Strangetown: Ripp's new hair. I did it myself!

[strangetomato]

Thank you to everyone who offered suggestions to my hair mesh problem, and particularly those who gave me a nudge to open up Bodyshop and give it a whirl myself. music_simbol suggested this mesh, which was more or less the same basic shape as the Maxis ponytail, but about half as long. Then she insisted that switching up the textures would be super easy to do, and it really was! Recolouring isn't hard, especially when it is a basic cut and paste job like this one was (and changing the hue would be easy too, I imagine). I could do that again, no problem. Thanks, Music Simbol! You rock.

Want to see how it looks?

Ripp: Yessir! Looks about the same from the front, but how about the back?




Ripp: Yeah, that's more like it. Still slightly longer than it would be, but pretty darn close. (And it's longer than a fucking dork knob, thankyouverymuch!)




Ripp: Damn, I look good. Oh yeah... and the hair looks pretty fucking sweet too. If, you know, I actually wanted to tidy up for some reason. Pffft. Whatever.




As you can see, the mesh isn't perfect (some of the animation is a little wonky too - revealing other oddities), but I can easily work around that when taking the photos. I'm so pleased that this worked out.

But why would Ripp want or need to put his hair up? Hmmm... Is he trying to give off a good impression? But why?

The answer will be revealed in the next chapter.

Comments

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Hee Hee! Those pics are so funny!

Nice job on the hair. I think it looks very nice. I'm still deadly afraid of creating my own custom content (it looks so difficult in the tutorials, and I'm not exactly a pro at Photoshop), but I'm so glad you were able to edit it yourself ^__^.

I did ask at a forum but sadly, I got no reply. I guess Maxis requests don't interest a large part of the Sims community *shrugs*

[redqueenofevil.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I smell an audition coming up. Yay! Glad you were able to come up with something that works.

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Great job! :)
By any chance, does it involve the play that they've been talking about?

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

Hell, that was quick. I just got the comment that you were gonna try it. And I just wrote a detailed instruction. Oh well, as long as it worked.

And yeah, recoloring isn't that hard. I've been able to do it in the basic sense, mostly with clothes. For a shoot I did, I needed black and white clothes, so I recolored about ten outfits. It's not that hard, and it's worth playing around with.

Ripp actually trying to make a good impression? Did hell freeze over?! And yo Ripp, how about a SHAVE?! If you're going to go thru the trouble of of finding a scrunchie for your hair, a quick shave won't kill ya!

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

Aw yeah! That mesh is so much closer than the ones I was looking at the other day. And you just used the texture from the long ponytail? Sweet! It looks great.

I'm looking forward to your future adventures in recoloring, too. :D

[franwi.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I still love his scraggly-hair look, but this is nice. Hm, it does make him look a bit more presentable, though, doesn't it? And what will Gunnar have to say about it? Is there room for 2 ponytails in the band? XD

And I'm so glad to see a sims post on my FList that isn't about some Free Time problem/bug, lol. :)

[muslemura.livejournal.com]

Looking good! The hair I mean...um, yeah...

As for the occasion for the clean up: I can't think too much about it, I'll just become too impatient and curious *smile*

[silentsteel.livejournal.com]

Hey there Blue Eyes! Nice to see you don't have a dork knob! *giggles* :D

And the ponytail looks great! :D

[saunasims.livejournal.com]

I'm late to the Ripp-ogling (cold, blaaaaah), but I'm applauding with everyone else! Very nice work!
And whiny Ripp with the shaving cream on cracks me right up. XD

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Nice work.

Do you upload your re-colors, etc, on any of the download sites?

J and Z will get a kick out of the makeover. Unless J was the one behind it. They are trying to get somewhere with their band (that's my guess). (though he could be trying to "grow up" his look a bit in an attempt to shake his skeeve reputation and catch the eye of miss wallflower--and sex starved--Ophelia).

[80sfiend.livejournal.com]

You did a great job on this! :D I have no skillz whatsoever for that stuff, but I think it looks really good! :)