#freeso

[s1ndle]

Sayonara FreeSO

Yo! At the time I am writing this, FreeSO officially shut down about a month ago. I started making remeshes a little over seven years ago when 3D mode first released as a way to contribute to a game that I loved and to hone my 3D modeling and texturing skills. But that time has come to an end, and I will no longer be making remeshes for FreeSO or Simitone. 

During this time I kept (nearly) all of my original work files, this includes the .PSD files for textures and .BLEND files for the models. I didn't want to let all of these files just go to waste and collect virtual dust on my hard drives. FreeSO was designed to be an open source project after all, and in the spirit of that, I am releasing all of the work files I have kept over the years of the nearly 60 remeshes I worked on for anyone to use.

These files are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Meaning that you may use them for any of your projects, including games, animation, and more so long as proper credit and attribution are given to myself (S1ndle) as the creator of the meshes and textures.

You can download the archive at the link below, please make sure to look at the various READ ME files.

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[morgue-xiiv]

so fucking funny that I modeled these taps in Blender and it was only when I was describing the process of how I made them to my partner that I realised how fucking stupid they were and how they can't work (Or at least would be insanely hard to use).

I'm not changing them, they just have to give the IDEA of a tap and look good, and they do that fine imo.

[painfully-painful-pain]

I miss my FreeSO account a bit so I started rebuilding some of its restaurants in my TS2 game

Also I managed to get a passable shot

And then it crashed

[retroescentgaming]

In this last and final episode of FreeSO. Good time to revisit all three lots for a walk-through. That's all for this video. Goodbye, FreeSO. It's been fun exploring. Enjoy the final movie video on RetroescentGaming.

[thunderzizi]

powerful being on dying earth

[evilsilence]

FreeSO

FreeSO is shutting down on December 8th, so in honor of it and all of the great memories I made there, here's a lot tour. It's not much compared to other people's lots, and it's still very much a work in progress, but I love how it turned out anyway.

I'm really going to miss FreeSO.

[houseofabsurdities]

she just like me fr

[detective-prince-bluebottle]

bro i'm playing as atreus WHAT???

[daveedmee]

Sims Online just died last week and I just found out now

[s1ndle]

The Monochrome TV is probably the remesh I'm most proud of. It's pretty accurate to the original sprite and I was able to pack in plenty of detail.

Being an object from basegame TS1, it utilizes a flipped sprite, meaning that instead of rendering out four sprites for each direction, Maxis rendered only two, and flipped them to fill in the remaining directions. This ingenious method of saving space also causes the object to have a troublesome asymmetry when trying to translate it into 3D. I ended up putting the controls on the right-hand side since that is what I saw most when searching for references, which meant the antenna and protrusion ended up on the left-hand side.

It's also one that I spent the most time on out of any remesh, I was working on it off and on for about two years before I finally finished it!

[morgue-xiiv]

My first fully original 3D modeled The Sims Online, post-FreeSO compatible object is done! It's decor only with no pie menu but it has all the appropriate flags to work at various heights and I thiiink, impact on that room score.

The 3d preview below is taken from the built in volcanic previewer cos I don't play in 3D. I know the baked lighting is more of an lighting-tartare, but I was up til 3am screaming into the "I hate Blender" pillow to get it in time for this week's DramaSO update. If you play DramaSO you may have it in time for Valentine's Day - timezone conditionally.

If you want it for something other than DramaSO hit me up, I guess it's CC-NC-SA. (That means no paid servers and I guess update the catalogue string to say 'made by Morgue'. I don't have to say that in DramaSO's catalogue the whole playerbase has had to hear me complain about this for 2 days)

(Thanks to Heyty and Reagan who spent basically all day yesterday sending me screenshots of blender with "no THIS button", the one I actualy said, but patienter)

[thesims1master]

Rave theme from The Sims House Party. One of the elements in this party room is TS2 Beta Bar recreation too. In honor of amazing recreation of teleport pad from The Sims 1 House Party by Llama Juice over the FreeSO forum!

[psychedelic-charm]

Oh my god, Mia Wallace. I learned about her in The Sims Lore's video on the Sim Mafia in TSO. They also made a follow-up video talking about, well, let's just say there were some underage players engaging in inappropriate behavior. If you know, you know.

[retroescentgaming]

In this episode of the FreeSO series, this video was recorded last Thursday for wedding events. Plus we have fun parties at The Lauv Shack. The next episode will be the final. Enjoy this video on RetroescentGaming.