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

[hat_plays_sims]

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).)

[silvainshadows]

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.

[hat_plays_sims]

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+???.)