Confetti's TS4 screenshot spam & stuff

My blog for TS4 screenshots, reblogs, etc. Please view the blog in full browser mode to see my profile information (this is mobile view). For my CC please visit confetti-ts4cc. My main blog is clown-confetti.

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long time no see :-p 

i was building these just now and felt like sharing screens, they turned out pretty nice i think. i’m kinda emotionally processing the shit apartment i was living in a couple months ago by building something similar, i think. i’ll probably play it as a fixer-upper thing later. 

i’ve been playing ts4 on and off the whole time i’ve been off tumblr, just haven’t shared anything! but now that i’m back in sweden and going to be trying to get work, i thought i’d also start sharing cc and stuff again. helps me be motivated to do 3D which i can then use for my original projects & portfolio. i probably won’t be super active but more than recently anyway. 

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this was just a little fun test thing since today was the walpurgis celebrations, in my town there’s a tradition of putting on your highscool graduation cap during an event at the festivities downtown (and this is what that cap looks like). it’s a maxis mesh edit and not a whole new mesh. (didn’t finish with the texure editing, the black band isn’t meant to go too high up like that.)

but, i doubt tons of people would be interested in swedish graduation caps and i’m not sure what i myself would even use it for, so i might not finish :-p (i guess i play windenburg as if it’s swedish but...) let’s see around june when current hs students start graduating again, maybe i’ll feel motivated. 

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it’s sort of working..... sort of..... not entirely borked anyway :-DDD really proud of myself for getting this far on a clothing thing, it’s a big deal to me. next step on the learning ladder is hair i guess, haha. (i do have a few hairs in mind for when i actually feel ready for that..... if ever....)

there’s some weight problems in-game (not *huge* ones but enough to make it ugly and something i’d want to fix if i keep going with this), the textures aren’t finished, and i also should move down the poofiness so it’s just tucked into the pants. might also want to smoothen out some parts around the sleeves... and, i don’t have any lower LODs yet.... so yeah, *if* i decide to upload this thing it won’t be very soon, it’d take me a while to finish up all those boring things. (but i figure nobody else really wants this shirt besides me either :-p )

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me: now that i’ve gotten further on understanding accessories and bug-fixing them, maybe sometime soon i could actually try doing some clothing mesh edits, though it seems complicated. 

me: *tries to do a small maxis shirt mesh edit* never mind, that was still really hard.... but maybe it’s not too far away into the future. 

voice in my head: OR YOU COULD TRY MAKING A NEW SHIRT MESH FROM SCRATCH..... RIGHT NOW........ 

me: no!! why would i -- 

voice in my head (echoing ominously): RIGHT NOW.......

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*spent too much time thinking about which hp house to place each windenburger in* 

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Hi pose makers! Does anyone of you take any requests at the moment…? for ex. to make male ballet poses? :)

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jag kan göra nåt par stycken om du vill? om det är ballett behöver jag referenslänkar men det går nog an :-p (singelposer är för övrigt lätta att göra men nära-inpå-varann-parposer har jag haft lite tjorv med, man får testa en massa innan de hamnar rätt.) 

ifall du svarar strax kan jag sätta mig och göra några efter att jag grejjat färdigt med previewbilder om en stund! (annars kan jag göra dem whenever, har inte så mycket planerat den här veckan) 

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I wish you still played TS2! You were making so nice Makin Magic CC for it :(((

are you the same anon that asked to my main blog, just so i don’t answer you twice? :-D (both this blog and my ts4cc blog are sideblogs to my ts2 one, so i get any messages to the same inbox) 

the game itself runs too badly on my PC laptop to play it like i’d want to (big hoods full of cool stuff and that), so i haven’t played in a long while. i played ts1 more recently though, runs just fine on my laptop….. :-p (i play ts4 on the mac, but the ts2 complete edition thing is PC-only.) 

it’s a loooot easier to make CC for ts4 (unless anyone’s made a new modding program for ts2 while i’ve been gone). i can just make a quick mesh, pop it in S4S with a few clicks and be ready to run a play-test…. well, not quite that easy but almost. SimPE is much more of a hassle to work with and made me tired every time i had to open it. 

i still want to remake Makin’ Magic stuff, especially a bunch of the clown objects (though most of them were pretty complex). whether i’ll try making ts2 cc again on my own, anytime foreseeable, is doubtful but: 

- i allow conversions of my ts4 meshes for other sims games, so if (more like when) i end up doing MM remake objects for ts4, anyone who wants could convert them to ts2! 

- i could collaborate with someone who does the (massive, boring) SimPE part of ts2 cc making and have my part just be making the actual meshes (and textures i guess, though i don’t like making those much). 

anyway, thank you for writing, i’m glad that you thought about me!! also when is EAxis announcing they’ll make an overhauled ts2 that’s the exact same game but just better. and with a full makin’ magic hood. this is what your players want, EA 8-/ 

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todayyy i’m gonna finish those scarves. had some minor fiddling to do and then screenshots. will probably be on-and-off type of work for hours since i’m feeling distracted, but i’ll get it done!

i’ve been listening to a lot of george michael lately.... putting on a mixed 80s playlist on spotify now to change things up..... slightly. i love music in general and listen to any genre but i definitely have periods where i’m more or less stuck listening to one thing that suits my mood. (some favourites are folk music, chiptune, pop rock, church choir, swing jazz, new wave, post-punk probably but idk about the definition of it, classical music, joke remixes, .... so yeah.... i really like music in general :-D )

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alice invited herself over, and hadley showed her the tree.  h: “it sparkles at night, too!” a: “are you for real? that must be amazing with the sky and everything out here! but i guess i won’t get to see it in person.... i don’t want to get back to willow creek too late....”  h: “well... you could stay. i mean... if your husband doesn’t mind? uh, never mind, maybe that’s a bad idea. sorry, i didn’t think that through....”  a: “no no no, i’d love to!!! to be honest, eric might not even notice i’m not home, he’s been on the computer doing his programming stuff all night lately.... let’s do this!“ 

.... anyway, these guys are the cutest laid-back artsy nature friends..... and hadley got to show off his improved cooking skills for picnic-dinner and breakfast. it was adorable how alice spent all morning walking around with the little butterfly toy that was on hadley’s windowsill. i think she wants to stay permanently :-p  

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after a few days, hadley turned back to normal, and was a bit surprised at the fact that he actually felt happy to have his old skin and hair back. after further exploring, he picked up another forbidden fruit thing and has added another weird plant to his garden.  

i was wondering if joaquin was going to show up or call while hadley was a plantsim, but he didn’t. hadley’s been texting him, but otherwise.... no developments in either direction :-p 

bit by bit, hadley’s cottage becomes more personal. he’s a sentimental sort and likes looking back at pictures he took and remembering things, although he has some bad memories too that he’d rather be able to not think about. that’s part of why he took the chance to move and give his countryside garden dream a try, to start fresh and make new, happier memories. 

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alice was pretty surprised, but mila and the others at the pub were not. “oh, how lovely, we’ve got another one! you look adorable. björn just turned back, weird stuff.” 

and more exploring. the rewards are helping hadley’s collector aspiration, so that’s pretty nice. i find it funny how they keep saying “the rare cow plant” though (it’s one of the possible rewards), hadley has fished up like 5 of them in the neighbourhood so i wouldn’t exactly call them rare..... 

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mystery tree time... (well, this was a day or two ago and i was too lazy to post screenshots for a bit!)

so, hadley has become gloriously green. i was a bit disappointed that you can’t change their hair (i know there’s a mod), and that they don’t show up as plantsims in CAS. either way, hadley thinks this is scientifically very interesting... and since he doesn’t have any self-esteem about his regular human looks, he doesn’t mind his new style. at least it’s fresh. 

i really like how the tree sparkles at night. another detail i liked is the animation with the leaves growing out of them, made me laugh a bit because i have a friend who loves her “plant gore”.... (i like it too though! plants in general.) 

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today i’ve been making low poly cross earrings, i’m sure they already exist blah blah but the thing is i’m too lazy to search through all the CC out there to find the low poly stuff hahah. (half the people don’t even list polycount, and most people who make accessories are high-quality graphics players, so....) 

swatches are finished and such, it’s mostly just the usual CAS problems to sort through until they work right. i’m also gonna resize the top ring bc i think it’d just look better if they were closer in size. i should be able to upload by tonight but who knows, i’m taking a break now to have dinner and edit hadley gameplay screenshots..... 

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i think it’s funny how i ended up completely quitting doing texturing once i got into meshing, it’s not that i did *tons* of it in the TS2 days but i used to at least bother making recoloured and re-alpha’d clothes for my own sims and stuff like that, and some makeup or hair recolours, etc... occasional object recolours.... now i’m just like “ah i could make a quick recolour of these clothes to fit my sim better!” -- 5 minutes pass in photoshop -- i’m banging my head into the keyboard and giving up.....

and this is coming from a digital artist who has been drawing on the computer (with a drawing tablet) for approximately 15 years.... on the other hand i’ll just sit and fiddle with mesh projects for hours, no problem. that’s like a puzzle i can solve, texturing is more like intense pressure to make things look good that i can’t live up to. (i’m a messy artist who runs on feeling, not technique TT_TT )

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two extra train pics that i wasn’t gonna post (too much kissing already......) but.... cute.... the train station (platform) i got off the gallery from user “nehora03″, it’s a really nice build with café areas and stuff, that i might take more pictures in later if i don’t end up building my own train station. 

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finally hadley spotted a sad-looking plantsim in seaside windenburg! and thus he got his last bean, from townie daichi okada. 

wherever will this mysterious freaky tree lead us..... (he doesn’t look all that excited, i guess he got tired of the whole thing since it took so long to gather the beans :-p )

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oops my hand slipped. i mean joaquin slipped. surely i had nothing to do with this, you have no proof. 

.... anyway, this made for some cute city night pictures, so it’s alright..... it’ll be fine.... by which i mean, this is not gonna work out past a spur of the moment thing, i’m sorry hadley, i already feel bad for all of your little ones and zeroes and faerie dust, or whatever sims are built of. (i’m not 100% settled on hadley’s personality yet.... i’m leaning towards infj? ... but i know these two don’t have the right chemistry for long term :-p ) 

i (mildly) rebuilt the “waterside warble” karaoke place as a nightclub / bar instead, because i haven’t really been using the karaoke machines. also built a little commuter train room since i felt like it'd be a good photo shoot thing, i figure windenburgers go by train to san myshuno? (awkward should-we-talk-about-this-or-not-hm-nah-but-uh-that-was-fun-right late night home trip)