And... Back.

[hat_plays_sims]

Okay, so that took a lot longer than the few weeks I thought it would, but I've been in Lurker Mode for a long time. Lots has happened out in, you know, non-internet reality (including a kitchen remodel that Mom and I have been wanting for ten years, guys, do not remodel your kitchen if you aren't absolutely positive you have other places to put all the stuff that goes into your kitchen for at least a month, and also plenty of food that can just go straight from the fridge to your mouth), but this is a Simming blog and you guys deserve Simming posts. And boy oh boy, do I have Simming posts for you. I didn't actually stop CREATING while I was on hiatus, I just sort of stopped keeping up with... lots and lots of things. And in the last week or two, I finally started posting them-- I just decided to keep the posts private until I'd uploaded everything I had ready to go. If you don't want to scroll through my DW, you can just click these handy dandy links:

1. Hair Dump X Part One: The Franchise Reboot, Part Two: Hair Dump From the Black-And-Blue Lagoon, and Part Three: Nobody Expects the HAT Dump!
2. Sign of the Plumb Bob (Nichellerj's Plumb Bob Necklace with way too many recolors)
3. I Feel The Earth Move (selected Yuxi Oblivion, Druid Wow, and Kativip MS and LS floors as terrain paints)
4. The King Is In His Counting-House (Non-depreciating face-value coins on Worship4ever meshes)
5. Du Lac Cotehardies and Tunics (TF-EF recolors of Cynnix's Laced-Sleeve Gown and TM-EF recolors of Cynnix and Oph3lia's edits of Aligeth's Robin Hood Tunic)
6. Never Enough Thatch (Bon Voyage Thatched Roofs in select Project Mayhem and Any Color You Like actions)
7. Through A Glass Darkly (Medieval leaded recolors of Mustluvcats's Privacy Film)
8. Hangerock (twelve very simple Viking apron dresses on a Trapping mesh)
9. Invoking the Spirit (Bonehilda-as-Spectral-Assistant defaults (with faechangeling), Bonehilda outfits, and K8's Fairy Witch gown EA'd)
10. Le Chausseur, la Deuxième Partie (Chausses and braises for Aquilegia's Androgyny, Aquilegia's Improved Fatmorph, FantasyRogue's bottom-only chausses, and Cynnix's age conversions of FR's bottom-only chausses.)
11. Bonne Nuit (A dozen chemises with ZoeJ textures)
12. The Modest Lady (Sherahbim's Lady gown simplified a bit)

So there's that.

I will also still be in lurker mode for a while in terms of the general Simming community-- I do love and I have missed the social aspect of Sims 2, but it's actually pretty daunting to say 'today I will start keeping up with everything!' I will be trying to keep up with comments and private messages here a lot better, and I still have a lot left on my to-do list, so it should be a lot easier to get in touch with me. (I do not promise prompt replies, but I promise I will reply. Unless I can't tell you from spammers. There've been a LOT of spambots on my DW lately. Some of them have actually said quite complimentary things, even if they are halfway to incomprehensible.)

Like an idiot, of course, I decided to post this on a day when I'm planning to run errands, but I'm out of ready-to-upload content and I don't want to make you guys wait any longer.

I'm also looking for someone to help me with object creation-- recolorability and indoor shadows in particular. I think I've almost got that buyable-toybox-toys project licked, but the indoor shadows are giving me fits and I'd hate for folks to have to clone a new toy every time the world needs a recolored rocket ship.

Comments

[nathanialroyale]

It's so awesome to see you uploading stuff again Hat! Your creations have always been high quality and now that I'm doing a period/fantasy game I'm always in need of new medieval goodies :D

[curiousb]

I haven't even had time to look at your new offerings yet, but I just wanted to say welcome back - it's good to see you again! :D

[oph3lia]

Good to see you back Hat! :)

Also YAY downloads.

[hat_plays_sims]

It's good to be back, or at least openly back instead of lurking in various places. At least when I disappear for, um, eight months, I come back with half a gig of content!

[hat_plays_sims]

It's good to be back, thank you! RL can be one long kick in the pants.

[oph3lia]

Haha. I've hardly posted anything for ages now, I start projects and then they run away with me, get huge and I start playing some other game instead lol. Skyrim ate many months... and I still haven't finished it .

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I hope you find something you like in my downloads today-- I've been working hard lately on polishing up the rough, non-period edges in my game.

[hat_plays_sims]

I hear Skyrim can do that. As far as huge projects go, I keep doing roughly eighty-two recolors of outfits or hats or whatever because I just have to have all the non-neon color actions I can use with my version of Photoshop... So yeah. I feel you on that one.

[oph3lia]

It is a lot of fun with it though. I can never decide what colours not to do... I started a "aikea guinea's bootcutpants all types for everyone texture respositoried project" and a "retexture ALL the medieval furniture in sunni's woods project" Both still woefully unfinished lol.

[hat_plays_sims]

Someday, I WILL teach myself to do repositoried Body Shop content. That way, when I make dresses or tunics or wtfever in Pooklet's naturals, Aelia's Autumn, and CuriousB's ACYL, I'll only have eighty-two full-sized files instead of a hundred and sixty-four. (It's also a low-weight way to add custom body shapes, if a) the universe ever produces the meshes I hope for or b) I finally grow a pair and teach myself to mesh.)

Good luck on the furniture project! Dang that sounds daunting. I keep thinking someday, I'll recolor Tarox's stuff, but I haven't yet. Great meshes, but the textures leave something to be desired.

[psychosim]

I made an epic gasp when I read in best finds that you're back. Like, I breathed in air until no more could go in. :D So good to read news from you, Hat! And just last week there was a simsecret about missing you. :)

[winterinverona.livejournal.com]

I was late to the party of you and your awesomeness, so I am thrilled that I can fangirl a moment and say THANK YOU for your creations. Without your goodies, my game would be about 1/10th as good-looking and fun as it is now. You're just brilliant!

[hat_plays_sims]

That is an epic gasp indeed! I'd give myself the hiccups if I gasped like that. I'm glad to be back, thank you!

[hat_plays_sims]

Oh, wow, thank you, that's incredibly flattering! I'm glad you've enjoyed my goodies.

[mswn.livejournal.com]

Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!Yay!
So happy to see you! Can't wait to delve into your new batch of goodies!

[oph3lia]

Once you get the hang of it it's not too hard, just simpe tweaking.

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=300954 but instead of raiding game files you open the file you want to link it to and copy the info from that.

Meshing isn't that hard either; I wouldn't be able to do it if it was lol, although I'm not the best at it.

Thanks, I need to get back to it. Was working on some of caravanshopsims2 or whatever they call themselves now lol medieval stuff. Be gone damn photoskinned wood... lol

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

Hat!! You're back!!

I'm so glad to see you here, and ok! Welcome back to the Simming community! Even if you don't have time to be chatting and keeping up with stuff, it's great just to see you around. :D

[currantpotpie]

Welcome back Hat! You have been missed!

Woot!

[(Anonymous)]

I was just thinking about you this week -- and suddenly you're back with giant dumps of all sorts of goodies!

Thanks much!

Miros

[(Anonymous)]

Hello, Hat. This is heget from Plumbob, and I'm here to confess to your face (digitally via dreamwidth, so yeah, doesn't count) I'm one of your biggest fans/stalkers. Not only your creations, your sharing of knowledge, but also your lovely wishlists have been MAJOR inspiration for me to create and share w/ the wider Sims community.
I'm glad to see you back in any form- and that you decided to share some goodies was a nice plus, I'll admit. :P
I would offer my assistance, but I'm not all that good at some of the more 'fiddly' areas of creation (and backtrack on stuff I thought I could create).

If nothing else, as long as you're willing to make crazy mega-sets for a pseudo-medieval Sims world, I am.

[hat_plays_sims]

I'll definitely give that a look-- I already copy textures via SimPE instead of Body Shop when I do age conversions, so it's not like I'm not already monkeying around in there.

Someday, eventually, I'll learn to mesh. Probably when I admit to myself that nobody's going to do very many Medieval meshes on Aquilegia's Androgyny.

The SDA/caravan/lithum stuff is some of my favorite Medieval furniture, pay or not. (I haven't looked at the poly counts, because I don't want to find out it's insane, if it's insane.) Plus it's got carvings. That's ridiculously rare.

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you! I'm happy to be back. I hope you find something you like!

[hat_plays_sims]

Thanks! It's good to be back!

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you!

Re: Woot!

[hat_plays_sims]

Interesting timing! I hope you find something you like.