#simsmadegeeky talks

[simsmadegeeky]

Just wanted to put out a quick note letting y'all know that retexturing all the default hairs in the sunshine system is not done and I will eventually be back at it.

I'm one of those people who often goes through intense periods of fixation before it tapers off either temporarily (TS2) or forever (Starfield). I can guarantee without a single doubt in my mind that I will always eventually get back to TS2. I've been playing it for almost 20 years at this point and I always come back.

I can't say when I'll be back to retexturing hair as I don't have much control over when the fixations end or begin.

But I wanted y'all want to know that I am still here and, I promise, I will eventually be back to retexturing. Thanks to everyone who follows me and likes my posts; it really does make me smile to see that people like my retextures.

[fireflowersims]

Project Mediafryer - Post-holidays Update

Hey everyone. Sorry for the lack of updates the last couple of days. Holiday stuff (rl&sims) tends to make archiving and writing updates difficult.

However, despite the Holiday season, work did not stop. In fact, it progressed very nicely. At this point in time only GoS's Request and wcif sections need to be downloaded. SimsCave is also almost done, with only the Saving the Sims (1) Archives and a few Sims 3 subforums still needing to be rescued. It is truly mindblowing how much has been done!

In any case, it's time to talk about the End-of-2020 CC-hoarding-sprint.

First of all, I'm asking everyone to look at the blogs spreadsheet to see if there's any that need to be added. So, if you don't see a certain mediafire-using blog on the sheet, add it!

I'm also asking people to submit any sims 1 sites or blogs to the TS1 sheet.

So, recently you may have seen @simsmadegeeky's tutorial on Octoparse. Well, they made both a Preset for Octoparse to make it easier to gather links and a spreadsheet for tracking sites that can be crawled with Octoparse. This has the potential to drastically speed up the entire archiving operation, especially on the livejournal, dreamwidth and tumblr front. (Both linked down below)

This is especially important, looking at the current status of the Default Database archiving operation. Most of the clothing sections still need to be done. By crawling the blogs of big-time defaulters (who use(d) mediafire), we can save a lot of time and effort.

Another Database we may want to look at is allthehairs. The spreadsheet for this will be up soon. I'm unsure if we can get it all done before the end of the year, but as the last couple of days have proved: The Sims Community is capable of great acts of data-hoarding and distribution in a very short amount of time.

2020 has been a rather awful year in all regards. Let's take the last days of the year to fight back against all this awfulness and enter 2021 with a bang. Spread the word, the more the merrier! We're gonna download everything we can and your help is NEEDED! the best time to join is NOW!

Download Octoparse Template

@sims2packrat @gardenofshadowssims @simscave

[simsmadegeeky]

VERY IMPORTANT! Please read the edit note above.

Again, apologies for any trouble this have caused. I will do my absolute best to make sure this doesn't happen again.

TS2 DEFAULT HAIR REPLACEMENT

All natural hair colors are Vidcund's Sunshine System and retextured by me unless otherwise noted. Credit and links for mesh, original defaulter, hair texture, and sims used can be found in the .rar file, if I could find the info.

barrettearmuffs_brown replaced with Anto Ainhoa

barrettearmuffs_black replaced with Simpliciaty March

barrettearmuffs_white replaced with Newsea Weed Flower

barrettearmuffs_pink replaced with Anto Marble

barrettearmuffs_blue replaced with Skysims 120

EDITED 2 DEC 2024: Originally the above barrettearmuffs_brown also defaulted simpleearmuffs_brown. I have now separated the two. Simpleearmuffs_brown (with this same hair) will be released soon. Sincere apologies for any trouble this may have caused.

[simsmadegeeky]

As a personal project (but that I'm planning on sharing), I'm making a spreadsheet of the hair and clothes each premade uses. And I've learned that, wow, they just did not care about men's hair at all.

Like, I know that are there are few male hairs to use in the game in general but still, of the 29 male (base game) premades that I've written info down for, 7 of them have had the shortcombed hair. Seven! That's almost 1/4 of the ones I have down. There are ~25 non-hat hairstyles for men and yet, somehow, the same hair is getting used seven times.

(The thought behind this sheet is so that I know what clothes I should try to keep similar, for character reasons, and which ones I could just totally go crazy with.)