Yammering, Missed Money Default, Coming Soon...

[hat_plays_sims]

You know, let's start with the missed default.



"But Hat," you may say, "You did the tip jar!"

I know, I know, but I wasn't happy with it, and I discovered that when you tip a significant amount (fifty, anyway, not sure about twenty-five), you drop bills as well as coins in the jar, and the bills had YET ANOTHER texture to fix. (Also, I hated the masking tape.)

So, fixed that up, and now there's a new default in town.

DOWNLOAD REVISED TIP JAR

I'ma go update the main post in a minute here.

Anyway, so the other day I made a post in The Wishing Tree totally begging for Medieval ladies' hats because a) What we got stinks, yo and b) at the time, I thought we only had two crapsack meshes.

But then I made a discovery!

Bipsouille has a passable hennin mesh (coiffures page four) that's actually really nicely animated and would be great for Medieval ladies (at least high-born ones, later in the period)... but it's got one small problem.



And that's the stabbing.

I somehow don't think it's appropriate to edit my Wishing Tree post just to add that in, but damn I am disappointed that mesh went all IM IN UR THORACIC CAVITY, SNIPPIN UR SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF! Is that a simple fix? At all? I'll trade something for a fix. Dunno what, but I totally will, because meshes are totally outside my skillset.

Yeah, okay, for those of you who don't care about hats (or me sticking to my 'one pic outside a cut' rule), coming soon!

Do your Sims tire of wintering at home? Do they wish they could visit somewhere sunny and tropical, despite the fact that they're period Sims and look stupid carting around primary-colored luggage or sunbathing (even if it does ruin their complexions) on terrycloth towels emblazoned with aviator sunglasses? Well, I am nearly done with a set that'll fix all that, or should! There will be beach towels with woven patterns, a bamboo firedancing stick, much more interesting massage oil, and...



Well, I'm not sure I like the shading yet, and those are Bloom's suitcases-as-clutter, but the mapping is the same and it's a hell of a lot handier than sending someone on vacation. They may be getting re-done in leather, however... but I just plain don't think I'm going to be happy with these at all. There's no such THING as a Medieval suitcase.

Comments

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

There may be no such thing as a medieval suitcase, but yours are looking pretty darn good for the period! :)

Thanks for the new tip jar, maybe now I won't get so annoyed when my and guest Sims decide to busk at inappropriate times and in inappropriate places. Because at least it will look medieval!

I like Bipsouille Sims for the meshes; it's thanks to them, ulimately, that Queen Alison has her gable hood (I think that's what it's called?) and Isabel and Morgause their French hoods. Yes, yes, Tudor =/= medieval, but when your kingdom's princess threatens to turn the princes into toads on a daily basis, that's when I consider it time to "screw accuracy." ;)

Anyway, thanks for these and can't wait to see what else you come up with!

PS: LOVE your I-Am-A-Tree plantsim defaults!! Ash and Marigold look great!

[fantasyrogue.livejournal.com]

I am willing to take a look at the Bipsouille mesh for you. The stabbity is typically simply a case of the bones not being assigned to the spine so they can curve along with a sim's back. It's not usually a huge deal to fix (barring those few headache inducing monstrosities that sometimes appear in the CC-world). And I'm one of those weirdos that happens to like fixing hairs. This hair appears to only come in adult female size, so that's only one mesh to fix anyway.

On the hat note, I am still working on the crispinette. I hopefully have most of the mesh where I want it now http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c252/Fantasyrogue/SimsCreations/CrispinetteWIP.jpg Still need to fix the braid texture, need to texture the hat itself (veil texture is temporary, I yoinked that off a maxis bridal veil), would like to add more (alpha editable) veils if I can figure out how to make the darn things wrap around properly.

Anyway, don't mean to hijack the post here. On the suitcases, would it not be possible to texture them like wood with latches? They might look a bit more like chests.. chests with a handle and a slightly odd shape, but still.