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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!

Monday, April 30, 2012

So I Can Be Happier To Be Safe Up Here With You (ButterflySims 47 Moose'd)

So I've been really depressed lately. Which I know sounds cliche, because it seems that every creator for the sims has been depressed at some point in time, but I'm just all kinds of sad and stuff and there's no denying that I feel terrible. I've been having a lot of issues with friends and family and schoolwork and stuff, and everything feels like its falling apart. But that isn't your concern, I have a new hair for all of you. Well its not new, its a reconversion. Put simply, I made a previously unusable hair usable.

There are a lot of thingies going on here. I didn't like how high the hairline looked previously, so I waited until a Sims 2 version came out (2 days ago). I did a few things to it, and the transparency issues are almost nonexistent unless you're really obnoxious about it. This hair is also fully breast and fat slider compatible, except  it clips a TINY bit at its extremes, but hey, its much better than the original in that sense. The only drawback of all this is that I couldn't get the LOD1 that I made work. It wouldn't import properly, and even when I got it to import without fat morphs, it had clipping issues at the roots, so it would have looked terrible in all of the menus and icons. Long story short, there is no LOD1, and LOD0 is doubled.
Also, I just realized that I took all my previews with HQ mod off, and I am completely not in the mood to go back and take them all again. Sorry.

This hair's name is based on HyperBallad by Björk. I've actually been waiting to use this song for this specific hair. I'm absolutely and totally in love with this song.

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This hairstyle is 9,994 polygons in LOD0 and in LOD1 (Which is approximately 1,000 polygons less than the original allowing for morph and slider support).There is no LOD1, because I'm horrible and lazy and evil and would rather club baby seals in my free time rather than make LOD1s for all of you. Clearly.
*This hairstyle is only available for teen-elder females, because although I am capable of making child versions, screw that because I don't use them, and they are a pain, and there are zero toddlers that have hair like this.*



DISCLAIMER: The original mesh isn't mine, but the reason this version exists and functions in the way it does is because of me. Also, the textures are mine as well. 

If you like my work, then please comment or subscribe or like my facebook.

I Go Through All This Before I Wake Up,
Moose

P.S.(Its aqua): If you have any issues, then let me know so I can fix them. If anything goes wrong, please notify me, so I can make it all better.

Feel free to use this hair for any of your picture taking needs, or movie making or anything along those lines, but don't reupload anywhere. The exception to the re-uploading rule is sim bundling, but that is IT, and you MUST link back to this page. Please don't retexture this version at all, unless by some miracle I agree to let you use it. I've decided that after the 4-10 hours I spend on these things, I don't particularly want anyone slapping some 10 minute textures on my fix. Please don't steal my textures. 

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Can I Make It Better With The Lights Turned Off (Newsea Capriccio Moose'd)

Lots of things have been going on, and I've been working on a really frustrating conversion that turned into a fix that turned into a conversion again which will probably just end up getting trashed.

This hair was a challenge. I worked on it for about a week and a half, and I'm finally completely happy and satisfied with it. Remember how in my last post I was all excited that Newsea was making hair with breast assignments? Well Newsea's bone assignments look like this in-game. Mine look like this. I felt as if a lot of things needed to be fixed, but I REALLY like the mesh, so I got to work. I thought it was a bit too high, so I lowered it a tiny bit, I thought the breast slider compatibility was a bit trashy (because Newsea likes to assign everything to ONE breast, which just makes the hair assigned to the wrong breast look sloppy), so I fixed those, and the fat morphs were absolutely beautiful, but they clipped with the face and breasts a tiny bit, so I played with that a little. All fixes can be seen in this gif due to all sliders being at max. OH and also, there is a hole in the mesh that can be seen in the black haired images, and it was in my fix, so I added a scalp, so the file is going to be a tiny bit bigger than usual. (Also, in the above images that show you how much better my version is, the mesh throws a little tantrum on one of the visible ends. I actually took all the images for this before noticing it, and then I had to go back and fix it, repackage everything and retake all the previews, but I forgot to retake the above images. The problem is fixed as you can see in the below images).

This style is based on The XX's track Shelter. Its beautiful.

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This hairstyle is 10,526 polygons in LOD0, and 4,820 polygons in LOD1. Most people should be able to run it, I hope you're one of those people. 
*This hairstyle is available for females of all ages, and is non-default.*



Disclaimer: I did not mesh this, but the textures and bone assignments are all mine. Morphs are Newsea's but edited by me. 

If you like what I post, then by all means please follow me here on blogger, comment here on blogger, or like my facebook page. My facebook fans get previews hours and maybe days before anyone actually knows what the heck I'm doing with my life. 

Please Teach Me Gently How To Breathe,
Moosie

P.S. (In Green): If you have any issues with anything with this, let me know. This is probably the fix that I've done the most work on ever, so let me know if anything goes wrong. If not, happy simming!

Please go ahead and use this hairstyle for any picture taking or machinima needs that you may have, but please don't reupload this anywhere. You may bundle this with a sim upload, but always link back to this page. Please don't retexture this fix without my permission, please don't steal my textures. 

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

We've Already Evolved Into Machines In Our Minds (Newsea Guess Moose'd)

I'm going to try to make this fast because school.

I actually realize that this hair hasn't been uploaded by anyone yet, and my copy was given to me by a fabulous little bird that I will be extremely grateful to for a while. In order to protect this fantastic bird, I did my best to remove the trackers via a method that I won't mention just in case that Newsea is feeling all innovative and wants to find a way around my method.

I checked this thing out in Milkshape, and I realized that the bone assignments (also, Newsea is doing breast assignments now!!) were pretty decent and there was no need for me to mess with them, and after looking at this thing's ridiculous polycount, I realized that fat morphs were an impossibility, so basically this is just a retexture.

This hairstyle's name is based on an enchanting song by Röyksopp called Vision One. Give it a listen. If your mind and ears are open, you will enjoy it. Also if you've smoked pot. I'm not gonna lie, you'll love it a lot if you smoke pot first.

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This hairstyle is 15,204 polygons in LOD0, and 6,292 polygons in LOD1. Chances are that some of you won't be able to run this with very high settings, and lets face it, it won't look good in lower settings. I hope most of you can run it!
*This hairstyle is available for females of all ages, and is non-default so you can have multiple versions if you're into that kind of thing.*



DISCLAIMER: I did not mesh this, nor did I fix it. All LODs, morphs (or lack thereof) or breast slider compatibility goes to Newsea, but the textures are mine, dagnabbit. 

I have a page on the internet that will let you stalk me a bit, if you so desire. Also, if you like what I do, please feel free to comment or subscribe. 

Let Us Say Goodbye To All Our Notions,
Moosie

P.S.(Its purple): If you have any issues with this retexture (ESPECIALLY BECAUSE OF THE EXPERIMENTAL TRACKER REMOVAL, I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH), then please let me know so I can fix it. 
Tracker removal aside, please don't retexture this version unless you know what you're doing. And by that I mean knowing how to repackage so it becomes non-default. Also, I've tried to retexture a retexture before, and that is unpleasant for all parties involved. I'm sure the original will leak soon enough, and if not, then I'll remove the trackers for the original and post that at the cave or some shiz. Other than that, use this version for anything you'd like, but please no reuploading unless it is being bundled with a sim (in which case I need you to link back to the page where you got the hair). Please don't steal my textures. 

Saturday, April 14, 2012

All I Wanted To Be Is A Million Miles From Here (Peggy 752 Moose'd)

So these past few days have included a really messy situation. I finally hit TSR's radar, and they retaliated by having some of my files taken down. I've reuploaded them to uploaded.to, and here's hoping they stay there, because there's no way I'm NOT gonna fix Skysims' sloppy work or Cazy's dark textures in the future (double negative means I will, just in case you didn't catch that).

So I've always wanted to convert this hairstyle, and it was actually my first conversion attempt, but it didn't work out. I just wasn't good enough at converting, so I've actually been trying to convert this thing on and off for about 4 months. In total, I've attempted to convert it about 8 times? But I've finally done it properly

So this hair has no breast assignments or fat morphs because they aren't actually necessary. Even with the sliders at their extremes, the hair doesn't clip, so it should be fine. I promise I'm not being lazy, because I actually really love this style, and plan to use it quite a lot. Also, I tried to make it breast slider compatible, but the problem with that was that the corkscrews did NOT play nice with larger breasts. Also, I assigned the hair to the clavicle bone instead of the spine bone, and it animates VERY differently than most hairs, so I mean, its going to be interesting. But personally, I like the way it animates.

Anyway, this hair's name is based on a brilliant song by Mark Ronson and Lily Allen called Oh My God.

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This hairstyle is 10,137 polygons in LOD0, and 7,054 in LOD1. (Which is an improvement over the original's 16,00 for both LOD0 AND LOD1). I hope most of you will be able to run it.
*This hairstyle is only available for teen-elder females, and is non-default because I repackaged the whole thing by myself.*



DISCLAIMER: I didn't make the original version, but this conversion is ALL mine. This doesn't clip because of me, this animates because of me, and the textures are mine too, so its pretty because of me. Peggy laid the groundwork for this conversion, but I completed it myself. 

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It Don't Matter To Me-
Moosie

P.S.(In PAAAAANK): Please let me know if you have any issues with my work so I can fix them as soon as possible.
Go ahead and use my work for anything, but please don't reupload this anywhere unless you're bundling with a sim, in which case I ask that you link back to the page in which you got it, please don't steal my textures, and ask before retexturing. 

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Feel Like You Were There Yourself (SkySims 07 Moose'd)

So I have a lot on my plate right now, this will be quick.

This hair has a lot of issues. That's the first thing I'm going to say. I didn't even want this initially, but then I thought I could use some conversion practice, and you know what? I like my version better. So there. The original had no morphs, so I fixed that, and that's a good thing. Unfortunately, though, the hair doesn't like to play nice with boob morphs, so this happens, which kind of sucks, but I can't fix it, I'm sorry, I don't know how. This whole deal is a conversion of the Sims 2 version, actually so I mean, I had a lot to do, and I reduced the polycount by about 1,500 polygons, because the original didn't like the idea of morphs at all (the original version was too high poly, it would have exploded).

This hairstyle's name is based on Gorillaz's song Dare.

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This hair is like 10,288 polygons in LOD0 (which is better than the like 11,700 that the original had), and 7,433 polys in LOD1.
*This hair is available for all ages, but I didn't fix the child and toddler versions, because I don't believe it to be appropriate, and I won't use it. But my textures are there, and stuff. This is non-default, which means multiple versions if you want.*


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DISCLAIMER: This isn't mine, its actually by Skysims, but this version, all LODs and textures are mine, so credit for this thing's existence is mine. 

If you like my work, or just want to talk to me, I have a facebook. Also, you can comment below or subscribe if you have a blogger account. 

Its Coming Up,
Moosie

P.S.(IN ORANGE): If you have any issues, let me know so I can fix them. Thanx. 
Please go for it and use my work for whatever you'd like. Please do not reupload anywhere, unless you're bunding with a sim, in which case I require that you link back to the hairstyle's respective page. Also, please don't claim as your own, please ask before retexturing any edits or conversions, and don't steal my textures.