Not looking forward to having to remake this...uniform for my JAGSims stories.
For those of you who recognize it, that is the cap brim of a Navy "commander/captain".
At one point, I also had created a naval uniform as well.
with the rank of fleet admiral and corresponding proper caps as well.
These were on the computer that went belly up and I'm hoping that I can recover them from the hard-drive on it. If not, it's going to be a long laborious process to be able to remake them again and I'm not sure I can locate the images that would allow me to re-do that without some considerable expense. In fact, I may have to purchase some 3D assets that have been created by others and start playing in Milk-shape. The reason I swiped the Sims 3 (military) Air Force officer's cap that was already present in Sims 3 was because it was there and the mesh was there to work with allowing me to add all the details needed to truly make a military uniform adding the "scanned" decals. I made a whole series of military uniforms with differing insignia and decorations, making each one of them different according to my JAG characters individual ranks and those were the uniforms that I'd saved.
@kosmokhaos's military salute came in handy for this pose. Thanks for making that pose pack.
My Sim was a "Fleet Admiral" (four thin stripes, one thick admiral's stripe; a rank not used much nowadays - the United States makes it only potentially usable during a full-scale world war). But the five-star rank is no longer active with the top-end being an O-10 (4-star).
And he also has the "Joint Chiefs of Staff" badge under what is known as his awards rack (ribbon rack).
Looking in closer, you can see that he has the Naval aviator wings. I really wanted to mesh a replacement (but I don't have those kind of skills - a gold set of Navy wings with a plumbob instead of the American shield in front of the anchor bearing outstretched wings. My sim, following JAG, and its lovely little story-line was a member of the USN and a high-ranking one at that, wearing the Medal of Honor, noted in a story called
...back when the character was a "Lieutenant Commander" and was battle-field promoted to a Commander after the incident where he was nominated for the Medal of Honor. I really wish I was good at meshing, but it's a fore-gone conclusion that my brain isn't up to the task - still sorting that out with the doctor (learning disabilities - such as dyslexia/dyscalculia...suspected (the cost of getting a formal diagnosis puts it out of range at this point)).
Free 3D assets have been found like
That would work great for the (top) Ensign-Lieutenant Commander ranks and the (bottom) Rear Admiral (Lower Half) to Fleet Admiral ranks. But I haven't been able to find the Commander/Captain ranks USN Officer's Cap. This is a photo of a REAL Commander/Captain's cap (from WWII)
which is the one I would be looking (for a more modern one that is), for my character (Commander Toshio M. Nakamura).
On my original "Kimber Benton" character she is a Navy Captain at the time of THIS picture, she does have on the proper cap with the
proper scrambled eggs on the brim. That's what makes the Navy ranks so complicated to put. If I really wanted to give myself a major headache, I'd also put the Air Force and Army in as well (but JAG was primarily a Navy show and quite frankly, the US Marines and the US Navy were the only two services that got quite a bit of airtime).
Of course, the next time that I do that uniform (if I have to redo them), I want to make them more uniform in size. As you can see, I borked up on the Captain's stripes on Harm's uniform (the guy in the center - if you haven't watched the TV show). Those who are old enough to remember the show remember this character (far left): Major Sarah Mackenzie (on the show)...Colonel Sarah Mackenzie (in my story). Made from Audrey's Catherine Bell sim:
I'm eternally grateful to Audrey for making that sim because Mac's a pain-in-the-*** to re-create.
Catherine Lisa Bell (born August 14, 1968) is the first in the series of Army Wives I will be doing.
All the others I have now recreated (as best as my useless sim-creating talents can).
Kimber now looks like this:
Meg (from the show's first season) recreated as faithfully as I can with my useless sim-creation skills ended up looking like this.
As you can see my skills are no where near as good as Audrey's in the re-creation of a life-like Sim.
My skills at recreating life-like Sims from real people suck. Out of the newest sims, I think my Harm got the short end of the stick. Harm is the one to the right vs. My Harm, I created
Yeah, doesn't even look like the same guy.
My JAGSims offer me a way to enjoy the continuation of my favorite show and throw in some off-beat twists
But I digress, I need to get Photoshop Elements in order to be able to re-do these uniforms that I need for my stories and then I'll go ahead and start working on some JAG stories. However I will refrain from making actor Zois when I'm able to buy my gaming PC that will handle InZoi. As a former working photographer who did wildlife, I had to familiarize myself with copyright and other stuff like that. The life-like Zois that you can create in InZoi opens up a few interesting "likeness" issues as far as "Breach of Likeness" as far as copyright and "rights of use". If I create a lifelike Tracey Needham in InZoi and start writing stories with her, she could probably sue me for "Breach of Likeness" and "Infringement of her rights to her own image"...if she found out about it. That's the slippery slope we're at with copyright issues and creating life-like celebrity "Zoi". But anyways enough of boring you with legal ****. I'm hoping to get my TS3 Workshop working again once I get my Photoshop/Premiere Elements again.
...and maybe I'll manage to get the uniforms the way I want them to look again.