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Strange Tomato ([personal profile] strangetomato) wrote2008-09-27 06:31 pm

Sim romance and destiny...

Nathan Peet snuck into my downloads folder last night, like he had some plan for getting into my game that I was previously unaware of, so I indulged him and added him to the game today. He had barely moved into an apartment in Sim City when another half alien sim from someone else's game came on the scene. They had three bolts for each other as soon as they met.







Now I'm just in love with them together.

I don't think I could have planned a better match. They have very similar personalities in some ways (both have 10 for active and playful), but enough differences that it would be interesting. I think they just wrote a story for themselves.






It's not hard to see who the aggressor is... Helena makes shy Nathan blush with her bold come ons, but you can tell he really likes it.


I have more pics of Nathan been silly and cute, but I have to go out and see some friends perform tonight (and the first set starts pretty early), so maybe I'll report back later.

Who knows... I might even have another pint or two of Guinness and come home and download some more sims. :P




 
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2008-09-28 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it's a very distinctive hairdo, which is why I like it, and not everyone can carry it off (and why would you want an army of sims with such a unique hairdo, anyway). It's different and bold, and I think it's just right for Jaxy.

If I knew how to edit it to make the bangs shorter on the male mesh, I would like it as much as that short messy hair that I have on Ripp.

I like hair like that. The hairdo I (and now we) use on Frances is like that too. It looks bad on a lot of sims because it makes their head seem so high, but Frances has a short little head, and it works perfectly.

[identity profile] xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com 2008-09-28 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
I try to make almost everybody in a neighborhood wear a different hairstyle and a different outfit. Sometimes I do use recolors of the same outfit though. Like my Frances' new purple jacket- I love that outfit and do have a future IB character wearing the olive one.

Alpha editing is pretty easy once you figure out what part is what- but it does take a long time and a lot of trial and error. I once did a pretty decent alpha edit of that base game short female hair with the bangs hanging in the eyes (I really don't like that one because of the bangs, actually) but it was a pain in the ass to do. I would actually attempt editing it myself but bodyshop hates me.

Hehe, I'm such a copycat. Why pass up a hairstyle that looks amazing on a specific sim though? :P

A lot of the hairstyles you use seem to be ones that only look good on certain sims. Johnny, Ripp, and Ophelia hair are like that too, I think. Though I've got to say, Johnny's hair does look great on my Tybalt as well.
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[identity profile] strange-tomato.livejournal.com 2008-09-29 01:36 am (UTC)(link)
I try not to have too many repeats, but some I don't mind. If the hairdo or outfit is very distinctive, I try to avoid repeating it, but something like a normal looking short male hairstyle, I don't mind.

Did you recolour that outfit for Frances? You recoloured his last outfit to be purple, right?

Yeah, I think I could figure it out, if I actually sat down and worked with it. I just need to sit down and focus on it one of these days.

Bahh... copy schmoppy. It's not like I can copyright my hair choices. :P (Or care to do so.) If the shoe fits... put it on your sim. I'd do the same if I saw something and thought it suited a sim.

That hair does look great on Tybalt. I really like his makeover. I haven't play with him much in my Veronaville, so I'm not sure what he'll end up looking like there.

[identity profile] xel-squirgle-ox.livejournal.com 2008-09-29 03:53 am (UTC)(link)
The outfit he's wearing now is a young adult outfit that I unlocked for adults using simPE. The one he wore in university was the only clothes recolor I've ever did. Yeah, my Frances is spoiled rotten. Then again- isn't he supposed to be? :P