Quick question!

[hat_plays_sims]

Hey, so, you know the Du Lac Cotehardies? That's the AF and TF dresses. I just did those for CF and they're adorable. There's a Toddler conversion of the mesh, too. Is that overkill? It's semi-historically accurate, but dressing a toddler like that is... that's the tiny satin vest you by for your two-year-old when you get his picture taken. The baby's gonna wear that while the artist works on his portrait and then you're gonna take it off before he spits up on it.

And oh my god did you guys know we can have non-default baby outfits now? That is SO happening, let me tell you internets. Chris Hatch is amazing. (And I don't know why Maxis didn't give us different baby outfits. Babies exist so you can dress them in cute clothes that they'll outgrow in six weeks.)

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Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[jeangreysummers]

(Now I can finally put that journal to a good use, heh.)

Oh, it's a baby mesh? That's going to be interesting, as I've not worked with baby meshes before. But I already got an idea how the customizing could work, so... *crosses fingers in hope for not having promised too much*

I'll be back later to let you know to where my efforts on this have taken me (and if they've taken me anywhere at all).

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[hat_plays_sims]

Yep! Chris Hatch has a mod out now that lets babies have different outfits. I just made a mess of gowns and diapers and have fired up my game to see what I can do with them. (7 gigs of content does not load quickly but I need to look at my buy and build stuff and see if there's anything I can purge, anyway.) But so far, it looks like they can be treated just like any other body mesh-- the age has to be set for babies in SimPE, but that's easy enough. The big challenge is recoloring blind in Body Shop.

I look forward to seeing how things work out! Like, a lot! (Seriously I've made sixteen diapers, eighty-three baby gowns, and the same gowns with coifs (lilyturtle did some mesh combining for me), and I have plans for short smocks with and without booties, too. Color actions mean that babies are quickly going to have more clothes than toddlers, if I don't get on with my toddler-clothes plans.)

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[lilyturtle]

I was going to give you that mesh too, wasn't I? I already have a mesh and recolor done, I can send it to you if you want.

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[hat_plays_sims]

Hey, I'll take it from wherever I can get it! And recolor it a million times! (Any chance of a blanket-with-coif mesh? I've got two of my triplets in gowns with coifs and one in a gown without a coif, and the baby with the naked head just looks cold. Poor little Matisse.)

Thank you so much!

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[lilyturtle]

Sure thing Hat! I'll send it over with everything else. ^^

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[hat_plays_sims]

Opened Photoshop, checked the new UV map against the old textures. The only part that doesn't line up?

ONE row of polys at the very bottom.

Easy fix! *stretches everything slightly, saves new pngs* I'll be done by lunchtime.

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[lilyturtle]

Yay, I'm glad it's working out! :) I'll get on those fixes asap

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[jeangreysummers]

Am I too late for the party? I was just about to upload my version. But when you got it already from lilyturtle, my version's obsolete then.

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[hat_plays_sims]

Alas, I think a little. I just fired my game up to check my recolors.

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[jeangreysummers]

Oh, well... Maybe next time, then :) But it was a nice distraction from that one hairstyle that hates me obviously (throwing errors at me and making the mesh disappear while I want to recolour it in Bodyshop really isn't nice).

Re: Customizing Tenshii Akari blanket

[hat_plays_sims]

I have a wishlist a mile long if you want more distractions, but if your game isn't Medieval it might not be up your alley.

Good luck with your hair! I'd offer advice but I really have no idea what would make it do that in Bodyshop. I sometimes get disappearing meshes if I move things around-- it won't read a project when the mesh isn't in the same folder it was in when the project was created-- but if you haven't done that I'm out of ideas.