I have what may be a brilliant idea, and thus, I have mesh requests. Anyone interested?

[hat_plays_sims]

OHGOD okay I have a sudden request list and it's all age conversions and/or sexyfeet and/or pregmorph additions.

I mean, mostly because I think I just figured out how to totally streamline my clothing to-do list AND unify the look of my game and bring you Medieval clothing that layers effortlessly from the scantest of scanties to big wintry fur coats.

1. Sexyfeet and Shoe Swaps
A. Kalynn's CU Simple Shift, found here. (Tapping at the Window or Past Eight O'Clock.) Silvain provides!
B.Heget's Perfect Tunics (straight sleeve, both lengths) with FantasyRogue's poulaines for TM-AM (I thought I had them. Turns out I do not)

2. Age Conversions
A. TO CF: Cynnix's edit of Needlecream's edit of a Liana dress, found here. Cynnix provides!
B. TO CM: Cynnix's edit of Ophelia's cross-less edit of Aligeth's Friar Tuck with FantasyRogue's Poulaines, found here. Cynnix provides!
C. TO CF: Beryllium's Frig Dress, found here. Cynnix provides!
C. To CM: Heget's Perfect Tunics with long and short fitted-sleeve tunics (steal the sleeves from these girls' gowns!) with poulaines, and a short, basic-sleeved tunic (01/02) with poulaines.

3. Morphs
A. Pregmorph: Bloom's Bigger Rounder Pregnant Belly TF True Nude, found here. (It explodes. Pls halp!)* Turns out it was my default version, not Bloom's original. But Cynnix provides!
B. Pregmorph: Skell's Happy Holidays Euro Santa Robe, AM (TM if you want), found here.
C. Cocomama's TF Plantsim Conversion, found here.* Cynnix provides!
D. Tiggerypum's AM Alpha Tunic, found here. (TM at mesher's discretion; other shapes need morphs but this post is about Maxis shapes) Cynnix provides!

4. Combinations and/or Other
A. Cocomama's Wide Fur Coat Long (find Dicreasy's AF pregmorph here) is something I very much want for winterwear, but I need:
i. TF Conversion with Pregmorph Dicreasy provides!
ii. CF Conversion Cynnix provides!

B. K8 of Parsimonious's Fairy Witch Gown is an awesome fantasy style, but I feel it needs:*
i. AF Pregmorph Cynnix provides, at that link!
ii. TF Conversion with Pregmorph Cynnix provides again! Same link.
iii. AF & TF conversions made into Apartment Life witch defaults Morganna provides, but still at the same link!
iv. CF Conversion Cynnix provides!

D. The Sims 2 Store Castle Set Knight could use a gender conversion (just fix the necks; under that much padding everyone looks the same); I'm not dying for it but it would make the heraldry sets nice and symmetrical. Cynnix provides an AF conversion AND an AM pregmorph, PLUS Androgyny versions!

* = I have no new texture plans for this mesh but desperately want it edited anyway.

HERE IS MY GOAL:

LAYERS. Thanks, Heget, for that idea. I want to be able to make my Sims' underwear chausses match their casual chausses. I want all the colors and styles to coordinate. I want underwear that fits under the casual clothes, and I want everybody to have at least three different options (before even looking at color) for every clothing category, regardless of age or gender. My list of partially-completed things to do looks like this at the moment:

Diapers, smocks, and smocks with coifs for infants
Diapers, smocks, and shifts for toddlers
Braises, braises with chausses, shirts, shirts with chausses, and long smocks for CM-EM
Braises with simple breast wraps, braises with German breast bagges, short smocks, short smocks with hosen and garters, and long shifts for CF-EF

At least three, maybe five everyday outfits for infants
At least three, maybe five everyday outfits for toddlers

Top-only tunics for CM-EM
Bottom-only chausses with poulaines for CM-EM (same as I've already done, only in all 82 colors I use)
At least three, maybe five full-body cross-class outfits, CM-EM

Top-only shifts with contrast placket for CF-EF (Silvain is on this, meshwise)
Bottom-only kirtles with wide lacings for CF-EF (again, Silvain is on it)
At least three, maybe five full-body cross-class outfits, CF-EF

Cocomama's Fur Coat as outerwear for CF-EF
Skell's Euro Santa Robes as outerwear for CM-EM
At least two Gym-exclusive outfits for CM-EM
At least two Gym-exclusive outfits for CF-EF

and...
Heraldic plate for YA-EM, maille with surcote for TM-EM, and maille with tabard, formal surcote, and servant's livery for CM-EM
Heraldic plate for YA-EF, maille with tabard for TF-EF, and sideless surcote and servant's livery for CF-EF
Better-Researched Viking Hangeroks for CF-EF, with accessory treasure necklaces

And then I'm still trying to give swimwear some thought. In the Middle Ages, swimwear was either 'underwear,' 'skinny-dipping,' or 'what you were wearing when you fell in the water.' And while I don't object to that, I also can't ever remember which category is 'swimwear' on the friggin' Clothing Tool, so I feel like I ought to add SOMETHING visually distinctive, really.

Heraldic sets will come in the seven colors that were legal heradrly in the High Middle Ages (red, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, and white), with and without devices, underclothes without hose will be in sixteen eight linen colors, underclothes WITH hose in at least 82 (I may do some parti-colored hose, I have ideas), and all regular Casual-Maternity-Formal-Gym-Outerwear outfits will come in about 82 colors. Anything I can texture-reference will be texture-referenced (and I want your opinion: I want to do very modest nursing slits on some TF-EF shifts and smocks. Would you rather I do versions with and without the slits or could you care less?) to save space, and I'll be pulling my no-bust-shading trick again so that if-or-when conversions to other body shapes happen, I can just texture-reference away with no worries.

I think I really need to separate the Medieval Pregmorph List from my wishlist, though. There are a lot of meshes on it I don't really use, or would love to get rid of, but it's still a useful reference for what meshes made without pregmorphs got them, and which ones still need them.

Comments

Re: Cocomama's TF plantsim edit

[cynnix]

I converted the k8 Faeriewitch to cf https://www.box.com/s/ohipa6a6gu2h5vc3v9sv

I have all heget's tunics almost done for cm, finishing up with them now :)

Re: Cocomama's TF plantsim edit

[hat_plays_sims]

Ack, yay, and other such noises! Grabbing the witches and eagerly awaiting the little boys! (Also, at this rate, the Bodyshape Mesh Kits are almost to post.) I'ma have to make you the patron saint of tailors and seamstresses at this rate. *plugging away on Blind Date gift* Man, I really hope I still know how to do High Fantasy. This is freaking me out.

Also, would you mind posting to the Wishing Tree thread about the CF conversion? I can do it if you don't want to, it'd just be awesome to have 'em all in one place.

Castle Set Knights

[cynnix]

Ok, I wanted to see if I could add a preg morph and it went smoothly. Converted to af & tf too :)

https://www.box.com/s/r0lh4yb7xetw6sg9dldx <--Mpreg

https://www.box.com/s/xaoavts6p6e8ehix3a45 <--Ladies

Finishing up the cm heget tunics and the Amaryll wide sleeve edits now.

Re: Castle Set Knights

[hat_plays_sims]

Aaahhh you work so much faster than I do.

... Not that I wasn't distracted by things like... the internet and crossover RP and an eight-minute video of wild leopards encountering a mirror and proceeding to behave like cats faced with a mirror for the first time. (I'm gonna blame bump maps. Bump maps are generally discouraging. *grapples with bump map, trying to make it add detail without looking like lumpy burlap*

*grabs files and is grateful* Baby bumps on chainmaille. Of all the crappy times to be pregnant...

Re: Castle Set Knights

[cynnix]

In most cases, I'm only making (or copy/pasting) one texture. You're making a zillion colors ;)

I have the mechanic sleeve on the Amaryll dress and it does look much better. I decided to do a version with the poulaines too. The UV map is a bit different than the original so it can be one group in case somebody wants to easily make a default of it. I'll convert to other ages today. Did you just want the flats or did you need sexyfeet too?

While I had the knight in milkshape I decided to make the Androgyny conversions too. I'm trying to get the Brawny Knight done too. It's so hard to just stick to one shape and finish it. My mind jumps around too much.

https://www.box.com/s/6y164ad7a118n0652dvu <---Ladies

https://www.box.com/s/z9bg29npxm9m3w6r4mif <----Men

Re: Castle Set Knights

[hat_plays_sims]

Yes, but usually most of the WORK in making those colors comes from getting that first base recolor perfect. After that it's all running color actions and making select guides for other bits of texture. I won't say it doesn't take long (then comes the SimPE monkey work, which includes fiddling with categories, occasionally fiddling with ages, copying or pasting texture-reference info, replacing crunchified textures), but it's not quite so intensely creative or fiddly every step of the way.

I thought the Amaryll dress was one group? Shows what I know. But thank you, thank you! Now my ladies can have gym clothes and simple servants' livery with sleeves that they don't need to be sewn into AND won't trail in his lordship's soup while they serve! And flats AND poulaines! That's exciting indeed. I do want sexy feet please, because I want to do one set of barefoot gym clothes with the skirt all tucked up over the chemise.

Wow, Androgyny, too? I wasn't sure the Store maille would show much difference with other bodyshapes until you hit a bodybuilder, a big guy like your Brawny Knight, or somebody with lifted shoulders. Under that much maille and padding, everybody's kind of the same shape. *downloads anyway and is grateful*

I know the feeling about not being able to stick to just one thing. That's why I'm trying to make my underwear recolors easy on myself-- if these are what's under everybody's clothes, then they're done and I don't have to worry about them. ... Although my brain did just inform me I need to do a second shift texture with the keyhole neckline from ZoeJ's nightgown, instead of just the Sherahbim gathered neckline that shows under the Front-Laced Lady. Ah well, it's always good to have two fabric options, right? *facepalms* Time to go install new meshes!