Weekend Project Post

[ex_pooklet817]

Last week: Neon toilets! Medieval Stuff! Gaga! Legacies! Other things!

Be sure to check out the standing collaboration suggestions. Thread set up is the same this week. You're free to repost stuff if you like but please try to bring something new to the table.

POST IS LATE BUT AT LEAST IT'S SATURDAY THIS TIME. GETTING BETTER, YOU GUYS.

Direct links to threads!
Collaborations!
I Wish There Was More ...
Resources & Inspiration
General Sims Chatter
General Non-Sims Chatter
Questions & Suggestions

Comments

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!

Re: Collaborations!

[hat_plays_sims]

... Actually...

I've been working on these stacks of coins on this mesh-- not recolors, what I'm trying to do is clone the coins, paint one set copper, one set silver, and one set gold, and arrange it so each single coin, stack of coins, and bunch of stacks of coins has an assigned value that does not depreciate, ever. My thinking is, for things like dowries, counting-houses, Scrooge McDuckSim's money bin, pirate lairs, or just taking money out of your family's bank account and being able to put it on a table or something, so it's not wasted but it's not easily spend-able, either. (Also great for when you graduate Uni with a shitload of grant money that you can't take with you unless you buy some weird-ass giant Thing from the catalog.)

And I got the textures done, I got the values working so nothing depreciates, I got unique GUIDs assigned to all nine objects, but no matter what I do they all show up with the same texture. And I don't think I made them base-game compatible. Does anyone who knows more about object creation want to prod at them for a while? They've been sitting in my catalog making me feel guilty for months.

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 ...

[pinketamine]

Partially shaved hairs (I'm working on a pair of them ;D). Short hairs for women. Normal and plain hair for males.

And someone at GOS pointed this out but... meshes for males, same pants with different shoes and that kind of things. I want Docs for my males!

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[hat_plays_sims]

Hair that sits close to the head.

Because full hair is awesome but I'm tired of Sims that look like a shampoo commercial parody.

Re: I Wish There Was More ...

[lissasims.livejournal.com]

Adult clothing converted to teens, like some of amaryll's beautiful meshes, or separates meshes. I badly wish I knew how to mesh.

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? Comment here!

Re: Resources & Inspiration

[ex_pooklet817]

House plan websites, fuck yeah.

http://www.houseplans.com/
http://www.dreamgreenhomes.com/
http://www.rosschapin.com/Plans/plans.html
http://www.coolhouseplans.com/small_house_plans_home/
http://www.smallersmarterhomes.com/

Re: Resources & Inspiration

[petitchat]

Here's something cool for tiles and other textures! http://www.spiralgraphics.biz/viewer/ The Genetica Viewer is a program that allows you to see (the thousands) of textures that other users have created. There is also a Genetica Studio where you can make your own, costs money but there is a demo! It's really interesting. I've tried it out myself and while it's not especially beginner-friendly, it's definitely worth dicking around with.

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

[hat_plays_sims]

I have you'd fourteen hairs! ... I had Body Shop open while I was working on my Servos and I got bored of wood.

Servos are nearly complete! I am very excited. However I am ridiculously lazy about taking pictures, seriously.

Do flaming poo bags disappear if you happen to miss their delivery?

Re: General Sims Chatter

[quinctia]

I made Twilight sims. Someone come put me out of my misery.

It's not my fault, it began with someone else making horrendous ones and me going "Oh I can do that better and I'll PROVE IT."

Re: General Sims Chatter

[aquilegia]

I didn't actually -do- anything, but I thought about it! ... *cough*

My next projects are definitely to get the MtF Gaius hair conversion done, and to finish the base game set of the adjusted male fat morph/properly fitted clothes default replacements.

Re: General Sims Chatter

[pixelcat45]

My game broke, again. It's been sort of broken for the past few months but I recently got it to work again, then yesterday it broke. I've just given up trying to fix it. It would be great if when I get my new computer, it will magically fix its self but I don't think that's going to happen.

Re: General Sims Chatter

[romanticroulette]

I, uh, was going to start a Medieval 'hood because I was looking at Hat's Dreamwidth and I was like "Ooh ooh, I want one!". Then I went on a downloading spree and was extremely excited until I actually got INTO the game and started a new hood. I then remembered what I didn't like about starting a new 'hood from scratch...it's from scratch. I then became obnoxiously lazy, and... my endeavors went no where. Thank goodness I put everything in a "Medieval Hood" folder, so I could just take it out before my game dies.

I'm ~still~ working on recoloring some of Mouseyblue's eyes, but I don't know what colors I want D: I did get the original set genetisized though, along with a new set of defaults I thought that was going to be way harder than it was :D

And there's a hair that's sitting on my hard drive because I've had the male version Pooklet'd since before Christmas but I don't want to do the female version, when it's really more of a feminine hair anyways. Lazy lazy lazy lazy *grumbles*

Re: General Sims Chatter

[lissasims.livejournal.com]

I made a new custom neighborhood, and discovered that custom neighborhood objects slow my game down so it's almost unplayable, so I deleted them. I never bother with decorating my neighborhoods, but I had a fit of madness that made me want to make my neighborhoods all pretty.

Also, my game crashed last time I tried to make my sims buy clothes, because I have too many custom clothes. Restraint, I have none.

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

[ex_pooklet817]

I am going to spam my own post and idgaf.

I LOVE THIS FUCKING SONG YOU GUYS.

Re: General Non-Sims Chatter

[ex_pooklet817]

Also I have been cleaning and packing nonstop for a drive up to Toronto with Boy to visit Best Friend for her birthday/graduation and UGHHH EVERYTHING IS A MESS I AM A FILTH WIZARD also how glad am I that I will be missing this G20 nonsense by at least a few days. SO GLAD YOU GUYS.

Re: General Non-Sims Chatter

[hat_plays_sims]

I don't need to leave my computer. For some mysterious reason, since Wednesday night, the theme park in town has been setting off fireworks every night at about 9:45. I can see them from my home office's window-- all I have to do is lean back in my chair a little. They just finished for the night.

I have no idea why this is happening.

Re: General Non-Sims Chatter

[aquilegia]

I went swimming in the coooold Baltic (15C/59F), wrote, made delicious strawberry-filled chocolate cupcakes, and read a book series.

Doctrine of Labyrinths: Don't be fooled by the romance-y covers: noir fantasy best describes these books. The world is lushly imagined, realistically gritty, and full of fascinating twists on our own technology and mythology as well as elaborate subplots. It definitely rewards re-reading.

It has quite possibly become one of my top three favourite book series, which is saying quite a lot given how much I read.

Sample chapters here. Monette's short stories are also very much worth a read.

Re: General Non-Sims Chatter

[randolph]

OH MY GOSH DID YOU HEAR?
GAGA /FELL/

Re: General Non-Sims Chatter

[columnar]

I turned 21! huzzah!

/spam

Re: General Non-Sims Chatter

[curiousb]

I had a most enjoyable but marginally frustrating week away from home, computerless, by the sea; little snippets of Sims-related inspiration kept popping into my head, such as an idea for some new makeup or some-such, and there was bog all I could do about it! :D

Still, I ate lots of ice-cream and did lots of paddling in the sea, so I guess it was worthwhile. :P

Questions & Suggestions

[ex_pooklet817]

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