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hat_plays_simsOnce Upon A Time, long long ago when I could still remember my login information for Garden of Shadows, Darkmoon texture-referenced a lot of really nifty furniture pieces together for me. One-- er, two of those pieces are right here-- a bench and a table from Kativip's Legend Series SD02 pack of extracted meshes from I-don't-know-what-game.
Look at these, man. Classy and rich-looking while still being used-looking. You can't really use them like this, of course, the bench is a loveseat and the table is... uh, a standard two-tile table. But I kept most of the original textures, only overlaying them with some Piggi Wood 03 for grain. And I'm very pleased with how they turned out!
Broad daylight view on the swatch lot. I never did get around to repricing these, so the bench is available in the Sofa section for $20, while the table is in Tables for $80. The table is, in my opinion, the most useful of the two pieces, and luckily it's also the lead for the texture-referencing.
Are these historically accurate pieces?
Well.
Can you see what has me so excited on this detail shot of the bench? It's not the carving, the carving is a little... foliate and slightly Romanesque for my needs (but still very pretty so I kept it). Nope! Here, here's a clearer shot--
Trestles!
Pegs and trestles!
This is flatpack furniture, guys, it could be disassembled and stored in a chest to travel with it or leaned up against the wall in order or clear the floor of the Great Hall so you could use that space for dancing or audiences or servant sleeping areas or whatever, not just feasting!
This is a super exciting thing and something I'm always looking for because most of the tables I see have permanently attached legs. Which were a thing in the Middle Ages, but they were a very posh thing, because who had the space to devote a whole hall to just eating? To just audiences or dancing? Whose castle had enough space to have barracks for soldiers and quarters for servants?
In the early part of the period, hardly anybody, and while the higher-- and wealthier-- nobles started to add more rooms onto the basic 'single family home plus Great Hall plus emergency food storage for the whole town plus defenses for that food storage' floorplan of the average castle, it was really expensive to heat all those rooms until the invention of the chimney, in the early Renaissance. And early chimneys were experimental technology, prone to fires and collapses.
... Anyway, trestles are very exciting.
You get them, of course, in all of Pooklet's Project Mayhem naturals-- yes, the grays look a little odd, and I'm not too sure about Flash Powder and Primer, either, but maybe you really need a scuffed-up silvery-gray tabletop, or a blue-black for your goth wizard's tower, or something. I just make the things, I don't guess how other people use them.
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Sun & Moon's vermin-control cat just. Works really well in a shot with Eva's deco rats and that needs to be shown off, too.
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
Look at these, man. Classy and rich-looking while still being used-looking. You can't really use them like this, of course, the bench is a loveseat and the table is... uh, a standard two-tile table. But I kept most of the original textures, only overlaying them with some Piggi Wood 03 for grain. And I'm very pleased with how they turned out!
Broad daylight view on the swatch lot. I never did get around to repricing these, so the bench is available in the Sofa section for $20, while the table is in Tables for $80. The table is, in my opinion, the most useful of the two pieces, and luckily it's also the lead for the texture-referencing.
Are these historically accurate pieces?
Well.
Can you see what has me so excited on this detail shot of the bench? It's not the carving, the carving is a little... foliate and slightly Romanesque for my needs (but still very pretty so I kept it). Nope! Here, here's a clearer shot--
Trestles!
Pegs and trestles!
This is flatpack furniture, guys, it could be disassembled and stored in a chest to travel with it or leaned up against the wall in order or clear the floor of the Great Hall so you could use that space for dancing or audiences or servant sleeping areas or whatever, not just feasting!
This is a super exciting thing and something I'm always looking for because most of the tables I see have permanently attached legs. Which were a thing in the Middle Ages, but they were a very posh thing, because who had the space to devote a whole hall to just eating? To just audiences or dancing? Whose castle had enough space to have barracks for soldiers and quarters for servants?
In the early part of the period, hardly anybody, and while the higher-- and wealthier-- nobles started to add more rooms onto the basic 'single family home plus Great Hall plus emergency food storage for the whole town plus defenses for that food storage' floorplan of the average castle, it was really expensive to heat all those rooms until the invention of the chimney, in the early Renaissance. And early chimneys were experimental technology, prone to fires and collapses.
... Anyway, trestles are very exciting.
You get them, of course, in all of Pooklet's Project Mayhem naturals-- yes, the grays look a little odd, and I'm not too sure about Flash Powder and Primer, either, but maybe you really need a scuffed-up silvery-gray tabletop, or a blue-black for your goth wizard's tower, or something. I just make the things, I don't guess how other people use them.
Sun & Moon's vermin-control cat just. Works really well in a shot with Eva's deco rats and that needs to be shown off, too.
Behold the Tip Jar!
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'
Trestles!!
Date: 2023-03-20 01:48 pm (UTC)