Simlish Mashups

When I saw Cosette's lovely GoS secret santa for Charterzard, my first thought wasn't "I need to transfer those textures to io's teen conversion of Amaryll's Tuula skirt, like I have so many times before." Instead, it was "I need untucked versions of the patterned skirts NOW!" I wanted this:



While I was wrestling about with alphas and shadows, I untucked the solids as well.

Of course, AFTER that, I had to transfer the textures, both tucked and untucked, to io's teen version of the skirt. And, so I could do the exact same outfit for teens, I also had to transfer Needlecream's retexture of bunheadbuns' romantic blouse to a teen mesh.



Credits:
Cosette for the skirt textures, and Charterzard for sharing her toys.
Needlecream for the untucked skirt alpha
iosaur for the teen conversion of Amaryll's Tuula skirt.
Needlecream again for retexturing/recoloring bunheadsbuns' romantic top
and...oph3lia for editing the mesh on simal10's TF alpha top.

Downloads @ Mediafire (all required meshes included):
* AF Lucky Penny skirt, untucked
* TF Lucky Penny skirt (tucked and un-)
* TF romantic blouse

Texture-referencing options:
* TF Lucky Penny skirt, texture referencing (download only if you have Cosette's tucked and my untucked AF originals in your Downloads folder)
* TF romantic blouse, texture referencing (download only if you have Needlecream's AF originals in your Downloads folder)

hellokomrade at GoS requested a combined version of plasticbox's three neighborhoods, and since it seemed like the ultimate copypasta project, I thought...why not?



Created in a clean AGS environment. Requires NL, OFB and Seasons. I used Elsewhere as the base and added Baskerville and Middleground as shopping districts. Elsewhere has been renumbered from N515 to N542 so this combined version will not conflict with pb's original version. You can have both in your game at the same time.

I added pb's Swimmable Lake and 4 Seaside Street to Middleground and included their cc in the middleground_customcontent folder.

To install: extract the contents of the rar file. You should see two folders: Downloads and N542. Place the three folders from the Downloads folder into your game's Downloads folder. Place the entire N542 folder in My Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2/Neighborhoods.

CREDITS: All credit goes to plasticbox. Not only for the hoods, but for providing clear instructions on the method to join them (see post #47 in the comments thread on Elsewhere). If you download and use the megabox and want to express your appreciation, please click the Thanks button on the downloads for Baskerville, Middleground, and Elsewhere at MTS.

Download@Mediafire

I swear I tried to do an in-game photoshoot for this upload, but the ladies were not cooperating:



( Sentate's beach dress on a bottom-only mesh. Bodyshop alert! )

Next, the textures from Cosette's "Our City" cardigans transferred to Amaryll's edited version of her own cardigan mesh. Why? Because the original cardigan mesh didn't play nice with bottom dresses:

sad cardigan	awesome fix!

Amaryll's mesh included in the download. 15 recolors. Please see Cosette's post at GoS for the swatch.

DOWNLOAD @ MEDIAFIRE

I am so in love with Trapping & Kayleigh's edit of Amaryll's charming Alice alpha mesh that I actually attempted recolors. (I never imagined I would drift from shameless technical thief to clumsy creative thief. This is true love, people.) I use Amaryll's original solids in my game to evoke a certain simplicity (the white makes a stunning "homespun" wedding gown), but I wanted patterns and vibrant colors so my more sophisticated Sims could wear this lovely dress with its sweet preg morph.

( click for more pics demonstrating my indecisiveness )

This is my first attempt at recoloring. If you have feedback, don't hesitate to speak up. Tips for reducing pixelation (particularly in the darker colors)? I'd love to hear 'em. Advice on creating seamless joins? I'm all ears.

25 recolors using 14 patterns from colourlovers.com. Swatch (incomplete! argh!):


credits:
Amaryll for the original mesh
Trapping and Kayleigh for adding the flats and editing the morphs
Colourlovers for the patterns

DOWNLOAD @ MEDIAFIRE (mesh included in rar)

When I saw iosaur's af-to-tf conversion of Amaryll's gorgeous Tuula skirt, I knew I had to apply Needlecream's retexture of the af skirts using Nilou's textures. Even though it's a straight-up bit of copy-and-paste thievery, I decided to share because people shouldn't be wasting their own time copying and pasting when they could be creating or playing.

untucked	tucked

13 recolors, tucked and untucked. iosaur's mesh included. Please see Needlecream's original post for the swatch.

Credits:
Amaryll for the original AF skirt mesh
IO for the TF mesh conversion
Needlecream for the retextures and untucked alpha edit
...and NC credits Nilou for the textures and Aelia for color actions

independent files:
DOWNLOAD @ MEDIAFIRE <- do not require the AF originals

texture-referencing files:
DOWNLOAD @ MEDIAFIRE <- requires the AF originals by Needlecream