Sims Talk: Guitar Recolours
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strangetomatoDo 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!
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!
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Date: 2008-06-14 08:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-14 08:38 pm (UTC)I wish I found out about the hack earlier, though. Maxis should have designed more guitars, or atleast have guitar recolors, like drum set has recolors.
The drum sets do have recolors if I remember correctly? I hope I didn't make that up. XD
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Date: 2008-06-14 09:38 pm (UTC)I agree. One type of guitar is not enough. Who not give us an acoustic guitar too? Or a normal electric base? I could go on and on about that. I was expecting more from FT, where instruments were concerned. Like, how about a microphone, so someone can be a solo vocalist? That's a major omission to me. All we have is a karaoke machine and freestyling, which is a very specific type of singing. I don't understand why that's never been included. I was pleased about the violin, but that just makes me want to see a saxophone and others things too.
Yeah, there are four options for the body of the drums, and four colours for the front of the bass drum, if I recall correctly.
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Date: 2008-06-15 04:02 am (UTC)Well, there is gonna be a microphone in the new (last?) EP, Appartment Life.
According to the screenshots (and a couple videos) I've seen, the sims will now be able to sing (and maybe join a music group as a vocalist), recite poetry and perform stand up comedy (Man! that'd been perfect a few updates ago for me! :P).
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Date: 2008-06-15 03:22 pm (UTC)Yeah, you could have made great use of the stand up thing. :) Oh well... you'll have it for the future anyway.