La Esmeralda (SAU MYOS F14 Pooklet'd)

[hat_plays_sims]

2022 Notice: I am not changing the pics in this post to something less... what they are. 2010 Hat did not know a few things that turned out to be Unfortunate Ethnic Stereotypes, although somehow I did not use any ethnic slurs while thinking they were neutral things. I have grown! But a major edit of this post feels like trying to hide that I've grown, and that I was not always a person who could look at something like the clothes on the Sims in this post and go 'oh yikes.' So, yeah, some unfortunate portrayals of Roma/Romanii stereotypes below.

So I have always wanted supercurly hair in The Sims. Like, always. Stereotypical Irish step-dancer extreme 80s perm 'Wow is your hair naturally curly?' Bernadette Peters type spiral curls. Alas, the people who make 20,000 poly meshes never seem to want to go to that much trouble. MYOS 14 fakes it well-- the mesh is all flat panes, but it's the right shape for ludicrous curls, and I've always wanted to poke at the alpha to see if the weird, obviously flat pieces could be trimmed off the top and sides.

And they can!


Hurry, hurry, here's your chance!
See the finest girl in France
Make an entrance to entrance!
Dance, La Esmeralda, dance!

Let's get one thing perfectly clear: I cannot retexture hair. I have Photoshop 6, and I am not a good enough pirate to figure out how to get any better version. I have no warp tool, and while Liquefy seemed to have potential, I quickly realized I was going to get nowhere fast with it. All I can do is recolor hair. These textures belong to Alkaloid over at Mod the Sims. And really, the colors belong to Pooklet. All I did was push buttons. Lots and lots of buttons.



And the mesh-- which is included-- works for all ages, and comes in all of Pooklet's new naturals, plus Time Bomb in the custom bin because you never know when you're going to want to scare a Sim so bad their hair turns white, right?

However, this is an older mesh, and it does have some... some flaws.



... Yeah. Yeah, like that. But extreme head-turning is usually over pretty quickly-- I wouldn't have noticed how funky things got if I weren't trying to take a picture of it.

MOST of the time, and from most angles, this mesh ain't half bad.

2022 Edit: See the end of the post for an updated mesh by Cynnix that does not do... that.

"But Hat," you say, "What do we get?"

You get this:



Yep, there's a homebrew gray in there (Time Bomb multiplied over Mail Bomb in Family Two, if you're like me and desperately needed another gray to make things nice and even). Colors are binned according to Pooklet's scheme, except I hate the weird random hair color changes that seem to happen when you leave the elders with adult hair colors, so. Elders get gray. Feel free to change that if it bugs you.

Hokay, so, specific policy real quick: NO PAYSITES. Alkaloid says no and these are her textures, Pooklet says no and these are her colors. I dunno what Sim Artists' Union says, they seem to have folded. Credit goes, naturally, to Pooklet, Alkaloid, and SAU. Thanks to Theo for the Color Binning Tool, and to Quaxi for SimPE, without which fixing tooltips would be a real pain in the butt. As ever I am ludicrously grateful to Lyn for making sure I have a working copy of Photoshop.

And this right here is exclusive to Dreamwidth! (Please forgive me if Photobucket dies. I have a week left until it refreshes itself, and apparently I've been popular for not having uploaded much this month.)

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Comments

Irony of All

[(Anonymous)]

I'm a curly hair girl and find that curly hair is simply not "popular" in the world of Sims. Just this morning I was downloading more hair so that all my Simmies won't look alike when Townified! I was a bit discouraged that there are so few shoulder length (or shorter) curly hair styles available for the Sims. Thanks for this and for all the extraordinary Default work you do for the Sims. My medieval hood has grown like crazy with additions from you. Just want you to know all is greatly appreciated!

~*~Stephanie~*~
aka StephSim

Re: Irony of All

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you so much! I'm glad you like the hair, and the default replacements. And there are more defaults coming soon (the few University things that don't fall under party stuff or money stuff, by request), I've just, um. Started Pookleting hair and I can't seem to stop...

Re: Irony of All

[(Anonymous)]

It really is amazing that so many hairs have been made and that I can literally think of five hairs that are curly. Now-- I can think of six! Thanks, Hat!

[mewithme]

Hee! Excellent. Thank you so much for this Hat ^^

[eefje00704]

Aha nice! First Ghanima retextures it, and then you recolour it! This hair is very popular lately! Thanks Hat!

Have you seen Ghanima's? They're really pretty too, I only wish they'd come in Pooklet's colours too. I think I might have to learn this pookleting hair business too this summer.

[hat_plays_sims]

I saw Ghanima's and felt stupid for not getting mine up sooner. Hers are quite spiffy!

Pookleting (Pookletting?) is very, very easy. Basically, you push the buttons and 'save as' a lot. Since Pooklet released her new actions, I've done fifteen hairs and I have more I intend to do-- really, I ought to put up a list. Mostly I'm just re-Pookleting what others have Pooklet'd before me, because I really, really love Land Mine, Flash Powder, Comburent, Primer, and Brisance. (Okay, I love Molotov, too, but it's such a Lucille Ball red that I'm still not sure if I'll ever use it in a Medieval game.) And new grays! Very exciting, the new grays.

[hat_plays_sims]

You're welcome, and thank you for commenting! I hope you enjoy it.

Re: Irony of All

[hat_plays_sims]

I know! My game needs MOAR CURLS! I hope you have fun with this one!

[eefje00704]

Oh yes, I know how to pooklet things, I've done a ton of object recolours that way. It's the hair bit that I'll have to learn. I've never done anything bodyshop related. Don't even know how to start a project or whatever it's called. Plus I also want to learn how to do the retexturing itself. There's so many older hairs that don't fit with my pookleted hairs anymore, but that I don't want to get rid of. And then there's a ton of meshes that would look good with curly textures, or braids textures, or dreads textures ...

And I totally agree on the new grays! It's a shame that some people don't see the need for more than one gray, and have already decided to not include them when pookleting hair.

Are you going to share your other recolours as well?

[hat_plays_sims]

I will indeed be sharing the rest of my recolors, but Photobucket keeps going "HOLY CRAP YOUR BANDWIDTH!" so I'm waiting until the 18th to start posting them, when my bandwidth resets. (Apparently I've been very popular this month, despite not... having produced much of nothin'.) I did upload FR's Braided Buns in Pooklet's new naturals, because Pinketamine got to the neons and I felt bad being slow. Stupid Photobucket. At least there's a pic in the file.

Body Shop is pretty easy to use, really-- you have to keep clicking and clicking and clicking, which gets boring fast, but there are tons of great tutorials out there for the basics. (I usually find the easiest way for me to learn something is to try it. I learn from my own mistakes pretty well, and then I have some idea what's going on when I read tutorials later, like Aquilegia's thing for preventative removal of useless ages. Otherwise I'd offer more help.) I look forward to seeing what you do!

Admittedly, Pooklet uses colors for her grays, and I can see why you'd want it... but it bugs me. I'd rather have shades of gray to choose from, or even gray streaks or something (since each color CAN have its own gray).

[eefje00704]

Photobucket bandwith sucks. Which is why I have two accounts, plus an imageshack account. If you spread your pictures around, you don't get in trouble with the bandwith. The only issue is remembering what you put where ...

[hat_plays_sims]

Yeah, I've been considering upgrading my old roleplaying LJs to plus accounts just to use their scrapbooks as spare image hosts. *facepalm* Still, I've only got cute titles for a few of the sets (La Esmeralda, Lady in Waiting, Master of Blades, Missionary), so clearly they're not ready to be uploaded yet anyway.

[morgaine2005.wordpress.com]

This is lovely, Hat! I've got hair for Garnet once she goes to college! :D

Thank you so much. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you and you're welcome! Might want to watch the hair in action a bit before you decide it's meant for Garnet-- sometimes it can be a pain in the butt to photograph attractively! (On the other hand, Garnet with luscious curls in Land Mine or Flash Powder? She'd knock 'em dead. Hey, I know a dress she'd look good in! Can I recommend a dress? The Camelot gown, here. Dang I do love that pretty, pretty dress, and it looks so sharp with fair skin and black hair.)

[dinuriel]

Thanks for posting these. I've been wondering why there seems to be such a shortage of good curly hair for Sims 2. Not everyone's lucky enough to have manageable, silky locks, after all *flips indecisively wavy strand*

[hat_plays_sims]

Heh, yeah, and not everyone with manageable, silky locks is lucky enough to have six pounds of the stuff. Sims 2 needs more variety in hair! With delicious realism!

Also, you're welcome and thank you!

[nimi]

Hat, have you seen this? Moar curls! What are the odds of two creators releasing different retextures of the same mesh on the same day? :)

[hat_plays_sims]

Ahh, not on LJ, but I saw it on my reading page on Ghanima's DW! I posted a teaser a few days before I posted the hair-- seeing Ghanima's post was what lit a fire under me to get the dang thing done.

[nimi]

Oh, sorry to state the obvious there, then! As I'm following your DW, I am aware of your teaser. I just found it funny how two curly hairs (similar, but still really different) were created around the same time. More curly hairs are never amiss. :)

[hat_plays_sims]

If there's one thing Sims 2 needs more of, it's everything curly hair!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

This hair really is under appreciated! Thank you for some awesome recolors and reds that aren't pink!

And I have to thank you for all your wonderful Medieval defaults!! I also love that you incorporated some fantasy and lore with stuff like the plant sims and aliens! I LOVE THAT!

I'd been in a playing and creating slump until you started making these wonderful creations! Please keep it up! And I'd love to see some recolors of the Jake hair! I hope you can fix it!

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you so much for all your creations. I love your defaults and I love this hair and can't wait to see all the other hairs you have recolored. I love it so much, two of my characters in my new medieval neighborhood legacy have this hair.

http://simsmedieval.wordpress.com/character-bios/

Re: Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

[hat_plays_sims]

Ahh, thank Pooklet for the colors, they're all hers! But thank you for the lovely comments-- I'm so glad you're enjoying my stuff!

Do you mean the Jake Sully braid by Sugar and Caffeine, or some other Jake hair? (Cos the Jake Sully braid is done, I just need to take preview pics and all that nonsense.)

[hat_plays_sims]

Thank you so much for the compliments! More hairs will be coming soon-- if not by Saturday then by the next weekend. In all the 'omg must Pooklet everything' rush I sort of forgot I was going out of town next week. The second sticky post has a list of the hairs I'm working on, if you want to keep track.

Your Sims look so spiffy! The hair really suits them. Thank you for sharing!