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Moyo's Great Big Afterglow Default Project

HOORAH! 🥳Finally I can share with you guys! There's a lot to get through here so some notes beforehand.

There are way, way too many hairs to list and people to credit. See everything that's included and who all deserves credit in the spreadsheet I made for this project!

Not every hair is replaced! I don't know much about hidden clone hairs, for example. Some of them are replaced if the default I used as a base included them but most probably are not.

I chose to hide a bunch of the OFB hats and whatnot when I was starting to get burnt out of this project. See what hairs I've hidden on the hiders tab of the spreadsheet. Hiders are not included, but there's a link to them.

There's a few defaults I'm using from loosiap, rudhira and seabens. They are not included, see those in the defaults by others tab of the spreadsheet.

I use a bunch of no/random npc hair mods so not all npc hairs are replaced. See those in the no/random npc tab of the spreadsheet.

I use custom turn ons that change the one for hats so a lot of the hat hairs are replaced with non-hat hairs. I think most of the flags in simpe are changed to non-hat too but not positive - some might still be hat flagged.

Defaults where all I did was change the texture that didn't contain extra ages include them in a separate file because I didn't want to add them to the main file and mess anything up. Defaults done by me have them included in the main file.

Nearly every default has extra ages, but a few do not.

The Notes column of the spreadsheet mostly contains notes I wrote for myself regarding the custom versions of hairs I retextured (which will all be uploaded) but some of them do apply to the default too. I'm so brain fried though so I'm leaving it in the sheet. You can generally ignore - or read them if you want!

Defaults are in their own folders, and include a pic of the hair they're replacing and a pic of what they're replaced with...if the kind people on the default database are bored.

I'd never made a default replacement for hair before this so if any of these are not made in the best, most optimal way, apologies. I was learning as I went!

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE reach out if you notice any wonkiness. This was worked on over 3 of the most stressful months of my life so I'd not be surprised if I screwed anything up. Also if I forgot to mention anything in this post that you'd like to know, don't hesitate to ask that too!

👒Moyo's Afterglow Default Project download on SimFileShare

I hope you enjoy! 😁

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Heyyo! Feel free to ignore me but I've seen the empty standby thing for pink flashing going around again and as it goes totally over my head, curious what your knowledge on that is? Does it actually help? I was sadly too weak to commit to the Linux switch, so pink flashing my old friend 😌

Hi!

So first of all: There is a reason we have a standby list (RAM). Programs save data there that they do not currently need but may likely need at a later time.

Now imagine if you go and delete all the data in there every five minutes. What does that do? You get rid of all the data that the game specifically put there in order to be able to use it later. So what happens if the game now needs the data, goes to retrieve it from RAM but it's all gone? Best case scenario is that the game has to reload everything again (that's kinda taxing), worst case scenario is that you get errors. I find it a little hypocritical (for lack of a better word) that people used to believe that pink flashing was because of "missing textures" but then go and delete the data themselves.

Second: People fundamentally misunderstood how memory management works on windows afaik. The claim used to be that windows supposedly has to free RAM on its own but they clearly saw RAM almost filling up entirely – so that must mean that windows doesn't clear it like it's supposed to. And that leads to RAM filling up, the game running out of memory and therefore crashing. Right?

Wrong! Windows isn't even supposed to periodically clear RAM because of what I described above – what if the game (or any other program) suddenly needs the data it previously saved? Plus, wouldn't ALL programs constantly crash if Windows lets RAM fill up all the way? The Sims isn't the only program using RAM, all programs do, so why is it the only one that crashes?

Windows only clears RAM when needed. In very simple terms, the game first needs to request more space and then the OS grants the request and kicks out any data in RAM that isn't needed anymore. If Windows doesn't free RAM, that should be an indicator that the game isn't even requesting more space because it doesn't need it.

And from my own testing on both Windows and Linux I've realized that there is a big misunderstanding in the community: People often act like the game is an absolute gluttonous black hole when it comes to memory usage, but it actually uses... pretty little memory. On Windows, it consistently crashed before it was even anywhere near the 4GB mark, often before it even reached 3GB. When I tested it on Linux, it was able to fill it up all the way to 4GB before it crashed, but that took some serious effort on my part.

There's a much more complex explanation (my brother mentioned pagefiles etc but that was months ago, see comments for more info), but basically TL;DR: There is zero chance empty standby list can help the game in any way.

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TS2: Moyokean 4t2 Blazer Recolours by Julie J

@moyokeansimblr's mesh included - You can get the original here

I put my Sims 4 retextures on the conversion - 20 in total

AM - Top Separate - Works with high waisted bottoms

SFS/MEGA

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I've got 16 polycount reductions for you! These are nearly every hair I currently had in my game that was originally over 19.5k. Nearly because there were a few that didn't reduce nicely or threw errors in blender. Some of them might be a teensy bit crunchy or have a few oddities but they all looked pretty good to me - but keep in mind I needed to update my glasses prescription at least 10 years ago as well as I'm far from a perfectionist so feel free to judge these yourself 😅 These are just the meshes so you'll need to go grab your favorite recolors at the database. Details and download (all in one folder) below the cut!

💛 Anto Latch - 32,842→15,291. Conversion by eir. CF-EF

💛 Anto Levitating - 27,635→15,164. Conversion by evannamari. TF-EF

💛 Ginko G65 - 24,278→12,927. Conversion by powerpcinside. TF-EF

💛 Anto Noelia - 24,260→10,528. Conversion by entropy. CF-EF

💛 Nightcrawler Frosting - 22,993→12,269. Conversion by ericc. CF-EF

💛 Anto Davinia - 22,194→14,613. Conversion by entropy. CF-EF

💛 Reina Lucas - 30,804→14,855. Conversion by missgloomysim but remapped by osab. PM-EM

💛 Cazy Breeze - 27,619→15,597. Conversion by missgloomysim but remapped by antoninko. PM-EM

💛 LeahLillith Kiera - 27,609→10,841. Conversion by profesionalpartyguest. TM-EM

💛 Wings ES0405/Charming - 26,469→14,176. Conversion by profesionalpartyguest. TM-EM

💛 QwertySims Milo - 23,664→14,070. Conversion by minicule. PM-EM

💛 Anto Antonio - 22,988→12,329. Conversion by lilroisin but edited by charismaskill. TM-EM

💛 Wings TO1028 - 22,514→14,851. Conversion by lilroisin. TM-EM

💛 Musae Ricotta - 22,324→11,600. Conversion by missgloomysim by remapped by charismaskill. PM-EM

💛 SClub Edward - 20,995→12,493. Conversion by profesionalpartyguest. TM-EM

💛 Wings ES0905 - 19,625→11,684. Conversion by roxannamoxie. CM-EM

Reduced Poly Meshes Part 1 download on SFS (all in one folder)

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It occurred to me that most of the maxis facial hairs are just strange so I dug up some custom ones I used to use and recolored them in Afterglow using seaben's gimp curves. Hopefully they're named correctly - the files I used to recolor in my backup drive were from Skoogy and Poppet 😋

💎Download CuriousB facial hairs SFS

💎Download Trapping facial hairs SFS

💎Download all 32 SFS

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@anhedonicworm you are a genius

i was like there's no cc in this build wtf is that stereo i've never seen before?? 🤔🤔

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wanted to post these with the pleasantview ones but that was over the tumblr photo limit

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Have 7 wings hairs in Afterglow. ER1026 uses Afterglow wavy. TZ0814 is just a recolor using original texture - forgot to note that on the screenie, it's also by celestialspritz...I forgot they and polygonbeach were the same person til I went to queue these. Mesh fixes and poly reductions used wherever possible.

💜 ER1026 SFS

💜 ER1108 SFS

💜 ES0817 SFS

💜 OS0215 SFS

💜OS0226 SFS

💜 TO0307 SFS

💜 TZ0814 SFS

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