Cross-Pollination

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SO MANY THINGS needed pictures taken that this is the prettiest picture you get for this post. Please do enjoy it.




This is actually kind of a really simple set, but I needed it, Cynnix said she needed it, and I figured... what the hell, maybe somebody else needs it, too.

Okay, onward. Boy, I sure do love me some Plantsims. It's actually kind of a shameful story, really-- I was so used to Sims 1 gameplay that Sims 2 put me right off. (It might've been easier if my laptop at the time hadn't been so crappy. Half a gig of RAM will RUN the basegame, but nobody gets to have fingers and it takes three solid minutes to task-switch.) Mom kept getting the expansions and installing them on her kickass computer, and then one day I lost a LOT of time playing with Seasons. I mean, it had weather, but more importantly, it had the Greenman family. Finally, here were some Sims that were about my speed! With only three needs, Plantsims were like a baby step-- Sims that I couldn't damage too terribly while learning my way around the camera controls and want system. (No, seriously, I got Sims 2, played around in CAS, made some Sims, and the complex gameplay made me give up and go back to Sims 1 in a sulk because I am just that bad at most video games.)

But look how far I've come!

So, once upon a time Cocomama made Teen and Child conversions of the Plantsim tunic, and I downloaded them because adorable. Then Kittylynn74 made some really neat Plantsim tunic recolors, and even did scanties for male and female Plantsims.

And, um, I love those, so you're getting them. All their original work, just pinned to Seasons and categorized for... everything. Because why WOULDN'T a Plantsim wear their tunic to bed, or in the pool, or run around in their leafy skivvies all the live-long day?

BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE. Because you're also getting all of Kittylynn's Plantsim tunic recolors on all of Cocomama's age-conversion meshes, AND all of Kittylynn's Plantsim scanties pasted onto swimsuit meshes for all ages.

Lemme post some pics and do a better rundown.



Adults! You'll notice my men have sexy feet. My women may have some other barely visible details, I can't tell in this pic. That's because I use Warlokk and Bloom default replacements. Your Sims will be shaped like whatever your Sims are shaped like. These have no meshes included, but they REQUIRE no meshes. The tunics DO require Seasons. Check out all the swatches: Plantkinis, Plantshorts, guys' tunics, and ladies' tunics.



Elders! Elder plantsims use the Adult meshes by default in the game, and since I prefer that, that's what I went with. Again you will notice toes on my elders, and that my EF shape is a lot closer to the AF shape. That's my default EF nude/swim/undies mesh that Kkkayleigh made for me, and let me tell you it's worth it to be able to use all my AF clothes for EF without having any weird mass displacement... and to let my old ladies have breasts instead of lumps of sag. (Maxis puts elder women in cast-iron underwear, but meshes them as though they're wearing cheap sports bras. I don't understand that. It's like they forgot breasts are soft and squishy. That's part of what makes them nice.) Ahem. No meshes are included, because none are needed... but again, you need Seasons for the tunics. Check out all the swatches: Plantkinis, Plantshorts, guys' tunics, and ladies' tunics.



Teenagers! Oh my gosh teenagers. I know they can't become Plantsims, but they can still be the offspring of Plantsims, and maybe someday, Poifectly Poiple will finish that plantsim age mod that got previewed in their Child Werewolf mod pics. Again, toes and bits, you won't get that if you don't have default replacements with toes and bits. You DO need meshes for the Teen plant tunics, but those are included in the download. Check out all the swatches: Plantkinis, Plantshorts, guys' tunics, and ladies' tunics.



Kids and toddlers! Toddlers can be plantbabies, after all, and Black Spirit has a hack where you can cure your toddlers of Plantsimism on MTS. ... Plus if you have a lot full of Plantsims and use ACR, you're going to end up with lots of regular Sim kids through all the usual channels, so to speak. No mesh is required for the child scanties, but you'll need meshes for the child plantsim and the toddler plantsim (which is actually from the Simstones set from way back in the day)... AND for the toddler swimsuit mesh. Two versions are included in the download, one with block feet from Castaway Stories (so, technically Maxis), and one with sexy feet by SilvainShadows, who saved my butt more than a few times getting toes on my CS kids. Everything for kids is unisex, which means just plantshorts; I decided not to do plantkinis for little girls. Check out all the swatches: Plantshorts for toddlers, Plantshorts for kids, toddlers' tunics, and kids' tunics.

Okay a few more things.

I should've texture-referenced this stuff. I didn't, but I might someday. (Want a BIG texture referenced set from me? Convince someone to make Plantsim tunics in other body shapes. I WANT THEM. Them and OFB and Bon Voyage ninjas. I'm weird, I know this.) If you want to texture-reference, feel free... but the PU tunic mesh is unique, the CU scanties mesh uses different mapping than the teen/adult meshes, and... I honestly don't remember about the PU swim mesh.

I only did any real WORK on the PU tunic. Everything else is other people's work, so most of the credit goes to Cocomama and Kittylynn, not me.

Everything is categorized for everything, including Maternity, even though there actually aren't pregmorphs on these by default (or the possibility of pregnancy. I don't know why I did that, possibly I was just on a copy-pasting roll). You can find a pregmorph for the YA-EF plantsim tunic by TheMysticalOne over on MTS, and one for the YA-EM plantsim tunic right here on Dreamwidth by Whimsical Krikkiter.

So let me thank: Cocomama, Tiggerypum, and SilvainShadows for meshes, Kittylynn for textures, Quaxi for SimPE, DJ for the Compressorizer, Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, and Cynnix for saying she wanted these.

Here you go, Cynnix.

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EDIT: Cynnix made a pregmorph for Cocomama's TF Plantsim tunic! Grab it here!

Okay, I've got one more pic.



There, now with the exception of infants, every age and both sexes can dress up like dryads. (And don't think I'm not tempted to figure out infants. All I need are the meshes!)

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