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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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 )

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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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I've been taking out my frustrations with the game and the mess the computer explodeyness made on Strangetown's premade families- primarily the Beakers and the Curious brothers. I'm debating writing up some sort of story for them, I've certainly got the shots I need, but mostly I'm just making them have kids and ruin relationships- and build new ones, sometimes.

I've said before that my favorite premade sim is Nervous Subject. At that point, that just meant I liked him more than most of the others, which wasn't saying much- I didn't play most of the others. But, after playing him through the havoc I've wreaked on Strangetown (leaving him possibly the sanest and happiest of all the sims I played there so far), I absolutely love him. He's stuck as a single parent of a baby girl, having 'escaped' the Beaker house (with help, but I won't say from who- that story idea is looking better and better by the moment, and I don't want to give away any spoilers!), and he's happy as a clam, despite how rough things are for him right now- next to no money, small child to watch, and having to skill for a job he doesn't really like, but that pays well enough it's worth it. And he's so sweet with his little girl, too, it's possibly the cutest thing ever.

Circe and Loki are fun to play, too- they're having some marital troubles, though, and I'll probably split them up, but I might not- it all depends on whether i decide to let Loki get over what he's mad at her about- it's pretty big, so I'm not sure if I will or not. Especially since he seems like he might be happy elsewhere.

The Curious brothers are awesome, though- especially Vidcund. He and Pascal both had alien kids, who are also awesome- and mostly very cute, even the noseless one. (There are three, because Vidcund had twins when I really, really didn't want more than one small child in the house. Argh.)

I've gotten rather attatched to this bunch, really, so I'll probably play some sort of hood-wide legacy-style thing or something with them. I like the idea of taking an entire hood through several generations.

Also- I tossed a couple "essential" (in my mind) hacks in my game- ACR, same sex marriage hack, and pregforall. And my favorite replacement Polli Tech, but not until after Pascal's kid was born (that's the noseless one, obviously)- that one reminded me to put him in, actually...

"That hood" being Riverblossom Hills. Every time I play it, something weird happens soon after. I played it right before I lost the Leos. My new legacy was going to be set there- not anymore, because of the weird glitchyness I got- I'll be restarting in Pleasantview or somewhere, I think. Maybe Strangetown, I love Strangetown...

Put simply, I despise Riverblossom Hills. The first time I played it, it was just for the sake of a Seasons test-run, because I wanted to know what playing a plantsim is like. The second (and now FINAL) time was when I added subhoods (uni and downtown) so I could play a legacy there. Never again. And there may, perhaps, be pics posted at some point of why I love my founder for the O'Connells- he autonomously argued with the plantsim-lady's husband, who I dislike because his family was the one I'd been playing prior to losing the Leos.


Edit- I've decided the legacy will be in a custom hood called Motherlodia (one of my favorites that I've made). A quick warning, though- there are random pointless playables around. There is also my simself, who was put with one of my favorite legacy sims, and their son- and the legacy sim's alien daughter, who I dislike because she has Alien Nice Point Syndrome and no nose to speak of. She may be mercilessly mocked, or I might just ignore her. Probably the latter, as her father isn't someone you want to get on the bad side of.