More Downloads Folder Organizing

[strangetomato]

I've been doing a massive amount of clean up to my downloads folder, especially where hair is concerned. This is really helping with loading times, but creates other problems. Somewhere along the line, I seem to have removed the hair I was using on Kimberly Cordial by accident and now I can't remember where it came from. It's so frustrating! I know it's a free Peggy hair, and located the mesh name from her website, but is it just me or do her hairs have no titles? Neither her site nor the hair wiki seem to refer to it by any name I could search. No, that would be too easy. *sighs*

I was sure it was one of simgaroop's older retextures (and that would make sense, because I've removed a LOT of her hairs, due to the fact that I had about a million of them in my game), but I can't locate it on Simlish Creations, her journal posts, her photobucket album, or her mediafire folders. I've gone just about mad. :P

I mostly just wanted to bitch, but this is the hair I'm referring to, just in case you might recognize it. Cleaning up your downloads folder is hard work!

I've also been making use of a lot of the new clothing mesh defaults that are being created lately. I especially love the sets that dhearest and le_plat_du_jour have been releasing, but there are many other great finds out there. If you haven't already, check out le_plat_du_jour's amazing resource, sims2_defaults. This helps with conflicting defaults, which is so very helpful.

Has anyone else been trying out these defaults? I'm not going to replace everything, since some of the questionable stuff can be funny, and I need some for character reasons. For example, nobody has replaced the basegame afbodydress with anything equally mom-ish, and there are very few options for this age group as it is, so it stays). I'd love to see some nice Maxis-match work-appropriate defaults for the basegame suits, since they're so often used as work clothing for the various careers.

Some of the basegame textures and meshes are just bad, though. There's no two ways around it. I hate, hate, hate everything about afbottomflairedpantssandals, for one example, and I'm sure I'm not alone on that. What are your most hated basegame meshes?

Comments

[dhearest.livejournal.com]

Thank you for mentioning me :D
I admit I don't use all of my own defaults. I quite like Lilith's outfit for instance, but don't tell anyone that! D:

I wanted to replace those suits with the store Metro Suit but I can't figure out what's going on inside the files, it's got the texture,mesh and everything else in there!

Heh, I'm waiting for a townie to spawn in the gorilla suit so I can take a picture of it:D
I hate the rave outfit from NL the most. It's so bright and garish, yuck!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

How could I not mention you? ^_^ I'm in debt to all your hard work in creating those lovely defaults. You're a default machine!

Oh, does the Sims 2 Store stuff have odd things going on with them? Maybe le_plat_du_jour would be able to help. She's done some defaults with stuff from the store.

A townie with a gorilla suit would be great. I always laugh at the townies that generate with the wedding veil the most. Crack me up every time! XD

Yeah, the rave outfit is super bad, but it's one of the funniest outfits, too. It's just ridiculous.

[le-plat-du-jour.livejournal.com]

The Store files are a bit weird indeed. What I did, is just open one of the store files and extract the gmdc/gmnd/cres/shpe files. Then open a new file and add those and save as your 'meshfile'. Then you can just extract the texture files from the store file and proceed as usual. :D Does that make sense? I'd be happy to help :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. (Go me! I actually understood that! :P) I've made a couple of failed attempts at defaulting a mesh so far (I picked bad cc to attempt to default, it seems), but I'm going to give it another shot eventually. Your tutorial is very clear and easy to follow, so thank you for that, too! ^_^