@simlicious / simlicious.tumblr.com
So... what's in it? Loads of gorgeous recolorable patterns! I have thumbnails and in-game preview pics included in the download files for your convenience. You may or may not be able to access the calendar if you want the full experience (I don't know how long it will stay up since it's hosted on a third party website).
Thanks to those who have donated for my website, it helps a lot and means so much to me! Thanks to all of you who comment and tag me in your screenshots too, stuff like that really lifts my spirits as well, and thank you to all those who have been kind to me in other ways.
Now I want to talk a bit about how I've been and why I have not been very active lately. It's mostly because I am very exhausted and I feel a lot of pain, frustration, shame and sadness because I can't function like I want to. And sometimes, seeing all of your amazing posts on tumblr is just too overwhelming and I feel sad because I cannot partake the way I would like to at this time. I've been feeling burnt out for the better part of this year, I have very little energy these days and being social exhausts me too. I have now gotten professional help. It's not therapy yet, but a social psychiatric service is currently helping me with getting financial aid and we also plan what other things may help me get better. Apparently, I would need to find a really good therapist who is right for me and my specific needs and it seems that is not exactly easy. To distract myself from the depressing feeling of not being able to do stuff, I have been playing a lot of Factorio together with my brother who gifted me the game for my birthday. It's really fun and addictive! Unfortunately, this has flared up my hand/arm pain again so now I need to take it extra slow, and it's also very frustrating since I feel my creativity is slowly returning, but at the moment, I cannot really act on it. I'm not yet sure how I can combine working on my mental health together with being creative/ possibly releasing CC and helping you guys with your CC projects, if there is enough energy left. My focus is definitely on myself and getting better. I got a bit of a reality check, though I have always known I will not just magically get better. It will probably take years and years until I am somewhat back to a normal version of myself. I gotta start somewhere, and even taking the tiniest of steps is still moving forward. I just wish it wasn't so hard! I'm a bit hesitant to call a hiatus, because I think I will still occasionally make posts, just probably not as frequent.
Making CC and helping people learn to make CC is really important to me, and I feel like this is where I can make a positive difference in the world. It helps me to feel useful and like I have a place in this world. So I do not want to give it up, I rather want to work on myself so I can feel confident again, starting with small projects, and hope to eventually tackle bigger projects that I have been wanting to do for years. I hope I can find a way to learn how to do them confidently step by step without overwhelming or exhausting myself too much in the process or getting discouraged on the way. I think the key here is perseverance, something I don't feel I have a lot of but what I need to make long-term progress. I hope I can gather enough of it for the steps to come!
JADE - Default Eyes for TS3 -DOWNLOAD <-for if you don't care about personal crap of a stranger that you really shouldn't tbhHandpainted 2048x2048 texture, pictures taken with HQ Mod
Hi! So I am not really sure if I am going to be back to creating CC, because I still feel like I lost the air for it, but I am back with another upload after 8 friggin years ๐ The reason why I am creating for TS3 again instead of 4.. Ask the lord, I don't even know why.
Pretty much I completely lost interest in The Sims series and beginning of COVID I started My Strange Addiction: Minecraft.
I tried creating stuff for that too, but it is all code based and that is really no fun if you're a little more on the dumb side when it comes to numbers and crap.
I will be hitting the big 30 this year and it is crazy to think about how much I have changed and matured (I will still fight you so don't try me).
Oh and pretty much I would like EA to know that they can go f themselves and TS4. You have ruined a great franchise that many of us grew up with, and turned it into an Airport Stripclub. TS4 being out since 11 years is insane. Lazy asses. I said it, sue me.
That is all, bai bai :3
Sometimes, the reason is simply because we can and because we have fun doing it!
Creating for TS3 also feels more impactful to me. Maybe because in our smaller community, we don't have 4000 other creators who do exactly the same thing?
actually its just my sim riding her bike in a rubberbanding manner through Monte Vista, which I have totally legally obtained (which is a lie)
I have been suddenly sucked into The Sims again after what, 10 years? (that too is probably a lie) and kinda consider making CC again?? like the itch is there again but I don't know if I'll go to the pharmacy to get the cream for it or wait it out. So much nostalgia suddenly hit me and after seing my latest mods for TS4, my stuff didn't suck all the time (might be a lie). I am close to hitting 30 so that is sadge but oh well.
I still have to get all the resources back in order to start creating, but after installing multiple mods for TS2, it shouldn't be that hard (seriously installing lightning and graphic mods for that game is straight up banana-doodoo).
also after seing @simlicious continuing to create beautiful stuff after all these years is really inspiring to me!!
@golyhawhaw you owe my like 30 money for buying TS3 again after you so sloppily manhandled our shared Origin/Ea-App account! I love you
Welcome back! There's still plenty of fun to be had with the Sims games (even TS4 on occasion, mainly thanks to all the great modders and CC creators, of course!) If you want to create CC for TS3, I recommend to join the TS3 Creator's Cave Discord, which is a great place to get help or just vent about things going wrong. Also, @sims3tutorialhub is still a geat place for all kinds of tutorials and resources. I'm not the best at giving info about how to optimize TS3 since my focus is on creating CC for it, but I'm sure someone reading this will leave a link to their favorite guides/mod lists in the comments ๐
This is my go-to method to decimate all kinds of CC. It's very clean and you can exactly decide where you want to keep denser geometry and where to reduce! To make this process faster, there is a nifty way to select every other edge loop to quickly decimate the loops by 50%, which is especially useful for clothing meshes that have a tubular shape (use it on sleeves, pants, tops, shoelaces, jewelry chains...) Remember to first convert the mesh into quads using alt+j as bellakenobi mentioned or it won't work. Depending on the structure of the mesh, the loops might not get selected all the way through automatically and some manual selecting is necessary to finetune the result, but it's worth it. I don't find this method takes an unreasonable amount of time, and it gives such great and clean results that it makes working with the meshes much easier too since you do not get faces randomly deleted like with the decimate modifier. This is a helpful video tutorial that explains the technique: how to select every other edge loop!!
Once the loops are selected according to the video tutorial, you just dissolve the edges (x -> dissolve edges). Remember to also dissolve some of the edges going into the other direction (if you dissolved the vertical loops, also dissolve horizontal ones) to reduce overall density! As bellakenobi mentioned, with one or more parallel loops selected, you can double tap g to enter edge slide mode to re-adjust the remaining edge loops. This is not only very convenient and less prone to cause issues, because it just slides along the surface of the mesh, not elsewhere, but edge slide will automatically adjust the UV map for you too to reflect those changes, which means less work for you.
Tips for fixing topology: Selecting edge loops works best on quads, but there are several ways that you can edit and alter a face. for example, by selecting two vertices and pressing j, you can quickly cut a new edge between the two vertices. It's like a quicker version of the knife tool (which is very good to use too!). With the dissolve options (press x), you can delete unwanted vertices, faces, or edges, depending on what you want. I sometimes dissolve several faces next to each other and then cut out new edge loops in a messy area. Just experiment a bit! It helps to periodically triangulate (ctrl+t) some areas with n-gons (faces with more than 4 edges) when you dissolve a larger area of faces to "settle" them so you do not lose the overall shape of the mesh. You can then convert the area back to quads afterward (ctrl+j). After these edits, you may want to reset the normals in areas with dissolved topology since they may get wonky in the process. But with Mesh->Normals->Average->Face Average you can reset them and make them smooth and gorgeous again. A really helpful tip is to look at the Blender manual which explains a lot of techniques and provides shortcuts, or videos that explain small features that can have a big impact, speed up your workflow, and improve your meshes. I recommend BlenderSecrets, a YouTube channel that offers lots of quick tips for Blender that make life easier.
My Fur and Leather Pattern Collection was missing the Patchwork Leather pattern. Thankfully, @syninplays noticed and informed me! You can get the updated version here.
As a bonus, it now also has preview thumbnails named like the files themselves like I do with all my newer uploads.
I went all out for my birthday and did a whole spring cleaning on my apartment. I had a bit of help, but I couldn't have done it without a huge motivational boost, and having birthday guests over gave me that motivation. All the work I did and also the socializing at both my birthday and my mom's birthday two days later, left me feeling deflated though, but in a happy/content way. So I'm slowly recharging. Meanwhile, I very much enjoy my clean apartment and I am trying to keep it that way for a while. In other news, I was hoping that I would get my fundraiser for my website going by now, but I'm nowhere near energetic enough to do that now, and last week I couldn't think about anything else than cleaning/getting my apartment ready for my birthday. Thanks to my birthday, I have spare money I can use for now, so I'll postpone the fundraiser until I feel ready to tackle it. If you want to donate already, however, feel free to do so! Thank you!
Today is my birthday! My best friend gifted me these gorgeous flowers. I had a lovely day! I had my family, boyfriend, and best friend over for birthday cake and tea. My parents baked a lovely orange cake for me, and I contributed the lemon cupcake frosting for it to top it off! I forgot to take a picture of it, but it would have only made you hungry, so maybe it's a good thing ๐ Having guests over prompted me to launch into a full-on spring cleaning over several days in the last week. I even cleaned the windows and the radiator. I'm very happy with what I accomplished, but very exhausted too. I wish that burst of motivation to clean would come more often though!
๐Love train! Send this to all the blogs you love! Don't forget to spread the love!๐
Thank you for thinking of me, I appreciate you so much, @toadifylackoffantasy ๐ฅฐ
It's my 13 year anniversary on Tumblr ๐ฅณ I almost missed the notification, it was already a couple of days ago ๐ถโ๐ซ๏ธ I'm so busy preparing for my own birthday this Saturday!
The "Woohoofy My Heart" Bodysuit from @joliebean's Lovesick collection. I started on this after @bartoszsims3 released some other items from the Lovesick set, I asked why he didn't do this one (I pointed out the set's existence a bit ago and we were both very enthusiastic). Too difficult... So I suffered greatly instead.
Bottom version (L) and Accessory version (R) - the Bottom version can be used with any torso shape, and for the accessory version I included 3 different-sized "naked" Bulgemeshes.
To Summarize, Zip file includes:
Today marks 25 years of The Sims. Since EA forgot TS3 exists, Iโm releasing the entire The Sims 3 Store as an Anniversary Gift. It's all pre-installed and works flawlessly!
It comes with all available fixes and collection folders Iโve personally created for every set. You'll get over 5000 new Buy/Build and CAS items, 11 new worlds, and tons of new gameplay!
If you encounter any issues, feel free to reach out to me. I've put a lot of effort into making the installation process as smooth and straightforward as possible. Dag Dag!
Conversion of the Dusk dress by @regina-raven. I have wanted this dress since late november/early december (don't know when exactly), and was actually my motivation for wanting to learn to create/convert clothes but felt intimated by it. @bartoszsims3 did an attempt at first but he lost all his files at some point, and I had learned a lot in the meantime, so here it is! The gorgeous scandalous Dusk dress by Regina Raven.
Masks
It's a conversion, but I did quite a bit to it - i.e. I repainted how much is sequin and "flamy" on the legs, making it cover more of the leg, as otherwise skin texture would be on the dress where it would be empty between legs space in real life, and I also had to redraw a lot about the neckline, abusing the clonetool for the sequin texture, to make it fit the UV Lay-out of the ts3 torso. I also did manual boneweight painting & morph editing and ofc painted the 4 different masks.
No female version as previously established because there are more than enough slutty party dresses for female sims & of a lot of unisex TS4 items, only the female version gets converted if it is on the femme side.
All the extra effort paid off! It's spectacular, I like it even more than the original ๐
Here's the thing: My website hosting fees are due on March 1st. The sum is 264โฌ for the next 2 years. As always, I need a bit of help from you to stem the costs. The cost of living has increased for me too, especially health insurance is a lot more expensive and I really need your support this year to keep my website afloat. I want to offer an incentive to donate and make it more fun for you guys! I will set mini-milestones throughout the donation drive. Each time a mini goal has been met, you'll get a treat. But I really want it to be something that you will love! Maybe you have a design in mind that you would love to have in the Sims 3 as a recolorable pattern? If so, let me know in the comments (and if you have example pics, please link them!). Please bear in mind that this is not a direct request, so it will not be guaranteed that your idea will be made into a pattern 100%. I will mainly take this as suggestions/inspo, maybe give it my own spin. I say that because not all patterns translate well to the Sims 3, and I will need to find a suitable texture to work with and the end result might look a bit different than the source suggestion. But that shouldn't deter you from making suggestions - challenge me and I see what I can do! Now's your chance! You can also refer to WIP patterns that I've shown before that you would love to see released. Don't forget to link to the pic of the pattern so I know which one you want!
Hehehehe thank you for the tag @silwermoon-sims
This is my papermint-airplane dot tumblr dot com gajinka. As you can see, she follows my color scheme of mint and white, with a pop of pink here and there that I can't remember if I still have on my blog or if I got rid of the pink accents ages ago because I almost exclusively use the mobile view on my dashboard now because I hate my layout but would rather chew off my own arm at the shoulder than change it at this point.
Anyway, Blog-chan tries to be all cute and creative and wacky, but as you can see from the obvious fact that her eyes are tweaking, she's on the brink of a total sanity collapse at any given moment. She floats in a minty cuboid void waiting to be noticed by Mutual-senpai, forgetting constantly that she needs to actually post regularly in order for that to be a possibility. Poor Blog-chan.
The green fuzzy worm represents Aiden.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
I am tagging:
@happy-lemon, @judetuude, @changingplumbob, @bool-prop, @miss-may-i, @bastardtrait, @laurademelza, and finally last but not least YOU! Yeah, you reading this! You're tagged! Ignore if you've already done it/don't want to do it blah blah blah.
February 4th, 2000 - 2025 25 Years of The Sims
This Sim's Website is so cute!
Yes, the website is worth a look. Watching that Sims 1 tutorial gameplay made me feel so nostalgic! Listening to the sound effects from Sims 2 is also pretty fun. Those woohoo hot tub sounds ๐ It's nice to see that they managed to do something cool for this anniversary. Bringing back the feeling of nostalgia is pretty special and more memorable than getting a random object for TS4 as an anniversary gift.
