Eclipse Sims

Sims 4 Custom Content downloads and pictures.

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Spent about 2 years self teaching 3-4 different 3d modelling programs and Unreal Engine 4.

I made two original characters. Androgynous Half Faerie twin brothers. Because I have such niche inspiration I know If I don’t make what I want for myself, no one ever will. :o

Animated/rigged with Maya A.R.T. Tools plugin for unreal engine 4. Modeled in maya and zbrush. UVM done in 3ds max 2012. Sorry No animation previews atm because I don’t currently have a capture program.

Not super high poly because I still have windows 7 and a 10 year old computer. Each character is about 30-40k polygons. Hair is about 20k. 

I am glad I have a skillset for this atm. Maybe I’ll find work later. If anybody knows people looking for a 3d artist that can create some simple weapons and hair models for UE4(Sorry, not really any experience with unity). Let me know.. I’d like to learn and grow from here. Hopefully getting a new computer soon.

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I recently discovered that there was a really easy to use program that extracts models and textures from FF14. I know… I’m late to the party with that, I don’t mod MMORPGs so I never know what’s available. 

So anyways, I thought it would be neat to put my “Warrior of Light” and Emet-Selch into Unreal Engine 4. I’m new with learning UE4 so this was an attempt.

It’s the same models and normal map textures extracted from the game. Although I did need to create new skeletal rigs, and a bunch of new texture maps(New diffuse, Scatter, Roughness, Specular, alphas, displacement etc.) for the shaders to work right. It was still a lot of work surprisingly. 

The hair I got lazy with, I didn’t paint vertex colours or create a flow map(I used the normal map from the game in place of the flow map which sort of worked a little bit). Hair in UE4 I find takes a lot of extra work. But hair always does for pretty much anything.

The skin and hair shaders I’m using are from the “Digital Human” UE4 tutorial for creating realistic characters that I edited slightly.

……the extractor also hasn’t been updated since HW I think… so trying to find Shadowbringers stuff with it… was unbelievably tedious.

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Not Sims related, but still sort of mod related.

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Alt Male version of Corrin From “Fire Emblem Fates”. I renamed him Lucian in my game. I just got it the other day, so I’m only starting atm. My main goal right now is to hook up with Niles… cuz Lucian is gay AF.

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Overdue Update

I vanished again for a while. Unfortunately over the end of March-April I was very very depressed and wasn’t doing all that well. It sort of came out of nowhere and hit really hard. I also had a lot of anxiety regarding my art, since I had completely neglected it for nearly a year to do 3D modelling and Sims stuff. I felt that I really needed to go back to that... which is mostly what I’m doing currently. I’m not sure when I’ll return to game modding right now. Maybe when I feel a bit more comfortable with my 2D art stuff.  

Art tumblr is Here: http://lunariseclipse-art.tumblr.com/

It’s more active than my sims one is for the time being.

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I haven’t uploaded art in so long. I finally drew something that I don’t totally dislike. It’s one of the characters I made for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I was playing with friends.

His design is inspired a bit by Count D from “Petshop of Horrors” if that’s not already obvious. I really wanted to play as the Yuan-ti race, but the original stats are very OP (a lot of the playable monster races are a bit OP, but Yuan-ti Pureblood is pretty bad). I ended up using an edited version of the race with the stats nerfed slightly so it wouldn’t be unfair. He’s still pretty strong though… A Yuan-ti Charlatan Warlock is scary even with modified stats…. 

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Sims 4 Changshan for men WIP

ENLARGE

*Ignore the sloppy texture ATM. I roughed it in Zbrush to use as a base/guide for photoshop.

I spent forever on this mesh, mostly because I find the morphs in Sims 4 very difficult to get working okay when using a brand new mesh. Especially when the polycount is higher than the standard sims 4 models. The worst part was the bottom because I wanted to be able to see up underneath without the legs being able to cut through... It’s working pretty okay now so I can finally work on texturing. It may still be a while before I upload though, since I need to create the LOD models still as well.

It’s for male sims teen-elder.

It does have a female morph, although I’m not sure how that looks right now since I haven’t checked it in-game yet.

It’s a full body mesh, but tights/socks and any sort of shoe can be used with it.

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Small Tweak to My FFXIV Eastern Buns Hair

I updated the LOD models for LODs 2 and 3. To reduce load on people’s computers. So if you have already dwonloaded this hair, just re-download the updated version to avoid any issues.

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~*Eclipse [FFXIV Eastern Buns] Hair*~ Sims 4

This is a new hairstyle for the sims 4. It is based off of a very similar hairstyle found in the "Final Fantasy XIV" Character creator.

-Contains all Hat cuts. -Contains the 18 Main colours. -Is available for male and female sims teen to elder. -Is flagged for random. -Is flagged to work properly with the EP01 detective career. -In colour binned with proper sort order. -Uses the Glass + SimsSkin shaders.

DOWNLOAD:HERE

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WIP Update.

This hair took way longer that I thought... because I wanted the textures to be as high quality as possible without using the HQ mod... and with limited texture space(only 512x512) it meant that I needed to experiment a lot and also had to individually uvmap each alpha card separately... and a lot of this hair is asymmetrical, so I couldn’t even mirror too much.  Next hair I think I’ll create something a bit more simple.. something without a zigzag part down the middle. O.o That was the thing that made this take so long...

Anyways, the model itself is nearly done, but I still have to create hat cuts, different colours, and fit it so female frames can use it too. I think it looks pretty cute though. And I’m also happy that the full hair model is created by me and I just used some screen shots for reference. As much as I like editing the DA hairstyles, I do honestly prefer creating my own stuff from scratch.

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Inspiration?

I started working on Zevran’s outfit on Sunday, and I have a decent amount of the body mesh done... but on Tuesday, the new patch for FF14 dropped and I decided to play it a bit again (I haven’t played FF14 in months). I noticed they had this really cute hairstyle added for guys. 

I thought it was so adorable actually that I thought of maybe creating a similar style for the sims 4... on top of that, they added this really cute Chinese style dress/robe that men can wear as well, and I wanted to make something like that too... perhaps I should update my “Count D” sim (omg so long ago!!) from sims 2? I’d like to make him a pretty new robe now. O.o

I really want to take a little break from the DA stuff and focus on something else honestly, since I’m feeling a bit burned out. Although I’ve done a fair amount on Zevran’s armour, it’s still a complex mesh and so much work still needs to go into it. If I’m not really in the mood for it, I won’t do as good a job. I’ll go back to it afterwards for sure.

Also... if anyone plays FF14, are there any hairstyles you think would be super cute for men to have in sims 4? Something that hasn’t been done to death already?

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My Zevran Sim is updated and can be downloaded finally. It takes a while to make all the preview images and banners for my downloads. I’m sorry for the long wait on this one. :o

Download Zevran and get way more info and preview images HERE

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Another WIP image. Zevran is almost finished. Just need to touch up a few things and create the hat cuts. I’d be done way sooner if I wasn’t sick for so long, so that sucks. :(

The lovely skin overlay I’m using here for his body texture is by Remussims. You can find it HERE.

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Quick Zevran Update.

My flu was VERY bad. My poor dad got pneumonia. My mother and I developed serious bronchitis. I understand the fear of prescribing antibiotics due to the scary immunity issue... but... SERIOUSLY....Fukkin’ hell.... Our entire house became Ill due to lack of antibiotics.......  :/

Anyway, got back to work and I sorta love this hair... but it is still untested in-game. I’m excited to see it in the Sims 4.... But also scared. It should still hold up nicely w/o HQ mod hopefully. This is just the poor default lighting shot in 3DsMax2012. 

I wanted to update because I’m gone again for the next 2 days. Off to play with friends I was too dead to see during flu. :o

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I’m still here!

Over Christmas I was spending time with family and my brother(who I haven’t properly seen in over a year) but I also unfortunately got flu at the same time. :/ I’m feeling a bit better now, but it was pretty nasty and is still lingering, which sucks. Just wanted to drop a heads up since I’m known to vanish off the face of the internet a lot, but I’m still around this time. I’ll hopefully get back to work on things soon, just waiting for this bug to pass. :/

I did have free time to play Zelda and Disgaea 5 though, while coughing my brains out... lol so that was fun.

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kaizoku-gal said: I think the problem with the poll was that it’s only visible in your blog, in the dashboard it just appears as a grey square :/ so my guess is that most pleople didn’t knew that they have to click on it to access the poll

TY so so much Kaizoku. I'll use a different site later if I need to create a poll! TY so much for letting me know! I wasn’t sure how to reply in comments without making a post... I honestly hate how tumblr works... :(

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Left - Zevran’s hair: Original model, reshaped for the sims. 

Right - Re-textured - remodeled:  Fully remodeled under the braid. I went all out with this because.... DA origins was..2009? Right? I can’t remember and I’m lazy. It was about then.... 

Anyways, it was in need of an update...  I should have remodeled the entire thing. But I’m here now so, fart. :/

Also ignore shit lighting/shaders. This is 3dsmax2012 with default lights. It looks like pure ass.

Also, BRAID looks like clunky anus. I’ll fix that later. It looks worse in the second pic because I blew a fart on smoothing and ignored the consequences. I saved the original braid already so fuck it. Redo.

Side note:

K so, I said I’d upload some stuff with Hawke... But I spent a day experimenting for fun with Xgen Hair in Maya ( I’m literally just learning Maya still).  It didn’t work too well. 

3d learning fuckshit(Maya):

I do hand placement for hair cards so that’s good in the aftermath.... I just need to learn the placement, density and the options with trial and error.  I learned 3dmodelling on milkshape(hurrhurrquakeHurrhurr2005update)  so this past year has been crazy with learning 4 programs at once! O.o I mostly deal with 3dsmax and zbrush but I learned them this past year....  

Hawke:

Anyways, I scrapped Hawke’s beard model... not only because I brain farted on maya, but because the glass shader in the sims 4 is ..... not good. Any hair models that overlapped the beard would look shit. So, I was maybe gonna go the kijiko simskin approach for the beard... but that would take a remodel and I am desperate to create Zevan now since the poll got me so excited!

I’m done Hawke’s beard texture and bloodswipe makeup. So I can always upload that if anyone is dying for it. Comment if you want it. In perspective.... 

Poll Shatery: 

The poll choosing Zevran got 9 votes total. 4 for Zevran. (BTW I love you pl that voted! <3 you!!!  

***Concerned note.... I have 600 follows. Maybe ppl hate polls? .. Or the site I chose for polls was shit as fuck. I think I need to use a different poll method...... My bestie tried to access the poll on mobile and he could not... sooooooo that’s pure shit....

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K so At this point in time, Zevran is winning at my Sims CC poll. I am not sure when I’m going to close it, but I’ll keep it up probably till tomorrow or something.

Anyways, if I update his sim version next, I’ll start with the usual and make his hair model much nicer and update his textures.  But something else I was thinking about(and thought about originally back when I made his old version) was his outfit. In DA: Origins the characters didn’t really have unique clothing, They just wore what you equipped on them. I was always sort of wondering what I’d do for his outfit if I decided to make one. 

 Anyways, I bought the “Dragon Age” World of Thedas” book.. (vol 2) a while back and in Zevran’s section he has this image of him. Then I got to thinking... because I hate myself and I want to torture myself with gruelling work... maybe I could do this outfit?  If I am crazy enough to do that, I’ll probably need to start a patreon or something, cuz it’ll take so much effort and time... 

...but it’d be very cool to do something with all of my own models again like I did with my Kuja Sim. I’ll see how things go....

In the meantime I’m finishing up a mesh I made for Garrett Hawke’s beard. I’m going to upload him soon(probably next week since I am busy this weekend). I didn’t make too much for him because there was a gorgeous hair model already made that suits him perfectly. Hawke is more of a self insert/customized character for a lot of people anyways.