Yep. That's me.

[hat_plays_sims]

Guess who sat down to look at skirt meshes and untuckable tops, then get back to work on Medieval underwear...

... And Pooklet'd five thicknesses of stubble, two mustaches, and a soul patch?

Turns out I've missed Pookletting things. I also finally counted all my beardstuffs. There will be 23 when I get around to a beard dump, not accounting for possibly doing some of those long Santa beards in waves AND straight textures.

Do you guys like your beards binned or unbinned? Um, which is to say, should I offer unbinned options, too, because boy howdy am I binning them for myself. I hear they go funny in the family-ing stages, so they're gonna get binned like my hairline blushes, with the hairtones changed. (Adults ARE getting gray options, for those men who begin to get grizzled around the muzzle earlier than it sets in on their hair. Likewise elders are getting colored options, because sometimes the color in the beard is pretty stubborn.) And... are beards and facial hair among the things one can townie-enable? That sounds like fun.

Also if anybody knows of any facial hair meshes (I have Necrodog's Amish beard, Simsbaby's thick beard, and SynapticSim's Face Fur, plus all the Basegame and BV beards), let me know? I may just need to add them to my list.

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[hat_plays_sims]

Well, unless it turns out to drive me crazy, for every beard, there'll be an unbinned, a binned, and a binned-and-townie-friendly version, and you can mix and match binned and unbinned colors (I know Shrapnel makes a great brown, and I could make arguments for calling Comburent a strawberry blond or Brisance an auburn, but Dynamite and Flash Powder are pretty definitively black) or decide which styles you want cropping up on townies (unless you're running a Restoration or piratical 'hood, the Sinister and original-alpha Devil beards probably wouldn't make much sense to townie-enable).

So, plenty of chances for guys with Depth Charge hair to have Shrapnel beards, or Vikings with Incendiary hair to have Comburent beards and get called Redbeard. *grins*

[nixed_sims]

Hooray! This makes me a very happy Nix. :) You're the best! (And not just for making unbinned beards, but for making... well, everything you make. My medieval-ish Westeros 'hood would be a lot poorer if it weren't for you. :))

[hat_plays_sims]

Hey, I just checked out your DW to see who you were besides someone who likes beards (which, you know, is fine, I was just curious) and grabbed your Thinking Helm, because even though I never USE it, it'd be nice to have-- so thank you for that! Makes me wonder if any hair-covering accessory mesh would work-- I've got that Sell Aspiration Rewards hack for OFB so my mage family is really going to have a lot of fun stuff to peddle... provided I can find good mesh defaults.

Stay tuned, because as well as beards, I'm working on massively full wardrobes for all ages from the skin out. ... I make no promises as to when, but it's in the pipeline.

[nixed_sims]

Heh, you're welcome! Yeah, I have plenty of DR'd stuff in my game, too, that I never use but that I still want to look period-ish, just because. And of course you wouldn't know who I am since I never comment, just lurk and download with abandon. :)

Makes me wonder if any hair-covering accessory mesh would work

For the thinking cap? Sure. :) It has a nifty little #STR that changes the Sim's hair to bald, so it actually isn't so much a matter of covering the hair up as it is hiding the fact that the Sim suddenly doesn't have any. ;) (That's why I made the helmet so thick, BTW, to keep the baldness hidden.)

Edit: Oooh, more clothes! *drools* I'm definitely going to stay tuned. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

Well, yeah, but of course you want a default just in case it turns up or your Sim rolls a want to get vending machine food or whatever. I'd be more likely to use all kinds of things if they looked period-- and if somebody with disposable cash came in and bought a goofy aspiration reward that had been adequately defaulted, hey, I might let 'em use that, too.

And now I have to go look at who can wear noodlesoothers and thinking caps, and look at accessory hats and helmets. I've got that Altair hood, I could do a fancy 'magical' embroidered recolor...

Yep! I have a very long list, but it's gonna start with underwear. Five sets for each sex, child through elder. (Toddlers only get three sets and the diapers are done.) Because everything else I want to make needs to get built over underwear.

[nixed_sims]

Yeah, you never know what silly things those Sims might want to use. :) Hmm, the noodlesoother. I use the thinking cap with abandon, but I don't think I've ever used the noodlesoother, not even for my contemporary or Star Trek Sims. (Yep, I'm into Star Trek. I actually started my Simming career making Trek stuff, and even though I've branched out since I still consider it my primary bailiwick.) Which isn't to say I wouldn't be happy to have a nice, period-appropiate one, just in case . ;) And a hood sounds like it would work brilliantly!

Five sets of underwear for each... be still, my heart! :D If there's something my Sims need, the gents especially, it's underwear. I shall be waiting with bated breath. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

I hardly ever use any aspiration rewards-- Smart Milk and I used to use Elixir of Life, but not so much anymore since I made my aging mod. But I figure if I sell them in a magic shop and Sims buy them, that means they want to use them. So that's totally fair. (That's part of why I want various and sundry potions-- there are the craftable witch cauldron potions, and the ones from the Castaway Stories potion station, and Sunni's got a salable disease cure now, but I think it'd also be fun to see who wants fertility potions and who wants birth control.)

Five sets of underwear, two or three sets of gym clothes, one outerwear robe, one set of separates each (maybe two, but a few meshes would have to spontaneously appear), and a minimum of three sets of casual/formal/maternity outfits. There are days I feel like I'm making an expansion pack.

[nixed_sims]

Yeah, in any setting the smart milk and the thinking cap are pretty much the only aspiration rewards I use, and occasionally the Elixir of Life. But you're absolutely right, if Sims want to buy them, they probably want to use them. :)

Gym clothes, too, yay! (Seriously, you need to stop reading my mind. ;)) And hey, I'd buy the Almighty Hat EP in a heartbeat. :D

Oh! This is completely unrelated to clothes or beards, but while I have you on the line so to speak (I'll let you move on to newer threads soon, I promise). :) Have you default replaced the tv remote? (I've looked, but I can't find one.) The reason I'm asking is that I'm making a period-ish one-tile wall tv (that looks like a painting when turned off and yes, I've totally stolen that idea from Numenor, only mine's a simple thing that's supposed to be for poor Sims like peasants and common labourers), and I was going to make a DR remote while I was at it - getting rid of it completely would require modifying like five levels of BHAVs and that's just... no. But if you've already made one, then it's much easier if I just direct people to get that one because I'm totally lazy that way. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

I think I have an unreleased wooden remote to match Servos and digital cameras and other such things (the oak textures I use for Servos are my shorthand for A Wizard Did It on indispensable technology) lurking somewhere in my downloads folder, but I also know how to make it totally invisible in one fell swoop. Just take HP's placeholder.obj and replace the remote's mesh with it. Instant two-poly invisible replacement for anything that doesn't have slots or joints, casts no outdoor shadow.

[nixed_sims]

*headdesks repeatedly*

I'm an idiot. No, really, I am. I got so hung up on making the remote disappear through the BHAVs that it didn't even occur to me to simply make the it invisible and be done with it. *headdesks some more* Thanks for screwing my head back on. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

It's actually a two-part shiny mesh that is a BITCH to make invisible by normal (transparent png) means, which is why I ended up making an oak-and-runes version. The placeholder object is a better bet for true invisibility, which I totally would've done if I'd known a damn thing about meshes at the time.

... Oooh, I bet one of the many magic wand defaults out there would work for the remote, too-- good for those magic harp stereos...

[nixed_sims]

I know how to mesh, so if I make an invisible object of course I change the mesh as well and not just the texture. I mean, why waste computer resources on rendering a mesh you don't see anyway? :)

Oooh, I bet one of the many magic wand defaults out there would work for the remote, too

Like the twig one for neutral witches? Because that's what I had already used. :) (I wanted something that didn't look too witchy, and that one was perfect.) Great minds think alike. ;)

[hat_plays_sims]

I've actually had a hard time convincing a few people that the game still renders invisible polys, so I kinda figured better safe than sorry. (I still use an invisible sewing machine recolor, because the one spinning wheel default replacement I've found has the hands centered on the spindle instead of the feet centered on the pedal, and for some unaccountable reason that drives me buggy.)

Or one of Decat's new defaults. It's not a bad idea-- most of the electronics in my game are magic-- musical skulls, harps that play by themselves, crystal ball TVs. The only music-producing objects that aren't necessarily fueled by magic are music boxes.

I clearly NEED witches in my game, so somebody can sell all this stuff.