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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, April 8, 2012

And Tell Me How I've Lost My Power (Peggy 100 Moose'd)

Happy Easter everyone! I've never been a huge fan of Easter, although the hunting can be fun if you put money in the eggs.

So this is a conversion, actually, my second one ever. It has been converted before by Cazy, and you can find it here, but the transparency issues are awful, and it doesn't have morphs. Peggy also converted it, but her version is ugly in my opinion, because it was made back when she would alter her models so that the hair looked normal, and the animation isn't very nice, and the morphs are nonexistent as well, so I wanted it, so I made it, and I thought it'd be worth sharing.

My version has its issues. Take a look at the strand of hair near the chin. If it looks weird and distorted, that's because it is weird and distorted, because I assigned it 100% to the chin. I did this because the hair literally sits on the chin, and any sim with chin slightly larger than the one that I used as a reference would look horrible, so this way, the hair chills out there, and moves with it. I could have made it so that it didn't stick to the face, but I thought it would be cool and it is. Also, if I had made it not stick, the whole hair would have been wider than it already is, and its already pretty wide, it doesn't really look natural at all. At the same time, I still really like it, and my textures look nice on it. And of course, there are a few very minor transparency issues, just because I'm not yet incredible at life.
Long story short, as with all my conversions, this hair is not for everyone, but for those who like it, and are willing to accept this mesh for what it is. I guess that's true for all hairs, really.

This hair's name is based on a beautiful song by Paramore (I don't think you understand, I forking love Paramore) called Conspiracy.

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Catch Phrase!
This hairstyle is 11,122 polygons in LOD0, and 7,007 in LOD1. I hope most of you can run it?
*This hair is only available for teen-elder females, and is non-default.*



DISCLAIMER: I didn't make the original mesh, I just did all of the work getting it to work in Sims 3. 

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Explain To Me, 
This Conspiracy Against Me, 
Moosie

P.S.(In the aqua that was supposed to happen last time): If you have any issues other than the transparency issues, please let me know so I can fix them. If not, enjoy.
You can use my work for anything, but please do not reupload unless you're bundling with a sim, in which case link back to my blog (preferably the page where you got the hair). You can retexture this mesh if you so desire, but please ask first. Please don't steal my work, including meshes, or textures. 

Thursday, April 5, 2012

We're Only Good 'Cause You Can Have Almost Famous Friends (Peggy SGift April '12 Moose'd)

So I was actually going to rest today, but then I managed to get my hands on this, and screw resting.

I'm going to make this quick, because I actually want to play with it, so yeah.

This hair lacks fat morphs because Peggy made it too high poly so when I tried to make fat morphs this happened. Also, it doesn't matter much because it doesn't really clip very much with incredibly obese Sims in the first place. Long story short, I'm an idiot.
Also, I redid all the bone assignments and they're equal or greater to Peggy's, which means I'm getting better at this. Its also compatible with boobies, but the compatibility is actually quite pointless, as it doesn't clip with massive breasts and morbidly obesity put together anyway. I'm quite silly.

This hair's name is based on Our Lawyer Made Us Change The Name Of This Song So We Wouldn't Get Sued by Fall Out Boy. I'm not going to pretend I didn't love them in middle school. I'm also not going to pretend that I don't still love them now.

Click to enlarge things (I know that my models have disgusting teeth, its not because they don't brush, but because I installed some really ugly default replacement teeth and now I have to fix them and I'm lazy):

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Catch Phrase. 
LOD0 is 11,724 polys and LOD1 (which I made) is 8,441 polys. I hope most of you can run it and everything!
*This retexture is available for all ages, but my so-called 'fix' is not available for all ages, I did not fix anything on the toddler and child files, so don't blame me for any meshy problems there. Also, this is non-default, so it won't conflict with other things.*



DISCLAIMER: I did not make this, most of this belongs to Peggy. Except the textures, LOD1 and LOD3. Those are mine and made by me. And the bone assignments on LODS 0-3 except for 2, those are Peggy's. 

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But We're The Best,
Moose

P.S.(I know I was supposed to do aqua today, but I realized halfway through that I was taking green pictures. Oops): If you have any problems, let me know and I will fix them. Lets both hope that they aren't with my incredibly old files, because all of those were lost in the fire. I'm sorry. (There wasn't a fire, my old computer crashed and I lost everything. You should be pitying me right now and stuff). 
Use my work for whatevuhh you like, except don't post my stuff elsewhere, and don't reupload it anywhere unless its on a Sim upload, in which case I require a link back to my blog. Please don't steal my fixes or my textures and don't claim them as your own. If you want to retexture a fix, please ask. 

Wednesday, April 4, 2012

I Waited So Long For Your Love (Cazy Amanda Moose'd)

So in my opinion, I think this may be one of Cazy's greatest hairstyles, I think it is absolutely beautiful.

I've rambled quite a lot in my previous posts, and I think now would be a good time for me to just shut up and post, especially since I've only retextured this one, and haven't actually fixed anything, because Cazy is beautiful and skilled and all that Jazz, and I am but a lowly peasant or something. I know I don't make sense, don't judge me, I'm sleep deprived.

This style is based on Perfume Genius' spectacular song Hood. Warning, the music video contains homosexual themes, and I know some people don't want to see that, but honestly, the song and the video are beautiful, and if you're gonna get butthurt about it, don't bother watching. Also, screw you, we queerios have to watch you breeders make out all the time, and we deal without getting offended all the freaking time. Additionally, no one in the video kisses anyone, they just sit there in underwear and do artsy things. Rant over.

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Hoochie-Coochie phrase!
This hairstyle has 11,104 polys in LOD0 and 4,706 polygons in LOD1. I hope most of you can run it, it is beautiful in-game. 
*This hair is available for females of all ages, I try not to discriminate if possible. Also, it is non-default, so you can have multiple versions for some reason.*



DISCLAIMER: I did not mesh this, as a matter of fact, my textures for this hair and blended a tiny bit with Cazy's because her hairs tend to make everyone else's textures look a bit jagged anyway. So its mostly hers, she is a Sims 3 genius. I want to be Cazy when I grow up. 

I have a facebook if you're in a stalky mood, and if you just want to know when I post things, you can subscribe at the bottom of the page. If you want to make me smile or feel bad about myself, you can comment. Maybe if you troll me hard enough, I'll post a live stream of me hurting myself. Obviously I'm joking, I'm not into hurting myself, and you're just random faceless people on the internet. You can't hurt me. Much. 

I Will Fight Baby, 
Not To Do You Wrong, 
Moose

P.S. (PARPLE): If you have any issues with my files, please let me know so I can fix them. This can be accomplished by email or by nasty comments that will probably make me cry. 
You can use my retextures for whatever you feel like, but I'd rather you didn't reupload them, and by that I mean don't reupload them unless you're bundling them with a sim upload, in which case I require that you give me credit. Don't steal my textures. Bye.