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hat_plays_simsKicking off (or finishing up, depending on how you look at these entries) my back-from-hiatus posts is something I decided I wanted when I started playing with Sherahbim's textures.
I really, really like Sherahbim's Lady gown. The textures are awesome, it's spiral-laced, the neckline lends itself well to either winterwear or drapey headcoverings, but it was only available in a dark red and the heavy trim at the cuffs and hem was a little daunting.
So I cut off the trim and fought with saturation and lightness and contrast until I had something I could run through various color actions. Then I did it for teens (who are not pictured because I forgot). And now you can have seventy-two recolors if you, like me, feel a need for simple High Middle Ages gowns in far too many colors.
"It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness." --Ninon de Lenclos
So, the one thing I did with this gown that was really stupid of me was I didn't snip off the original metallic collar embroidery. That unfortunately makes this a gown for wealthy ladies instead of just any random lady, unless you cover it up with something like Clubkitty's Hijab or Cynnix's Noble Veil or Ja and Daislia's Altair hood (which are all available in my hair dumps; I did a Hat Dump as part of my coming-off-of-hiatus post-a-thon). So, with that out of the way, I took way more pictures than I really needed, because I de-aged my household full of old ladies I used to test the lifespan spread on my aging mod. Lady Lillianne above is wearing Aelia's Royal Blue.
And Lady Jeannette is wearing either Aelia's Yam or CuriousB's Poppy. I have completely forgotten. (She's also wearing one of my FantasyRogue Crispinette recolors. Hat Dump again.) She is not actually standing in some weird fencing labyrinth-- seven fair ladies in my testerhood all live together in a converted fortress. Jeannette is on the third floor, with the foot of the Riverblossom Hills mountain behind her.
Lady Annalise is wearing either CuriousB's Forget-Me-Not (this is my bet) or Adonis, and her photo is the only one I touched up aside from resizing-- but I just blended two shots together to get the most butterflies possible. Because butterflies. (Annalise is hunting butterflies using an extracted and fixed-up Castaway Stories bug jar with a chip-carved lid I made myself; I haven't finished my hobby defaults yet so it's still unreleased.)
And in Aelia's Emerald, here's fair Giselle primping a bit, because I do love me some gingers. Giselle is primping indoors, by day, in a hallway with very little natural light, but with ample candlelight. It's a good shot of how far down on the hand the cuffs fall. All of the gowns are enabled for casual, formal, and outerwear-- since the hems and cuffs are undecorated, with a good warm headdress they look nice and warm in the snow, though I'd skip the deep reds, blues, and purples-- those dyes are much too expensive to take tromping around through the slush!
Mistress Rosalie is the ladies' housekeeper; she's wearing her formalwear in Aelia's Indigo Brown (at night, by candlelight, with a fireplace in front of her.) Indigo Brown is actually one of my favorite colors-- it's got just enough purple in it that it works well on sober, staid ladies of the upper classes, because when you're housekeeper to nobility or a ridiculously rich merchant's widowed mother, you have to dress fine... but not too fine. Speaking of widowed mothers, although I know an age conversion of this mesh has been done for elders, I decided to just enable the adult versions. (I use an elder female nude default that's closer to the adult female shape, so I find the elder posture makes my ladies look plenty old enough.) If there's somebody out there who really wants elder-mesh recolors of these (and you can find the mesh here if you want it), you are totally welcome to do that. I'd advise extracting the textures in SimPE, though, because boy do the darker tones crunch through Body Shop.
Here's Lady Annalise again, this time showing off Sherahbim's wonderful spiral lacing. On most of the gowns, it's in gold, but there are several with either silver or self-colored lacing, because it looked better that way. Also, some trims have been likewise futzed with; they're either original, a slightly cooler gold, or totally desaturated to silver, although like a boss I totally didn't keep track of what went where.
Okay, so that's plenty of pictures and a lot of rambling on, now let's get to the important rambling so we can do downloads.
Nothing is townie-enabled, Adult meshes work for Young Adults through elders, everything is categorized for Casual, Formal, and Outerwear. You are totally allowed to do elder-mesh conversions or repository versions. If you do teen repository versions, please throw me a link because being able to download those would make me happy. Everything was done on Iamliz13's Medieval Alpha Dress mesh... but with Dicreasy's pregmorph edits. So be ye warned if you have other versions of those meshes (Liz's original AF mesh has a pregmorph, and I think Cynnix has done a TF pregmorph); last mesh loaded wins. I did not do what I usually do for clothing and use all of Pooklet's naturals; I didn't feel like they all looked good with Sherahbim's fancy metallic trim... so I did a few unnaturals instead. It's probably the only time I'll end up doing that, honestly.
Credit where it's due goes to Iamliz13 and Dicreasy for meshes, Sherahbim for textures and for sharing her raw textures AND for her open policy in playing with her textures, Pooklet, CuriousB, and Aelia for color actions (and graciousness in making sure their shiny new actions work with my antiquated old Photoshop), Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop in the first place, Quaxi for SimPE, because oh wow do colors like Chocolate and Jet and Dynamite crunch through Body Shop, and DJ for the Compressorizer, without which these files would be just enormous.
Okay, so we've got a heap of links and swatches, but here we go.
Sherahbim's Original and selected Pooklet Project Mayhem colors
DOWNLOAD TF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD YAEF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
Aelia's Autumn colors
DOWNLOAD TF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD YAEF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
CuriousB's Any Color You Like (each download is nearly 30MB, ye be warned, says I)
DOWNLOAD TF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD YAEF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
EDIT: If you want repository-linked TF versions, Winterinverona provides!
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.
I really, really like Sherahbim's Lady gown. The textures are awesome, it's spiral-laced, the neckline lends itself well to either winterwear or drapey headcoverings, but it was only available in a dark red and the heavy trim at the cuffs and hem was a little daunting.
So I cut off the trim and fought with saturation and lightness and contrast until I had something I could run through various color actions. Then I did it for teens (who are not pictured because I forgot). And now you can have seventy-two recolors if you, like me, feel a need for simple High Middle Ages gowns in far too many colors.
"It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness." --Ninon de Lenclos
So, the one thing I did with this gown that was really stupid of me was I didn't snip off the original metallic collar embroidery. That unfortunately makes this a gown for wealthy ladies instead of just any random lady, unless you cover it up with something like Clubkitty's Hijab or Cynnix's Noble Veil or Ja and Daislia's Altair hood (which are all available in my hair dumps; I did a Hat Dump as part of my coming-off-of-hiatus post-a-thon). So, with that out of the way, I took way more pictures than I really needed, because I de-aged my household full of old ladies I used to test the lifespan spread on my aging mod. Lady Lillianne above is wearing Aelia's Royal Blue.
And Lady Jeannette is wearing either Aelia's Yam or CuriousB's Poppy. I have completely forgotten. (She's also wearing one of my FantasyRogue Crispinette recolors. Hat Dump again.) She is not actually standing in some weird fencing labyrinth-- seven fair ladies in my testerhood all live together in a converted fortress. Jeannette is on the third floor, with the foot of the Riverblossom Hills mountain behind her.
Lady Annalise is wearing either CuriousB's Forget-Me-Not (this is my bet) or Adonis, and her photo is the only one I touched up aside from resizing-- but I just blended two shots together to get the most butterflies possible. Because butterflies. (Annalise is hunting butterflies using an extracted and fixed-up Castaway Stories bug jar with a chip-carved lid I made myself; I haven't finished my hobby defaults yet so it's still unreleased.)
And in Aelia's Emerald, here's fair Giselle primping a bit, because I do love me some gingers. Giselle is primping indoors, by day, in a hallway with very little natural light, but with ample candlelight. It's a good shot of how far down on the hand the cuffs fall. All of the gowns are enabled for casual, formal, and outerwear-- since the hems and cuffs are undecorated, with a good warm headdress they look nice and warm in the snow, though I'd skip the deep reds, blues, and purples-- those dyes are much too expensive to take tromping around through the slush!
Mistress Rosalie is the ladies' housekeeper; she's wearing her formalwear in Aelia's Indigo Brown (at night, by candlelight, with a fireplace in front of her.) Indigo Brown is actually one of my favorite colors-- it's got just enough purple in it that it works well on sober, staid ladies of the upper classes, because when you're housekeeper to nobility or a ridiculously rich merchant's widowed mother, you have to dress fine... but not too fine. Speaking of widowed mothers, although I know an age conversion of this mesh has been done for elders, I decided to just enable the adult versions. (I use an elder female nude default that's closer to the adult female shape, so I find the elder posture makes my ladies look plenty old enough.) If there's somebody out there who really wants elder-mesh recolors of these (and you can find the mesh here if you want it), you are totally welcome to do that. I'd advise extracting the textures in SimPE, though, because boy do the darker tones crunch through Body Shop.
Here's Lady Annalise again, this time showing off Sherahbim's wonderful spiral lacing. On most of the gowns, it's in gold, but there are several with either silver or self-colored lacing, because it looked better that way. Also, some trims have been likewise futzed with; they're either original, a slightly cooler gold, or totally desaturated to silver, although like a boss I totally didn't keep track of what went where.
Okay, so that's plenty of pictures and a lot of rambling on, now let's get to the important rambling so we can do downloads.
Nothing is townie-enabled, Adult meshes work for Young Adults through elders, everything is categorized for Casual, Formal, and Outerwear. You are totally allowed to do elder-mesh conversions or repository versions. If you do teen repository versions, please throw me a link because being able to download those would make me happy. Everything was done on Iamliz13's Medieval Alpha Dress mesh... but with Dicreasy's pregmorph edits. So be ye warned if you have other versions of those meshes (Liz's original AF mesh has a pregmorph, and I think Cynnix has done a TF pregmorph); last mesh loaded wins. I did not do what I usually do for clothing and use all of Pooklet's naturals; I didn't feel like they all looked good with Sherahbim's fancy metallic trim... so I did a few unnaturals instead. It's probably the only time I'll end up doing that, honestly.
Credit where it's due goes to Iamliz13 and Dicreasy for meshes, Sherahbim for textures and for sharing her raw textures AND for her open policy in playing with her textures, Pooklet, CuriousB, and Aelia for color actions (and graciousness in making sure their shiny new actions work with my antiquated old Photoshop), Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop in the first place, Quaxi for SimPE, because oh wow do colors like Chocolate and Jet and Dynamite crunch through Body Shop, and DJ for the Compressorizer, without which these files would be just enormous.
Okay, so we've got a heap of links and swatches, but here we go.
Sherahbim's Original and selected Pooklet Project Mayhem colors
DOWNLOAD TF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD YAEF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
Aelia's Autumn colors
DOWNLOAD TF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD YAEF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
CuriousB's Any Color You Like (each download is nearly 30MB, ye be warned, says I)
DOWNLOAD TF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD YAEF on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
EDIT: If you want repository-linked TF versions, Winterinverona provides!
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: 2013-04-18 05:39 pm (UTC)