Repost: Tumblr 1K Followers Party! Part 2

1K Followers Party Part 2: Eyebrows!

When Pooklet​ released their Eyebrow Overhaul 2: Alien Edition for their Advent with Azaya ​ I was thrilled - not only did I get 18 lovely sets of retextured & bump-mapped eyebrows, but with their new color actions I can cut down on what I need for the unnatural hair colors I now use and keep them sorted without binning, because I don’t always want my sims’ brows to match their hair.

Then I remembered their huge set of natural eyebrows from several years ago and now I’ve decided to use Pooklet’s eyebrows almost exclusively, because holy shit they are SO NICE. They made natural color actions that match multiple hair colors as well. So I'm now making eyebrows using Trapping’s textures & Io’s bump map made into an action by Pooklet.

I made an addendum for natural colors to their BSOK codes, so again I could mismatch eyebrow/hair colors and still keep them organized. These will appear in the catalog before Pooklet’s unnaturals, and the icons are hearts instead of circles so black and Selezardium (black/dark blue) don’t get mixed up. I tried my best to make them look decent in Bodyshop and multiple in-game UIs, but to be honest the black and brown don’t look great with Starship UI, which I use, because it’s so dark.

Each set of brows comes with BSOK’d and non-BSOK’d (tooltipped) files to choose from. IMPORTANT: If you use the BSOK’d eyebrows you need the Fia_NaturalEyebrowColorGlyphs and/or Pooklet_EyebrowColorGlyphs file(s) in your downloads folder for it to work! Pooklet’s instructions for BSOKing your own eyebrows, along with codes for both naturals & unnaturals, are included in a text file, but Pick'N'MixSims later added the ability to do it with BSOK Editor which is a huge time-saver.

So, I decided to start with the eyebrows that I use for the Deception IV ladies since they are my main sims. Evelyn (pink hair) is the only one modeling hers because I wanted to show off the new colors, and Laegrinna’s hair covers hers and isn’t part of the standard set of colors I’ve chosen.

Please note that these were created prior to the addition of Toxigen, Hydrazine, and Hazardous to my hair palette, so Semtexigen and Hazardous were not included yet and all sets come in these colors.The ones that use non-eyebrow actions are categorized as follows:

Dk Brown, Misato = Brown
Sunspot, Volatile = Blonde
Molotov = Red
Bastet = Tntesium
Firework = Torpedosphine
Detonator, Toluene = Cannogentmx
 

DOWNLOAD KimJ S Eyebrows
SFS | Google Drive | Mega

DOWNLOAD Ephemera 0424 Eyebrows
SFS | Google Drive | Mega

DOWNLOAD Shady Perfect Brows
SFS | Google Drive | Mega

DOWNLOAD Bruno Brows
SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Credits:
Textures: Trapping
Alphas: Bruno, Ephemera, KimJ, Shady (I got the KimJ brows from Digi and she might have edited the alpha, if so credit to her as well)
Color actions: Pooklet, Io, Lilith, Furbyq
BSOK - Ocelotekatl​, thetigerking83, & Chris Hatch; Pooklet for implementing it for eyebrows & color codes

 

Repost: Tumblr 1K Followers Party! Part 3

1K Followers Party Part 3: Clothes!

( My girl wants to map mips all the time... )

Repost: Tumblr 1K Followers Party! Part 4

1K Followers Party Part 4 (and final): Objects!

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Repost: A few things for Christmas

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Repost: GoS Founder's Day 2023 - Encounters In Space

I decided to make my 2023 Founder's Day gift sci-fi themed, because I have more alien and robot sims now and eventually plan on making a sci-fi downtown whenever I get to building a new gameplay hood. In hindsight, for such an event I should have made something that's useful to more than exactly nobody, but whatever. Most of these meshes are 3t2 conversions from Into the Future.
 

( To boldly map mips that no one has mapped before... )

Repost: KUJIKENAIKARA! My Heart

This Tumblr post by asimplevampire (and Pooklet's delighted response) inspired me to see what I could do with this delightfully ridiculous mesh from 2007. And it was an EPIC journey, so it deserves its own glorious post.



Wicked_Sims Lolita Curlz
(shown in Haunting)
F / YA-Elder / 3532 polys
Textures by Pooklet (V3) and Anto (from Helen hair)

Kujkenaikara! means "Never give up!" and let me tell you, I almost did with this thing. The mapping was an ABSOLUTE dumpster fire. When I tell you I spent several hours over the course of three days in a battle to the death with this monstrosity, I'm not exaggerating. I didn't even consider trying to put Io's edit of Pooklet's texture that I usually use anywhere near it because it would be utterly destroyed by the extent of warping I knew was needed. So I used Pooklet's original V3, with heavy adjustments and blending the wavy texture from Anto's Helen. Doesn't sound too bad, right?

WRONG. The scalp mapping was similar to a lot of Maxis hairs, and was an advanced course in Photoshop's warp tool. And the bangs. Those fuckers were curved in a manner that crossed dimensions. Just putting a new texture on them wasn't enough, either. They looked like somebody Pookleted a piece of paper, cut out some jagged shapes, and stuck them to the sim's head. So I did some serious alpha editing using bits from Newsea and Rose hairs, because I suck at hand-painting hair alphas.

With the scrunchie things I decided it needed some cute patterns, and one of my friends on Discord wondered if it was possible to make them lacy, which turned out to be a fantastic idea. So the naturals each have pattern/lace combo scrunchies and the unnaturals have black lace ones.



So... why the hell would I do something like this? Simple: 1) as a test of my abilities and 2) out of pure spite, because even though I'm generally a doormat I can be petty af. And honestly? I like how this came out. A LOT. I plan on attempting more old hairs in the future, because I enjoy transforming them with new textures, though I pray that their mapping will have more mercy on my soul than this one did.

I highly doubt anyone else will even use this hair, let alone recolor it, so I haven't included any texture resources like I usually do. However, if your taste is as questionable as mine and you really want to for some unfathomable reason, I'll be happy to provide you with the means to create your own personalized versions of this monster.

DOWNLOAD Wicked_Sims Lolita Curlz
SFS | Google Drive | Mega

Additional credits:
Hair colors by Pooklet, Io, Lilith, Digi, & Furbyq
Fabric texture from Textures.com, lace texture by amidnighteaparty @ DeviantArt
Patterns by:
banozac & sunni-fabric-designs @ Spoonflower
-HolleyTeaTime
-Miss Jediflip
 

Repost: 4t2 Movie Hangout Kimono Top recolors & MOAR anime hair

( Give me a break! Give me a break, break me off a piece of that Mip Map Bar! )

Repost: Cassis Yukari for F & M & some assorted defaults

( Every little mip she maps is magic )

Repost: GoS May/June 2023 Theme Contribution

For the "Velvet Underground" theme: my favorite Club Crimsyn dresses for CPU, plus new recolors for both AF & CPU. Digi did the conversions for me before I started learning meshing. "Digital Devils" is what I call the team of Digi and MrsM'Quve 😁

( Moonlight shines on blossoms of despair, breaking through the darkness  )

Repost: Gelydh's Pinup Capris for CPU (& LetoMills' edited AF mesh)

My first bodyshape conversion!



Gelydh's Pinup Capris outfit for CPU, with Bosie's "Lilian" (version 1) and some of Azaya's "Dancing" textures.



UPDATE 11/14/23: Fixed neck seams on the mesh and the texture on the yellow polka dot recolor for the repo'd version & standalone AF, I had accidentally used DXT3 which destroyed the quality 😣 Sorry about that! Files have been updated. Smooth hands versions of both meshes have also been added.

I used LetoMills' edit for the conversion - they reshaped the shoes and edited the mapping to accommodate skins for sexyfeet. As a bonus I've also slapped the same textures on Leto's Maxis AF mesh. Categorized as everyday only, BSOK'd and tooltipped (non-BSOK) versions. The mesh has all morphs and 2040 polys. The repo'd files are texture-referenced to a file labeled "Textures" which is required.

DOWNLOAD Gelydh Pinup Capris CPU & Maxis AF (Standalone)
SFS | Google Drive | Mega

DOWNLOAD Gelydh Pinup Capris CPU & Maxis AF (Repo)
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Credits:
Original mesh by Gelydh, edited by LetoMills
CPU conversion by me (bodyshape by Warlokk, WSO by Lifa)
Textures by Gelydh, Azaya, & Bosie
 

Repost: Pride 2023!

Last year I wanted to do more for Pride Month, but my plans were thwarted by getting ridiculously sick with Covid when I went home to visit family. So I'm making up for it this year, and as with the event projects I've done in the past year or two, I got super inspired and went a bit overboard. I was like "yeah watch me not have this ready until the very last day of June" and yep, I know myself too well. But there's no wrong time to celebrate Pride, and in the US where I am and elsewhere in the world this is a dangerous time for the LGBTQ+ community and many simmers can't safely do so in real life. There's a LOT of pictures, so everything's under the cut.

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Repost: Deco Coffee Mugs: English Edition + too many colors

Finally got around to making an English version of these coffee mugs!



Once again freaturing designs from ShiftyThrifting, my sister CoffeemateJC's Star Trek Voyager fanart, and a bunch of other random graphics. There's even more this time, 30 graphic plus 34 solid colors, mostly neon and pastel because that's how I roll. Nobody needs 64 deco coffee mugs, right? Wrong. I do 😆

( There's COFFEE in that nebula )

Repost: GoS July/August Theme Contribution - Plicka Cute Buns & separate accessory

Something ancient AND low-poly, plus my very first accessory mesh!





This is the first hair in the complete palette I'm currently using and have no plans to change anytime soon. This is also the last of the reposts, so I'm up to date now.

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