Hair Dump Yet Again, Part Two

[hat_plays_sims]

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



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

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Born to be Hanged
Peggy Juice 0061/Pooklet and Ja textures/Pooklet's actions/Unrelated Peggy Alpha
Toddler-Elder
I put the hair on Tanner and he looked kind of scary.
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Brigand
Peggy August 2007 FtM by HIM666/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Young Adult-Elder
A nice long ponytail that on Tanner, looks slightly disreputable.
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Elbow Grease
Nouk Crispin Tail/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions/Bits of a Peggy Alpha
Toddler-Elder
He looks less disreputable here, but sweatier. (I cheaped out on models today. Tanner and Eventual Boho Chick all the way!)
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First-Born Son
XM July77 090127/Pooklet's textures/Pooklet's actions
Child-Elder
I credited Sixtynine on this, but I can't remember if I used her textures or not.
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Good Grooming
Nouk Sport It Short/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
This hairstyle is never out of period.
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At Least It's Clean
Toddler-Elder
I have a lot of long or longish meshes for men. This one... is one of them. It doesn't look scungy!
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Like Straw
Peggy 3457/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
This hair hangs in the eyes of anyone who's not YA or older. I kind of liked that.
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Only Sparring
Peggy 0091 FtM by Miniya/Pooklet and Peggy textures/Pooklet's actions
Young Adult-Elder
I think Miniya was right, I think this would make a good samurai hair.
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Paperback Writer
Newsea YU026 Rival/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions/Alphas by Neithan
Toddler-Elder
The other one is longer, but apparently this version has a day job or something.
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Starving Artist
Newsea YU026 Rival/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
The original alpha!
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Philosopher
Peggy M01/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
I like a bit of mad scientist hair in my game.
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Who's Scruffy-Lookin?
Peggy 0042/Ja and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
You half-witted, stuck-up, scruffy-looking nerf-herder!
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Sea Raider
Newsea YU16M Viking/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
On a woman, this hair looks either unkempt or wet. On a man, it's sexy. I don't know.
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Shepherd
Peggy August 2008 FtM by Yuxi/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Eventually I'm going to start naming hairs after random period jobs. Watch out for Chandler and Cheesemonger!
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Shop Boy
Peggy 00428/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Looks like he's been trying to shove it out of his face all day.
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Some Kind of Clerk
Peggy October 2009/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
Right? Well-kept, but not expensively so... I'm not sure what kind of clerk, could be in a law office or a store...
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Team Tarvek
Helga M02/Smoothed Helga textures/Pooklet's actions
Teen-Elder
Teams Jacob and Edward are boring and contrived. Teams Tarvek and Gilgamesh are more interesting. Google "Girl Genius," you'll blow a happy afternoon.
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Work to be Done
Peggy G00010/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
Toddler-Elder
There's work to be done! Tie your hair out of your face and get to it, boy!
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Comments

[fantasyrogue]

Oh yes, I've decided the same in the new place. And it would look so pretty.. if it was done. But damn it takes forever to renovate. No plants in unsightly little pots! (unless they're babies, like your spider plants, and then I'd rather not see them in the middle of my living room on the mantle though... hint hint, husband of mine).

I hope you manage it then! It's great watching a plant recover, or grow large and lucious. Not so great when they wilt and slowly fade away.

Well, they should be able to take a repotting, right?

My backlist just got a bit shorter with the release of a bunch of hairs on my LJ last night, woo for that. And I just started making a dent in an old request I had taken up for someone I know which is unfortunately mostly tedious work (6 accessories, 4 meshes per accessory... yeah... don't have to do any actual meshing, it's just converting, still tedious). And now I got ideas for the retro theme I may want to try out....

Got a lot of prepped hairs lying around? (and don't talk to me about Rose... damn her older meshes. That wasn't so much a little neck gap on that donation hair as a floating scalp).

[hat_plays_sims]

I got... sort of lucky with the office and the bedroom-- the office was empty of anything but boxes when I painted, because it needed new carpeting, and my bedroom... well, a rat got loose and refused to be caught, so I had to drag everything out of there anyway. I figured "As long as my stuff's not in here... where's the primer?" But yeah, the mantle is... not the place for them, really. Unless it gets the best light, but still.

I'm surprised it came back at all-- the spider mites really did a job on it. Not as bad as they did to the roses, and damn but that makes me sad. I'd love to have sweetheart roses, they're so pretty.

They can be repotted, I just know the root ball pretty much fills the size pot they like, so there's not much room to bury the necks. (And one of them, I'm kind of scared to switch to a larger pot. It's got to be almost a foot and a half across.)

That's a lot of meshes. I... actually don't have a LOT of fixed hairs right now... I'm almost to the end of my list-- my current hair list, anyway. (Woohoo!) I do have seventy-five more I need to prep, but... well. That can wait a bit. (I may do it in dribs and drabs if I need a sewing break. Preparing CC is not creating CC-- it's like ironing your fabric before you put it away.)

I'll never understand why people leave huge gaps. Or don't let you alpha-edit away things like bangs. Or make it so that the front AND back side of each wisp of hair has its own group.

[fantasyrogue]

Ah yeah, then it's much easier. We, as I have said previously, had to rip everything out first and get the paint back to the base wood :P And definitely not the mantle, but I haven't got anything else to put on there atm so will leave it for now (most sun would be the back window, but that's a full south-facing window so I don't expect most plants would enjoy that).

Such a shame :( Always sad when some pest ruins a nice plant.

Well, I finished them earlier. Except for all the texture work. It was tedious but hey, another thing to cross off my list. And woo for being nearly at the end of your list (even if you did end up making a new one after :P). I feel less bad about going back to sorting hairs now that I have another obligation taken off my list.

Neither do I. I mean, for some hairs it's age, really. That hair was old, maybe they didn't know better. Same with the groups thing? (it's not actually groups themselves, lots of groups is good for opacity layers, but that they're all named something different). Before a certain time people didn't know you could name them all the same and have them use only one texture. So a looot of the older hairs have that problem. Newer hairs have less excuses on that front. But new hairs with gigantic gaps or odd scalps.. no excuse.. really.

[hat_plays_sims]

Yeah, usually having a rat loose in your room full of collectibles is a bad thing, but... silver lining? *grin* I remember you said how bad your place was when you moved in, and... yeah. You have to go step by step, really. Most sun isn't always the best sun-- my window faces south, but it only gets a lot of direct sun in the winter. The alyssum likes to be right on the window sill, but the African violets like to be on the nightstand or window seat, out of direct sun but getting plenty of light anyway. The polka dot plant just seems to be happy. Happy all the time unless it wants water.

Lists get long! I've got two more hairs left that I want to finish today, which leaves me three on the list I've got to wait on (Amaryll's fixing some mesh weirdness on a silly mesh and I love her for it, I lost my groove on Nouk's Male Long Hair and will try to find it again later, and I'm still undecided on whether or not I want to do Nouk's pigtails before Pooklet comes up with a bang-free version.)

Yeah, I think most of the hairs I have trouble with in terms of 'why are there this many groups? WHY?' are older or based off of older hairs-- Sugar and Caffeine's Jake Sully Braid is based on Nouk's ponytail, and boy does that put me off Pookletting the ponytail (even if I know it needs it), and Tyler, Male Long, Gaius, and Roman are all on the old side. I like them, but they're old. And there are no other, newer, easier-to-recolor hairs like them, unfortunately-- they all bring something unique to the party. (Because when's the last time you saw a long, loose, smooth male hairstyle that didn't interfere with alien ears and fit close to the head instead of being full of anime shampoo commercial volume?)

[fantasyrogue]

This window pulls a lot of light. We had to get some blinds for it because it was just nuts now that it is full on summer. Like, floor is warm enough to nearly burn your feet under the window, warm. So I think unless it's a succulent or a cactus, not much is going to work on that window. Some plants are just easier than others. Easy plants are nice but somehow I always get attracted to the pretty ones and they don't always coincide :P

I just get distracted. I started on my retro theme project today and then ended up spending the entire evening instead trying (and eventually succeeding) to get the elder age on xmsims m70 working (because it doesn't have one, damn you xmsims) and fiddling with a sim's face in milkshape to see if I could get that to work. And ooh, what's wrong with nouk's male long hair that you lost your groove on it? Lot of texture files?

Yeah, I know what you mean. Occasionally I come across one when doing some retexture work and you open it up and there's 7+ files per age staring at you and it's just "uuuurrrrgh". I much prefer ones that are just 1 texture file. There *is* or *was* a reason for it, but things have improved as more knowledge is available. Though neckgaps and gigantic heads still seems to run rampant.

And it's been a while since I saw such a hairstyle, yes ;) I am working on something that may fit that bill too, hopefully, but I hate to say "definitely surely" because sometimes I end up shelving good ideas. And I do like some of the shampoo hairs XD (nice term) but it really depends. Both on the hair and the sim.

[hat_plays_sims]

That's right, you're also up further north than me-- getting lots of sun for a while yet, huh? I was surprised how easy the polka dot plant was. All I did was water it and away it went, outgrowing two pots inside a couple of months and happily shedding seeds everywhere.

Dude, I know how that goes. "I'll just sit down and do X. Man I am so bored with X, I need to look at something else for just a little while... *completes Y and Z, epic projects in their own right* *looks over at X* ... Ooops." I lost my groove on the Male Long Hair because... well, after a certain point, I just couldn't stand to look at it anymore, and now I've forgotten what the hell I was doing. I'll start fresh in a month or five weeks. I know more sneaky tricks now.

Yeah, I just re-did Tiggerpum's elf braid hair TWICE-- first because I damn well wasn't going to save twenty textures plus elders for each age, second because if you have twenty-five textures, WHY would you have EIGHTEEN different alphas? Dude seriously for real now. Took that down to one alpha, reduced the file size by 90% before compressing. I still backed out the textures-- made templates and a donor file in Body Shop, then swapped the textures with SimPE. If something's got... more than four textures per age and five or six ages or more than ten textures per age and ANY number of ages, that's my tactic from now on. It's faster.

There was never any excuse for neck gaps, but I do realize that the giant heads are considered more attractive (mostly cos they look younger) in some cultures.

I'll keep my fingers crossed, because... well, mostly because the world needs more long hair for men-- more hair for men in general, really. (The Extra Body Shampoo hairs don't work for me as well, because I'm trying to avoid hairs that look like they need product to work. It's frustrating. When I ever get back to my Alien Invasion game, man. Anything goes. Totally anything.)

[fantasyrogue]

Yep. I don' t mind in general, sunlight's a nice thing. Except when it's very bright.. which it is a lot right now.. I don't deal with bright sunlight well. Ok so sunlight is only "ok" XD I recall those plants being fairly easy, atleast, I think the one I had did well enough. Although maybe not to that extent, you have a very happy plant on your hands :D

Well I finished my distraction project (creating an elf sim with a face edited in milkshape, mostly to change the ears, and have him be able to breed that on) but still no motivation to work on the retro theme thing. I hope we both get our groove back, so to speak.

What? I mean seriously, what? 25 textures? 18 alphas? What? That' s insane.

I still suspect half the neck gap hairs are non-tested and the other half aren' t even sim hairs but hairs from other 3d programs converted to sims and just sort of smashed onto a sim's ill-fitting skull. And maybe, about the giant heads, but I find it just looks weird and unbalanced. Coupled with the epic fivehead sims can suffer from, it's just not attractive.

Not a long hair I'm working on, sadly. Though do intend to have it work with sim ears properly (I hate ear clipping if I can avoid it, not always possible but I try). Hah, and the alien invasion thing reminds me that I was trying to find a peggy hair the other day and I came across some real winners. I recall seeing something with, I don't even know, some weird braids sticking out in odd directions and just really odd hair and thinking "this'd look good on an alien".

[hat_plays_sims]

I've actually cut back on the plant food for the polka dot plant-- it doesn't seem to need it. It still covers everything in seeds.

Oooh, ears. I looked around Alfred Askew's LJ last night and got all excited over the fact that she's working on a set of face templates. I really like the mix I have now (Katuchan, Pooklet, Spookymuffin, and Oepu), but most of them I like as templates for starting to sculpt rather than as 'hello I am a random townie!' For one thing, I always seem to make my eyes on the smallish side. It looks more realistic to me.

I know! The damn files were like 2Mb each. Then I used the same alpha for everything and suddenly they were around 500kb each. Bad Tiggerypum. Very bad. I'm sure I downloaded them before I had any idea what was going on with the file size. Twenty-five textures in Body Shop, and eighteen different alphas so that there were, hey. Eighteen textures in SimPE. OOF.

There are just... not enough good hairs out there, really. Not nearly enough. And that's part of the reason I'm Pookletting so many male hairs-- I lean towards smaller ones that look physically possible with little to no styling product, so I'ma Pooklet the hell out of those hairs. I went through my Downloads folder and sorted hair-- I have seventy-three hairs I want to Pooklet and replace (already been Pooklet'd but not fully, love the mesh but hate the textures, that sort of thing) and seventy-eight hairs I just want Pooklet'd too (Nouked hairs, Nouk's hairs, Sims 2 Store hairs), and I do have some favorite Maxis styles that'll go on the list (with age conversions where possible) as Ja does Pooklet'd defaults, because... well, that's the hard part.

Some of Peggy's hairs are so awesome, and others are so... out there... Sometimes I wonder where she gets her ideas. I know the failbraid actually has a real-world source-- I mean, it's exact. There's no way this could be a coincidence. I mean, really, all it needs is the little crown.

[fantasyrogue]

I use them for some townie generation sometimes, templates, but these days I'm more likely to download other people's sims and turn them into townies. It gives me more variety and also I can dress them up however I want before setting them loose. I like Alfred's sims, as far as I can see anyway (downloaded them, not put them in my game yet).. it's always nice to have sims that have features bodyshop cannot replicate.

That's just insane. I've seen high numbers of files before, but 18 different alphas is a new one for me.

There really aren't. Similarly I've been pookleting those annoying raon male hairs with the textures that need a ton of warp and some hand painting to look good, because there's just not too many alternatives and I like those hairs. I wish meshers would stop doing the same long hairstyle with slightly different variations and come up with a few less huge, less coiffed, nice hairstyles. But speaking as a mesher, for me atleast, it's hard. Not meshing as such as just, finding a hair to do, breaking it down into parts and then actually doing it.

Will be looking forward to any other hairs you release!

I guess she gets her ideas from the red carpet, hollywood, maybe fashion mags. I suspect definitely including in that would be asian fashion stuff. I do notice many of the somewhat older ones are a bit more realistically proportioned, oddly enough. Wonder what made her start bloating heads. Or Juice. Or whoever else makes hairs over there.

[hat_plays_sims]

I make my own townies, but not so much the NPCs-- if there were a way to make my own witches and vampires (actually there might be on vampires, I have to check again) and waiters and streakers and whatnot, I'd totally do it, but as it is... nope. Templates. And I don't like Sim Surgery because it seems like you have to have doubles of your Sim, which annoys me. (I guess I could always change their hair and makeup and clothes and stick them in the cemetery or something...)

There was no reason for it, either. It was insane. So I fixed it. Just. Sheesh.

Oof, I looked at one of those hairs-- I forget which one-- and took it off my list because I don't have the skills to paint and don't have the tools to warp.

Maybe people are more willing to pay for the bobblehead look? Or maybe it's easier to hide gaps. Or maybe as she's gone on Simming, she's decided the lollipop-headed thing is more to her tastes?

[fantasyrogue]

I dunno if it's possible to replace those npcs without using simsurgery, that's a good one. It'd be interesting to have them be custom. Although I really don't mind them being template spawned, provided I have a good set of templates in.

Yeah, the raon hairs get pretty nuts sometimes. I think I have most either done, or downloaded from someone else by now. Though I still want to take a look at m13.. again (it's one of those fun warpy ones).

All valid possibilities. We' ll never know.

[hat_plays_sims]

I do know you can randomly spawn them using the mailbox, so reasonably I could attack them with the plastic surgery machine or at least change hair and clothes... Hair and eye shape are more often my problems, because Sunni does have some lovely defaults out now, but damn it all I just can't find a hider for the Kitchen and Bath hair and clothes. Also some of my templates have great bone structure to sculpt with, but larger eyes than I like on a Sim I'm going to see a lot.

It was F16 and the MtF version of it I looked at, poked at, and said "Screw this, yo." It had been retextured, but it just looked dry and I got fed up.

Thus we just treasure the good hairs and spork the weird ones, or use them on aliens. Because aliens need weird hair. (Although mine are militaristic aliens, so all but the high-ranking folk (and the Bon Voyage tourists, man I wish I'd made them in Body Shop instead of CAS) also need short, neat hair.)

[fantasyrogue]

Or pull them into the lot with the cat statue? The problem with defaults could be fixed by making your own facial defaults, which'd eliminate the eye problem. A hider for K&B however, I have no idea where one'd find that.

Oh yeah, I remember that hair, I've used it. It's a nice style but the textures...eh

Most of my aliens have normal hair, but they're all born into normal families. They grow up like other sims do and I guess really are mostly normal.. most of them anyway (as in, as normal as one gets as a sim. Barring my favorite alien Castor, maybe, who has an uncanny ability to throw my ACR off... 5% chance for risky woohoo apparantly means next to nothing to him).

[hat_plays_sims]

Well, I gotta have Boolprop on to take control of them-- and the mailbox will spawn NPCs that I don't already have, so that's pretty spiffy. I've actually considered making my own templates, but DANG is that ever daunting. For one thing, a lot of my faces tend to end up looking alarmingly similar on my best day, sadly. Especially the women. When I finish my Hair Project (and my similar Eyebrow Project, and of course the Beard Project, too), I'm going through my Sims and remodelling them-- if I start as men, I get more interesting faces than if I start as women.

That was about my reaction when I looked at it up close. Eh. I don't want to bother with this. Where's that delete button.

Yeah, most Sims can't tell the difference... it's kind of cool aliens can't join the military, though. (Dang, Castor. Somebody wants to be a Pollination Technician when he grows up.)