Land of Swatches

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[tathsims]

Sul sul, simmers!

Welcome to my simblr, where I'll be sharing recolors for EA items (and occasional CC) to increase the swatch-variety in your game.

Because who doesn't need more swatches?

Everyone always needs more swatches.

This blog is (and is likely to remain) pretty bare-bones, because its chief purpose is solely to alert interested parties to the existence of said recolors whenever I make a new one. The site where I normally upload my mods is not one that gets a lot of sims-traffic, so creating a simblr seemed like the best way to get these shared with the community. I hope you enjoy them!

I've only recently begun recoloring and while I'm not technically taking requests, I am very open to suggestions if there are any particular EA outfits or objects that you think are especially lacking in color-options that you'd like to bring to my attention.

I'm brand new to making Sims CC (thanks, Sims4STudio!), so if you have advice or questions about anything, please share.

Thanks!

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[tathsims]

Hello. I hope you can help me. How did you recolor the corset dress from the Royalty and Legacy pack? How did you recolor the background of the top but still keep the color of the pattern on it?

I used layer-masking, so I could swap around (and alter) the different pieces of the item separately from each other. Then once I had my layer-masks for all the various game combinations, I just used hue/sat and color balance and curves adjustment features to make new colors out of the various sections of the outfit, and put the pieces together in color-variations that I thought looked nice.

So these are examples of my separate layer-groupings:

And then I could mix-and-match the pieces to put them together however I wanted, without having to recolor every part every time.

I'm not sure if that's how most people do their recolorings or not, but it's the process that made the most sense to me when I threw my first item's texture into Photoshop and went hmm...now how do I go about actually doing this? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Hopefully that makes sense—if you need more/different explanation for anything, let me know!

[tathsims]

Seventy new Maxis Match swatches added to the front-lace corset reward from the Lost Legacies Live Event.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

*BGC — probably requires you to unlock the reward!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

Fifty new Maxis Match swatches added to Scandisim's gorgeous BGC long-sleeved edit of the Royalty & Legacy Corset Dress.

And if you like these colors, you can also find many of them applied to the original sleeveless dress in my recolor here.

Many thanks to @scandisim for creating this lovely edit, and for being generous enough with their work to allow recolors.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

*BGC — requires THE ORIGINAL MESH!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[scandisim]

Regal Dress

I love the CAS items for the new pack, especially this dress. But it was a bit scandalous for my UDC gameplay, so I decided to add some sleeves, drop the skirt to floor length and poof it out a bit. Now it's much more appropriate and no ladies of the ton will be scandalized by the appearance of wrists.

Details:

Two versions - one with the EA colors, and one with the brown corset and then 30 different colors for the dress.

Base-game compatible

Custom thumbnail

~3.4k poly

DOWNLOAD (Patreon, free)

[tathsims]

Fifty new patterned and solid-color Maxis Match swatches added to Sandrini Feierabend's stunning Bellatrix Dress.

Because I was recently gifted the new Tea Time Kit, and needed to dress my Sims up to suit their fancy new environs, I decided it was long past time to finally finish this recolor. And I'm so glad I did, because this dress is the perfect companion for a garden-party cuppa!

Many thanks to @sandrinifeierabend for creating this lovely design, and for being generous enough with their work to allow recolors.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

*BGC — requires THE ORIGINAL MESH!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

I fell in love with this dress the minute I saw it in the previews, and I knew almost as quickly that I was going to need more colors for it—so here you go, my fastest recolor yet, thanks to my good fortune in being generously gifted the new pack almost as soon as it released!

Also if there are other colors you want this dress in...honestly, I like it so much I'll probably be unable to resist adding more, if you ask!

Yep, couldn't resist: there are now 60 swatches, not 20!

Sixty new Maxis Match swatches added to the corset-dress from Royalty & Legacy.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

Same color swatches available for both frames.

*requires Royalty & Legacy Expansion Pack!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

@sillydeerheart asked for more swatches, so more swatches there are!

[tathsims]

I fell in love with this dress the minute I saw it in the previews, and I knew almost as quickly that I was going to need more colors for it—so here you go, my fastest recolor yet, thanks to my good fortune in being generously gifted the new pack almost as soon as it released!

Also if there are other colors you want this dress in...honestly, I like it so much I'll probably be unable to resist adding more, if you ask!

Yep, couldn't resist: there are now 60 swatches, not 20!

Sixty new Maxis Match swatches added to the corset-dress from Royalty & Legacy.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

Same color swatches available for both frames.

*requires Royalty & Legacy Expansion Pack!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

I'm working on my first CC-recolors, would anyone be willing to test them out and check if they work in someone else's game before I risk uploading them for real?

Here's the recolor for this dress:

Here's the recolor for this nightgown:

You (should) need to have the original meshes installed in your game for the recolors to show up.

Please let me know if you have any problems, or suggestions for anything I could do better! Thank you.

[tathsims]

Thirteen new Maxis Match swatches added to the Book Stack from Book Nook Kit (with bookcase functionality).

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

*requires the Book Nook Kit!

Download here (no adfly).

—additional swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

Forty new Maxis Match swatches added to the full-body sweater outfit from Bowling Night.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

*requires Bowling Night Stuff Pack!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

Twenty-five new Maxis Match swatches added to the jean jacket from the base game, both patterned and plain.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

BCG!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

Twenty new Maxis Match swatches added to the jean jacket from Dream Home Decorator.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

Same color swatches available for both frames.

*requires Dream Home Decorator Game Pack!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

Thirty-two new Maxis Match swatches added to the shawl-dress from Crystal Creations.

Each swatch is appropriately color-tagged and thumbnailed.

Outfit enabled for random (because the original is).

*requires Crystal Creations Stuff Pack!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

[tathsims]

@might-be-a-drag thanks again for the help!

Still fiddling with the greens, but I think the rest are going pretty well, so far. I should have it uploaded soon, thanks to your suggestions!

Much appreciated. <3

[tathsims]

Ten new Maxis Match swatches added to the "Giggle n' Gab - Who's Up?" party game box from Lovestruck.

Each swatch is appropriately color-thumbnailed.

Tested in game!

*requires Lovestruck Expansion Pack!

Download here (no adfly).

—full swatches below the cut—

Because seriously, they expect us to get by with only three swatches? For shame!

[tathsims]

Forgot to remove the original EA swatches, which were thus duplicated in both game boxes. My apologies! Please redownload (unless you don't care about the duplicate colors).

[midnitetech]

Sequential Art Full Time Semi-Active Career

As a huge nerd, this had to be one of the first of my old careers that I decided to revamp. And by revamp, I mean recreate the WHOLE thing from scratch. This requires City Living, as it is a Semi-Active career, meaning your Sim can go into work or work from home.

This includes everything I could think of; Daily Tasks, layoffs, a TON of chance cards and fame opportunities (the latter requires Get Famous). I've created lots of custom interactions, work from home assignments and buffs. I've written my own script file to add 2 brand new book genres; Comic Book and Graphic Novel with custom designed Simlish covers. Also, there's a custom uniform using Base Game items, so you can be sure not to have anything missing. I've included all of the icons I've used from other Game Packs, just in case you don't have them.

One of the career rewards is the Slablet (I know, it's useless). Or should I say it WAS! Now you get a bunch of eComics and eGraphic Novels to read. You can complete your Daily Tasks on a computer, or some require one of the other rewards you get.

The first branch where you start out will see your Sim working at a Comic Book store. After 3 levels, you can choose your branch. There are then 7 levels per branch, which I won't spoil for you...

What else? Oh, right; a brand new custom Skill; Digital Art. I've enabled NPC career joining, so if you have Neighborhood Stories turned on, your unplayed Sims could join this career along with EA's!!

Despite just being one career, this was a LOT of work, and I did my best to perfect everything. As a stickler for details though, if you do spot any errors, please send me a report here.

⚠️Required⚠️💾 Lot51's Core Library 🏙️City Living DLC

OPTIONAL: UniversityJumps (If you have Discover University, this will allow your Sim to get a head start in their dream career if they have a degree in Language & Literature or Art). It will conflict with any other jump files you have, but you can either add mine to any existing files, or ask me and I'll do it for you.

PATREON

(Early Access until Monday, July 29, 2024)