is, I picked the ones I wanted to use as sculpting templates, and, um, that doesn't always work so well with random townie and NPC generation. *facepalm* I know how stamping your Sims goes. I really, really need to go through and add some pudgy cheeks or different shaped eyes or something-- my men are okay, and so are my weirdos, but my womenfolk are a little samey. I should probably start downloading other people's Sims, but I'm already sort of attached to mine... Despite the fact that they're sitting in my bin, unused. (Oddly, my PT and Ideal ladies came out pretty distinctive. I don't get it.)

At least they just get Maxis hair. I need to go through the testerhood and fix a few people, or open up a beauty salon or something. Be a good way for somebody to earn a badge.

Hey, it's your project, so it's your timetable, right?

Zombie, Lupe, Plant, Vamp, and Magus started the Creature Feature household-- Puppy is Lupe's alien baby. I had to have somewhere to test my default replacements, right? They all paired off, too. For a ridiculously mean couple, Lupe and Zombie are sure affectionate toward each other and their kids. (Vamp and Plant hooked up, too. Their son is named Daystar, because she's really bad at sunlight and he really, really needs it.)

Tester Valley is a weird place to live. Serviette runs two top-level businesses, there are six adults who've been alien-impregnated a bazillion times, a whole herd of plantsims, more alienfairies than you can shake a ten-foot clown-pole at, and the most frequently-used cheat is maxmotives. ACR is in full swing, somebody's always pregnant (sometimes it's a teenager), and there are poker tables in the Cathedral library. Also there's a jungle community lot in testing for the vacation 'hood.

It also helps to start out organized. Most of my downloads folder is subfoldered from the get-go. It's just that while I subfolder hairs, I don't tend to look at the colours, binning and/or removed ages till I play the game, after I've downloaded a bunch. And then I get all "ugh". (Basically, hair folders are nuisances)

Haha, interesting random townie faces, I presume? The fun thing you can do with other people's sims, and what I intend to do (and have done once before) is to make them into townies. Some townies are always automatically generated, so always face templates, and then there'll be a healthy mix of sims from various creators with various facial features in the mix. Maybe your PT sims and such came out different because you were making them for a specific purpose? I remember for my PT sims I really focused on making sure they each had a differently shaped nose, eyes, etc. Inadvertenly, I've really come to like one of the male PTs (Boreas), he makes rather strong featured children, yes, but I dunno... I like him (he's the hair model for my newer hair releases, haha).

Plus makes for hilarity when someone messes up the makeover ;)

Aw. Sounds like a nice supernatural mix there. I've never had a plantsim/vampire, I've had about everything else but that just seemed like too much of a mess. Plus I don't like the original plantsim hair and at the time there wasn't a mod to remove it or anything. And mean sims love their families too! Heck, I've got a sim with only 1 nice point who is the biggest softie in the neighbourhood, I don't know why. He cuddles womrats, strikes out with the ladies and lets his half-brother mack on his (now ex) wife without doing a thing. I don't get it, but there you are.

And you know in that entire description, the thing that surprised me most was the poker tables and the jungle lot :P Because the ACR thing doesn't surprise me at all XD And I'm very mean about abduction, it's a frequent occurance in my hoods.

Yeah, the useless ages thing-- I hate that. I finally learned the joy of going through and removing the property sets from a cloned hair so that I didn't have to do that later while binning. Saves time and heartache if you accidentally do something dumb like remove the teen age instead of the toddler. So all of my hairs have dud ages removed and shouldn't generate dud ages if you clone them to make neons! (Or just apply Molotov and Comburent to Primer or Grenade instead of Volatile. It tones them down a lot.)

Well, I like my eyes on the small side, and every so often I get an NPC with GIANT EYES, and... yeah. It's a comparison thing, I think. But I have clean templates, so I only really have to worry about the NPCs, or go the Sim Surgery route. I'm totally making my own townies, but I'm kind of trying to limit how many there are, at least for the first generation. (Although I do have two Sims that a friend of mine made that I tweaked pretty heavily who I'm considering swapping out for one set of merchant founders.) And I think that is what happened with my PTs and Ideals-- but I also really like making pixie-ish faces. It's fun. (I keep grabbing random Sims out of my bin to be hair models. I've got PTs and Ideals and townies all over the place up there.)

Luckily the viral states don't breed true, so Daystar is clean until he rolls a want to become a whatever. I wasn't too picky when I started playing with plantsims, but I really do enjoy playing with them-- they're fun, they never stop doing stuff. Magus is like that, too-- he's not very nice, but he's adorable with his kids (Fae the alien hybrid and Jardin, the kid he had with his teenaged alien hybrid fiancee who just went off to college and left her son behind. Because everything must be tested in the testerhood!)... but admittedly he's not so mean he steals newspapers.

Well, when you cover a lot with plants, it's really a good idea to playtest it and make sure Sims can get to where they're going. And the library just needed something, I guess? I've done several forced abductions (and a lot of 'make me alien pregnant' with the Tombstone), but the testerhood also has more than its fair share of natural abductions-- true, I've got TwoJeffs's hack that increases odds with science enthusiasm, but when your 'hood is full of Knowledge Sims, the telescope is a popular item.

I hate the ages where the mesh just doesn't fit (looking at you, peggy) and it sort of sits there like an awkwardly sized wig. And I'm not even sure *how* to remove toddler age through the Wrangler, I just did it in SimPE. SimPE is usually my first go-to point anyway (I've even used it for binning once or twice, but the Wrangler is way faster and easier for that.. that particular hair was just giving the wrangler a fit for some reason).

I too prefer smaller eyes, the big ones tend to look awkward with the eye defaults I tend to use. Plus it's a personal preferance thing, I don't tend to go for super big and cartoony eyes in my drawings much either.

Hey, whatever works as a hair model. I tend to use my PT sims, sometimes legacy sims XD Although I never really use my favorite sim as a hair model, he just looks weird without his hat. And pixie-faces can be a lot of fun. Although I tend to favor long slender faces with hooked, crooked and bumpy noses.

Heh, your sims sound like a colourful bunch! Lot of alien hybrids, supernaturals.. I love it, personally.

My meanest sim is probably the only zombie in the hood currently, he's elderly, bespectacled and has a grudge. He's also terrible at winning at anything, he used to always antagonize my favorite sim (who is a werewolf/vampire/alien/warlock) and lost (due to fight club) every time. Now he gets his ass kicked by anyone he tries to provoke. Then he bursts into tears. I'd feel sorry for him, but he's kinda a bastard and brings it on himself.

Sensible. Not playtesting a lot has caused issues in the past with pathing. Or doorway issues with the delivery people (seriously pizza-man, the sauna in the back yard behind the pool is *not* the front door!). I tend to delete my tester hoods after a while and not really *play* them, but then I only really need to test skintones, hairs and clothing typically. Not awesome defaults.

(yay for knowledge sims)

The hair that was giving the Wrangler fits probably had textures on non-power-of-two dimensions-- there are some Rose accessories that have that problem, and I couldn't turn them into BV jewelry until I corrected the texture size. (Also, hairs that aren't on the 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048 pattern tend to not work at all on Macs, so I hear.) I admit I use SimPE for everything except jewelryfication, because THAT is incredibly tedious with SimPE and well worth having the Wardrobe Wrangler on hand. Although it's totally worth it to import the hair you want to recolor, remove the property sets and textures for useless ages, and then do your recolor from your edited copy. No more deleting the wrong age by accident with the color binning tool!

I have a buttload of skintones, but the only eyes I use are the Maritime Eyes by Panaqoulus. I've done a few recolors for myself, because apparently I can't function without good red and yellow eyes in my game, but I love the sclera. It's the best one I've seen, not totally flat white, but no giant black blobs, either. ... I'm really, really picky about eyes.

Noses are awesome, I just have this problem where I like the awesome, interesting noses on guys more than women. I need to work on my character actress faces.

Mm, and my testerhood is for pictures, making sure mods work, checking my defaults, checking other people's defaults, and generally making sure everything looks the way I want it to look. ... And works properly. Working properly is important.

Actually I think it was one of the Newsea hairs where for some reason some of the textures are only 16x16 and WW did not like that. Or I'm getting all the hairs I messed with by now mixed up. Thankfully, binning is also perfectly possible in SimPE :P I get lazy with the elder removals and do that through WW, any other age I do through SimPE so I don't accidentily delete the wrong age :P

I only use my own set at the moment, which is about as complete as a skintone set is going to get for me (I've got all my bases covered) and I use a personal mix of a non-blobby black bit sclera I got from Ja with the irises off one of shady's eyesets (with personal recolours just as you have done, yellows, reds, etc). I'd never seen those maritime eyes before, they're nice.

You can always make the awesome interesting male sim and then just magically gender convert him. I switch sims from male to female and back a lot when I make a new sim to see if the face works for both genders.

Yes, the working properly bit is important. I guess since I'm not doing defaults or anything atm I need less testing. With simple objects I just have to check whether the sim interacts properly and nothing looks out of place and I'm done. Clothes I just check from all angles, make the sim play on the sofa for a while to check if nothing animates horribly weirdly and then done. It sounds like you're very thorough (this is a good thing, btw)

And now I shall stop spamming up your dreamwidth for a while XD (sorry bout that!). I'm off on vacation to London for a long weekend starting tomorrow, so no internet for a few days.

Ahhh, I did a couple like that. And it makes a bit of sense, since they seem to be unused or solid black alphas or something. Maybe WW likes them all to be the same size, not just the same proportions?

I'm... a bit nuts with skins. I sort of have, um. A hundred and seventy-five human skins (I need seven more, I have a gap! A gaaaaaap!), plus my creature defaults, plus my multi-PT skins... Yeah. Variety is the spice of life? (And yet, I still have more hair by... uh, data volume.) Eyes seem to be the only thing I can keep down at a reasonable number, in terms of genetics, I guess because there's not as much room for random eyes to pop up as I breed my Sims. Anything I want to show up has to be on a founder.

Yeah, and that's what I plan to do, sort of, when I do my Great Founder Remodel-- switch my ladies into men, make their faces more distinctive, and turn 'em back again. Lately I've been checking to see if breeding-stock Sims make hideous toddlers, too.

For some things, too, I like to have a separate lot set up for a photoshoot-- but that's just me, really. But... yeah, if it doesn't work, I have to fix it. Better to get it done right the first time. Or at least before I share it.

Oooh, I hope you have fun! (No worries about spam, if I've got something to say, chances are I'll reply, so... yeah.)

I can't even remember now if it was just complaining but would have edited the files anyway. Hrm.

There's always more skintones around ;) (http://fantasyrogue.livejournal.com/35729.html make sure you're logged into your lj account). I love variety, but for some reason it drives me mad to have too many skintones. I think it's because I cannot stand it when I get a different type of skintone than the parents had on a child due to geneticized skintones and such. Eyes is the same thing, although that's more also because I'm really picky. Then again, I'm also really picky about skintones... I discount a lot of them because of what body they use or what nose or etc... I dunno why, I just do (I do the same for clothes.. well everything really).

That'll work, I think. You'll either get cooler, more varied, sims.. or well. a good laugh? (seriously though, it does work). I tend to not check breeding for my playables beyond aging them down a sec to see if nothing looks awfully out of place. But I have a personal policy to not move the face up or down, which tends to help. I did breed-test my PT sims, obviously, all those kids were good (althogh PT Boreas gives somewhat strong featured, mannish, female children. But I love his features <3)

I have a few photoshoot lots. Eventually my testing hoods turn into a mess and I purge them XD And that's a good thing to do, getting things right before release. Another good one is to not leave a project hanging too long... I should do that one more :| (I can't remember which file is which now for some)

I had a brilliantly great time. I've had more culture boost in one weekend than in a year XD So. Many. Museums. History everywhere, awesome stuff (British Museum! Rosetta Stone! Mummies! Woo! V&A Museum! Actual victorian (and older) clothes!). Picked up a great book on victorian fashions too (with about 1000 fashion plates in it, mostly ladies clothes.. sadly no menswear). Would have grabbed something about egyptians but I'm finding the book selections on that are not what I want anywhere :| Lot of books about pyramids and gods, not so much about everyday life..

(continues spamming)

I know it won't do improperly proportioned files at ALL.

Oooh skins. I may have to see if any of those fall in my gap. I... well, I like a lot of skintones, but I'm also moderately picky about things like pixelation and details-- I use Warlokk and Bloom defaults, so nipples have to be in reasonable places, toes have to work properly with sexy feet, elder female textures need to be mapped the same as adult female textures (I have an elder nude default with details that uses the same mapping. I actually went through your Canvas skins, which are awesome, and adjusted the boobs on all of them so I could use them with my mesh defaults. Usually all I do is swap textures, because most EF skins are exactly the same as AF skins, only with saggy boobs). How do you mean 'a much different type of skintone'? Maybe I've been pretty good about keeping mine fairly similar...

I did move one of my PTs' faces up two or three clicks, but I was going for that Tinkerbell look. ... Also, she's a PT. A nice inhuman fae PT. Her offspring can look a bit weird. (He's actually cute, he offspring, even if he does look kind of like a caricature of Dick Van Dyke.) Usually, for normal-looking Sims, I won't do that.

I just playtested someone else's house that I turned into a dorm. The mailbox seems to be broken-- it was nice not getting any bills, but... damn, I really liked that lot. (Okay, so I was actually checking out my college assignment, diploma, and door privacy sign defaults, but I took the opportunity to playtest anyway.) Someday the 'hood will go boom and I'll scrap it.

Yay for enjoying your trip, and for books! Books are awesome. Bummer that you didn't find what you were looking for for Egyptians... At least you have the internet? There's got to be something around here. The Egyptians were big on writing things down, after all.

Which is funny, cause I went through the body files to adjust the boobs to be saggier cause I use maxis defaults. Especially on Tabula Rasa, as the base on that originally was same for elder and adult and on the maxis mesh the boobs were textured higher up than they were on the mesh, it looked weird. Much different as in, I had one case where a geneticized skin snuck in and two s1-s2ish parents ended up with a sort of yellowish kid :| Mostly I also just hate it when the kid gets completely different facial features, like a different type of nose, that kinda thing.

Ah yeah, well on PTs I suppose it's alright, they are more *alien* looking, or more fae or whichever. For normal sims it can be problematic. (lol, caricature Dick Van Dyke? haha)

Aw, that's a shame about the dorm :( Hate when something like that happens, you get excited about something working or being able to use something and it's just not possible. How'd the default testing go?

Books rock. The victorian book is giving me loads of neat ideas atleast.

I've already searched the internet a dozen times XD Women's wear I think I mostly get how it was constructed. It's the kilts, I get how the loincloth looked and that they then covered it with a kilt (if they weren't a poor worker) which was fastened with a belt of sorts, or if you had a higher social status (or in the later dynasties) you may have worn a robe over it of some sort, but in a lot of the art you see the kilts have these huge flaps in front or are unusually shaped and I just have some trouble figuring out how those kilts were folded. Did they use a cut into shape cloth or a square one? If square, then why are the edges sometimes curved, etc etc. Unfortunately most written info doesn't help on that as that usually is "they wore a loincloth, sometimes covered with a kilt" and then the discussion moves on.. it sort of really glosses over that stuff. It's like "they wore white linen! Woo! let's talk about gods some more and the afterlife!".

One of the things I really liked about your Canvas set is that the elder bodies looked older. I wanted to keep that AND keep my saggy-boobed defaults, so I did a lot of mucking around in Photoshop. Usually if folk bother with different elder states, all they do is pull the boob texture down a few notches instead of actually making any other part of the body look saggy, too, so I don't feel remotely bad about just swapping adult textures for elder textures.

So far, I haven't had too much trouble with that... but the most non-alien breeding I've done, I've done while testing Plantsims. (I don't mind things like different noses too much-- in my immediate family, only my mother and brother have similar noses. I got Nana's nose. Likewise my brother and sister are on the pinkish side for skintones, and I'm more sallow.) But then I'm also ludicrously careful about what gets in where in my genetics-- I recently reorganized everything from about halfway between S2 and S4. Yellow tones tend to group together a bit, but if someone down at the 0.02 end of my spectrum falls in with somebody way up at 1.02, all bets are off, their kids could look like anything.

Dude, he seriously does. I would show you a picture if I'd manned up and paid for photobucket. He's adorable, really, but considering my Sims lean toward the realistic, he's so doofy-looking. So, so doofy-looking.

I actually did find some bills sitting in the street and, like an idiot, deleted them. Imay re-plonk the building and see if I can pay those bills. As for defaults, well, dorm sign good, assignment good, diploma... I think I need to build a bigger version. It's just not as crisp as would be ideal. Gotta make a new texture, I think. Can't find where or if I saved my layers.

Man, Egyptian history is actually more interesting than Egyptian mythology. Apparently a book does exist. There are a few things on The Costumer's Manifesto, but not much I'd consider useful. ... Maybe there's some easier-to-understand artwork from Ankhenaten/Amenhotep IV's reign? Usually, I've seen the stiff-flapped kilts depicted as being a flat belt that's been perspective-warped so you can see all of it-- like the way they painted eyes as being forward-facing even though the faces were done in profile. It could also be a decorative piece that marks the closure of the over-kilt itself-- pinned or with hidden ties at each corner.

If I remember correctly it's because I overlayed a maxis elder and copied the little elder marks. I think the original anva didn't have a specific, different, elder skintone.. nor did the louis one I blended into this, but I could be remembering wrong. Sometimes some people don't even pull the boob texture down (I had to do that myself for rensim's peau, for example). And hey, the mapping and body shapes are mostly the same so it works (except for the breasts, surprises me that someone doesn't notice if you don't pull them down that you get a line across the elder boobs)

I got my dad's nose, also my grandmother's nose, lucky me. We all have sinus problems :P But yeah, it sounds like you put a *lot* of work into sorting your skintone. And wow you have a lot of them and must have a fun variety going on. I can understand it that way, the prospect of sorting out all those skintones from scratch? Ouch. I think I'll stick with the few I have XD

I'm still waiting for my paid photobucket to run out, I may get a different kind of host for pics after. Not sure yet (maybe a proper webhost not specific to pics). Not that I have something against photobucket, just thinking maybe it's time for something else. Though my bandwidth is seeing far less strain now that I haven't updated my legacy in aaages >.<

Or the repo man will come, take your stuff and it'll be done with? Ugh, I've started putting my PSD files in a specific folder now to make sure I don't lose them anymore.. and I don't end up with 4 unused projects folders because "hey there may be texture files in there I need". Biggest problem now is the part where I think I forgot to stick one or two hair retextures I did in there and I already deleted the folders >.< I are idiot. Anyway, hope you get the diploma sorted out, always hard to say whether a crisper, bigger, texture will fix it or not.

Maybe so, but a lot of books do go into the afterlife stuff. Not surprising since it was such a huge deal to ancient egyptians. I hadn't seen that book before, it looks useful but also really expensive XD However, that did make me decide to see if it was available at a library (perhaps the not so far away archeological museum's library) and through that I found there's a few more books like [url=http://www.amazon.com/Costume-Ancient-Egypt-Reference/dp/1555467717[this[/url]. Course, seems all these books are old, only available second-hand and there's no way of seeing what's actually inside them. I wonder if the museum library is accessible to everyone...

It does make sense it would be some kind of belt or decorative piece. Still occasionally I do read that you have to be careful interpreting the drawings compared to what the actual garments may have looked like. Egyptians weren't big on being super correct all the time :P Not that in the end it matters, it's the Sims, if it *looks* egyptian, that should be enough (I can just be really, stupidly, obsessively, precise in these things. I just want to know now how it *really* looked).

And thanks for also looking for some things :) It's appreciated.

Apparantly I also used the wrong link code. I am double idiot. Oh well.

Eh, HTML failure can happen to anyone. I keep trying to use HTML instead of BBS code on GoS. (Mmm acronym stew.)

I think part of it is that people don't tend to want to see their elders naked, so they just skip it to save space. (I skipped it to save space on the Stolen by Fairies skins because... well, there were six of them.) Me, on the other hand, I've got townified naked underwear for all ages and both genders, so when I found out a whole bunch of my skins skipped any differences for elders, I said "Well, screw it," and got this default although I kind of wish these were a default instead. (Or that I knew wtf I was doing in order to make them a default). There isn't, unfairly, any EF default nude that lets the old ladies have any bits.

Yeah, I started off with just my defaults and Pooklet's Less Pop Concert, More Butchery set, cos they were already genetic. Then I discovered how easy it is to geneticize, and an addiction was born. It's not too bad, really, if you geneticize each set of skintones as you install them (and since I've already got to play Swap the Boob Textures before I compressorize, SimPE's already open). I got (sort of) lucky, and the default set I started off with also came with two extra custom skintones that fell in between S1 and S2, and S3 and S4. It gave me a nice framework-- "Okay, this is lighter than that but darker than this, so we'll call it *number for now..."

I've put off paying for Photobucket long enough that I'm three days away from refreshed bandwidth. I might actually pay when it restarts, just so it's easier to keep track of the date. I, um, sort of planned to get a bunch of Plus LJ accounts for free photohosting whenever I started a legacy... Cos I'm that cheap. Legacy would be posted here, just hosted there.

Repo man never came-- I had Boolprop on, and hit reset whenever the error came up, so it was like the mailman just forgot the lot. And yeah, I've been saving my PSDs separately, too-- I need to put all my body shop ones somewhere besides rattling around loose in the Projects folder. (Like, say, in the My Projects folder on my desktop that has a ton of shit in it.) When I first started making defaults, I totally sucked at saving layers of ANYTHING. I've learned my lesson.

Well, hey, a library is an awesome place, museum or not, and there are always inter-library loans, maybe. Don't know about your local library system, but the one where I live has a website where you can search for titles and find out if they're checked out or available and even put a hold on them, all from the comfort of your PJs. Totally well worth a look.

Also? Seriously, I understand. Egyptians were not big on perspective in flat art, so it's hard to tell how those things would have fallen... although on statues, they generally seem to lie flat. And I actually make historical doll clothes for money, so I know all about looking at period photos and artwork and going 'okay, this seam is here and that one's there and this should be spiral-laced and...'

It's easier to edit right back out in most other formats though :P

Well, yeah I admit I don't sit around staring at my elder sims with no clothes on. But I make it my business to have atleast tested every gender and age of a skintone base so I can tell whether anything's terribly off or not (or that I didn't, yet again, accidentily paste the wrong texture on with build dxt and have a male elder with boobs again >.>)

Hmm, well defaulting that should be doable. The mesh, you mean right? You'd just find the actual elder nude meshes (top and bottom gmdc), build a new package with them and then replace the mesh inside the gmdc. I'm probably making it sound simpler than it is :P

I keep the usual S1-S4 defaults and then have one geneticized below S1 (a paler skin), something between S2 and S3, between S3 and S4 and then a few darker tones above S4 (my S4 is about maxis in darkness). I still can't imagine having that many skintones.

I just got a notice that I'm running out on my paid account. Still haven't decided what I want to do about it. Legacies are fun, when you get around to posting I'll keep an eye out.

Hm, mailman not showing up entirely can't be a good thing. I've started making a folder aptly named "Sims Things" :P Which is subfoldered with things like Own Creations - Skintones and Own Creations - Clothes, etc, where I keep backups of everything I've created in package format and a folder named PSD Files, where I stick all the PSD files for everything I made (provided I still have it. I lost the detailed one for the Travel Skirt, for example, because I accidentily overwrite the PSD with the flattened bmp back when I made it :| ). Layers are a good thing, I tend to go overboard. But it does mean I can easily recolour or remove spots from a skintone or things like that XD

I think they have a site, yes, the harder part is that I expect their collection of english language books may be somewhat smaller. The museum library intimidates me, because I'm not an archeologist or anything, and apparantly you need to call in advance, and show ID and such. Eek.

Ooh, you do? That sounds like a cool thing to do. What kinda dolls? That certainly doesn 't sound easy.

True that-- I tend to ninja-repost and delete, at least if I make a significant enough mistake.

Yeah, keeping ages and genders straight is a fun trick. It makes me so happy when the various and sundry textures are labeled right on the texture and I don't have to just guess as I go to play Swap The Boobies. And hey, as long as it was the elder male fat state...

I'm sure it's doable and probably no harder than texture defaults (find thingy. Art art art. Build DXT. Remove needless info. Test. From there, either Yay done! or Repeat Art art art, Test), I just totally fail at defaulting meshes-- it seems to go right over my head, which means I absolutely do not have the hang of it yet. If I did have the hang of it, I'd go and replace the EF nude, undies, and swimwear with that one, and the TF nude, undies, and swimwear with a mesh by Bloom that gives them both sexy feet and a (kind of huge but better than nothing) pregmorph. (Because what's a Medieval game without the Infamous Kitten Killer?)

I started with some Louis defaults plus two extra skintones, because they were made specifically for the Xhi-Res set-- I tried Navetsea's F-in-Evo, and I still use the Zombie from that, but they're really dark for my tastes. (Which means I probably ought to redownload them and use them as custom skintones; I have a significant gap in the tan range). Got Pooklet's freckles. Got Pooklet's Compulsion, because the freckles were overwhelming the normal skins. Learned to geneticize, thank you Quintcia. Went crazy geneticizing. Everything. Now I have twenty-eight different sets of skins. (Although I wasn't mad enough to keep all of Kids in Technicolor.)

Two more days, and then I'll decide if I want to fork over twenty-five bucks or forty. Forty's the better deal, but I'm leaning toward twenty-five, because... it's easier to excuse.

I just discovered why the mailman wasn't turning up, actually-- turns out, if you use any non-Maxis dorm door, you need this fix. I was using the Parsimonious Wandering door, and got screwed. It's not the lot, it's the doors!

My Pookleting method includes layers. Do the Volatile, then move it to another file, then do the grays, stack 'em up on the file with the Volatile, then the rest of the colors, then make sure they're sorted in the 'right' order, then actually start recoloring the hair. And save the layered file in case something goes Horribly Wrong, as it does with about every fourth or fifth hair.

That is a bit intimidating, but I can see why a museum library would want to keep more careful track than a regular old public library where all they have to worry about is somebody stuffing a copy of Twilight down their pants and making a run for it.

Usually dollhouse dolls, two to six inches tall, but sometimes (usually for myself, actually) sixteen-inch Tonner dolls. I really need to a) move my doll journals to Dreamwidth and b) take some better pictures, but on this one, I re-rooted the hair, repainted the face, and made everything she's wearing but one pair of shoes, both pairs of earrings, and the jeans. Yes, I made the book. I'm really rather proud of the book. (Dollhouse stuff, I'd link you, but I got a new camera and DAMN I need to re-take pictures of everything I've still got, because my old camera was apparently a piece of crap.)

It was the normal state, may even have been the fit state :P It did not look good (but made for a good laugh, although not as amusing as recent forays into messing with Grimmy http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Fantasyrogue/SimsCreations/HeadlessReaper.jpg )

Hmm, well I saw a tutorial on the subject on, was it le_plat_du_jour's journal? Or atleast, on the subject of default replacing clothing meshes. And naked bodies are pretty much the same as clothing meshes :P

I just can't use those navetsea ones. It's one of those skintones that provoke an "ick" response in me. Something about the somewhat greasy tone of the skin, the hip bones that are way pronounced. Oh and the alien one didn't have any teeth (that was kinda creepy). Geneticizing is great though, it adds much needed variety and variety is always good.

Forty's a big chunk of money on one go. Still haven't decided anything over here, got 4 days till it reverts to a free account. Eh.

Well atleast you found out. It would have been more frustrating if you couldn't find the issue either. I never knew this, but I never use custom dorm doors.

For hair I only save the volatiles. But when I texture clothing I tend to end up with layers on layers, base colour, shading, highlight, seams, little details, fabric texture overlay maybe, etc etc

Lol, that's a great mental image. I've never seen anyone try to steal from a library, they have bar codes in em and the alarm goes off if you run out the door with a non checked-out book :P Be far easier to just check it out and then never return it :P

Wow, that doll's very impressive! And pretty. You've got some serious sewing skills (and tiny book making skills). That must be a lot of work to do.

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject