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Strange Tomato ([personal profile] strangetomato) wrote2010-11-17 05:24 pm
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CC Culling Update

I'm down to 2.59 GB! W00t!

Bodyshop only takes a minute or so to load. I don't need to have a book nearby to read while waiting for lots to load. It doesn't take 87645329 hours to load the first time I send a sim to "change appearance" each time I load the game. I don't need to scroll through pages of cc I will probably never use. I'm liking this!

It's not just a cc diet, it's a total cc lifestyle change. I've made some tough decisions, like severely limiting the amount of new meshes allowed in my game. I even have it down to just a couple of essential Holy Simoly items, rather than my previous completionist approach to HS. I'm trying to limit my cc hair to those I'll actually use on in-game sims, with an emphasis on characters (the others can be more generic). I'm even considering removing all my pretty geneticized Phobia eyes, going back to the basic Maxis set (defaulted, of course), plus a handful of contacts for character purposes. I figure I can always put them back in if I miss the variety.

Maybe I'll finally getting around to posting a resource page now. You know it'll truly be my "best of the best" choices.

[identity profile] murrealism.livejournal.com 2010-11-18 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
I just culled my CC down. I have NO CC hair or clothes. Well I do have a few defult replacement cloths. and the maternity wear stuff, but I was brutal. The only thing I truly miss is my huge garden folder. Im the daughter of a landscaper, its in my blood to garden, I spend hours on my sims gardens. Anyway, yay to not have to have a book close for loading screen boredom.
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2010-11-19 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! No hair or clothes? I have nowhere near your amount of willpower, but I'll bet your game runs so much smoother. It must be great!

Plants and garden stuff was major weakness of mine, too. I'm trying to limit it to recolours of Maxis meshes and just a few custom meshes (some based on in-game stuff, extractions, etc.). But I used to have all kinds of crazy things from Castway Stories that had animations and everything, so it's a huge improvement.