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hat_plays_sims) wrote2013-01-06 08:48 am
hat_plays_sims) wrote2013-01-06 08:48 am
Bundles of Joy (First Non-Default Baby Clothes Offerings)
OH MY GOD you guys we can have more than one baby outfit now. Did you know that? I did not know that. It's AWESOME. I make horrible high-pitched noises every time I think about it.
I didn't finish everything I wanted to, but I got a lot done.
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." TS Eliot
Look at that peacefully sleeping baby. Just look at him. (... I think that's a him.) Look at his adorable coif and his pretty blue gown.
Okay, so Chris Hatch managed to do something that many folk have wanted since the base game came out and Maxis never gave us-- the ability to change baby Sims' clothes. (WHY this ability was not included in the base game, I have no idea; it's like the folk over it EAxis have never visited the baby section of their local big box store and discovered that plenty of people use infants as an excuse to buy tiny adorable shoes.) There's a mod you need, but I uploaded so you don't have to join anybody's website to get it. (I'll put it at the end with the downloads and some brief instructions on using it and making baby recolors.)
Why don't I start simple?
Diapers! Because you can give babies underwear, and sometimes it's hot out. This is the basic Maxis diaper mesh made stand-alone. You get them for Casual, PJs, and Underwear in sixteen shades of rag, and you can grab them townie-friendly or not, and with or without sexy feet. Townie-enabled baby clothes will show up on your NEW babies whether you have any of the mod objects on your lot or not. (I don't know if you have to have the mod files in your game for townie-enabled baby clothes to work at all, but I'm not brave enough to try it.)
Smocks! Okay, I should not have used the Custard smock by candlelight to try and sell these to you. But they're simple short shifts/smocks/chemises on a Bloom mesh, with a lot of shading cribbed from a Maxis EF blouse and a layer of Aquilegia's linen fiddled with for texture (which you totally cannot see at all on Custard by candlelight). Again, you can get these with or without sexy feet, and townie-friendly or not. Here's a picture with the baby more straightened-out. They're also available for Casual, PJs, and Underwear.
Swaddling! Because that was what you did with newborns (and newborns today still like it, but only some of them, and only until they start wanting to move around for the fun of moving). And because sometimes it's cold out. The mesh is by Tenshii Akari, made to stand alone. These are only enabled for Casual and Outerwear... and unfortunately, Outerwear doesn't work. Maybe someday, but that's totally beyond my knowledge. (If or when it happens, though, I'm ready.) For the record, swaddling looks GREAT in cribs, in arms, or on the floor, but if you put your baby in something cloned from the Oh Baby! Danglemaster, you get this and this, because while real newborns find swaddling comforting, Sim newborns don't know a) they're newborns or b) that their arms and legs are bound. These are not townie-enabled because I did 82 of them and some of the colors are a little fancy-schmancy for that.
Kirtles! On another Tenshii Akari mesh. I'll be the first to admit that the mesh has some issues-- those are super-clear 1024x1024 textures cribbed from Sherahbim's Faraday gown, and you'll see life-sized swatches later-- but a fixed mesh is incoming at some point, and they're not unplayable as-is. I just want you guys to have some Medieval baby clothes. (And no, there's not much shading on the skirt part of the kirtle. Even with crisp textures, the way the babies' legs fall would skew things awkwardly all the way down. These are not townie-enabled, and not all of them have the pretty pretty Faraday embroidery. They all have spiral lacing, though. They're categorized for Outerwear, Casual, Formal, and PJs, even if outerwear doesn't work and there are only a few ways to trick your babies into formalwear (which I will link to at the end of the post).
"But Hat!" you protest, strongly, "The baby in the header image is wearing a Faraday Kirtle with a super-adorable Cynnix coif! How did you get a hair on a baby? Are you a wizard?"
Nope. Lilyturtle, who absolutely showered me in meshes, was kind enough to take Tenshii's sleeper mesh and tack Cynnix's coif mesh to it. The results are very close to 'your brain will explode into candy' levels of cute, as you can see. Again, these are categorized for Casual, Formal, and non-working Outerwear. Some of the coifs have embroidery, some don't (this one doesn't). Since I did 82 again, none of them are townie-friendly. And as you might imagine, like the swaddling, the sleepers have a few issues with the Danglemaster. They're not as contortionist-pretzel-y, but they're there and now you're aware of them.
I'm gonna throw you some bonus pictures, and then we're going to get to credits, thanks, and downloads.
Behold, three babies side-by-side-by-side, each in a different outfit! Together, they prove that I haven't just decided to restart my game a LOT to get a look at these outfits. For further proof in the pudding, check out the Kynde family Loading screen with three babies all in different kirtles. ... Yeah, also, don't tell a Sim to do something just as she's going into labor. Those babies are triplets, and I do NOT have a triplets-and-quads hack. It's like morning sickness, if you don't cancel the offending action, whatever it might be, out of the queue as your Sim goes into labor, they'll just keep having babies forever and ever.
"But Hat," you say, sadly, "I'm not a Medieval Simmer. So far I can only use cloth diapers and swaddling blankets."
The Time Bomb kirtle, with or without coif, makes a pretty sweet christening gown for more contemporary babies, wouldn't you say? I mean, sure, it's simple, but the textures would blur on anything fancier.
And here's a closeup of the coif, so you can get a good look at how adorable Sherabim's Faraday embroidery is, and at how it plays with the coif mesh.
Okay, I'm out of pretty pictures, let's move on.
There ARE ways to get babies into formalwear; one such way is Inge Jones's Formalsign. She has some other signs on that page that might just work to get babies dressed, too. (I also hacked my Clothing Tool by Pescado to be enabled for babies... but it doesn't do anything about being able to choose outerwear but not use it, plus you have to be in debug mode to have a baby use it. Not hard, but awkward.)
PRAISE BE UNTO: Chris Hatch, because OH MY GOD CHRIS HATCH BABY CLOTHES. Tenshii Akari, Bloom, Theraven, Cynnix, and Lilyturtle for meshes, all of which are included. Sherahbim (Faraday gown), Cynnix (coif), Aquilegia (linen overlay), Theraven (diaper), and Lilyturtle (swaddling blanket) for textures, which I of course shoved around to suit my purposes. Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, DJ for the compressorizer, and there would be NO WAY to make baby clothes without SimPE, so thank you muchly to Quaxi.
Here's a super quick-and-dirty tutorial on how to make baby clothes.
1. Download Chris Hatch's Plan Baby Outfit mod. (You can also grab it here on Sims File Share.) Drop it in your Downloads folder as you would any mod.
2. This step is hazy; either find an existing baby outfit you want to recolor or do whatever deep magic you clothing mesh creators do to create clothing meshes. Once you've got a clothing recolor to play with, open it in SimPE, hit the Property Set, and look for the age value. Change it to 0x00000021. (You can just select the whole hex code and type in 21. This works for any hex code in the property sets.) Commit and save.
3. What this does is enable the mesh for infants (0x00000020) and toddlers (0x00000001). Fire up Body Shop, find the baby outfit you want to recolor (it'll display as a floating toddler head, so make sure you've got a clear tooltip), and either recolor as usual or just re-import the file and import your textures later.
4. Exit Body Shop, and open the file in SimPE. Do what you gotta do with your textures, then go back to the property set and change your 21 back into a 20. Start your game, and proceed to the next mini tutorial...
How to USE Chris Hatch's Plan Baby Mod:
0. Purchase the Buy Baby Outfit teddy bear. There is to my knowledge no other way to buy baby clothes. Yet? Maybe 'yet.'
1. Have your parent Sim either hold their baby or put their baby on the floor. I haven't checked this with every possible combination of relatives, but an unrelated adult CANNOT get new clothes for a baby. Didn't think to check with teenagers. Somebody try it and report back?
2. With your parent Sim selected, click on the teddy bear and select "Buy Outfit For..." which should lead you to the names of all infants ant toddlers in the household. Click on a toddler's name.
3. A standard clothing-purchase window will pop up. DO NOT CLICK ANY AGE ICONS. Click on one of the gender icons instead. That's the only way to get to the baby clothes. Select and purchase baby clothes as you would normal clothes; they only cost $25 each so stock up. Hit the check-mark to buy clothes.
4. When the clothing purchase window closes, a plan outfit window will appear. So... plan your outfit.
5. If you forgot to plan your outfit, panicked and hit Close, or just want to change your baby's casual clothing for the season, buy one of the Maxis changing tables and have a parent Sim Plan Outfit For their baby as they would for a toddler.
That said, if anyone wants to take apart the mod and make some Medieval changing tables work for it, too, I would be deeply beholden to you.
Onward to downloads!
DOWNLOAD CHRIS HATCH'S PLAN BABY OUTFIT MOD
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
(required to change baby clothes)
DOWNLOAD BLOCK-FOOT DIAPERS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY BLOCK-FOOT DIAPERS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SEXYFEET DIAPERS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY SEXYFEET DIAPERS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BLOCK-FOOT SMOCKS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY BLOCK-FOOT SMOCKS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SEXYFEET SMOCKS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY SEXYFEET SMOCKS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SWADDLING IN PROJECT MAYHEM NATURALS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SWADDLING IN AELIA'S AUTUMN COLORS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SWADDLING IN CURIOUSB'S ANY COLOR YOU LIKE
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES IN PROJECT MAYHEM NATURALS (and original green)
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES WITH COIFS IN PROJECT MAYHEM NATURALS (and original green)
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES IN AELIA AUTUMN COLORS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES WITH COIFS IN AELIA AUTUMN COLORS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES IN CURIOUSB'S ANY COLOR YOU LIKE
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES WITH COIFS IN CURIOUSB'S ANY COLOR YOU LIKE
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD REPOSITORIED FARADAY KIRTLES WITH COIFS IN ALL COLORS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
These are texture-referenced to the coif-less kirtles, in case you want both sets but not the file bloat. You must keep the coif-less kirtles for these files to work.
Just a swatch of the coifs. Cynnix's original coif was adjusted to match the Faraday gown's underdress, but some of the colors needed a brighter white than that, hence the desaturation.
Okay, that's it for baby clothes from me... for now. When the updated sleeper/gown meshes come in, I'll update the post with them, and I have way more meshes to play with that I haven't even touched yet. There will be more, but this is a pretty good start.
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 didn't finish everything I wanted to, but I got a lot done.
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it." TS Eliot
Look at that peacefully sleeping baby. Just look at him. (... I think that's a him.) Look at his adorable coif and his pretty blue gown.
Okay, so Chris Hatch managed to do something that many folk have wanted since the base game came out and Maxis never gave us-- the ability to change baby Sims' clothes. (WHY this ability was not included in the base game, I have no idea; it's like the folk over it EAxis have never visited the baby section of their local big box store and discovered that plenty of people use infants as an excuse to buy tiny adorable shoes.) There's a mod you need, but I uploaded so you don't have to join anybody's website to get it. (I'll put it at the end with the downloads and some brief instructions on using it and making baby recolors.)
Why don't I start simple?
Diapers! Because you can give babies underwear, and sometimes it's hot out. This is the basic Maxis diaper mesh made stand-alone. You get them for Casual, PJs, and Underwear in sixteen shades of rag, and you can grab them townie-friendly or not, and with or without sexy feet. Townie-enabled baby clothes will show up on your NEW babies whether you have any of the mod objects on your lot or not. (I don't know if you have to have the mod files in your game for townie-enabled baby clothes to work at all, but I'm not brave enough to try it.)
Smocks! Okay, I should not have used the Custard smock by candlelight to try and sell these to you. But they're simple short shifts/smocks/chemises on a Bloom mesh, with a lot of shading cribbed from a Maxis EF blouse and a layer of Aquilegia's linen fiddled with for texture (which you totally cannot see at all on Custard by candlelight). Again, you can get these with or without sexy feet, and townie-friendly or not. Here's a picture with the baby more straightened-out. They're also available for Casual, PJs, and Underwear.
Swaddling! Because that was what you did with newborns (and newborns today still like it, but only some of them, and only until they start wanting to move around for the fun of moving). And because sometimes it's cold out. The mesh is by Tenshii Akari, made to stand alone. These are only enabled for Casual and Outerwear... and unfortunately, Outerwear doesn't work. Maybe someday, but that's totally beyond my knowledge. (If or when it happens, though, I'm ready.) For the record, swaddling looks GREAT in cribs, in arms, or on the floor, but if you put your baby in something cloned from the Oh Baby! Danglemaster, you get this and this, because while real newborns find swaddling comforting, Sim newborns don't know a) they're newborns or b) that their arms and legs are bound. These are not townie-enabled because I did 82 of them and some of the colors are a little fancy-schmancy for that.
Kirtles! On another Tenshii Akari mesh. I'll be the first to admit that the mesh has some issues-- those are super-clear 1024x1024 textures cribbed from Sherahbim's Faraday gown, and you'll see life-sized swatches later-- but a fixed mesh is incoming at some point, and they're not unplayable as-is. I just want you guys to have some Medieval baby clothes. (And no, there's not much shading on the skirt part of the kirtle. Even with crisp textures, the way the babies' legs fall would skew things awkwardly all the way down. These are not townie-enabled, and not all of them have the pretty pretty Faraday embroidery. They all have spiral lacing, though. They're categorized for Outerwear, Casual, Formal, and PJs, even if outerwear doesn't work and there are only a few ways to trick your babies into formalwear (which I will link to at the end of the post).
"But Hat!" you protest, strongly, "The baby in the header image is wearing a Faraday Kirtle with a super-adorable Cynnix coif! How did you get a hair on a baby? Are you a wizard?"
Nope. Lilyturtle, who absolutely showered me in meshes, was kind enough to take Tenshii's sleeper mesh and tack Cynnix's coif mesh to it. The results are very close to 'your brain will explode into candy' levels of cute, as you can see. Again, these are categorized for Casual, Formal, and non-working Outerwear. Some of the coifs have embroidery, some don't (this one doesn't). Since I did 82 again, none of them are townie-friendly. And as you might imagine, like the swaddling, the sleepers have a few issues with the Danglemaster. They're not as contortionist-pretzel-y, but they're there and now you're aware of them.
I'm gonna throw you some bonus pictures, and then we're going to get to credits, thanks, and downloads.
Behold, three babies side-by-side-by-side, each in a different outfit! Together, they prove that I haven't just decided to restart my game a LOT to get a look at these outfits. For further proof in the pudding, check out the Kynde family Loading screen with three babies all in different kirtles. ... Yeah, also, don't tell a Sim to do something just as she's going into labor. Those babies are triplets, and I do NOT have a triplets-and-quads hack. It's like morning sickness, if you don't cancel the offending action, whatever it might be, out of the queue as your Sim goes into labor, they'll just keep having babies forever and ever.
"But Hat," you say, sadly, "I'm not a Medieval Simmer. So far I can only use cloth diapers and swaddling blankets."
The Time Bomb kirtle, with or without coif, makes a pretty sweet christening gown for more contemporary babies, wouldn't you say? I mean, sure, it's simple, but the textures would blur on anything fancier.
And here's a closeup of the coif, so you can get a good look at how adorable Sherabim's Faraday embroidery is, and at how it plays with the coif mesh.
Okay, I'm out of pretty pictures, let's move on.
There ARE ways to get babies into formalwear; one such way is Inge Jones's Formalsign. She has some other signs on that page that might just work to get babies dressed, too. (I also hacked my Clothing Tool by Pescado to be enabled for babies... but it doesn't do anything about being able to choose outerwear but not use it, plus you have to be in debug mode to have a baby use it. Not hard, but awkward.)
PRAISE BE UNTO: Chris Hatch, because OH MY GOD CHRIS HATCH BABY CLOTHES. Tenshii Akari, Bloom, Theraven, Cynnix, and Lilyturtle for meshes, all of which are included. Sherahbim (Faraday gown), Cynnix (coif), Aquilegia (linen overlay), Theraven (diaper), and Lilyturtle (swaddling blanket) for textures, which I of course shoved around to suit my purposes. Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, DJ for the compressorizer, and there would be NO WAY to make baby clothes without SimPE, so thank you muchly to Quaxi.
Here's a super quick-and-dirty tutorial on how to make baby clothes.
1. Download Chris Hatch's Plan Baby Outfit mod. (You can also grab it here on Sims File Share.) Drop it in your Downloads folder as you would any mod.
2. This step is hazy; either find an existing baby outfit you want to recolor or do whatever deep magic you clothing mesh creators do to create clothing meshes. Once you've got a clothing recolor to play with, open it in SimPE, hit the Property Set, and look for the age value. Change it to 0x00000021. (You can just select the whole hex code and type in 21. This works for any hex code in the property sets.) Commit and save.
3. What this does is enable the mesh for infants (0x00000020) and toddlers (0x00000001). Fire up Body Shop, find the baby outfit you want to recolor (it'll display as a floating toddler head, so make sure you've got a clear tooltip), and either recolor as usual or just re-import the file and import your textures later.
4. Exit Body Shop, and open the file in SimPE. Do what you gotta do with your textures, then go back to the property set and change your 21 back into a 20. Start your game, and proceed to the next mini tutorial...
How to USE Chris Hatch's Plan Baby Mod:
0. Purchase the Buy Baby Outfit teddy bear. There is to my knowledge no other way to buy baby clothes. Yet? Maybe 'yet.'
1. Have your parent Sim either hold their baby or put their baby on the floor. I haven't checked this with every possible combination of relatives, but an unrelated adult CANNOT get new clothes for a baby. Didn't think to check with teenagers. Somebody try it and report back?
2. With your parent Sim selected, click on the teddy bear and select "Buy Outfit For..." which should lead you to the names of all infants ant toddlers in the household. Click on a toddler's name.
3. A standard clothing-purchase window will pop up. DO NOT CLICK ANY AGE ICONS. Click on one of the gender icons instead. That's the only way to get to the baby clothes. Select and purchase baby clothes as you would normal clothes; they only cost $25 each so stock up. Hit the check-mark to buy clothes.
4. When the clothing purchase window closes, a plan outfit window will appear. So... plan your outfit.
5. If you forgot to plan your outfit, panicked and hit Close, or just want to change your baby's casual clothing for the season, buy one of the Maxis changing tables and have a parent Sim Plan Outfit For their baby as they would for a toddler.
That said, if anyone wants to take apart the mod and make some Medieval changing tables work for it, too, I would be deeply beholden to you.
Onward to downloads!
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
(required to change baby clothes)
DOWNLOAD BLOCK-FOOT DIAPERS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY BLOCK-FOOT DIAPERS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SEXYFEET DIAPERS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY SEXYFEET DIAPERS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BLOCK-FOOT SMOCKS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY BLOCK-FOOT SMOCKS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SEXYFEET SMOCKS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD TOWNIE-FRIENDLY SEXYFEET SMOCKS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SWADDLING IN PROJECT MAYHEM NATURALS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SWADDLING IN AELIA'S AUTUMN COLORS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD SWADDLING IN CURIOUSB'S ANY COLOR YOU LIKE
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES IN PROJECT MAYHEM NATURALS (and original green)
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES WITH COIFS IN PROJECT MAYHEM NATURALS (and original green)
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES IN AELIA AUTUMN COLORS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES WITH COIFS IN AELIA AUTUMN COLORS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES IN CURIOUSB'S ANY COLOR YOU LIKE
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD FARADAY KIRTLES WITH COIFS IN CURIOUSB'S ANY COLOR YOU LIKE
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD REPOSITORIED FARADAY KIRTLES WITH COIFS IN ALL COLORS
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
These are texture-referenced to the coif-less kirtles, in case you want both sets but not the file bloat. You must keep the coif-less kirtles for these files to work.
Just a swatch of the coifs. Cynnix's original coif was adjusted to match the Faraday gown's underdress, but some of the colors needed a brighter white than that, hence the desaturation.
Okay, that's it for baby clothes from me... for now. When the updated sleeper/gown meshes come in, I'll update the post with them, and I have way more meshes to play with that I haven't even touched yet. There will be more, but this is a pretty good start.
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.
Re: Where are the blankets??