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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!

Sunday, May 6, 2012

You Come Along Because I Love Your Face, And I'll Admire Your Expensive Taste (SkySims 14 Moose'd)

Things have been going on. Things are a little bit better at home, but school is still a massive amount of stress. So I mean yeah. But on the bright side, I just got back from one of the greatest parties ever, and OH MY GOSH I feel SO good.

I saw this hair on TSR, and I decided to do it out of pity for everyone who wanted the hair but then put it in-game. I don't know why, but Skysims didn't do a very good job of fitting it to the head, so I felt the need to fix it.

So this whole thing is a preference call, the hair is completely different from the original, and if you don't like the way it looks you should NOT download. I think the other one looks something like someone's actual hair, but its very thin and sad and way too high on the head, and my version looks like a pretty decent wig. Also, SkySims' version is longer than mine, so if that's your cup of tea, go for it. Additionally, SkySims' animations are much nicer, but mine make more sense. The entirety of SkySims' mesh has two assignments, and mine has six, so if you want blood sweat and tears, you might want my version. Also, my version has a way lower polycount. My version is like 1,200 polys less than the original, which can really be all the difference for some people. But as a result of this, the undersides can kind of animate funny, and sometimes they poke through when Sims heads move to angles that are too extreme. I have ONE transparency issue on my version, and its hardly noticeable in game, but I'm not gonna deny it is there, its on the end of the ponytail, but its kind of minor. Long story short, this is fully compatible with breast and fat sliders and covers more of the head, while the original isn't compatible with any kind of sliders whatsoever and resembles a really silly hat on a bald person. 

Anyway, the hair's name is based on Panic! At The Disco's song New Perspective. I love the song, its so highschool but in a good way. It appeals to me in the best way, you know?

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Ketch Phrez.
So this hairstyle is 8,990 polygons in LOD0 (which is a big improvement over the original's 10,146 polygons), and 5,007 polygons in LOD1. This is good news, because this might be the lowest poly thing I've done in quite some time, most everyone should be able to run it, I think!!
*This hairstyle is available for teen-elder females, and that's it. I'm sorry, I wasn't about to make a child conversion, its not what I want out of this.*



DISCLAIMER: I did not originally mesh this, this hair's initial shape belongs to SkySims, and their texture assignments are still theirs as well, but the rest, including the hair's newer (and improved?) shape, the current bone assignments and my new-found fat morph compatibility method are all mine. 

If you like what I do, and would like to be notified earlier than everyone on MS3B of when my stuff comes out (if it gets featured on MS3B, you never know, my work might not be worth featuring. Because the copy/paste paintings of Gaga and Madonna are CLEARLY much harder to make and much more work, and a higher priority than the fixes I spend a minimum of four hours on), then please go ahead and subscribe to my blog, or like my facebook page. Also, if you like this please comment and tell me, it makes me feel all kinds of warm and fuzzy and more likely to post more things more often. 

Can We Fast-Forward 'Till You Go Down On Me?
Moose

If you have any issues at all, please let me know, so I can try to fix them as soon as I can. 

I would be totally and completely honored if you wish to use this stuff in any sort of preview at all, or in a video or anything, it is more than okay to use my work for this, no credit necessary. But please do not re-upload anywhere else unless you're bundling it with a sim, and if you are bundling, please link back here. Also, please do not retexture this without asking, but if you ask, chances are incredibly high that I will refuse.  I know it sounds terrible, but I spent like a good eight or more hours on this fix, and I'm not stoked at the idea that someone else gets to slap their textures on it in ten minutes and feature it on their blog. No thanks. Please don't claim as your own, and please don't steal my textures. 

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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Catch Phrase!
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.