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

[uber-orange.livejournal.com]

I tend to color them all different colors, then giggle whenever a supposedly manly guy sits on the pink one even though all the other colors are open. One must amuse ones self constantly while playing Sims. :D

The one I haven't used as of yet is the hammer tool. But I haven't really had any use for it yet either. Maybe I should download some furnished houses I want to un-furnish and try it out >D

Thanks :D I love his many expressions xD he just looks so utterly joyful to have delivered that computer.

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

My Mr. Humble always looks extremely pizzed off when he brings my sims' computers. :D

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get the Angry!Humble a lot too. He makes me laugh. :)

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

"One must amuse ones self constantly while playing Sims."

I full agree. :D

I've used the hammer tool. It's convenient and fun to just destroy everything with the hammer instead of deleting it. Seems therapeutic.

I've really grown to like Humble. His expressions are always amusing to me. I don't see that joyful one that much, though... mostly the one that's filled with hatred. :P He gets so angry about some of those deliveries. I guess he's just having a bad day, maybe?