Di's Victorian Vexes

Hey everyone.  Since I didn't want to spam everyone, I've not been posting all of the entries I've been making for the Victoria & George undergarment community project here, but I've now finished my contribution and wanted to post and index to this journal for anyone who has missed them, but wants them.

( Index under here. )

I shared a 100 followers gift over on my tumblr here for those of you who have not seen it yet.   It's a little something that I think a lto of people might get use out of.

I have so many ideas of things I want to make lately, it's ridiculous.  I've been making new objects practically non-stop in my simming time, to decorate the lot I'm working on for Simford, and I'm pretty sure, I'm going to keep making new things as I work on building the rest of the town.  I also have ideas for 14 (!) new clothing meshes, 9 of which are for the V&G community project,  that I'm going to start on when I next feel like doing body meshes.  (I'm still a little burnt out with that aspect of cc creating from the gifts I made for the V&G gift pile.)  Plus I want to add some hats to the hairs of my most important sims, such as Eddie and Emmi, aaaand I want to have a go again at making some salt and pepper hairs.  It didn't go too well last time, but I've been watching this request over at GoS with interest and since Esotheria_D. has very kindly shared their PSD, I'm feeling a little inspired and may see what I can do with it.  Plus there's my on going projects, such as making everything seasonal (and since theChangeling shared some gorgeous plants last week, I'm now itching to make those seasonal and add them to my game too), project mesh where I fix all the things that annoy me about the clothing meshes in my game, and items I want to look at recolouring just because.   I've also failed at fixing the issue with the custom barber chair, and so default replaced the mesh instead, which looks awesome and actually works.  I'm thinking of putting it up for testing in the next couple of days to make sure everything is alright with it before I share it, possibly with the barber bits I separated off a Cashcraft mesh a couple of years ago.

So yes, when I'm simming, I'm on a real creating and building kick at the moment, rather than playing.  It's fun, but it does mean I'm still getting no where with my story or legacy.

I've finally finished my gift for the V&G gift pile.  You can find it over here. Enjoy.

Cross posted to victoria_george.

Ok, so those of you who follow my tumblr might have seen that I'm working on default replacing the food sims can prepare with more nineteenth century meals and ingredients.  Since this is something which is very new to me, I'd like to get the files tested before I upload them properly.  It's one of those things where I think I'm doing everything right, but I'd like to make sure they work for everyone and not just me.

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I've uploaded the werewolf skin I was working on.  Details over at the Emporium at the bottom of the page.

Following on from the llama mascot yesterday, I decided to sort out the cow mascot today.

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Cross posted to V&G.

Thanks everyone who has been testing the files I uploaded a few weeks ago.  I'm still waiting to hear from some people, but it looks as if everything works fine which is great.  It looks like LJ lost my original post in the clusterfuck a few weeks ago, so please feel free to comment in this post if you are testing those files.

I have a few more things I'd like tested and they all have EP requirements, so please read those carefully.  These are all Bioshock Infinite conversions, and, not going to lie, I could spend hours upon hours going through, extracting meshes and converting.  This is the first time I've had a game I can extract things from that will look right in Regalton.

( A few pictures and some explanations. )

I'm doing some building in Simford at the moment, because I'm fed up with it being empty, and as part of that, I'm making a metric ton of cc for my shops.  It started small, with me making some more walls and recolouring some windows to give the lot I'm working on (the market square and shops around it) the right feel, but as I was decorating and looking at the list of shops I want to build, I thought about the bootmaker and how I could take some boots off of clothing meshes for clutter.  Well, with that in my mind, when I got to the milliner on this lot, I had an epiphany.  I could take the hats I have, and put them on the stand Cashcraft uses for the hat in her sewing room set.  One aborted attempt because I thought of a way to make them look better (after having made 9 meshes and all the recolours of them), Fourteen hat meshes and one empty stand mesh later, that's done and they all look fantastic.  Really fantastic, I'm so pleased.

( Behold my madness )

Really busy the past few weeks with regards to my game and simming. First off, I completed Myshuno! and started to think more about my characters and writing, which really pleased me. I’m still not at the stage where I can sit down tonight and start writing the next chapter, but I’m able to think about it and writing a certain character without having a panic attack. This is a massive step forward from where I’ve been most of the past year and a bit.


( Lots of blabber about my game follows. )

So, the reason I'm pleased I got Go Fish done, is because I'm failing at pretty much everything else at the moment.  Filming on the next chpater, something I'd hoped to have finished by now is going incrediably slowly.  I'm only about a quarter done with it, despite having worked on it for well over a month, and although I was finding my feet with it last week, I realised that I needed to build a set for it, which broke my stride.  I'm hoping to get some more filming done this weekend, but who knows?

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