Here's a set I posted at GoS last week. I'm still working on Reno's suit too, but the collar is killing me.

I have this odd fascination with certain types of objects, like chandeliers, candelabras, Venetian masks and most of all: Mirrors! What's shinier than mirrors? Very little is what. Here are edits of some of my favourite mirror meshes.

Small square mirror

A versatile little mirror retextured in two different styles. Mesh by Mango-Sims included.

Large round mirror

This mesh was cloned from an OFB mirror, so you'll need that EP to be able to use it. Mesh by Birgit included.

"Big is Better" mirror edit

This is an edit of a Nightlife mirror. There was a little angel ornament thing on top that I felt was out of place, so I hacked it off. Unfortunately, it will require Nightlife because I couldn't get it show up otherwise. The glass can also be retextured. Mesh by myself included, obviously.

Maxis/Jope mirrors

These are retextures of the "Past Reflections" mirror that came with the base game, and two mirrors by Jope from SimplyStyling that were based on it. All meshes are included.

I've posted this set here before, but for this upload I added another mirror to it that used the same mapping.

This is the new retexture...


...and this was the older set, which is included.



One last note: I tend to modify the meshes of objects I edit to add shadows, so if you already have the meshes, replace them if you want those.


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It's been only a bit more than a week since the Arabian Nights/Asylum theme started over at GoS, but I figured I'd repost what I posted there so far (plus one new set I didn't really find fitting).

These are retextures of the crown molding meshes that came with Apartment Life. I didn't post them because I don't find them all too Arabic, but they use the same textures as the doors and were initially made to go with them.
The thing with these is that they are slaved to each other. The top designs look shitty on the bottom mesh, so I made retextures for the bottom too (which look fine on the top mesh, just less ornate).




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These are complete retextures of a base game window called "Arch of Antiquity". I also managed to add a texture to the recolour package for the stupid blue glass, so that part has some new texture options too. Files are all Compressorized.




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This is more 'vaguely inspired' by Arabic architecture than anything else: Five retextures of the 'Open Sesame door by 40 Thieves Ltd.' door that came with the base game, for your... treasuries and throne rooms and such. I was thinking more of Aghraba than Marrakech, so to speak.




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These are 6 retextures of the Moroccan base game door called 'Doorway to a Distant Land'. The retextures for the frame are also picked up by the 'Archway to a Distant land' arch, which is slaved to it.




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This is a bit of a quickie: Three retextures of the base game Moroccan column called 'Up, Up and Away'. I wanted to make more, but unfortunately the mapping was a very special brand of Impossible. Files are compressed and everything.




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And lastly, a request I did for the Wishing Tree: A tabletop statue of the goddess Dibella from Skyrim. Looks a bit art nouveau-ish, I think. It's slightly shiny (but not obnoxiously so) like it is in the game.




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Annnd c'est tout!

Here are some things I made when my network died on me - this month's theme over at GoS was one I'd really been rooting for. Copy-pasted from the original posts.

Threads of Gold and Silver

Have some retextures of my favourite EAxis door. I have other things planned for this theme, but I made these for personal use on a whim and thought they would fit (even though they're more Asian ~inspired~ than culturally accurate, but don't let that spoil the fun). The textures were resized for a higher amount of detail, but there is a little boober in the frame texture that I couldn't get completely seamless because of the atrocious mapping. I personally didn't find it that bothersome, though.

These will require Bon Voyage.






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Nights of Kowloon

Here's another small spur-of-the-moment thing: These are, according to Google, 'luck amulets'. The original mesh was from a 2005 pay set by Janna from the late Simsconnection, but it had an ugly square wall shadow and it wasn't recolourable. So I added some good ol' spit and shine and made some retextures. I also redid an original recolour to not be grainy and mirrored.

If you have objects named 'janna_chinesecoins.package' and 'janna_chinesecoins2.package' in your Downloads folder, delete them and replace them with these. The files are Compressorized and the previews are included.

Credits: Janna/Simsconnection for the original mesh and uh, sites I found via Baidu/Google for the images.






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Just a small offering this time.
I love slaved window/door sets, so a while ago I made some retextures of Windkeeper's Tokyo windows. This is basically the same trick on her Shoji set (though using different textures) - I wanted to make them a bit more multifunctional.

Excuse the lame in-game preview, I'm tired and meh and I didn't have fitting CC /excuses.





The first recolour is supposed to be cast iron. It's transparent in the game.

The meshes are not included, but you can get them here (shoji_doorswindows.rar)


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ETA:
This does not really warrant its own post and it fits the theme: Six (I guess that's the number of my attention span) retextures of 'Eastern Blossoms by Li Qing', a wall scroll (I. LOVE. SCROLLS.) that came with Free Time.
The art is by Shiro Kasamatsu, a 20th century Japanese artist - most of these are scenes from the 1950s. So... they probably shouldn't look this weathered, but you can blame it on THE BOSSANOVA some dumb sim pouring tea on them.






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I snagged some of these images from here.

It just occurred to me that I once promised I'd upload a bunch of recolours, yes? My recolour folder is a sad, sad mess, but I managed to claw these out, at least. These are just some personal edits of things that I use a lot myself, so don't expect epic sets or something.
Please do excuse my picture recycling - I am in a bit of a hurry and my computer is being slooow.


'Tokonoma Series by Jermone Inc' retextures ($775 - mentioning the price of the EAxis item so you can find it easier in the catalog)

Requires Bon Voyage.

'Shu Shu/Shi Shi Frou Frou' retexture (2 for each, $3250)

Requires Bon Voyage.

'Mystery of the Coral Dragon' column recolours

My mighty desaturation skills at work, yo. One of my favourite EAxis objects, but the colours were... not so useful.
Requires Bon Voyage. It's base game, thanks Nabila!

Avalon/OrangeMitten's Jia curtains

Meshes by Avalon/OM are included. Textures are Avalon's too, I just wanted them in more colours.
Just a note: These curtains don't have a backside. Just buy a second copy, mirror it and use move cheats to place a curtain behind it. That's what I always do anyway.

Fairywitch's Sims Medina curtains retexture

Meshes not included; get them here, as per their policy. I uploaded the meshes here, since Fairywitch seems to be gone.

And here it is all in one .rar, because I cannot be arsed to put all these tiny sets in separate archives. Files are all Compressorized.


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Now for something vaguely related, I see this a lot with object recolours: Sometimes recolours show up blurry in-game if you zoom out. They'll look like this in SimPe:


(That would be me in the bottom-right corner)

( How to fix this mess. )

Hullo!
I hope your Christmas was merry indeed! Now let's get on to a safe 2010, yes? All my time went to my Secret Santa gifts and my giftee, the awesome Pooklet, generously decided to share her gift with everyone else. Make sure to browse the entire thread, by the way. It's full of amazing things!

ETA March 2012: Sufficient time has passed, so I decided to put the files here separately for easier future reference. Carry on.

Dirty Neutrons
Skinny jeans + Gothplague's brothel creepers as bottoms for AM

Alright, kicking off with the clothing: I know, AM isn't that under-represented an age group, but they can always use nice shoes.
I heavily edited Aikea's bootcut jeans to resemble those skinny jeans you see on lanky and hip city boys and added Gothplague's brothel creepers to them. Because if any shoe is fit for patterns or bright colours, it's those. Unfortunately it was my first time skinning shoes from scratch, but at least they're recognizable as the things they're supposed to resemble (shading white is a nightmare). There are 4 retextures of the mesh in total and the set includes both tucked and untucked alphas.

Bottom Information
File name: yuxi-clothing-GPCreepersAikeaJeans
Polycount: F1146 V979
Morphs: Yes.
Last updated: 24 December 2009.





Credits: Aikea Guinea, Gelydh and Gothplague for mesh parts and textures.


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Ypsilon
Aikea Guinea's capris + Gothplague's 20-hole Docs as bottoms for AM

Docs are very much unisex, but for some reason I've only seen these on female meshes so far. Also includes 4 retextures with both tucked and untucked alphas.

Bottom Information
File name: yuxi-clothing-GP20DocsAikeaJeans
Polycount: F1090 V964
Morphs: Yes.
Last updated: 24 December 2009.





Credits: Aikea Guinea, Gelydh and Gothplague for mesh parts and textures.


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Pink Bullets
Recolours of Pittingers BPS forum gift seat.

This seat was a gift to Black Pearl Sims from Pittinger (a.k.a. NANU) and was only available in plain white. Even though I'm not much of a Neonate (oh terrible pun), even to me it just begged for recolours. I was already completely KO after just 20 recolours though, loser.
I should mention that I moved some vertices around in the mesh because they made the pattern look a bit dodgy, so you may want to replace it with this edited file if you already have it.



Credits: Pittinger/NANU for the mesh and base textures. The striped pattern was snatched from Web Treats.


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Quelqu'un M'a Dit
Antique mirror, painting and empty frame object set.

This was actually a forgotten mesh from Fallout 3 (oh yeahh, what else) transformed into a small hanging mirror, a painting and an empty lopsided frame.
The small mirror is the repository/master file for the frame textures, while the painting slave holds the textures for the canvas. I made a bunch of recolours of both the frame and the painting canvas to make it fit a larger variety of decoration styles (aka adding MOAR colours). The paintings itself are some of Waterhouse's paintings and some sky textures from various games, all edited for an aged look.

- The painting and the empty frame can be found under 'Wall hangings' for 1000 and 150 simoleons.
- The mirror can be found under 'Mirrors' for 500 simoleons.








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Very small offering today: Just some floor and wall overlays made from Fallout textures. I know I know, you probably have way too many of these already. So do I, never stopped me from making MOAR!

The meshes by Aikea and Lethe_s are included, just in case you didn't have them yet.

Previews, yo!









Ruined rug:



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I dislike shit that I don't use but can't delete, so in an effort to make the random Maxis sculptures and such more useful in my grungy houses, I spent time ripping, staining and breaking some things that I thought might come in useful at some point. I thought I'd share some of the nicer outcomes, along with some other Maxis-based edits. If you see something that strikes your fancy, all the better.
The files are clearly labelled so you can delete the things you don't want. The names under the pictures are the names of the recoloured objects.

Furniture and knick-knacks.

1. Globe L'Empereur, modern & antique. (Family Fun Stuff)
2. GrassCo Folding Chair (Bon Voyage)
3. Beware of Pet sign (Pets)
4. Ecopure Park Sign: 'New' object: Kicked down and recoloured, slave-mastered. (Pets)
5. Utensil Silo (Seasons)
6. Earthenware Trio (Seasons)

Wilting and dead plants.

Simple recolours. This is something I sorely miss in the game; Evergreen plants, my arse. Some of these seem to came with University/Nightlife, I'm unsure.

1. Potted Fiscus by Nature's Garden (2 versions. Dirty and filthy, I guess.)
2. Fruitless fig tree
3. Frost de Fleur Bud Vase, wilted. 'New' object ('Des Fleurs Mortes', 5 simoleons).
4. Fancifully Fuzzy Fern
5. Falling Fern

Paintings, posters and other wall-pinned stuff.

1. Llama Xing Sign (Nightlife)
2. 'We Call It Football' (University): Three shabby and old horror film posters.
3. 'We Call It Football' poster mesh edit, slave-mastered. (University)
4. 'Surfing the Universe' poster mesh edit, slave-mastered (University). (Recolour is not mine, but it's unlabelled, unfortunately.).


1. Spring Majesty (Nightlife): Ever read 'the Collector'? That's what this made me think of.
2. Spare Satin Slippers (Freetime) : 'She danced til her feet bled' and all that.
3. Fighting Llamas Tri-Pennant (University): Lopsided and recoloured, slave-mastered.
4. "Nature's Perfection" by E.Z. Phun (Nightlife)


Nocturnal Imagination Receiver (Seasons): It is said breaking a dreamcatcher lets loose the nightmares that were caught, if done so before the light of dawn. To my eternal shame, the broken version is a separate object: it seems the shadow alpha can't be edited in a simple recolour package and keeping it like that looked silly. The one to the right is just a recolour of the original mesh.


Towels (Open for Business): Two files for four objects, as they're slave-mastered in the game.


Bella Squared mesh edit + 2 recolours. (Basegame)


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