well đ§ââïž as a reminder this blog is NOT a safe space for trump supporters but it IS a safe place for women, queers, trans ppl, people of color, undocumented people, and any marginalized group.
(sorry the Trauma Center compilation from game grumps changed my brain chemistry permanently)
Electric and Internet are due again. Gas is off. I'm still applying for jobs but I haven't had an interview in a while and I think it's partly because of my mental state. I've recently been diagnosed with C-PTSD and am undergoing EMDR for it. I'm probably going to apply for SSI again sometime in July after I'm able to talk to a lawyer.
I haven't given up but I'm very stressed in general. I'm realizing my arm will be fucked up for a long time. It's been very painful because I severed a nerve. Psychosis, kids, not even once
My electric bill is $134 and my internet is $85. My gas is $212 to get it turned back on. I would appreciate any amount of help.
I still have my Amazon wishlist that I will regularly add to. Help there is also appreciated. A link can be found in my pinned post.
8k Sims' clip curtain remapped, and repo'd to CTNutmeggerâs 1x2 tablecloth for the fabric + BG Resistall astro divider for the clips. Shown with my cherry lace + net recolour in forget-me-not, with a matching valance from Hokadk47âs Valence addon set; You can see that this curtain is a tad shorter than the others, this was the best way I could think to keep the textures from being too stretched, and I think it ended up as quite a cute little accent for beds, too! CTNâs 1x2 mesh is included in the RAR ^^
I'm sorry to constantly need help but I recently went to a dentist and found out that some of my teeth have gaps between them and my gumline because I clench (and grind) my teeth while sleeping. I need a night guard really urgently. Their fancy medical night guard was $100 but I'm ok with a $15 one from Amazon. I placed one on my wishlist if anyone can buy it for me. I appreciate everyone's help immensely!!
yeah, they did. I wrote up a big long post about the Trevor Project and the 12 hour charity livestream I'm participating in right now, and they deleted it. twice. We've raised over $50,000 for a legitimate charity but because it helps trans kids it gets deleted from the site
RocĂo invites Globo to the arcade. Fortunately, the presence of beings from other dimensions has largely been accepted in Buenos Vientos, so Globo didn't have to worry about being mistaken for a redemption prize.
I wanted to make something completely different, but I got distracted by this idea đ It just fit too well! There are 8 recolors, and the University EP is required :)
naw, the cakebreads updated at the end of march! (i'm not officially responsible for them, i just help out.)
as for the others, also naw, they aten't dead. pooklet and i have just been doing other stuff. real life has been enormously, soul-piercingly stressful and scary lately, so when we do have a chance to sit down and do something fun, it tends to be stuff that requires a little less of us than legacy updates. we're also working on a book, so that's where the writing inspiration tends to go.
but we both still love the sims 2 more than any other game, and we'll be playing it until it is literally unplayable. you can't get rid of us that easily.
rum raisin fiebelkorn for @dark-side-princess-sims! thanks to pooklet, who still had a functional copy of her, because i misplaced all the human-centric CC i removed and backed up from afterwards so the rumrai i extracted had no skin and no hair đ
i always rolled my eyes at sims getting upset about a low room score, or screaming and stamping their feet about their pathing getting interrupted.
i get it now. we had our living room carpet cleaned this last wednesday (which was an enormous shitshow that culminated in renting the rug doctor from the grocery store across the street and redoing it ourselves and it's STILL a little wet today, saturday!!) and we had to clear out all the furniture. it's stacked up in our bedroom and in the kitchen. the living room is cavernous and empty. i am equally freaked out by both extremes.
hate this. want apartment back to normal. am sim throwing tantrum.
Heyyyy, so I'm still learning my way around making Paralives CC at a snail's space cuz I got bit by the Stardew Valley bug recently, but I did manage to convert my old HQ eye set thanks to @myshunosun's excellent tutorial!
I've also noticed some quirks when it comes to making eyes that I figured I would share for anyone else who's interested in making their own, so, notes on that below the read more!
Basics: If you're at all familiar with TS3 CC-making, you'll be pretty comfortable here. There's a grayscale texture and a tricolor mask that determines how colors are distributed by the game's color picker. By default, the eye "zones" are the sclera, outer iris, and inner iris, each one controlled by a different color on the tricolor mask. The texture formats are PNG, though, so no worries about fucking around with DDS files and channel layers (which is a relief for me, personally). The texture for the eye is about 150x150px, and it's spherical, so converting eyes from TS2 in particular will be difficult if you don't have a hi-res texture as your starting point. Not impossible, but difficult.
Separate textures: Each eye texture is separate so you can decide whether you want to mirror the texture or have completely different ones per eye, so that's neat! The same goes for the tricolor masks, so if you want to have slightly different coloration in each eye, you can.
Pupil dilation: The Paralives eye mesh reaaaaally stretches out the pupil. I'm not sure off the top of my head how this compares to the TS3 eye mesh, but for TS2 textures at least, you're going to have to shrink the pupil a lot to get it looking how it did in TS2.
Separate highlights: Exactly what it says on the tin. Highlights for the eyes are controlled by a separate resource in game, so you can mix and match them. Other people have already figured out how to make additional custom highlights but that's still above my current skill level. When making your eye texture, you'll want to blend out any preexisting highlights on the texture itself.
Sclera washout: Although you can put textures on the sclera of the eye, it renders weirdly in game. Any texture you put on it turns gray and light textures don't show up. I tried adding a little bit of pink and faint eye veins, but the changes ended up not showing up at all in game. It looked identical to the default sclera. However, some folks have managed to make changes to the sclera with darker texturing like these ones by CodeNekko, but it looks like the texture has to be very dark for it to show up.
Pupil lightening with saturated colors: The way the game renders eye colors, anything at 100 brightness causes the pupils to turn from black to a light gray, even if the actual color of the pupil texture is pure black (#000000). This unfortunately includes very saturated colors that aren't actually light (such as #0000ff) but are expressed with 100 brightness on the color wheel. I did a lot of fucking around trying to mitigate this, but didn't have any luck. It might be possible if there's a way to enable a fourth color channel on eyes to control the pupils separately, but I have no idea how to go about adding additional channels to eyes or if that's even possible.
Note that I might be wrong abt some stuff or it might change in early access, this is just what I have found in the course of messing around with this one little project! Okay, hope that was helpful to some folks! Back to the Stardew spreadsheet grind lol.
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