Custom Content: Plans for possible future projects

[strangetomato]

I'm thinking about trying my hand at some cc creation in the future, and I have a number of things that I'd love to do for my own benefit (and also to share with anyone who is interested), so I'm posting this list for my own reference. Feel free to take a look and share your opinions.

Some custom content projects that I'd like to work on in the future (I'll add to this list as I think of other possibilities):

• Multi-PT set based on the original Maxis PT - would keep the original lack of nose, but would include the four different hair colours and slightly adjusted features, but still very alien. (Not sure on the pointy ears vs. mangled alien ears - opinions?) This would allow for traditional looking aliens that can interbreed, and I'm surprised that nobody has created one like this yet.
  
• Multi-PT set of my own design - another set of less alien-looking PTs (but not necessarily "pretty" as much as "interesting", with distinct features), like fwiffo's, but in my own design. This will just be an alternative to the more commonly used set, for my own use in the future (and others, if they are interested)
• Default replacement eyes for all the "creature" sims, based on Lyran's eyes (I'd have to inquire about this with Lyran to see if it's okay to do this)
• Retexturing some cc hair meshes with Maxis textures - in the spirit of "if you can't find it, make it yourself"
  
• Retexturing this SAU scarf mesh to have a Maxis-like texture
• My own set of handpainted default eyes
  

I would love to learn how to mesh, and my SO figures he could just set me up with XSI and teach me how to model, since that's the program he teaches at the college for use in digital animation, and a quick glance at this tutorial on MTS2 shows that this would work just fine (it's one of the tools that allows for "more extensive edits to Body Shop meshes"), but I would have to learn how to use the program. I'd have a good teacher, so I'm sure I could get a basic understanding (and also help when things go wrong), but it would involve significant time and effort.

If I can figure out how to mesh, I'd love to do some editing of Maxis meshes to make some new separates. I'm dying to have a nice basic short skirt mesh, with nice flats (and an option with sneakers too). With a corduroy texture, and recoloured in red, I'd have a signature piece for my simself during this time of the year.

So... lots of plans, to be filed under "one of these days".

Comments

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

I would be totally down with the maxis-like-PT-but-with-all-four-hair-colors thing. Also the ones with interesting features. I came across a mod on MTS2 while looking for alien skins that intrigued me. I didn't d/l, because the skins would look totally out of place in my game (they would "go" more with Enalya or such like skins) but it interested me because the aliens had things like four belly buttons, etc. Things that made them not only alien, but distinctly non-human. I liked that idea.

I don't know how well that would work for mating... but it was certainly intriguing!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I like fwiffo's set, but I'd like to have some of the peculiarities that I like to see in features, like eyes that are a little wide set (I love that), and no tiny noses on males (like the blond PT has). I'd try to go with distinct facial "types", like a pointy, gaunt face with a longish chin, and a chubbier face (like the brunette PT has). Fwiffo did this with that PT set, which I like, but I'd like to tweak it to be something I'd like a little better.

Those skin details are interesting, and they'd only show up on the alien skin, I assume. I'm not sure if I'd want that or not, but it would be pretty cool. Those could be added to the Maxis alien skin, if one was skilled at texturing.