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hat_plays_simsOh man I love Servos. Servos and Plantsims are easily my two favorite Supernaturals, probably because they make life so frickin' easy. However, in a Medieval-- or fantasy or fairy-tale-- game, you run into some... problems, with Servos.
Now, of course you can use my funky wooden puppets or Phaenoh's armored Servos or even Amaryll's androgynous Steampunk Servos. And they all indeed have their charms-- and I've used two of the three. See, what happened was, I made my own wooden Servos and just loved them all to bits... and then I volunteered to help Amaryll test her androgynous Servos.
Yeah. Wow.
I love them, in-game; they're incredibly graceful. I didn't like that they were metal-- I'd gotten attached to my wooden ones-- but I spent so much time just watching Serviette walk that I knew I was gonna have to keep the mesh around.
So I did.
"A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land." -Martin Luther
Behold the Servo! It can do almost anything a Sim can do, and it never gets hungry, sick, uncomfortable, or smelly! Lovingly crafted of polished golden oak and inlaid with magic crystals and runes, these jointed wooden constructs are sure to be a great help to any house that can afford them.
Front and back. There are no separate formal outfits, unfortunately.
Have them entertain your guests, cook your meals, clean your home, work in your shop...
Work your magic, even.
The back of the head is very important. So are the eyes, really, but... well. The back of the head shows your Servo's gender via the Mars and Venus symbols. Witches have a pentacle set into the circle, werewolves a lunar cycle symbol, and vampires the Taurus horns added to the circle (which alchemically indicates modification through coagulation. Sounded about right). Serviette, then, is a female witch.
Which you can also tell by her blue eyes. The eyes are quartz crystal, and the color can tell you a great deal about your Servo's life state. Unaltered Servos have green eyes; witches have blue while Wizards have purple. Vampires have red and werewolves have yellow, though with slightly different shades for male and female.
Female Servos have a slight red stain to the lips and cheeks; males do not.
Sometimes this will happen. That little glowy ball does like to play peek-a-boo when Servos bend in certain directions.
But wait there's more!
Don't like your Servos to be quite so decorated? Think plain wood should be enough for anybody? Want to add your own mystic carvings?
No problem! Thoughtfully, a totally blank Servo is provided for those who like a more virginal look. Front and back.
Really, that's less risky than it looks.
Now, there is one small problem...
There's no deactivated mesh for Amaryll's Servos (although I live in hope that someone will create one someday), so your dormant Servos will look kind of... weird.There's no help for it, alas-- I don't mesh. Other people do! A fix exists, and you can grab the link at the end.
Serviette by day...
... And by night, where you can really tell she's got a high-gloss finish. The highly polished look I like on my Servos isn't everybody's cup of tea, but... I like it. However, I also like making people happy, so as a separate bonus to this default, I've uploaded a Servo Matte Package. Once installed, this little package makes any and all Servos in any and all life states flat matte instead of super shiny. Mine, Amaryll's, Phaenoh's, Gwill's, The Ninth Wave's, EAxis's, anybody's. Everybody's.
I've also uploaded two variations on the theme of catalog descriptions-- the first just changes the catalog text to what you see there. I didn't want my Medieval Sims making robots and I didn't want to have to change it every. Damn. Time they built a Servo. The second not only changes the catalog description but puts the deactivated Servo in your Buy Mode catalog under Electronics Misc, for six thousand Simoleons. Just in case you're not into that whole 'handcrafted' thing, or you have some mods to test. You can only use one of these at a time, so choose wisely.
... Okay, out of Servo pictures, on to the notes.
The Default Crap: These are Default Replacements, and as with black widow spiders and Immortals, there can be only one. Make sure you don't have any other Servo defaults in your game before using mine; doubling up on defaults may yield inconsistant results (last mod loaded wins).
The "Why are these files so big?" Crap: I love my crisp, clean oak textures. They're delicious. However, when shrunk down to 1024x1024 pixels, the woodgrain suddenly goes all crunchy. That's not so delicious. To fix this problem, the Servo body textures are at 2048x2048. I neither have nor intend to make a version with a reduced filesize; if you want to, be my guest. Everything has been compressorized, but the Servo files still weigh in around 10 MB each.
The Policy Crap: Use it for anything you want so long as no money changes hands. I have this intense problem with demanding money for default replacements and it's against Amaryll's policy anyway.
Credit is Not Crap: Gotta thank Amaryll for her mesh and Ephemera for the ball-jointed doll skin I butchered and everybody in the Garden of Shadows Show Off Your Creations thread for critique and suggestions. I also have to thank Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Quaxi for SimPE, and Lord Darcy and HugeLunatic for being the source of all my formal TXMT knowledge.
Other Crap: Requires Open For Business. Requires Nightlife for Vampire state, Pets for Werewolf state, and Apartment Life for witch state. (They can also be Zombies which requires Uni, but there's no separate texture for that.) Witch life states will give you some trouble if you have Squinge's No Outfit Change on Alignment Change hack; in testing, Serviette got a normal fleshy head under her robot head. Not attractive. Either don't teach your Servos magic or skip that hack. Not included but heartily recommended (especially for those with Seasons as well as OFB) is Dolphin26's Waterproof Servos, because it's only funny the first time. You may also be interested in Paladin's Servo objects at Sim Wardrobe (under Sims 2/Objects/Robots), although they're not so Medieval-looking.
Yeah, okay, that's everything.
DOWNLOAD DECORATED SERVOS on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD DECORATED SERVOS on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BLANK SERVOS on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD BLANK SERVOS on Sims File Share
There can be only one, so choose wisely!
(Also, these are roughly 10Mb downloads, so be patient.)
DOWNLOAD AMARYLL'S ANDROGYNOUS SERVO MESH on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD AMARYLL'S ANDROGYNOUS SERVO MESH on Sims File Share
(Required for either Servo to work right)
DOWNLOAD SERVO MATTE PACKAGE on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD SERVO MATTE PACKAGE on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SERVO CATALOG DESCRIPTION on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD SERVO CATALOG DESCRIPTION on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD HEAD AND BODY PSD FILES on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD HEAD AND BODY PSD FILES on Sims File Share
Because I know some people wanted my Servo textures as a proper skintone-- an endeavor I support, but I ain't doin' it. Also handy for alterations of my Servos or... whatever. This one is about 34Mb.
GAMBITSOBSESSION'S UNINITIALIZED SERVOS
Available on GoS for quite a few of the default replacement androgynous Servos out there, including mine! Not a direct link, but a link to the applicable thread.
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.
Now, of course you can use my funky wooden puppets or Phaenoh's armored Servos or even Amaryll's androgynous Steampunk Servos. And they all indeed have their charms-- and I've used two of the three. See, what happened was, I made my own wooden Servos and just loved them all to bits... and then I volunteered to help Amaryll test her androgynous Servos.
Yeah. Wow.
I love them, in-game; they're incredibly graceful. I didn't like that they were metal-- I'd gotten attached to my wooden ones-- but I spent so much time just watching Serviette walk that I knew I was gonna have to keep the mesh around.
So I did.
"A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land." -Martin Luther
Behold the Servo! It can do almost anything a Sim can do, and it never gets hungry, sick, uncomfortable, or smelly! Lovingly crafted of polished golden oak and inlaid with magic crystals and runes, these jointed wooden constructs are sure to be a great help to any house that can afford them.
Front and back. There are no separate formal outfits, unfortunately.
Have them entertain your guests, cook your meals, clean your home, work in your shop...
Work your magic, even.
The back of the head is very important. So are the eyes, really, but... well. The back of the head shows your Servo's gender via the Mars and Venus symbols. Witches have a pentacle set into the circle, werewolves a lunar cycle symbol, and vampires the Taurus horns added to the circle (which alchemically indicates modification through coagulation. Sounded about right). Serviette, then, is a female witch.
Which you can also tell by her blue eyes. The eyes are quartz crystal, and the color can tell you a great deal about your Servo's life state. Unaltered Servos have green eyes; witches have blue while Wizards have purple. Vampires have red and werewolves have yellow, though with slightly different shades for male and female.
Female Servos have a slight red stain to the lips and cheeks; males do not.
Sometimes this will happen. That little glowy ball does like to play peek-a-boo when Servos bend in certain directions.
But wait there's more!
Don't like your Servos to be quite so decorated? Think plain wood should be enough for anybody? Want to add your own mystic carvings?
No problem! Thoughtfully, a totally blank Servo is provided for those who like a more virginal look. Front and back.
Really, that's less risky than it looks.
Now, there is one small problem...
There's no deactivated mesh for Amaryll's Servos (although I live in hope that someone will create one someday), so your dormant Servos will look kind of... weird.
Serviette by day...
... And by night, where you can really tell she's got a high-gloss finish. The highly polished look I like on my Servos isn't everybody's cup of tea, but... I like it. However, I also like making people happy, so as a separate bonus to this default, I've uploaded a Servo Matte Package. Once installed, this little package makes any and all Servos in any and all life states flat matte instead of super shiny. Mine, Amaryll's, Phaenoh's, Gwill's, The Ninth Wave's, EAxis's, anybody's. Everybody's.
I've also uploaded two variations on the theme of catalog descriptions-- the first just changes the catalog text to what you see there. I didn't want my Medieval Sims making robots and I didn't want to have to change it every. Damn. Time they built a Servo. The second not only changes the catalog description but puts the deactivated Servo in your Buy Mode catalog under Electronics Misc, for six thousand Simoleons. Just in case you're not into that whole 'handcrafted' thing, or you have some mods to test. You can only use one of these at a time, so choose wisely.
... Okay, out of Servo pictures, on to the notes.
The Default Crap: These are Default Replacements, and as with black widow spiders and Immortals, there can be only one. Make sure you don't have any other Servo defaults in your game before using mine; doubling up on defaults may yield inconsistant results (last mod loaded wins).
The "Why are these files so big?" Crap: I love my crisp, clean oak textures. They're delicious. However, when shrunk down to 1024x1024 pixels, the woodgrain suddenly goes all crunchy. That's not so delicious. To fix this problem, the Servo body textures are at 2048x2048. I neither have nor intend to make a version with a reduced filesize; if you want to, be my guest. Everything has been compressorized, but the Servo files still weigh in around 10 MB each.
The Policy Crap: Use it for anything you want so long as no money changes hands. I have this intense problem with demanding money for default replacements and it's against Amaryll's policy anyway.
Credit is Not Crap: Gotta thank Amaryll for her mesh and Ephemera for the ball-jointed doll skin I butchered and everybody in the Garden of Shadows Show Off Your Creations thread for critique and suggestions. I also have to thank Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Quaxi for SimPE, and Lord Darcy and HugeLunatic for being the source of all my formal TXMT knowledge.
Other Crap: Requires Open For Business. Requires Nightlife for Vampire state, Pets for Werewolf state, and Apartment Life for witch state. (They can also be Zombies which requires Uni, but there's no separate texture for that.) Witch life states will give you some trouble if you have Squinge's No Outfit Change on Alignment Change hack; in testing, Serviette got a normal fleshy head under her robot head. Not attractive. Either don't teach your Servos magic or skip that hack. Not included but heartily recommended (especially for those with Seasons as well as OFB) is Dolphin26's Waterproof Servos, because it's only funny the first time. You may also be interested in Paladin's Servo objects at Sim Wardrobe (under Sims 2/Objects/Robots), although they're not so Medieval-looking.
Yeah, okay, that's everything.
DOWNLOAD BLANK SERVOS on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD BLANK SERVOS on Sims File Share
There can be only one, so choose wisely!
(Also, these are roughly 10Mb downloads, so be patient.)
DOWNLOAD AMARYLL'S ANDROGYNOUS SERVO MESH on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD AMARYLL'S ANDROGYNOUS SERVO MESH on Sims File Share
(Required for either Servo to work right)
DOWNLOAD SERVO MATTE PACKAGE on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD SERVO MATTE PACKAGE on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SERVO CATALOG DESCRIPTION on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD SERVO CATALOG DESCRIPTION on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD HEAD AND BODY PSD FILES on Mediafire | DOWNLOAD HEAD AND BODY PSD FILES on Sims File Share
Because I know some people wanted my Servo textures as a proper skintone-- an endeavor I support, but I ain't doin' it. Also handy for alterations of my Servos or... whatever. This one is about 34Mb.
GAMBITSOBSESSION'S UNINITIALIZED SERVOS
Available on GoS for quite a few of the default replacement androgynous Servos out there, including mine! Not a direct link, but a link to the applicable thread.
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.
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Date: 2010-06-29 04:05 pm (UTC)I don't believe it, this is just so perfect. The wood and the glowing eyes and I _love_ those symbols at the backs of their heads to pieces.
I had some thoughts of a golem look on servos a while ago but no chance I'd scrunge up the time to program that. Thanks so much for these!
(Now I'm biting my tongue to keep from swamping you with requests. Someone hit me, please.)
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Date: 2010-06-30 12:42 am (UTC)(I haven't decided whether or not I take requests, but I'm always open to hearing about awesome ideas or brainstorming!)
**raves**
Date: 2010-07-02 04:40 pm (UTC)I think that the easel would be the perfect basis for a warp-weighted loom. It looks roughtly similar because it stands upright like an easel and you work it standing in front of it. _And_ I know that someone already created such a loom as an object, but only decorative.
So now I'm haunted by longing dreams about that loom being imposed onto the basic easel, with the optics changed so that instead of a painting appearing step by step, it's fabric filling the frame.
I even wondered weither it would be possible to steal the routines from, say, hobby stuff like the flower table or the robot crafting table so that when you're finished, a roll of cloth turns up in your Sim's inventory which you can sell.
Well, I told you, deep breath and all that.
I can't help it, a warp-weighted loom would be beyond perfect because it fits into medieval times so well. They're classic, like spindles and the first spinning wheels. (Those without pedals).
If you feel like some more being swamped by wild ideas, don't hesitate to ask! ;)
Re: **raves**
Date: 2010-07-03 04:13 am (UTC)I do know that it can be done, however-- there are two object-creation stations that have been extracted from Castaway Stories over at MATY, so it is technically possible... it's just not something I could do.
Re: **raves**
Date: 2010-07-06 07:14 pm (UTC)Can you tell me where the object-creating stations are? I'd just love to take a look at them, and maybe the creators will point me in the direction of useful tutorials.
One way or the other, thanks a lot for all the beautiful stuff you already made!
Re: **raves**
Date: 2010-07-06 09:16 pm (UTC)You're welcome, and I'm sorry I don't have the skills to do more!
Wheeeeee!
Date: 2010-07-25 11:01 am (UTC)Is there a wish list for the Garden of Shadows? I skimmed over the start site but didn't find one.
Thanks so much for the pretty books! Including one with a celtic design. (Not exactly Book of Kells but I'm sure the style is the same.)
Re: Wheeeeee!
Date: 2010-07-25 11:33 am (UTC)There are a few very dedicated historical-and-fantasy Simmers over on Garden of Shadows-- Sunni's NPCs are some of the best I've seen. One of these days I'm stealing some of them and doing new textures-- I really like what she's done, but it doesn't all fit perfectly into my style.
I'm not sure what you mean by a wish list for Garden of Shadows, though-- we have the Wishing Tree section, where you can post requests, but it's generally considered polite to hang out and talk in the other sections for a while before posting your first request.
You're so welcome for the books! I'm still pretty happy with them, myself.
Re: Wheeeeee!
Date: 2010-07-26 10:42 am (UTC)My favorite item on your to-do list are definitely the replacements because there's stuff I use all the time (thinking helmet, energizer, elixier of life) and what you call Plastic Crayon Syndrome certainly struck them hard. Actually, if you can just point me to a tutorial which explains how to create re-colors of Aspiration Reward Objects, I'll simply try and do that myself. I've done clothing and hair recolors so I should be able to get that done.
Thanks for the heads-up regarding the Wishing Tree; you' re right, it would be impolite for my first post there to looke like a huge "please do this for free for me" order. I'll definitely look around in the forums there. (Probably with lots of squeeing over the beautiful CC.)
Have fun with the simming!
Re: Wheeeeee!
Date: 2010-07-26 11:13 am (UTC)I'll admit, part of the reason I don't use so many aspiration rewards is because not only do they have Crayola Plastic Syndrome going on, the meshes are just... so far from anything resembling Medieval. Neon lights and sunglasses and who only knows what all else. However, I know Wintermuteai over at SimSlice has some re-meshed aspiration rewards to look like stone ruins-- details are here and you can download them for free here. At least there's an energizer?
Garden of Shadows is a really good place to just hang out, too-- and there's a brand new section just for collaborations, if you have something in mind that you want that you can do some of the work on yourself.
So many hairs to bin... I swear, the names of Pooklet's actions have stopped looking like real words...
Re: Wheeeeee!
Date: 2010-07-26 09:59 pm (UTC)I'm glad you mentioned the collaboration section because I would love to change the thinking helmet either to a simple skull cap or to a wizard's hat - both would fit in nicely and I use that one so much. I did do a tiny bit of meshing but I've got to learn how to switch whatever I cobble together for the original meshes.
I looked over the Forum Rules over at GoS and it really looks like a nice place. I just have to take care not start more than I finish.
Thanks again and have fun with the hair!
Re: Wheeeeee!
Date: 2010-07-29 01:03 pm (UTC)Re: Wheeeeee!
Date: 2010-07-29 05:24 pm (UTC)