#ts3:question

[studiok2sims]

Okay, so question time.

V1 is the slacks I’ve already shown and I’m pretty happy with them.  Now I’m making a more fitted version.

QUESTION:  I definitely want the cuffs on V1.  The pants I’m using as a ref has them.  I don’t know if I should keep them on the fitted pair?  It’s not biggie to remove them, I’m just being lazy and reusing textures.

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Okay... so about the trench coat.  To match the show, I needed the channels to be the dress, the coat itself, the buttons and the buckle, because the buckle is metal.  BUT...   I’ve seen people on their trench coats make the buttons and buckle match and use the forth channel for the belt...  Which  makes sense for patterns I suppose.

I’m guessing... I should do 2 presets?  The “canon” version and then one where the buttons/buckle match and the belts (sleeve, epaulettes and belt) are separate channels?

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I ran across a tutorial that said that you have to enable 'Valid for Random' if you enable 'Valid for Maternity' but it was a really old tutorial (predating Meshtoolkit). 

Does anyone know if this is true?  

I am guessing what it really means is that if you want the outfit to be randomly assigned as a maternity outfit then you have to do this.  Presumably, if not valid for random you can always just change into it, right?  Like any other outfit?

ANSWERED

Consensus seems to align with my suspicions - that this requirement is not valid.  You can have maternity enabled and not random.  It just means it won’t automatically used.  

(Note to self: stop looking at really old tutorials...)

ALSO - Bonus fact:

You must have atleast ONE non-maternity enabled outfit or top/pants in game or teen females don’t age up properly.  I know this because I personally ran into this glitch and I believe @oneeuromutt​ (?) maybe also noted this was a ‘thing’.

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Can someone please tell me how to go about making a default replacement for a STORE item?

The only way I can crack open the store item is to decrap it, but that renumbers it internally as I understand it. So if I use a decrapped item as the basis for the default replacement, then the DR won't replace the original item (which is what I personally have).

How does one do this? I have been told it is possible, but not actually how.  

If I extract the original .sims3pack into a package, I cannot open the package with either s3pe or s3oc. I am given an error.

ANSWERED!  Thank you to @buckleysims!

Run it through compressorizer with the setting to “normal” and not “decrap”.

Extract it as a package.

(Not sure if it has to be that order, but that is the order I did and it worked for me...)

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Hey... Do people find it annoying when there are weird lighting/shadow glitches on clothing while in CAS?

If you have multiple parts of a mesh share the same location on the uv-map it ends up doing this... and I can “fix” it in this case... but do I need to bother?  So long as it is all okay in live mode?

[studiok2sims]

Typical me... mired in indecision over... well silly things.

This is the current project as you’ve seen posted.  

Pink is the original dress (Knock em’ Out), but I added maternity morph and age conversions.

Yellow is simply the leggings removed.

Purple is the dress turned into a top.

Good So Far.  Maybe make the socks and cowl into accessories, maybe not. And I have 1 or 2 other variants of the purple top - just different waist-down.

Wherein lies my mental block... is that I actually have more planned than even that.  MOST of the others will be significantly different though.

Do I make one MEGA set of everything planned?  Do I split into sets?  And where do I split off the sets?  Just the 2 dresses together and all the top variations together?  The ones that are “true-ish” to the original (as those shown) as one set and all the significantly different version as another?

ARGH I hate classifying / taxonomy... I’m the worst at it. 

(And yes... I have posted these in the way, way, way back because this is actually a very old WIP.  But the meshes were an absolute mess because I didn’t know what I was doing.  I’m basically starting over from scratch.)

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ERGH.  I have poked at setting since I’ve gotten this new computer and I do NOT know how to get rid of this nasty pixilation.  Is it just an issue with bau’s backdrop OR what do I need to do??!?!?!  I get similar distortions on anything ‘shiny’ like from the ‘plastic/rubber’ category of materials in CAS.  I mean I had the same problem with the old computer, but I thought maybe with newer better graphics card... I’d have newer better graphics...  I’m vexed.

And I gotta say I love how Pia came out.  She’s like my favorite lady sim now (and I’ve never been a great fan of my lady sims in general).

And I’ve remade several of the poses (and added to the set.. there are 27 now.) several times because I didn’t like how they came out in game.  Crunchy shoulders make me sad.  I’m mostly happy with them, just a few little details to polish (derpy expressions or toes clipping the floor and the like).  FINALLY happy with the wardrobe. SKIRTS ARE THE BANE OF A POSEMAKER’S EXISTANCE!!! Not going to lie. Alas, nothing to be done about it other than make less flamboyant poses - like that is going to happen. HA.

Mental note to self - gotta redo headshots since a lot of sims have been done over now...

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Radom curiosity is nagging at me...

Why do some pose makers offer both a poselist and a non-pose list enabled versions?  What’s the rationale?  Adding a poselist doesn’t prevent people still using the codes (I mean I do it with my own most of the time...)  Is there something I missing?