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hat_plays_simsYOU GUYS why didn't anyone tell me that Cynnix made an articulated cloak last October? I mean, sure, I still want more, but ANY is a real good start. Basically as soon as I found it, I started planning what I was going to do with it.
We are 100% horrible people, and I'm extremely happy we are friends.
-- Ontario, Texts From Last Night (gently corrected for grammar)
That title card will never, ever, ever stop making me giggle, I swear to god. Ahem. Today's models are Farflight and Blackmist, freelance mercenaries, and Echo and Bounce, pirates. They are, let me tell you internets, terrible people oh my god. They're fun and if they consider you a friend or even a non-threat, they can be nice enough to hang out with, but most of my pics are Body Shop previews and you just don't get the hilarious range of alarmingly in-character expressions (and wants. Blackmist and Echo both rolled 'get a job in the Criminal career track!' wants, because of course they did) in Body Shop.
Okay, okay, let's look at cloaks.
Behold the hooded cloak! It comes within a hair's breadth of the floor and has a large, dramatic hood. As you can see, it blends in nicely with the Du Lac tunics if you match the cloak color to the cowl color. (Clipping will show through if you don't.) Farflight up there is wearing the cloak in Incendiary, and I want to say the rest of his outfit is Jet. And Tomato. Jet/Tomato/Incendiary sounds like one of my color combinations, basically if I can make you think of a flying tomato on fire, I've done my job. Things like Clubkitty's Hijab, the OFB ninja mask, and if you alpha-edited out the veils, Cynnix's Noble and Nun wimples work really well with the colors matched. I mean, a hood that big isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea.
The cloak is available for all ages and both genders! Not that I thought to show it on boys, but you can't have everything. Echo is wearing her usual front-laced kirtle in Tomato with a placket in Verdigris, and a cloak in Kingfisher, because she likes that Superman look.
Most Medieval meshes work okay with the cloak! The Sherahbim robe there has a bit of a clipping issue on the shoulders, but it's largely hidden by the cowl unless you're really searching for it (but if you need to take a picture from a sort of behind-and-below-the-shoulder angle for some reason, you may catch the clipping). It's okay for MOST bodyshapes. The bigger the chest and shoulders, the more you're going to run into clipping. (Runner is pretty comparable to LBB.)
It also works wonderfully with a lot of different womenswear meshes! The Epic Sleeves gowns byjadedbird may clip a little, but not too terribly, at least in Body Shop. Again, most bodyshapes are okay, although the RenGal's boobs do kind of swallow the bottom of the cowl. Athletic Girl dresses seem to work better than Athletic Girl armor.
Speaking of armor, the OFB knight's armor for men works AMAZINGLY WELL. What clipping there is only happens around the shoulder armor, and the cloak doesn't clip in Body Shop at all. The women's cloak... is not so happy to be worn with armor.
Blackmist is wearing the Du Lac tunic in Dynamite and Jet with the hooded cloak in Jet; Echo is wearing her Tomato kirtle and Verdigris placket with the draped cloak in Gold, this time (it brings out her eyes). Bounce is wearing the Athletic Girl Front-Laced Lady in Sand with what is I believe the Chocolate draped cloak, while Farflight is going for the don't-notice-me look in I want to say the Depth Charge Du Lac tunic with a probably-Safety-Fuse draped cloak. All their hairs are in my hair dumps, not that you can see Blackmist's hair.
Okay, let's move on to the details.
Cynnix made the mesh, which is included; textures are chopped from Sherahbim's Lady gown (so they blend well with pretty much everything else I've been making), and are colored with Pooklet's Project Mayhem naturals, CuriousB's Any Color You like, and Aelia's Autumn color actions. Generally I joke about paysites, but Pooklet (at least!) says no use of their color actions for pay content, so... no paysites.
Praise be unto Quaxi for SimPE, Jfade (I think? I used to know this) for the Wardrobe Wrangler, and DJ for the Compressorizer, as well as to Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop back when.
As ever when I do accessories, you can download one of two ways; as straight-up glasses-bin accessories or as Bon Voyage jewelry. Should you grab the jewelry versions, the HOODED cloak is binned as a NOSE RING (Sims can wear it with any of my hats, but not my Ja/Daislia Altair hoods), while the DRAPED (no-hood) cloak is binned as a NECKLACE (you can't wear any other necklaces with it, but you can still wear hats AND hoods). Accessory versions are layerable with anything but themselves... but I'm not sure if they're flagged for maternity or not. (Jewelry versions are.)
The poly count on the cloak is 1952. To me that seems pretty reasonable, but I don't know your computer.
Long hairs tend to clip. They can clip a lot. Cynnix's coifs clip through the ties. All of my women's hairs that aren't either short or headcloths clip through the hoods. If you're looking for a loose hair for your Sims to wear with this cloak without the hood, you're looking for something very full, particularly through the back where the drape bulges out.
All in all, there are issues, yes, but for me they're not deal-breaking issues because look at the cloaks check out the title card again the cloaks bend when they sit and don't just swing through Sims' bodies.
Okay, here's the ACTUAL important part. The download links! (Swatches are included.)
Hooded Cloak, Pooklet's Project Mayhem Naturals
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY:
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Draped Cloak, Pooklet's Project Mayhem Naturals
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Hooded Cloak, Aelia's Autumn
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Draped Cloak, Aelia's Autumn
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Hooded Cloak, CuriousB's Any Color You Like
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Draped Cloak, CuriousB's Any Color You Like
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Thank you, thank you, and if anyone wants to make MORE cloaks using Cynnix's bone assignmets, I beg you to start with the Kairouan cloak in this download. Please please pretty please. My Sims need more cloaks and I think I've got an idea how to fix some of the weird stacking issues Bon Voyage jewelry sometimes has.
Wanna help me feed my cats?
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.
We are 100% horrible people, and I'm extremely happy we are friends.
-- Ontario, Texts From Last Night (gently corrected for grammar)
That title card will never, ever, ever stop making me giggle, I swear to god. Ahem. Today's models are Farflight and Blackmist, freelance mercenaries, and Echo and Bounce, pirates. They are, let me tell you internets, terrible people oh my god. They're fun and if they consider you a friend or even a non-threat, they can be nice enough to hang out with, but most of my pics are Body Shop previews and you just don't get the hilarious range of alarmingly in-character expressions (and wants. Blackmist and Echo both rolled 'get a job in the Criminal career track!' wants, because of course they did) in Body Shop.
Okay, okay, let's look at cloaks.
Behold the hooded cloak! It comes within a hair's breadth of the floor and has a large, dramatic hood. As you can see, it blends in nicely with the Du Lac tunics if you match the cloak color to the cowl color. (Clipping will show through if you don't.) Farflight up there is wearing the cloak in Incendiary, and I want to say the rest of his outfit is Jet. And Tomato. Jet/Tomato/Incendiary sounds like one of my color combinations, basically if I can make you think of a flying tomato on fire, I've done my job. Things like Clubkitty's Hijab, the OFB ninja mask, and if you alpha-edited out the veils, Cynnix's Noble and Nun wimples work really well with the colors matched. I mean, a hood that big isn't going to be everyone's cup of tea.
The cloak is available for all ages and both genders! Not that I thought to show it on boys, but you can't have everything. Echo is wearing her usual front-laced kirtle in Tomato with a placket in Verdigris, and a cloak in Kingfisher, because she likes that Superman look.
Most Medieval meshes work okay with the cloak! The Sherahbim robe there has a bit of a clipping issue on the shoulders, but it's largely hidden by the cowl unless you're really searching for it (but if you need to take a picture from a sort of behind-and-below-the-shoulder angle for some reason, you may catch the clipping). It's okay for MOST bodyshapes. The bigger the chest and shoulders, the more you're going to run into clipping. (Runner is pretty comparable to LBB.)
It also works wonderfully with a lot of different womenswear meshes! The Epic Sleeves gowns by
jadedbird may clip a little, but not too terribly, at least in Body Shop. Again, most bodyshapes are okay, although the RenGal's boobs do kind of swallow the bottom of the cowl. Athletic Girl dresses seem to work better than Athletic Girl armor.Speaking of armor, the OFB knight's armor for men works AMAZINGLY WELL. What clipping there is only happens around the shoulder armor, and the cloak doesn't clip in Body Shop at all. The women's cloak... is not so happy to be worn with armor.
Blackmist is wearing the Du Lac tunic in Dynamite and Jet with the hooded cloak in Jet; Echo is wearing her Tomato kirtle and Verdigris placket with the draped cloak in Gold, this time (it brings out her eyes). Bounce is wearing the Athletic Girl Front-Laced Lady in Sand with what is I believe the Chocolate draped cloak, while Farflight is going for the don't-notice-me look in I want to say the Depth Charge Du Lac tunic with a probably-Safety-Fuse draped cloak. All their hairs are in my hair dumps, not that you can see Blackmist's hair.
Okay, let's move on to the details.
Cynnix made the mesh, which is included; textures are chopped from Sherahbim's Lady gown (so they blend well with pretty much everything else I've been making), and are colored with Pooklet's Project Mayhem naturals, CuriousB's Any Color You like, and Aelia's Autumn color actions. Generally I joke about paysites, but Pooklet (at least!) says no use of their color actions for pay content, so... no paysites.
Praise be unto Quaxi for SimPE, Jfade (I think? I used to know this) for the Wardrobe Wrangler, and DJ for the Compressorizer, as well as to Lyn for making sure I had a working copy of Photoshop back when.
As ever when I do accessories, you can download one of two ways; as straight-up glasses-bin accessories or as Bon Voyage jewelry. Should you grab the jewelry versions, the HOODED cloak is binned as a NOSE RING (Sims can wear it with any of my hats, but not my Ja/Daislia Altair hoods), while the DRAPED (no-hood) cloak is binned as a NECKLACE (you can't wear any other necklaces with it, but you can still wear hats AND hoods). Accessory versions are layerable with anything but themselves... but I'm not sure if they're flagged for maternity or not. (Jewelry versions are.)
The poly count on the cloak is 1952. To me that seems pretty reasonable, but I don't know your computer.
Long hairs tend to clip. They can clip a lot. Cynnix's coifs clip through the ties. All of my women's hairs that aren't either short or headcloths clip through the hoods. If you're looking for a loose hair for your Sims to wear with this cloak without the hood, you're looking for something very full, particularly through the back where the drape bulges out.
All in all, there are issues, yes, but for me they're not deal-breaking issues because look at the cloaks check out the title card again the cloaks bend when they sit and don't just swing through Sims' bodies.
Okay, here's the ACTUAL important part. The download links! (Swatches are included.)
Hooded Cloak, Pooklet's Project Mayhem Naturals
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY:
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Draped Cloak, Pooklet's Project Mayhem Naturals
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Hooded Cloak, Aelia's Autumn
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Draped Cloak, Aelia's Autumn
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Hooded Cloak, CuriousB's Any Color You Like
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Draped Cloak, CuriousB's Any Color You Like
DOWNLOAD ACCESSORY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
DOWNLOAD BV JEWELRY
On Mediafire | On Sims File Share
Thank you, thank you, and if anyone wants to make MORE cloaks using Cynnix's bone assignmets, I beg you to start with the Kairouan cloak in this download. Please please pretty please. My Sims need more cloaks and I think I've got an idea how to fix some of the weird stacking issues Bon Voyage jewelry sometimes has.
Wanna help me feed my cats?
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.
