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

[fantasyrogue.livejournal.com]

Well you never know. People have different standards as to the polycounts and what is reasonable. I always seem to manage to go over the amount I wanted a bit more than I was expecting.

Anyway, promised UV maps: http://www.mediafire.com/?0d0tmnzwm4y

Two UV maps, one per PSD file. Both have text by me scribbled on seperate layers, texture file and bump map file also included in the one PSD. Hopefully that'll be clear enough to figure it out.

Oh that arch looks useful. I am imagining fun conflict with having a guy married to several ladies. Wonder what'd happen in game. I really need to get on creating content to actually be able to play though. Gah.

[hat_plays_sims]

I honestly keep forgetting what's reasonable as to hair poly count; I know five digits is too many, but I've got a couple of stupidly high-poly hairs in my game and I overload my lots with Sims, so... I guess my graphics card can handle it. (It damn well better, since it puts holes in certain meshes and I can't remember how to fix it.)

*nabs UV maps!* Yay!

And yay for notes; these look ridiculously easy to recolor, actually! (Speaking of recoloring, did you see? Very exciting!)

Dude, I know how that goes. Gotta get X, Y, and Z defaulted before I can start playing, but also need to make A, B, and C and move all the GOOD buildings into the lot bin now that I have the actual clean templates, gotta make some garden club townies and some hobby club leaders, gotta... No wonder I'm getting kind of attached to my testerhood.

[fantasyrogue.livejournal.com]

I am not sure these days. Old articles suggest around 1-2k as far as up to 5k max but personally I think that's a bit low and outdated. Opinions vary on the subject though.

I hope it is easy to recolour, I did my best to map it in a way that made some kind of sense (as far as I even had to do that myself, cylinders tend to map out like that anyway in Milkshape). And I did see, sadly I'd already finished recolouring the hair and I'm not personally up for doing the rest. But someone else has offered to do the other shades so they may go up at a slightly later date in my LJ post.

Ugh, yes. I've got a mountain of plans and very little existing stuff to work with. Egyptian content is low in number and there's quite a bit of uh.. questionable quality... And I don't know where to look for items meant for other time periods but that I can also use. I am not that well-versed in the themed game content and where to find the good stuff, sadly. Need to get on that.

I can understand getting attached. Still, personally I never trust my tester hoods to not explode into a fiery ball eventually ;) I tend to abuse cheats, modding stuff and do weird things with them.

[hat_plays_sims]

I know my game tends to run fine with whatever. I've pulled a couple of women's hairs I know to be up in the "WHOA WAT" range, but I tend to leave the men's. Because there's not enough men's hair anywhere ever, except for swishy anime Sims-- and I'm going to have Vikings, so swishy is right out. My computer can handle it-- my graphics card actually outstrips Sims 2 on some things-- but it's hard to think why a hair needs more than ten thousand of anything.

I may do the other shades myself, too, if only so I have them all in one place in the catalog. Man I like having things all in one place in the catalog. I'm a nerdbucket about organization.

I know Blacky's has a LOT of Egyptian stuff-- I have most of their vases-- and depending on when you're setting things, you could always use Greek and Roman content, too. Tarox is a pretty good source, too, though I always wish the textures were larger. And apparently TSR did an 'ancients' theme that garnered some fun items, if you're up for raiding the Booty. I'll keep my eyes open as I wander the webbernets, maybe I'll spot something fun.

Oh, if the testerhood goes belly-up, it goes belly-up. I'll be sad, but I'll also kind of shrug, you know? (I'm sure it's going to explode. I have one kid with busted DNA from an oopsie while I was swapping out PTs, I get squiggly lines every so often... So far no kids with adult wants, though.)

[fantasyrogue.livejournal.com]

My game has no issues with it either as my graphics card is kinda a bit too much for the Sims XD (I game a lot and really, The Sims 2 is not that new anymore, comparitively speaking). But I know it's not that way for everyone. I am trying not to giggle at the idea of a viking in swishy hair. Maybe he's a very fashionable viking. I can think of a few reasons but not many, when I did that dreadlock style for the secret santa, that one's just shy of 9k and that was after polycount reductions because I insisted on meshing each dreadlock on.

Go ahead. I didn't do it because I'd already finished just before pooklet released the new actions and I find it somewhat tedious work so didn't want to go back and delay this thing even more. I am a stickler for organization myself and wouldn't have binned it the way I have for personal use. But I thought cutting the elder age out for most colours in favor of Time Bomb would be more restrictive than vice versa. I don't personally use the neons either. But deciding what the best thing to do with hairs is hard, everyone has a different opinion on the matter.

I generally find Blacky's somewhat of a pain to navigate so I admit I haven't checked there yet. I could use some greek and roman content. I'd considered certainly sticking one or two sims in from different cultural backgrounds if even for something as simple as genetic diversity (plus, what fun it'd be to see what one or two blonde sims could do to a community made up mostly, but not exclusively, of dark hair colours, recessive wise. Probably not much, but hey, fun to dream).

I think it does not help that I reject a bunch of the Egyptian content on quality reasons and also on lack of correctness reasons. I've spent weeks now looking at Egyptian historical stuff so some of the faux stuff is rubbing me the wrong way. I'm terrible! I'm sure I'd mess it up just as badly once I start crafting my own stuff to use.

That's a good attitude to have towards it. Whatever happens, happens. Squiggly lines aren't the end of the world. And the adult wants for kids could be amusing (I had sims roll pet related wants once for a werewolf sim of mine. It was hilarious. Especially since he was/is an unemployed bum and half of them rolled wants for him to get a pet job)

[hat_plays_sims]

Mm, I'd be thrilled with my graphics card if it weren't SO good that it puts holes in a couple of meshes that're hard to live without-- both Tiggerypum's long dresses for girls, the vampire dresses from the Sims 2 Store, and a bunch of stuff that came with later expansions that doesn't annoy me so much because I use hiders on it. But yeah, every computer is different and not everybody can plunk down however much for a good graphics card. Although I think everybody understands dreadlock meshes are going to be a little bit high poly-- and your dreadlock mesh is awesome, it may just be going on a couple of my Twikkii Islanders when I get around to my big Let's Make Over the Founders-- AGAIN! project. (You get some new eyes, some new clothes, some new hair, you start being glad you're only prepping your hood instead of playing it...)

Blacky's is a pain in the ASS to navigate, this is true. And there's a lot of junk. But there are also some good meshes, so it's worth a crawl-- I've got a whole mess of animals from there that I wouldn't want to do without, even if they are all statue-y. And hey, the Egyptians liked exotic slaves just as much as everyone else. No reason not to throw in a few Gauls.

I hear you on accuracy. My big project after the Default Replace Everything project will be making some accurate Medieval clothing, so I can finally delete everything with a bodice (except the AAS corset undies, I love them too much).

... So basically, they had a pet werewolf. Awesome.