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strangetomatoThank 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.
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.
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Date: 2008-03-03 01:28 pm (UTC)I think the BV version of simPE will work with TSS items, since TSS came out before BV (I think). I doubt I'll ever get BV so I will wait for the FT version of simPE.
Man, you like torturing yourself, huh? Buying it and having it in the house like that? You're worse than me (I only have the guide coming from amazon--should be any day now).