I'm actually not a huge xmas person, but here's the Smith family holiday set-up i wanted to make for fun just to kinda update everybody.
So after the triplets (Lennox, Lewis and Lillian) were born and aged up into kids Bunny and Duke decided to have one more- who is now a toddler you see in the back (Liam). The older boys Leon and Layne are teens now. & Lapi just had a baby while off at college as the family's first grand-child. He's so cute!! I literally can't wait to see him as an infant <D Haven't really decided what direction I'm gonna take Lapi's life now, but right now she's just kinda doing the new parent thing.
STICKY POST: ULTIMATE(ISH) GUIDE(S) TO SIMS 4 CC-MAKING; OR, A COMPREHENSIVE COMPENDIUM OF TUTORIALS, INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS, & FELLOW COMPILATIONS OF A LIKEWISE NATURE
In which I list a fuckton of tutorials, guides, and lists of such, each written, curated, and crafted by people far more talented than I.
More will be added as I find them.
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@teanmoon's CC Guides - Includes tutorials on cloning, uv_1, weights, bump and specular maps, bi-color hair, and a Blender Cheat Sheet. High poly 'creators' have little excuse to churn out high poly, non-optimized garbage when they can lean on bump maps. (I know those can only do so much for more complex meshes, but for objects, texture maps can do SO much heavy-lifting).
@vintagesimstress's CC Guides - Includes tutorials on using Blender to create objects and clothing, especially for people who are just getting started.
@eliavah's uv-1 adjustment tutorial. Haven't tried this myself yet, but after glancing through it, it's something I will surely want to keep bookmarked.
@simlaughlove's CC Tutorials List - Includes many tutorials handily laid out by category on everything from object texturing to CAS morphs.
@thefoxburyinstitute's Nav Page - This blog is nonstop Sims 4 resources for e v e r y t h i n g. READ THIS POST FIRST as a guide on how to actually... nav.
@simsresourcehub's Tags List - What it says on the tin.
Transferring Weights in Blender 3.3.1 - Over at Sims4Studio forums.
@trillyke's List of Tutorials - Good ones!
@sims4tutorials - *GRAND GESTURES*
@katverse's Huge List of Tutorials - Tutorials on eeeverything.
@thatsimslady's Massive List of Tutorials - 31 pages????? Damn.
@kouukie's Sims 4 CAS with Marvelous Designer Tutorial - YouTube video!
@rusticottage's Gifmaking Tutorial - I love Sims gifs tbh.
@cowplant-pizza' Boes' Editing Masterlist - Includes stuff for Reshade, PSDs, PS Actions, and how to use them.
@melonsloth's Deco Sim Tutorial - Using SimRipper
@depthofpixels's Deco Sim Tutorial - Using SimRipper
@azuhrasims' Guide to Posing Sims - Includes how to pose sims, and handy workarounds! Super great for beginners and longtime users.
@radioactivedotcom's Guide to Posing - Includes additional posing resources. NOT for beginners.
@madameriasims4's Add a Flame to Your Basegame Candle - Great for mood lighting and historical gameplay!
@syboubou's Making a Lamp Start to Finish - a video tutorial
Well I've been pretty busy doing stuff and kinda got creatively burned out for a bit. And then there were so many updates that broke everything, and EA adding the cart icon and a whole bunch of other nonsense that kinda made me stop playing for a bit. I've decided to come back for a little while and Make some progress on this family and made some poses for my memory book of them that I figured I might want to share here? The triplets are growing up fast!
You can really put these poses anywhere, but I find the willow porch swing makes those toddler poses look extra nice! I love that CC set so much I swear I have something from it at almost every household somewhere.
Longer Rant: The early access model has sucked the heart & soul out of the CC scene by encouraging creators to crank out the blandest, safest, most low effort content possible as fast as possible, and it's caused CC as a whole to stagnate as the same three overused ideas and Maxis meshes get rehashed over and over and over again ad nauseum while creators continually push the boundaries of how little creativity/effort they can get away with expending while still making a buck. Creators are concerned about how much money they can make vs. if their content is actually good or if it even works in-game. And of course they are--this is just a job to them, not a creative endeavor or passion project. This isn't a community to them or even a fun game to play; it's just another market to capitalize on.
Tried to keep this all in the tags but it was getting a little ridiculous and I'm feeling long winded today so lets talk about it.
First, I have some very dear friends that make EA CC as well as some very dear friends that make free CC. Either way you cut it, it's a ton of work to make original content, and I completely understand wanting to monetize the hours you spent on a set. It's a hobby that's a massive time sink.
Second, You're right. And I think everyone knows it.
Besides the time commitment behind making CC, there's also a massive emotional and creative commitment. Having the creative spark or drive to make something that inspired you is fantastic, and can lead to a lot of very fun ideas. But strapping yourself to a monthly patreon model and forcing yourself to recreate that spark month after month is gonna wear on you. And when you know you have a guaranteed amount of money coming in each month, and you know you HAVE to produce, you get tired, you cut corners, you play it safe.
And the community eats it up, -oh but i never//oh i only reblog//- shh shh. You aren't who I'm talking about. The added price tag and two week exclusivity creates this facade of scarcity and luxury, (even if it's not that good!!) and it gets reblogged, it get saved, it gets stolen.
And this environment is especially oppressive for free creators. The people with that spark that maybe don't create as often but when they do release something they feel passionate and excited about they feel immediately passed over. Because the community downloads, tosses a like and moves on. - oh but i always//- shh shh, I'm not talking about you.
This game was released 10 years ago by a company that shot it in the knees and told it to run. The landscape of the community has changed over the years and there's no foreseeable end for TS4 in sight. A lot of older interesting creators have dropped off because of this, but there's still a lot of people out there making things that make them happy. @lumenniveus, @hamsterbellbelle, @nucrests, @laeska, @xldkx-cc, @myshunosun, @nolan-sims to name only a small number.
I know it sucks when you spend a lot of time on something you want to share with the community and you feel swept under the rug. But we can always tell when something is made with love. And conversely the community will always call out when something is made poorly with greed.
So if you sit there complaining about how all cc is boring and rehashed now, (not calling out anyone, just the general you) maybe open up S4S, make yourself a little recolor. Try a blender tutorial. Maybe you'll find yourself becoming the next interesting person making fun things for everyone to play with.
(Just maybe don't monetize your learning process)
Enthusiasm is infectious.
And as @symerr said in the tags, why not get a little silly with it?
So I just found your page and I am loving the Flying Circus Farms page as well! I was wondering if the lot for the farm has been shared anywhere. If it has can you please tell me where? It looks absolutely perfect!
Sorry I actually just saw this!! So I currently don't have the lot for download just because it's a personal lot so there's never a point where I'm like "okay this is done, I have no more edits for this" it just always feels unfinished, idk how to describe it? But I'm so glad you like it, thank you so much <3
However, I was thinking about making some lots available for download when I get some free time. For some reason lots I don't actually use for my personal RP just seem so much easier to upload- like I'm able to actually reach a spot where I'm like "okay I'm finished with this and I don't have anything else to add" Does anyone else have this happen?
Your stupid little capitalistic manipulation to buy your dumbass shit already fucking works on people on the main menu, it already fucking works when we open up worlds and see that we dont own all the worlds, but thats just not a fucking enough we need our GAMEPLAY to be fucking ruined by your stupid ass little fucking consumerism tatics.
w h y the FUCK would we need a little stupid little FUCKING icon to blink and annoy us to buy shit WHEN WE ALREADY ARE IN THE GAME PLAYING WITH WHAT WE HAVE.
you have no idea the hate i have for this company, its why I couldn't consistently play this game. I really fucking hate that I wasnt allowed to play the sims 2 growing up because now I have to deal with this trash watered down piece of shit money grabbing pathetic excuse of a sims game.
because Lapi has the insider trait she's always getting invited to things so she went and danced her ass off at some dudes house, got wasted, got lucky and took a nap on the couch, then had a 4some and walked drunk home.
juuuust in time to heat up a burrito while hungover for her 9am class. luv that for us, babe.
a quiet little love letter to all the custom content creators out there that just fucking love their sims. who genuinely enjoy loading up their game and sharing their OCs, their builds, their gameplay screenshots on simblr.com. to the posemakers that create hundreds more poses they'll never release, just so they can tell their own stories exactly how they want. to the cas creators that take the love and time to make their sims uniquely theirs down to every tattoo and freckle. the badass build buy bitches that completely tear apart a world just to build it up in a way no one thought possible, converting and meshing things no one else would think of.
i hope ya'll never stop flooding my dash with your passion and love. ♥
sooo I'm really not one for like a legacy with my regular sims, and haven't even been doing too much actual gameplay. But Bunny's oldest daughter Lapi had most of her teenage years missed due to my time skips and but I decided to make up for lost time by designing her a dorm and sending her to university! It's actually been super fun so far.
Just in case some of you didn't sign up to be absolutely drowned in horse content and also so I could organize things better; I have decided to make a separate blog for my horse related sim/rpg content! Check it out, all Flying Circus Farms updates and content will be going here from now on!
I'm sorry to bother you, but did you take the horse pose with the injury down...? The patreon link is not working
So I’m actually as confused as you are!!! It would seem for some reason, Patreon has incorrectly flagged this post as inappropriate and against community guidelines. Somehow, as far as I can tell, there is absolutely no mature themes in this post whatsoever, so I will be speaking with them to figure out what went wrong on their side of the system. 
Hi! I was wondering if you plan on updating some of the "Feeding You" poses to work with infants... Or maybe even creating more "chaotic" and realistic breastfeeding poses! I love your work <3
Oooh yeah! I've been on kind of a horse kick lately, but I was actually thinking of going back and redoing some of my old toddler poses to fill them in with infants at some point!
[Well I got a little better at painting... These are just some horses I created recently for Flying Circus Farms I thought were pretty. Science Fiction is the tobiano stallion and Rasmalai is the sabino mare to be sold on TES ^^]
This all started a few days ago when I couldn’t find a protective riding vest for my sims. I would like to extend a HUGE thanks to the creator of the mesh: beverlyallitsims at the “my little sin city” blog. Without their original meshwork, this wouldn’t be here today. I would also like to thank them for their generous TOS that allow for the mesh to be included here!
So this comes in masculine and feminine frames, and will clip with certain clothes so just watch out for that. I included some random numbers on the base swatches but made sure to include a blank front and back numberplate in each color watch for those who want to edit in their own custom numbers.
Feel free to recolor! But PLEASE credit me and more importantly beverlyallitsims if you do. ALSO- shouldn’t have to say this…but if I catch ANYONE putting this behind a paywall for ANY reason; we gone fight. I’m throwing hands. Paywall to me INCLUDES early access content. Basically do what you like with this, but it has to be available for free to everyone 100% of the time.
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