Lots and lots of lips...

[strangetomato]

So... I made a lot of lips. A whole lot. Do you think I got carried away?

Yeah, that's right. I made eighteen of them. There are six greens, six purples, three blues, one gold, one red, and one hot pink. I made these thumbnails too. I want to take some nice screenshots to include with the download post and do it up all nice, but other than that, they're ready to go.

One question: does anyone know how people take nice CAS shots where all the lips are the same, all the eyes are opened, etc.? My sims move around too much in CAS and Bodyshop is too dark and small for good preview pics. How do people do it?

Comments

[simsinthecity.livejournal.com]

*enjoys thoroughly*

As for taking pics in CAS, here's a little advice. When I was doing all my Maxis makeovers, if I was taking shots of a Sim while the game was unpaused, I took several shots of the Sim, to make sure that I had gotten at least one good shot. I'd recommend taking a few pics for each one you want to have a photo of.

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

They look amazing! I like the variety of purples and the hot pink. Even if they are for aliens, I'll probably use them with my regular sims too.

Those preview pictures are much easier to do on Bodyshop (that's how I take my previews, but I'm so lazy with that), but I agree that the lips will look much nicer if you take them in game.

What I'd do is use the Hula and More mod from Squinge and force the sim to adopt a still pose. Or maybe the "Pose" feature from Bon Voyage, but the sim would still move a little. Then, you set a camera angle (I've never done that, but I think you can "record" specific angles to the F1-F4 keys, I don't know well) and take the first picture.

Then, you use the Insiminator, in particular the "Social Adjustor" (looks like a bunch of balloons) to give the sim a makeover without need to cancel the previous pose or make them move to a mirror. Change the lipstick, set the pose and angle again and so on until you have all your screenshots.

Now, here's my tip. If you have Photoshop, open a new document and paste all the screenshots as different layers. Since all the pictures are supposed to be identical, the face of the sim will be at the exact position in all the poses. Then, you crop the faces out at the size you want them (I usually use 200px width and 300px height, but you probably need smaller pictures). You'll end up with a neat little document with all the layers cropped the same way.

Open another new document and drag all your layers to it. Then, you can sort them out. Use the stroke option (Inside) if you want to draw lines between every little screenshot. Flatten the image, resize and sharpen if you want to and that's it!

I really, really hope this makes sense!

[pnkpnthr334.livejournal.com]

These are great! I definitely was in need of some more lips for my aliens.

Maybe there's some mod out there that makes Sims stand still in CAS, like there is for TS3. I'm not sure, since I've never looked for one, but it's possible.

[smjosh1218.livejournal.com]

I use a hack to make Bodyshop brighter, I take all my preview pics there since my Sims move around a lot in CAS.

And the lips look great. I wish I had more aliens so I could use them!

[aeliaa.livejournal.com]

What I do to get (relatively) similar shots in CAS is to put the lipstick/clothing/whatever on them, wait until they finish dancing around and peering down at themselves and settle back into the 'idle' pose, and then hit the screencap button several times per thing. You should get at least one per item that is idle, eyes open and everything. It's certainly a pain, but it works alright for me.

[petchy-14.livejournal.com]

I like them! When you get to sharing, don't forget to give them all in different folders, will you? I am totally keen on that Yellowey one, But I already have a *lot* of Greens, so I might give them a miss *smiles* they look beautiful though!
Which alpha did you use, by the way, because I'm sure that you must have used some of the better ones of Maxis'! I can't get over how bad their taste is *Kudos: TS3.* [LOL!]

Oh! Almost forgot.....

[(Anonymous)]

While I was in Europe, I found something that reminded me of S,HWC. So much that I had to take a picture of it. And post it to Flickr. And tell you about it now. Can you guess what it is? (Here's a hint- it was in the Louve)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39764561@N07/3745698278/

[selenecorvino.livejournal.com]

They are very nice, looking forward to downloading them.