Opinions?

[hat_plays_sims]

Okay so magical_girl_sandbox remapped someone else's 4t2 hat for me (so that there wasn't a ton of wasted space, because TS4 is... like that?), towards my goal of making some halo bonnets but. I am thwarted by some very TS2-basegame-esque Maxis mappping.

The dang brim blurs.

Not enough to not DO the hat (I have encountered a few where the textures make recoloring look easy but whatever underpaid modeler made the thing did not account for anybody ever wanting to put a pattern on it), and I can definitely do solid contrasts on the underside of the brim and a nice bit of banding around the edges, but I wanted to trim the HECK out of them, so I am slightly bummed I can't, like. Add brocades and ouches and criss-cross trimming and otherwise going hog wild the way I did on my crispinettes. The underside is too blurry for anything but Very Straight Lines to look okay, but the top...



I seek opinions. Would that edge trimming be worth it in a contrasting color? That's as good as it gets, and I can still sorta tell what kind of trim it's supposed to be, but.

Would you download that?

(Also I had to settle for very plain brooches on this hat already. Every time I tried to fancy them up, either the mesh's math and Medieval math did not want to cooperate, or they fit the mesh but looked like delicious cookies. The things I do for hats.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'd download it! I think it might be worth it do the trim in contrasting colors but I'm personally not too fussed about it.

[hat_plays_sims]

It's gonna be a nice-looking hat even if all I can do are contrasting solid strips, I think! What I'm gonna do when I get back around to the hats is... mess with it a little. Run the color actions over the trimmed versions, see if there are colors that benefit from Colorful Yet Indistinct Trim. I might be able to get more clarity by doubling the texture size, but the rest of the hat wouldn't benefit much and they're 512x512 already.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd download it! I also agree with the other commenter above who said it might be worth it to do the contrasting colors but they wouldn't be terribly put out if it didn't happen.

[hat_plays_sims]

If I do it at all, I'll do it in colors. I will certainly do flat colors? Like, if you follow the Halo Bonnet link to Kat's Hats, there's a lady with a yellow hat trimmed in black, and I can certainly do that, and another gall with a burgundy hat whose brim underside is in pale blue, and I can do that. (I can't do the brocade or the fancy spangles, but I can do the color.) If I'm adding trim, it's not gonna be self-colored trim, it'll be a contrast or gold or silver (... actually probably, like. Incendiary or Mail Bomb) to match the brooch holding the feathers down.

I'm getting my accessory mojo back with some jewelry (lovely stuff, jewelry, if I limit myself to extant examples and reproductions I don't have to do eighty-two colors of everything), but I'll definitely play around with the hats some more this week.