A rare YouTube video (not actually mine)

[hat_plays_sims]

Educational and amusing.

And DAMN, I want her hat.

Honestly, every clip I've looked at has impressed me in terms of historical accuracy. And I mean, it would impress me for a movie with a moderate budget, and this is an educational comedy clip show. Comedies always seem to put a surprising amount of effort into accurate costuming.

Horrible Histories clips on YouTube have been most of my weekend-- I'm particularly fond of their Historical Wife Swap skits. Also fun is Terry Jones's Medieval Lives, which the BBC made available in its entirety on YouTube, although I remember having some trouble with them randomly stopping. Still worth watching, just remember that aside from Monks and Troubadors, Mr. Jones focuses mostly on Medieval English lives.

ANYway, sorry for falling off the map again, May rose up with things I had to do in the real live physical world. I had a doll show to work, a trip out of town, a birthday, Mom goes back to work (she's been on disability since September, I think, for shoulder surgery) on Tuesday, and I have a week or two before my brother ensconces his fiancee in my home office, where the Simming computer lives, for a brief but ill-defined length of time... but before they turn up, I hope to have a small hair dump and some nun outfits (long story) to share. Hair to-do list has been updated with what I got done and what's still in the plotting stages.

And, hey, does anybody know how you go about extracting clothing meshes? Is it just go in, grab the appropriate GMDC, GMND, CRES, and SHPE, extract them, and make a new package, or is it more complicated than that?

Comments

[oph3lia]

There's a simpe plugin for that, I think it may actually be bundled with simpe now. (PJSE)

It depends what you're trying to do... If you want to make a new mesh, then you'll need a bodyshop recolour file for any basegame outfit and use that via the extracting tool (Tools > PSJE > body mesh tool > extracting stage), if you want a maxis mesh to play with, I usually do the same thing since browsing takes forever. If it's a custom mesh, just open with simpe and extract the GMDC.

[eien_herrison]

Sorry, can't really comment on sims stuff, but...

Yay, Horrible Histories! It's been very well received in the UK, winning multiple awards, and they've done their best to get it as accurate as they can, while still being entertaining. It's on my wishlist to buy, and my husband did say "for who -- you or any kids we might have?" (to which I answered "does it have to be an exclusive or?"). I've laughed a fair bit on occasions when I've seen a new type of skit pop up, and I know exactly what show they're parodying.

(Thanks for the link for Terry Jones' Medieval Lives -- I'm dabbling in a fantasy story set around the 13th century CE and I've been wanting some programs set in that time period. There's a new series just started [last Friday], the Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England [yeah, another show which focuses solely on England with nary a word on Wales or Scotland], which is based on a book of the same name but it's more fact than entertainment.)

Good luck to your mum at work -- my mum's been going through cancer and for her going back to work was exhausting but a relief (although her employment is a bit patchy at the moment as we're still working through it). Looking forward to your next hair dump :)

Books

[(Anonymous)]

There are also books available by the same name, we used these in Primary School way before it ever became a TV series (it wasn't a TV series until I was 18). Great TV program and still watched now I'm at University in a similar field of study.

Available here (not sure about in the US but I'm sure you can get them somewhere): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Terry-Deary/e/B001ITTQZW/ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1?qid=1380826414&sr=1-1

Or 'The Measly Middle Ages' and 'The Vicious Vikings' here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vicious-Vikings-Horrible-Histories-Collections/dp/0590543644/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380826414&sr=1-4&keywords=measly+middle+ages