#murf is a derp

[murfeelee]

Color Difference in Gimp vs Tumblr

I am a doofus, y'all.

So, ever since I got this new PC back in January, I've been confused as to why my pics look one way on my PC, and totally different on Tumblr.

This has been REALLY bugging me, for MONTHS.

I thought it was a problem with this PC, cuz the colors are a tad sharper on my other PC.

But it LITERALLY JUST dawned on me:

The Save Color Profile box is auto-checked--UNCHECK this effing thing! (Imma need to find a plugin to keep this box from checking every frikkin time I save a picture, this sucks.)

My life has been a LIIIIIIIEEEEEE~! 😭

Especially cuz the images look FINE in File Explorer, too! Both the bad version (s2b) AND the good version I just figured out how to fix (s2c)!

I'm literally gonna have to re-save AND reupload every frikkin picture I've posted since January, omfg. 🤦

[murfeelee]

@themaresnest-dumblr replied to your post “It's Finally Winter Break! I'm FREE!”:

Okay, the first question is tell us all about the computer, the second is what sodding processor does it use that will allow you to play Sims 3? Like the graphic btw, it looks like a They Might Be Giants video.

​I actually haven't been able to install/play TS3 at ALL! I've never had a problem running TS3 before, so this sucks!

At first I thought it was the EA App effing up--I had it install the base game and all the EPs at once, but that didn't work, so I figured OK, let me uninstall everything and ONLY install the base game. That FINALLY got the TS3 Folder to appear in Documents, and the Launcher finally loaded. But every time I click Play, it instantly crashes back to the EA App. I have zero mods or Store CC installed or anything. And the "Repair" button on the EA App appears to do EFF ALL, so.... *whimpers*

I never had a laptop with Nvidia and different V-RAM/GPU components, so I'm a fish out of water as far as specs go with this new PC, since my dinosaurs ran TS3 just fine, LOL. Before this I was on a Win10 8GB Dell laptop (2017-2023), and before that I was on a 4GB Vista HP laptop (2009-2017).

This new laptop is a Win11 Asus--it runs Baldur's Gate 3 (barely, LOL, even my Steam Deck is crying), so I have no clue why it can't run TS3:

Processor 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-13900H, 2600 Mhz, 14 Core(s), 20 Logical Processor(s). Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU.

I made an Error Report that I sent to EA, so hopefully they tell me something, otherwise I'm screwed.

[murfeelee]

Get to know me simblr edition - TS3

I saw @descendantdragfi do this here and I have some free time (finally).

Your three traits: Couch Potato, Night Owl, Unstable

Your aspiration / LTW: Living in the Lap of Luxury

In game world you’d live in: Shang Simla or Midnight Hollow

Favourite townie(s): Mrs. Crumplebottom is an eeeevil wench but I love her

Most used pack(s): Supernatural, of course!

Favourite decor object (no cc): I effing hate this question, as if I can pick just ONE; y'all know I'm addicted! Eff it--Top 10 Store clutter! (Yes, I'm cheating.) X X X X X X X X X X

Something you want in the game: More fanciful/horror and historical/cultural mods--the community's been KILLING it, but I'm a greedy person; I need MOAR!

What colour is your plumbob rn: Red, cuz I haven't slept in almost 24 hours; I'm trying to make the absolute most of my free time, even if it kills me, LOL.

I tag anyone interested!

[murfeelee]

Simblreen '23 Plans - Pending

I'm not dead! XD

If any of y'all remember what I said about uploading my Simblreen CC on October 1st, ignore that, I can't be trusted. 🤦 It's technically done, but it's all a bit bigger than I expected, and I haven't had the time/energy to test everything yet. No way I'll manage it today, as I have way too much going on. But some time this month I'll upload it--hopefully during Fall Break, which is in like 2 weeks? 🤞🤞

So, sorry about that! U_U The laziness is strong in this one!

[murfeelee]

Back to School--ugh

My summer vacation's over. 😭

Unfortunately, the massive Dragon Age: Inquisition project I was working on is once again on hold, as my save keeps crashing, so I have to figure out wtf is wrong--I installed a few mods and the whole game went crazy. 🤦 Plus, I've been struggling with the CAS & Pets CC I made (my worst nightmare), so it's just been driving me nuts. But all that's going to have to be put on the back burner again--cuz now I have to get ready for Simblreen, baby~! ^0^

I'm very excited to show my brand new gameplay & CC, as it's from a fandom near and dear to my heart. I think I'll be ready for Simblreen on time--I already got 99% of the CC set done, so now I just have to finish set-dressing, then take preview pics (my worst worst nightmare).

I've already decided that I'll be uploading everything for Simblreen on October 1st, cuz for some strange reason my Fall semesters are always way busier than my Spring semesters, and I always have a ton of stuff due around Halloween. 😞

So yeah, that's what I've been up to! Stay tuned!

[murfeelee]

BG3 Act 3 Spoilers

Omg I literally JUST met THE GUARDIAN--why did no one tell me!? 😅

I have homework, but I can't put the controller down, jfc I got like 4 hours of sleep y'all.

[murfeelee]

15 questions for 15 mutuals

Thanks for tagging me here @rstarsims3! and @drawing-way-outside-the-lines here! <3

1. Are you named after anyone?

Kind of, but it's a long and convoluted story that would reveal too much about how low class I am, LOL.

2. When was the last time you cried?

Last night, reading super emotional fanfiction.

3. Do you have kids?

I have a brat-monster, does that count?

4. Do you use sarcasm a lot?

5. What sports do you play/have you played?

Blitzball in Final Fantasy 10 was the closest I ever got to playing sports, and I suck at it, LOL!

6. What’s the first thing you notice about other people?

I always wanna know their zodiac sign--it WORKS, shaddup.

7. Scary movies or happy endings?

Happy endings.

8. Any special talents?

My astonishing tolerance for BS.

9. Where were you born?

NYC.

10. What are your hobbies?

Playing The Sims 3 (Gwent's tryna take over my life again), watching anime, and reading.

11. Do you have any pets? 

Never. :(

12. How tall are you? 

5'3"

13. Fave subject in school?

History & Art

14. Dream job?

Any job is great at this point, jfc. U_U

15. Eye colour?

Brown.

I tag anyone who wants to be tagged--y'all know how lazy I am.

[murfeelee]

My New Years Resolutions - Simming in 2023

Welp, my 2022 Resolutions were a total bust. 🤦 I figured they would be though; this new grad school program I’m in is RUTHLESS--they don’t believe in sleep! I passed all my classes though, thank heaven--I was SO nervous to see my grades this morning. 😅🎉 And I managed to make a tiny dent in my research over winter break! Huzzah! 

So, as for 2023, I’m just gonna keep tryna do as much as I feasibly can.

OLD stuff I REALLY need to get to work on include:

Uploading some Dragon Age CC. Y’all. Y’all don’t even know how long I’ve been sitting on a effton of conversions I haven’t even had time to test in-game yet. 😩 I haven’t touched my DAI gameplay in AGES, and I miss it.

Uploading some Bleach CC. There are a LOT of imperfections, which is why I haven’t given y’all anything yet, cuz CAS CC drives me effing crazy. But there’s at least some stuff I think I can get away with sharing. I’d also LOVE to finish my Substitute Shinigami Arc gameplay, and hopefully start the Soul Society Arc sometime this year.

Uploading some The Untamed CC. Jfc I’m not making any progress with my big projects--I just keep bouncing from one thing to the next. But I actually think I can start giving y’all stuff I’ve been working on--again, none of it’s perfect, cuz I suck.

Uploading some CDPR CC. I’ve been meaning to keep working on a bit more Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 CC, but other stuff keeps getting bumped up my list! CDPR’s stuff is so effing high poly though, which makes me hate even touching those games; it’s always a massive headache dealing with AAA game assets. 

The only NEW stuff currently consuming my every waking moment of course includes:

Giving y’all more scrumptious Interview with the Vampire goodness. There’s a ton of gameplay left that I couldn’t finish over Winter Break that I still wanna do, and I have CC that I want to share very soon. (^_^)

Doing Hell’s Bells, Campaign 3 of Critical Role. I was working on it right before Simblreen caught up with me and I had to drop it; so I want to hurry up and get back to that, since I managed to make some pretty cool CC for that gameplay.

Yeah, other than all that, there’s always my usual holiday uploads for Lunar New Year, Black History Month, my birthday (yes, it’s a holy day for me, shaddup), Pride Month, and Halloween.

I have a lot planned, so hopefully that’ll all keep me in a good mood while I struggle with everything else on my plate IRL. 🙄

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Thanks for reading!

Stay tuned, and Happy New Year!

[murfeelee]

D&D / Critical Role INSP - Tea and Cupcakes

Caduceus and Jester enjoy some light refreshments in the Blooming Grove.

MY THOUGHTS (aka: ranting about CC; read: cry for help)

I posted this at MTS, but figured I’d talk about it here, too.

My evil plan was to make that giant flower actually functional, instead of just decor. The mesh was actually much smaller, but I made it huge so it could be one of the dew flowers from Into the Future. I THOUGHT it was gonna be a simple process: clone of of EA’s flowers, and swap out the meshes and textures, and enjoy. But joke’s on me!

LIKE WTF IS HAPPENINGGGGGGGGGGG?????????

As soon as my sim interacts with the flower in any way (shaking it, & collecting dew), it magically reverts back to EA’s mesh and texture, even though I ALREADY EFFING REMOVED THEM IN TSRW.

Once the interaction/animation is done, it goes back to the custom mesh & texture, and I have zero idea what is going on.

As far as I can tell, it’s not a geostate issue (cuz it doesn’t have any?); so I wonder if it’s an animation & bones//joints issue? Or if it’s linking itself to EA’s flowers through some unholy force? Is this a S3PE job?

UGH!

Whatever--y’all are getting the rest of the CC tomorrow; I’m done effing around with this stupid thing. [EDIT] Yeah, about that -- procrastination, thy name is Murf the Derp Queen.

[murfeelee]

My New Years Resolutions - Simming in 2022

Honestly? I have no idea WTF I’m gonna do. U_U

The main goal is just to do whatever I can whenever I can. Last semester I had like -0 free time and got zilch done. I have one less class this semester thank heaven, but I want to use that time to bone up on my appalling Greek & German (and I still need to start French and I have no idea when TF I’m gonna manage that on top of everything else I effing HATE grad school who came up with this BS shoot them for me).

The evil plan is to catch up on the gameplay I’ve been neglecting:

I NEED to return to my Dragon Age: Inquisition stuff. Y’all don’t even know how much content I’ve been sitting on all this time (conversions & gameplay) that I never finished, cuz I’ve got the attention span of a gnat and one too many hyperfixations.

Speaking of, I just left my The Untamed/MDZS gameplay hanging, right when I was making some headway. Oops?

The main thing I’ve been working on during this winter break is my Bleach/Burn the Witch content. As soon as the TYBW trailer dropped this December I was like Omg I have until October 2022 to catch up on my gameplay posts; I’m never gonna make it in time! (Any of y’all following my personal blog know I’ve been freaking out, I’m so excited, BLEACH IS BACK, BABY! ^0^)

I also want to do a teensy tiny bit more Cyberpunk 2077 content--it’ll be nothing like the Year of C2077 I did for 2021, with new releases every single frikkin month, but there was stuff left on the backburner when I realized I was running out of time. 

On top of all of that, there’s also my regular holiday uploads. February is always brutal for me since Lunar New Year and Black History Month are usually in the same dang month. Then there’s my bday upload in April. Then Pride Month in June. Then it’s the homestretch to the biggun: Simblreen in October.

As it stands though, something’s gonna have to give in 2022; I’m calling it right now. I’m just not gonna have enough free time. *sigh* Send Pepsi.

[murfeelee]

Sorry; no Bleach today. Hopefully over the weekend I can queue up some more posts, but I have a ton of homework, and literally zero time. U_U

[murfeelee]

Hi there, just a question for you if you have the time ♡ I know that you allow people to convert your Cyberpunk items from TS3 to TS4 freely (you are amazing, you know that?). However since I have the game, do you have or know of a tutorial for exporting from my files? The one I found was very general, very not 'beginner friendly'. Else I will just bring some of your stuff over if it's not been done yet, miss having them in my game (and base game TS4 only is limited). Love you ♡

Hi! Yeah, feel free to convert whatever; I think CC TOU/policies are ridiculous, and perversely counterproductive to uploading content publicly on the internet anyway.

Just be warned that a lot of my CC's not that great, cuz C2077 uniquely does not use or include typical diffuse textures, so I had to make many of the textures myself (and that's never a good idea, LOL). Not to mention, I had to shave off 1/2 - 3/4 of the polys on most of the meshes, cuz they're just excessively high. Even after decimating the polys they're still too dang high. It's been a pain in the neck to do anything with this effing game, even when not actually playing it! (－‸ლ)

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Welcome to Murf’s School of Crap and Crap-Making!

School Motto: Prepare to be tortured! For Science!

Lesson #6B: MORE ON GAME EXTRACTING (PT2)

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Trust me: extracting from C2077 in general is not very beginner friendly--this is the hardest game I've ever converted from, next to all the Koei Warriors games. Because not only did I have to use EFFING COMMAND LINES again, but the way CDPR arranged the game files (particularly the textures--or lack thereof)--were just saturated in demonic energy.

Mind you, I extracted C2077 back in the EARLY days, within the first weeks of the game's release, way before the Toolkit updated and got a GUI and CDPR released its dev toolkits for modders, so it’s possible I’m giving you outdated information, as the process nowadays might be pretty different from how it was back when I did it.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I used the CP2077 Toolkit here, and followed the steps here.

To be fair, the steps themselves are actually very straightforward. I'm just a lazy, spoiled little ingrate who likes nice clean and simple GUI tools so i can click a button and see all the meshes & textures and go about my frikkin day. But no, instead i have to sit here with EFFING COMMAND LINES and try to figure out WTF these lines of code & text frikkin mean, with zero mesh preview tool to speak of. So I literally have no frikkin idea what anything looks like until I import it into Milkshape/Blender/3DS Max. GRAND. 🤬

(My horoscope told me I needed to get more sleep, and boy they weren't kidding, cuz I'm ornery AF today. 😩 )

But yeah, basically all you have to do is open the CP2077 toolkit .exe, and use the format the steps provide you with whatever the directory is where you installed the game.

As I've explained before in Pt1, all games bundle their files differently, so the trick with extracting is just to figure out what kind of bundle it is, what's in it, how to open it, and how to convert the mesh files into .obj format and the textures into .dds format.

For C2077, most of the files are in typical .bin files, with the meshes (.mesh files) & textures (.xbm files) in content\basegame_4_gamedata.archive | content\basegame_3_nightcity.archive |

So all you have to do is follow the steps and the formats they give you: copy/paste their extraction format code, and the "path to archive" is your installation directory: (e.g.: "archive -e -p "F:\Games\Cyberpunk2077\archive\pc\content\basegame_4_gamedata.archive" -w *.bin" to extract the .mesh files; or "archive -u --uext dds -p F:\Games\Cyberpunk2077\archive\pc\content\basegame_4_gamedata.archive -w *.bin" to extract the .dds files from the Gamedata bin archive).

Then just wait several HOURS (no exaggeration) for each archive to extract. I let mine run overnight for a a day or two--it took bloody frikkin forever.

Once you have all the meshes extracted, the good news is that converting them to .obj files The Sims can read is very easy, cuz all you have to do is use good ole NOESIS, THANK GOD~! ^0^ (Noesis can also open the .xbm texture files, BTW--it’s that clutch; I keep telling y’all.)

The issue with the textures is that C2077 just legit doesn't have many. 💀 It's a feature, not a bug--instead of using diffuse textures (like The Sims' overlay/multiplier diffuse), games like C2077 and Call of Duty instead use materials--kind of like the sample fabric swatches in a textiles shop or tailor, with dozens upon dozens of simple materials & microblends & patterns (a leather print, a metallic sheen, a paisley pattern, etc) shared between all meshes. It’s awful.

So you the extractor/porter/converter are now left with the sad task of patching all these materials together to make a lick of sense on a mesh that might very well use 100 different material files (no joke!) rather than 1 or 2 diffuse textures. And WOE BE UPON YOU if you’re trying to convert it for The Sims 3, where meshes can only use textures on ONE UV Map. The saving grace of TS3′s UV Mapping is that we have CASt, so often we can get away with having plain multipliers, so long as the RGBY Mask allows us to have recolorable channels that do a lot of that heavy lifting for us with patterns & color wheels. For TS2/TS4, however, I imagine more work would need to be done providing swatches, as nothing’s recolorable in those games.

So REJOICE at the pithy handful of actual diffuse textures (mostly decals & posters, etc) that CDPR bothered to grace us with in C2077--they're acts of mercy, I promise you. 🙏

And speaking of UV Maps--C2077′s are upside down. Which is absolutely frikkin lovely; who doesn’t love extra work, seriously. 😒

But yeah, that’s it for extracting, really.

Again, the method I used might be outdated by now, since I did all of mine in December 2020/January 2021, and I haven’t needed to stay up to date with the tools or anything since i already got what I needed out of them. :\

[murfeelee]

About damn time!!! Welcome back :D

Thank you! ❤️ Facts! Some people got their blogs back in a matter of hours. But I had to wait a full week, so I was super scared, like dang, Tumblr effing hates me. 😨😅

[murfeelee]

Weekend! Replies!

I am so freaking exhausted, y’all. I’m not even gonna have a decent summer break this year, since I’ll need to prepare all kinds of crap for school, not to mention the utter shitestorm of RL mess about to blow my way. URGH. I just want to sim in peace, gosh darnit!

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Replies

headspacedad replied to your post “RoM Requests Miniset”

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!! <3

YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! <333

eisfee replied to your post “RoM Requests Miniset”

Soo cool! Thank you

rachel-homeanddesign-sims replied to your post “Paranormally Magical!”

It's brilliant!

solori replied to your post “Paranormally Magical!”

amazing!!

themaresnestdumblr reblogged your post “Paranormally Magical!”

You have just provided us with EXACTLY what we were looking for - brilliant work!

Thank you all! ^_^ I’ve been coveting the Paranormal spectral jar since the moment I saw it, and figured they’d make cute fishbowls.

I’m just sorry that I don’t know how to do something REALLY cool, like modding the RoM familiars as functional ITF EP HoloSprites. I did try, but it’s just waaaaay above my skillset. I’m a passable converter, but a garbage modder. 😔

By the way, if anyone was wondering, I already converted the RoM Voodoo Doll Familiar here: https://murfeelee.tumblr.com/post/190893719466/voodoo-hoodoo-2020-collection

nahoccfinds reblogged your post “Simblreen 2020 Pt1 - Megaset”

This is amazing! TYSM!!!

I’m glad you like it! :D I love Simblreen; it gets my creative mojo amped up!

nahoccfinds reblogged your post “Simblreen 2020 Pt3 - Hanging Chairs”

Loveee!!!! I want it irl 😂

ME TOO! I would love to have a whole goth-bohemian home IRL. Until then, there’s always The Sims! XD

nahoccfinds reblogged your post “LGBT BLM Solidarity Collection”

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nahoccfinds replied to your post “TS4 to TS3 Hairs for AM”

This is amazing!!!  How are y’all getting your plugs to look so good?! I found some for download + lobe sliders, but it still won’t work                            

Those particular plugs are part of Biscuy’s set here, and yes, in CAS they are a pain in the effing eardrum to skintone-match, omg.

It just takes a lot of trial and error (and a lot of patience). They are gorgeous in Live Mode once you get them as close to the skintone as you can.

themaresnestdumblr reblogged your post “The Mists of Avalon CAPTIONS AS TEXT - (Yennefer)...”

‘And it was foretold that the one called Murfeel would release a Swan Boat and a Legendary Silver Sword, and that on that day there would be much rejoicing and fangasms in awesomesauceness.’ 

Omg now you’ve got me wanting to watch sooooo much Monty Python! XD

ratztom replied to your post “The Mists of Avalon CAPTIONS AS TEXT - (Yennefer)...”

I’m still in love with this boat ! 🥰😍

It’s coming, come hell or high water! Particularly high water!

Alright; enough Monty Python gifs; I’m gonna go watch The Holy Grail, I can’t.

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Happy Simming!

[murfeelee]

My Sim Bin Collage - Pt2A

I was tagged by @astraeanevermore to do the 9 Sims Faces Collage here. There’s no way I can choose just 9. So I just took CAS screencaps of the Young Adults I’ve made since my Sim Bin Collage Pt1 post back in 2018.

For Pt2B I’ll do the Adults, Kids, Elders, and whatever Y/A sims got left out cuz AGAIN I forgot to save them to my bin; why am I like this.

[murfeelee]

Sakura and Ryuu in What Magazine - Exposé!

SimNation is scandalized by news of power couple Sakura Rain and Ryuu Tsumajiro's indiscretion!

- What Magazine, August 2020

MY THOUGHTS & CC CREDITS

MY THOUGHTS

Chile, I don’t know! XD This is what happens when I’m sleep deprived, on a strict diet of plantain chips and Pepsi, and with too much free time on my hands.

CC CREDITS

- Magazine layout credits to Who Magazine’s gossip cover I found here

- Magazine pages PSD overlay

- SSNS EP Leaf Pile retexture in beta by me

- Tree retextures in beta by me