Almighty Hat’s Modest Lady - texture referenced V2
I finally did the elder conversions and started to write a seperate post, referencing the original modest lady upload a couple of times, which was not easy to read, so I thought, it might be better to edit the original post, which was also not a proper solution, so here we are: A new post with everything in order and hopefully less cluttered.
Still this post is copy+paste mostly.
If you downloaded the modest lady set already, you might want to overwrite some exsisting files. I’ll try to be brief.
Without further ado:
Almighty Hat’s Modest Lady texture referenced V2
You propably know Almighty Hat’s dreamwidth as a source for thousands of pieces of custom content. One of her contributions is the Modest Lady: A set of 72 simple yet elegant gowns for female sims (144 if you’re adding teens).
I found, that all 72 dresses come with a diffrent empty texture and a frankly speaking unnecessary normal map for the alpha group. This of course increases file size and loading time.
What did I do the files?
Well, a mind-numming rinse and repeat of editing material definions mostly. Changes include:
I linked ALL outfits to ONE normal map and ONE empty texture
Deleted unnecessary textures
Edited the tooltips to inform about the mesh used and to indicate the usage of external textures
Edited filenames to get rid of special characters, spaces etc.
Merged files for your convienence
Added 72 recolours for the Eaxis elder female shape
Which reduces the file size by 6.9 MB.
The new elder conversions will use a relativly small amount: 143 KB.
Age & Category
Almighty Hat’s original files were available for young adults, adults and elders. Since I added new elder conversions, they now are for young adults and adults only.
The elder conversions are completly new files, so they will not overwrite anything. An example of what they look like:
Teen version is of course for teens.
They are categorized as everyday, formal, maternity and outerwear clothes. The dresses will not spawn on townies.
Meshes
All required meshes are included in the archives. If you’re using one of the other versions of the meshes for teens/adults, please make sure to use the ones with the fixed UV-map by Vampirekiss6661.
For your simming needs, there are a few options avaiable. We’re going from most to least complicated.
Almighty Hat's Modest Lady - Separated
In the archive for adults you’ll find 3 folders, 2 master packages and a read me with all necessary information.
In the folders are packages, that will add one dress at a time to your game. Please, refer to Almight Hat's original post for swatches.
You can select any number of packages you want to add to your downloads folder. Since I couldn’t nullify the texture on the alpha group, I did the next best thing: I created a masterfile.
“MASTERFILE_emptyalpha_12Raben” is a small little package, that contains the information for the game, that it should display a tiny empty texture.
The other one “MASTERFILE_AlmightyHat-modestlady-bmp_12Raben” contains the normal map all dresses are linked to.
These master files are absolutly required to use any of the dresses in this archive!
Failing to add these files to your downloads folder will cause errors. Probably nothing harmful or game breaking, but definitely weird looking.
Upcoming uploads might include my master file as well. However: You will only need one copy of my masterfiles in your downloads folder.
The teen and elder dresses come separated as well. But I made them use the adult textures, so they won’t work on their own.
In the archive you’ll find 3 folders and a read me with all necessary information. Like the adult textures one package will add one dress to you’re game. But they require their adult counterpart.
and the masterfiles for adults
- MASTERFILE_AlmightyHat-modestlady-bmp_12Raben
- MASTERFILE_emptyalpha_12Raben
These archives are probably best suited for people, who are comfortable with SimPe or at least have a very organised downloads folder, so nothing gets lost in oblivion.
When you're done selecting, please consider to merge the files.
With that out of the way let’s get to the more convienent files.
Almighty Hat’s Modest Lady - Merged
In the archive for adults you’ll find 3 packages and a read me with all necessary information. These will add multiple dresses to your game at once. For easier handling the masterfiles are merged with them as well.
AF-body-Iamliz-AlphaDress-AlmightyHat-ModestLady_AeliaAutum-txtref-12Raben-merged
- Contains all dresses from the Aelia Autum Palette
- This gives you 20 dresses at once
AF-body-Iamliz-AlphaDress-AlmightyHat-ModestLady_CuriousB-txtref-12Raben-merged
- Contains all dresses from the CuriousB Palette
- This gives you 42 dresses at once
AF-body-Iamliz-AlphaDress-AlmightyHat-ModestLady_Pooklet-txtref-12Raben-merged
- Contains all dresses from the Pooklet Palette and the original texture
- This gives you 10 dresses at once
Only the mesh is needed.
The teen and elder dresses have a merged option as well, but as before:
They need their adult counterpart as well as the meshes.
Failing to add the required files to your downloads folder will cause errors.
Now there’s only one left: This for those of you, who want to commit, like no one commited before....
Almighty Hat's Modest Lady - All-In-One
If you just love all the dresses and can’t possibly pick just a few of them, I provide 3 All-In-One archives: One for adults, one for elders and one for teens. Beware though: All three packages together will add 216 dresses at once to your game. Teen and elder dresses will need the adult counterpart, but other than that only the meshes are needed.
Last, but not least:
As I’m providing diffrent degrees of merging, please make sure to not use diffrent versions of this. Replacing Almighty Hat’s files or my previous version with the new ones shouldn’t cause any issues.
Deleting clothing is not game breaking, the only issue you might encounter is, that a sim, who wore them, will get a new random outfit.
Rename my files. I gave them super long names, so eveything is clearly named and you can easily distinguish them. But as we know, the longer the file name, the longer the game takes to load. I went ahead and got rid of special characters, spaces and such, but you probably have a naming system, that works best for you.
The files’ tooltips have also been edited, so you will know, 12Raben aka I screwed around with them. 😏
For People, who used the previous version:
The biggest change here is, that the adult files are no longer available for elders. You can use the previous version along with the new elder conversions. You would have the option to dress elders in the adult and elder shape.
If that’s something you want, just add the elder conversions and leave the adult files as they are.
If you want adults in the adult shape and elders in the elder shape, get the new files. If you haven’t merged the files or edited the file names, you can let them simply overwrite.
The teen dresses are unaffected by the changes, you can just continue to use them as they are. Just make sure to use the mesh with the fixed UV-map.
+Credit+
All credit goes to Almighty Hat! She did all the work tbh. All I did was clicking import, commit and save a few hundred times.
Credit also goes to Iamliz for the original mesh as well as Dicreasy (aka @regalton-di) for the preg morph.
And a big thank you to Cynnix for the elder mesh and @vampirekiss6661 for their mesh-edits and allowing me to include the required meshes. ❤
+Download - Modest Lady Separated for adults (SFS)+
Quick & Dirty install instructions
Each package will add one more dress to your game.
You can add any number of packages you want to your downloads folder.
EDIT 3/1/2022: Updated the whole set to include elder clothes in elder shape. It’s located in a separate post here.
EDIT 31/12/2021: Added a link to Vampirekiss6661′s fixed teen mesh.
If you’re playing in a medieval setup, chances are good, that you are very familiar with Almighty Hat’s countless contributions to the community.
One of those is the Modest Lady: A set of 72 simple yet elegant gowns for female sims (144 if you’re adding teens).
Now. When making another default replacement, I found, that all 72 dresses come with a diffrent empty texture and a frankly speaking unnecessary normal map for the alpha group. This of course increases file size and loading time.
Don’t get me wrong, I love and appreciate Almighty Hat’s hard work, but I still decided to make some edits to her files.
Warning: Wall of text. Next to no pictures.
Very boring, but might be worth your time.
What did I do the files? Well, a mind-numming rinse and repeat of editing material definions mostly. Changes include:
I linked ALL outfits to ONE normal map and ONE empty texture
Deleted unnecessary textures
Edited the tooltips to inform about the mesh used and to indicate the usage of external textures
Edited filenames to get rid of special characters, spaces etc.
Merged files for your convienence
Why do I use an empty texture still, instead of using a Null texture?
For the life of me I couldn’t get it to work. I think, I tried everything to make the alpha group use no texture at all, alas it didn’t work. So, you and I are stuck with 1 measly, empty 8x8 pixel texture. But this is still better, than 72 1024x1024 textures and 72 1024x1024 normal maps. (Those are all gone.)
If you don’t understand, what the diffrence between empty and null textures are, please read this post by skell. It enlightend me on the subject.
Other than that, nothing changed from Almighty Hat’s original settings. All dresses are available for young adults, adults and elders. Teen version is of course for teens only (Duh!). They are categorized as everyday, formal and outerwear clothes. The dresses will not spawn on townies.
There is a thing, that changed: File size.
Before: 94.2 MB
After: 87.3 MB
A total diffrence of 6.9 MB!
Are you excited yet?? Well, come with me on a journey full of
very boring, technical information!
For your simming needs, there are a few options avaiable.
We’re going from most to least complicated.
First off: There is no mesh included in the archives. I prefer to have mine separate. And there are diffrent versions of the mesh available, so you’re better off getting, what suits your game best. Most medieval simmers will probably have it already.
The mesh is Iamliz13's Alpha-Editable Medieval Gown, so you’ll need either the original or one of the edits floating around the interwebs.
EDIT 31/12/2021: I just stumbled over vampirekiss6661′s UV-map fix for the teen dresses. It’s included with Vampirekiss6661′s Strumpet. If you’re using the teen dresses make sure to get the meshes with the UV-fix.
You can use the links below, but there will be a jump on the teen dresses’ texures.
Here is the original.
For adults: Mesh_Liz13_afmedievalalphadress
For teens: Mesh_Liz13_tfmedievalalphadress
Here is an edited version. (Part of the ACME starter kit)
For adults: Mesh_Liz13_afmedievalalphadress_preg_by_Dicreasy-UVedit-ByVK
For teens: Mesh_Liz13_tfmedievalalphadress_preg_morph_by_Dicreasy
I’ve tested with these and both work. If you’re playing with teen pregnancy, you’ll want to get the edited meshes.
Almighty Hat's Modest Lady - Separated
In the archive for adults you’ll find 3 folders, 2 master packages and a read me with all necessary information.
In the folders are packages, that will add one dress at a time to your game. Please, refer to Almight Hat's original post for swatches. You can select any number of packages you want to add to your downloads folder.
Since I couldn’t nullify the texture on the alpha group, I did the next best thing:
I created a masterfile.
“MASTERFILE_emptyalpha_12Raben” is a small little package, that I have often used, when I was unable to use Skell’s exported Null-txmt. It contains the information for the game, that it should display a teeny-tiny empty texture, without a normal map.
The other one “MASTERFILE_AlmightyHat-modestlady-bmp_12Raben” contains the normal map all dresses are linked to.
These master files are absolutly required to use any of the dresses in this archive!
Failing to add these files to your downloads folder will cause errors. Probably nothing harmful or game breaking, but definitely weird looking.
When you're done selecting, please consider to merge the files.
Quick and easy tutorial on how to do that here (by keoni).
Upcoming uploads might include it as well. However: You will only need one copy of my masterfiles in your downloads folder.
The teen dresses come separated as well. But I made them use the adult textures, so they won’t work on their own. And I don’t plan on making a standalone version for teens. Sorry.
In the archive you’ll find 3 folders and a read me with all necessary information. Like the adult textures one package will add one dress to you’re game. But they require their adult counterpart. What does that mean?
E.g. You want to add
and the masterfiles for adults
MASTERFILE_AlmightyHat-modestlady-bmp_12Raben
MASTERFILE_emptyalpha_12Raben
These archives are probably best suited for people, who are comfortable with SimPe or at least have a very organised downloads folder, so nothing gets lost in oblivion.
With that out of the way let’s get to the more convienent files.
Almighty Hat’s Modest Lady - Merged
In the archive for adults you’ll find 3 packages and a read me with all necessary information. These will add multiple dresses to your game at once. For easier handling the masterfiles are merged with them as well.
AF-body-Iamliz-AlphaDress-AlmightyHat-ModestLady_AeliaAutum-txtref-12Raben-merged
- Contains all dresses from the Aelia Autum Palette
- This gives you 20 dresses at once
AF-body-Iamliz-AlphaDress-AlmightyHat-ModestLady_CuriousB-txtref-12Raben-merged
- Contains all dresses from the CuriousB Palette
- This gives you 42 dresses at once
AF-body-Iamliz-AlphaDress-AlmightyHat-ModestLady_Pooklet-txtref-12Raben-merged
- Contains all dresses from the Pooklet Palette and the original texture
- This gives you 10 dresses at once
Only the mesh is needed. No other files are necessary. Pretty easy peasy, right?
The teen dresses have a merged option as well, but as before: They need their adult counterpart.
Failing to add the required files to your downloads folder will cause errors.
Now there’s only one left: This for those of you, who want to commit, like no one commited before....
Almighty Hat’s Modest Lady - All-In-One
If you just love all the dresses and can’t possibly pick just a few of them, I provide 2 All-In-One archives. One for adults and one for teens. Beware though: Both packages together will add 144 dresses at once to your game. Teen dresses will need the adult counterpart, but other than that only the meshes are needed. No other files are necessary.
A word about teen dresses:
Winter already made a texture referenced version of the Modest Lady set. From what I can tell, glancing at her files, she used Almight Hat’s textures as a basis. That means, if you wanted to use all 72 dresses, that all 288 textures of Almighty Hat would be required for them to work.
My version contains only 74 textures at max.
(72 base textures, 1 normal map and one empty texture.)
In short: My adult textures are not compatible with Winter’s teen dresses.
I also want to adress, that there is a “jump” in the texture on teens.
EDIT 31/12/2021: Unless(!) you keep track of you files, silly me. There is a teen mesh available by @vampirekiss6661, which I totally forgot existed.
It fixes the whole mapping issue, so be sure to use “Mesh_Liz13_tfmedievalalphadress_preg_by_Dicreasy-UVedit-ByVK”. (Link above) to avoid this issue:
This is however also present in the original files and barely noticeable, when not zoomed in like above. This is how the mesh works and since I’m not capable of meshing or uv-mapping, this is a “problem” we’re stuck with.
One could probably butcher the textures, so it isn’t noticeable anymore, but this would get rid of the sweet decrease in file size, I was aming for.
Also one should keep in mind, that Iamliz13 probably didn’t make that alpha group to be turned invisible. Usually it covers this seam.
I’m also aware, that there is a mesh conversion for elders available, but I just don’t want to edit files anymore. 😞 Just so you know.
As I’m providing diffrent degrees of merging, please make sure to not use diffrent versions of this.
So, if your’re using either Almight Hat’s or Winter’s files, make sure to delete them first.
If you have them in your game already, replacing Almighty Hat’s files with mine shouldn’t cause any issues, since I used the original files. Sims dressed in them *should* keep them, but I’m not 100% sure of this.
I can’t speak for Winter’s files though. I don’t know, whether she used Almighty Hat’s files or started from scratch. Deleting clothing is however not game breaking, the only issue you might encounter is, that a teen, who wore them will get a new random outfit.
Also: Rename my files. I gave them super long names, so eveything is clearly named and you can easily distinguish them. But as we know, the longer the file name, the longer the game takes to load. I went ahead and got rid of special characters, spaces and such, but you probably have a naming system, that works best for you.
The files tooltips have also been edited, so you will know, 12Raben aka I screwed around with them. 😏
+Credit+
All credit goes to Almighty Hat! She did all the work tbh. All I did was clicking import, commit and save a few hundred times.
Credit also goes to Iamliz for the original mesh as well as Dicreasy and Vampirekiss for their mesh-edits.
So without further ado: All files have been uploaded to SFS! And don’t forget to get the meshes, if you don’t have them already!
Here is the folder.
+Download - Modest Lady Separated+
Quick & Dirty install instructions
Each package will add one more dress to your game.
You can add any number of packages you want to your downloads folder.
