I no longer have or play the Sims. Most of my CC can be found on this OneDrive account. For a picture catalog of the CC, check my Repository on Tumblr.
Thank you for the fun and support over the many years - this game and community were part of my coming-of-age, and I hope it will stay strong for many years to come.
Much love,
Yuxi.

Welcome to Un Amour Éternel, Yuxi's TS2-crap-dump! I dig decorating, storytelling and making pretty pixel people, amongst other things. Older content (like old hair retextures/conversions) can be found on my Livejournal, and a masterlist of most of my stuff can be found here.

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If you need to contact me, you can do so via GoS, Tumblr, Livejournal or here - commenting on Dreamwidth doesn't require an account.

Hi guys!
First of all, I know a fair amount of my links are still dead. Remember that everything is on my OneDrive - use the search box to find what you're looking for. I'll fix everything eventually.
I'm on an indefinite hiatus from creating/simming (we'll see how long I can hold out, hah), but I'll still be on GoS and posting the Sim Challenge participation gifts here. Speaking of which, here's the one from March.

Outfit Information
File name: yuxi-clothing-AFDeusExMeganOutfit
Polycount: F4526 V4650
Morphs: Yes.
Categories: Everyday, outerwear.
Hands: Tenshii's smoother hands, Maxis hands (optional).
Last updated: 6 July 2014.



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Short story short, I've been running the monthly Sim Challenges at GoS and making participation prizes for them. Here are the oldest two for those who missed the December and January challenges.

Outfit Information
File name: yuxi-clothing-AFMelTroubledTunicCrimecraftBoots
Polycount: F3812 V3034
Morphs: Yes.
Categories: Everyday.
Hands: Tenshii's smoother hands, Maxis hands (optional).
Last updated: November 2013.



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Outfit Information
File name: yuxi-clothing-AFTRSamanthaNishimura
Polycount: F5380 V4199
Morphs: Yes.
Categories: Everyday.
Hands: Tenshii's smoother hands, Maxis hands (optional).
Last updated: December 2013.



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Here's a tutorial I posted on GoS a little while ago - I thought it might be useful to put it on here, too.

Attaching Tenshii~Akari's smooth hands to tops or outfits.

I noticed some frustrated flailing about using these, so I thought it might be useful to write a little tutorial about them. This is a basic tutorial: It's extremely easy for those who are comfortable with Milkshape, but it was written to be understandable for those who are less confident with the program. Swapping hands is like swapping shoes, but a lot easier. So if you've done that before, this is a walk in the park for you. This will just cover the meshing bit, nothing else.

What are Tenshii's smooth hands?
Tenshii~Akari posted a number of lovely body meshes over at Sim-Oasis a few years back, which feature smoother hands and more detailed feet. The hands are basically edits of the Maxis hands, so they have the same mapping - they're just less blocky. They are interesting for those who prefer a more realistic aesthetic and are put off by the original hands. The drawback is that they do kick up the mesh's total polycount (by about 1800), putting the total polycount on the same level as the average TS3>TS2 clothing mesh. If you can use those without noticing lagging in your game, you ought to have no problems.

Here is a comparison:


What you'll need:
- A recent version of Milkshape
- Unimesh plugins by Wes_H
- msAlignNormals plugin by demon432
-The smooth hands pack I prepared for you.
This archive includes the separated hands for all the ages and genders, cut off at the forearm. The normals and seams are matched to the game's standard naked meshes. They are in .simpe format, so that you can easily import them into your project with bones and comments intact.


Make sure you're working on a duplicate file, or have a back-up somewhere. You might end up deleting a face or vertex that you didn't mean to delete.

( Attaching to bare arms )

( Attaching to longsleeves )

Again, double check it in-game to see if there is anything that you might have missed. And that is it. Easy, right? Many thanks to Tenshii~Akari for her open policy - remember to credit her if you use these.

Please feel free to post questions or point out anything that is unclear.

Dear 小魔女碧碧,

I know you're going to see this, so let me take this opportunity to kindly ask you to

stop selling my stuff on Taobao.

Yet again some TS3-TS2 conversions, this time originally posted to the wonderful Plumb Bob Keep. This is the 'Elven Armor' from Dragon Valley, and the 'Sylvan' outfit from the Faire Folk set. These things are entirely too addictive.

File name: yuxi-clothing-AMDragonValleyElvenArmor
Polycount: F4552 V5006
Morphs: Yes
Categories: Everyday
Hands: Maxis hands, Tenshii's smooth hands
Last updated: 19 January 2014.



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File name: yuxi-clothing-AMTS3FaireFolkSylvan
Polycount: F3982 V3814
Morphs: Yes
Categories: Everyday.
Hands: Maxis hands, Tenshii's smooth hands
Last updated: 26 January 2014.



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This was my contribution to the 2013 Advent over at GoS. This post will serve as a back-up of these files, and for easier troubleshooting.

Here's some general info about these files:
- Files are compressed and all previews are included.
- All outfits have both preg- and fatmorphs and are for AM and AF only.
- All outfits include an extra mesh labelled 'smoothhands': This mesh uses Tenshii~Akari's smooth hands, which makes the hands appear well, smoother, as visible in the previews. The regular mesh uses the regular Maxis hands. Delete the mesh you don't want - you can't use both at the same time.

1. Leonid & Lyubov

From the Mother Russia set: Russian Wrap with Valenki Boots for AF + Wool Trenchcoat with TS3 base game loafers for AM.
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2. Whitechapel

Count M coat with loafers for AM + In Stride waistcoat (with boots ripped from Resident Evil's Jill Valentine) for AF.
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3. Chumemin

Kingly Attire with Riding Boots (from the Palace of Versailles store set) for AM + Conservative Couture with TS3-base game high-heeled boots for AF.
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4. Iuvenes

Left Side Warning with SynapticSim's boots for AM + Knock 'em Out skirt and top with TS3-base game sneakers for AF.
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Additional Credits: SynapticSim for the boots. Images from Vintage Printables (one of my new favourite sites - so useful!)

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5. Soul Anatomy

Boldness Beckons with loafers for AM + The Poet's Muse with Gothplague's slingbacks (edited to remove the original bow) for AF.
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Additional Credits: Gothplague.


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6. Papillon

Long Mandarin Coat with loafers for AM + Boldness Beckons with Jill boots for AF.
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Note: The Long Mandarin Coat has some seriously messed up animations, visible when the sim is walking. Please don't redistribute that mesh with recolours/defaults until I've fixed it. I wish I could do it faster but it's being baffling and infuriating.

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This is some old stuff that I hadn't posted here yet.


For the Yesterday is History theme, retextures of Sims Design Avenue's Church windows. I edited the meshes a wee bit to correct some normals and wonky mapping, so naturally they are included.






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A trade with Maron over at the Big Trade-off: An antique Chinese bedroom ripped from Resident Evil 6.
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And lastly, a Tumblr gift: Two objects from Unreal 3 and some cutesy mugs and animanga posters. Credit for the mug mesh to Yuliya - it's included.




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Well, let's not beat around the bush:
I slapped a bunch of foliage textures from Tomb Raider Underworld and Devil May Cry on two of Aikea's wall writing meshes. You'll also get some spider webs, because they're just dusting away in my game at this point. For more versatility, put the meshes on a shiftable OMSP so you can plaster them on columns and balconies and such.

I did a small edit of both of these objects so that all the textures show up on the back as well - this should make them more useful while decorating with moveobjects on and snapobjectstogrid off. For this to work, you'll need to remove "MESH_aikea_guinea-HalfHeightWallWriting_OrderOfTheReptile.package" and "MESH_Aikea_Guinea-Object_TwoTileWallWriting" from your downloads folder if you already have them.

Preview of the foliage (14 textures in total, not all shown - plants on the floor aren't included):


My preview for the webs turned out shitty, so here is the picture I made them for to start with (5 textures in total):


I hope these are useful to some of you!

Credits to aikea-guinea for the meshes, Capcom and Eidos/Crystal Dynamics for the foliage texture, and the brush creators whose brushes I used for the webs. I just put everything in a recolour package.


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I posted this to GoS last week, figured it was time I posted it here, too - for the sake of organization and all.

Right, this is exactly what it says on the label: 10 columns converted from Devil May Cry 4. I love me some columns - they're such an easy way to spice up uninspired square rooms. Unfortunately that part of my catalogue was a bit lacking, so in an attempt to rectify that somewhat I turned to DMC and its pretty, pretty graphics and extracted a bunch of them.



All files are Compressed, the preview pictures are included. All credits go to Capcom, I just wrestled with the files and textures a bit to make them work in TS2.

Now, previews of all the included variations:

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