This is a new take on an old project. I love Cyclonesue’s cubicle door (TSR) and it is a staple of my community lots. But it deserved some “cleaner” and more versatile recolors, and I wasn’t very satisfied with the ones I made a couple of years ago.
Since then I’ve learned the repository technique, so I edited Cyclonesue’s mesh to pull the basegame value door textures, and made the original textures into recolors for the value door.
I went on and made some new recolors too, because I specifically wanted vertical panels in bright colors…
VIKA/GREVSTA Dining Set add-ons
New upload at MTS! A set of add-on meshes repo'd to the VIKA/GREVSTA table from the IKEA SP, including a new bar table using @morepopcorn's mod
Outdoor Gym set | Fitness trail and exercise bike
Popping in for another long-due upload!
This is a mini set of outdoor gym equipment, including a fitness trail cloned from the obstacle course career reward, and an exercise bike. Both use the AL monkey bar textures, and I made 4 custom recolors.
More details and download at MTS
or SFS
(personal rambling under the cut)
I'm still trying to keep up with the community and lurking around here but it's been more difficult to play and make progress on my projects lately, juggling between work, my computer showing signs of age, and personal life in general being pretty rough lately... I'm planning to switch to Linux on my laptop in hopes of (among other reasons) prolonging its life by a few more years but I'm stuck on installation problems. And in the longer run I need to prepare to buy a new computer anyway, pretty daunting task tbh.
Anyway, I have other stuff in the works that I hope to share before the end of the year at least!
The bed mattress pulls textures from Jonesi's blanket, the box part of the bed, the shelf, and the privacy screen pull textures from the AL Dance-Off Break Dancer Mat. These are clones with new guids, they wont conflict with the originals. I also turned MLC's 2 plain cardboard textures into recolors for the break dance mat
CarWreck now pulls textures from the NL Smoogo car, it's different from the CycloneSue mesh I repo'd a while ago. JunkStove repo'd to the BG urinal and Cio Time stove. TireFlowers repo'd to the BG Daisies of our Lives, the tire couldn't be repo'd but it looks like they used the one from the NL Smord truck and it could probably be repo'd if someone remapped it for me. The car and urinal/stove are found in Deco-Sculpture, the tire flowers are found in Deco-Plants
It now pulls textures from the Resteze toilet and deco Sunflowers. Found in Deco-Misc for $50 (I tried to move it to plants but it disappeared from the catalog so I had to keep it in Misc)
45 AOD Disco Dining Chair Cushion Recolors Repo'd to Maxis Floors
Some groovy cushions that have tiny filesizes because they pull textures from various EPs & SPs. Filenames list which EP or SP is requires for each one
The top pulls textures from the BG The Meaning of Fruit painting and the legs pull textures from the lane part of the NL Pinmaster 300 bowling alley. I also took the original tabletop texture and made it into a recolor for The Meaning of Fruit, Michelle has some recolors for the bowling alley here. This end table originally came with the Diesel Stuff Pack for Sims 3, I cloned LadySimPlayer8's conversion and gave it a new guid so this version wont conflict with hers
My contribution to the GOS July/August themes - Animal Kingdom & How Low Can You Go
Trayless Orb Cat Toy - repositoried to the OFB Tray O' Orbs sculpture because if you leave orbs sitting around the cat is going to steal one to play with. It's cloned from ATS' cat ball and works like the catnip mouse. It should pick up any recolors you have for the orb subset, poly count is 224
tdyannd's Pampered Pets Litter Box repositoried to the BG Cinderbooks bookshelf, it should pick up any recolors you have for the shelf subset. This is a clone with a new guid, it wont conflict with the original. Poly count is 138
6 Recolors for the FT Formidable Formicarium - I always forget the ant farm exists, maybe having more color options will remind me to use it. Here's some fun 2-tone colors
The cart is now repo'd to the BG Contempto Adirondack living chair and should pick up any recolors you have, it's found in Surfaces -> Misc
The brick furniture couldn't be repo'd to the game because they're made out of the accessory block that the OFB crafting stations use. Instead I repo'd the 2 tables to the chair and then repo'd the chair's texture to OFB, I also made 2 recolors using the OFB plastic and metal block textures (the wooden one didn't look good). You can still recolor the chair like normal and the tables will pick up any recolors. I moved the chair to Seating -> Living and the tables to Surfaces -> Coffee table. Everything's been edited to work with the quarter tile cheat. Filenames and guids are the same, let these overwrite the originals
22 Repo'd Recolors for the Uni Flowin' Protozoan Beds
I used Maxis wallpapers to make some funky recolors for these funky beds. Filesizes are tiny because they pull textures from the AL, BG, NL, & Pets files
4 NL Diner Table Add-ons Edited to Work with HugeLunatic's CEP
HL made this CEP to give the Vintage Retro table subsets. I used the Repo Wizard on Ailias' Extra Long table, @deedee-sims' Round Vintage Retro Tables, and Sims99Fanatic's DIY Dining Table and they now work with the CEP so you can color the top and legs separately (shown with some of my recolors). The CEP is a little fiddly in my game but I don't know if it's because of my setup or something everyone experiences with this CEP. In order to get it to work I have to first open the 2-tile NL table called American Tableau and select the brown legs before placing the table on the lot, after that the subsets on all the other tables will work. If they're not working for you try exiting the lot, going back in, and doing the 2-tile table trick
I swear this was meant to be a much simpler project, aha. I wanted to make afbodygrannycardiganshorts a bit more like @letomills edit of Shannanigan's Sexy Secretaries outfits with textures more reminiscent of maxis, but then I realized the mapping was completely different... and then I realized why it was remapped, aha. There isn't a matching repo top for the cardi because the meshes that exist so far remap the cardi to make more sense- however I have now learned to use noblend groups, so that makes me pretty much unstoppable. I made a mashup body mesh with Leto's edit of the secretary skirt & @pforestsims edit of the H&M mesh, then I cut off the top and made a top only version of the cardi!
Starting with the maxis inspired textures; you can have them custom or default, and they're repo & pinned to H&M (H&M is required for these, only the boots and cardi are repo and the outfit and undershirts are custom textures). The fullbody outfits are AF only, and the tops are TF-EF. I used a bit of the original short texture and combined it with maxis skirt textures for the skirts, the tops are p much pinched from Shannigan's textures. The tops either come shirtless to use with bottom-only outfits, or with the white shirt underneath which I nicked from Amaryll- however for those be sure to add the file 'HM_grannycardi_Amarylltop_REQTEX' into your downloads as all the tops are repo to it- this'll just save you a bit of texture space rather than having a bunch of identical top textures in your game. The fullbody mesh is 2402 poly, and the top is 1464. All the meshes have fat morphs, and the AF ones also have preg morphs.
Download Granny cardi + Secretary skirt REPO to H&M
Download Granny cardi top REPO to H&M
As for the default, it's also repo to H&M so if anyone made a texture default for it, the cardi and boots would pick up on that!
Download afbodygrannycardiganshorts default
Next some solid colour retextures in Aelia colours; pretty much the same info as above, minus being repo to H&M- H&M isn't required for these. The tops come either standalone or repo to AF, don't forget to get the top texture if using the shirt-ed versions!
Download SimplyStella leather jacket top + shirt standalone
Download SimplyStella leather jacket top + shirt REPO to AF
Download SimplyStella leather jacket top shirtless standalone
Download SimplyStella leather jacket top shirtless REPO to AF
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Phew, that was a lot of packages, and I didn't even include them all on this post... anyhow, everything's compressorized, with meshes in the zips. If you'd like to retexture these, I've slapped all my base texture into a zip which you can grab here!
The last of my H&M granny cardi project- @pforestsims' cowboy boots mesh edit made into pantless bottoms for AF and TF!
It's been so long since I made these that I forgot I converted them for TF, aha. These are repo & pinned to H&M so that's required; the bottoms don't have any pant textures at all to save some texture space, so these packages are really rather little! Meshes are included in the zip, they come up to 928 poly each.
Download Pantless Cowboy Boots
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The H&M cowboy boots have been made pantless before, but not quite this way- the boots are a separate texture group (which makes the repository work), and I really love the way PF edited the shape of the boots ^^
Anyhow, that was a lot less complicated than my last post, good times.
Oh look, another thing that was going to be simple and ended up with a hecc ton of packages... aha
I had a bit of a vision to turn the H&M tube dress into a strappy dress over a t-shirt on Yuxi's mesh with trainers, but when I looked at the default mesh in simpe... it was a bit of a mess. The mesh was duplicated and so the package was twice as big as it needed to be, but I'm not too surprised, as that's not uncommon with older default replacements. That led to me actually making a completely new mesh which has the dress and shoes in different texture groups, so texture space can be cut down by repo'ing them! I ended up working off @rudhira's mesh edit, so the shape is a bit nicer, too.
First, the shoeswap- for TF and AF, everyday only, the dress on both the custom and default versions is repo to H&M, so that is required. the shoes are all repo to the package 'HM_tubedress_trainers_REQ_shoetex', so make sure you include that in your downloads. I also pinned the custom version to H&M. the default version is pretty much just a more optimized version of Artemida's default, which is fun ^^ it replaces both afbodytubetopsandals and tfbodytubetopsandals, the mesh polycount clocks in at 1958, TF has a fat morph and AF has both morphs.
Download H&M Tube dress shoeswap custom REPO to H&M
now for my new textures; the dress is a combination of the H&M textures and Yuxi's Tsuki dress, with straps from BG. I popped a t-shirt underneath which is an edit of MDP's plain tee textures. 10 colours, three based on maxis', 6 Aelia retro colours, and one in Aelia's lonesome cream. I called it 'late summer', and it was definitely seasonal when I made it, but not so much now, so put the emphasis on 'late'.
You can have them on three different meshes; on the H&M tube dress mesh with the strappy sandals, everyday only, H&M required. Standalone, or with TF repo to AF.
Download Late Summer dress with sandals standalone
Download Late Summer dress with sandals REPO to AF
Secondly, on my mesh with trainers, everyday only, standalone, or with TF repo to AF. Don't forget to add the trainer texture package to your folder, unless you are using my default with trainers, as it’s included in that.
Download Late Summer dress with trainers standalone
Download Late Summer dress with trainers REPO to AF
Lastly, on Skell's top-only mesh, everyday only, standalone, or with TF repo to AF.
Download Late Summer dress top only standalone
Download Late Summer dress top only REPO to AF
I also made a recolour PSD in case anyone wants it, you can grab that here.
I also went ahead and edited Yuxi's Tsuki dress to use my mesh, so you don't need similar outfits with different meshes, and the shape is a bit nicer, too, with a better fat morph. Everyday only, standalone, or with TF repo to AF. Don't forget to add the trainer texture package to your folder, unless you are using my default with trainers, as it’s included in that.
Download Tsuki edit standalone
Download Tsuki edit REPO to AF
Lastly, I made some texture-only defaults using both my Late Summer and edit of Yuxi's Tsuki textures, you can use them by themselves to keep the sandals, or combine them with my trainers shoeswap default above as its repo. If you use the Tsuki textures in combination with the trainers, it'll pretty much be a more efficient version of Marja's default ^^
Download Late summer TubeTopSandals texture default replacement
Everything's compressorized, with meshes in the zips. I have a few more big projects I need to upload, and it's taking forever, aha. My own fault for not doing it as I go, though.
