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Hey everyone! My name is metalmoose and I retexture hair for The Sims 3. I retexture what I feel like playing with, but feel free to send me any suggestions!

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

I'm Just Sayin' You Could Do Better (Butterfly 40 Moose'd)

I realize its been a while, but I've been kinda busy. I had prom recently, and I've been under a lot of stress and I've been having quite a few problems at home AND at school because of family and friends, and lately I've been feeling stretched too thin. Of course, this hasn't stopped me from wanting to retexture things, but I hadn't been able to get my hands on anything because SunsetSims was down and stuff. On top of everything, I have to fix everything I do with the exception of the stuff Cazy makes, but the exceptions come few and far between.

So yeah, lots of things going on. When I saw this hair, I liked it, but it had a plethora of problems that I had no idea how to fix. I thought that it wasn't voluminous enough, and I thought that it sat too high on the head, and I would have preferred that it was compatible with sliders and such, and of course, I thought that the textures were gross, and I HATED that idiotic little hat.
When I finally saw the hair in-game, I noticed this horrible bald spot behind the right ear, and I must say that it was just some REALLY sloppy work on Butterfly's part.
My version has its own issues too. Because it is my first conversion that I've ever posted ever, it has a few TINY transparency issues that I actually have no idea how to fix. They can be seen in the brown image, I think, but there aren't many. Also, the hairstyle is a bit wider, and it doesn't tuck behind the ears like the original, because as hard as I tried, I couldn't get it to do that, because Butterfly's Sims 2 mesh doesn't fit the Sims 3 head very well. Also, as you can see in the last image, the hair tends to crunch when a sim's head turns all the way to the right, but the animations are quite good, if you're willing to actually look at them in game. My previous fix had only 20 transitions between different bones, and this one has 33, so it should be MUCH MUCH better.
My version is better because it is fat morph and breast slider compatible, and it has about 3,000 polygons less than the original, and in my opinion, it looks better, but that's just me and your opinion is likely different.

By the time you read this, my castle links will probably have been updated back to mediafire, sorry about the trouble, everyone.

The name of this hairstyle is based on Drake's song, Marvin's Room. Don't let the fact that he's a popular artist fool you, he is an incredible artist, and the song is hauntingly beautiful.

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This hairstyle is 10,160 polygons in LOD0, and is 7,518 polygons in LOD1. Most people should be able to run my version, but the original is 13,100 polys in LOD0, and 11,196 polys in LOD1, so my version may be easier to run for most. 
*This hairstyle is available for teen-elder females and is non-default.*



DISCLAIMER: I did not mesh the original Sims 2 version, but I converted this one from it, and this version, and the textures are mine. 

If you like my work, I have a facebook page that you can stalk, you can also comment below or subscribe to my blog. 

Tell me, have you heard that lately?
Moosie

P.S. (In Orange): Please let me know if you have any issues, ESPECIALLY because this is my first conversion, and I will fix them as soon as I can. 
Please go ahead and use my work for whatever you like, but please don't reupload my work unless you're bundling it with a sim upload, and in that case, I hope that you'd give me credit. Please ask before retexturing my conversion, and don't steal my textures. 

Monday, March 12, 2012

Love You More Than Those Bitches Before (Skysims 02 Moose'd)

So as soon as Skysims suddenly appeared on TSR I was really excited. I went ahead and I stalked them like crazy, and I figured out that they are NOT in fact, Butterflysims, but DID work for Butterfly. Then they were offered an FA position at TSR and took it. I looked through all the stuff that SkySims was going to post in the future, and I saw this one immediately. I looked at it, and I KNEW that I had to fix it, so here it is.

Additionally, this is pretty much my first 'real' fix. I mean, I've messed with meshes many times before, but I actually made this hair breast slider compatible this time. I was also going to add fat morphs, and I actually made them successfully, but the hair decided it was in the mood to explode after I added them, unfortunately. Long story short, I managed to fix the hair and add fat morphs and breast slider compatibility, but when I stuck it in game, the tiny strands of hair threw a fit when I made my sim fatter, they exploded, basically, so I remade the whole thing with only breast sliders and it works just fine, unfortunately, because I had to move the whole thing down, I had to redo the bone assignments, and the animation is no longer as smooth as it used to be (as you can see in the first image), but I'm new to it, and the animation is still better than most peggy hairs, so I guess you'll just have to choose between nice animations or a fixed head and breast sliders. Also, for some reason, Sky messed up the control when she meshed this, so at some points, this hair has roots as tips and tips as roots in all versions.

In the future, I will always do my best to add slider support if possible unless I legitimately believe that the hair won't need the sliders.

Additionally, some people have said that they have trouble with Castle.so, which is my new file sharing client, and it turns out that mediafire is compatible with adf.ly again, so I will continue to use mediafire, I will also add alternate links to the two hairs that use Castle.

This hair's title is based on lyrics from Lana Del Rey's Blue Jeans. The song is beautiful, I really love it.

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Catch Phrase!
This hairstyle is 11,108 polygons in LOD0, and 5,576 polys in LOD1. The hair is a bit high poly for  some games, but most should be able to run it. 
*This hairstyle is available for females of all ages and is non-default, so you can have more than one version in game, just in case you really want to have a normal version and an alien headed version.*



DISCLAIMER: I did not mesh this, but I did fix it, add breast sliders, and make my own textures for it. 

If you enjoy what I do, then please comment, subscribe, or like my facebook page.

I Will Love You Till The End Of Time,
Moosie

P.S.: If you have any issues with my work, then please let me know so I can fix it. 
Go ahead and use my work for whatever, but please don't upload it anywhere else unless you're bundling with a sim download in which case I ask that you give me credit. Please ask before using my mesh fix, and please don't steal my textures. 

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Cause Though The Truth May Vary (Cazy Destiny Moose'd)

So I really really REALLY wanted to do this hair, I've been wanting it since last month, and after having played with it, I really do love it. I basically like anything and everything that Cazy does. I actually managed to get my hands on the no fringe version, but I prefer the version with the fringe, and I can't just drop my textures into the no-fringe version, because the textures are actually quite different, so its almost a completely different retexture within itself.

But anyway, the beauty of Cazy's stuff is that there is no need to fix anything, because it has such high production quality, which is nice because it takes considerably less time.

Also, I've updated all the broken links, so everything should be in working order, and I've found a new file sharing program, and I really like it, and I hope you like it too.

This hair's title is based on Little Talks by Of Monsters and Men. It's a beautiful song, I hope all of you like it!

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This hairstyle is 11,541 polygons in LOD0, and 6,935 poly's in LOD1. So I don't recommend it for those of you with slower computers.
*This hairstyle is available for females of all ages, and is also non-default, so you can have multiple versions.



DISCLAIMER: I did not mesh this, Cazy did. I DID make the textures for the version you see here, though.

If you like my work, then please feel free to comment, subscribe to my blog, or like my facebook page.

Don't Listen To A Word I Say,
Moosie

P.S. (In Aqua): If you have any issues with my work, then please let me know so I can fix them. 
Go ahead and use my work for whatever, but please don't reupload anywhere unless you're bundling with a sim, in which case please give me credit. Please don't steal my textures. 

Friday, March 9, 2012

We Got No Money, But We Got Heart (Peggy SGift March '12 Moose'd)

So my life has been a lot of suck lately, and I haven't had a lot of time to do retextures, and when I have, I've had very little motivation to do so. BUT TODAY I PRESENT TO YOU THIS BEAUTIFUL CREATION.

This came out and I wanted to do it, but Anubis was immediately on top of it, and by the time I had begun working on it, his version was out, and shattered whatever I would have been able to do. Because his fix was for sure better than anything I could do, and because I want to give you guys the best that I can get my hands on, I went ahead and asked him if I could use his fix and just retexture it as long as I gave him credit, and he said yes!! So here is Peggy's hair with my textures and Anubis' mesh fix! So yeah, if you hate my textures, get his version here. Or get both, I don't know what you're going to do, but yeah.

I'm also working on Cazy's newest hair, because it is STUNNING, and I'm excited about the fact that Butterfly has joined TSR, because maybe there will be some set of standards when it comes to her stuff now, like morphs and slider support, for example? But I actually have an inkling regarding how to make those now, so expect fixes to be more fixed in the future.

Additionally, I'm working on giving all of you alternate downloads as mediafire is BOTCHED to hell, so I'm using a new filehost that I think you might like, hopefully there aren't any limits, but if there are, then maybe I can manage to pay for limitless file hosting. But I don't really know.

Based on an incredible song by and incredible band called Walk The Moon. The song is called Anna Sun, and it super catchy, and the lead singer is straight up adorable as can be seen here where he has short hair.

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This hairstyle has 10,175 polygons in LOD0 AND in LOD1, which means that some of you simply won't be able to use it if you have older computers, I'm really sorry. 
*This hairstyle is available for females of all ages, and in non-default, which means that you can have multiple versions.*



DISCLAIMER: I did not mesh this, and it was fixed by Anubis. My only hand in the process of bringing the hair that you see here into your game is the textures on said hair, those are allll mine. 

If you like my work, then please comment, subscribe, or like my facebook page. I mean why wouldn't you like my stuff? If you don't like my stuff, then you're homophobic, clearly. 

We Lifted This House,
Moosie

P.S. (In Purple, sorry, no joke today): If you have any issues with my files, then please let me know, so I can fix them.
Feel free to use my work for whatever you like, but I must ask that you do not reupload my files at all, unless they're being packaged in a sim download, but in that case I hope that you would give me credit. If you want to use Anubis' fixed mesh, ask him for permission, and please don't steal my textures.