lolabythebay: Myrtle Brown, from my game (Default)
2013-05-02 02:09 pm
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14 Ukulele Recolors + Fixed/Slaved ATS meshes

3 ukulele meshes. This is basically my living room. 
 
The ukulele from the World Music set at Around the Sims is nice, but I always wanted more recolors. The catalog descriptions explicitly allowed recolors, but only the one propped against the wall was recolor-enabled. So I fixed that and slaved them, because nobody needs 42 separate pixel ukuleles (and that's coming from somebody for whom Ukulele Acquisition Syndrome is an all-too-real thing.) The recolor-enabling took me so long to do right that I missed the end of April's GoS theme.

The soundhole decorations on the wooden ukuleles are either mother of pearl, green abalone, tortoiseshell or something vaguely like rope binding (as an homage to my own favorite Mainland soprano ). A swatch:

ukulele swatch

DOWNLOAD natural wood ukuleles+meshes
DOWNLOAD painted ukuleles+meshes

(Don't want the recolors, but like the slaved/recolorable meshes? Get just the meshes here.)

Many thanks to Sandy at ATS for kindly allowing me to distribute my alterations of her meshes. If you already have hers, you should replace them with these. These use her filenames plus "_MASTER" or "_SLAVE," so the originals shouldn't be too hard to find. Any existing recolors of the previously recolorable "againstwall" mesh should still work. As with virtually everything, my policy is "distribute at will," but please respect Sandy's terms and credit her.

Credit also goes to Goat for the wood textures (I think the wooden uke bodies are Sergeant and the fretboards are Biloxi). HugeLunatic's "Making Objects Recolorable" tutorial was helpful in diagnosing and fixing the recoloring problem. JWood's 2005 tutorial on the repository technique proved easier for me to follow than any other on the subject. 

lolabythebay: Myrtle Brown, from my game (Default)
2013-04-26 08:17 pm
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catching up

 
I haven't posted in a while, obviously. Still, I've been doing stuff. In February I was paired with Imalia for GOS's "Blind Date" event and made her some stuff. (In turn, she made me some lovely goodies.)

Then I did some menswear for the March theme.
Fact: I made this the night Jarome Iginla got traded and each guy in the tester family received one of his middle names.

April's theme was 1920s, which is great for me. I finished a bunch of new dresses I had already been working on and dug up an Egyptian photo booth recolor. I have more to post for that, but not all of it's ready: it requires enabling recolors (and maybe slaving) some objects, and adding some bump maps that's done!, and cleaning up some things that were OK for my own use but just too sloppy to share. If they're not ready before the end of the month, I'll put them here. Then I need to sort out the default replacements I've made. And there are a lot of those, more than 30. Some are new meshes. 

So. That takes care of that. I want to put more stuff here but never seem to find time. Feel free to nag me about it. :) Even excepting the CC sitting around I have a bunch of photos of my faithful old '20s neighborhood I want to post. Here's a tease for that:
 
Arbordale

lolabythebay: Myrtle Brown, from my game (Default)
2012-12-31 02:49 am
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Christmas wrap-up

I participated in Garden of Shadows' Secret Santa this year. You likely got here from there, so that's probably not news, but I wanted to share the gifts I gave and received. Teasers are posted below, but go to the thread to admire them and download.

For AdmiralAeris, I made tops for AF and TF, a counter recolor set, and a house.
[See them at the GoS sharing thread]


 
Queen of France, my generous Secret Santa, presented me with 7 scandal-ridden sims belonging to the Desiderata Productions company, Polish paintings, some sweaters, and two new dress(/coat) meshes.

lolabythebay: Myrtle Brown, from my game (Default)
2012-12-02 02:05 am
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Old Hat: cloches on Lidiqnata's "Lorna" mesh.

Old Hat: lorna cloches
I made these ages ago and shared pics on my Tumblr and GOS but never did anything with them messed up all the binning and corrupted  some files and ignoring them was easier than dealing with it.  Then yesterday the very cool, worthwhile TS2 History tumblr picked up on them, so I fixed them up. 

There are a few changes from the originals I posted: the blue hat now has a black flower instead of a red one, and the brown and green hat now has the red flower instead of the yellow one. They're all binned and available for child through elder, but the greys aren't consistently attached to any particular color. The hair texture is derived from lidiqnata's original (and you'll need the mesh from there if you don't already have it). 
lolabythebay: Myrtle Brown, from my game (Default)
2012-11-17 12:30 pm
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"Jazz Standards" (the thing I already did)

"Jazz Standards" was my submission for GOS's November 2012 theme (seasons). Click on the picture to grab it over there.