Weekend Project Post

[ex_pooklet817]

Was sick for the better part of the day yesterday and cold meds do some hilarious things to your priorities, let me tell you. So it looks like our first Saturday Project Post will be on a, er, Sunday.

So here's how this is going to work: every Saturday, a mod will make a post with themed threads that members can reply to and discuss in. We've picked some themes to start but depending on what direction the posts take, threads may be modified or added.

See the starter comments below to get an idea of the format, and comment away! If you have any questions or want to discuss something not covered by the main threads, reply here!

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Collaborations!

[ex_pooklet817]

Have a project you've been sitting on for ages but don't have the time/skills to complete it? Looking for a long-term collaborator for a series of projects you're planning? Want someone to test/give feedback on something? DO YOU NEED A COLLABORATOR OF ANY KIND, FOR ANY SIM-RELATED REASON AT ALL? This is the thread for you. Reply to this comment with the details of your project/idea/what have you and if someone's interest, they can comment back to you and you can sort out the details.

Note: This is not a request thread. The point is not for you to ask people to make things for you, but with you, cool? Cool!

Newsea Love Affair Hair Edit

[ex_pooklet817]

OK, I will start. I had some time to dick around in milkshape recently, so I carved the bow and band off of the AF stage of Newsea's Love Affair hair, which was a giant pain in the ass because it was all ONE GROUP. I don't really have the time/stamina to repeat the process for all the other ages, so I was wondering if someone would not mind converting the modified mesh to the other ages?

This is what it looks like for the record!

Re: Collaborations!

[hat_plays_sims]

So I made all these hose. And they work great, but the more I use them as underwear or swimwear or whatever, the more I wish I could use them for daywear. I don't even know if this counts as a collaboration (and totally yell at me if it isn't, I don't know what I'm doing yet), but I had this idea of applying the shiny new 'dress as top, bare legs with shoes as bottom!' trend to Medieval menswear-- so you'd have a set of legs with hose and shoes or boots as pants (and hey, I already have a whole mess of hose textures!), and then a tunic as a top. Something like Aligeth's Robin Hood tunic (only Oph3lia shaved off the bracers, so that might work better) or some of Tiggerypum's meshes from The Dark Project or the tunicpants top from Midsimmer... I could find more meshes that'd be best served chopped up, and I'd happily retexture anything and everything. (Not, perhaps, quickly, but I totally would.) It'd also be the first case of Medieval separates ever, which is pretty cool.

Re: Collaborations!

[pixelcat45]

I made these eyes and because I have a mac, I can't use simpe which means I can geneticize them. So I was wondering if someone could geneticize for me?

I Wish There Was More ...

[ex_pooklet817]

Want to see more of a particular something in sims creations? Reply here. If you think there's a lack of cute elder clothes, or a particular brand of fantasy-style CC, a body mesh you really love or type of hair style, tell us!

The point of this thread is to hopefully inspire people to make more of whatever you think is lacking. Again, it's not for specific requests, there are other places for that. This is just to give a general idea of what you would personally like to see more of from creators.

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[ex_pooklet817]

OK this is totally my standard answer, but still: PARTIALLY SHAVED HAIR. There can never be enough. :(

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[hat_plays_sims]

Medieval hats as accessories. (Anybody who knows me knew something like that was coming.) Medieval men's hats, either as accessories or as hairs (some wouldn't work as accessories; they're too close to the head.) I will find you pictures.

Pregnant morphs on TF clothes, especially period meshes. Because somebody who wants to play a clueless teen hobag would be perfectly content with unbuttoned Daisy Dukes painted on the nude mesh, but there's a certain portion of the population where... *makes up names* Lady Miranda of Stonebridge is married, expecting her second child, and all of fifteen. (And even for the clueless teen hobags, there should be some nice long dress morphs-- otherwise, how's she going to have that baby in the girls' room at prom? ... Which totally sounds like something a Sim would do anyway...) Also, pregnant morphs on period menswear. Really, though, there are just never enough pregmorphs-- not even for AF.

And hey, here's a nice general one-- Really good seamless wooden floors, with planks and no pegs or nails showing, in heaps of colors. I have SO MANY floors, but I only ever seem to use a few of them... because all the ones with the good seamless textures have never-ending planks.

I'll stop there, because there are lots of generalized things I wish there were more of.

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[spyroeldragon]

TOILETS. Or toilet recolors. Either way: the world needs more.

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[lissasims.livejournal.com]

Recolors of Buggybooz's meshes. Especially the Office Allsorts set, which could use some metal and plastic recolors - like shiny brand-new filing cabinets, dull steel with a few nicks, and shiny new plastic and oldish plastic. I don't see too many office filing cabinets in wood, so metal and plastic seems much more logical to me. Actually, any nice recolors of Buggybooz's meshes would be great.

I've always wanted a decent pigtails mesh, one that isn't too poofy at the crown, doesn't stick out too far from the head or look like Sailor Moon hair (the pigtails should be low-sitting, like below the ear instead of on top of the head), doesn't have any stupid accessories like hair bands or bows, has decent looking hair ties (I don't like it when the hair ties are the same texture as the hair itself), and is really long (close to waist-length, but can be alpha-edited to be shorter). Oh, and it should animate nicely, and be for all ages, and can be made either straight or wavy. The hair that looks closest to what I would want is this (http://svs.paysites.mustbedestroyed.org:8080/booty/ts2/peggy/gifts/dec_06/special_gift_2006_12_december.jpg) ancient hair by Peggy, but it's too short and the way it's meshed makes it damn near impossible to retexture. I actually want a pigtails hair for a character sim, but I have to settle for the not-so-great Peggy hair.

Maxis buy and build retextures. I can't get enough of them.

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[moonerz]

SHORT MEN'S HAIR and/or NON-DRAG MEN'S CLOTHES

or maybe just MM stuff.
Or... Or...!

Okay I need to just chill on what I need.
Summer is coming.

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[ex_pooklet817]

SNEAKER MESHES. Specifically, high-tops. What I wouldn't give for high-tops that weren't just painted onto the leg. D:

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[lissasims.livejournal.com]

FOODS. I can't remember who it was, but someone at GOS posted a request for ideas for making custom food. I had so many ideas, but I don't think any of them got made. Specifically, I'd like more meals that look like complete meals (such as pasta with a side salad and vegetables, instead of just pasta), some fruit desserts, and maybe some themed meals, like picnic lunches or junk food meals (twinkie casserole, anyone?)

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[pyrrhocorax]

MOAR ALIEN STUFF. And I don't mean skins and makeup, though those are always nice, I mean clothing and furniture and clutter and build-mode stuff! My alien 'hood is actually on another planet in the fooooture and while I'm working on stuff for it (very slowly) it would be lovely to have more...

Resources & Inspiration

[ex_pooklet817]

Have some resources you'd like to share? Websites that are good for textures or meshes, or just have really pretty pictures that inspire you to create? How about tutorials you've found to be really helpful? This is the thread for you!

Re: Collaborations!

[ex_pooklet817]

I found this really good website for hi-res, free textures. Perhaps you would like to look at it! There's a 20 textures a day limit says the front page but still.

http://mayang.com/textures/

General Sims Chatter

[ex_pooklet817]

How was your week in sims? TELL US ALL ABOUT IT IN THIS THREAD. We would like to know about your new legacy heir or your conquer of that mesh with which you were doing battle!

Re: General Sims Chatter

[spyroeldragon]

Ok I will go second.
I finally started a new neighborhood because it's ~summer~ and I can actually play the game now.. but I've got no idea what to do with it. Also I suck at building and um... 8D

Re: General Sims Chatter

[hat_plays_sims]

So I'm working on this new Servo default, right, and I've got Body Shop sitting open so I can muck around with it, maybe start deciding where to put assorted mystic symbols. And yet instead of doing THAT, I find myself recoloring this Milano Sims headcloth (if the link doesn't work, it's on page seven of hair downloads) and working on a Pooklet'd version of Mio 0331's Juliet Hair.

This week in Simming is highly distractable. But I DID finally get the joints nice and dark on my Servo, so there's that!

Re: General Sims Chatter

[eamcims]

I keep telling myself I'm going to start a legacy and I just never do. I want to get around to one, but I'm in the middle of another family. And I suck COMPLETELY at building and designing ANYTHING.

Re: General Sims Chatter

[sheelal]

Due to hitting the damned file limit this week, I decided to start a New New Game, fresh, with a lot less custom content. Aiming for recolors and default replacements of nearly everything before I get absolutely new stuff, mainly to see if I can. Rediscovering how much bizarre Maxis clothing there is.

I had been meaning to start making public posts with this New New Game, even though it's basically a content test, but then I was an idiot and accidentally made REALLY SMALL screenshots. Not entirely given up on it, but I'll have to dig up a fractal image resizer, see how it works. Tiny screenshots BAD.

I also did the Photoshop work for a range of skins I was thinking I'd try, which I haven't gotten around to actually making into skins because... it's a Pooklet 3.0 range using Pixie Chalk as the base to make Volatile from, so that's a range of 42 skins complete. Argh. Also, some of the skins have very clear banding that I'm going to have to smooth out first. Not sure whether I'm going to geneticize them as 0 to 1 with default replacements, for a completely weird neighborhood, or do the naturals as 0 to 0.99 and the customs as 1 to 2.

Re: General Sims Chatter

[wideacrebee.livejournal.com]

So I finally managed to get my nice shiny new game started and started a VDSL for my own amusement and now every time i try to get into my legacy house the game crashes. JOY. So now i get to try to figure out whats causing it D:

I also have massively failed on keeping my game files organized right now most of the stuff I've downloaded is in a lovely folder called "Needs to be sorted" yeaaaah probably not gonna happen. Why am I so useless at this? Grr.

General Non-Sims Chatter

[ex_pooklet817]

I HEARD YOU LEFT THE COMPUTER AT SOME POINT THIS WEEK. What was that like? If you just want to blather or let off steam about the week you had outside of sims, share non-sim links of interest or what have you, this is the thread for it!

Re: General Non-Sims Chatter

[aquilegia]

I'll save the jokes about the big game out there called Real Life, although that's where I've been for the past, what, month and a half. I came back from a long trip overseas on Wednesday with two pairs of Doc Martens and a whole stack of books. Of them, I've read two so far:

The Manual of Detection, Jedediah Berry. A charming, surreal take on the noir detective fiction genre, following office clerk Charles Unwin as he tries to solve the mystery of where a famous detective disappeared to, and why he was promoted to fill the detective's shoes. It's like City of the Lost Children meets Raymond Chandler, with a lot of charm, grace, and whimsy.

I, Lucifer, Glen Duncan. A strange little novel where Lucifer is offered a chance at redemption -- all he has to do is live out the life of a failed author who was about to commit suicide. He decides to try it out for a month, using the opportunity to write out his story -- and proves that he doesn't know nearly as much about himself, angels, or humanity as he thinks he does.

Re: General Non-Sims Chatter

[eamcims]

My boyfriend got arrested (partially?) for petty larson (he stole the license plates off a car. WHY. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT.) He did it to get back at this completely DOUCHEBAG. Seriously, I cannot stress that enough. Said douchebag forced himself on me. The boyfriend cannot stop thinking about it. This happened almost two months ago. I've moved on. Apparently the boyfriend did not. So he vandalized the douchebag's car and stole his plates (again, WHY. I can easily think of many other violent and ~better~ things to do...) He got the police called on him. Now the boyfriend is all SUPER DEPRESSED and his parents hate me because they know he did it because of me. SO YEAH. This week has been GREAT. -_-

Questions & Suggestions

[ex_pooklet817]

If you would like us to add a thread or have a question about the existing ones, reply here!

Re: Questions & Suggestions

[kkkayleighh]

I have a suggestion: Make the thread text slightly bigger so they're easier to pick out from other comments?