holy shit, this doesnt feel real. i started this blog as a way to post my silly little defaults, and throughout the past two months i have seen so much love and attention and it’s like a dream. i’ve gotten to interact with some of my favorite people in this fandom and have learned to create and share my love for this game. from anyone who has stuck around, to anyone who knew me before, to anyone who’s new here, i want to thank you for this milestone. it certainly means a lot to me, thank you guys so much!! as a gift i’ve converted three hairs for you all, and i’ll be coming out with a collab and another small gift soon,,, but until then, thanks! creds to @kamiiriand@goamazons for the gorgeous hairs <3
lorelai
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goamazons’ panda hair ~5k poly -: ✧ :-゜・．pf-ef og|sfs|mf
tou - don’t claim my cc as your own - don’t put my cc on sites like simsdom - don’t put my cc behind a paywall, my cc is free to all - follow the original creators’ tou(s)
resources under the cut!
also, a huge thank you to some of my biggest cheerleaders, yk who you are. basically anyone from kchc but a special thanks to my good friend ky. @anonsensicalsimblr ily and thank u for putting up with me bless
I’ve been on the prowl for some child/toddler - like hairstyles and this one fit the bill! This was retextured by @goatskickin (not just in child, but that’s what my personal preference is so if you want more ages, they’re available!). Colors: Dynamite, Explosive, Depth Charge, and Volatile.
This hair reminds me of Elizabeth Taylor when she played Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Some of you may be too young for that reference, but it’s a great movie and this hair really gives off old school Hollywood vibes. The lovely retexture is from @fakebloood and the colors I used are: Isis, Caim, Pyro, and Volatile. Elders go grey. Credits are in the file.
@timeparadoxsims did this awesome hair. I had to redo my default list so now I should be defaulting hairs in the order they show up in BodyShop. Colors used: Flash Powder, Depth Charge, Explosive, Volatile, and Mail Bomb. Credits in the file.
With this hair, I’ve completed all of those knight helmets! Yay, me LOL Colors used: Isis, Depth Charge, Explosive, Volatile, and Mailbomb. @mrs-mquve-cc for the retexture. Credits in the file.
Right now, I’m going through a short/medium length hair phase and I love anything Anto. @fakebloood did a fantastic job with this one so of course, it *had* to be put on my default list. On my quest to default (almost) everything in my game, I’m -as ya’ll can see- replacing all of the knight masks right now so make sure you know which one you’re getting because I just use the default pictures from the defaults page that shows Steelplate, but as labelled, this default is for RedPlate! Colors used: Flash Powder, Caim, Pyro, and Volatile. Elders go grey. Credits in the file!
I believe this is the first default I’ve done by @simborg which is weird because there are some amazing hairstyles on that page. I love this one especially because it has an elegance to it. Colors used: Flash Powder, Caim, Explosive, and Rose. Elders go grey. Credits are in the file.
This one is by @fakebloood and I love it because it’s short and sweet. Colors used: Flash Powder, Caim, Verin, and Volatile. Elders go grey. Credits are in the file. Enjoy!
I had a small medical emergency a couple of days ago, but I’m fine. I’m playing the catch up game with my defaults right now and I’m going as fast as I can! This hair is done by @entropy-sims and the colors I used are: Flash Powder, Depth Charge, Explosive, Volatile, and Mail Bomb. I hope you all had a safe and happy holiday! @ts2male for CC tag
“Hair for the Holidays” #22 I’m a sucker for all of the “Wings” hairstyles. This one is retextured by @mrs-mquve-cc Credits are in the file. Colors used: Flash Powder, Depth Charge, Explosive, Volatile, and Mail Bomb. @ts2male for CC tag
I almost didn’t upload this today, but I wanted to go ahead and check one more off of my list. This retexture is done by @mrs-mquve-cc Colors are: Isis, Depth Charge, Volatile, Explosive, and Mail Bomb. Credits are in the file. @ts2male for CC tag
Look what I’ve found. Cute ponytail with bangs! It’s 3t2 Spring hairbyAntoaka Alesso (TS3 version is here on T$R).
It was converted for TS2 byMartini. I couldn’t find a link to original upload. There are a few remified recolours around, but I like’em shiny so I decided to do a retexture with thicker bangs. I think it really transformed this mesh.
A tutorial on how to add animation effect to custom TS2 hair using Milkshape & SimPe.
It’s not meant for beginners but if you are resourceful it might just be enough.
Note: to make images more readable you can enlarge the page view in your internet browser.
1. Get the right GMDC
And by wonky look I mean: animated parts of hair will sink into sim’s head.
2. Import it to Milkshape
Open Milkshape and import the original GMDC that you’ve found through Scenegraph search. Delete everything from Groups tab and import custom hair GMDC (do NOT include additional bone definitions!).
Hide the hair group (scalp) in the Groups tab. You don’t want to mess it up! Then go to Joints tab (Btw, “joints” and “bones” are the same thing).
Save the file as .ms3d (milkshape file). Give it a descriptive name!
3. Add bone assignments
Selecting the right vertices in Milkshape can be tricky. Make sure you are viewing the mesh from different angles, and 3D view (with wireframe overlay enabled).
*I’ve described two ways to do bone assignments. First method (through Joints panel) only applies if you’d like to assign vertices to one joint. In case of hair it would be headbone. Non-animated short hairs are assigned to the headonly.
To check bone weight values, select vertices and click “Show” button (it’s located in Vertex Weights panel).
Have in mind that if you select larger chunk of the mesh the values will be an average and not very precise.
You can inspect the weights easily by ticking the“Draw vertex weights” box:
Double-click the hair joint name on the Joints list. Any assigned parts/vertices should be highlighted in green/yellow (if you see orange, the weights are probably set too high).
Rotate the hair in 3D view to make sure there aren’t any accidental green spots anywhere. If you find any mistakes, click“SelAssigned” button in the Joints panel, then deselect the correct parts and fix the rest: click “Show” then change the second joint back to “none” (and Assign).
Have in mind that adding weights to high-poly hair will make it even more taxing for computers.
The front hair strands aren’t very close to the face here. If hair is close to the skin, setting weights too high might result in hair clipping with the neck / face when sim moves!
Hair on an animated gif below has all the dangly strands assigned to front joint. I wasn’t happy with the result. Minimal weights were set to “20”, and that was a bit too much. Often it looks OK, but sometimes it doesn’t. I’d start with 10 and increase it by 3 - 5.
Hair below has thin front strands assigned to f_hair, but side strands were reassigned tor_hair (right) and l_hair (left). You can see the movement is quite different.
After I did that second version I went back and tried to make the thin front strand a bit less stiff. I addedl_hairweights in the upper section, to make it twist a little when it moves. Mixing two hair bone weights is not easy. It looks nice if done right, but I’m not sure if it’s worth a hassle ;)
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In case of longer hairs, It’s best to set weights to a bare minimum, so it won’t look awkward when you assign it all to one hair joint (back or front joint - I donotrecommendcenterhair joint, unless you’re doing a mohawk or something).
You can assign each vertex to three bones(maximum)
When editing longer hair, start with highlighting the spine2 bone assignments (with “Draw vertex weights”). Shoulder area should have head and spine2 assignments*. If you don’t know how to tackle three bone weights at once, stay clear from those parts.
* In some hair, you might also find neck bone assignments - that’s not correct, you can remove these (or replace).
4. Export the file and update the GMDC
Make sure you export the GMDC edited in Milkshape as name.5gdNOT name.simpe or you might get visual glitches, very similar to alpha blend mode issues.
In SimPe, click on the GMDC resource you’ve edited and copy the filename. Then right-click on it and choose “Replace”. Open your .5gd file, hit “Commit” button and save.
* Animated medium-poly and high-poly hair can be taxing for older machines, have that in mind if you’re running ts2 on an old laptop.
Animated preview below the cut:
Long front hair strands / braids like these are tricky, especially if you add animated joint assignments to the mix.. So it’s still not perfect, but at least there are no deformations going on when sim rotates the head (before & after pic below).
Below the cut a few notes about adding hair animation.
Turns out, adding animation to ts2 cc hair is quite easy.. You just have to use skeleton of the same hair it was cloned from.
For example af mesh for this hair has “afhairlongsimple” in the name, so I used scenegraph resource finder to get that particular GMDC. I opened it in Milkshape, deleted all hair groups and imported the custom gmdc. At the far end of the joints list, there are five hair joints. If you want a bouncy strand of hair, you assign it to the hair joint and head joint. The weights I used for hair joints are between 25 - 37%, starting with 25 and moving down to the hair tips.
I recently did a tutorial about animated hair joint assignments, you can find it here.
I’m certainly NOT into hair-making business! But I like ts4 Ava hair by Feral Poodles converted by @hazelpuff so much I just had to have a male version in my game. And there ain’t no easier way to do it, than to hijack an existing default. Not sure who made it, it’s not signed - I think it was by Nox.
Forehead area could be better, but at least this hair is compatible with my Scalp & Hairline Overlay;)
It turned out I was not as ill as I thought, so I finished the first batch of retextures, yay!
All of these conversions were done by @platinumaspiration As always with clay hairs, they come in Poppet’s textures with original blended together. Except those that are blended with Nouk’s afro textures. Everything is in Poppet V2 natural colors.
EA Tight Curls (all ages, both genders, 8.4k poly, this one doesn’t look as good with Nouk’s texture, but I still prefer it over the original plasticky ts4 texture. It’s a matter of taste I guess.) sfs/mega
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 25.9k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 25.2k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
Please pay no attention to the typo on the preview, I’m too inattentive recently -_- Also there are some tiny transparencies in the hair, I didn’t manage to fix them due to the specificities of original meshing
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 30.2k, lowered from 48k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 23k, lowered from 32k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 30k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of pooklet’s v1 and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 24.4k — animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
Girls coming with other hairs and maybe other clothes but I think that isn’t a problem. Other in-game screeshots with them you can find in my CC-posts, for example hereandhere
— for child-elder, both geners — polycount: 18.6k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here — this is mesh edit - central part of the bang is removed
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 28.9k, a bit lowered from 38k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of pooklet’s v1 and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for teen-elder, female only — 5 colours — polycount: 14.2k. It’s high, but you have been warned xD — light metallic shine added — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 30.9k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
Well, starting new year with old project that finally is done! First I wanted to recolor Martini’s conversion because I didn’t find any recolors with realistic texture. But I noticed some weirdness in the mesh when watching it in Bodyshop and after that found two same groups in Simpe. The mesh was dublicated for unknown reason and polycount amounted to 20k meanwhile original polycont is about 10k.
Thats why I decided to remake this hair for ts2. It’s standalone conversion and will not replace Martini’s mesh. Also I converted it for males :-)
— for child-elder, both geners — polycount: 10.8k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 29.3k, lowered from 42k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
For me in ts2 are not enough simple, pushed back hairstyles that’s why this conversion is here. The hair is rather long, the back view you can find by the “Turnaround” link below!
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 24.8k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
Some time I was demotivated in 4to2 hair conversions but yesterday finally did the hair offered by anon about year ago that’s all you need to know about my speed of requests fulfilment lmao but honestly there was a bunch of transparencies in the mesh which I couldn’t fix then
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 17.1k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of pooklet’s v1 and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 21.2k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 21.2k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and pooklet’s v1 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 21.7k — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and pooklet’s v1 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
Have to say in working with this mesh I realized that I’m not happy with it. Completely not happy. Usually it has lead to that even almost done conversion continues to be unfinished because I don’t want to see the things I don’t like anymore. But in this case I decided to share for all who want it particularly as anon have already asked and even reminded about it. Honestly it was a while ago but remember that you talk to lazy procrastinator if you want to offer me something for conversion xD
— for child-elder, female only — polycount: 31k (a lot but it’s price for long curly detailed hair) — smooth bones assignments and animated — textures: blend of original texture and io’s edit of pooklet’s v3 —color palette — binned and familied; elders come in grey (linked to black); custom greys are available for child-adult — original ts4 mesh here
