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

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.

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CU shift with sexyfeet for you, with one of Kalynn's textures- https://www.box.com/s/udqswjb22f3boz7ixln2

i think i chose a really good time to start playing a themed game.

That was fast! *grabs* Thank you so much! You've been busy today.

Eh, I needed a break from the CF separates, the mapping's being weird at the waist. So...I added feet to a shift. Which, now that I think about it, may not sound like 'taking a break', but... feet-adding is fun for me. (Unless I have to fight with mapping. Eugh. Mapping.)

I do hear tell that mapping can be a right pain in the ass-- and I know the feeling of taking a break from one project by doing another. As long as it's something EASY, it totally counts as a break.

Depending on when I get things done, possibly!

Mapping is EVIL and also hates me a lot. Adding sexyfeet to things... usually is something I could probably do in my sleep. So easy it's fun for me, really.

I get that way with editing property sets. I get in the zone and I can townie-enable, townie-disable, pin to expansions, change ages, change categories, change hairtones, whoosh.

Property set editing ftw- I spent ages editing all the bodyshape stuff in my game for the BSOK, I thought my eyes might stay crossed forever from all the staring at numbers, but it was... surprisingly fun. Not sure what a lot of the stuff in there does, mind (simpe scares me just a teensy bit, though once I know how something works it's easy- definitely not as good with that stuff as you are, though), but what I can do is generally nice and relaxing. (Though, if a batch-editor showed up for the BSOK, I would never touch simpe for that again... serious time sink with the number of bodyshapes I use.)

Yeah, the thing to remember about SimPE is that you're never stuck until you save, and the Save As button is your friend. I've broken all kinds of things, but usually I can go back and learn something from my idiocy.

I can't bring myself to bother with the BSOK. I mean, I get that it's dead useful for people who play with a ton of body shapes, particularly if they play a contemporary game and don't hide the Maxis stuff, but me, personally, I only WANT to use four shapes (loosely based on Sims 1 shapes, only instead of fat, fit, and skn it's fat, fit, avg, and skn), and they're usually pretty easy to tell apart at a glance, and man, do I ever lean on tooltips in Body Shop. If I really wanted to pin clothes to something, I'd pin them to an existing expansion. (I'm already thinking I should do that for the Rus Viking tunics (BV, with the Castaway stuff and all my traditional Chinese and Japanese clothes) and my own Heraldry stuff (OFB, cos that's where the knight armor is by default, and where I stick all my townie-disabled female short hair).)

I mostly use it for two reasons- my modern game has a ton of shapes and I hate scrolling through them all to get to a specific (usually older) outfit for default shaped Sims, and both my modern and medieval games have LBB, SBB and BB clothes because I like the extra variety in my muscular dudes... even if I mostly just use LBB for them... and the difference between them is subtle when they're not right next to each other.

But even if I had just a few shapes, anything that saves outfit-scrolling time in my laggy CAS is nice. Also, it means the mermaids and satyrs and werewolves are out of the way when I don't need them. (I'm beginning to sound a bit like an advertisement for the BSOK here, sorry.)

...I'm tempted to work out how to pin clothes to expansions, though, if only to get things like Viking tunics and other clothes for my subneighnorhoods and stuff out of the way, too- especially since when I'm not meshing I'm usually neck-deep in sim creation for my main hood.

Oh, pinning to expansions is easy! Copy the string of zeroes from the Skintone line (it's just easier than writing it out) and paste that to Creator and, for anything BUT hair, Family. Set Flags as desired, and then look at the Version and Product lines.

Expansion Packs:
Basegame (no icons): Version 0x00000001, Product 0x00000001
University: Version 0x00000002, Product 0x00000002
Nightlife: Version 0x00000002, Product 0x00000003
Open for Business: Version 0x00000003, Product 0x00000004
Pets: Version 0x00000004, Product 0x00000007
Seasons: Version 0x00000006, Product 0x00000008
Bon Voyage: Version 0x00000006, Product 0x0000000B
Free Time: Version 0x00000006, Product 0x0000000E
Apartment Life: Version 0x00000006, Product 0x00000011

Stuff Packs:
Holiday 05: Version 0x00000002, Product 0x00000001
Holiday 06: Version 0x00000003, Product 0x00000001
Family Fun: Version 0x00000003, Product 0x00000005
Glamour Life: Version 0x00000003, Product 0x00000006
Celebration: Version 0x00000003, Product 0x00000009
H&M: Version 0x00000003, Product 0x0000000A
Teen Style: Version 0x00000004, Product 0x0000000C
K&B: Version 0x00000004, Product 0x0000000F
IKEA: Version 0x00000004, Product 0x00000010 (I don't know for sure if this is right, but no clothes came with Ikea, so... I don't know?)
Sims 2 Store: Version 0x00000006, Product 0x0000000D
M&G: Version 0x00000006, Product 0x00000012

And that's it! The only other thing to remember is that anything you want available for Young Adults has to be Version 0x00000002 or higher.

In my game, Fantasy hair and clothes I can't bear to get rid of, the gothic stuff for vampires, and all Sherahbim's gorgeous fantasy Gypsy clothes are pinned to Nightlife, short hair for lady-knights or female clergy and the ninja costumes I use for unisex clergyperson clothes are pinned to OFB, Castaway Stories clothes and hair, Afro-Caribbean hairs, traditional Chinese and Japanese clothes, and all those gorgeous Rose and XM East Asian hairs are all pinned to BV, Plantsim hairs and tunics and scanties go in Seasons, and like I said I'm thinking about sticking the Viking clothes in BV, too, and heraldic/armored stuff in either OFB (that's where the plate armor comes from) or Store Stuff (that's where the good chainmaille comes from). Which will leave me with only my nice High Middle Ages French-ish stuff sitting out with CC stars.

I do hear you on subtle differences. I'm not one for any bodybuilders bigger than the LBB or Jacci's Runner, because of the skinny Maxis necks and the way REALLY broad shoulders look awkward with the Maxis joints, but there's part of me that kind of wants both the RenGal AND the Well-Rounded Sim in-game, if good male counterparts happen for both of 'em, and I can tell they'd be hard to tell apart. (My trick shall be, always create multi-shape content in the same order. Right now it goes Maxis-Androgyny-AG+RNR-RenGal+???.)

Edited 2013-01-23 10:25 (UTC)

Crap. Did I not actually send you all the perfect tunic meshes?

Okay- at work right now, but when off can send (with morphs and teen ages):

Original perfect tunic (long) with basic sleeves & maxis bare feet aka Seven Years War set

Original perfect tunic (long) basic sleeves SF

Original sleeves w/ Robin Hood boots and poulaines and version with the gathered sleeves- and shorter tunic length- for the life of me I can't remember if there is a version of each- I know there should be meshes of both lengths with both shoes options but not a version of every style with the regular sleeves...

The version of the tunic with modified Romeo sleeves hasn't been sent out for morphs and teen conversions, but it exists.

We totally need to collaborate on a perfect tunic mega project...

Man, my sleep schedule is BROKEN but I swear my brain just went 'awwwww yiss.'

So, no! No, I do not have those yet. I have the first version, without morphs. I'll look forward to getting the expanded set!

Anyway, the reason I want the version (long or short) with the regular sleeves is so my menfolk can have gym clothes-- something in maille, probably on Tig's alpha tunic, and a nice quilted gambeson on probably one of the short gathered-sleeve Perfect Tunics for the higher-class and/or soldier types, and then for the non-war-like guys and/or peasants who are just involved in sweaty work, a shirt with hose and shoes. (I'll be damned if I can think of a third thing for ladies' gym clothes. So far my brain says 'Io dress with flats, loose kirtle' and 'Io dress with sexy feet, loose kirtle with the skirt rucked up over the smock,' and both of those mental images are cheerfully nicked from Tres Riches Heures, just like the guys in hose and shirts and shoes tilling the fields.)

And I've gotten a start on textures today! Got my textures for mens' chausses all recolored and shiny, and my base for ladies' hose is almost done-- got my rolled top (wishing I could bump-map a thicker roll) and my garters. I'm all excited about hose and garters right now because Silvain's separates will let me tie stocking-and-garter colors to the shift-and-placket top, so they can contrast nicely with the kirtle bottom if I remember to put some nice shoes with a pretty alpha on there.

When I'm tired, I ramble.

First thing I do when get home to computer- send you the meshes and my recoloring template ( a few of the folds needed to be fixed, hence delay)

I've gotten very attached to my smocked shift textures - I have them with long sleeves on the amaryl meshes with the baggy waist, 3/4 sleeves on the Sumer dress w/ the empire waist- and I decided the short sleeve version can go on the mesh you used for your shifts.

That one reference site on the Burgundian gowns is a godsend- and browsing around it showed some nice pictures of short men's braises that I really like the look of a lot more than the AAS texture or the bulky Aligeth? Mesh.

But yes! x10000 to more chausses and bottom/top only.

I will say thanks to that site I too am confused on plackets versus breast bands versus another layer of sleeveless kirtle. A simple placard in the front actually seems least likely to me- probably because it makes me think of the stomacher pieces of rococo wear. But as I am using mid-medieval, Italian Renaissance, and Tudor fantasy - and these are different cultures and races with different tech and isolated development- I think I should get away with more than one possible method of construction.

I grew dissatisfied with the original sleeves of the tunic because of how it overshot the wrists- but your point about chain maile I think mollifies me. I still need 'awesome boot' option and a fourth idea for sleeves... Cynnix has been working on accessory shoes- which let's face it would have been the sound answer to all this madness.

Augh. At least another hour til I can get out.

What dress is this with the empire waist?

And I'm glad to hear I'm not the only person who thinks Aligeth's braises are too bulky. I know the AAS ones leave something to be desired, but I like how they look on a blockfoot speedo mesh... which is usually at least easy to beg for.

Chausses everywhere, because I'm re-doing my old sets in all 82 colors. *sobs gently* I'm looking forward to doing the top-and-bottom dresses, because they'll let me give this look without sticking people with my contrast color choices. (There will be plain shifts, and then there will be plain shifts with plackets on, and I'm trying to think about how to do half sleeves without just begging for an accessory to make it look right.

Wait, which site is this? Because there is a lot of argument about breast bands. We've got the Lengberg Castle finds now, which suggests actual bras (although I REALLY want to see the breast-bag styles on a dummy or something; as it stands they look kind of like a halter top). Matilda La Zouche seems to go the pinned-on stomacher route with her Burgundian gown, but I suspect a supportive kirtle like her blue underdress here could hold an ample bosom securely in place and still provide the same look. Different women may well have done it different ways.

I kind of like the loose sleeves on the original tunic-- I wish I could find more meshes in general with loose, straight sleeves. As far as Awesome Boots go, variations on the theme of short ankle boots with pointed-ish toes seem to have been very popular-- they're in a lot of artwork-- but they haven't turned up on any meshes yet. (Instead we get Aligeth's Robin Hood shoe, which isn't bad, but it isn't good, either.) I almost think if you did soled hosen (just good pointy toes and a bump map) on your shorter tunics, the ankle boots could be painted on convincingly enough (convincingly enough to get extra mileage out of a soled-hosen mesh, anyway, which a short but not Romeo short tunic is perfect for). For REALLY awesome boots that would probably require a little meshing, knee boots for hunting or thigh-high boots for riding are pretty darned awesome, and use the same basic shape of the ankle boot and the body of the poulaine.

Accessory shoes are a good idea in theory, but I don't know if I'm so keen on it in practice-- you have to have blockfoot versions of ALL your meshes for them to work, and you have to have custom CAS icons to see what you're adding to your Sim, and for folk who don't have Bon Voyage or prefer accessories to jewelry, there's the whole issue of the shoes showing up on outfits where they wouldn't be particularly appropriate, so you're always going to the mirror to change your Sim in and out of them. I'd be more inclined to try the trick I heard about where you can supposedly use SimPE to categorize separates as formal or outerwear; from what I hear, as long as you keep them binned as casual, too, they work just fine in other categories.

Oh, there's enough of those issues that make accessory shoes not the way to go- but this idea of tht hunics (both lengths, all the sleeves) as tops to pair with bottoms- I'm upset that I don't yet have.

Here's were my head started spinning with "layers or not layers? And layers of what?" : http://cadieux.mediumaevum.com/burgundian-placket.html

Can't seem to find the links with the braises- but I remember looking at paintings of St. Sebastian and the folds and design of the braise actually looked in shape more like the speedos than AAS's. And yes- nice medieval halter top bras. ^^

My vice is elaborate boots- good thing I don't have the money to buy more than the 6 boots (one of which I've had since high school) that I own. But I alway drew characters with ridiculous fantasy boots and my love of Calavier styles is directly for the fancy boots with spilling lace cuffs.

I did originally make the tunic w/ the soled hose feet- but switched it to basic maxis as the first mesh.

Okay- gonna upload the WIP and various zips for things for you.

Update: zips at my journal.

Edited 2013-01-23 23:53 (UTC)

(Kalynn)
Oh good. I don't use sexy feet, but I'm glad that mesh will get more use.

I may have a teen version of Cocomama's coat. I'm actually pretty sure I do. I make conversions and morphs when I get frustrated with their lack and the forget I did it until I see WCIF posts. I'll poke around for it tomorrow. I may be able to do a conversion for kiddos too. I need a nice, simple conversion project to take my mind off the linen caps I keep blowing up in spectacular and unusual ways. Plus, I always need outerwear.

I hear shoe swaps are easy, at least? You know, for folk who can mesh. Not so much for me.

I found some boys' braises that are pretty cute, and definitely high-cut. Then there are these, which are based on the Lengberg Castle finds. (I don't think those could hold up chausses, though-- I think they're meant for joined hosen.) There are some older depictions of braises here, maybe that'll help? Some of the bulk vs tailoring seems to be related to age.

I shall hie myself hence to your journal!

I'm going to sit here and be excited about linen caps as well as potential coats for teens and kids. There's never enough headgear, after all.

And of course that mesh is going to see some use! It's a simple short shift for kids, with no shoes. You'd think there would be tons of those, but nope. And this one keeps the child proportions on the legs instead of shrinking adult legs until they look weirdly skinny!

The sleeve swaps are harder, actually. It's making the mesh packages themselves that I find tedious -and morphs and age conversions are uck.

See, this is why I'm putting off learning to mesh, really. (Just watch, in a year or so I'll give in and download milkshape and it'll somehow end up second nature since I work with fabric, and then I'll feel stupid.)

Oh, and I think I found your braises!

That's that stupid page! I knew it was also at that site.

One of my issues with the 18th century stuff was I knew how it was created for lots of it, so I kept wanting to build it that way instead of how you would milkshape meshes and a paint document that fitxs the UV Map - and then I'd hit the vast empty patches of my knowledge....

I'm a 2-D artist, actually, so all this meshing I do make I'm surprised at myself. And suddenly all the frekkin' effort and focus on the sigils becomes self-evident. (Those things, weirdly enough, are my stress-relief).

See, I think of the UV map as the pattern, and the texture as the fabric I'm trying to cut to make that pattern look the way I want it. It works fairly well for most things (and my shiny new version of Photoshop lets you preview your textures on the mesh which is great because otherwise I would NOT be making as many baby clothes, let me tell you internets). Since I usually work in small scale-- dollhouse dolls, two to six inches tall, with occasional forays into sixteen-inch fashion dolls-- I am SO USED to having to futz with historical or even 'proper' sewing techniques in order to make things fit, drape, or keep in scale. Sims stuff is REALLY similar, even if it is frustrating taking ages to do things that would take me a couple hours in reality.

I've drawn, and I can usually make sketches to help me draft patterns, but I have ALWAYS had more luck with 3D than 2D.

My full extent of doll clothes making experience was cut up socks and napkings drapped around my Barbies. No sewing, even.

But lawrdy, the number of paper dolls I have made over the years, from magizine cut outs to re-bought sets to at least a hundred different dolls with all their outifts, accesories, houses, and a full stable worth of horses (with their own additions) ever since I was four or so....

If I wasn't doing Sims, I'd be making far too elaborate flash dress-up games, trufax.

I taught myself to sew when I was thirteen because I FINALLY got a dollhouse but it turned out everyone who made dollhouse dolls either sold naked kits or sold dolls with their clothes sewn or glued on. I grew up on Barbie, and frankly? Sewn-on clothes were not what I wanted. So, that was twenty years ago, and now I can do things like this. Okay, I didn't make the jeans, but nobody should have to make jeans ever.

Since I'm not much of a pen-and-paper artist, paper dolls were usually beyond me... although I did have a big 'set' that my grandmother cut out of catalogs for me. Also known as, how to make clothing catalogs interesting to a four-to-six year old.

lol, we had the same Grandma.

Oh, I'm passionate about paper dolls. and I rarely made tabs for mine. But oh, I'd take the laminate yourself document business kits and use them on my drawings so that when I cut the dolls out I wouldn't have to worry about tears or creases and I would make fancy envelopes to hold all the pieces...

I think most of mine lived in-- you know how they sold books of paper dolls? Nana stapled the two short sides together, and everything lived in there. Of course, they lived at Nana's house, too, so there was always something to play with when we visited. I had a fancy set of Victorian ones when I got a little older-- I think second bustle period but I won't swear to anything besides 'bustle' at this point.

Umm, just noticed this. When you say 'alpharobe' under "Heget" - what mesh are you refering too? I'm assuming one of mine (and geez, I have a few clothing meshes out there now, yikes!) Because I think I finally called the 18th cen master coat mesh 'alphacoat' and there's that (failed, honestly. I remember the bone assignments weren't perfect and would have been a nightmare to try to get right) fullbody male mesh of a long robe. Which maybe if the arm joints were fixed- I think Cynnix said they were missing some? ...been so long... -I might resurrect the shape as a non-alpha just to have an even longer tunic - but I think the UV mapping isn't best and honestly, heget, the intelligent thing to do is add to the perfect tunic base....
And crawling through my Bodyshop I do have a mesh that goes to mid-calf that is loose and baggy and really likely needs some serious overall...

Or were you thinking take the alpha robe of the 18th century suitmesh (which the alpha part is a bit longer than it's used for the suit recolors) and switch the pant bottoms for something more 1200s instead of 1700s? because I'm starting to think that.

Or it is something completely different?

It's one of yours, and it's in this post, named 'alpharobe.' I don't particularly care if it's an alpha mesh or not, I just kind of want something that can be a long men's nightgown or under-gown for something like the Friar Tuck robe (something like this would be awesome, but that's a little early for me, I'm more 14th century, edging barely into 15th). I've only prodded it in Body Shop, so I didn't notice problems with the arm joints.

Honestly I mostly looked at all your 18th century stuff and went 'oh, pretty,' instead of giving really in-depth thought to adapting the meshes to my own period, which is probably how I missed the shirt with hose and toes. *Facepalms*

Hmm, the majority of my older incomplete men robe meshes would not work, but I think lengthening the 'skirt' of the 'perfecttunic' would be the way to go. Probably with 'bare' arms as sleeves?

Bare arms or straight sleeves, since it'd end up nightclothes or underwear (I don't mind loose-sleeved underwear matched with tight-sleeved casual clothes because... well, because fabric collapses well). Up to you, whatever works out best. I just put textures on the things.

I figured it'd be easier for me to do this, rather than anyone else. Teen conversion of my edit of Cocomama's wide fur coat: https://www.box.com/s/l4apbqdzaye4p5xpz55w :D

The included texture is an AAS one I have in my game.

Grabbed and thank you so much! I'll update the post.

This weekend I'm gonna try to make the other mesh combinations and attempt to franken-mesh an ankle-length extension to the perfect tunic for needs- but I'll need help for morphs and ages and testing them in-game to see if joint assignments work. (I'm near finsihed with the banners and I'm shelving the useable vehicle chariot until I have less things to do.)

Hi Hat! I added the preg morph to the TF plantsim mesh for you :)

Cynnix you are a meshing MACHINE lately! Jinkies! I've already got you down as a patron saint of childbirth and expectant parents, male or female, with a midsummer feast day on Octo (my year has twenty days. I numbered them in Latin so I could use my tweaked Phaenoh calendar and keep good track of things). Anything else you want to be patron saint of? Maybe a pagan goddess? I also have Norse-ish, Druidic-ish, and Island-flavored religions, and I'll be making calendars for them, too. (Are you a Cynthia? You can totally have the moon if you want it.)

My husband hasn't been working double shifts this week, great for sim creations, not so much for paying bills lol.

I am a Cynthia, but most people call me Cyn. I've been told I'm a fertility goddess in some games, the werewolves deity in another players game and now my self sim is running an orphanage in someone's game.

I have more meshes for you here.

... Ho dang! More links to update with. That's awesome, though, thank you so much!

I can see why you'd end up as any and all of those things. Usually I try to let canonized creators pick their own purviews, but you do so many awesome things; my game wouldn't look the same without you.

At least a lack of double shifts means he's got a little more time to spend?

I can say the same about you! I'll keep making meshes in return for all the lovely things you share :)

Yes, he's spending time with the little guy and that is a huge help (I get him when the baby sleeps lol). I actually got laundry done, cleaned the floors, washed windows and still had time to make meshes.

I'm working on it! Actually I was working on my GoS Blind Date and got distracted making calendars...

Dude! You were productive!

I had a few minutes today, quick edits for you Tig's am & tm alpa tunics, preg added.

https://www.box.com/s/vf6iwt6wpnnbo20prysg

https://www.box.com/s/hgnrng9mgnkk52wenwnn

This wasn't here when I started answering comments today! Thank you! I'll go and cross 'em off the list-- yay, the go-to men's alpha tunic now has a pregmorph!

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 :)

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.

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.

Edited 2013-02-11 00:00 (UTC)

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...

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

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!

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