's Blog

For the Boys!

Just completed uploading a set of mens hair retextures. These are a retexture of Raonjena's #7 mesh for men. I have always loved that mesh, but wanted to give it a more unkempt look with some realistic colors for your Sim guys. I'm pretty happy with the way it looks on some of my Rock and Rollers. Hopefully you will be too!

People seem to respond more to some of these hair retextures that I have been doing, so I think I will do a couple more, and then get back to the clothes which I miss quite a bit. Feel free to let me know what kind of clothes you would like to see, or if there is a particular hair mesh you would like to see retextured for a new look.

Hope you are all enjoying the summer!

Challenges

I'm so busy playing the Challenges that there's no time to make anything new, it's really fun trying to do things you've never done before and playing in a totally different way.I was supposed to upload the next part of my superset this week but it's got delayed due to the challenges, but I'll try to finish it this week

My Apologies...

First of all, thank you to the 2 people that let me know that my clothing files were not showing up in the game. That said, I have re-uploaded the correct files for the Ladies' Winter Jackets, Men's Long Sleeve T-Shirts, Ladies' Sporty Cashmere Sweaters, Ladies' Crop Pants, and the Ladies' Flip Tunics. If you wish, please redownload, and they will work in the game this time. I promise. Have an AMAZING day!

Okay, so...

...I vastly underestimated the time it would take me to finish this door project. I'd planned to have the doors up by now, but I think I'll have to put it off up to another two weeks. I'm also thinking of breaking the set into two parts, with four doors in the first part and three in the second part.

I'm starting a new job tomorrow (O_o) but I hope it won't take me much longer to finish this set.

Marine and Nautical Theme

Just in case you start wondering, I took a break from my modern series and started making lots for the upcoming Marine Theme Week. But don't worry, I will resume the series again after the theme week, which runs from Jul.2 to Jul. 9.

Happy Simming!

Fossil

I am totally delighted at how people are assuming I'm 30!

Giggling about that - and holding a lit match to the corner of my birth certificate...

Hoping to finish before I go away

Well I didn't get chapter 14 done like I thought. Instead I helped my husband with a small vegetable garden we planted. Work has been pretty busy and I've been late coming home so still no luck on getting chapter 14 done.

I have a very busy next couple of days including painting the exterior of my house and then prepping for a 2-day drive down to South Carolina and back. My brother is graduating from the Marines bootcamp on the 6th of July and we are going to see him graduate. I am excited.

I will be leaving Tuesday night and won't be back til Saturday so I'm hoping to find some time to finish chapter 14 and then I can write chapter 15 and perhaps 16 in the car during the trip.

Trojan.Zlob and Smitfraud Virus

Oh, man! It's been a long couple of days! I've been working to remove a backdoor Trojan called Zlob which, apparently, is associated with the Smitfraud Virus that my poor computer contracted.

Poor Herbert! Yes, my computer's name is Herbert...he runs better if you talk nice to him, so I named him. It just made sense.

Anyways, back on topic...I believe I have eradicated the virus. This particular pair are particularly tricky. They tell you via a pop-up from the SysTray that your computer is infected with MalWare and point you to a website where you can download some Anti-Spyware software. This anti-spyware program is actually Rogue Spyware. The pop-up is official-looking. Fortunately, I was never inclined to click on the pop-up bubble "to get more information" and only read about that online while researching how to get rid of it.

Once the Trojan was removed, a different message appeared telling my that NetWorm-i.virus@fp had been detected. Further research pointed me to a SmitfraudFix program.

It seems to be okay now. I did lose a few files to corruption while my PC was infected, but other than that, this was a fairly benign virus.

If this problem ever happens to you, I'm more than happy to share my research finds. I bookmarked the good stuff.

Poll about polls results

Here are the results for the Poll about polls.

Question: What types of polls do you like the most?
Ever changing polls about anything 81.82%
Polls relevant to downloads/custom content 0%
Polls about anything (non-simming stuff) 0%
Ever changing polls about downloads/custom content 9.09%

Question: How often do you like polls to change?
Once a week 63.64%
Every other week 9.09%
Once a month 0%
It doesn't matter to me 18.18%

Question: Why do you vote on polls? check all that apply...
The Kudos 45.45%
To help creators figure out what downloaders want 72.73%
Because they're there...why not vote? 63.64%
Other...please post a comment in the blog entry 9.09%

It seems that most people like polls about anything as long as they are constantly changing and they like them to change about once a week. The last question was just out of sheer curiosity...

What I'll do is change my poll on Wednesdays (to coincide with the Texture Challenge).

The new poll is about the Texture Challenge. I'm trying to get a feel for how many people actually know what it is and download our creations.

What Next?

Well, now that the Loft Entrance Sets have been finished and approved (to be published July 2), what will I be working on next?

To start, I have created all the files for the Open for Business Set 8. I think this may be my last Open for Business Set, and it's also a huge set with over twenty objects!

After that... I plan on creating a couple of summer themed house sets.

And, I will be creating a new mesh set based on Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda featuring objects such as the Triforce and Mario's pipe for example. I think that should be an interesting set.

And, when all of this is done, I will be making the Groovy Stuff Set 2. It's been in the works for awhile now, but it WILL be coming soon!

That's about it for now.
Happy simming!
~simmyfan2852~