HAIR DUMP IX: IT CAME FROM BEYOND THE HAIR DUMP, PART ONE

[hat_plays_sims]

Behind the cut lurk twenty hairs for your downloading pleasure. Because I have a massive hair dump for you guys tonight, I decided to divide by the sort of Sim I took pictures of. This is the Normal Female post, and all the pictures are of my nameless peasant chick based around Alfred Askew's Toothy template.

Since there are a zillion downloads inside the cut, the boilerplate goes outside the cut, so...

NO PAYSITES. Mesh creators' policies may vary, my policy says I want a cut (like that would ever happen), but Pooklet says no and these are Pooklet's actions. So no paysites.

PRAISE BE UNTO: Rose, Melodie9, Marja, Marko, Trapping, Sue of XM Sims, Lidiqnata, Hysterical Paroxysm, SAU MYOS, and Raon for meshes, Aquilegia, FantasyRogue, and Nouk for meshes and textures, Ja for her curved bit that I lean on far too much, Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, Pooklet for making sure Project Mayhem worked with my copy of Photoshop (and for their textures), my lovely donors who make sure I can keep my photos online (which lets me post hair dumps at all), and you lot for your comments and support (and I totally consider racking up downloads to be support).

HEY LISTEN! Meshes are included unless otherwise noted. Swatches are included in the zip files, everything is compressorized. Poly counts may vary; I've started adding poly counts to the dump info (but I always manage to look at the poly count AFTER recoloring the hair). Elders go gray, but you also get Time Bomb in the custom bin, just in case Primer isn't platinum enough for you. All female hairs are maternity-wear enabled from teen and up, and all male hairs from YA and up, to stop the weird hair disappearing act that happens if you don't have a Pregnant Sims Wear Any Outfit hack (but why wouldn't you?).

ANNOYING THINGS I DO: Because I credit everybody in them, my folder and file names are stupidly long. Feel free to shorten one, the other, or both as you please-- better you edit them to suit your needs than I just name everything [COLOR NAME] and cheese everybody off, right? Also, each hair color has an elder gray attached instead of only black. Feel free to re-bin everything and cut out the extra grays, or only use one family but swap out textures so your elders have some variety, whatever. Likewise, I bin using Pooklet's original scheme, because it's a nice easy default. I totally do not care if you re-bin things to suit your own tastes (but hey, every hair has a gray attached in case you need it!), and neither does Pooklet, so do whatever makes you happy, binning-wise.

EVEN MORE ANNOYING: Everybody sees a hair dump, so...

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.

Yes, if you want to do the unnaturals, please feel free to do the unnaturals. I have no plans to do so. Just remember to credit properly-- I tend to use Nouk's waves, FR's braid, and a chunk of curve I stole off Ja's Uni ponytail default, but anyone I credit, you should credit.

If you spot any broken links or other idiocy, please let me know!

There are twenty large pics behind the cut, cats and kittens. Dial-up users beware.




A Maiden's Simple Joys, Redux
Rose Donate 041, FantasyRogue fix/Nouk and FantasyRogue textures/Pooklet's actions
7036
Child-Elder
Female
So let's start things off with a re-do! I'm not exactly unhappy with my original recolor of this mesh, but I'm a lot happier with this version. True, it stretches the hell out of Nouk's waves, but the texture works better, I think-- and the alpha makes it look a little less... full of static electricity. Remember, FR's mesh edit saws off the un-alpha-editable butterfly from the back of the head-- and I didn't bother recoloring it, so if you don't use the included mesh, you're going to get hair-colored butterflies.
TURNAROUND
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Bookworm
Melodie9's All-Ages Basegame Barette/Nouk textures by Aquilegia/Pooklet's actions
1692
Toddler-Elder
Female
Like a LOT of the basegame hairs I've got for you in this three-part dump, the textures on this one are from Aquilegia's lovely set of default replacements. They needed to happen in more colors.
TURNAROUND
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Candy Houses
Rose 055, Marja fix/Pooklet and FantasyRogue textures/Pooklet's actions
4790
Child-Elder
Female
I actually first saw this mesh included with a Sim on Parsimonious-- the witch from Hansel and Gretel, all dressed in fluffy pastels.
SIDE
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Chambermaid, Redux
Melodie9's All-Ages Basegame Long (as seen on maids and Bella Goth), Aquilegia edit/Nouk and Aquilegia (and probably Nymphy) textures/Pooklet's actions
1094
Toddler-Elder
Female
And THIS time, I'm happy with the goddamned thing. This mesh is a nightmare to recolor. It crunches in the back and has more groups per age than is reasonable. Don't clone things off this mesh, kids. It will only end in tears. Tears and fire.
FRONT | TURNAROUND
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Good As It Gets
Marko Pieces of Dreams/Aquilegia and Maxis textures/Pooklet's actions
5648
Young Adult-Elder
Female
Aquilegia's lovely French Braid retexture let me finally get this one done! I love the shape of this mesh, I just wish it didn't have that unhappy Maxis mapping that makes it impossible to put Pooklet textures on there.
TURNAROUND
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Growing it Out
Aquilegia Scholar's Tail Female/Aquilegia and Ja textures/Pooklet's actions
510
Child-Elder
Female
For my game, this looks sort of like a middle stage. Hair that's been cut down to Dame Sir length (who is Dame Not Appearing In This Post, but she's in another section of the dump today) and allowed to grow back in. Maybe she left the military, or they accepted that they have, in fact, a Lady General instead of a Lord General.
BACK
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Hero's Sister
Nouk Two Wavy Tails, Marja Edit/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
5060
Toddler-Elder
Female
The title of this one is what comes from listening to the Windwaker soundtrack as you make hairs. The only thing this has in common with Aryll's hairstyle is that it's pigtails, but... the name stuck.
FRONT | TURNAROUND
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I Can't Be Having With This
Trapping Pulled Back Bun/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
1336
Teen-Elder
Female
As I was trying to name this hair, I could only think of Esme Weatherwax and her iron-gray bun that used to be gold. Terry Pratchett's Lords and Ladies leaks into a lot of my custom content.
TURNAROUND
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It's Tidy, Redux
Nouk Side Braid/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
5370
Toddler-Elder
Female
Another do-over! I was never happy with the first-- I just ran Pooklet's actions over Nouk's textures, and it turned out dark. This one has been done with Pooklet's textures, nice and shiny, and with the highlights where I want them.
TURNAROUND
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Lark in the Morning, Redux
XM Sue 006/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
1222
Toddler-Elder
Female
Okay, I was always happy with this one... except for one little bobble in the alpha on the back, a sharp-sided rectangular blotch. It drove me nuts every time I saw it. ... So I did it over again.
TURNAROUND
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Lenore
Melodie9's All-Ages Basegame Lowbun/Ja and NeptuneSuzy textures/Pooklet's actions
864
Toddler-Elder
Female
Requested by our very own Eva, my lowbun textures (which are Ja's work, hideously mutated) and NeptuneSuzy's hair ornaments as seen on the ladies of Albion and Lothere.
TURNAROUND
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Morticia
Lidiqnata Silver Female/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
4388
Toddler-Elder
Female
There's a male version of this tucked away in Part Two of this three-part series. Considering I have long, fine hair, long, fine hair for my Sims is something that's almost as hard for me to resist as braids, or curls. Sure, all my ladies should be wearing caps or veils or wimples or hats, but you've got to take a bath sometime, right?
TURNAROUND
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This Looks Familiar
Melodie9 All-Ages Basegame Frenchbraid/Aquilegia textures/Pooklet's actions
1496
Toddler-Elder
Female
Maxis is not always kind to us in their mapping. I am SO grateful to Aquilegia for taking some of the dry-straw texture out of this texture. I've always liked the mesh.
TURNAROUND
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Trail of Breadcrumbs
Rose 055, Marja Edit/Pooklet and FantasyRogue textures/Pooklet's actions
4790
Child-Elder
Female
Okay, I know the corners still look funky, but that's because of Body Shop lighting. In-game, it's way better and I am stupidgrateful to Marja for making it so I could shave the bangs off of this mesh without truly bizarre corners in the hairline.
TURNAROUND
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Unmanageable, Redux
Hysterical Paroxysm Adrasteia/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
2112 for toddlers, 6684 child-through-elder
Toddler-Elder
Female
I am never, ever recoloring this mesh again. Also, Hysterical Paroxysm does not allow distribution of her meshes, so hie ye hence for the mesh.
TURNAROUND
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Vaguely Exotic
Melodie9 All-Ages Basegame Bun/Aquilegia textures/Pooklet's actions
1884
Toddler-Elder
Female
Such a handy little mesh! First of all, only teens through elders have sticks. Toddlers and children have an option to wear flowers, but I alpha-edited them out because... because I did. This is one of those basegame meshes that's just kind of nice.
BACK
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What Have We Here?
SAU MYOS F15/Nouk textures/Pooklet's actions
2578
Toddler-Elder
Female
This was GOING to be Winsome Wench, Redux, but I still kinda like Winsome Wench. So it's just a new thing. I've seen this mesh done with Nymphy's edit of Nouk's textures, but... I prefer playing with Nouk's textures myself, for some reason. I'd've widened the front, but it's also part of the back. Mapping is crazy.
FRONT | BACK
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Wide Awake
Lidiqnata Donna/Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
3060
Child-Elder
Female
I like this one. It looks like hair-brushing in progress. I'm really pleased with how the highlights on the back came out.
TURNAROUND
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Worth It To Try
Marja TSM Longbraid/Pooklet and Ja textures/Pooklet's actions
2139
Teen-Elder
Female
I figured I'd just take a LOOK at this hair. Just to see if it was at all possible to get Pooklet's textures wrapped around it. ... And I'll shut up now or I'll just smug up the place. I do kinda wish I'd done a little cap of a hat, but hey. Can't think of everything. Maybe later.
TURNAROUND
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Drink To Her Charms, Redux
Raon 36/Nouk and Pooklet textures/Pooklet's actions
8700
Teen-Elder
Female
I'd originally done this one using Sims 2 Heaven curls, which worked, but it didn't look as rich and smooth as I wanted. Nouk's waves, on the other hand, were perfect.
TURNAROUND
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Comments

[le-plat-du-jour.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I love my braid pooklet'd! Now I can finally get rid of the Maxis Match ones :D You are brilliant, just looking at these seems like a shitload of work XD

Love love love!

[hat_plays_sims]

It came out so nice! The braid was the tricky part-- I ended up layering the original texture over it, setting it to... I don't remember, Multiply or Darken or something, turning the opacity WAY down, and then erasing everything but the shadows to get the kind of dimension I wanted. Thank you so much for converting it! (The Aristocrat hair was beyond help. I ended up saying 'screw it, I'll just use Halo!')

And now, after having worked on this danged dump since noon Pacific (I cleaned the kitchen while all these hairs were uploading), I am going to BED.

[glennisonfire.livejournal.com]

http://i778.photobucket.com/albums/yy68/hat-plays-sims/UnmanageableReduxSwatch.jpg

!!!!!!

[fadeintoyou]

Wow Hat, I can't believe how much HP's hair has improved! Now I actually have a use for it; thank you :)

[currantpotpie]

These are absolutely lovely! Thank you!

[hat_plays_sims]

... I hope that means you like it? *grins*

[hat_plays_sims]

This version came out much better than the one with the curls from SAU MYOS 14, I'll admit that, but boy does this mesh take round textures and give them sharp corners. Still, this is the best I've gotten it, and... I won't say I'm perfectly pleased, but I think I've done the best I can. It looks a lot more like hair now!

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome! I'm glad you like them.

[eefje00704]

Too much awesome for one post! They're all amazing of course, and I downloaded all of them, but thanks especially for Lenore!

[hat_plays_sims]

Too much awesome, too many 750x800 pixel pictures, whatever. Too much something for one post!

Thank you and you're welcome and hollowing out the net on Lenore was... tricky, at best, so I'm glad you like it! (I'm impressed you've downloaded everything. Even I'm not keeping everything, although I always think I will while I'm making the hairs.)

[eefje00704]

I can honestly say I've downloaded every single hair you've ever uploaded. And I don't think I've deleted any of them yet. But then I am quite heavily addicted to downloading cc.

[hat_plays_sims]

I know THAT feeling. And I do try to aim for versatile hair. I also try to aim for a Downloads folder under 8 gigs, 7 if I can manage it, so I do a lot of looking at my hairs and going "I will never use this," "I don't like this one anymore," "There are lower-poly hairs that have similar styles," and "I will never use this but I can't bear to part with it."

I've been sorting clothes by expansion lately, too-- sticking my Asian and Castaway clothes to Bon Voyage and my vampire-and-Gypsy-specific clothes to Nightlife and my 'this outfit is just leaves' clothes to Seasons. That's kind of rocking my socks, actually-- it makes it a LOT easier to find what I'm looking for, what with all the clothing hiders I have, and I no longer have blobs of hakamas and grass skirts inbetween my nice Medieval clothes. I'm seriously considering doing the same to hair.

But now it's lunchtime. Happy downloading!

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Oh. My. God.

So many fantastic hairs here -- and I haven't even LOOKED at the other two hair dumps! Thank you, Hat, just thank you.

*does happy dance because Dindrane can now have Pookletted hair for EVERY style, not just every-style-but-everyday*

Thank you!!

[hat_plays_sims]

Oh, you're going to want to look at the other two dumps. *grins* There are some goodies in there.

Does Dindrane wear Molotov or Explosive?

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Dindrane wears Explosive. Her hair is a rather dark shade of red (compared to Rosette's Pyrotechnic, now that I've mostly got my characters in Pook'd hairs). Eilwen's was darker when she was younger, but it's lightened over the years. Delyth's Pyrotechnic is because her father's blonde is mixing in.

Or at least, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. ;)

[hat_plays_sims]

I thought it was Explosive-- I know the Neptune Suzy version is pretty close to a true red. I like the use of various colors to cover assorted genetics!

[atulgeywood]

@.@ It's all too much...
Trying to tell myself that I don't need all of it is going to be hard...
Actually, I think the hardest thing will be finding and keeping everything I already have/want that you haven't done. Like finding something that isn't a needle in a stack of porcupines.

[hat_plays_sims]

Would my hair list help as a reference? I have done kind of a lot of hairs...

[nathanialroyale]

Your pooklet hair re-textures are always such top quality just like Io's, I appreciate all the work so much Hat!

[romanticroulette]

......are you even alive still? After all of this? O___O;;;

I mean, for sure, thanks and it's all wonderful. But man, how exhausted are you at this point ._____.

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you so much! Considering Io's texturing work, that is a real compliment, and I'm insanely flattered.

[hat_plays_sims]

... Barely? Mostly? *grins* The nice part about finishing a hair dump at three thirty in the morning is that right afterward, I get to go to bed.

It's... there are about two creative parts of the whole process; the actual retexturing, and then coming up with cute names. Building the packages, renaming them, checking the tooltips, binning, making the swatches, uploading... If I had a robot monkey, I could teach my robot monkey to do that part and just handle the fun stuff. Alas, I do not have a robot monkey... but I also don't have a huge backlog of hairs I 'desperately need' in my game anymore.

... At least. Not hairs that exist.

But hey, you're welcome, and thank you, and thank you again for thinking of how draining robot monkey work is. (Comments and seeing people downloading my goodies perks me right up again.)

[quinctia]

Now I feel guilty for being backlogged on...er...seven or eight hairs?

However, now that you've clued me in to that MtF Tenshi Akari fade conversion, and the male version is one I've yet to post, I've got to go do that one all nice and texture referenced. Because that's my main theme, I've got three (now four) hairs with the one gender using the textures of the other.

Nabbed a few hairs, and I never thought I'd need ANOTHER retexture of that SAU mesh with the long waves, but this new one looks good, I think I'll keep it along with the other one. I try so hard to have varied hair textures in my game, there are so many straight or slightly curled hairs, it's nice to have variety.

[hat_plays_sims]

Quick note on the Curly Fade for ladies-- the alpha appears to be the same for both sexes, but on women the fade comes down a lot lower than on the men. I dunno why, differences in headshape, I guess. So if you texture-reference, you might not get a perfect match.

I've been slapping Nouk's waves on everything to see what they stick to. That one worked out nicely, although I wish the waves didn't stretch so much in the front. I also tried to put the SAU spiral curls on it, but that did not work out so well. (I talked myself out of trying Nouk's Valentine curls.)

Glad you found a few things you could use!

[digitaldollies]

Once again it seems you read my mind, I love these. Thanks so very much.

[hat_plays_sims]

I'm so glad you found something you liked!

[(Anonymous)]

The number and quality of the recolors you've put out is astounding. Thank you. Especially for the redo on the side braid, it was quite dark before, but the new one looks perfect.

Since you posted the article about organizing buy mode content I've wanted to ask if you'd been to BAS lately, I recently posted two things that may interest you. Skinless skins for bodyshapes, which we spoke about at one point, and a kit to organize clothing in the buy catalog. The latter is also available from a thread in the shout box at simbology.

thetigerking83

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you so much, and of course you're welcome! The side braid needed it, but not as badly as the XM Sims July77 hair. Sure, the side braid was dark, but the July 77 hair had random highlights and lowlights everywhere.

I'll go and have a look at BAS, but I think I saw the organizing clothes thing-- faux expansion packs, right? I actually don't think that's something I'd use, because I've been sorting some of my clothes by expansion already (well, I have all these hiders, so hardly anything Maxis shows up anyway), and I've noticed the tooltips don't come up in Body Shop when you sort by expansion. If I ever want to recolor anything, that's a problem. I lean on tooltips kind of a lot, and even add or update them when they don't have enough information for my liking.

(Besides, there are only half a dozen bodyshapes I'd use besides the default-- Aquilegia's androgyny, the Lean Bodybuilder if he ever gets a female equivalent, and the RenGal if she ever gets a male equivalent-- and only once there are enough Medieval meshes to go 'round for both sexes. I think I could keep track of those by sight.)

[(Anonymous)]

Part of the reason I did this was that tooltips don't show up when shopping or I believe when planning clothes in game.

Probably worth DLing the Bodyshape organization kit just to read the documentation I included. In your own game you could do it however you like.

thetigerking83

[hat_plays_sims]

They don't show in game, but they do show in Body Shop-- which is usually where I need to know who created what for crediting (and mesh-locating) purposes.

I think I did grab the kit to look at the documentation, just to see how the faux EPs were handled (very similarly to the regular EPs, which I use to move my exotic, fantasy, and ninja outfits to their own little area away from my regular outfits), but almost all Medieval meshes are made for the default Maxis shape. Medieval simmers got 99 problems, so to speak, but bodyshapes ain't one of them. If I can't find clothing meshes for a shape (and I have pretty high standards when it comes to things like... morphs, and how fabric fits over the bust, and whether rippled abdominals show through clothing), then I pass it up, because I can't use it.

[drankmywar]

These are lovely, thank you so much for sharing.

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you, and you're welcome! I'm glad you like them.

[aquilegia]

I'm glad you've gotten so much use out of those default replacements I did. <3

[hat_plays_sims]

If not for your replacements, I'd've just left the whole lot of 'em hidden, honestly. With the first step usually done for me, it was easy to look at everything and go "Okay, and this one is a good mesh, and this one, and I used to like this one before I got spoiled to Pooklet's textures..." So, seriously HUGE thank-you for all your work on those. My socks; you have rocked them.

[justannie]

I just love all your hairs. I don't know how many of your big hairdump posts I've gone through constantly finding myself thinking "that's exactly the kind of hair I was looking for!" So thank you so much for your hard work and for sharing it all. It's very much appreciated! :D

[(Anonymous)]

HOLY MAN. I just went through ALL those hair dumps...


I think my downloads folder is going to explode.......

haha, thanks SO much for the awesome hairs! <3

none of your hairs are showing, but mts customs are

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry for the very long title, but I was unsure how to phrase it. I'm having trouble getting any of your hairs to show ingame, or bodyshop, even though other custom hairs show fine, and so far, all other custom content shows as well. Mesh is there and just in case, everything is in the main downloads folder, though
I used to organise everything in layers without issue. I went thru mts' custom content trouble shoot as well. I really hope I can figure this out, I love your stuff. I'm hoping you have suggestions, please. Thank you. If you feel like it, you can responds at taratears@yahoo.com

Re: none of your hairs are showing, but mts customs are

[hat_plays_sims]

Sorry for the late reply! I can think of a couple of reasons things might not show up.

#1 is filepath length. Your computer can only read I think 250 characters in a filepath, starting from C (or whatever the drive letter is). Try shortening file and folder names, shallow subfoldering (two folders deep is as far as I'd recommend you go), and maybe downloading a bulk renamer to get rid of the special characters-- anything that isn't 0-9, A-Z, _, or -. (I've stopped using those, but on older hairs there are still spaces and brackets.)

#2 is clearing your cache files, which doesn't usually prevent new content from showing up but it's worth a shot anyway. In your EA Games/Sims 2 folder, delete anything that isn't a folder itself-- usually it's files like cigen.package and accessory.cache.

#3 is... well, how much custom content do you have? There's a limit, based on your computer's processing power, to how many individual package files the game will read. After a point it just stops.