Hat Plays Sims

Okay so magical_girl_sandbox remapped someone else's 4t2 hat for me (so that there wasn't a ton of wasted space, because TS4 is... like that?), towards my goal of making some halo bonnets but. I am thwarted by some very TS2-basegame-esque Maxis mappping.

The dang brim blurs.

Not enough to not DO the hat (I have encountered a few where the textures make recoloring look easy but whatever underpaid modeler made the thing did not account for anybody ever wanting to put a pattern on it), and I can definitely do solid contrasts on the underside of the brim and a nice bit of banding around the edges, but I wanted to trim the HECK out of them, so I am slightly bummed I can't, like. Add brocades and ouches and criss-cross trimming and otherwise going hog wild the way I did on my crispinettes. The underside is too blurry for anything but Very Straight Lines to look okay, but the top...



I seek opinions. Would that edge trimming be worth it in a contrasting color? That's as good as it gets, and I can still sorta tell what kind of trim it's supposed to be, but.

Would you download that?

(Also I had to settle for very plain brooches on this hat already. Every time I tried to fancy them up, either the mesh's math and Medieval math did not want to cooperate, or they fit the mesh but looked like delicious cookies. The things I do for hats.)

Okay so, for some reason I'm in the mood to give myself the gift of Fantasy Demi-Humans, which means eventually everybody can have more fantasy demi-humans. I've already made a bazillion (okay, 40 per age/gender combo) recolors of Midethetree's Deer People set, but with fur and hoof textures that more strongly resemble deer than the originals. I like how they turned out to the point where I'm plotting horse pants and considering goat pants, too. (... Anyone know where to find a decent goat tail accessory? Horns are easy to find, but the butts on this mesh don't look finished without tails.)

That said:



The deer pants have that 'weird shadow on the mesh' issue that happens sometimes that I know is easy to fix if you've got any Milkshape skills.

( More stuff behind the cut! )

EDIT: The inimitable Simborg has fixed up the satyr pants meshes and Katu's antlers; if you're out there and you want early-access deer pants, I still need a tail accessory remapped and a horse/unicorn accessory edited.

Because Veetie had to drop from this year's Blind Date event (because health; and I honestly am not fussed because I had to drop out of my second Secret Santa ever), I was supposed to end up with a Super Blind Date. However, because my wishlist is patently ridiculous (I know, I know, but my theme is SO SPECIFIC that I like to give people who maybe aren't used to the Middle Ages a lot of options), Shasta instead asked literally everyone who had volunteered as a Super Blind Date if they could make me one little thing, instead of swooping in with a full pinch-hitting.

Everyone said yes, and I'm still kinda gobsmacked about it.

You can find the gifts here.

The last gift I got was from ElfPuddle, who tried very hard to figure out how to default clothing, a new skill for them. ElfPuddle didn't quite make it, but sent me all the bits they'd gathered-- and I do know how to default clothes and hair (I just don't have the time to make literally everything I want for my game, more's the pity). So ElfPuddle sent everything they got done, I did a little bit more and then discovered I don't know how to do defaults with LESS groups than the originals, but maybe somebody else knows what they're doing.

On the other hand... I got some recolors done?


Gown Swatch
Hair Swatch
Hair Turnaround

So what you have above is K8's Fairy Witch gown (2,334 polys, with AF pregmorph and TF & CF conversions by Cynnix) and Trapping's All-Ages AL Witch Hat (1,265 polys, probably requires Apartment Life) in Neder's Neutral Red Mage colors, tweaked by ElfPuddle and tweaked some more by me (I fiddled with a sleeve and some laces and made the stomacher burgundy to help break up the red). I've included what should be an extracted mesh so you can use the witch hat if you don't have Apartment life installed, but I can't check it.

This was intended to be a Matchmaker default replacement, because one of the things I've been doing lately is trying to strip as much Accidental Racism out of my game (and my brain) as I can. Job one is changing my collection of Far East stuff to a collection of Actually Japanese stuff (I'm aiming for Heian Japan but I'm not going to be terrifically picky), but coming in a very close second is clearing out the ethnic-slur-for-Roma stereotypes. (Yes, the title Scarlet Witch was chosen with my tongue so far in my cheek it almost counts as a piercing.)

But we failed at defaulting, Elfpuddle and I, so instead it's just a nice stand-alone gown-and-hat set.

Gowns are available for casual, maternity, outerwear, and formal. Hats come binned my usual way, with a gray for each color because it's easier for downloaders to remove one rather than add one if they want to re-bin (go ahead and re-bin, Shrapnel makes a nice brown and both Safety Fuse and Comburent could pass as blonds, you do you). Not compressorized because I forgot.

DOWNLOAD SCARLET WITCH: On Mediafire | On Sims File Share

And if you think you can fix my default replacements for the Matchmaker, I welcome and encourage you to beat up my files to do so. (Maybe I screwed up starting with the FT version instead of the NL one? But everything says 'grab from the latest EP you have,' so I dunno. I swear I've defaulted this way before, just... with more groups instead of less.)

Hey guess what!



Rugrat0ne did the thing!

So you can now grab Rugs' default of my edit of ElfPuddle's edit of Neder's Red Mage textures on Cynnix's edit of K8's FairyWitch gown and change your Matchmakers from pink-and-orange Halloween costumes to crimson-clad mages of indeterminate morality! Includes a working copy of the extracted AL Witch Hat mesh for non-Apartment-Life users; apparently mine flashes blue because I don't know what I'm doing. Uploaded that one separately just in case you want witch hats in your pre-AL game, but don't want the default. (Makes my other Pooklet'd witch hats work for pre-AL games, too!)

DOWNLOAD RUGRAT0NE'S SCARLET MATCHMAKER DEFAULT: On Mediafire

DOWNLOAD RUGRAT0NE'S WORKING APARTMENT LIFE WITCH HAT MESH: On Mediafire

DOWNLOAD BOTH: On Sims File Share

Hard drive itself: Still failing.

But today I pulled on my big-Simmer pants and fired up the desktop to go grab the last of the files I forgot, which went swimmingly (albeit with a few "OH GOD WHAT ARE YOU DOING BACK EVERYTHING UP AND SHUT DOWN" warnings from the computer). Grabbed the screenshots I was missing but had resigned myself to losing forever, the one writing project that lost a scene in the shuffle, one set of clothing recolors that got missed in the original upload, a surprising number of fonts, and a few random files that were sitting around, all un-backed-up. ... Then I spent the rest of the day organizing my passport drive. (If you are in a position to afford one, get yourself a passport drive and back up to it regularly.) I've got enough unreleased content (if not screenshots, yet) for a smallish Hair-And-Beard dump, and due to my reduced computing circumstances, I'm now looking for testers for:

A) G-Rated Chris Hatch Religion by Hat and Larky (requires Apartment Life or M&G)...
and
B) the ACR V2 Final version of my aging mod.

I'm also looking for a BHAViorist to tie some prayable objects into said Religion Mod and/or combine interactions of a couple of custom wedding arches, but that's less 'content I want to make/release' than it is 'content I want to play with.'

I hate to do this, I really hate to do this when I've been so epically non-productive lately (I actually have so much stuff so close to done, it's like two thousand files, but it's not quite ready for prime time so to speak), but if there's any chance you've been considering making a donation... Well, okay, lemme cut this: ( it's vet bills, basically. ) I'm going to be turning EVERYWHERE for help (including eBay) as soon as I'm not stuck home alone and tethered to my cat, but in the meantime...

If you can donate anything, anything at all, I'd be incredibly grateful. I have some Monster High dolls for sale if you'd rather get something physical for your money. I'm willing to swap Sims content for donations, too, but given that I won't be getting more than four and a half hours of sleep at a time for a while (and I can't be on my Simming computer while a post-surge cat gets in trouble any time I'm more than six inches away from her), please bear with me in terms of how long it takes to FILL those requests.

Even just good thoughts are appreciated. Harley's got some good years in her if she pulls through this; I'd like her to have as many of them as possible. (I mean, purchases and donations are appreciated MORE, but only because vets need money, not grateful tears.)

Eight linen colors braises with bare legs for CM-EM (done)
Eight linen colors Androgynous braises with bare legs for TM-EM (done)
Eight linen colors Androgynous braises with bare legs for TF-EF (done)
Eight linen colors Androgynous braises with breast bindings and bare legs for TF-EF (done)

Braises with 82 colors of chausses for CM-EM (done)
Androgynous braises with 82 colors of chausses for TM-EM (done)
Androgynous braises with 82 colors of chausses for TF-EF (done)
Androgynous braises with breast bindings and 82 colors of chausses for TF-EF (done)

Bottom-only chausses with poulaines in 82 colors of chausses (and a smaller variety of shoes) for CM-EM (done)

Eight linen colors shirts with bare feet for CM-EM (Lacking CM Mesh)
Shirts with 82 colors of chausses for CM-EM (Lacking CM Mesh)

Top-only tunics in 82 colors for CM-EM

Eight linen colors long loose nightgowns with bare feet for CM-EM (pretty much lacking anything but a couple decent ideas for meshes)

The textures for everything but the tunics are complete and ready to go; I'm down to button-pushing in Body Shop and then replacing crunched-up textures in SimPE (and slaving at least the non-child chausses, because when it's twenty colors, not slaving is no big, but when it's eighty-two...).

And, okay, quick questions: Would you rather I get the TM-EM nightshirts with and without chausses done and hope for child conversions at a later date, or continue begging for CM conversions of assorted Perfect Tunics and release all the scanties in one big lump? I'm shy four conversions and some morphs, and then I can add CM-EM shirts with bare legs, CM-EM nightgowns with bare legs, and CM-EM shirts with 82 colors of chausses to that list up there.

Also, would anyone be frustrated with me if I started categorizing appropriate separates as Outerwear as well as Casual (and where morphs allow, Maternity)? Anything with long sleeves pairs nicely with the cloaks.

I would be coding posts right now if my game hadn't crashed before I got all the pics I needed. Currently reloading.

Does anyone know if there are CM conversions of Heget's Perfect Tunics around? I don't seem to have any, which is going to make getting the menswear side of my to-do list done. (Not that I need all of them, either. In fact I need to go through them and figure out which ones I DO need.)

Okay, so it's December and I thought I'd be back by September.

That didn't happen, because life went like this:

House full of new windows
Brother moved back in (then left to work RenFaire)
Miniature show
Cat got sick (to the tune of $700 in tests and antibiotics)
Surprise doll show (I got a table at the last possible moment)
Bathroom remodel (Yeah I had no idea when that was happening)
Disneyland trip
Brother returned from RenFaire
Doll show (this one, planned)
News of an old family friend's death
Discovering my doll maker has vanished and I have to buy a kiln/learn to make my own porcelain dolls
Surprise house painting
Surprise Brother's Girlfriend in my home office for a weekend (and the next two weekends)
Thanksgiving
Uncle (on Mom's side) died on anniversary of Dad's death
Put up Christmas Tree
Mom gets shoulder replacement surgery, three or four months of disability

Which brings us up to now.

And now is a time when I have seriously not had a week without rushing to get ready for something, strange men in, on, or around my house banging on things, or some sort of horrifying surprise. Let me tell you it is not easy on my brain chemistry. I'm trying to get back in the swing of Simming, but I'm not caught up with everywhere yet.

Expect another content dump in January at the earliest.

In fact, I'm working on something shiny right now as we speak-- a front-laced gown for TF through EF Maxis, Androgyny, and Athletic Girl shapes... plus my first foray into the repository method. Why didn't anyone tell me it was this easy? If anyone has or knows where to find RenGal or CF conversions of Iamliz13's Alpha Dress, or is interested in MAKING those conversions, please please please let me know and you'll be my hero forever and ever. I NEED THEM. (I have a second Big Clothing Project planned that will include outerwear that coordinates with casual clothes, so really the more shapes I can get this done for, the happier a Hat I become.)

Plans continue apace. I just got caught up with DW comments, and the wishlist has been updated with as many links as I can find at this late date. Please give me a heads-up if you find anything on the list I've missed!

Upcoming posts (not before January, but sometime Soon):

1. 43 (or more) mostly-Maxis recolors of Buggybooz's Nooks and Niches (including Paigeturner's Complete Castle Wall set)
2. 86 very simple toddler kirtles (mostly-Aligeth textures on a Cynnix mesh)
3. 16 toddler diapers in various shades of rag
4. A very small hair dump
5. Hopefully, beards
6. Simple Front-Laced Kirtles on eight Iamliz13 Alpha Dress conversions (more if wishes are fulfilled)
7. Front-Laced Kirtles with Plackets on those same meshes
8. Overdresses with Rucked Skirts on Aligeth again
9. Bonne Nuit shifts for Maxis TF and Athletic Girl AF and TF
10. Du Lac Cotehardies for CU

Things I need to re-upload (posted cos I'm not on my desktop right now, let me know if you spot any other broken links):
1. Tidy Creature
2. Accidentally On Purpose (with new file name because NBC thinks I'm file-sharing something they own, wtf)

Current deep desires for those who want to barter stuffs I'm desperate for for... I don't know, hairs or something I can do (which you will get before I do content dumps):

1. Child conversion of Iamliz13's alpha dress (Cynnix's Androgyny conversions may be of some help) to fit Cynnix's Rengal V2
3. Child conversion of Aligeth's Robin Hood mesh
4. Guys I need some gloves. I know Bloom made a useful mesh for TF and AF, but I want them for child through elder, both sexes, and hopefully with a bigger alpha cuff so I can do things like this and this. I would also cheerfully take a mitten mesh, especially for toddlers; mittens seem more affordable and thus great for toddlers, children, and peasants. Did you know Vikings wore a lot of three-fingered gloves in the long Norse winters? NINJA TURTLE VIKING HANDS.
5. Bone assignments for any of these cloaks. I'm not asking for clipping to be fixed, I know that's impossible, but just something so the cloak bends with the body, and doesn't swing like a bell when a Sim does the smustle or the slap-dance.

If you mesh it, I will recolor it. I'm all in the mood to make wintry things.

Coming Soon!

1. A mostly hat-based hair dump, which will include but not be limited to: Ja's edit of Daislia's Altair hood, FantasyRogue's edit of Bipsouille's Burgundian Hennin, Dicreasy's edit of Elena's Africa hair, Cynnix's Nun and Noble veil-and-wimple hairs, and with any luck a lowered-poly animated age-conversion of Clubkitty's Hijab by Marja. Also I have done a couple of hairs either by request or because I saw them and had to have them in all the colors, so those of you who aren't interested in Medieval hairs might still find something interesting.

2. Le Chausseur Deux, which will include hosen for teen and adult males with Aquilegia's improved fatmorph, teen, adult, and elder females for Aquilegia's Androgyny shape, and bound breasts for teen, adult, and POSSIBLY elder females pretending to be males for whatever reason.

(Uh, related to the above, does anyone know if teen, adult, and/or elder female blockfoot swimsuit (which is to say, nude, but without much buttcrack) Gothplague Androgyny meshes exist? I thought I HAD them. Guess I confused them with Amaryll's default servos or something. *full of fail* Well, I was going to use Aquilegia's EF mesh, anyway, since it's close enough to my default elder shape...)

3. A shitload of necklaces, yo. (All very similar necklaces, but I wanted variety.)

4. ... I swear I made something else recently, but I have now forgotten what it was. (... Maybe it was effects makeup blush-to-full-face conversions? I never seem to get around to sharing those, but I make them all the time. I'm never sure if anyone would be interested in them.)

Update! (And seeking opinions.)

I have updated my main stickypost, and added a new category-- Medieval Headwear. It's technically a wishlist but it also functions as a resource post; if anybody else knows of any other Medieval headwear out there, please please pretty please let me know.

I keep thinking I need to streamline that whole post a little more, and once I got the Headwear Wish/Resource List done, I started thinking I needed to make a Medieval Pregmorph Wish/Resource List. Think I ought to make wish/resource lists a separate stickypost?

Beta Tester(s) Needed!

Would somebody whose expansion spread differs from mine (I have all EPs and SPs) be willing to check out a couple of objects and see if they're basegame compatible? I am a total newbie at such things, but I recently figured out you can clone toybox toys and have playable toys for your kids. (I disabled the Put Away interaction, because if you put bought toys away, they disappear into the toybox forever, and I think for non-Pets games I also need to disable the Chew interaction, but I made them on a whim, anyway.) I also need someone willing to tell me if my coin stacks are basegame compatible, as I cloned them from a basegame-compatible custom object but I don't think I've got SimPE configured right for that sort of thing. (Making objects is kind of entirely new to me.) Drop me a comment or a PM here or on GoS if you're interested.

(Especially if you're a mesher interested in making new toys. Kids have so few custom things to just play with, and there are a lot of deco toy meshes out there that could be shrunk to the proper size and given to the little buggers to zoom around the floor going "Nyeeaar vroom whinny!")

Gaguing Interest: Aging Mod

So whenever it gets too hot to sew, I've been putzying away at an aging mod, because I got a bee in my bonnet to learn how. I'm still testing it, and I'm kind of half seeking testers for it, because along with Sim ages... I had to mod ACR. (Old ACR, not the new version. The new version still seems to be in Beta, but I could probably mod it without too many difficulties.

ANYway, it'll be at least a week, probably closer to two, before I'll let myself post this sucker, but would anyone be interested in testing it/downloading it once it's been tested?

( Why I Did This )

The proportion is a pretty simple one-- if a pregnancy lasts three days, then three days is nine months. If three days is nine months, then one year is four days.

( Numerical Info Follows... )

So now let's talk about the ACR half of this mod. ( Which is mostly about fertility. )

( A nifty thing about how this mod cooperates with an aspect of InTeen... )

There are some other ups and downs of this mod...

( Cons: )

( Pros: )

So, questions...

Would anybody be interested in proportionate ages besides me? Is there anything I need to warn for with aging mods (besides that there can be only one)? Does anyone know how aging mods affect Bigfoot?

And perhaps most importantly, is there anybody out there who might want to help me test this mod (especially if I can contact you over PM here or at GoS or even MTS or via email, because I am nowhere near ready to release this publicly)? Particularly people with different game configurations than me (I have all EPs/SPs) or who don't use InTeen, or who have Sims lying around almost ready to age to Elder without stupid high Aspiration levels?