State of the Aquilegia

[aquilegia]

Hey there! I haven't been updating here for a while for various reasons, the big one being that my computer had been getting more and more painful to use. It was terribly slow and acting strangely -- I probably could have used a new Windows install, but that wouldn't have helped with the fact that the motherboard and processor were a decade old, and the video card only a year or two newer. It really killed my creativity to only be able to have one program open at a time, and that their processing times meant it could take up to half an hour just to build one package.

However! I rebuilt it completely a little while ago and it works like a dream, and while I've been trying out other games now that they'll actually run and run well (I can finally play Dragon Age ;_;), I haven't abandoned TS2. Far from it -- now that I have a good computer, creating is fun again because the tedious button pushing parts go a lot faster, and I can keep a whole bunch of programs open at once so referencing what I need to tweak is super easy.

I have a whole bunch of goodies I've already made to put up -- a ton of texture replacements for base game clothes, and nice, matching recolors of some base game build items -- and I'm in the process of making a whole bunch more. Immediately in the works are skirt conversions for teens, elders, and M sims, a new 8-skin Maxis matchy skinset, and a trans* bodyshape basic set.

(On that note: repositoried clothes, or no? I could either give the AM clothes textures and repository the other ages, or I could repository them all to the AF clothes. Thoughts?)

I'll also have some TS3 stuff up, but that will happen more sporadically because TS3 meshing and texturing is a giant headache (the in-game recolorability means the creating end is waaay more complicated) and most of the tutorials are bare bones.

Comments

[aquilegia]

Yeah, the tutorials are really disappointing! Some of them basically say 'look at TS2 tutorials for basics' which, fair enough, but when someone who's used to TS2 meshing can't figure out how TS3 packages are put together and why from tutorials, something is wrong. :/

And the pattern tutorials are just ugh, terrible. Once I have a better handle on how the channels thing works I'm going to write one of my own. I actually have some background in technical writing for laymen, unlike 99% of the people who write creating tutorials in this community.

[lovelyxwow]

I've said it before, but a pattern tutorial would definitely be helpful. When I can play again, I may take a stab at trying hair. If not, I guess someone somewhere appreciates black tattoos, sims, and small lots, yes? :P