Hat Plays Sims

Honeywell's 3t2 Aurora Skies Pride & Joy wooden refrigerator (requires Free Time and) comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals over that blend of SDA Castle Kitchen and Piggi Wood 03 I like so much, with the original textures for hardware.



Please note, the mesh comes packaged with three recolors of the wood and a couple of the art, including the invisible art recolor (which I generally recommend with a period game). Also note, I did not alter the contents of the fridge, as that calls for default replacing. The food is still modern and pre-packaged. ( Read on! )

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Maylin's Church Lectern comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals over a blend of Piggi's Wood 03 and my SDA/Piggi Castle Kitchen wood (the straight-up kitchen wood didn't work as well as I wanted on its own, so it got a double-dose of Piggi 03).



Clocking in at a clean-lined 162 polys, this lectern is a useful alternative to some of the high-poly or weird meshes out there. ... ( That said, it does have its problems-- )

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Normally on these Buy Mode Blitz items, I have a little page of notes-- research and whatnot, comments, credits, things that occurred to me while I was making the thing that I wanted to share when I posted the thing.

I... do not have one of those files for this. Which is a pity, because dang those make useful little cheat sheets. Particularly since this is a big 'please trust me' post, because a) I hid the original Basegame Kinder Kontainer crib years ago and b) when I unhid it, it turned out I had a mod that texture-referenced it to the regular bedding.

Oh well.



Luckily I do have a fair few custom meshes that reference the basegame crib bedding! Which is what this is, the Kinder Kontainer basegame crib-- the only Maxis crib until FreeTime, because I'm not sure anyone at Maxis over the last three installments of The Sims has ever gone baby shopping-- bedding only, retextured very simply with Magpie's linen, in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals, 20 Aelia Autumn actions, and 42 CuriousB Any Color You Like actions.

Why do I need so many recolors of this thing? ( Well! )

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Ah, Skyrim. I'm sure it's a wonderful game. My chiefest exposure to it comes from conversions for Sims 2. This edition of Buy Mode Blitz includes three stoves Sunni extracted from Skyrim, two of them in Sunni's own Wizard's Tower metals-- or at least half of them.



A pretty bare-bones shot, there, but as you can see, the available stoves are Pot, Spit, and Cauldron. Still! Stove options are always nice, and there are few enough out there that I think work really well. ... Even if these are... well, I don't know how cooking works in Skyrim, but these are more 'useful for Sims' than 'flawlessly historically accurate. ( So let's look at them individually. )

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In keeping with the apparent theme of 'Wood For Sims Textures,' or possibly 'items already on the lot in the Creature Feature household,' I bring you Free Time's The Goal of Paul Soccer net, using textures burgled from the Wood For Sims Fisherman set-- one of the very first objects I beat up for Buy Mode Blitz!



The goal of Buy Mode Blitz, for me, is to ensure that the things I use a lot have more recolors than I'm ever likely to use, and that the things I want to use but seldom do actually get some recolors that'll make them more or less useful in my game.

The Goal of Paul falls into that second category. ( Read on! )

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"Hat," you say, "Didn't Sun & Moon release a huge laundry set? Why are you adding this little thing to Buy Mode Blitz and not something cool like that?"

To which I say, one, I recolored this before Loads O' Laundry dropped, two, if I'd recolored Sun & Moon stuff it'd probably be in the 'member recolors' section where it's supposed to be, and three... Loads O'Laundry taught me a very valuable lesson, and that lesson is: I don't have to use everything Sun & Moon releases.



So what is Beck's functional laundry tub, and how does it differ from Sun & Moon's Loads O' Laundry, and why should anyone care, and why are there only three recolor textures on this thing, Hat, seriously, that's not like you. ( Well... )

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The Parsimonious Dora Dulce wall mirror by K8 comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals over a slice of the original textures (the bit around the mirror itself) and some elaborate chip-carved wood I had in my texture stash.



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At this point I am just. Skittering around the three households and couple-odd community lots in my tiny, slightly buggy testerhood looking for things I can take title card pics of real quick and still call them an upload or a set. (Single items feel really weird to upload, for some reason.)



Kativip's Legend Series (if that's still what LS meant by that point) SD02 Round table, chair, and barstool were all graciously texture-referenced some years ago by the inimitable Darkmoon, because I wanted 20 recolors of them but I didn't want sixty texture files to get them. The textures are a blend of the originals, extracted from whatever game it was Kativip extracted these from, plus a very subtle layer of Piggi Wood 03, to help give them more of a grain. ( Want to see more? )

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So these are! FantasyRogue's chausses, with Yuxi's Beth Dragon Age boots added by Kalynn, and converted to Child by Charity, with the boots snugged up against the leg by Simborg. They are super repositoried because it was highly convenient; the chausses-with-boots have two groups, the chausses and the boots, and hey! the chausses are mapped exactly the same as FR's originals... and thus the same as my big ol' 82-pack.

( These boots were made for a really easy recoloring job. )

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The Parsimonious Oggs & Ends Souvenir Shelf by K8 requires Bon Voyage, has five slots, and comes in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem Naturals over the Piggi Wood 03/SDA Castle Kitchen blend I've gotten so attached to.

Though there is some shading to add detail, this is not a carved recolor of the shelf; I may revisit it someday but I wanted to start with straight grain wood and the mapping was puzzling enough that by the time I figured out the back of the shelf tiles, but doesn't tile in time, as it were, with the shelves themselves, I just wanted to move on to the easy button-pushing part of the process.

( Is this a historically accurate piece? )

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