Cross-Pollination 2: Skellified!

[hat_plays_sims]

So, eight-- wow, eight years ago-- I posted Cross-Pollination for Cynnix, because there were very few things I wouldn't do for Cynnix, and there wasn't much to it on my part-- just copying Kittylynn74's plant tunic, plantkini, and plantshorts recolors onto Cocomama's child and teen plantsim meshes, Tig's stone age toddler tunic, and some underwear. Then four years ago, Skell posted some brand new plantsim tunic colors, which she did for CU-EU, which, fantastic... but I wanted matching toddlers and plantshorts and plantkinis, too.



So here I am, going back to that 'all I did was--' well again.

"You should have used terracotta, but you were still right to kill that guy." --Texts From Superheroes (with bonus guide to keeping succulents alive)

So unlike the last Cross-Pollination, I actually did have to do some work here; also unlike the last Cross-Pollination, nothing is pinned to Seasons. (Do you want that? I can do that if you want that, I did it for myself.) Skell's original tunics are thus not included, go grab them from her, but I did use them.

See okay what happened was, a while back, I broke my original testerhood. These things happen, don't delete the contents of your Storytelling folder. Whoops. And my new testerhood-- well, generally I throw things in the testerhood, from Sims to lots, when I have something I want to test, so it's been sparsely populated. I needed to make myself a new Plantsim Testing Lot.



So, Skell's new plant tunics in their lovely new colors, from left to right, White on Manzanita, Yellow-Green on Elm, Gold on Oak, Dark Green on Stamen, and Orange on Primrose. The Sims, I saved from my old game via Sim Surgery; they still have Plantsim facepaint on.


Plantkini on Maxis AF (Elm), barely-visible Plantshorts on Maxis AM (Oak), Plantkini on Androgyny AF (Primrose).

I threw them onto the lot and had them start chatting and realized I forgot to actually turn them into Plantsims (meaning their motives could ruin my day any second).


Foreground: Plantkini on Athletic Girl AF (Manzanita), Plantkini on Maxis AF (Elm). Background: Plantshorts on Maxis AM (Oak).

Back to chatting on my lovely woodsy lot! Right, so what I did for this was, I took Skell's gorgeous new colors and cut them to absolute ribbons in order to make matching Plantkinis. Plantshorts were easy-- the branch work is the belt-- but the bikini tops required me to carefully match and cut pieces off of not only the leafy tunic but the viney leg wraps.


Plantshorts on Androgyny AM (Stamen).

But once I had all the textures done (five colors each for plantshorts and plantkinis), it was a simple matter to make plantshorts for not only Maxis, but Runner Guy and Magpie's Androgyny-- both male and female-- and plantkinis for Maxis, Athletic Girl, and Androgyny, again, female and male. Children and toddlers only got plantshorts, as they have nothing to hide, but it's possible I may someday do... plantbandeus?


Plantshorts on Maxis AM (Oak).

AND YOU WOULD THINK that, at this point, I'd quit it with the in-game pics since I only made five Sims so you're not seeing all ages and bodytypes in action, but apparently when I dubbed my working folder 'Skellified!' I REALLY FRICKIN' MEANT IT


the GRIM FUCKING REAPER, ladies and gentlemen and distinguished guests (Psychosim Default)

STRUCK BY SATELLITE/METEOR

THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE

WHAT


Androgyny AM, THE DING-DANG GRIM REAPER, Maxis AF, Athletic Girl AF

So you get more in-game pics.

These were brand new Sims, okay, it was 3:30 on their first afternoon when this happened.


Death and the Maiden

Elm there had the highest relationship score with poor unfortunate Oak, but that relationship score was 33, so. This did not work out as well as it could have.


Coping mechanisms

So!

An adventure was had by all. Especially me, as that had LITERALLY never happened to me before. I've been playing this game since it dropped, and this is my first Death By Satellite. I didn't even see it happen? I was trying to take pictures of the girls on the swing (the first time they tried to use it) and then caught a glimpse of FIRE through the trees.

Let's. Let's do downloads, shall we?


Skell's textures carefully smooshed onto Tiggerypum's Jagged Dress. Unisex, and enabled for all categories.

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Plantshorts for toddlers! Skell's colors, enabled for all categories except Outerwear. Unisex, and needs no meshes (uses your own PU nude default).

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Plantshorts for children! Needs no mesh, unisex, all categories but Outerwear, Skell's colors.

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Plantkinis for teen girls! Those branches took a lot of work, okay. A LOT of work. But they match Kittylynn's originals, and they don't need meshes, and they are enabled for all categories except Outerwear. Because even a plantsim would freeze.

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Plantshorts for TM! No outerwear, no meshes needed.

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Adult Female! Same as above, these don't need meshes and don't have outerwear, and enabled JUST for Young Adult and Adult Female.

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Same as the ladies, basically: Adult men come with no meshes, adult men NEED no meshes. All categories except Outerwear because who am I to tell you this isn't a Maternity outfit, and enabled for Young Adult and Adult only.

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As I said on the original Cross-Pollination, my Elder Females look a little trim and perky, because I have a Warlokk X-hi-res default for EF nude, swim, and undies. (Because EF breasts are a pet peeve of mine; yes boobs sag but not like that), and it's just more space-efficient for me to use that and elder-enabled adult clothes. Your EF will be wearing your default mesh, in whatever arrangement of nips and toes that might have.

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Elder males! Skell's colors! No Outerwear! No mesh needed!

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Athletic Girl Teens are on a Cynnix mesh, with sexyfeet but no nipples or crotch details. Here you get both Kittylynn74's original colors AND Skell's new colors, because I wasn't using bodyshapes eight years ago, and Athletic Girls can be Plantsims, too. No outerwear, mesh included.

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Teen Runner Guy with sexyfeet on a Cynnix mesh, Kittylynn74 and Skell colors! I am a bad girl and I use Runner and LBB pretty interchangeably; they're similar dimensions. I like Jaccirocker's RNR nude more, though.

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Athletic Girl YAEF-- young adult, adult, and elder female-- on a Cynnix mesh, no outerwear, Kittylynn and Skell's colors. This one is YAEF only because... uh, is there an Athletic Elder?

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Runner Guy! YAEM because there are no hard-bodied separate elder meshes, Kittylynn's colors, again a Cynnix mesh, this whole thing is very repetitive, all categories but outerwear.

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Plantkinis for Magpie's Androgyny, teen female! Yeah the tops on the Plantkinis don't look as good as they could. Maybe someday I'll do plantbandeaus. But not today. (Maybe someone ELSE will do them so I don't have to!) All categories but outerwear, mesh by Jaccirocker included.

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Androgyny Plantshorts for TF! Yeah -shorts and -kini are important suffixes now. The Androgyny bodyshape doesn't actually HAVE boobs, so there was no reason not to use both textures for both genders. Note these have a slightly different alpha and are not just the plantkini bottoms with the top alpha'd out! Mesh and categories are the same, though.

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Androgyny Plantshorts for teen males! Kittylynn's textures and my attack on Skell's textures, all categories but outerwear, mesh by Jaccirocker.

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Androgynous Plantkinis for TM! Weirdly I think the top looks better on the boys than the girls.

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Androgyny Plantkinis for Young Adult and Adult Female! That's right, this one is not elder-enabled.

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And the matching Plantshorts for Androgyny YAF! All categories except Outerwear, Jaccirocker meshes.

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Androgynous Plantshorts for Young Adult and Adult males!

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And YAM gentlemen's Androgynous Plantkinis! It's Jacci meshes through to the end here.

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Androgyny Plantkinis for Elder Females! Kittylynn74 and Skell colors, all categories except Outerwear, mesh by Jaccirocker included.

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Plantshorts! Androgyny! Elder Female! Kittylynn74! Skell! No outerwear!

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Androgyny Plantshorts for Elder Males!

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Plantkinis! Surely you know what I would say here by now. Oak died for this.

Download!

And that's the end of that. And of Oak.


I didn't save. I'm not a monster, he was seven hours out of CAS.

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Comments

[dlichnum]

You know, not *exactly* tied to the clothing, but do you think you'd ever be open to sharing your genetic setup? Several people have on tumblr with various systems but I understand if its not something you're keen on. ^_^

[hat_plays_sims]

... I mean. Define 'my genetic setup'? Like, I did go and change the sortindex values of my skintones to match their genetic values (which makes Body Shop very pretty and finding where a skin belongs in the genetic range a lot easier), but as long as a skin works with sexyfeet and Warlokk's XHi-Res (or can be quickly edited), I'm not what you'd call picky. 99.9% of my hairs and beards are my own, I just re-bin so the grays are pinned to black and then bundle 'em, and I've been doing geneticized time bomb on new hairs. A quick glance at my Downloads folder shows that all my custom brows are either Trapping's Creating A New View or December brows. I do stick to one eyeset, which got the browns WELL expanded back in 2016...

So, yeah, do you mean 'how do I geneticize skins' (light to dark, but only going to the hundredths place) or 'did I edit the default genetic values of hairtones and eye colors' (yes) or 'what are my defaults' (Panaquolus Maritime eyes, JWilson Louis Adult Sexyfeet skins, Magpie & Ja's hairs, FantasyRogue's beards, RenSim Retooled Alien Aqua eyes (along with my Stolen By Fairies stuff), currently Navetsea's FInEvo 4 Zombie but that may change, RenSim's Dumas Vampire, my own Androgynous Oak Servos, still shopping for correlated werewolves, my ow Plantsim skin still, Sawcat's Astiees Glitter Purple Stardust genie, and currently HP's invisible Good Witch and Phaenoh's Lighter Wicked Witch but now that MGSB has neutral overlays I may work on my own), or... something else?

[dlichnum]

I meant more along the lines of what Vimpse [https://vimpse.tumblr.com/post/65249483673] or Esotheria [https://esotheria-sims.tumblr.com/post/668840578242445312/as-requested-by-one-very-enthusiastic-anon-today] did, though now I'm gonna be super nosy and looking up what you posted here.

Also would you like some links to new supernatural related things that have came out? I don't know if you're on tumblr (though if you are I'd love to follow you, Simblr or not :D] I'm thinking something like so might be interesting to you [https://rockethorse.tumblr.com/post/704875623528742912/day-twenty-seven-new-and-updated-good-evil] (The rune version to be most specific, but maybe the dead and crystal hands) or perhaps wolf ears [https://jellymeduza.tumblr.com/post/686701607373750272/supernatural-faces-default-replacements-i-like]/ [https://pixeldolly.tumblr.com/post/669373028353916928/lovely-lycan-werewolf-ears-matching-lifas-dear]

.....can you tell I'm not a forum user? I don't know how to do the pretty in word links like you did.

[hat_plays_sims]

... I actually feel like that would be kind of weird? I haven't just geneticized, towniefied, and BINX-sorted my collection of skintones, I've slapped on noise for sexyfeet and moved nipples for Warlokk mapping and replaced EF textures with AF-- or heavily edited EF textures-- because I have an EF default nude that uses Warlokk's XHires mapping. I can run you through how I make the decisions I make, and I can't put my finger on why the idea of sharing skintones I've tweaked bothers me more than sharing something I've edited to be more historically-adequate. But it bugs me; I'm not comfortable just tossing that much of someone else's work out there. Maybe it's because I don't generally make skins myself?

I keep an eye on a few tumblrs, though I don't have one of my own-- though with supernatural defaults, I'll admit I'm more looking to make or edit my own at this point. Like, hairtone-correlated werewolves are great, but I need to not only find one I like but also make sure all five shades work with all four Project Mayhem blonds, browns, blacks, reds, and grays, so that might take a lot of tweaking on my part. I haven't decided if witch overlays should be mystical, tattoos, or paint yet, or how I want to differentiate between alignments, or even if I'm going tear apart the spells to make that good-neutral-evil alignment scale... something else, cos I've also got G-Rated Religion banning and allowing things and the Good and Evil traits that can be used to affect who can cast which spells. So I've got some worldbuilding to do there.

Dreamwidth runs on HTML, not forum BBC, so to make a fancy link, you'd use pointy brackets: < > for most things. To italicize, you'd use <I>your text here</i>, for bold it's B, for underline U, to center it's... center. For a link, it's a little fancier: <a href="https://rockethorse.tumblr.com/post/704875623528742912/day-twenty-seven-new-and-updated-good-evil">Your Text Here</a>, and for an inline image it's <img src="https://i.imgur.com/QAnT06Z.jpg"> with no need for any closing tag.

[dlichnum]

That's understandable and I hope I wasn't overly rude asking or made you feel pressured. I feel you about needing custom supernaturals for your worldbuilding though. I can find something workable, if nothing else, for everything except werewolf, for what I feel might be somewhat obvious reasons

I'd love to read your worldbuilding if you ever decide to make share. I'm going through your blog backwards at the moment as I build up my own game so I'm re-reading the posts so I know the little bit you've sprinkled through the cc-sharing, but I admit I like seeing gameplay pics and you're just rambly posts too.

I just grabbed the religion mod, but HDCU says it conflicts with a lot of traits and Midge witch mods. I was gonna mention it on that particular post but I was gonna 1) wait to see how bad it was in game and 2) was worried it would be weird to start a different conversation while also having this one. I don't want you to feel spammed by me.

[hat_plays_sims]

You weren't rude at all, it just feels like it falls into a sort of... Not-Okay Valley? I dunno. Feels okay to share things that have been given tiny edits (geneticized, townie-enabled, or sortindex edits), feels okay to share things that have been given extensive edits (recolored, retextured, stripped to the studs and rebuilt), but pile up enough little edits and it stops feeling like I'm building respectfully off someone else's work and instead smugly "fixing" it.

It sounds like this plus the hair fix is what you need for your werewolf default?

I've got a big worldbuilding document, but it's constantly evolving as I decide where I'm stealing from (history, folklore, Discworld which may count as both, my high school Witchy Phase), so not a lot is in any real shape to share. I have fun researching! And I'm thrilled you like my rambling.

Yeah, currently Religion is not really set up for Traits or Midge's witch mod. At the moment you can choose whether traits or faith or traits or witch expansion wins by load order; a Traits of the Faithful project is on my to-do list, but I gotta teach myself how to religion-edit BHAVs again. I swear every time I learn a new thing about editing BHAVs, I forget it after three months.

[dlichnum]

Ah yes, that's perfect! I bet I've seen that mod a dozen times and it just didn't register because I didn't need it at that time.

Religion-enabled traits sounds awesome. I have a lot of the new medieval or medievalized versions, but a few of them have no behaviours tied to them which is a little sad. It's something I want to look into more so I can make some cc beyond just simple simpe edit. I'm assuming you're making traits aware of religion, but new traits would be equally cool as well.

I'm the same way about forgetting how to make cc since I mess with many games, including all four sims and they all work differently, but hopefully it's more of a refresher instead of learning an entirely new skill

[hat_plays_sims]

The general idea, for Traits of the Faithful, is to combine the two mods-- off the top of my head, things like... if a Sim has the Evil trait, then their faith will not stop them from... probably just from things that fall under Wrath, Violence, and Theft (Affably Evil is a trope, after all). But it's something where I have to go through ALL the traits and all the religion checks and figure out which gets what sort of check and which traits outweigh religion checks. I don't intend to make new traits, because there are SO MANY traits. And figure out spells.

TM Shorts don't show

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

I downloaded the normal TM version of the shorts, but they don't show up instead they're show like a maxis outfit. Like when a mesh is missing. Is it possible the link goes to a another version? Can you please take a look? Thanks!

Re: TM Shorts don't show

[hat_plays_sims]

... Okay, that's... really weird. I could swear I used a basic underwear mesh.

Looking at some internal filenames... What may have happened is me mistaking an Improved Male Fatmorph add-on for a Maxis mesh (which is weird because if I did that, I only did it for TM plantshorts and not my Medieval braises). Chuck this in there, see if it helps?

Re: TM Shorts don't show

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

That indeed did the trick. They show up fine now. Thank you