Under Your Skin
The Sims 2 => Sims 2 Discussion => Topic started by: LizzyL on Oct 29, 2015, 06:44PM
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While at many places, there are topics about our favourite CC...
I'd find it interesting to know : what kind of CC that you never downloaded at all.
In my case, I never downloaded Maxis recolours for all related to pets, even if I like dogs and cats ingame and see them around.
I also never downloaded and used clothing for toddlers and children : they grow up so quickly that I think it isn't useful for me, in my opinion.
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Hmm, a custom pet coat. It's the only thing I can think of at the moment.
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Genetized skintones and similar, as you can't have several sets, if I understand correctly.
I like to have a great variety of skintones, as it helps me to define the make up I'll use, especially for lips.
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Oh, yes! I don't download geneticized stuff either.
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Curtains, skintones, loads of make-up, tapestries, high poly objects.....
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High poly objects can be painful, and hairs too. I still manage to end up with them :/
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I do to, I wish I knew how to see what the poly count is. I know that Vita Sims has/had high poly objects although the stuff looks so amazing.
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You can find the poly count in simpe, but it would be annoying to look at everything before putting it in your game :/
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I don't understand how polys are calculated per tile for objects and which is the standard poly count for Maxis items. How is it possible to view for Maxis objects in SimPE ?
Some people say that even some Maxis things can be high poly.
For Bodyshop I know that one boa by Bipsouille is extremely high poly. Each time I try and install it in my Downloads, browse the accessories, Bodyshop suddenly starts freezing for over two minutes. It's a pity because I like this boa, but I guess I can't use it properly on a Sim.
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I never download Maxis match or Remi retextured hairs.
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Open the mesh file in simpe and click the GMDC in the resource tree. To the left of the blue box you'll see the groups of the mesh with the face and vertex counts. The face count is your poly count. You'll have to add them all up between the groups to get the final count.
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Thank you for this little tip, yuichen.
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I don't download many hair for males, except FtM conversions if they meet my needs for my male Sims and if they keep a male being masculine, also with long hair - no male bun or braids, I have no need for such male hair style.
I never download anything transgender, just because I'd never play transgender Sims. A male Sim can look great as Sim without female wear and high heels. I'd just change the make up and that's easy to do and perhaps a good FtM hair - then perhaps a bun or such, but I prefer curly hair then.
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It's hard to find good hair for men that doesn't look like it came out of an anime :(
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This is true ! The best male outfits I ever found are from gogosims (closed). Now I don't mind some extravangant ones as by HIM666 from GoS, I think (I got those outfits still today).
Now for skirts for AM, I'd rather choose loin cloths and kilts. For themed clothes as prehistoric or Viking, Celtic, etc, it can be interesting.
I got an excellent dear gay friend who sometimes dressed up for fun many years ago (1980's) in San Francisco, LA clubs, also travestite, but he's still very male today, never changed it and he's an icon inside the gay community.
Some travestite clothes can be very good, but from simmergirl there isn't many choices for bodyshapes, they look too slim for me, while some travestites got more curves and such in RL.
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I'm not familiar with simmergirl bodyshapes so I can't really comment on those, but maybe someone will edit them a bit to be more like the RL shapes. One can only hope, huh?
As for your friend, he sounds like fun :) Glad he's so appreciated in the community.
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I wouldn't bother that much with more male bodyshapes It's already a bit of a hassle to sort and organise for female Sims, as from some retexturists meshes aren't always included or a few are still missing (Frannysims for example).
My friend who is gay isn't a Simmer at all. He's soon 61 and he's the one who inspired me the nice Garden of Delight house of which I've shown pics and on one room photo, a big painting framed with falling flowers shows him as he was in the 80's (his wild years :)). Once a gay icon as model (and a bit more, hmm)... now he's back to farming and meditating... I guess he can be fun, but he also has a "difficult personality".
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I don't really use bodyshapes myself. I tried some out when I first discovered them several years ago, but ended up deleting because I almost never used them. Making sure you have all the matching clothes categories and showerproof skintones was too much of a hassle for me.
Difficult personalities are interesting enough. If we were all the same it would be kind of dull, yeah? And yay for inspiration! :)
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I agree for the many bodyshapes. However for female Sims I liked to hae my fav meshes because I use them for my own clothing retextures. Occasionally male clothing too but not so often.
I once hd Bloom's busty meshes from ISA but got rid of them : I like my female Sims with long hair and not cut off on the front because of too huge breasts. But Bloom's meshes are perfect for my work, along with a few others.
But today for clothes revamps I use also more often Maxis shapes meshes with good shoes and boots. So I'm revamping some old clothing on meshes with better shoes.
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No matter what for this friend. He's narcissistic, sometimes moody but all in all rather kind and a bit also vulnerable and protecting himself today, as I do. I'd say that he isn't "evil" but sometimes writes awkwardly some things eit intentionllyor not and doesn't feel remorse when he hurts. He found the excuse that he also got hurt in life... Well, we were all hurt at some times. I keep in most of time and I'm capable of immense indifference/coldness when must be ("not giving a damn" attitude). I'm one who loves to laugh, have good laughs, and this gay friend hasn't much sense of humour : it's a bit of a turn off for me when people have no sense of humour, then I stay on my guards. But the guy inspires me of course, however with a distance far away from each other", no meet (it's better for both of us).
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Ohh, I see. Well that's kind of understandable. I didn't think he would be quite that difficult. Suppose everyone has their quirks, though.
I think the only bodyshapes I really tried were the fashion models, male bodybuilder and slim bodybuilder. I know I currently have a couple meshes on the LBB as I was going to use them for a particular character, but I'm not sure I will.
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One Body Builder mesh has a weird thing I don't like around the neckor it's Huge Body Builder. For males I use a few meshes by G-Knee and from one site, by Kielen (http://kieda.net/), a little few from Synaptic Sims Lair, others by Julie J. It depends.
Currently I don't have big needs for male outfits or meshes. I don't think that I'm very talented to create male Sims. But the one after my gay friend is awesome... I put a lot of work into it (LOL). And for an outfit for him it wasn't too hard because the real man in the 70's and 80's didn't wear much... It was the hippie days.
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I think I got my bodybuilder stuff from Kielen's site too. Although, now that I think about it I tried out some male runner's body's too. I didn't really like it :/
Did you show him his simself?
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Haha, I showed to my gay friend a pic of his self-Sim via E-mail and he liked it but didn't say more except "have fun now, doll!". I'd have fun ingame and not play him as 100 % gay (becasue in RL he wasn't 100 % gay, some women were attracted or he was). I'd use him for breeding, LOL... see if a Sim baby or child would look like him a bit ? Especially the brown eyes and lovely lips. For the personality nobody could tell (LOL).
I just posted a topic in the Sims 2 Help area, BTW.
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Ohh cool, a breeding experiment! You should do it! :)
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I think that I will do that to relax a bit from the crazy and nerving downloads sorting and purging.
While I'm sorting like mad (when will it be finished, LOL... question mark)...
I'd have a good resolution from now : stop collecting over 10 textures in all Pooklets or whatso, especially for clothes meshes, Jonesi blankets, cushions. Because good Goddess ! this drives me so mad from browsing for example the whole clothing catalogue (esp. mediaval beautiful tops and boho skirts), all Droopsi, and others' blanket recolours.
I don't always check the file size of each texture package but it can be very high. One as an example is good, I'd compress as winrar all other textures to avoid have them cluttered up in my catalogues.
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I also avoid downloading of way too many add-ons to BB niches and other repositoried furniture sets. From sims2artists I already have issues to know exactly what is needed for table cloths, curtains, all the small bits to not have the whole set flash blue ingame. I neded sometimes to visit the sims2artists several times for the required Master meshes, copy in text documents to keep all in mind... LOL !
Once I retextured a taroo sofa with rattan wood but the wood part always reverted back to the vanilla fugly simplan-X bed frame colour, so I simply took back Taroo's single sofa mesh (which is perfect). Problem solved !
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Lol, sounds like a good idea. Have fun with it :)
Oh man, I have so many recolors of BB's niche set! I use it a lot at least, but I really hate digging for the recolor I want. The same can be said for the BV travel poster!
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Hi All
one of the things I never DL is pets
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I don't download elder clothing. :( Also I tend to stay away from Maxis Match.
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Lol I need to download more elder clothing cause I just don't have much good stuff. I feel bad that they're kind of ignored and look awful compared to the younger sims.
I don't like Maxis Match hair but the clothes are decent if done right. Hell they already look better with new shoes.
Hmm, I'm not sure if there's anything else I don't download *thinks*