QuizicalGin

Morning! For Olive's Bob all did was duplicate some pre-existing planes to cover the bald ring patch. Stacy's bun required making a new plane to patch the hole in the top of the head, and then two more for the bangs where they were supposed to meet under the hat. After that, it was just adjusting the UV maps as needed.

Although, the alpha for Olive's bob was misbehaving with the planes, so it did have the extra step of manually relayering all the planes so they wouldn't look funky anymore. And I mean ALL of them. Had to separate and deconstruct the hair section by section, and I think it was around 7-8 groups when done so that I could shuffle them and merge them back into one group mesh again. For patching holes in hair, it's just deciding what will be best and easiest without pulling your own hair out. In some hairs it'll be easiest to duplicate strands, although the easiest ones are when they're just flat shells save for some details, like the bun was from my limited experience with hairs. Some hairs have odd quirks that make them a bit harder to work with than anticipated, like the braids I've been away from for kids. But it's more in trying to get the hairs to sit close to the head and morph well with the body if they hang low enough. The best way to start working on a hair to patch a hole in it personally is to deconstruct it into two initial groups. The parts of the hair with body (what may be the fluffy strands) and the hair shell (could also be called the scalp, but it's got hair textures, so the real scalp doesn't peak through I believe). From there, it's easier to see what you're gonna need to do to patch the hair, and whether you'll just need to copy pre-existing sections or make brand-new ones. If you need me to elaborate further, please let me know. I know this is more like a brief overview on how I did those hairs, and try to work on them in general.

Why does it always seem like tsrw always want to crash when working on hair? I can't make more than maybe 5 changes before it throws an out of memory crash error.

I had to make the hair from an adult hair and change the ages because no basegame hair worked for the braids the way I needed it to. :I Probably gonna have to do the same thing for the other version of it too, and I just ain't lookin forward to it.

A question on making photoshoot sets in regard to taking pictures for CC previews.

Mainly asking as I'm building a house right now for a set for other CC, since I have some furniture items that are still in the WIP folder.

Think I'm gonna have to split the shirt I'm working on since the hands keep messing up, which means it has too many verts (2117 specifically) for it to not explode. I think 2000 was/is the limit, so chopping off the hand it is!

I don't think the tucked version will have the same issue, but I'll have to see what it has first.

So I'm working on something else, and I like to test things in the dashboard to be sure there are no conflicts or corruption with the CC I make. The two skirts shouldn't conflict with each other, but they are, and I don't know why. Is it because I gave them the same pattern textures?

On a suggestion from last time, I exported everything as a sims3pack first before turning them into package files to be sure that TSRW would renumber them, but I'm not sure if it's a problem with renumbering, or if it's because I used TSRW wsp files to make it easier to make all the skirts have the same patterns. Weird thing is though, if that were the latter option would the YA one conflict to?

So uh, I’m making some CC again, and I decided to try to make hair. Specifically, a de-hatted version of this hair. Unfortunately, I’ve hit a snag of this hair turning dark like so, and I’m not sure why? Been trying to google tutorials, but I’ve been having trouble finding any that cover this.

Not bad lookin, though im gonna have to raise my settings to have very high quality sims to have it show up. =w=; Dug Roxane out of my old saved sims file to model the top and I think it look right good on her.

Anyhow it did have a normals problem so those have been realigned. just gotta reopen my game to take pictures and hope the quality shows up (curse you lower settings making it look murky!)

Finally got workshop to behave (mostly). It’s still a lot of re-remembering what I forgot. Next up is figuring out how to get rid of the shiny and the weird seam thing going on with the top. I think if I just get rid of the bump maps the shiny will go away, cause my specs I don’t think are dark enough to do this.

I’m just working with adult clothes to start with since they’re a fair bit easier to work on. Mostly because the adults can stand on their own in cas and in game for easier viewing (cause right now I’m too lazy for pose packs until I get these working)

These will be released eventually, I’m just not sure when since I’m working on a project with a friend of mine to make our own kind of stuff pack. I’ll be including quite a few of my unfinished works in with it too since I began work on some things ages ago but never got back to it *stares at the kiddy pool*

Some of the stuff I won’t be surprised if someone else has already made it, seeing as I’ve been a bit out of the loop for a few years, buuuut I’ll be putting out the stuff I made anyway because why not.

Growing a garden is slow work so to keep her fed she got a job in the Athletic track. To prep for it she took a bit of time in the gym and got up to level 2 woo hoo! She got back home to tend her small garden before cleaning up to head to the library. She kinda doesn’t have a bookshelf at home so thanks to the debug enabler there are skill books she can read at the library.

new skirt

I effectively hate assignments again. =w=

Well I WAS gonna upload it today.uugh assignments why you hate me so...

EDIT: I'm talking about the onesie . w . the stroller is far from finished

Well then. o.o

grrrrr....also please dont mind that Virgil and Laura are suddenly BEK's. That seems to happen when you load sims after an alien.

Sun rise on spooky day. Miss Lara took the time to eat and tend to her small garden while Donovan was out cold. Least she thought he was anyway. He had snuck by her while she gardened to make some breakfast which he promptly burned. After apologizing for the burning smell in her kitchen she forgave him with a little kiss. While Donovan munched away on her left over pancakes Lara worked on a pumpkin for the kids to look at. Not like any would be coming to her house anyway. Once they were done she asked that since they had a mutual attraction why not date? I think Lucky palms is called such for more than just the casino (I'm corny, I know haha

Not even bothing to mention her work day today, Lara decided to go and try again to enjoy the festival since there were more people today. She was just about to start an apple bobbing contest with a plan to win when it started to hail. As you can see poor Lara lacks an umbrella. One brightly colored one looked familiar however and indeed it was Donovan's. He had had the same idea as Lara but felt a bit bad for the hail, not that it stopped them from gabbing it up. Night falling and the hail letting up finally Lara and Donovan took to another apple bobbing contest together. Neither of them won ( that went to the new caster looking woman ) but since it was still early Lara invited Donovan over to hang a while longer. He agreed but stated he needed some food. Her cooking still a little questionable she ordered some pizza when they got to her place.  Watching the latest soaps on TV till it arrived Donovan tried to explain it to a completely lost Lara. To be continued tomorrow.