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Click the link above, and then click on the player for kkffooblogJan2007This is my first attempt at an audio blog. The background music is called "silence no more longings" and is released under a creative commons licence by Ottmar Liebert.
Poll Categories
I've added a poll to the site to try and get a better feel for which of the kinds of items I prefer making you most want to see. Here are some explanations (with examples) of the categories I've listed:Maxis Match - items made to share textures of existing Maxis items. These might be completer pieces, such as the Lap of Luxury loveseat and armchair, or things like the Charablanca or my counter-matching tables and chairs.
Bedding Match - existing Maxis items and/or custom meshes that have been set up to use the bedding files for their texture. Such as the bedding-match pet beds (which are still a little buggy, grrr), armchair, curtains, and so forth. Sort of a specialised category of the Maxis-Match idea.
Texture-Sharing Items - custom items of my own creation set up to share all their textures from a specific base item (and sometimes Maxis items as well). This would include things like my Bentform set or the Winseat set or the Curvaceous set. Pros - one recolour affects all items, Cons - that specific item might not be up in the free rotation very often.
Stand-Alone Items - okay, if you hate loathe and despise the idea of texture-sharing items, check this one. This is, quite frankly, the style of item I'm least likely to make unless it's a unique one-off item such as the Bust of Lettuce Soup or the Dish-Draining Tray. I like reusing resources! It drives me nuts to see 3 standalone meshes with 10 identical recolours each that could and in my admittedly biased opinion should be done as 3 linked meshes with 10 recolours total. I despise file number bloat!
Storytelling Props - specialised items for specialised uses. Things like the Cryogenic bed, the Water Wheel, the Railway Tunnel, and even the Flat Broke set. Not your average "use it everywhere" kind of items!
Feel free to answer via the poll, by comments here, or even by PMing me! Always interested in hearing feedback, as long as it's not the ubiqitous "Why isn't the Bentform Dining Table Free!?!" complaint.
Hey - that's not what we voted for!
As you might have noticed, I made a poll to let you vote for what I would create next :) The garden furniture set seems to be a little ahead at this time, so I'm making that at the moment. I'm having much fun with it, as right now in Holland, we have the warmest winter in years, which means instead of snow and ice, we get lots of rain and wind - so making this set fills me with welcome visions of warm and dry summer days :) I'll post a preview picture of it soon.But since it's not finished yet, I thought it would be nice to upload a recolour set of 'Kontrast', with red leather and black metal. I'm not good at recolouring at all, and this is actually the first time I upload a recoloured set :)
So, just thought I'd let you know I am in fact doing something with the poll results - the recolour set is just an in-between thing :)
The Sims Life Stories
I used some vouchers to pick this up as a (very!) late Christmas present! If any one's interested, we have a new forum HERE to discuss the newest Sims game. Anyway, I've been on the look out for some compact community lots for my Challenges hood, and I really like some of the new ones here... So I got busy! The first two recreations, which are being submitted tonight, are Old Grove Park and Starlight Cafe and Market. Both have been built as closely as possible, given the difference in content in the two games. I have tweaked the Starlight lot, to make it a one-stop shop, including clothing, however! There's a few others I might work my way round as well! Any requests?! Old Grove Park is a charming community park, ideal for visiting with the family, or for a romantic afternoon stroll.
The Starlight Cafe and Market is the vibrant hub of a community, where you can eat, shop or chill out.
New creations
There are some new creations in the pipeline,finally I have a little free time to do some creating. I think it's great being busy so much, but must admit to missing creating my simmy stuff when I had more time to do it.Anyway watch this space there will be something soon!How Nice!
What a fitting tribute to the end of the Solander/Pimp My Sims Kitchens. It's on the front page! How nice! Now I don't mind so much saying goodbye to a set that has really become like an old friend.I think I've settled on 7 recolors of AnoeskaB's Turano Dining Room, plus a small pack of items to add to her red recolor. There might be more sometime in the future, but I think that's it for now. I have yet to use it in my real Sims' homes. I haven't had any time to play. I can't wait to do that.
Well, I'm off for another day of work, work, work. Blah, blah, blah. It's Monday. Boy I need to cheer up.
TS2 Matching Set Coming Soon!
I have finished all the meshes for the TS2 Maxis Match set. It's a small set, 2 tables (Tablablanca 1 Tile Version, and OFB Modern Mission Dining Table 1 Tile), and the Candy Coated Sofa Chair, Luxuaire Loveseat Chair, and for the country style sofa, I have made a matching sofa and chair.However, I will point out now that the chairs are all actually 2 tiles, (I was trying to change the number of tiles of the sofa instead of cloning a chair), but, if you use moveobjects on cheat, you can place another object on the "empty tile." This is just a heads up.
I can't wait to finish up making the previews and submitting the set this week.
After this set, my next set will be the TS1 for TS2 Mesh Set. Stay tuned for more updates!
Happy simming
~simmyfan2852~
Classy Elders' Hats!
Hello fellow Simmers!As promised, I have today uploaded a set of six hats that match with the Classy Casuals for Elders outfits from last week.
I hope you like 'em!
Happy Simming/Creating/Downloading!
Next update...
Coming soon to TSR is my popular Playstation 3 Object for the Sims 2. So watch this space as it's added!Welcome here!
Well, I was just gathering my kudos to go and get myself a minisite, when, entering my profile page today, I discovered it was already there. It took me a while to realize what was happened: had I bought it by night while I was sleeping?No! I've become a Select Artist on TSR. I still can hardly believe it. So, thank you Thomas and TSR.
And welcome on my minisite to everybody passing by.
Silvia
Yet MORE plants
A lot of people seem to really like my outdoor plant set, so I've started making an indoor shop set!![:)](http://forums.thesimsresource.com/images/smilies/smile1.gif")
Alot of people and few other creators wonder how I get them to look so realistic and life-like, well thats accounted to the fact that, unlike Maxis, I use real photos of plants and flowers instead of creating my own. Anyways, enough of me gibbering about nothing...
Random Acts of Skinning...Cont
Still trying to clean out some of my miscellaneous folders on my computer, so more random skins are on the way this week. As always, previews will be posted as I get things completed.
Important Update!
The 3-tile victorian sofa mesh is now updated to correct 1 of its 4 GUID. An incorrect GUID in the package could cause problems with your game. Please download the corrected ZIP file (Sims2Pack has not yet updated). In addition, when I corrected the sofa package, I also improved the mesh's uv mapping so that it will looks better with a sofa recolor I am working on. All the sofa's recolors will still work fine with the updated package file. Thanks to TK for bringing this matter to my attention. You can also verify ingame that you have the new updated package file, the ingame catalog will show this info, see picture below: You can get the updated mesh file here: cash_victorian_white_sofa_mesh
Mardi Gras Flags
Here they are - the second batch of flags I promised for this month. I realise that Mardi Gras is not a highly popular celebration but I thought these images were pretty fun looking and could easily double for generic party flags. :)
Next, I'll admit that I've been dragging my feet on doing my next living room set. I have the textures, I have the general idea of what I want it to look like but I'm having trouble just sitting myself done and doing it. I'll try to hunker down and instill some self-discipline into myself and get this set wrapped up for you very soon.
Valentine Bunny Girls
To complete my 2007 Valentine Collection, two Valentine versions of my signature Bunny Girl costume, in pink and red. This time the rosette contains a matching love heart instead of the usual name medallion and the bow ties match the satin suit instead of being black. I've also removed the Playboy cufflinks for a softer look.
The Bunny costumes can be worn by adults and young adults. The wonderful Bunny Girl mesh is the same one I always use by Aardvarkams at MTS2. The matching ears are already available here at TSR - the Pink Bunny ears are part of the original Playboy Bunnies set and the Red Bunny ears came with the Festive Bunnies set.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Feb. 18th, Lady Emma's Victorian Suite
Lady Emma's Victorian Suite is scheduled for release on Feb. 18th. Lady Emma's suite features recolors of meshes from the Lady Roslyn set which is scheduled for publication on Feb. 11th. Both sets are perfect for your "romance" Sims.A Minisite is Born
Yep, I finally was able to upgrade to a minisite and I'm so excited about it! Of course now that those few seconds of excitment are slowly fading away, I'm trying to figure out how to "fix" my site. Right now it's not showing any of my creations and it could be because I just upgraded it. I guess only time will tell. If anyone has any suggestions or can tell me how to feature some of my creations I would really appreciate it.And I would like to thank everyone that's downloaded my creations and the ones that took the time to leave wonderful comments. I always appreciate any type of feedback from you. Hugs, queenie.
WOW
Wow. Oh my gosh! I can't believe it! I logged on to TSR this morning ready to start creating and uploading and noticed that I've become a Select Artist. I am absolutely flabbergasted! Thank you Thank you Thank you. I'm so grateful to all of you!Update
I updated today with the start of my Mission set. This is my favourite set in the game so I had to recolour it. I'll try my best to upload it regularly but I'm a busy, busy girl. =)Enjoy!
Mel
Maxis heard us!
Maxis is listening! I can't express just how relieved I am at THAT - and thankful!I suspect Maxis didn't realise the magnitude of impact it would have to block recolours in lot packages. In reality, people are already feeling the effects, there are people who have been backing up their lots in packages only to find on installing that their content is missing, people who are trying to upload lots with content to sites but can't, people who have simply given up lot building...
Yes, 'The Exchange' has spiralled out of control with so many people not knowing what they're doing when they upload their lots - due in part to that handy 'package lot to The Exchange' button in the game itself (uploaders need never visit any website, nor check the content of their lots first, but can still share their work and, unwittingly, their entire downloads folder of recolours). With straining servers, Maxis wanted to put an end to it. I'm not sure they realised how they were also putting an end to the hobby of a much wider audience than those who frequent 'The Exchange'...
But I've just heard from Maxis. They are indeed treating this very seriously, right from the top (yes, all managers have been alerted too). They say the community is VERY important to them, that they're not sure yet what the solution will be, but rest assured they ARE now looking at it.
I call that a result in itself. It's not the END result, but so far so good. My fingers are very crossed! My thanks go to everyone who chipped in either here or at The Exchange. Together, we've been heard.
Oops! Delightful Daisies Rocking Chair
Oops! I did it again, the Delightful Daisies rocking chair is not part of the set or available as a seperate download. EEK! I just uploaded the rocking chair and its publication date is Feb. 9th. Thanks to Rachel, for bringing this oversight to my attention.
Valentine Tops
Another set for Valentine's Day: 8 pretty tops with heart-shaped lace panels. Six tops are sleeveless, two have 3/4 length lace sleeves.
These tops can be worn by adults and young adults and use a standard Maxis mesh, so no expansion packs are required.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Maxis Betray Lot Builders
Indeed... Sue posted a topic in the Build a Lot forum about this, basically it has very bad reprecussions for lot builders and recolourers. Maxis have altered the coding in Pets which now prevents ALL recolours from packaging with a lot. New meshes and their recolours are fine it is JUST MAXIS RECOLOURS But this means that say someone did a really fab recolour of then Glamour Life Stuff pack bedroom set and decorated a whole room around that recolour. The packaged file would still include the original Maxis meshes, but NOT that fab new recolour... ONLY the maxis default ones.Maxis and EA led many of us to believe this was merely a bug which would be sorted with a patch but it is not. It was an INTENTIONAL code change done by Maxis, because people over on the official exchange were flooding the exchange with bloated lots packed full of recolours they hadnt taken the time to remove.
Basically Maxis, who yes, have been very supportive before have been very underhanded in this, and many of us here would NOT have bought Pets if we had known of the code change - they also plan this code change with Seasons so please be aware of this.
SO i guess the folks of TSR are going to have to think about a possible work around for lot builders to include maxis recolours - the suggestion has been made to let lot builders include the recolour files as a seperate zip file that could be uploaded. We shall see.. CycloneSue and RICCI have started threads over ont he Exchange's BBS so hop over there if you wanna scream your protests upon their ears - however, you need to scream loudly to get in about the noise of them clinking their coffers about and laughing at us all for being so darn susceptible.
Indian Inspired Drape- Updated
Just a small update to my Indian Inspired Drape (from first set). After some testing we found that when this drape is placed right beside a single bed (double works fine) it blocks the Sim from using the bed. I therefore have updated the file to allow Sim intersection. If you wish to use this drape with single beds, please redownload it here.Thanks :)
Fantasy!
Hi All! I haven't been a very good Poll maker as I intended to be. I've been kind of busy with real life and in my spare time I've been making Gowns for the upcoming Fantasy Theme. I've uploaded a couple of sets and I still have more to go. Hope you like them! :DStorybook Starter Set
There will be three starters available tomorrow, all in the Storybook style. Yellow, blue and pink are your choices; each has different decor inside and out, thought the basic lot is the same. Here's a few pics:Yellow Storybook Starter:
Blue Storybook Starter:
Pink Storybook Starter:
I hope your Sims will like them ;-)
Tiger
Valentine Special
Because I will be away, I won't be making any valentine themed items, so I have featured some clothing that fits with the valentine theme fo you, Hope you like them.Valentine
Especially for Valentine's Day 2007, a beautiful lingerie set in 12 colour combinations. The delicate silk camisole is generously trimmed with French lace and comes with matching silk panties with romantic heart-shaped lace panel.
For adults and young adults. Standard Maxis mesh.
Happy Valentine's Day!
Poll
I've created a poll so that I can get a good idea of what you Simmers like. Just to explain a bit more regarding the question: I do make a variety of things, but I tend to stick with earthy colors and textures for the most part. You could say that it's been my theme but it's also who I am. I very much enjoy nature and a natural feel when it comes to decor but it's not so much what I like, but what everyone else likes right? :)So I'd like to know how many of you like that I work primarily with natural colors and textures, how many of you don't like it at all, and how many of you are neutral (it's not bad but not your style). I do appreciate honest feedback, no matter what so please choose the answer that best agrees with your opinion and thanks very much for helping me out! :)
Life in the Way
Real Life keeps getting in the way. I want to play! **pouting now** I won't be able to be very active for a little while due to work and other real-life stuff getting in the way, but there is still quite a bit in the queue, so you probably won't notice much difference.It had to happen sooner or later. I will soon release my 20th and last (for now) Solander/Pimp My Sims modern kitchen. These kitchen recolors have had a tremendous response and I am very happy I was able to recolor them and will be sorry to see that last one come out, just because it means there will be no more. I hope you have enjoyed them.
Maybe after I put the finishing touches on the Turano Dining Rooms I'll look at doing some more conventional kitchens. But first I want to do some living rooms or bedrooms where the fabric isn't plaid. I love my plaids and there are still a few more plaid inspired sets to come, but I'm reaching the end.
I have lots of ideas, just not much time to put them into practice. I'm also trying to work on learning to mesh, but I've reached a standstill for the moment due to lack of time to devote to it. So I've decided to be patient and take things as they come for now. I'd also like to do some lots eventually, but I need to become a much better builder first. My houses are really the pits. And I have some outfits that I started work on and never finished. And there are some swimsuits around here somewhere waiting to be uploaded. I'll find them eventually. (I'm sooo organized! lol)
Anyway, you can probably tell I've stayed up past my bedtime, and I need to crash. Later.
Recolor Templates
Recolor templates for the Tuscan Kitchen are available in case anyone would like to recolor the set. Just PM me and I'll be happy to email you--as long as you agree to my terms and conditions (which are pretty lenient).Your questions: HAIRSTYLE credit!!
So a lot of people asked me where i did get from the blond hairstyle from my collection 177.You can get it on xm-Sims2.com
See please my other blog entry! There I give credits and links to the sites!
I get so many questions, that I don't will answer them anymore now.
Please don't be angry. But I have not the time for answer everyone....
SO check out my credit list in my blog before asking! I always use only content from this sites/creators!
Cheers
Sophia
P.S. My models in the moment are from Jirka (here at TSR)
Current projects
These are the two lots I'm currently working on - Hope Castle is a smaller rebuild of the one I recently lost after a game crash, and 19 Forest Lane is a modern three bedroom family home. Both these lots are still in the build stage, so it will be a couple of days before I can start testing.
Pine 'Hand' Set Preview (9th Feb)
My latest set is a pine wood set with a marble hand chair. (Due for publish 9th Feb) It will also be available in Ebony/white marble soon.
What's Next?
Lady Emma's Victorian Suite is a recolor of Lady Roslyn's Victorian Suite. Lady Emma lovvvvvvvvvves dark wood furniture, jewel toned textured fabrics, and her favorite color is turquoise. Here's a sneak peek into her suite of rooms...
Feb. 11th, Lady Roslyn's Victorian Suite
Lady Roslyn's Victorian Suite is scheduled for publication on Feb. 11th. The set includes 12 new meshes, a chaise, round end table, vanity table, armoire, small cabinet (end table), bedframe, nightstand, decorative objects for the vanity table and small cabinet, standing floor mirror, desk and lamp. In addition, recolors of items from previous sets are included with the suite.
To view pictures of the suite's furnishings, click on the Upcoming Items tab on my minisite.
New tutorial - Swimmable Sea Islands
No surprise there ----- you knew it must be coming!!! :lol: I've posted the tutorial to be published on Friday. The patch for Pets that Maxis released last week hasn't solved the "Replacing Pool Walls in Pets" problem, sadly. But otherwise I hope the tute is helpful. Can I suggest that it's not that easy a tute - just because you'll have to concentrate sometimes!!!!! But probably you'll think it's just a doddle! Here's the preview pic:
Poll result
The poll result shows:1. No Make-Up, Something else (1.place)
2. More Eyeshadows
and
3. More Eyeliners
Means, I will create something that doesn't belong to Make-Up, now I want to know what you exactly prefer (see next poll).
My current projects (eyeshadow, new lips and brows) will be soon available. But after that I hope to get a lot of votes for the next creation.
Thanks for Voting!
Indian Inspired Living III
A wonderfully, luxurious and romantic bedroom set is next up in this series.The mesh set is due to publish next week, followed by my 3 coordinating recolor sets.
You can see the mesh preview image here, Recolor 1 - warm brown & green, here, Recolor 2 - Cool lilac/purple & turquoise, here and last but not least (my personal favourite), recolor 3 - rich wine, gold & olive, here
Smarting with anger...
Perhaps 'anger' is an incorrect word really. The word is probably more akin to DISAPPOINTMENT.I've had word from Maxis about the lot packaging problem us builders have been experiencing ever since the release of Pets: namely that recolours of Maxis objects are dropped from the packages so that they're not included in our uploaded lots.
My acute disappointment comes with the fact that this is not a bug. It is a DELIBERATE change on the part of Maxis to stem the tide of recolours spreading with lots. I suspect what Maxis is referring to is The Exchange, because, to my knowledge, other sites generally have strict policies on the lots they accept for hosting - TSR very much included. If you DID find a lot here stuffed with recolours not used in the lot, you could report it, but chances are you won't. The TSR approval process sees to that.
Don't get me wrong: I can entirely see Maxis' point of view on this - The Exchange is a den of all sins, one being lots bloated with a downloader's entire folder of custom content. But I just wish instead that Maxis had placed a file-size limit for lots on The Exchange, or just changed the code for 'upload to Exchange' lots only, and not those we package for upload elsewhere. Instead, it feels like ALL builders have been penalised - including the many who religiously use 'Sims2Pack Clean Installer' to clean their lots, who conscientiously never let a stray recolour be left inside the package... That's most builders here, for starters.
So yes, I'm grumpy! In my grumpiness, I know I will never play Pets. I don't even know whether I'll even buy 'Seasons; because I never play, just build for sharing. In the meantime, I am attempting a straight clone of the driveway to give Pets-and-beyond players an invisible driveway we can use (the current 'invisible driveways are, of course, Maxis recolours and are just one of the casualties of this coding change).
I've copied the Maxis response in a thread in our forums here. I've included mentions of workarounds, including Numenor's "Base Game Starter" in the same thread.
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