Sims Talk: Guitar Recolours

[strangetomato]

Do you remember how I was whining about the loss of my custom instruments hack a while back? The hack didn't work with the hobby enthusiasm in FreeTime, and it's unlikely to be updated, so adding FT made it necessary for me to remove my custom instruments from the game.

Anyway, there is good news! nessa_seragon has brought it to my attention that it IS in fact possible to recolour the guitars, but the options just don't show up in the buy menu. You have to access them with the Design Tool option. Let's take a look at this, shall we?

To recolour the guitars, we need to use the Design Tool. Now, this is something that I'm ashamed to admit that I have never even noticed before, and have therefore never used it. Yes, I have sold objects to buy them again in other colours... like a FOOL! Has everyone else been using this Design Tool thing? Why was I so in the dark about this?

Yeah, go ahead. Have a little laugh at how clueless I am, and then we'll move on.




So, with the Design Tool selected, we can click on the guitar and voila (or is that "wella"?) - we have recolours. There are two other Maxis options, but they are so similar I can barely see the point in including them (all are natural wood finishes, which is nice, but I desire different colours). We can now also use cc recolours. Hooray!

I downloaded these 21 Guitar Recolors by Irv the Mongral (not all 21, though - some of them, like the yellow and cobalt blue, were not to my tastes). These were the only really decent guitar recolours at MTS2, but there may be others at different sites. I'll have to look around.




This one looks something like the Daisy Rock guitar that I previously used for Jaxy. It's close enough, and the colours are right, so that's good enough for me.




And here's a white one for Ripp. Clean and classy, just like Buck would have picked out.

Well, I'm happy. *grins*

Thank you for pointing this out, nessa_seragon. You rock!

Comments

[sofieamalien.livejournal.com]

Cool!

I knew about the design tool, but not about the hidden guitar recolors! :D

Congrat for finding out. Please give Ripp the coolest one, kk?

[dothesmustle.livejournal.com]

OH! Yes, this is wonderful. I only found out about the hack after I installed FreeTime, so now I get to see the pretty custom guitars.

*resists urge to play and see the colorful guitars*

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

I knew about the design tool, but only because I was a nerd and bought the Prima guide when I first was playing the base game. :}

I'm going to have to download some of those guitar recolors now, though. I'm glad you've got Ripp's guitar back.

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Oh, so that's how you change the design of the guitar! I remember that the game had two other colors back when I only had University installed, but since I installed OFB and up I couldn't find them anymore. And I was seriously sick of the same old boring color all the time!

Thanks for the tip! I'm gonna try the design tool and see what other stuff can be re-designed with it.

[uber-orange.livejournal.com]

:o the bubble blower has hidden pillow colors too. You can switch them around to your desire x3 pink, blue, yellow and green, and they are colored individually as well. I was so excited when I found that out.

I knew about the guitar thing for a while. But it took me a while to find that out too. Possibly 2 months after actually owning the game.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I only found out about the design tool when I downloaded the invisible magisplay tray and the OMSP's. It's MUCH easier to place your sims on the tray and OMSP's (or whatever else you're placing) put them where you want them, and then use the design tool to make the tray and OMSP invisible. HOOBOY it has saved me many a headache! (There's nothing worse than fishing around for invisible things to grab and position, know what I mean?)

[silentsteel.livejournal.com]

!!! Thank you! Damnit, I had no idea the design tool was there . . . *sheep* ^^;; eeheheheheheh . .

And thank you for the link to the recolors for the guitar too. :)

[franwi.livejournal.com]

Eeps. I always use that feature. Did I actually figure something out before I learned it from you? LOL. And that's a LOT of guitar recolors. Will there be a guitarist rock-off contest or something? Hmm, how many guitarists can you fit in one shot?

[xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I didn't know the guitar had hidden recolors too! Why didn't they just put it like they did with the bass and the drums? Silly Maxis.

I'm glad your sims got their instruments back (or well, something close to them). I think I just might download that alternative recolors thing as well. After all, Ripp's star pupil Marina NEEDS a purple guitar.

[indigoleo.livejournal.com]

Well I'll be damned....and I'll be checking that out soon, too!
I've used the design tool but I never thought to use it on the guitar since it seemed to be a one-color. I wonder if there's anything else like that in the game. You do realize that now I have to use the tool on everything to see if something else has hidden colors I didn't know about.

[madame-ugly.livejournal.com]

Hee hee. I knew about the design tool but it wasn't until a few months back that I "discovered" the eyedropper tool. When I had to match wall coverings, I would diligently scroll through every damn one and hold it up to see if it registered a price on an already covered wall.

So, your lack of observation does my heart good.

(so, now that you can have the custom colored guitars, will the band come back around, I always thought the lack of variety might have helped you decide to move on with the band storyline)

[80sfiend.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about the design tool either!!!! :O


That is really cool. :)

[nessa-seragon.livejournal.com]

I'm glad I could help.

Well, I noticed the design tool

[half-pace.livejournal.com]

But I didn't know what it did - so I left it alone for fear of things exploding.