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

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

You don't like that "Mom in the garden" outfit? Oh, c'mon! :P

As high as the waist is, I do think that one has a use. For gardening.

The funny thing about defaults is our preferences are all so personal. If someone uses a set I like to replace something, it seems almost perfect, but then I notice something like them using the exact opposite of the colours I would have or something like that. :P I tend not to ever use defaults that tone down the crazy colours, because I like them, for example. I think you'd have to make your own to get something exactly like you want, though some of the defaulters come pretty close to my own taste.

Which outfit is that? The one that people tend to use as spacesuits for PTs? I wouldn't mind defaulting that one with better textures (some of the colours are ick), but the shape's not bad.

[petchy-14.livejournal.com]

Urgh, No, I loath it! Colours are Ick and it has been replaced with much nicer versions doing the same job! Plus, I have *never* seen anyone wear that sort of stuff in Garden or out! (LOL)

You got the outfit's nail on the head, if that makes sense. I think the Mesh would need to be Tweaked to get it looking right, though, unless you had a *REALLY* Good retexture! The little Nobbley bits on the lower legs don't really look right, and the Leg just goes strait into those boots. In fact, it's probably because the outfit looks so disimilar to Bike Leathers that it's always used as a Polinator outfit! Those Blue and Red recolours are really bad :/

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Then you haven't seen me in the garden, have you? :P Not that I wear something like THAT exactly, but I have some very funny thrown-together ensembles, prompting my SO to call me things like Mrs. Plaid and The Cute Lady Aviator. (Yes, I know we're weird.)

That red colour is so nasty! Even a couple of colour replacements for that mesh would be lovely.