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Weekend Project Post

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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That sounds pretty freaking epic if I do say so myself. I didn't even know you could do that! The amount of effort you put into your stuff amazes me. D:

I'm not that great at retexturing either (I'd be a lot better if I didn't grumble and give up all the time), but I'm sure it'll look fine! :D

This might be a crazy idea, but I was thinking... a mixture of neon toilets and patterned-ish ones, similar to the kind of stuff that Ja does.

Well, text fixes are easy-- I am WAY more confident with words than with Photoshop. Someday I'm doing all the memories, too, but there are a lot of them to sift through.

Just got everything done (well, not binned and whatnot, but colors finished). The blondes look juicier than the blacks, but dang all the browns look good in that style.

... Also, I gotta ask. Who's in your icon? If that's Lady Gaga, she looks surprisingly like Vicki Lawrence there...

IT IS A CRAZY IDEA BUT I FULLY ENDORSE IT

I agree with you there, the coding and all that stuff in simPe isn't that hard, but it's usually all the stuff you're coding and etc for that's hard. Well I look forward to that! :D It'd be cool to have some different memories, because they start to get a bit repetitive after a while.

Binning is always the annoying part. Especially when there are ages to remove. >___>;;

It's actually from a parody vid-thingy of Lady Gaga, found on youtube here. :P

I WILL TRY MY HARDEST TO MAKE THIS A REALITY BUT MAN THE MAPPING ON TOILETS IS NOT EASY.

Ughhh, yeah, I was just thinking, you'd probably need a remapped toilet or at least a custom one that was decently-mapped. HMMM.

Yeeaaah. There are some custom toilets, but the mapping is worse on those IMO.

Actually, wait. I think I've figured it out. Kind of.
With a very sloppy color-map thing, I can at least figure out where the textures go.

I THINK I CAN DO THIS.

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.

Oops - I'm really sorry about the link screwup, but I can't seem to fix it. :(

It's cool! That happens automatically when you do not have an account.

I agree re: your first point. Could always use more Buggybooz recolors. Also yessssss on Maxis buy and build retextures. And add-ons! I hate how many times they'll make a nice door or window but it will be the only one so it looks all weird and out of place on its own if I ever use it. :|

I haven't done that because then it feels like it isn't ~my neighborhood~ you know?

THIS IS AMAZING, I WILL BE CHEERING YOU ON.

It takes considerably longer (most of the time) to make the pretty part than to handle the SimPE work... at least for me, but I'm usually making prop defaults.

If you clone your target hair, remove the texture and property set for the unused ages, and then RE-clone it, you have a base to start from that doesn't have any wasted ages. Which is awesome cos it lets me make fewer tragic mistakes with the binning tool.

... Well, that video was certainly in the spirit of the Carol Burnett show. *snickers*

Are Nouk's Two Wavy Tails too much in the face for your tastes? They animate nicely, but alas the bangs are linked to the ponytails, so they can't be thinned or removed without the rest of the hair doing the same thing. (It made me VERY sad.)

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.

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.

I loooveeee Mayang. For textures I like to use:

http://www.cgtextures.com/

http://www.imageafter.com/

http://www.animax.it/animax/textures.html

Also this thread on a Doom3 forum has a lot of websites to check out http://www.doom3world.org/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=357

For cute patterns and more fabric textures, I like to check out:

http://www.nuno-plus.com/

http://www.funkyfabrix.com.au/

http://www.purlsoho.com/purl

Oh god yesssss. More toilets please.

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. -_-

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.

That sounds like a fucking awful situation. I'm sorry your week was so crap. :( Here are some videos of kittens, because kittens are nice.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGqI5wFhykA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZV3-Fb3y1Y8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYViSZiSoNU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP5cRKhfFuE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3TQfHqu_J4

I keep telling myself I'm going to FINISH a legacy but I never do. I think I may have to cap the Stranges off at generation 5 or 6 because the neighborhood is just getting so glitchy. :\

I feel your pain on being crap at building/designing, though.

That second book sounds awesome. I tend to stray away from stories about biblical characters because while I find them super interesting, the religious bent that (understandably) usually comes along with makes me kind of uncomfortable. Which is why I loved Good Omens so much. Angels and devils and anti-Christs, oh my, but without much overtly Christian sentiment, you know? /babble

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