Hat Plays Sims

Last one for the night, bringing the Buy Mode Blitz tag up to a nice round 50! (But it's the last one for the night, I do still have a few more things that need uploading. I need a toddler for a couple of things-- though that's clothing-- and a kid for a couple more Buy Mode Blitz items, and a cat, and to build a temporary set, and a honeymoon if I want a title card in use. But I am getting toward the end of things.)



Kativip's Legend Series City (I think it's still Legend Series by the time LS got to City) Table and Bench were texture-referenced by the inimitable Darkmoon, and "retextured" in a combination of Piggi's Wood 03, Kativip's original extracted textures from whatever game she extracted these from, and judicious use of the Motion Blur filter. Because the original textures have beautiful carving, but were otherwise... crispy. ( Read on! )

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Rebecah's functional knitting requires FreeTime, increases Creativity skill, and adds Art enthusiasm-- and when your Sim is finished knitting, they can either sell their project for $100, or get $100 towards the purchase of a new outfit.

Not bad, really!



The yarn textures are Beck's own; I was pretty happy with them. The knitting needles are Piggi's Wood 18-- I didn't keep track of what colors I used with which yarn, but they're all one of the following Pooklet Naturals: Depth Charge, Incendiary, Explosive, Safety Fuse, Volatile, Fission, Grenade, or Comburent. And importantly, recolors only work on the yarnball object, not the accessory that manifests in your Sim's hands while knitting.

( Is this historically accurate? )

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When I started Buy Mode Blitz, there were exactly three trash compactors out there that were truly suitable for a Medieval game: This one, the SDA Castle Kitchen one, and Hriveresse's Greek Kitchen one. This was the first one I recolored, and one I talked to Fractured Moonlight about at some point-- because as I was bemoaning the lack of under-counter appliances (there was, at one time, one Medieval dishwasher), Frac decided to kick this mesh around and add a second subset to it for me.

So you have options!



Both variations on the theme of trash compactor here use the same GUID. There can be only one. If you use the Original mesh with the Frac Edit recolors, only recolors of the bin will show. If you use the Original recolors with the Frac Edit mesh, not only will only the bin show, but you will have eight identical iterations of the same two bin textures. It won't hurt anything, but last mesh loaded wins. ( Read more! )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

COMBO BREAKER-- a brief break from Buy Mode Blitz for clothing, because I could get shots of the clothing but I noticed some things that I did not install properly so I couldn't get screenshots of them without restarting my game. Because that's how it goes sometimes.



And these have been sitting in my Projects Folder since 2016, not even started, which is terribly unfair because they were way easier than I expected.

So, my first stop for visual inspiration is always Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, especially the calendar section (showing not only the Duke de Berry and his companions, but commoners as well). January in particular is a gorgeous image for what I'm bringing you today, because it is full of richly-dressed noble men at a New Year's party. They got chains of state, they got chaperons and bag hats, they got some funky haircuts, they got kidney bags and bollock daggers, they got two servants in livery, they got dagged hoods and cowls, they got fur lining, they got damask and cloth-of-gold and embroidery, they got a greyhound in a collar, they got plaited rush mats on the floor, they got a wicker fire screen, they got a danged tourney happening in the background, and except on the two liveried servants?

Every visible foot is in soled hosen. ( Read more! )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

Eva's Cauldron Stove (with fix by Sunni) comes in twelve awkwardly-labeled Sunni Wizard's Tower metals, with three new food textures each-- boiling water, a plain grain pottage, and pease porridge (okay actually it's zucchini soup, but it was the only image I could find that was the right color and consistency and didn't have Fancy Plating swirls of sour cream) for a total of 36 reasonably historical recolors.



... And when I say 'reasonably historical,' I mean that while this IS a very accurate cauldron, Eva did a great job there, and Sunni's metals are pretty fantastic... I'm pretty sure a cauldron this big wouldn't have come in quite so many metals, and frankly 'Blueish' and 'Cloudy' look a little galvanized for the Middle Ages. (Also I'm pretty sure that a silver cauldron was... not a thing at all. But listen if your witches WANT one, here it is!) ( Read on! )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

Normally on these Buy Mode Blitz items, I have a little page of notes-- research and whatnot, comments, credits, things that occurred to me while I was making the thing that I wanted to share when I posted the thing.

I... do not have one of those files for this. Which is a pity, because dang those make useful little cheat sheets. Particularly since this is a big 'please trust me' post, because a) I hid the original Basegame Kinder Kontainer crib years ago and b) when I unhid it, it turned out I had a mod that texture-referenced it to the regular bedding.

Oh well.



Luckily I do have a fair few custom meshes that reference the basegame crib bedding! Which is what this is, the Kinder Kontainer basegame crib-- the only Maxis crib until FreeTime, because I'm not sure anyone at Maxis over the last three installments of The Sims has ever gone baby shopping-- bedding only, retextured very simply with Magpie's linen, in 20 Pooklet Project Mayhem naturals, 20 Aelia Autumn actions, and 42 CuriousB Any Color You Like actions.

Why do I need so many recolors of this thing? ( Well! )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

Once Upon A Time, long long ago when I could still remember my login information for Garden of Shadows, Darkmoon texture-referenced a lot of really nifty furniture pieces together for me. One-- er, two of those pieces are right here-- a bench and a table from Kativip's Legend Series SD02 pack of extracted meshes from I-don't-know-what-game.



Look at these, man. Classy and rich-looking while still being used-looking. You can't really use them like this, of course, the bench is a loveseat and the table is... uh, a standard two-tile table. But I kept most of the original textures, only overlaying them with some Piggi Wood 03 for grain. And I'm very pleased with how they turned out! ( Come see more! )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

"Hat," you say, "Didn't Sun & Moon release a huge laundry set? Why are you adding this little thing to Buy Mode Blitz and not something cool like that?"

To which I say, one, I recolored this before Loads O' Laundry dropped, two, if I'd recolored Sun & Moon stuff it'd probably be in the 'member recolors' section where it's supposed to be, and three... Loads O'Laundry taught me a very valuable lesson, and that lesson is: I don't have to use everything Sun & Moon releases.



So what is Beck's functional laundry tub, and how does it differ from Sun & Moon's Loads O' Laundry, and why should anyone care, and why are there only three recolor textures on this thing, Hat, seriously, that's not like you. ( Well... )

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In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

At this point I am just. Skittering around the three households and couple-odd community lots in my tiny, slightly buggy testerhood looking for things I can take title card pics of real quick and still call them an upload or a set. (Single items feel really weird to upload, for some reason.)



Kativip's Legend Series (if that's still what LS meant by that point) SD02 Round table, chair, and barstool were all graciously texture-referenced some years ago by the inimitable Darkmoon, because I wanted 20 recolors of them but I didn't want sixty texture files to get them. The textures are a blend of the originals, extracted from whatever game it was Kativip extracted these from, plus a very subtle layer of Piggi Wood 03, to help give them more of a grain. ( Want to see more? )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'

So these are! FantasyRogue's chausses, with Yuxi's Beth Dragon Age boots added by Kalynn, and converted to Child by Charity, with the boots snugged up against the leg by Simborg. They are super repositoried because it was highly convenient; the chausses-with-boots have two groups, the chausses and the boots, and hey! the chausses are mapped exactly the same as FR's originals... and thus the same as my big ol' 82-pack.

( These boots were made for a really easy recoloring job. )

Behold the Tip Jar!

In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. I don't do pay content and I can't seem to get requests done in a timely fashion, so donors get a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery (you help feed my cats, you get to see lots and lots of pictures of my cats) and my to-do list Google doc, in case there's anything on there that makes a donor go 'oooh, when are you working on that one?'