hat_plays_sims | What You Wish For (Semi-Invisible Spiritual Shrine Recolors)

I play Medieval. (Yes, yes, everyone knows.) My Medieval Sims have a house of worship. It's very handy, really-- I use the Gray Woman statue as a central feature. I also like to use the Spiritual Shrine of Odd Blessings from Bon Voyage as a sort of poor box or collection plate-- Sims toss a coin in and maybe get a minor miracle for their charity.

Except, well. The style of the thing doesn't really mesh with the style of my churches, and I always kind of want to stick the Gray Woman statue behind the offering bowl and... well, when I tried that, she had roof sticking out of her skirts. Not very flattering.

So I says to myself, I says, "Hat, the first object recolors you made were invisible. Surely you can do it again!" After I told myself not to call me Shirley, I set to work.

If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.

Okay, so. The original shrine looks like this:

And can be found in the Sculpture section of the catalog. You throw a Simoleon into the shrine, it lights up, you get a good wish, a bad wish, or bupkis, and then it takes a Sim hour or so before you can wish again. Sims will sometimes roll a want to make a wish on a lot with a Shrine.

I removed the sign for all recolors (sorry, sign, your UV mapping drove me buggy), and had to remove the scattered coins-- they're slaved to one coin, so if I left the ones on the ground, I'd be leaving the ones on the roof, too. Floating coins! Aside from that, they come in various combinations of no house, no pedestal, and no fence. You get all four recolors above-- they're clearly labeled, feel free to pick and choose.

Now. What can you do with a semi-invisible Spirtual Shrine of Odd Blessings?

First, turn Move Objects on. You may also want to turn Snap Objects to Grid off. Then, select your favorite godlike statue.

For no-pedestal shrines, just plop that godlike statue directly behind the offering bowl. For shrines with pedestals, you will most likely need to use a shiftable OMSP. Aphrodite is on one, as well as the sun disk.

As you can see, the shrine still works with the invisible recolor. The wish effects may look silly with some statues, but at least you still get them.

This object does have some flaws-- one of them, you can see in my outdoor photos. I couldn't remove the shadows for the shrine, so if you use the fenceless recolor, you're stuck with fence shadows. Sorry about that. The simple solution is to use the fenceless version indoors. (The shadow of the shrine itself doesn't bother me as much-- you'll probably be putting a statue there, after all, which will cast its own shadow.)

No shadows there, see?

Second, as you zoom out, the original roofline occasionally becomes a little bit visible.

Inside the circle. Circle itself is just Photoshop. I gave it my best, but it's one of those flickery little things. It doesn't show at all at tight zooms, and a larger statue will probably hide it completely. The UV mapping on this mofo is a little confusing, and I pared down absolutely everything I could without leaving holes in the offering bowl.

Speaking of the offering bowl...

I thought gold coins only was a little optimistic. These also match my money defaults.

The usual boilerplate applies-- if no money changes hands, do what you will with these. If you make new recolors based on mine, please link me to them-- I'd love some new textures for this. Do not upload to TSR, do not use for paysites or donation files unless you agree to the terms listed in my policy, as shown on the sidebar and in the Read-Me.

As a caveat, alpha-editing an object (which is all an invisible recolor is) only means that you can't see those polys, not that the game stops rendering them. If you load down your lot with shrines and statues and it lags like hell, well. Dude.

This requires Bon Voyage, or you're just wasting space in your downloads folder. Speaking of wasting space, this has been compressorized, so you're at least not wasting too much of it. Speaking of invisible objects, many thanks must go to Lord Darcy and HugeLunatic for their mini-tutorials on invisible object creation.

... Yep, that's about all you need to know.

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