Ashby Stud

If you want to send in ideas that aren't already on my to-do list, feel free to send me an ask.Just be sure to include a photo link!

[ashbystud]

Fiddled around with the chifney halter again, adjusted the mesh and redid the uv from scratch. It looks good in the workshop, so fingers crossed it works right in-game!

[ashbystud]

It’s been a looooong time since I initially made this, and have since meshed my own halter from scratch that I’ll be making a chifney for, but I figured I’d go ahead and share this first version so you can play with it already. Jointing of the bit itself is weird so avoid open-mouth poses. Also there is a slight texture hitch on the noseband so stick to dark colored leather. The newer, better, all-original one is still in the works, no ETA because apparently I can’t keep a deadline to save my life. I don’t have the time or patience to start up sims for a new screenshot with the new texture, sorry!

Halter is modified from Lakeside Saddlery. Chifney bit is modified from Alastair Schrödinger. Textures used by the mesh were ripped from the new halter, hand-painted by yours truly. Respect the rules of the original mesh creators, or I’ll sic my Dutch Shepherd on you! ;3

<a href=“http://www.mediafire.com/download/kj0g05udser1a16/AshbyStud_chifneyhalter.package”>DIRECT PACKAGE FILE DOWNLOAD <3</a>

[ashbystud]

Probably a shot in the dark since your last post was 7 months ago...but any news on the chifney halter?

Hey there, Anon! I’ve had a lot on my plate this year but am still working on things. The Chifney Halter is mostly done, just need to retexture it to get it up to date my current standards and test it with more complex poses. The computer it’s on is acting up a bit, that’s why I haven’t been able to properly finish it, so sorry for the long wait. Thanks for stopping by! :)

[ashbystud]

thank u x

You're very welcome <3

[awesomequacker-deactivated20151]

there are asexuals who are entirely disgusted by sex

there are asexuals who are fine talking about sex but aren’t willing to have it themselves

there are asexuals who like sex in theory but not in practice

there are asexuals who dont really care for it but are happy to do it for someone they love

there are asexuals who enjoy or even love the stimulation of sex but have no actual need or craving for it; its just like any other activity to do with someone and can easily be replaced with literally anything else

there are asexuals who do have a sexdrive but its only triggered by a strong emotional attachment rather than physical factors

there are a whole bunch of asexuals and if i hear “lol so ur like a plant” one more time i swear to fucking god

[ashbystud]

I would like to thank you, person, for somehow appearing on my simblr dash and putting a name to what I have always known that I am. I've always wondered if something was just wrong with me, now I am realizing that I'm perfectly fine. I say fine and not normal because I don't accept normal as a reality. Nobody is actually normal because because to be normal is to all be the same as a pre-set idea, and people are themselves, not each other. I've struggled for over three years to explain and validate my sexuality to my husband (and to myself), now maybe with your knowledge here I can help him understand. So thank you <3

[dariaburtseva]

Hey do u have any idea where I can find the red stall guard becuz I cant find it anywhere :( there's like a rope, but only red and made of rubber

Hi!

Sorry, I haven’t seen such stall guard. Maybe somebody of my followers know?

[ashbystud]

That sounds like the stall guard from Sugars Legacy Stables. It's towards the bottom of this page http://www.sugarslegacystables.com/custom-stall-objects.html

[ashbystud]

Oh my god they are literally the cutest. They’re all just broing out in the living room, taking turns talking about food.

A few minutes before this, they were all in the girly pink kid’s room upstairs talking about sports and weather while Dean was playing with the dollhouse. It was freakin hilarious. xD

[ashbystud]

So I started messing around with Sims 4 yesterday evening, and naturally since I got a buuuunch of mods and cc for more realistic-looking sims, I decided to try my hand at making a few real people. I made Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester, Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, Misha Collins as human Castiel (I call him Clarence Novak in-game), and James Deen because I keep seeing his name in BuzzFeed’s side-bar-stories and he’s super cute.

If anybody’s interested in having them, I’ll try to get some in-game screens and put together their cc lists so I can share them. Everybody deserves a little bit (or a lot!) of sexy sim in their game. xD

Not too shabby for me, tbh. I usually suck waaaay worse than this at recreating people as sims!

[simmingwithturtles]

Frosty the pony  :)

[ashbystud]

Look at this adorable creature. LOOK. And, oh, look at that lovely halter on the sweet ponyface. <3

I literally teared up a little when I saw this, I’ll admit it. I’m so glad my halter is actually being used! xD

[ashbystud]

Hello :) I would really like this weaver horse fly bonnet, because i have NEVER seen anyone that has made it, i cant send a link though , but if you search on google you will find ;) By the way, could you tell me how you mesh on blender? because i cant see how :/

Do you mean this kind of thing that slides onto a halter like a browband? 

I can add that to my list. :)

As for meshing on blender, that took me a good bit of persistent practice and several tutorials and I’m still pretty bad at it. The next time I mesh something I can see if I can remember to screen record it and upload it here, and find the tutorials that helped me along for you. Plus I can make a list of the hotkeys I use often. (been meaning to do that anyways since I keep forgetting them, ahaha)

[ashbystud]

Saggy Halter w/ Tag!

I am exceptionally proud to announce that this halter is now available for download. This halter is manipulated and modified from the mesh of Lakeside Ranch’s halter, so please don’t give me all the credit. Most of it goes to her; without her skill this halter wouldn’t have been possible!

There is still a small amount of work to be done to the UV map so the crown-piece's texture isn’t stretched out so badly, but I’ll update it and re-release it when the tag-less version of the halter is released, hopefully within the next week.

There is a very small clipping error over the side of the nose when yawning, but otherwise it works very well.

The more extreme the head shape, the more likely you are to have bits of the halter clip into the head a little bit, but that pretty much goes for any piece of headgear out there.

Please let me know if there are any issues! This is my first bit of CC as well as my first try at jointing from scratch, so it’s obviously not perfect. I’ll do my best to fix any weird bits that come up!

>>download here<<  Feel free to reblog (not repost) and share the link to this post with your friends on other communities! <3

[lakeside-ranch]

Hey there, I've got a question for you concerning the halter that you made some time ago. I got to fiddling around with it in blender and I turned out a couple of neat modified versions, one saggy skewed version and one version with Alastair Schrödinger’s chifney bit. The chifney one isn't finished yet but the saggy one is. I was wondering if you would be alright with it being publicly released for download. It's totally fine if you're not. You can find photos of both on my tumblr. Thanks! :)

Hey! This looks really great and of course you may upload it for public :) should you have any questions, feel free to ask. I’m always happy to help ^^

[ashbystud]

Yay! I only just now saw this because I’ve had crazy intense tunnel-vision in my quest to de-mystifying the jointing process, haha. But great news, It’s actually actually done now! *throws party*

Now that I’ve figured out how to make meshes from scratch in blender, I’ve learned how to UV map, I’ve learned how to use TSRW, and I’ve learned to joint pretty well... I shall be unstoppable!

[ashbystud]

Fiddled around with the chifney halter again, adjusted the mesh and redid the uv from scratch. It looks good in the workshop, so fingers crossed it works right in-game!

[ashbystud]

And it’s working perfectly! Just need to tweak the multiplier’s contrast but otherwise it’s just about ready to ask Dana if she’s cool with it being shared publicly! <3

[ashbystud]

Test 1 - get it in the game, no matter what it does. I didn’t figure out what was going wrong for me with Mesh Toolkit’s auto bone thing until after I did this first test, so in these photos there are a few clipping issues and it didn’t conform with the horse’s head as the whole thing was jointed to the head bone. But it works and it’s not fugly!

Test two with proper bones in place is happening right now, just waiting for everything to load!

PS, meet one of my recently made-over yearling colts, Shooting Blanks! Isn’t he handsome? <3

[ashbystud]

The tagged saggy halter’s UV mapping went very smoothly! I discovered a different way of doing it that took a long time but appears to have been worth it. The initial blender color test appears to have been more or less successful! Yay! <3

[ashbystud]

When I didn't resize the UV map to fit the designated bridle area, the texture pretty much ate the horse. It was so pretty in Blender... BUUUT when I did resize the UV map so that the faces of the mesh were in the right area, somehow le wild texture appeared and ate the whole SCREEN. I didn't get a picture of that, I was too busy being boggled at the crazy. But the mesh works with just a few very small spots of distortion! Not bad for my first time actually getting a mesh in game! And it doesn crash and works with poses and yawning and stuff! Yay! :) I have an idea that I'll try tomorrow, in theory it seems like it would work...

[ashbystud]

I am having SERIOUS trouble with the UV mapping and texture on the chifney halter so I had to take a break from it today. Haven’t tried to UV map the saggy halter yet because I just now finished tweaking the mesh. Doesn’t the saggy halter make you just want to reach into the screen and straighten it? Lol!

The meshes above were both heavily modified from Dana Johnson’s halter and, on the top one, Alastair Schrödinger’s chifney bit as well.

NOTE! These meshes will NOT be for public release unless I get permission from the original mesh creators! I can’t mesh from scratch quite yet, so this is how I’m learning. Also it gives my own sim ponies pretty things to wear - or at least it will when I figure it all out!