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2011-04-29 01:53 am

[Picspam] Illumination + Sim makeover

Anyone here on Tumblr? Is it possible to follow others/reblog pictures with a sub-blog instead of the name you signed up with? I'm trying to go with the sneaky anonymous thing, but it doesn't help if my original super-obvious username is plastered everywhere, eh. As if the blog's name isn't a dead giveaway already.

Anyway. I used to hate building my own lots, mostly because my ideas didn't go much further than slapping two squares together. I surpassed myself by making something consisting of four squares, semi-creatively stacked on top of each other. Oh yeah. 8D It made for some pretty enough pictures, so here are some of those.
This was intended as a modern house for a rich bachelor who doesn't like frilly decorations, but I got bored halfway through due to the lack of needlessly ~ornate~ stuff, and didn't even get to the bedrooms. At least I had an excuse to finally use those light panels by Xanathon I'd been hoarding for ages.

. Illumination .



I finally slapped Gunmod's Shader file in my game and ended up gawking at the water for at least 15 minutes.





Cut for six more. )



. Sim blahblah.


As for something entirely different, I'm not the only one who makes characters into sims and just keeps tweaking them endlessly, am I? I came across some old pictures of the ~ominous~ dude from the last post and ended up comparing them. Perhaps I'm the only one who finds this amusing, but hey.
His name is Sanzusair and he likes talking in metaphors that may or may not make any sort of sense.

2008: Photoshopped to hell and looking fancier than the next two pictures combined.


2009: For some reason I spammed this picture around everywhere at this point.


Now: Doesn't look like himself without the white fairy locks.
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2011-01-26 01:41 am
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I can see forever.

'Sup.
Haven't been around here much for the last month - I'm in a little Sim slump, I'm afraid. The whole Real Life thing is getting a bit distracting and I am trying to pick up on some old hobbies that I abandoned in favour of too much canoodling with the pixel people.
Anyhow, to blow the dust off this place, here is a picture of Eseyah looking like someone put shit through his letterbox.



Cheerios!
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2010-11-15 08:53 am
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[Play: Sims] Izesine&Pennan

I've had more and more people tell me they can't see any of my images (yes tootsie, you were the LAST STRAW), so I've been switching image hosts again. Everything is uploaded, I just need to... go through all my posts again to change the URLs, hahaha ugh. So if you can see my DW layout and the previous post where you previously couldn't, then it's working.

And I just remembered I haven't spammed these two here properly: Two sims made for the November sims challenge at GoS. I'm rather busy at the moment with another project and I signed up for Secret Santa (two more days until the deadline!), so that's why I haven't really posted much here. I can't wait until December, though!

Dido - Izesine





Deep in the forest lies the realm of the Fay, ruled by its queen, Izesine (this sounds like the start of a bad fairytale, eh). Aloof and mysterious even to her own people, she forbade her subjects from ever venturing away from their borders into the world. Whispers say she had to learn that the hard way, herself: The mortal she had taken as her consort fled from her court after taking all the favours she had to offer.

My first association with Dido is that of the founder and first queen of the ancient city of Carthage, in what is now modern Tunisia. According to the Aeneid, she took Aenas as her lover but after a lot of interferences by gods and whatnot he ended up betraying her. She cursed him and all Trojans, foreshadowing the Punic Wars.

Cacogen - Pennan





'He's shiftier than me and I don't trust myself.'
(If you know who said this we should probably get married.)


Saying Pennan would regard anyone as anything would imply he regarded others at all. To him, everyone is equal - equally worthless. Second son of an elderly king of a small kingdom, he was mostly left on his own with no one around who dared to correct his terrible temper. He feels completely entitled to get whatever it is he wants from others and is constantly seeking new thrills, no matter what the costs are.

A cacogen an antisocial person and... a Trojan virus. Apparently, being antisocial is about living without any regard for others and the term is commonly misused to refer to very introverted people. Well, I didn't know that either.

And that's that for shameless copypasta. No downloads because they're a bit generic without the CC.

Future World Music - Final Judgement
Not sure if I ever recommended this one before, but Future World Music is another company making epic trailer music. This is one of my favourite tracks by them.
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2010-10-26 07:35 am
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[Puddings -TS3] Maze&Alaine

Okay, I'm going to bore all of you with spam of respectively my ~first~ and ~second~ TS3 sims ever. I don't know how everyone else shoots their pictures, but for me it's just waiting until they stop pulling an ugly face. From a stylistic viewpoint, I guess I'm just doing whatever it is I am doing in TS2.

First up is Maze looking like a Cyclops.


And Alaine before after-fiddling commenced (I really just liked the lighting here)


After fiddling (just hair and eye distance, really):


I just can't live without a shitload of CC and mods when it comes to *any* game, it seems - I already have 1GB of stuff. After three days. This is not good.

Impression:
- I find the incredible versatility of Create-a-Style quite overwhelming right now.
- In-game delete button no workie?
- Perhaps it's just my slider abuse, but I wish sims would stop pulling them ugly faces.
- Hot damn, I want Late Night.
- When I went back to TS2 I was overwhelmed by the hi-res textures. Oh yeah.
- Holy shit yes for lighting colour options.

I was thinking about converting my walls/floors but ehh, we'll see. I don't really feel like figuring out stuff all over again.
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2010-10-15 12:47 pm
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[Play: Sims] Sandwalkers pt. 2

Hey ho rode kool. I must confess: TS3 is looking shinier and shinier to me every day, but I'm trying to keep my paws off at the moment. I definitely don't need another game draining my time, heh.

As for today's picspam, I made five more fantasy-themed sims for the prompt challenge at GoS for October, annnd since they're starting to look alike towards the end I think that's my cue to stop. Definitely makes me appreciate contemporary themes more, though.

Astrolatry - Engyen





About Engyen )


Primrose - Ienres





About Ienres )


Abomination - Ysulemin





About Ysulemin )


Vow - Medenghen





About Medenghen )


Ursula - Shyan





About Shyan + download )


Façades - Soft sequence
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2010-09-28 09:27 pm

[Build items + picspam] Mystline - Edits of Windkeeper's Tokyo set

I'm supposed to be writing an essay but I just had to get these out before continuing. For the sake of snooze time and all that.
I have a woeful lack of windows and doors in my game, so here are some retextures of Windkeeper's Tokyo windows/doors for the frame and uh... screen parts. The frames and screens are in different files, so you can mix and match and delete colours you don't like without messing up another.

In-game previews:









NOTE: I included my small edit of the master file (wind_tokyowindow_2tile_main.package) and Windkeeper's own glass recolour (wind_tokyowindow_screen_glass.package) to get rid of that la vie en bleu effect (you know, the blueish hue Maxis windows often have). This is picked up by all the other windows and doors slaved to it. Okay yeah, it still looks a bit plastic, so don't hesitate to poke me if you manage to get better results.

The meshes are not included, but you can get them HERE (tokyowindowssuperset.zip) Let my edits of her files overwrite the original files.


< Mediafire or Dropbox or Box.net >


And here are some pictures that were also made in essay time that I already spammed about over at GoS. It's the favourite spot of some fairy guy to scare the piss out of travellers.



Cut for moar! )


Two Steps From Hell - Merchant Prince
Epic trailer music! That just about sums it up.
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2010-09-19 11:24 am

[Hair retextures + Model] Newsea/Yu Chinese Ink + Viktor

I wish I had the time for more exciting stuff, but until then you'll have to do with small little offerings like these.

Un - Newsea Yu032F+M Chinese Ink retexture


Well, here is a set to go with the recolour I made for my sim Inyeon (dubious translation aside XD). I had this mesh by Yu tucked away for months before finally finding a use for it, so I decided to customize it a bit to my liking. It must be one of my favourite styles, partly because it seems to be based on an artwork from one of my favourite artists ever:


~wilted by Feimo


These just use my own colours: Thirteen in total, silver/white/Inyeon's hair (labeled 'vert') as customs. The textures are a blend of the originals and my own. I didn't edit the matching accessories as I do not use those myself, sorry.

These are pretty much scrambled together, but previews are previews.






And the creep himself:


And black recolour on black background because I can, damnit.



< Female version: Mediafire >
< Male version: Mediafire >
I didn't include meshes, so get those at your preferred avenues.


Dos - Viktor


As asked, here is also Viktor, aka Unfortunate Soul as he's officially called in my neighbourhood. I hope you'll give him a better end :). As was suggested by UartigePigebarn in the Gentlemen thread where I spammed these pictures once, I made his eyes a bit smaller than shown here.





Veigar - Indigo
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2010-09-09 01:01 pm
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[Play] Walkers of the Sand Road

Besides mucking around in TS2, one of the things I waste my time with is geofiction (worldbuilding, as the word suggests). So when the GoS Sim Challenge came along I thought it would be fun to do something different from the usual urban doom and gloom and went the fantasy route, inspired by all the gorgeous CC by Helena, Ran et al. Fun times, fun times.

Silk - Aiynene





About Aiynene )


Shadow - Hilanreson





About Hilanreson )


Tango - Sehesunn





About Sehesunn )

Rebel - Isilyo





About Isilyo )


Vert - Inyeon





About Inyeon )


My heartfelt thanks to all CC creators; my game wouldn't be half as pretty and fun without you!

Caroline Lufkin - Sunrise
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2010-09-03 12:50 am
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[Picspam] Xi Hao and Neyri

I needed some time away from Malrennan's Fall to review the planning I made for it (yes, this is srs bznz) and I think it helped. I just had to figure out how to make the two storylines meet in a more logical manner and to NOT MAKE HUGE TEXT BALLOONS OF DOOM.

Anyway, I was snapping photos when my favourite piece of sauerkraut came walking by, and then Neyri (which is apparently a Spanish female name) showed up too. To 'greet the new neighbours', yeah right. He's better at the creepy side look than Xi is, surprisingly. They weren't supposed to be there so I figured I'd dump these outtakes here.








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2010-04-11 01:37 pm

[Clothing + picspam] Deia - Stajl remix

IT'S 1337-O'CLOCK 8D and I come bearing stuff. Rather simple stuff, but I like simple things.
I love this retexture by Madizzo/Stajl of a Maxis mesh. Sexyfeet default replacements mean creepy shoe deformities are abound however, so I slapped flats on the base game nightgown, added some bits here and there and recoloured the result in a few shades, some of them intentionally tacky to get that 60s/retro/Twiggy feel (yeah what, I've been looking at old sewing patterns all day). And there you go.

Outfit Information
File name: yuxi-clothing-nightie&flats
Polycount: 2100F 1462V.
Morphs: Yes.
Categories: Everyday.
Hands: Maxis hands.
Last updated: 11 April 2010.



Cut for pictures of all colours. )


The mesh parts and shoe textures are derived from EAxis stuff, but all the credit for the original dress textures goes to Madizzo. All files have been compressed and they should have correct shoe sounds.


< Mediafire >


Oh, and I had way, waaay too much fun making my entry for Nymphy's contest *hintenterhint*, so I'm going to be a bugger and post it here too.

ETA - I added a CC list to the bottom.


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Cut for obnoxiously long credit/resource list. )

And its occupant, Lei. )

Now I'm off to finish MF. I'm stuck on the last page.

Nujabes - Voice of Autumn
That's the oh-so-pretty music I was listening to while decorating that room.
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2010-03-13 03:18 pm

[Play] Bohemians and back alleys.

I'm fascinated with urban decay, but find it difficult to get that 'grubby city at night' feeling when making lots. I was quite happy with how this little set turned, though... And since I only implemented three screenshots of it in MF, I'm afraid you'll have to suffer the rest here, hah!
Ahh, I imagine this as the back of a poker club, located next to an abandoned warehouse and a cheap bordello of some sort. Guess that shows the gutter my mind is in.












Now that I'm picspamming here anyway, here are a few pictures of sims I found in my IS-account: Eylam, some rich bohemian wannabe, and...some version of Enlai, I think. I do so like looking back at things every once in a while.







Ik bedenk me net dat ik gisteren van Kooten en de Bie heb gemist. Verdeurie zeg. X(

Múm - The Ballad of the Broken Birdie Records
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2009-11-13 11:43 pm
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Late night blabbering.

I just realised I still have 3 Dreamwidth invite codes laying around. Just give me a poke here or at LJ if you'd like to have one.

Anyway, I've been extracting some more stuffs from the Point Lookout and the Pitt DLCs for Fallout 3. Particularly all 48530840 variations of these dolls that are hanging around in Point Lookout. I seem to have something of a weakness for dolls staked on poles and hanging from trees; rather unnerving perhaps, heh:



And to keep it Sims2 related, here are the spoils of some stomping around in my game. The Venetian noble idea of the first was the result of anticipation for Assassin's Creed 2 (can you say GANZ GEIL? Oooh Ezio!) and the second is bloody Lei all over again.






Bet all you fellow Europeans know this one from Eurovision, but Secret Garden's Nocturne is stuck in my head all over again. I love those folks so much.

/random