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hat_plays_simsNightlife's Sit-N-Grin Photobooth (requires Nightlife and) has been given magitek recolors in-- well, the subsets aren't set up particularly fairly, really. And I did not do 20 woods for this one-- just two. ... One, really, but with two minor variations.
I have done two options for the same wood recolor for the 'repeats' subset (one in the original shiny, one in matte), and recolored the tech and the advertisements on the 'surface' subset to match. Then I applied my usual deluxe crayon box of 82 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You Like actions to the curtain-- which is done in Magpie's linen-- and the padded seat of the interior stool, both of which are part of the 'surface' subset.
Insides!
The only areas totally unchanged from the EAxis originals are the camera lens itself, the TV screen, the blue backdrop, and the off-white ceiling. In order, this is because I didn't want to fight with the lens at such a small scale, I'm not sure if the screen Does Anything in action, the backdrop ought to match the photos but I doubt the photos use actual screenshots instead of the same thing the game uses to make UI or family tree portraits, and technically you want a white-ish ceiling anyway, to keep your photobooth from being too dark to take decent photos.
Long-time downloaders will notice that the photobooth's textures match my original non-invisible remote control default replacement, the Bon Voyage point-and-shoot camera, and my Servo defaults. That's because, in my game, this particular oak-and-gold combo is visual shorthand for A Wizard Did It-- this is a FANTASY recolor, not a historical one. I did give some thought to whether or not I should add carvings or advertisements, but I liked how the clean finish looked... and besides, this way, it's easier for someone else to take my "magitek" as a base and turn it into Gaslamp Fantasy with the addition of some fancy scrollwork, or ads for velocipedes and electric corsetry.
But despite my fantasy nonsense, photo booths are absolutely historical for some periods! The first working photo booth (though not reliable enough to not require an operator) was patented in 1890. The first fully-automated reliable photo booth (the curtain showed up later) appeared on Broadway in New York City in 1925. For 25 cents, the booth would take, develop, and print eight photos, which took about ten minutes.
Photo booths were also very popular with queer couples, historically-- for pocket change (okay, okay, in 1925, a quarter was the equivalent of $3.66) and in ten minutes, you could get eight small, easily-hidden photos of you and your sweetheart that nobody else-- not the photographer, not the developer-- ever had to see or judge or promise to keep their mouth shut about.
DOWNLOAD WOOD PANELS
DOWNLOAD POOKLET PROJECT MAYHEM NATURALS
DOWNLOAD AELIA AUTUMN
DOWNLOAD CURIOUSB ACYL
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?'
I have done two options for the same wood recolor for the 'repeats' subset (one in the original shiny, one in matte), and recolored the tech and the advertisements on the 'surface' subset to match. Then I applied my usual deluxe crayon box of 82 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals, Aelia Autumn, and CuriousB Any Color You Like actions to the curtain-- which is done in Magpie's linen-- and the padded seat of the interior stool, both of which are part of the 'surface' subset.
Insides!
The only areas totally unchanged from the EAxis originals are the camera lens itself, the TV screen, the blue backdrop, and the off-white ceiling. In order, this is because I didn't want to fight with the lens at such a small scale, I'm not sure if the screen Does Anything in action, the backdrop ought to match the photos but I doubt the photos use actual screenshots instead of the same thing the game uses to make UI or family tree portraits, and technically you want a white-ish ceiling anyway, to keep your photobooth from being too dark to take decent photos.
Long-time downloaders will notice that the photobooth's textures match my original non-invisible remote control default replacement, the Bon Voyage point-and-shoot camera, and my Servo defaults. That's because, in my game, this particular oak-and-gold combo is visual shorthand for A Wizard Did It-- this is a FANTASY recolor, not a historical one. I did give some thought to whether or not I should add carvings or advertisements, but I liked how the clean finish looked... and besides, this way, it's easier for someone else to take my "magitek" as a base and turn it into Gaslamp Fantasy with the addition of some fancy scrollwork, or ads for velocipedes and electric corsetry.
But despite my fantasy nonsense, photo booths are absolutely historical for some periods! The first working photo booth (though not reliable enough to not require an operator) was patented in 1890. The first fully-automated reliable photo booth (the curtain showed up later) appeared on Broadway in New York City in 1925. For 25 cents, the booth would take, develop, and print eight photos, which took about ten minutes.
Photo booths were also very popular with queer couples, historically-- for pocket change (okay, okay, in 1925, a quarter was the equivalent of $3.66) and in ten minutes, you could get eight small, easily-hidden photos of you and your sweetheart that nobody else-- not the photographer, not the developer-- ever had to see or judge or promise to keep their mouth shut about.
DOWNLOAD WOOD PANELS
DOWNLOAD POOKLET PROJECT MAYHEM NATURALS
DOWNLOAD AELIA AUTUMN
DOWNLOAD CURIOUSB ACYL
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?'
