PSA: Hiatus

September 22, 2016 · Filed under PSA

I’m officially declaring myself on hiatus.

Long story short, I’ve been short on spoons lately, so I’ve had to use the ones I’ve got on Real Life rather than on the simulated variety. And when I’ve had a spoon or two to spare, I haven’t felt like simming much (and on the rare occasions that I have, I’ve been moving at an ever slower pace than my usual syrup-in-the-fridge one).

And now we’re headed into late autumn, a time of year that doesn’t agree with my body at all, so my spoon supply isn’t very likely to increase any time soon. So yeah. Hiatus. Can’t really say for how long – “a while” is the best estimate I can give you. Sorry.😐

I won’t disappear off the face of the Internet completely, though; I’ll still be active-ish at other places, mostly leefish.nl, and I’ll be checking in here now and then to reply to comments. Just don’t expect to see any new uploads from me for… well, a while.

Love ya.❤

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Five Sims

June 9, 2016 · Filed under DOWNLOADS, SIMS

zOMG Sims!
 
“Umm, Nix?” I hear you say. “What are you doing? You don’t make Sims. You make lots of other stuff, but not Sims.” And right you are, for the longest time, I didn’t make Sims other than for my own game (and those Sims usually just looked like a blend between Face 1 and Face 2, because, well, that’s exactly what they were 😛 ). But then, a few months back, I made a decision to change the way I play my main game – that is, my contemporary game with all the Maxis ‘hoods and premades. For one thing, I decided to go fully Maxis Match with it; I’ve always preferred the Maxis look to super-realistic, photoskinned ones, but even so my game had been a mix of Maxis, semi-realistic and realistic stuff, and I wasn’t really happy about it. So Maxis Match all the way it was. I also decided to put much more effort into my Sim-making, and try to give my Sims more varied features (and downloaded a ton of new non-default face templates to help me) instead of just slapping different skin tones and hairs on what was basically the same Sim over and over, like I’d been doing thus far.

And these five Sims are the result of this revival. 😀 (Well, not just these five, but these are the ones I like well enough to upload, anyway.)

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Counter Completers: Add-ons for Eight In-Game Counters

April 11, 2016 · Filed under BUY MODE, DOWNLOADS, Surfaces

Counter Completers

First of all: I am now officially back from my hiatus!😀 Thanks to everybody who responded to my hiatus PSA, it meant and means a lot.❤ (I haven’t deleted it – I didn’t want to lose all your kind comments – I’ve just hidden it from public view since it's no longer applicable.)
 
Anyways.🙂 This project is something I’ve been working on on and off for well over a year. It all started when I was furnishing a kitchen for one of my Sims, and thought the K&B Surfaco counter would be great for his style… except the Surfaco is one of those counters who has only one variation, with doors, and that looked a bit boring to me. Too boring for me to be happy with it.

Around the same time, Kiri over at leefish.nl made some great add-ons for the Value counter, and iCad released a ton of counter recolours at her Tumblr. All together this put me in a counter productive mood (bad pun, go stand in the corner!), and it got me thinking. Maybe I should make some add-on counters for those poor, neglected doors-only ones? Just one or two, for the Surfaco and maybe for the Value counter as well (“the single most useful counter in the repertoire,” in Kiri’s words)?

“Just one or two,” yeah, right.😛 Somehow, I ended up making add-ons for no less than eight in-game counters: Value, Epikouros, Blue Ribbon, Forbidden Fruit, Castanoga, Surfaco, Neo-Quartzo and Double Wood. And just as I thought I was finished? I realised the walls in my test Sim’s kitchen were looking awfully bare – so I made some wall cabinets as well. (Yes, I know that CTNutmegger at MTS made wall cabinets already back in 2009, and they’re great, but as a matter of personal preference there were details about them I wanted done differently, and besides, it seemed a bit silly for me to say that “you can have all these new counters, but if you want wall cabinets to go with them, you’ll have to get them from a completely different creator at a completely different site.” I’ve sometimes used CTNutmegger’s wall cabinets as guides and inspiration, but I have not cloned mine off hers and I have not used her meshes as bases for mine.)

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Fishmas Advent Calendar Revealed

January 16, 2016 · Filed under BUY MODE, DOWNLOADS, Uploaded Elsewhere

At leefish.nl, in December we had a Fishmas Advent Calendar going, with gifts made by the members of the Leefish community. Some gifts were anonymous, some not, but now all the creators have been revealed.🙂

These were yours truly’s contributions:

Santa Lucia Title Card
You can’t tell from the picture, but all the figurines are animated and play music.😀

 
Starry Lights Title
 
They’re Leefish exclusives, though, so go there and get ’em! (The pictures are links.)😀

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CEP Extra for the BG Cheap Alarm Clock

January 11, 2016 · Filed under CEP Extra, DOWNLOADS, Recolours

CEP-Extra for the BG Cheap Alarm Clock
(Yes, I know that’s not how you spell “extraordinary.” It’s a pun.)

And things like this would be why I said I’m “sort of” on hiatus.😛

Over at MTS, the great Michelle made some wonderful LACK recols of the base-game “Get Up!” alarm clock. Well, sort of. This clock turned out not to be recolourable, so Michelle had to make a brand new, CC one in order to be able to recolour it. I loved her recols, of course, but I thought it was a real pity she had to go through all that trouble, and that someone really ought to make that poor, neglected alarm clock a CEP extra for future use. Then I thought that “someone” might as well be me.😉

So, here is a CEP extra for the base-game cheap alarm clock. Now it’s recolourable, and it also has two subsets instead of just the one.

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Training Dummies v. 2.0 (and 2.5) – Now with Sword Options!

August 15, 2015 · Filed under BUY MODE, CONVERSIONS, DOWNLOADS, Exercise, Hobbies, TSM

Training Dummies with Sword Options

Category: Hobbies -> Exercise
Poly Count: Canvas Low poly (980); Armoured Medium poly (1210); Invisible Low poly (12); Swords Low poly ( < 500)
EPs Required: Nightlife or above

This download post was actually inspired by you, my downloaders – or at least by some of your screenshots.😉

Back story: A while back, I made a couple of training dummies (cloned from the brilliant Rebecah’s duel dummy), one armoured and one invisible. One change I made from Rebecah’s duel dummy was to make Sims use swords instead of the original cutlass; the armoured dummy had one kind of sword, and the invisible one another.

Now, in the screenshots I’ve seen with my dummies, people almost always seem to prefer the armoured dummy over the invisible one – obvious to me from the sword – even when it means moveobjects’ing it out of the way (which they wouldn’t have had to do with the invisible dummy). Maybe I’m over-analysing things, but to me this seems to indicate that people aren’t too keen on the sword for invisible dummy, and/or preferred the armoured sword even if meant more work when they set up the shot.

And this got me thinking. Wouldn’t it be great if people could choose which sword they wanted their Sims to use, instead of being stuck with whatever sword I’d picked for that particular dummy (which they might not like)? And not just choose between these two swords, either, but from several different ones? I had a fairly good idea how to go about setting this up… so I did.

So, my offering today is three training dummies, that each have no less than eight different swords for your Sims to choose from. En garde!😀
 
Update, 19 October 2015: At the request of Charity322, there is now a v. 2.5 of the training dummies available, where adults can choose different swords for their children as well. Scroll down to the menu screenshots for more info.

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Blacksmith’s Crafting Station for Custom Objects

July 26, 2015 · Filed under BUY MODE, Crafting, DOWNLOADS, Hobbies, Medieval-ish, Objects, THEMES

Blacksmith's Anvil for Custom Objects

Category: Hobbies -> Misc.
EPs Required: Open for Business
Cost: $945
Poly Count: Medium poly (1227)

So, a while back I made a blacksmith’s crafting station, cloned from the OFB robot station. I also made some default replacement bots to go with it, to give it more of a medieval feel. One of my commenters wondered if it would be possible to make those default replacement bots custom ones instead, for the players who’d like to have both Hydrobots and flying water buckets in their game. Unfortunately, after trying and failing spectacularly quite a few times, my answer had to be “no can do” – I couldn’t get Sims to craft custom anything, least of all custom bots. So that was that.😦

But the idea stuck with me, to have a crafting station where your blacksmith Sims could make custom… not bots, obviously, but other custom items, and gain skill and enthusiasm in the process. I knew that building something like this from scratch was waaay above my current modding level, though… so I asked the brilliant Rebecah @ Affinity Sims if I may use the BHAVs from the candle maker she made with G-Knee – and kind and generous simmer that she is, she said yes.😀 (So in case you're here from the Keep: No, I did not clone one of Sun & Moon’s crafting stations. I cloned Rebecah’s candle maker, and this with Rebecah’s explicit permission.)

The result was this: A blacksmith’s crafting station for custom items (not bots).

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