Stolen by Fairies (A Multi-PT and Memory Text mod... Also, image heavy)

[hat_plays_sims]

Since I currently tend toward Medieval Sims, I've discovered I really like taking some of the high-tech crap Sims 2 provides us with-- like Servos-- and making them work in more period neighborhoods. Alien abduction is no exception, but it's also an easy one to 'fix'-- Sims who are abducted by aliens in a Medieval game can simply have been... well. Stolen by the Fairies. (Fairies can have flying saucers, apparently. Why not?)

I WAS using the Ivory Tattoo skin by Chakaru as my alien default with Rensim's Retooled Aqua eyes, and Pirate McSkittles as my PT. However, while Pirate puts out cute kids, I was not pleased with the fact that they were all related. There's no way to create a thriving hybrid community in your neighborhood. That, and remembering an interesting detail from Lords and Ladies, a Discworld novel...

Well.

I've always been more ambitious than I am smart.


Up the airy mountain,
Down the rushy glen,
We dare not go a-hunting
For fear of little men...

With this mod in place, your Sims will be randomly ravished and magically impregnated by one of eight elves, fae, fairies, shining ones, sidhe... For the sake of a pretty and yet streamlined thread, they are pictured here WITH custom content. Below their portraits are LINKED images as you'll get them (in base-game clothing and hair) and views of their offspring at various ages... if they managed to have any. I playtested EXTENSIVELY, but after twenty-two babies, my game crashed and I couldn't get pics of all of them.


His Majesty Auberon Vertdubois
Uses Skintone 03
FRONT | QUARTER | PROFILE
Auberon did spawn, but his spawn did not reach a photogenic age before the crash.



Her Majesty Titania Underhill
Uses Skintone 01
FRONT | QUARTER | PROFILE
Offspring:
TODDLER | CHILD | TEEN



Lord Lankin Oren
Uses Skintone 05
FRONT | QUARTER | PROFILE
Offspring:
TODDLER | CHILD | TEEN



Dame Ainsel Mustardseed
Uses Skintone 04
FRONT | QUARTER | PROFILE
Ainsel did not manage to spawn. This was due to a typo in the original mod file I edited that has since bee fixed.



Mallebron Cobweb
Uses Skintone 01
FRONT | QUARTER | PROFILE
Offspring:
TODDLER | CHILD | TEEN
TODDLER | CHILD | TEEN
TODDLER | CHILD | TEEN
TODDLER | CHILD



Briary Peaseblossom
Uses Skintone 02
FRONT | QUARTER | PROFILE
Offspring:
TODDLER | CHILD
TODDLER



Robin Goodfellow
Uses Skintone 06
FRONT | QUARTER | PROFILE
Offspring:
TODDLER | CHILD | TEEN
TODDLER | CHILD


Corrigan Moth
Uses Skintone 06
FRONT | QUARTER | PROFILE
Offspring:
TODDLER | CHILD | TEEN

The Optional Memory Mod



This mod is a simple text fix. It replaces the text and icons of any memories involving alien abduction-- positive, negative, family member abducted, alien abduction scholarship-- with something a little more period and a little more magical. The cartoony flying saucer is replaced with a greenish pointed ear. This one is very simple to use; just drop it in your Downloads folder, and if you hate it, pull it out. I forgot to nab pics of this one. Be surprised!


HOW TO USE A MULTIPLE POLLINATION TECHNICIAN MOD

Saying 'drop it in your downloads' folder is too simple, really, even if that's what it amounts to.

The PT mod comes in three separate folders for eyes, skins, and the mod itself. For the mod to work, you need all of those installed. I did not make a No-CC version of this mod, but if you want to, you're welcome to.

If you decide you no longer want this mod installed, but you've already got half-fae kids running around your neighborhood? ONLY remove the file called "MOD Stolen by Fairies Multi PT by Almighty Hat" (or whatever you rename it if that's too long for you). Leave the individual Sim files, the skins, and the eyes, in your game. Otherwise, you'll end up with broken genetics on your kids. Broken genetics contribute to eventual BFBVFS syndrome.

THESE SIMS WILL SHOW UP IN YOUR SIM BIN. Do not delete them from the Sim bin. I do not know what that will do, but I doubt it would be very good at all.

ISSUES

They call it 'sadorandom' for a reason. I tested this mod EXTENSIVELY, got twenty-two kids, crashed my game, and Ainsel still hadn't impregnated anyone yet... and Mallebron had done it seven times. It's random-- it is NOT broken. If it seems like, for example, Briary is dominating your gene pool? She probably is. Chaos sucks.

Corrigan produces silly-looking kids, but she's meant to look more like a pixie.

Lankin produced one homely daughter, but I have great hope for his sons. Also I never saw her as an adult-- she might look okay.


NOTES

On Compatibility:
Hair and skin on the PTs you actually get is (to the best of my knowledge and PLEASE tell me if there's a problem) base game only, so if you can use a multi-PT mod, you can use THIS multi-PT mod.

Skins are compatible with Bloom's Sexy Feet and Warlokk's XHiRes default shapes as well as regular Maxis nudes. Elders share the same body textures as adults and teens. Yes, these have nipples; no, they don't have any other good parts.

This mod works with Tom420's Male and Female Alien Impregnation hack over on MTS; I have heard other hacks that allow for both genders getting probed... er, carried off and ravished... can conflict with multi-PT mods, so I recommend that one.

You can have as many PTs from multi-PT mods in your game as you want, but you can only have ONE mod in at a time. Don't screw up.



Credits and Acknowledgments:

I owe a lot of people thanks and links for this mod, including...

Simgaroop for her easy-to-follow AND entertaining tutorial on making your own Multi-PT mod here...

Mouseyblue for her Bare Faced Skins, which I used as my alien skin bases, and for her very open policy. Bare Faced Skins are available here...

Rensim for her Retooled Eyes: Extras, three of which I used for my PTs (which are technically uploaded Sims and thus okay under her policy). You can find the full Retooled Eyes: Extras set here in case you want the red and/or yellow...

Oddysey for his eight-PT version of the Multi-PT mod; four just wasn't enough fairies for my tastes. Oddysey's mod is available here...

Bloom for offering UV maps for his Sexy Feet, without which I would be a very sad, frustrated Hat...

Fwiffo for first conceiving of the idea of a multiple PT mod...

And Quaxi for SimPE, without which we would all be stuck with whatever EA gave us.

I also owe a couple of thank-yous to Terry Pratchett. No, really-- his fairies in the Discworld novel 'Lords and Ladies' have copper-based blood (they couldn't have iron-based blood the way humans do, or they wouldn't have that classic fae sensitivity to iron). Oxygenated iron-based blood is red, giving pale humans a rosy look, so oxygenated copper-based blood would turn... turquoise, giving pale fae a greenish look. The whole project kind of kicked off from that surprisingly science-based observation.

The works of William Shakespeare provided most of my names; a google search for 'fairy names' handled most of the rest. 'Briary' comes from a short play I saw many, many years ago at RenFaire; Briary was a changeling. The spelling of Auberon and last name Vertdubois came from a short story I read ages ago; I can't recall what it was but I think it was in one of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword and Sorceress books. If you read a story where Auberon St. Vertdubois marries Jonet Ellen Bellamy, that's where the name comes from.

POLICY

Uh... I dunno what you could do with this, really, but my usual policy is 'do whatever the heck you want.' I'd appreciate a link back; this was not a small project. If you use the skins for something, link to Mouseyblue's skins, too, and don't muck around with the eyes-- Rensim allows them to be uploaded with Sims, which... technically is all I've done with them. They're included for convenience's sake only.

There's a read-me included with my policy on TSR and paysites, but in general? Don't. Tis rude.


DOWNLOAD on Mediafire...

Stolen by Fairies (PT Mod and genetics ONLY)
Stolen by Fairies (Memories ONLY)
Stolen by Fairies (Skintones ONLY)
Stolen by Fairies (PT Mod, genetics, AND Memories)

DOWNLOAD on Sims File Share...

Stolen by Fairies (PT Mod and genetics ONLY)
Stolen by Fairies (Memories ONLY)
Stolen by Fairies (Skintones ONLY)
Stolen by Fairies (PT Mod, genetics, AND Memories)

If you downloaded this set prior to April 30, 2010, please download this:
Stolen By Fairies Mod Fix (mediafire) | Stolen By Fairies Mod Fix (SFS)
To repair a non-critical problem with the mod (a mistake in the original eight-PT mod which basically gives you double chances of getting one PT (probably Mallebron) and zero of another (in this case, Ainsel). It won't hurt your game, but it IS pretty annoying. Let this file overwrite the original mod file; they have the same name. As of April 30th 2010, all other files have been updated.

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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is great!!! Almost exactly what I was thinking of! After Stephanie uploaded her Medieval 'hood, I decided to revamp my DL folder and switch out modern for ancient! But I started thinking that the modern day Farstar telescope just wouldn't work for our Medieval simmies. And I also found Fwiffo's mod for the 4 multi-PTs and then Odyssey's expanded 8 PTs. I was so excited thinking we could have faeries, wood nymphs, trolls, satyrs, etc... abducting our sims. I took my thoughts to Stephanie and she in turn sent me to you! ;)
I don't know if you mesh or not, I haven't attempted that yet! (I want to~just scared!!!) Anyway, I haven't checked out ALL your goodies yet, but wanted to know if you have made something "medieval" to replace the telescope? I haven't been able to think of something the sims could "do" to "call" the aliens ( I mean faeries!) but I've been thinking maybe a special tree or a Celtic Circle or something like that. Also, is it possible to change the UFO into something like I was thinking maybe Grandmother Willow from Disney's Pocahontas. A wonderful picture is here http://photobucket.com/images/Grandmother%20Willow/?sortby=sevendaysview top row on the right! Instead of being "abducted" by a space ship, wouldn't be cool if they get ubducted by a mystical tree in the forest!
Anywho...I don't know if any of this is possible or not, or if it's already been done and I just haven't found it yet. Anything you could tell me would be great!
Anxious to hear back from you!
Thanks, G-Knee

[hat_plays_sims]

Well, I use a couple of different telescopes... I use the Oggs 'n Ends-- okay, technically the Oggs 'n Rose telescope from Parsimonious. There was a white one from a set called White Witchery, which matched, but that one seems to be down for the moment (they're probably updating it; they keep doing that lately). There's also one in the Alchemist set from The Dark Project, and Lord Darcy Updated the Sims Design Avenue Alchemy Set telescope for Free Time. (If you don't have Free Time, you can find that set here. It's a very pretty telescope.) They're not replacements, but buyable telescopes cloned from the expensive telescope-- they'll get you your alien abductions!

I do not do mesh replacements, I'm afraid-- I haven't tried meshing and even using somebody else's mesh as a default is beyond me just now. I'm sure it's possible to change the UFO to something else, but it would have to be something else that flew, given the animations for when they're abducted and returned... and I don't know if you could change the way the UFO looks in the cinematics at all.

Couple Quick Questions

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Hiya, Hat!

I had a crazy brainwave this morning for more Albion weirdness, but before I actually did anything in-game, I wanted to check things out with you. First, to see if doing this is asking for a BFBVFS, and if it's ok with you, since I'm piggybacking off your creativity.

If you want my crazy idea in all its glory, you can read all about it here (http://morgaine2005.wordpress.com/2010/06/11/the-origin-of-species-part-three/). To make a very long post short, however, what I want to do is this: take your very pretty Multi-PT Sims, doll 'em up, and make them Downtownies. I will not be removing these Sims from the Sim-Bin, just cloning them. Secondly, I want to use your names for them. My questions are:

1) Is this going to result in a BFBVFS?
2) Is it ok with you if I , um, "borrow" your ideas in this way?

Thanks for answering, and hope everything is going well with you! :D

Re: Couple Quick Questions

[hat_plays_sims]

That totally won't hurt-- you can duplicate Sims in your Sim bin to run around loose as many times as you please. Also, it's totally one of the things I'm planning to do, possibly in my Downtown, because I like their faces too much to not use them (also it's what I did to make my sadly-absent photoshoot happen). Knock yourself out!

"I see Queen Mab hath been with you:" Dreamy, Wonderful PTs!

[simmistress]

Hat, these are positively wonderful. They remind me of Shakespearean fairies, the ones who are equal parts beautiful, mysterious, and dangerous. I can also see that I will definitely need horses in my game soon. (That burgeoning DL folder is just going to have to hold it ALL!)

One question: are the skins default too? I did go over and dl mouseyblue's skins--will these show up automatically on our new fae? (how delightful!) Also, will I need to remove the dowdy old green Maxis PT? Or will he fade into the background once these lovelies enter my DL folder? And--(sorry for all the foolish curiosity here)--will the Fae PT show up in the family tree?

Many Thanks!

Re: "I see Queen Mab hath been with you:" Dreamy, Wonderful PTs!

[hat_plays_sims]

I'm so glad you like them! I was aiming for more old-school fairies, only instead of stealing children and leaving changelings behind, these just knock you up. And I heartily recommend Dragonslave's horses! They add a lot to a scene, and Feenwald's posebox adds even more.

As for the questions... the skins you need are included in the mod download, so you don't have to go download anything separately-- I recolored some of Mouseyblue's skins for my PTs, which is why I linked back to her. The skins will show up as custom in your game-- DON'T delete them. They don't replace the default green skin, in part because there are six different skins included with the mod. Any alien offspring you already had before installing this mod, even the unborn ones, will still have their old green skin and black eyes (unless you have default replacements, which you don't have to remove to use this mod). You will not need to remove the Maxis PT-- in fact, you can't, unless you already have a single PT replacement installed. Yes, these guys will show up in your family tree.

When you have a multi-PT mod installed, it takes a whole mess of parts to work-- the mod file itself, the PT files, and any custom content the PTs are using, which is usually limited to skins and eyes. The PT files are basically saved Sim files with a little bit of extra data added, including registered GUID numbers; the mod file itself is what directs the game to one of those GUIDs when an abduction happens instead of to the original PT. Any custom genetics-- skins and eyes-- are needed so that your PTs have the correct genetic information. If you leave out the skins and eyes, what you'll get will be PTs with your S2 default and whatever eyes are painted on that skintone, and any children they spawn will have broken genetics-- that's why you can't download the mod without the genetics. I wanted to be sure everyone got them.

This is awesome

[(Anonymous)]

Would this mod interfere with a mod that causes more chances for getting abducted?

Re: This is awesome

[hat_plays_sims]

Nope! I use TwoJeffs' hack for that and Tom420's equal-opportunity impregnation to boot. All this hack does is tell the game to use one of the fairies and not the Maxis-made PT.

Hurray for the magic!

[(Anonymous)]

Hello there :)

First of I wanted to congratulate you for this awesome idea and the beautiful fairies. I kind of envy you for this creativity and the ability to accomplish what crossed your mind.
I find the idea to have my dear sims abducted and ...erm... impregnated on a 'natural' way by fairys much more appealing than to have aliens do tests on them. And I don't even play in a medieval setting.

Still I have some questions before I go and use this - since it is a debug. I haven't used one yet, since I fear to be not skillful enough to just remove those debugs later, when I perhaps want to have back the "original" way.
Is it possible in any way to have those lovely fairy PTs in my game without removing the possibility to get abducted by aliens? So... my sims could get abducted by aliens or fairies? (I'm sorry to bother you with such a stupid question, but... I dunno... I kind of like the ugly alien-ducklings, too... but fell madly in love with your fairys and the idea...)

Also, if i got it correctly (and I am not entirely sure since english is not my mother-tongue) the fairies will not have the same hair and clothes as on your pictures. But they will be in the Sim-Bin, right? Do you perhaps know where you got the hair and clothes? I think about having a fairy city and (if you wouldn't tell me not to do it? Is it okay for you?) I would like to have your fairies as a "royal family" of sorts.
I hope I made myself understandable. Thank you for your answer in advance.

greetings
Airi

Re: Hurray for the magic!

[hat_plays_sims]

I'm not sure what you mean about removing the possibility of getting abducted by aliens-- the fairies are aliens, basically. They even still come in the flying saucer, which I haven't modified at all. Think of them as a different alien species than the Maxis aliens. If you're asking if the Maxis PT can still abduct Sims if you have this mod in, the answer is no, unless you take the mod file out (which is quite doable and an easy way to switch between multiple-PT mods).

The fairies will appear in your Sim bin as they do in the linked photos under their portrait-- Titania with the tiara, Oberon in the purple top chef outfit, Ainsel in the mowhawk, et cetera. I'm not sure where all their clothes and hair came from anymore, besides Titania's high ponytail in her blue dress (that's by Nouk), but you can find everyone's hair besides Briary's (a Peggy mesh, nouked, from GoS, in a post I think called Beside Her Stepsisters. Something about Her Stepsisters, anyway) in my hair dumps somewhere. ... Possibly also Ainsel's might be from GoS. Regardless, they're all on my list of hairs to Pooklet. Oberon's blue robe is from Parsimonious, in their Elven theme; Titania's white dress is from MTS, by Sherahbim, whose work you should really look up. Ainsel and Lankin are wearing Criminal Mastermind outfits from the base game, Mallebron is wearing a Mariachi-with-tights outfit from MTS by Cocomama, Briary and Robin are wearing clothes from Tabala's now-defunct site, but they're somewhere in this file, Corrigan is wearing a dress from MTS by ZoeJ, and Titania's blue dress is from Sim Ages, which has closed, but I have all their clothing here. I'm not sure which dress her blue one is.

All the necklaces are from either All About Style or Fanciful Mind, and the tiaras are by Windkeeper on TSR, but I got them from The Booty.

Does that help?

You're entirely welcome to use my Sims to make a fairy city if you want, but if you end up posting pictures of them online, I'd like it if you could credit me. I won't be upset if you don't, but I'd appreciate it. Heck, Morganna is using my PTs as a whole subplot in her story!

Plants???

[(Anonymous)]

Hi there. Thanks this is wonderful! I love it. I was wondering if there was a way to have the same thing but for plant sims. Can they have a love affair with a nature fairy and spawn nature fae? I'd also like to be able to make my own replacements for this and the plant. Not that I don't love yours but you know...I wanna make my own too. Could you provide this or send me where I can get it?

Thanks

Re: Plants???

[hat_plays_sims]

Shoot, I did that a year ago. However, unlike being half-alien (or half fae), Plantsimism isn't genetic, so you can't exactly spawn a nature fae just by breeding. By turning a changeling into a plantsim and making them spawn a plantbaby, yes.

Making your own is a little tricky, but it works exactly the same for a multiple ideal plantsim mod as for a multiple pollination technician mod-- and you can learn how to do that by reading Simgaroop's tutorial.

Offspring

[(Anonymous)]

Hello again,

I am back with more snapshots of Kassidy. First of a closer picture of her baby-face: http://i55.tinypic.com/14b2clh.jpg
By now she is toddler (http://i52.tinypic.com/2j34rc3.jpg , http://i54.tinypic.com/2m5h3cz.jpg) and she got her fairy-mother's red hair and her face, I guess :) She's such a darling!
Surprisingly Keira was abducted _again_, while her husband and her sister failed. I guess your fairies took a liking to her? Well, she is pregnant again and happy (and her husband is surely not so happy, since he wanted to impregnate her himself, finally) and of cause I will continue to provide you with snapshots.

greetings,
Airi

Re: Offspring

[hat_plays_sims]

Oh yes, she is absolutely Briary's baby!

The ears are kind of hit-or-miss, and if you're using a custom skintone on your Sims, you may or may not end up with an alien skintone. (Just checking, you did install the Stolen By Fairies skins, right?) Babies will never show elf ears, since there are only two baby meshes-- Regular Baby and Scary Alien Baby. And depending on your hacks and your expansions, sometimes it's easier to get a Sim abducted again than it is to get a Sim abducted in the first place.

On with the snapshots

[(Anonymous)]

So, here I am, with little time to play sims, but always with time to take snapshots.
(I could post you tons of them, but I always pick just the most interesting ;))
I didn’t play with Liam and Kessidy yet. But when I do I will work hard on better snapshots of Liams face. I also think that he might get to be quite handsome. The only problem is that I cannot get close enough to his face. It only works with toddlers when they are cuddled, or with newborns when being played with. Annoys me a great deal.
But I have also more pleasurable news. My pregnant male finally he gave birth to a little boy! I named him Tyron, since it had a nice ring to it and also sounds foreign enough to me, to be a bit alien.
Oh, and he is the Mallebron’s offspring :D Hurray for that, I really love his face (Though I think Titanias and Robins Offspring you had were even more beautiful)

So, this is him as a newborn:
http://i53.tinypic.com/245eidg.png (you see his Daddy’s green fingers? I made dad snapshot while Tyron was born), http://i52.tinypic.com/2wpicme.jpg

And this is him as a toddler:
http://i52.tinypic.com/vys86x.jpg (just at his birthday, that’s why his clothes and hair are a bit annoying)
http://i53.tinypic.com/15yupax.jpg And did you notice? He has fairy-ears! :D I’m so happy!

Greetings,
Airi

Re: On with the snapshots

[hat_plays_sims]

Congratulations on getting a pointy-eared baby! It's really hit-or-miss, they seem to get one parent's ears or the other's. (And Titania and Robin DO produce some very pretty kids-- Robin's tend to be sort of classically pretty, while Titania's are just plain stunners.)

But Tyron should grow up looking interesting-- Mallebron makes some rather attractive kids, too.

A few questions

[(Anonymous)]

If we only want some of the fairies you've made abducting and impregnating, will deleting the unwanted fairies from the bin work? (My medieval kingdom has a really specific face type, cause I'm really looks-oriented >.<)
And, just to make sure, when we take out the 'take out' file to end the mod, it'll go back to normal (say, if I'm playing with someone I want to have an ALIEN baby), but when I want fairies again, I just put the file back in?
With your mod in place, will using the boolprop "make me alien pregnant" cheat result in a fairy baby?

All that being asked, thank you so much for this mod. It's beautiful and creative and wonderful!

Re: A few questions

[hat_plays_sims]

Removing some of the fairy files but not all of them will break the mod and you'll throw errors, so I wouldn't advise doing that. You can use Simgaroop's tutorial to either make a four-alien mod or replace some of the GUID numbers so that the faces you like have a double chance of being used while the faces you don't like get none.

Yes! You can have as many PTs set up for a multi PT mod as you please (since they all have different GUIDs, like chairs or bookshelves), but only one mod file. Taking out the mod file will send you back to the Maxis alien; if you want to use another multi-PT set, add the PTs but swap the mod files.

Yes! But you won't get an abduction memory, if that's important to you.

Back again

[(Anonymous)]

Hello there, it's Airi.

Sorry for not posting this long. My computer crashed and it did take a while to reinstall everything. I had a back-up, so nothing was lost. I also had to remove the mods while reinstalling so I couldn't play in families in which mods were used. I didn't want to disturb things. By the way, those this mod work for all expansion-packs? I got Bon Voyage new now.

But back to the important stuff: pictures.
This is Liam as a newly grown up teen: http://i51.tinypic.com/157ow0m.jpg
I think you're right. He is getting quite handsome.
And he got a little brother by now. I found a mod to make the fairy-abduction happening more often.
His name is Owen, he is again Lord Lankin Orens spawn. (Quite the man, Lord Lankin) And he got his face, i guess, his ears and even his hair-color! http://i51.tinypic.com/102mavr.jpg
My most succesfull spawn by now, I think.

So now I'm off to play again. I'll make Liam move to university and move in with his sister. So, Young Adult fairy-spawns soon! Yaye!

greetings,
Airi

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for this wonderful mod! This is much more fitting for my medieval neighbourhood than Maxis Aliens!

(I also posted this at the Plumb Bob Keep, where I discovered this great mod, but I think you might be more likely to see it here)

Is it possible to customize this mod further and use different eyes and skintones? As far as I understand it, the custom content isn't used in the actual mod file. Is that true? If yes, it should be possible to change the genetics of the sims in SimPE. Do I have to change anything else? Or will this blow up my game?

Thanks for your help!
asoivel

[hat_plays_sims]

I am in fact more likely to see it here, so thank you for posting!

Yes, you can change the genetics of the Sims in SimPE. I've never done it, so I can't offer you any help for it, but as long as you know what you're doing, you should be fine. However, if you already have offspring via my PTs as-is, I think you'd also have to change the offspring's DNA to avoid broken genetics.

It might actually be more straightforward to build your own mod-- it's actually really easy!

Sorry for the necro post and this probably won't be seen but anyway

[(Anonymous)]

The fairy PTs don't appear in my Sim bin. Should I be concerned about this?

Re: Sorry for the necro post and this probably won't be seen but anyway

[hat_plays_sims]

... Possibly? I have follow up questions that'll help me figure out what's going on.

1. In my game, at least, the PTs show up all the way back in the Sim Bin in both Body Shop and CAS. Did you page all the way back through any other created Sims you might have?

2. Which file did you download? I've had folk have problems with the mod only to realize they didn't grab the full version and are missing pieces.

3. Where did you install the package files? Things may not work if they got installed to SavedSims instead of Downloads.

4. Have you cleared your cache files?

[(Anonymous)]

I'd actually considered using the Insimenator to try and teleport them to the lot, though I wasn't sure if it would work. It still probably won't, but I'll give it a go before anything else, thanks for the help:)

[hat_plays_sims]

Worth a shot! Just remember to always keep backups and if you mess up while on the lot? Exit without saving.

BodyShop?

[(Anonymous)]

Awesome!

So... since they show up in your sim bin (Hehe that almost rhymes) ...does that mean you can change their hair and stuff in BodyShop?

Re: BodyShop?

[hat_plays_sims]

Yes and no. You can change their appearance in Body Shop, but when you save, it'll be as new Sims, not as PTs. To edit the PTs themselves, you'll need to follow the directions in Simgaroop's tutorial and basically make all new Pollination Technicians.

On the other hand, if you just want gussied-up versions running around your 'hood, yep, that'll work!

Wow, I'm late to the party...

[(Anonymous)]

Hi! I absolutely love this mod, and I have no idea why, but it plumb doesn't work for me. I've gone through and searched through my downloads for any potential conflict ions, and I'm pretty certain I don't have any. I don't have NY conflicting skins, eyes, or other PT defaults that I'm aware of, and I have no idea why this wouldn't work!

I've probably done something stupid and obvious to stop it working, but at the moment I'm all out of ideas. I really love this mod and I'd love to have it in my game. Thanks in advance!

Fixed!

[(Anonymous)]

Wow OK, somehow by moving it to a different location in my folder fixed it. *enormous facepalm* Sorry about the fuss back then. Thanks for this great mod! *hides in a well because of stupidity*

I can't seem to get to the download page???

[(Anonymous)]

Hi, I am trying to redownload your lovely PT mod (after switching laptops and deciding I missed my fairies too much) but with any link I click I get a white error page and this message-

'This page has a redirect loop.'

No matter how much I refresh that's all I get. Can you fix that? I miss my fairies D:

Re: I can't seem to get to the download page???

[hat_plays_sims]

All the links work for me, so the only advice I can give you is to wait a few hours and try again-- maybe reset your router, because it kind of sounds like the page is taking too long to load. Possibly, if you're using a script blocker, you'll need to allow Mediafire.

Custom Clothing & Hairs Shown Above On PT's?

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely love this mod. I really do. It removes the gross PT defaults and replaces them with something much more period appropriate, not to mention gorgeous. The only 'problem' (I put quotes around "problem" because it's probably less of an actual problem and more of my own stupidity getting in the way) I'm facing is how to customize the PT's clothing and hair. I know that they are downloaded with the base game hairs and clothing, but is there any way for me to change these so that when looking at their portraits in the family tree, they are pictured with the custom hairs and clothing shown in the above post? I know this is several years too late, and there is most likely a really obvious answer, but I would really appreciate any suggestions you can give me.
Thanks Hat! :)

Re: Custom Clothing & Hairs Shown Above On PT's?

[hat_plays_sims]

Eh, I'm always willing to help out if I can!

There are two ways I'd trust to change the PT's appearances in the family tree, but they're both pretty involved. The first is default-replacing their basegame clothes and hair with something prettier. Pooklet has a pretty good tutorial on that here. The other method would be to clone my PTs in Body Shop, dress them up, save them, and use those new Sims to make a brand new multi-PT mod. Simgaroop has an easy-to-follow tutorial on that here.

You'd have to do the makeovers yourself, but I posted vague directions to where to download what the fairies are wearing upthread of here. (Hairs are by XM, Peggy, Doraemon, Nouk, and I actually can't remember what hair Mallebron is wearing, but it's got a long ponytail in the back. I did get all of them Pooklet'd, though.)

Colours Of Skins On A Different Set?

[(Anonymous)]

I really like the skins you made for you PT's. I would put them in my game, except I already have a set of skins I love and I want all of them to be consistent. I've taken it upon my inexperienced self to create an alien skin set that matches my default replaced S1-S4's. The only thing I have a problem with is how to take the colour of your skins and put them onto mine. As in, taking the greyish-green skin tint and putting it onto the skins I already have. I've already tried messing with tints, filters, and hue/saturation in Photoshop, but all that produced was a gross-looking Maxis match type skin. I hope this isn't too vague, but I'm not really sure how to describe what I mean. Thanks for any help or feedback you can give me in advance :)

Re: Colours Of Skins On A Different Set?

[hat_plays_sims]

Hoo boy, um, I think I mostly used Replace Color and some floodfill on the bits that wouldn't replace and judicious use of Blur. This is honestly a VERY amateurish skin set. (I'm still fond of it, but boy was I new when I made this.) Careful blurring took care of most of the Maxis look and pixelation, and I did start with extremely pale skins, which made fiddling with the color easier and the changes less likely to cause crunch.

I did leave some warm tones where I could, I think. I remember I wanted the fairies to look like their blood was copper-based, not iron-based, so anywhere that'd be cooler on a pale-skined human would be warmer on a pale-skinned fairy. (Iron is blue-black, oxidized iron is red; copper is orange, oxidized copper is pale green.)

Other than that, really, the best advice I can give you is "Find someone who's way better at skintones and/or Photoshop than me and ask them for advice," because... I vaguely remember dicking around until I had some luck, and then repeating that luck on all the faces. (The bodies are the same.)

Sims Aren't Being Impregnated After Abduction

[(Anonymous)]

A while back, I decided to use this mod as the template for the one I intended to make. Following Fwiffo's and Simgaroop's tutorials, I was able to create the mod successfully. It worked without any problems for a while, but now it doesn't (at all). I tested a few different mods and played through the abduction sequence numerous times, but pregnancy did not occur once. It's like the aspect of pregnancy is disabled completely. What can I do to fix this problem? Thank you in advance.

Re: Sims Aren't Being Impregnated After Abduction

[hat_plays_sims]

Sorry to be so very late getting back to you-- and especially with such bad news, because I don't know how to fix it.

Usually if a mod works for a while and then stops, it's because of a conflicting mod. Have you added anything else that affects pregnancy or abduction? Have you still got all the bits of your mod? Are your Sims young enough to get pregnant?

Story Found!

[miros1]

I found the story, will read it tomorrow!

THE PHAERIE BRIDE by Rosemary Edghill

It's available for download as part of a story collection edited by Martin Greenberg

Ancient Aliens

[(Anonymous)]

This is extremely creative, but I posit that old-timey aliens like that of the "Sims" series would have existed in medieval times. Personally, I would have kept aliens in and everyone THINK they are done other type of Fairy.

Re: Ancient Aliens

[hat_plays_sims]

This was more about acknowledging that modern stories of alien abduction and experimentation and historical stories of the Good Gentlefolk of the Hills have, thematically, a lot in common. Who's to say these aren't aliens, after all?

[(Anonymous)]

This is a wonderful mod about which I have a couple of questions before I go and muck around with things:

1. Ainsel's hair is genetically red, right? She's the hardest to get a good look at because 1. no spawn and 2. her photo-with-all-CC is taken far away, but I'm guessing from the red eyebrows? It's a bit tricky because of her no-CC hairstyle to tell if it's meant to be red hair or dyed black hair.

2. Assuming a brand new installation, no alien kids et al running around, how would one go tweaking genetic elements (e.g. changing the skins or eyes)? For instance, if you wanted to give one a different custom skintone that exists in your game ('custom' here being as in 'it's custom and not geneticized or defaulted'), what would you fiddle with in (I assume) SimPE to get that done? Is it doable at all, even at that embryonic stage in an installation?

[hat_plays_sims]

1. Ainsel's hair is genetically red, yep! I used Explosive, which is a really dark red, but it is still red.

2. I would try one of two things: Copy the Sim you want to tweak in Body Shop, make your changes, save, and then either a) Sim Surgery copy them over onto one of my Sims or b) go through the PT-making steps in Simgaroop's tutorial and just. Copy my GUIDs onto your edits and pull my original PTs, if it's for personal use. (If you're gonna share it, use new GUIDs and follow the whole tutorial. I don't know what happens with a GUID conflict in a multi-PT mod, but it sounds ugly.)