Hat Plays Sims

So I'm doing a little experiment, trying to fix the whole 'infant hairs make toddler heads disappear' thing and I think I might have it? Very simple mod, I just gotta make enough Sims to have babies and let those babies grow up into toddlers.

... But I entered the wrong value at first and in doing so I also think I may have just discovered a way for elders to keep their colors without having all the colors in the gray bin, for people who are into that.

Or, at least, in my real quick CAS test, all my grays were in Colorful (because Clean UI re-enables Colorful), and all my multi-binned hair coverings and plantsim hairs and such were all that was available to elders in the black-brown-blond-red bins. Because I don't have colors enabled for elders.

So what I did was I grabbed one of those equal-hair-genetics mods, put the genetic values back to Maxis values, and changed the age values to 7f, as that is Correct for Time Bomb and other custom-genetic hair colors. And I swear I saw... Ove or Rio, I forget which, say that their custom-genetic babies did not grow up missing the backs of their heads.

But 7f is infants (20), toddlers (1), children (2), teens (4), young adults (40), adults (8), and elders (10). 5f is toddler-through-elder, which is what most hairs made in Body Shop have in their Hairtone XHTN thingy. 2f is what all the equal-hair-genetics mods I've poked at have as their default value, which is very confusing? I think that's infants-through-adults. (1+2+4+8=15, F in hexadecimal.) But that leaves out Young Adults, and so is very confusing. Basegame artifact? Anyway.

While I think what I need for my purposes is 6f (currently testing; elders are back to normal function in CAS, anyway, gotta see what infants do, no notable change in YACAS), does anybody out there who plays elders-keep-their-colors want to test the 7f version?

This isn't a formal testers-wanted or anything, download away!

Just let me know...

1. If you have Clean UI or not
2. What happens with Elders in CAS and at the mirror
3. How your elders keep their colors (colors binned as grays, adult colors enabled for elders, if you use 48 for colorful hair and 18 for gray streaks, whatever)
4. ... Other? (YA-without-college mods, do those normally affect what hairs, or what Maxis hairs, show up on teens aging into young adults, are your infants doing weird things, does this work if you don't bother with custom infant hairs, whatever you notice)

I think what's going to work best is a) making sure that package loads after your hair folder and b) having elders keep their colors by way of having them share property sets with adults (age value says 18 instead of 8), rather than having colors binned as grays.

So, Splash was something of a formative experience. Sure, I'd liked mermaids well enough in things like Peter Pan, and on the Submarine Voyage at Disneyland, but then sometime in... like, 1986? My parents taped Splash off the Disney Channel and it became one of those videos I watched and re-watched until the tape wore out, basically. because Daryll Hannah in her beautiful goldfish tail with her crimped hair and her tits out, swimming so fast neither the underwater camera crew nor the professional diver with the tank of air could keep up with her was the most fantastic thing Little Baby Hat had ever seen in live action.

It should be a shock that I haven't had mermaids in my game until now, but I've never found any fins I liked... until first Gryning and then Meduza converted the TS4 Island Living fins. The proportions of the TS4 flukes look SO much better than basically any I'd seen anywhere before. And then Midgethetree's mermaid mod happened and...

Look, if I can't indulge my little-girl fantasies in the Sims, why even have a simulation game with all this power of creation and control?

( Look at this stuff, isn't it neat? )

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.

Did you just download G-Rated Religion? Good for you! It's a great mod. Are you stuck thinking, "Man, I wish there were more interactions I could ban. There's a lot of stuff in later expansion packs that's kind of... yeah."

Have I ever got good news for you!


( 'All the other prophets came back with commandments!' )

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.

OH MY GOD you guys we can have more than one baby outfit now. Did you know that? I did not know that. It's AWESOME. I make horrible high-pitched noises every time I think about it.

I didn't finish everything I wanted to, but I got a lot done.


( 'If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby 'it.'' --TS Eliot )

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.

It's not that Sims don't live long enough. There are zillions of ways to extend Sims' lifespans, even without hacks-- aging off, elixir of life, murdering hapless townies with your pet abomination of dairy and consuming their essence-- so it's not so much that I want my Sims' lives to be longer.

I want my Sims' lives to make sense.


( Don't get me wrong, it's the proportion. I love the breadth, it's the length. Now, she may be the right length, but is she right for me? )

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.

Oh man I love Servos. Servos and Plantsims are easily my two favorite Supernaturals, probably because they make life so frickin' easy. However, in a Medieval-- or fantasy or fairy-tale-- game, you run into some... problems, with Servos.

Now, of course you can use my funky wooden puppets or Phaenoh's armored Servos or even Amaryll's androgynous Steampunk Servos. And they all indeed have their charms-- and I've used two of the three. See, what happened was, I made my own wooden Servos and just loved them all to bits... and then I volunteered to help Amaryll test her androgynous Servos.

Yeah. Wow.

I love them, in-game; they're incredibly graceful. I didn't like that they were metal-- I'd gotten attached to my wooden ones-- but I spent so much time just watching Serviette walk that I knew I was gonna have to keep the mesh around.

So I did.


( 'A good servant is a real godsend, but truly this is a rare bird in the land.' -Martin Luther )

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.

Since I currently tend toward Medieval Sims, I've discovered I really like taking some of the high-tech crap Sims 2 provides us with-- like Servos-- and making them work in more period neighborhoods. Alien abduction is no exception, but it's also an easy one to 'fix'-- Sims who are abducted by aliens in a Medieval game can simply have been... well. Stolen by the Fairies. (Fairies can have flying saucers, apparently. Why not?)

I WAS using the Ivory Tattoo skin by Chakaru as my alien default with Rensim's Retooled Aqua eyes, and Pirate McSkittles as my PT. However, while Pirate puts out cute kids, I was not pleased with the fact that they were all related. There's no way to create a thriving hybrid community in your neighborhood. That, and remembering an interesting detail from Lords and Ladies, a Discworld novel...

Well.

I've always been more ambitious than I am smart.


( Up the airy mountain, down the rushy glen; we dare not go a-hunting for fear of little men... )

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.