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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, June 24, 2012

Why Don't You Be The Artist and Make Me Out Of Clay (Cazy Lilo Moose'd)

So I'm going to make this quick because I have a massive hangover and I want to work on other hairs and go to sleep and lots of things.

I know I've already done this retexture, but there are two very good reasons why. The previous version was 25,389 polygons in LODs 0 and 1, this one is 12,162 polygons in LODs 0 and 1. While this means no morphs, it means more people can run it. Also, after having tried and very nearly failing miserably at reducing only 5,000 polygons, a 13,000 poly reduction is worthy of WORSHIP in my eyes. Cazy wins all the awards, she's amazingly talented, pay or not. Additionally, it fits the head better. Look (don't pay attention to the textures, that comes later, this is just so you can see the shape):

This hairstyle's name is based on Ellie Goulding's The Writer. You know the drill. Ellie is amazing.

Click to enlarge(the jpgs are like 2400x1080 pixels, its ridiculous what I do for you people):

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This hairstyle is 12,162 polygons in LOD0 and LOD1. Some of you should be able to run it, and I hope you can, because I think it looks amazing.
*This hairstyle is only available for teen-elder females. Apparently Cazy did not want it for children and neither do I, to be honest. This hairstyle is non-default because of DABOOBS. I typically don't use DABOOBS, but I used it this time because this hair doesn't have any fat morphs.*
This hairstyle is ONLY compatible with breast sliders. Fat sliders will cause it to explode.

-Press CTRL + S to download when you reach the page-

(or go up the to left-hand corner and click file, and select download from the drop-down menu)




DISCLAIMER: I did not mesh this, I only textured it. The textures are mine, that's it. The fix and the sliders and all that jazz are Cazy's.

If you like what I do, then please feel free to comment or subscribe here. I also have a facebook you can like if you feel like liking it, and if you have a tumblr, you can follow me on my tumblr

I'd Rather Pretend I'll Still Be There At The End,
Moose

PS: If you have any issues, then please let me know so I can fix them.

I'd love it if you used my work in any pictures you may want to take or any videos you may want to make, credit is optional in that sense. Please do not upload anywhere else unless its with a sim upload, and in that case I require credit. Please do not steal my textures or claim as your own (but if you wanted to take a look at these specific textures I won't object HINTHINTHINT). 

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Fate Don't Fail Me Now (Peggy 885 Moose'd)

My summer has been better, I've been hanging out with friends much more often, and eating too much. It's very nice.

I saw this and everyone was freaking out about how beautiful it was, and while I completely agreed, I was also freaking out about how much of a nightmare the thing would be. I managed to get my hands on Peggy's version and it was approximately 11,500 polygons. I decided to wait for the Sims 2 version, because I couldn't fix the original due to its high polycount, so I knew I'd have to reconvert it as usual. After finally getting my hands on the Sims 2 version, I got it into milkshape and saw that without undersides the whole thing was approximately 7,800 polygons. That means that with undersides and no reductions the whole thing would turn out to be 15,600 polygons in total, which is INSANE. It turns out that Peggy must have done a bit of heavy reduction herself, and while she did a wonderful job, her version is not morph friendly. It also meant that I would have to do a RIDICULOUS amount of reduction, which can be messy. Also, I thought it was much too wide, so I played with it quite a bit. Long story short, I reduced the Sims 2 version (15,600 polys) down to about 10,000. There is breast slider compatibility and fat morphs work. Also, lurvely textures. Downsides include minor transparency issues, rough(er than usual) animations, and jagged textures in places. This hair will come down to personal preference, the bangs are lower and the sides are less voluminous. I think it looks edgier while more natural this way, but some might think otherwise. I know that Anubis is working on a fix if you don't like mine. Whether his version has morphs or not is up to him.


The hairstyle's name is inspired by an INCREDIBLE song from Metric's album that came out last week called Speed the Collapse. I've listened to the whole album more than 20 times since it came out, and it came out 9 days ago. I HIGHLY recommend it, Metric is just fantastic.

Click to enlarge (oh god you can almost see  how reduced it is, I'm sorry about how jagged it looks in places, guys. I just really wanted this to work on my chubby girls):

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This hairstyle is 9,788 polygons in LOD0, and 6,097 polygons in LOD1 (which I believe to be an improvement over 11,533 polygons for LOD0 and LOD1). Most of you should be able to run it.
*This hairstyle is available for females of all ages, but the fixed version is only available for teen-elder, the younger versions are Peggy's version retextured and repackaged with DABOOBS (because her version had no morphs). The puffy peggy version suites toddlers better anyway in my opinion.*
This hairstyle has fat morph and breast slider compatibility.

-Press CTRL + S to download when you reach the page-
(or go up the to left-hand corner and click file, and select download from the drop-down menu)




DISCLAIMER: I did not mesh the original version, but I radically resized and edited the Sims 2 version and converted it. Then I made the bone assignments and the morphs and the textures. The basic shape is not mine, but everything else is. 

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We Auctioned Off Our Memories In The Absence of A Breeze,
Moose

PS: If you have any issues with anything let me know and I will help you to the best of my ability. 

I would be honored if you wanted to use my work in any picture taking or movie making you do. Please do not reupload my work anywhere, but feel free to bundle with a sim upload as long as you give me credit. Please do not retexture without my permission, please do not steal my textures, please don't claim as your own. 

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Wanna Give Your Heart A Break (SkySims 24 Moose'd)

So as I promised on my tumblr, I did put a lot of work into this hair mesh. Let me just say that this thing was a complete nightmare. I ended up fixing the dang thing on two separate occasions because the first one ended up looking too square, and TSR Workshop refused to accept the fact that I wanted to use thin morphs. All in all, I ended up tweaking and testing this in-game over a period of eight consecutive hours as I listened to my hip music and stewed in the fact that I haven't hung out with anyone this summer save for my mother. Not to knock my mother, I freaking love my mother. She and I went and saw a fantastic movie and got boba, it was great, but I want to hang out with my friends, who have either cancelled or been busy. Also I need a job.

Where was I? Oh yes, the hair. This hair originally had no morphs or breast slider compatibility at all, and the shape was grosser than gross. I wrestled with the mesh quite a bit, and ended up adding morphs and breast slider compatibility and making it fit the head and gave it some lovely shiny textures (and some matte ones for all of you EA purists). Long story short, I messed with the way it sits on the head, gave it some better textures, and added morphs and slider compatibility. I think that the mesh looks better, but that is arguable because I'm extremely biased as I spent a horrifying amount of time staring at this very mesh trying to make it not suck. Whether you want my version or any version of this at all is up to you, but hey, I think it looks really good, and I'm actually using it in one of my files, and I think its dang lovely. Downsides are the minor transparency issues (brown) and potentially the animation (red and control), but keep in mind that those are not poses meant for flattering hair animation whatsoever. Oh also, you can see where I REALLY wrestled with the mesh in the blonde image. There is a huge horrible jagged piece of mesh just above the shoulder.

This hairstyle's name is based on Give Your Heart A Break by Demi Lovato. What can I say? Those Disney Girls' producers know what they're doing. Its pretty great. Also, I love her voice.

Click to enlarge(just to be clear though, I don't take pictures that show off how great the hair is, I try to show the good and the bad in my previews so that people know what they're getting. The two versions animate very differently, and mine just happens to throw a slight fit at certain angles like MOST hairs. At least you know what you're putting in your game this way):

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CATCH PHRASE!
This mesh is 7,898 polygons in LOD0, and 5,504 polygons in LOD1 (Some people might say that my version actually makes things worse, because the original LOD0 has an identical polycount, and the original LOD1 is about 2,000 polygons less, but I can explain. The original looked HORRIBLE in character menus, which is what LOD1 is used for, so I had to make it higher poly). Most everyone should be able to run it, claps for SkySims for making it so low poly, I'm actually very impressed. 
*This hairstyle is available for teen-elder females. I'm sorry, no child version. Its too ridiculous a hair, and I can't stand to look at this mesh in a meshing program for any longer.*
This hairstyle is compatible with fat morphs and breast sliders.

-Press CTRL + S to download when you reach the page-
(or go up the to left-hand corner and click file, and select download from the drop-down menu)



DISCLAIMER: I didn't mesh this. I DID convert it, make all the bone assignments, and make fat morphs AND thin morphs for all of you skinny girls and phat girls, and I gave it the textures that I made. SkySims made the original shape that this is based on, but without their work, this wouldn't have been possible (but had they worked harder, none of it would have been necessary).

This is my facebook, this is my tumblr, please follow me on either or both, or even here on blogger. Also, feel free to comment because comments make me feel happy. Or do all four, because that would be the best thing ever. 

The World Is Ours If You Want It, 
Moose

PS: If you have any trouble with my work at all, please let me know so I can fix it. 

No permission or credit is necessary (but it IS appreciated greatly) for using this in any picture taking or video making. You may not reupload unless it is bundled with a sim, but you must link back to this page. Please don't retexture this without my permission, and please don't claim as yours or steal my textures. 

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

My Body's Naked and Now I Am Free (Raon 36 Moose'd)

So I'm completely aware that I already did this hair awhile ago, but the file was taken down some time ago, and someone was asking if they could get the original file. I couldn't access the original file, and I missed having this in my game, so I decided to do it all over again.

Also, this is technically a 'fix,' only because I had no idea that the original actually had morphs and breast compatibility, so there aren't many differences. The only difference between my version and Raon's is that they have different bone assignments, so there is only a minor difference in animation, and the fat and breast sliders look a little bit different. On top of that, I fixed the horrible balding issue present in the black image by adding a scalp, and my textures are (arguably) nicer and twice the resolution.

This is based on a song by Reptar called Rainbounce. It is still to this day one of my favorite songs.

Click to enlarge (also, I decided I would have MUCH lighter backgrounds because everyone kept telling me that my backgrounds were distracting. Also, I decided I wanted to keep doing patterns even if they're very light because I'm addicted to patterns. Additionally, I will begin making gifs smaller, and also, the jpgs are bigger than most people's screens, because they were taken on a TV monitor and with the HQ mod on. I'm lucky I didn't fry my Mom's video card. (By the way, I'm on my mom's computer because I fried my video card, so I don't have a personal computer anymore, which means less retextures, I'm sorry):

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CATCH PHRASE (oh, and I also changed the control so that it has a black background because everything is more visible and it makes more sense that way)!
This hairstyle is 9,688 polygons in LOD0, and 5,034 in LOD1. I wish that Raon would create again, the fact that they made this under 10,000 polygons really shows how talented they were. Most of you should be able to run this. Oh and I also added the missing LOD3. 
*This hairstyle is available for teen-elder females. I thought it was much too glamorous for children and I didn't want to put the work in. This is also non-default, which means you can have both versions in game and Raons, if you so desure.*
This hairstyle is compatible with breast morphs and fat sliders.

*Press CTRL + S to download when you reach the page*



Disclaimer: I didn't mesh this, Raon did. I just redid the bone assignments and made some fat morphs from scratch, even though it wan't super necessary. Also, the textures are mine and no one else's. 

I have a facebook and a tumblr if you want to follow me there, if not, you can follow me here on blogger by checking out the bottom of the page, or you can comment. Comments make me smile. 

I Leave a Message, Get Back To You, 
Moose

PS: If you have any issues with this, please let me know so I can fix them for you. I wouldn't go through all the trouble of posting something for you if I didn't want it to work in your game (Also, if the download doesn't work, please let me know, I'm trying something new, so tell me if it doesn't work for you so I can update the link). 

Feel free to use my work for any picture taking or video needs you may have, but please don't reupload anywhere unless you're bundling with a Sim upload, in which case link back to this page. Please don't retexture my version of this hair without permission, please don't claim as your own, and please don't steal my textures (although stealing them would be silly because each texture is unique to each hair). 

Saturday, June 9, 2012

Let The Moment Take You, Lose Control Tonight (Newsea MilesAway Moose'd)

I'm going to make this quick, because I'm not in the mood to post anything, but I love you guys so here you go anyway.

This is just a simple retexture, I didn't fix anything, because Newsea's hairs are way difficult to fix.

This retexture's name is based on a song called Hit The Lights by Selena Gomez. Some of you might say that Selena Gomez is for little kids, but she's been trying really hard to break into the club scene, and I like her so go sit on a curling iron if you're gonna make fun of me.

Click to enlarge(by the way, the little blue strands in the control image have been changed to red. I had no idea why Newsea wanted them as tips, but I changed them to roots because they're AT THE ROOTS. At least it makes sense to me that way. Long story short, the blue bits near the scalp in the control image will now show up as red in that color combo):
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CATCH PHRASE!
This hairstyle is 14,865 polygons in LOD0, and 7,931 polygons in LOD1. I know its really high, but I'm not magic, I have no idea how to reduce the polys on Newsea hairs because they can't really be converted, and I have a lot of trouble using Reis' reduction method. 
*This hair is available for toddler-elder females. This retexture is non-default, which means you can have both versions of this AND Newsea's version if you want them all in-game for some reason. Basically, it doesn't conflict.*
This hair doesn't have breast or fat slider support, but it doesn't need either one. 



Disclaimer: I did not mesh this, all bone assignments and meshwork belongs to Newsea, textures are mine. 

If you like my work, please don't hesitate to let me know via the comments section, because it feels good. I also have a facebook, a tumblr, and you can always follow my blog.

Let The Music Move You,
Moosie

P.S.(In Pink): Let me know if you have any issues at all, because I will fix them for you. I want my work to work as well in your game as it does in mine, otherwise I wouldn't bother sharing. 

Go ahead and use this for any picture taking or video making needs you may have. Please don't upload anywhere else unless you are bundling with a Sim, in which case please link back to this page. Please don't steal my textures or claim as your own.