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Buon Natale!

I love Christmas. I'm getting everything ready for the holiday with my family. And I'm trying to send out as many Christmas wishes as I can. If I've missed you, I want to give you my wishes here. In italian it sounds like: Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo.

Away.....

Hey Guys,

If you are wondering why there are no updates from me this week it's because i am going away for a couple of days for Christmas. I made a couple of things over the weekend but never got the time to upload and do my previews. Sorry! I'm about to start work in half an hour so this is just a quick note. Have a great day tomorrow!

Merry Christmas!
Louise


MySpace Graphics at GlitterGeek.com

My Secret Santa!

I am so happy!... My secret santa has given me her gifts!...: Beautiful desktop which I can also use them as avatars. Do you want to see them?.. Thanks amy_55555!!!... These are my favorites!...

A big Thank You and a Merry Xmas

A very big thank you for all of you who have taken the time to comment on my uploads over the last few months. I haven't had the time to respond to the many comments you give and I feel really bad about this. So please accept my humblest of apologies and be assured that I appreciate every single comment you leave.

I wish you and yours the happiest Xmas and the very best of New Years. Sally :)

Bon Voyage

WOW! I love Bon Voyage. I doubt that anyone is reading this, but I have to say that at the moment it's probably a good thing since I've been completely obsessed with game play and not creating.
I expect I'll be creating in the new year. I'm on two years leave and then am back to work and back to college (am taking a graphic arts course in Sydney) so will need to start designing to keep my right-brain active.

Tips for Downloaders

Created on 9, Feb, 2006.



New Mesh item, Game Running Speed and the Downloads Folder



1. What does High Polygon new mesh item means?

2. Classify new mesh item into levels.

3. How to know the polygon number?

4. Draw a security line for the new mesh items.

5. Modify your security line according to different kinds of items.

6. Manage the Downloads folder according to your security line



1. What does High Polygon new mesh item means? (content)

All the new mesh items in The Sims2 game such as sims, cloth, hair, furniture etc. both are constructed by these two basic element: VERTEX and POLYGON, and both are rendered in real-time, that means, the higher number of the basic element, the more computer render time needed. In the sims community, the high number element items was called High Polygon item.

Too many high polygon items in your game may slow down your game a lot, and may cause other problem!

2. Classify new mesh item into levels. (content)

Whether an item is high polygon or not depending on the facts such as the power of your computer, how many tiles does the item has etc...so, instead of simply calling any item as a high polygon item, I would like to suggest that according to the Polygons per Tile of the item, put them into four levels:

Level RED: more than 8000 polygons/tile

Level ORANGE: 5000-8000 polygons/tile

Level YELLOW: 2000-5000 polygons/tile

Level GREEN: less than 2000 polygons/tile

3. How to know the polygon number? (content)

We can roughly tell any item's polygon is higher than the other one simply by what they are look like. Usually, an curvy item (the complex one) do has more polygons than a flat one (the simple one), take figure A and B as an example please.



We can know the accurate polygon number through these two methods:

a) Online message

If the creator enter the polygon message when they upload the item, it will show up in the download page of that item, click HERE for example.

b) Modding Tool

Open the package file of the item in SimPE, follow the steps shown in figure C please.



One thing I want to mention is that the number we have got either from online message or the modding tool, is the TOTAL polygon number, it is not the number of polygon/tile, see figure D as an example please:



The polygon number of the chair is 456, and the bed's is 4436 , it seems that the chair is a Level GREEN item, and the bed is a Level YELLOW item, but in fact, the bed is a 6 tile item, it is arround 740 polygons/tile, so the chair and the bed are both Level GREEN item.

4. Draw a security line for the new mesh items. (content)

You can draw your security line at any level you want! For example, if you have a super super computer, you can draw your security line at Level RED; if you runing your game on an ordinary computer, try the Level GREEN please; if you only got an slow computer, but you really like those complex items, you still can select Level RED as your security line, but the price paid for this will be runing a very slow game, even game crash sometimes. Any way, chosing any level as your secruity line is totally up to you.

5. Modify your security line according to different kinds of items. (content)

Some items such as a new mesh cloth or a new mesh hair usually goes to higher level then the simple object items do. For example, most of these kind of items goes to Level YELLOW instead of Level GREEN. If you draw your security line at Level GREEN, you should adjust the line a little bit higher, in this case should be the Level YELLOW for these kind of items.

6. Manage the Downloads folder according to your security line. (content)

a) I would like to suggest you create a temporary folder under the Downloads folder for those items which cross your security line. If those items drag down your game speed, even crash your game, you can move them out of the game easily.

b) Put different level items into different folders is another option managing your downloads.

c) Limits the cross line items. Drawing the security line does not mean no cross line item at all, you can still have them in your game, but I would like to suggest you limit the number of the cross line items, for example set the number under 20. Replace these 20 cross line items with other cross line items instead of putting all of them into the game.

File Sharing Policy

Created on 12, Feb, 2006.

The following is the sharing policy of my creations at TSR:

1. For private purpose:

I don't have the rights to redistribute any of my item published here at TSR, so I can NOT give the permission to distribute any of my creations here at TSR in any other way but the TSR way, in another word, all my creations on TSR here are NOT File Sharing Friendly.

2. For publishing:

General Policy: NO CLONE PLEASE

Would you please do NOT create your item base on CLONING any of my item for publishing at any website including TSR please.

�	�	Publishing at TSR		�
�	Asking for Permission	Credit to Sunair	Link to the downlaod page of my creation	Can You upload my item together with your's?
Screen Shot	NO necessary	NO necessary	NO necessary	No, you can not
Recolor	NO necessary	Up to you	Necessary	No, you can not
House/Sim	NO necessary	Necessary	Up to you	Yes,� you can
�	�	�	�	�
�	�	Publishing at other site(s)		�
	Asking for Permission	Credit to TSR & Sunair	Link to the downlaod page of my creation	Can You upload my item together with your's?
Screen Shot	NO necessary	NO necessary	NO necessary	No, you can not
Recolor	Necessary	Necessary	Necessary	No, you can not
House/Sim	NO necessary	Necessary	Up to you	No, you can not

I C High Quality Sets N ur FUTURE! (Preview)

Yeah, I've been in the lab conjuring up all kinds of creations! I have 5 new sets coming out for you all. Call it Christmas, call it the season of creating and sharing, call it whatever u want. I like to call it, enthusiasm thanks to the new graphics card. I've just REALLY been in the mood to create wonderful items that I KNOW your Simmies will appreciate. Who knows, one day I might be a SA. Now on with the show: Previews 1) The first set that should release today is called short TYMES. It's basically a set of plaid shorts for the sims that are still enjoying warm weather. 2) For those of you who are less fortunate than the above who are suffering from Jack frost, I brought to you Velour robes! They are truly warm and cozy. Ask any sim on the planet. 3) This third set is for the Hello Kitty fans out there. Lastly, I have a few more surprise sets in which I will preview for you sometime in the near future. Happy Holidays!

New Graphics Card Ecstatic`a!

W�� H��!!! So my husband just bought me a new NVIDIA GEFORCE 8500 GT graphics card for Christmas! So what you say? Nooooo, better graphics card means better creations for U! So a shot out to my husband, Mr. Smith. I Love you dear! And now for you to view for yourself: Now enjoy Higher Quality creations because I Love ya. *Muah*

Christmas JAMmies IV AM (Preview)

Yeah, so after somewhat coming down from my high of having a MiniSite, I felt the need to prove that I deserve this pleasant gift in which I gave to my self. I've worked rather hard- night till day in creating a Christmas pajama set for your Adult Males. They've worked so hard all year around the house, (yeah right), and I felt they too deserved something nice! XD. I hope you will enjoy them. They'll be around shortly. This preview is titled: UR NIGHTMARE B4 CHRISTMAS. B.T.W~ Picture style inspired by the amazing creator Aikea_guinea, heh, as if you couldn't tell. *winks*