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[aquilegia]

A request on GoS made me realize I have various little conversions and fixed meshes lying about my downloads folder all waiting for me to put them up someday. Random insomnia last night has left me too sleepy to do anything requiring much brain, so that someday is today!

1. Amaryll's H&M Cardigan conversion converted for TF. Two folders in the zip: One containing my conversion and recolours that texture reference Amaryll's recolours, the other Amaryll's original files in case you don't have them.

Working on an EF conversion. I realize Cocomama made one, but she mapped it differently so I can't TR those. :(


These are replacements for their original files--

2. Hysterical Paroxsym's T-shirt mesh with fixed pregmorph. The pregmorph had incorrect comments (botmorphs pregbot instead of topmorphs pregtop), causing it to make any bottom it was paired with appear not-pregnant. This one was especially annoying as CatofEvilGenius brought it to HP's attention over a year ago, and HP never did take the 30 seconds to fix it.

3. Kalynn's TM untuckable t-shirt mesh adjusted to actually be representative of a teen body. I think she just scaled down the adult mesh, fixed the neck and waist, and left it at that, making boys wearing that mesh looking like they were wearing muscle padding under their shirts. Mmmno.

4. Migamoo's TF untuckable t-shirt mesh made into a, um, actual t-shirt. Migamoo's version wasn't broken, it was just pretty much a base game tank mesh with remapping, and thus, boob creases. I resized HP's mesh because it's actually t-shirt shaped across the chest.


[/bitchbitchbitch] :D


Aaand some more goodies--

5. Untuckable tees with star_gusser's textures by Io for TF and EF. Texture references the adult files, which are included. Also included is Gelydh's 'Professional Widow' EF untuckable t-shirt mesh, since she's awesome and kept it mapped so that it can share AF textures. :D TF mesh is Migamoo's, not included, grab my fixed file above. Please note that I didn't do the black one because it was too solidly black for my taste.

6. Bosie's 'My Beloved' dresses as tops only for TF-EF. Not quite untuckable, but long enough they'll look good with low-rise pants. AF uses HP's mesh, TF uses Migamoo's, EF uses Gelydh's, which is included here also. I realize it's a slightly odd choice for elders, but hey, I have some slightly odd sims.

There. I think that's all of it...

Comments

[oph3lia]

Ah mesh fixes how I love thee XD It does so annoy me when people scale down meshes but don't fix the proportions (which is why I don't age convert meshes yet, I don't have the meshing experience to do it well).

[aquilegia]

That's one of my biggest peeves. I've deleted a lot of conversions because of it. It's not *terribly* hard to do, so it's annoying when someone doesn't bother (or even worse, releases a set of conversions where some are scaled right and some aren't. WTF?).

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks heaps, I really appreciate these fixes >:D

[(Anonymous)]

Dumb question - how do you texture reference clothing files, and does it make the files smaller? I want to convert some of Xandher's Weekender layered tops and henleys, along with Bosie/Problematique's recolors and gasmasquerade's recolors to teen females. Altogether, this would mean 26 simple copy-and-paste age conversions. I'd rather not do manual copy-pasta if I can help it. Would texture referencing make this quicker, and how would you do it?

[aquilegia]

Not a dumb question at all--it's kind of an obscure technique.

It does save on file size by a lot--the recolour that references another recolour's texture ends up only being a couple of KB in size. It also means no reduction in texture quality, like with extracting and copypasting. On the downside, though, it can take as much or more time than regular copypasta, since it requires both Bodyshop and SimPE work. Sometimes it's a bit quicker, though.

Basically, what you do is copy the stdMatBaseTextureName value in the material definition of the recolour of the texture you want to use, and paste it in the stdMatBaseTextureName value of the referenced file. You need to copy over the stdMatNormalMapTextureName if there is one, as well. Commit and save, then delete the textures in the file referencing the original, and save.

I can write up a tutorial if you'd like!

[(Anonymous)]

I'd love a tutorial! I haven't used SimPE very much, but I have made my own eye defaults using SimPE. If it saves space on my computer, I'd be willing to learn.

[aquilegia]

All right. :) If I don't have something up by the weekend please nudge me, because my memory is spotty at the best of times.

[(Anonymous)]

I have another request - I hope this isn't too much, but could you possibly add a bump map to the fixed migamoo teen female mesh? I've done a bunch of teen conversions of bruno's tanks and casual tops, and I want to put them on the migamoo mesh so they don't have that uncomfortable skin-tight look. But the mesh has no bumpmap, and I don't like using clothes without bumpmaps. I understand if you can't do this, but it'd be a great help if you did.

[aquilegia]

Good news: It won't require a different mesh. :) What I'll do is make a base recolour file from a TF top that has a bump map and link it to the Migamoo mesh. You can export that recolour in Bodyshop to make your bumpmapped tops. I'll drop a comment here when I have it done.

[aquilegia]

I'm a nitwit. I just found out that meshes DO have to have something done to them to make them bumpmap enabled. Hahaha, I had no idea until today. At any rate, I'll fix it for you once I figure out just what to do. X)

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, okay.... I have a bunch of conversions I'm itching to do, so I'll keep checking back to see when you get the mesh done. Thanks so much!!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, by the way... I don't want to nag, but when is that tutorial coming?

[aquilegia]

... I knew I was forgetting something.

I appreciate the reminder because I really, really do have that bad of a memory. I'll do that today.

[(Anonymous)]

What about the fixed migamoo mesh? I converted a bunch of Bruno tops for my own game, and I'd like to get a better top mesh for teens.

[aquilegia]

It's got bumpmaps enabled, so you're good to go. I resized HP's mesh to fit the TF body, so it's got the same mapping and shape, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I still don't get how to do a conversion from adult to teen and have a bumpmap - if I use any of the migamoo shirts I downloaded from you, none of them have bumpmaps, and I don't know how to add bumpmaps in SimPE.

[aquilegia]

Did you see my tutorial? :) I posted it a few days ago. At the end of the post is a recolour package with a bumpmap.

[(Anonymous)]

*facepalm* I didn't look for it, I just bookmarked this post and checked back. Sorry, I'll go read the tutorial now.

[aquilegia]

Hee, whoops. I was wondering what had happened to you. :) I hope it helps.

[paintedrain91.livejournal.com]

I downloaded your fix for HP's untuckable mesh, but I am still having the problem where the top appears pregnant and not the bottom. Am I supposed to have the original mesh and yours in my DLs folder, or just yours?

[aquilegia]

Just mine! :) Delete the original mesh.

[sweet-seventeen.livejournal.com]

OMG, this is probably a super-late reply, but THANK YOU SO MUCH for the fix for HP's mesh! I couldn't figure out why those tops made the bottoms look not-pregnant! (Plus, there are a TON of recolors of it in my game, now that I think about it.) :D

[thegranddewru]

I realize this is an old post so this may annoy but I just wanted to check. I have [kalynn]tm_untuckedtopfittedMESH_May07 and I think is the one you fixed above but the names aren't exactly the same so I just wanted to make sure. :) TIA

[aquilegia]

It's no problem! It should replace exactly that mesh.

[thegranddewru]

Thank you so much, for the quick answer and for putting your time and energy into making and sharing (and fixing) so many great things. :)

Thank You!

[(Anonymous)]

Such great things you're doing, to fix others borked meshes! Thank you!

[aweeshie]

Sorry for replying in a old entry, but I would just like to say thank you for these mesh fixes, they are awesome.

Also, I was wondering if the TF H&M Cardigan mesh is compatible with the tweaked AF H&M Cardigan mesh that Amaryll posted here.

[aquilegia]

This conversion is different than that one (so it doesn't work with bottom-only dresses) but I did make a conversion of it that I keep forgetting to release. I really should get to that...

[aweeshie]

If it could be released that would be awesome, I have plans on making defaults with these.

I am pretty excited for this! :D

[aquilegia]

I'll try to get it sorted out today, then. :D