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]

Yeah, there really aren't many nice things in the basegame alone. I can still clearly remember going through it with my SO when I first bought the game and we were very underwhelmed by the clothing options. I distinctly recall him saying something along the lines of, "What's up with all this horrid Sears catalogue shit?"

Most of the EP stuff is okay. Nightlife brought a lot of questionable styles, but at least the textures are decent. I can live with the rest of the stuff, or just use texture defaults or things that edit small details (like taking the heels off the underwear mesh from K&B Stuff, for example).

[autumnparanoia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I absolutely never understood those heels. The whole outfit is a bit contradictory, actually - it's supposed to be "romantic", but EAxis obviously didn't want to put something genuinely sexy in a game sold to tweenies, so the bra is barely revealing and the knickers look like they belong to someone's grandmother. Plus, the heels are heeled slippers. Who would make that kind of thing, let along find it romantic?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It's racy and comfy and totally all over the place! *snicker* EAxis did do those fairly racy outfits for the Valentines download on their official site, though, so they try to be sexy sometimes. God knows they love to show lots of midriff, anyway. they're not THAT prudish.

I actually really like the full-bodied shape of that underwear, and the french cut isn't so bad. It's more suitable for a sexy, mature lady.

[autumnparanoia.livejournal.com]

I don't mind the underwear once the heels have been removed and the waistline lowered a bit, it just amuses me that it's "supposed" to be sexy. And that's a good point, EAxis do have rather a lot of revealing but tasteless clothes. I'm far from prudish, but most of my defaults make those outfits more realistically modest.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I just imagine that the stomach must be considered the sexiest part of the body on Sim Earth. :P It makes sense, considering that it has more detail than the places where their sexual details are supposed to be.