Silvain's Little Pixel People

I'm still working on crossposting stuff, but I just posted more robes on tumblr, so-



You can grab these from the tumblr post here.

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25 days of downloads, happening on my tumblr! Come get your Hogwarts scarves, robes, and whatever else I make this month!

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On my skins here, you'll need to download the A34/34 meshes found here if you don't want your elder females with the skin to have missing bodies. I'm working on fixing the skins so EF will use the Athletic Queen meshes, but I haven't got them ready yet. When I do, you can just redownload them, but for now this is the best I can do.
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Things I do not enjoy about aspects of Sims creation that require SimPE work- the way my eyes start to cross when I've been at it too long and all the numbers look the same. Things I do enjoy about SimPE- the knowledge that I can actually make things do stuff if there's a tutorial, especially if it just comes down to replacing things somehow, or poking at numbers that I know what they're supposed to do.

Also, is there any interest in an LBB/TeenLBB/Athletic Girl showerproof skin? And, um, if I were to use someone else's textures, would I need to edit them any to match up with anything, or is the mapping usually close enough for those meshes? And is there a- wait, no, I can google that, but I'll ask anyway- is there a Teen AG and/or a sexyfeet version of the AG nude bottom*? If not...IDK, I'll poke things, maybe make a request somewhere for a teen version, I'm not quite up to converting anything.

Anyway, it might all be for nothing, for all I know, I broke something. I've only just finished the SimPE work, testing is going to wait until my eyes stop trying to fall out.


*Right now I have a sexyfeet LBB and teen LBB skin with blockfoot AG for the adult females and maxis for everyone else. I'm very twitchy about this, but I don't want to reinvent the wheel here either.

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( two pictures and a download link behind the cut )

EDIT:...oops. Forgot the link! Fixed now. This entry was originally posted at http://silvainshadows.dreamwidth.org/11689.html.

Fact- mesh edits are awesome. Not just as in 'somebody should do/has done this cool thing with this cool mesh', but as in 'I am having fun, and I am making things people might want, and it makes sense to my slightly odd brain that can't figure out flat texturing without months of practice (and still can't work out how to do anything other than copypasta or changing colors) and and and asdfghjkl MESHING'.

In case you cant tell, mesh editing makes me happy. If I weren't so lazy, I would do more of it. But, uh, there's some Castaway Stories edits coming soon, and if I can get over my stupid, stupid perfectionist issues, some random pregmorphs, especially for AM, because mpreg gives me warm fuzzy feelings (if you ask why, you will likely get a long ramble about gender that you probably didn't want to know, so, uh, I wouldn't recommend it, but if you do want to know, go for it, I'll tell you).

Next big 'learn to do this' regarding meshing- bodyshape conversions. Because I need more meshes for Aquilegia's androgyny set. (Right now I'm using a lot of old gothplague stuff or Pooklet's edits of gothplague's stuff, or stuff based on pooklet's edits... yeah. Need more variety.)

Also, mapping is... not as fun, but not as hard for me as I expected. I am probably going to spend stupid amounts of time making things not result in weirdly colored toes.
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I don't know if I've mentioned this here, yet, given how lazy I am about blogging, but a few months back- before Christmas, at least, though I can't recall when- my CD/DVD drive on my laptop began refusing to read certain disks, including three or four of my sims 2 disks. I first noticed it with the newest ones, including the disk I played from. So I tried a no-CD crack, which worked for about two or three play sessions before it suddenly refused to work. So then, I figured I'd uninstall the EPs that weren't behaving with my disk drive- everything from Free Time onward- and play from my digital download of Bon Voyage. Didn't work, so I decided maybe a reinstall up through BV was in order. This is how I discovered that it also won't read my Sims 2 Deluxe disk- after I'd uninstalled. I figured, whatever, I have Sims 3, I'll spend my simming time with my pudding people. Got bored with that a couple weeks ago, started playing Castaway Stories again. Loved it, but it just made me miss TS2 more.

So I've come up with a solution- finally- which also nets me the one stuff pack I don't have (though several won't be installed, this time around). I've bought Double Deluxe and it's downloading now. First things first, I'm starting a new medieval neighborhood to do a legacy challenge (well, technically, first things first, I'm installing every EP that will install, but once that's done...). I can't wait, I've missed my medieval sims so much, seriously.

Picspam coming in a day or two. Possibly a legacy story coming soon after that.

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Because the world needs MOAR meshes with sexyfeet. And these are awesome, useful meshes. And because I am picky about barefoot meshes and must have sexyfeet on everything.

In the RAR* are the meshes for these sets- Biblets for Niblets, Babes in Dreamland, Basic Boxers for Kids, Babydoll Pajamas for Girls, and the onesie from the Teddies for Toddlers Collection. Just let these overwrite the originals.

All five meshes found here at box.net

*(yes, all in one RAR, because I'm lazy like that, and it's just five meshes so it's not too hard to find the right one, right?) This entry was originally posted at http://silvainshadows.dreamwidth.org/2167.html. Please comment there using OpenID.

So I got halfway through writing up the fall rotation for the royal family in my medieval neighborhood, and then decided I wanted to do something else- namely fiddle around with meshing, since I just got milkshape earlier today. And I cannot find a single tutorial for adding preg morphs to things, which is annoying because that's precisely what I want to do.

Bah. Screw it, I'll find something easier to make. Maybe I can add sexyfeet to stuff. That has to be easier, right?

ETA- HA I FOUND ONE. GOS has made my day yet again. I <3 that place.

ETA2- OMG YES I DID IT. Testing nao.

Visual proof, because OMGYAY-



That, of course, is a preg morph. I have added a preg morph to a mesh. I am very happy.
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THE SHUFFLE BUILD-YOUR-OWN CHALLENGE:

Set your ipod/music library/etc. on random, and list the first ten songs. Then, create a rule for each generation based on that song. It doesn't have to be "what the song is about", just somehow loosely tied to the song or lyrics.

( Version 1 )


And, because I like making up rules based on music, another version-

( Version 2 )



Heh... wow. Lots of death and breakups in these rules. Might be a fun way to play.