Hat Plays Sims

I am not pretending that basketball is a Medieval sport. I went and researched basketball for this post (and I left myself notes, so I get to share that research with you), so I know darned well it is not a Medieval sport. I am, however, going to admit that there are very few ways to get a Medieval Sim who loves sports their Sports Enthusiasm, so... no one talk shit about HORSE, of course?

... Yeah the Mister Ed reference isn't really working, is it.



The Free Time H-O-R-S-E Of Course basketball hoop comes in one recolor per subset of pretending-to-be-historical colors. The floor comes with Maxis white free-throw lines with a clear background, to be "painted" over whatever flooring you choose, while the hoop (and backboard and pole) come in almost-plausible wooden recolors burgled from WFS's Big Barn Kitchen set, with the metal fixtures darkened to resemble iron instead of steel (or powder-coated enameled steel). There is also an OPTIONAL default replacement package for the net using WFS Fisherman... fishnet. Sadly a default is the only way I could get the net itself to recolor-- I tried! ( Read on! )

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 do plan to have my desktop reassembled before the end of the month. (Gotta find that can of air. Everything's ready but that.) Until then, I realized I do in fact have one more download I can share with you guys.


( You fucked up a perfectly good monkey is what you did. Look at it. It's got anxiety. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

Okay, so I really started this project for a G-rated Chris Hatch religion mod I've been working on with Larky over on GoS. (Larky did the hard work.) And in the middle of getting the fiddly bits done, my life exploded. These things happen. But I'm ready now, so I have some goodies for you this fine morning!



( Nothing is working! SEND IN THE NUNS! )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

My favorite expansion pack for Sims 1 is Makin' Magic. There's just so much stuff about it that I miss so much now that I'm pretty well devoted to Sims 2. The spinning wheel that made golden thread, the silly mushroom chase games to get rare spell ingredients, the ability to turn your fellow Sims into frogs, pet dragons that actually set things on fire, the entirety of Magic Town...

And of course Bonehilda, who functioned much like a Servo but was actually a skeleton in a French maid costume.

When Sentate released a Servo dressed as Bonehilda, I squeed in Sims-1-loyalty delight. Awkwardly, I'm kind of a little bit in love with my own wooden Servos, but I got to talking with faechangeling, and... Well, this happened.


( You do their work, and they shall have good luck. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

Or, the one in which it takes Hat eight tries to get a goddamn flaming poo bag.

Nightlife bestowed upon Sims 2 players two shiny new things-- restaurant community lots and the ability to go on dates. While the Crayola Plastic Syndrom didn't strike too hard here (except at the bar), there were also a few anachronisms that I wanted to change, and a hella crunchy texture on the menu that I wasn't happy with, cute little plumb bob or not.


Fill the board, let there be plenty
The man who wants to be content
Eats and drinks enough for twenty
( When we're met together! )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

Well, so here I am, with another tiny installment in the great Default Replace Everything project... This time, we visit those hallowed halls of education... Okay, we don't, because all I used for this was a dorm.


( Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ninety-seven... Wear sunscreen. )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

So I was talking with Morgaine about my Plantsim skin, and I said I'd been thinking about doing some hair to match it. She said something to the effect of "If you could use some different leaves, that would be great!"

Now, having looked at how they're put together, I said, "... Yeah. I could do that." They don't quite MATCH or anything, but I got tired of looking at leaves.


( I talk to the trees... )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

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.

( So what's the problem? )

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...

( Cutting pics is not suspenseful, it's courteous. )

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.

( Two roads diverged in a yellow wood... )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.

VERY IMPORTANT UPDATE! If your road stopped being transparent, it's not because my files went funny, it's because of the various skybox/skyfix mods we have now. Go here and download the Neighborhood Road Transparency Fix! Clears it right up.

Once again, I have a multiparter for you... although one of them is short and contains almost nothing you can't find in the Kitchen defaults. However, a multiparter means that the boilerplate comes BEFORE the first cut, so here we go.

One, these are as usual default replacements. That means there can be only one. Bear that in mind if you ever decide you want somebody else's... hoe. (Seriously, who else does this stuff but me?)

Two, no bloody paysites. Not a one. While I support your right to upload crap to TSR or accept monetary donations for it just as much as I support my right to obtain it for free (mostly cos I'm actually not the one breaking copyright law, there), I do NOT a) support demanding pay for DEFAULTS, come on now or b) permit use of my defaults as templates for pay content. Look, it takes five minutes to extract these things with SimPE, and three minutes of that is load time. Do it yourself!

Three, if you do NOT intend to accept donations, insist on payment, or throw yourself on the mercy of an entity so blatantly in violation of the law that it uses hacking attacks where a REAL company would send a cease-and-desist letter, then please feel free to use my defaults as templates! If you'd like templates as they come from SimPE, with meshes and all, just drop me a comment and let me know. I got a massive folder full of them.

Four, as usual, everything has been compressorized. Download files are on the large side because photos are included.

Onward!


( ... But only in a very abridged dictionary. )

( With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row... )

Wanna help me feed my cats?

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.