#but now that I redid my mods I might

[my-alternatevy]

Dancy dance

[ravasheencc]

Is everything you put out going to be early access from now on? I mean I know you've released a few things without patron, but the vast majority haven't been. (I can understand though - 6k subs at 1$ min - youre making bank!)

All of my TSR stuff is released on a date and not early access. I did release a Shop Consumables update not early access just today (and actually included an item that was supposed to be released end of the month). But you are right in that most of my recent items have been early access. I truly do struggle with choosing to release things early access or right away but here is my thought process:

Having patreon support has let me focus more time on creating and learning how to mod. It has really been a huge driver for creating. Financially it helps, but more than that it is the community of supporters that is so motivating. I am constantly getting feedback from my patrons and having them test things as I go - one of the reasons I redid my buffet from scratch 3 times in order to create the best possible content. Having patreon support has also enabled me to get more programs like Substance Painter which improve the quality of my work. 

I have set my lowest tier at $1 which is the minimum I can do. I have really tried to make my work accessible and available to everyone. At a $1 tier you get access to everything - not just the current month’s content like many Sims 4 creators do. 

And I know it seems like I put a bunch of content out quickly recently. But most of these projects have been a WIP for months and only recently have I been able to complete them due to learning more over time.

So long story short - I will still put out content right away, but I am putting out significantly more content than I used to and some of that will be early access dependent on the effort that went into it.

Final note - I wish I had 6k subs. I am not sure where you got that number from but I have about ~1.5k patrons. And keep in mind roughly 30% of the pledges goes to payment and platform fees. Last month I paid $600 in fees alone. So what you might be estimating isn’t completely accurate.

[ofgodsandllamas]

THE COVEN

Am supes excited about this household I’ve put together for Realm of Magic - and tbh the entirety of the game cos I’m so behind on everything but anyway! I redid my whole TS4 mods folder and now that I have a CAS that’s easier to navigate and find things I CAN MAKE ADORABLE SIMS AGAIN?!

Meet Marnie Moonfrye. 

The best times of her life are the summers she spent at her Great Aunt Helen’s home in Glimmerbrook. It was a curious little corner of the world, fantastical with a hint of something magical. Marnie’s mother was always fast to shut down that thought, though, insisting that Glimmerbrook was as perfectly as normal as Windenburg. Marnie disagreed; there was something about the way the world felt, how it charged her as she and Great Aunt Helen tended the garden, lovingly plucked herbs and flowers, the way the foliage seemed to bring life to all it surrounded. 

As such, Marnie dedicated her life to uncovering the secret truths that not even Great Aunt Helen would reveal. Surely there is something more than this mundane life, something magical. Her friends might think she takes this whole spellcaster thing a bit far, but no one dares try to reign her in. That’s just who she is, they say. 

The recent passing of Great Aunt Helen was, indeed, a sad affair for Marnie, who holds those memories with such fondness in her heart. But the relationship they forged might just lead to the truths Marnie seeks: she’s inherited Great Aunt Marnie’s old home in Glimmerbrook, and with her very best friends, she’s off to seek what she’s always been certain exists: magic. 

Traits: Loves the outdoors, outgoing, bookworm

[blazehedgehog]

Happy Thanksgiving, Blaze! What are your thoughts on SRB2 Kart?

I’ve been sitting on this for a while because I’d wanted to play SRB2 Kart but never got around to it until now.

A couple years ago, I’d said that one of the things I’d like to make was “The Mugen of Kart Racers.” Now, we’ve gotten kart racers before that have tried to let you build tracks or create characters – ModNation Racers, Zero Gear, etc. But the emphasis here is “Mugen.” Mugen is a piece of software that’s supposed to let you make your own fighting game, but what it really means is that a bunch of people port in stages and characters from other games so you can have Terry Bogard fight Ky Kiske in a wrestling arena ripped from Midway’s Wrestlemania game on the 32X.

I wanted THAT, but for kart racers.

I think that might be what SRB2 Kart is. People are already going nuts making all kinds of racers for the game.

And the game ships, with, what? 30? 40+ tracks? Which cover a huge mix of original environments, Mario Kart ports, Sonic Drift remakes, and adaptations of concepts from games like Sonic Adventure. It’s a truly impressive thing.

On top of all that, it seems to play pretty well, too! You do kind of have to get used to the controls a little bit (mainly drifting), but I wouldn’t call the controls bad. They’re just not Mario Kart. They have their own flavor.

The tracks themselves are surprising in a lot of ways. We’ve known for a while that SRB2′s branch of the Doom Legacy engine was getting big upgrades behind the scenes to support sloped floors and whatever, but SRB2 Kart goes nuts with these new features to create something that looks like it should be impossible to make in Doom. I don’t just mean floor-over-floors, or slopes-over-slopes, I mean, like, interactive polygon objects in stages, 3D skyboxes, and more.

And it all works. Plus looks good! Like, I don’t think it’s a secret that I used to think vanilla SRB2 wasn’t really to my tastes, visually, which is why I ended up making a whole texture pack back in the day that redid almost the entire game. Here, though… the SRB2 Kart development team effortlessly utilizes existing SRB2 assets with new stuff to make what I would actually call a very impressive looking game considering the engine’s origins.

I only really have three major problems.

One, the game is 100% focused on multiplayer. If you’re looking to race, with all the proper items and everything, you have to open the server browser and look for an open game with active players. As of this writing, it is a Sunday night, around 8:30pm, and there are exactly six available servers, and only one is populated with a paltry 3 players.

The only offline mode is time trials, and you race against SRB2 Kart staff ghosts (read: you’ll never catch them). Which dovetails in to my second problem: even though time trials don’t seem to phone home to any kind of online leaderboard, you cannot use modded characters out of concern for “cheating.” Dynamite Headdy? Mario? You can only use them when racing against live humans.

The third complaint would be about track design. With so many included tracks, it’s obvious that not all of them were created equal. Most of them are totally fine, and all of them really stretch the limitations of this engine, but every now and then you’ll hit one with a particularly narrow road around a hairpin turn with no guard rail, or a mesh fence texture will get lost in the noise and you won’t know what’s safe to drive on and what’s a bottomless pit. Some would say that variety is the spice of life, but if I lose a race, I’d rather it be because I was too slow as opposed to blaming an annoying track hazard.

I suppose a secret fourth complaint is this game could use a lot better documentation, because I downloaded the Mario character mod shown above, enabled him in game, and after it complained I couldn’t use modded characters in time trial mode, I tried to disable him only to find the game wouldn’t let me. I don’t know if I was hitting the wrong key, or what, and the readme.txt just lists GNU licensing information and has links to the SRB2 Kart social media stuff. Compared to how robust the rest of the game feels, it’s one part that feels shockingly undercooked. I shouldn’t have to join a Discord or post on a forum just to get a basic outline of how a menu works (or why it wasn’t letting me do what I was trying to do).

But, yeah, man. That thing’s super rad. I just hope they have plans for CPU races in the future.

[larynx-lover]

The Making of Wonder Woman

Okay so we’re gonna take a quick break from medical content so I can talk to y’all about what I’ve been busy with for the past few weeks outside of applying to residency.

My halloween costume. 

I’ve known since last halloween that I would be Wonder Woman this halloween. And then the movie came out and everyone told me I looked like her again and so the deal was sealed. Unfortunately, all of the store bought Wonder Woman costumes are.... pretty inaccurate looking. When I do Halloween, I do it big. And when it comes to my favorite super hero... well, let’s just say I wasn’t going to settle for something crammed into a bag. After scanning the internet, it was clear that I couldn’t shell $500-$1000 dollars on a professionally made WW costume... so to save some money and get the costume I wanted, I decided to do it myself. Here was the result:

NOT BAD, RIGHT?? I had never done anything like this before, so I’m pretty proud of myself. (also sorry the picture quality is meh. I’m getting the iPhone X this week and then DEFINITELY re-take pics. Honestly, I might do a photoshoot. I don’t know)

People have been asking like crazy, so I’m going to breakdown how I made the costume a little bit here to cover the basics. For the most part, all of this can be found on youtube, but I’m going to post my pics here just to take y’all through my process.

First: Making the mold. You’re gonna need help. Wrap yourself in Saran Wrap and get someone to put duct tape all over you to get a pattern the shape of your body. I had my brother help. 

Draw markings where you want to cut the tape off and to help you line up the edges, then take those pieces, make notches in them so they will lay flat, and trace the patterns onto EVA floor mat foam. Then, cut out the foam, heat it with a heat gun and hold it against your body to make it curve correctly, then use liquid cement to glue everything together.

So once that was done, it was time to make the pattern on the armor like Wonder Woman’s armor. For this, I used a soldering tool that’s shaped like a pen. First I freehanded the pattern from her armor onto the foam with a pen. There has to be a better way to do this, but I don’t know what it is. When I started, it was kinda rough because I didn’t let it heat up all the way before I started carving and that made my lines kinda scraggly at the start. Luckily, I got the hang of it. 

Now for the REALLY hard part... making the gold top of the armor. Holy cow. This part took me a day and a half. So I drew it on heavy poster board paper and cut it out, taped it to the armor, redid it again... and again... and again...

Once the paper was perfect, I cut the foam out and again glued it all together and taped it to the rest of the armor to make sure it looked right.

This was on the Tuesday before Halloweekend. I only had about 4 days to finish the whole rest of the costume... At this point I pretty much had all the supplies I needed, I just needed to really start putting everything together. 

Next came the belt. Which sits flush with the bottom of the armor. To accomplish this, I took thin paper and drew the shape of the belt I needed on top and then transferred that onto the foam. I cut the belt out of the EVA foam I used for the armor and dremeled down the back of the belt and the bottom of the armor in the shape of the belt so that they fit together. Then... it was painting time.

First I covered all the foam in black plastidip, which is a rubber spray coating. It seals the foam for painting.

The gold metallic spray paint was very easy to find. Any Walmart is gonna have it. The red metallic spray paint.... not as easy. Hobby Lobby, Walmart, Michaels... they all failed me. What didn’t fail me? O’Reilly Auto Parts. Grabbed a can of metallic car paint and HOLY COW. Man that stuff works wonders. I only needed one small can, which was good since it was the only can they had in stock. It’s great stuff. 

I’ll be honest... I had to be convinced to weather my costume. I wanted it to look all brand new and shiny and like Diana had just stepped off the island... I’m glad my friend told me to not do that. I cut notches into the armor with a razor blade and held my heat gun over it, causing the foam to open up. Then I went over it with black paint and wiped it away so it stayed mostly in the cut. And get this- that little pink tube? Old mascara. The brush gave me the perfect worn metal texture I needed. On the bodice of the armor I also filled in the grooves with black paint to give them more dimension, and I did a little shading work, which I didn’t photograph. I’m sorry. But here’s what the bodice looked like after I finished painting.

HUGE difference, right? I actually went and weathered the top even more after this picture was taken. I attached the belt with velcro (honestly, don’t do this. Just use super glue. Use all the super glue) and the top with liquid cement.

So what was left at this point? Skirt, gauntlets, arm band, lasso? For the record, I bought the boots and the tiara. I’ll link them at the bottom.

For the skirt, I bought some kids XL volleyball shorts from Academy, brown leather from Hobby Lobby that was some kind of furniture fabric, a gold paint pen, and blue spray paint. I bought high gloss. I should have bought matte. Hindsight. I had to wait to do the skirt until the belt was done, because that’s how I based my measurement of how wide the front flaps needed to be. The middle one is just wider than the bottom of the W. I patterned the pieces looking at a reference picture of Wonder Woman, and I tried to staple them onto the shorts, which did not work because staples are not stretchy and the shorts are. I ended up whip stitching some pieces and glueing others literally while the shorts were on my body. I wish I had pictures of this process, but I’ll post the youtube video I used for guidance down at the bottom. Anyway, then spray paint, then gold paint pen to do the gold details on the bottom of the skirt.

Ugh. Gauntlets. So hard. Went back to the 3mm craft foam. wrapped it around my wrists to get the size they needed to be. Again, while looking at reference pics, I drew them by hand. 

I should have plastidipped these, but then I’d lose my markings. I ended up just painting straight onto the foam. Probably should have mod podged them first, but whatever. Gold and black paint pens are your best friend for this.

Arm band. I looked up a reference image, enlarged it on my computer screen, turned up the brightness, and traced it onto paper and then transferred it to the foam. Sprayed the foam with metallic spray paint, then weathered pretty much as before. With black paint and mascara. 

The gauntlets and arm band were held together with velcro. I just made them overlap at the back. I took the easy way out. I admit that. I used a shortcut. TAKE THAT ORTA PHONE INTERVIEW. YES I BELIEVE IN SHORTCUTS. Still turned out great.

For the lasso of truth, I just bought rope and spray painted it gold, and bought 2XL brown belts from Walmart and super glued them together to get the rope holster.

To get the armor on, I cut it down the back and laced it up with more gold rope. make sure you put the holes far enough apart that the foam won’t tear.

And then I just... put it all together! Skirt went on first, then a tube top under the armor, then the boots, then the armor (because you basically can’t bend over in the armor to put on the boots), then all the arm stuff and the tiara.

I’m blonde right now, so to get dark hair I used a black rinse from Sally’s beauty supply to darken my base, and then that black powder hair spray from Party City. Please do this BEFORE you do your makeup and maybe do it outside so the black powder doesn’t get all over your bathroom. and cover your shoulders and arms and face because it gets EVERYWHERE. Or buy a wig. Up to you. I also tried to contour my face to look more like Gal Gadot. Whether or not that was successful.... who knows?

(taken from a friend’s snap story)

So that’s that. That’s how I did the thing. Below are all the links I promised.

Breastplate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlmLchJcT7A

Skirt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2GFmSqg7V0&t=229s

Gauntlets: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c25sKA2LpLc

Click for Tiara Click for Boots Click for Plastidip Click for Red paint

[littlewalken]

Nov 17

I don’t want to think about my life right now or what’s going on with the cats and their accidents so I’ll think about my dolls and stuff. 

Having thought about it the one Barbie head sculpt I would like to find, original or reproduction, is the Mod Barbie era Casey/Twiggy. I have a Barbie, Stacey, and PJ from that era. I like that old Stacey too and have my eye on a couple of TLC heads but if I don’t get them I’ll live.

Got to take more pics of the afters because the only one I could find is the Barbie in Titian. The blonde has pink hair, Stacey has white and I redid her lashes, PJ is going to be given a light blonde because it’s a nicer quality of hair and she’d otherwise be the cheap gilr out and it would show. 

I think I might be a bit thick with my plugs, I do needle and thread, and they could use some styling. I know I’ve been arguing with Stacey’s bangs. 

Rerooting is another one of those things where I want to use up and kind of clean out the supplies I have then start over. 

Some years ago I was rerooting and selling Monster High dolls to pay for my Monster habit. There’s a Spectra with glow in the dark hair, a Frankie with neon pink, a Frankie with a neon rainbow, and a Clawdeen with long creamy blonde hair among others out there.

I also did a Steffie face TnT with red and white peppermint candy stripes I had hoped would sell for a hell of a lot more than she did. 

Another thing I did was keep all the trimmings I took off the Monsters.

I can’t easily find a pic of my Volks EBN tan Zoltan but his hair is Monster Trimmings. I also sold a Ken I did with Ghoulia trimmings. 

Roughly you can fill in a smaller fashion doll head with Monster High trimmings. 

^Long sold out Noix de Rome elf head on an Obitsu 27 hard bust in Dolly Hair Oyster Shell. Keeping her. Still in discussion what kind of face she wants.

^ Twilight Deadwood Edward in the left overs from an Ice Queen Spectra. The dolls can go but I’m keeping his clothes. 

^The ice queen. Someone’s gonna have a field day doing her all Frozen or something. I think there’s three colors going on with the hair, it’s been so long and several severe traumas ago. There’s definitely three colors because it takes three Dolly Hair hanks to get that length in a Monster and as you saw with Deadwood there should be enough left for a smaller head. His is super long too but the hanks could have been cut smaller. 

Usually I don’t rim the reroots, aside from making the ends even, because my goals are to get the colors right and I figure more hair is better than less. 

I’m half thinking about rerooting my old Darcie but I’m going to see how the holes line up with the neck. I could knot her, the Monster I did that way is holding up. 

I have quite a bit of doll knowledge and I want to organize it in to helpful posts for y’all and maybe some videos but in my current situation they’re not gonna happen. The situation is changing for the better. I just get the feeling that next calendar year will be a far easier time to look in to my local Independent Living place.

So yeah, if any of you doll peeps have any loose heads that might need some rerooting that aren’t the average Barbie sculpt drop me a line. I could at least look at them. Can’t say when I’d get to actually doing them but I could at least look at them.

*Well, fuck me. I found out Malibu PJ has the open mouth teeth smile and...

Guess who just bought a Malibu Sunset PJ, Francie, and Steffie face squad in need of some lubbins. Might be eating ramen for the Fest of Subjugation of Native Peoples but... Naw, doll money is separate from bills and food money. 

[incorrectfeaquotes]

Wowie u sew??? What a lucky duck! I've always wanted to get better in sewing but I'm so horrible at it. Do u have any tips for beginner seamstresses?

Oh boy do I.

Putting this under a read more cause this is basically Mod Sully’s stream of consciousness in regards to sewing:

Okay so, I kinda had an interesting time learning how to sew because I started with a broken sewing machine. Like, it couldn’t even sew for more than a few inches before it broke down. Total nightmare. Also when I began I had like the bare ass minimum of materials (regular scissors, a ruler, pencil). And it was a bitch to try to measure/hem/cut anything. So it was funny cause as I got better I also got better equipment. I actually redid some stuff for this year’s con and things came out sooooo much better.Granted, I’m still rather a novice myself (I didn’t start cosplaying until Junior year of college), but I’ll tell you some stuff I’ve been learning so you can benefit from my mistakes.

So here’s some of the Essentials that I’ve found to be super helpful:

Fabric Scissors. Trust me there’s a big difference between fabric scissors and regular ones. And once you have fabric ones, don’t use them for paper and stuff.

Water soluble fabric marker/pencil (I have a white one I usually use, then some blue chalk for white fabric. Don’t use pencil trust me on this one.)

Seam Ripper (super important. if you fuck up you can use this to take out the thread.)

Box of pins

Iron. Always iron your fabric before cutting or sewing. Also when using an iron, please test it on some of your scrap fabric first. You never know how it’s going to react to the material. This way you can find out what it can tolerate. I had some polyester-blend fabric that would get all gunked up somehow if I tried ironing it at too high a setting.

Masking tape (cause a lot of times you’ll need things to temporarily stick together and don’t want to get tape residue on it.)

Seam Gauge

X-Acto knife

Self-healing cutting board

Measuring tape (the tailor’s kind, not the construction worker kind)

Ruler, preferably see-through and a kind that won’t get cut into by an xacto knife

Test Fabric. I cannot stress this enough. I’m lucky cause I live in New York and we have an entire garment district full of fabric stores, but if you can find a Michael’s or a goodwill or something they’re also good places to check. In a fabric store you can usually find a discount bin with clearance fabric. You want to find something similar in consistency and stretchiness to your final fabric. I got some fabric for $3 a yard for my Foo Fighters test fabric.

One thing I’ve found particularly helpful is that you can get these little sewing kits at like Michael’s. I got one and have been using a lot of it to this day. It’s usually like a little pouch about half a foot long with some basics, like that little tomato you put pins in (which has come in handy for me) and some little spools of thread and a tape measure.

Not as essential but I’ve found to be lifesavers:

Drafting paper. This stuff is amazing for when you have to make your own patterns. I got like a huge roll for only five bucks, and it’s marked up in a grid in inches so it’s easier to make straight lines. Butcher paper works too.

Rotary cutter: For cutting long strips of fabric this saves me so much time and stress. Just be very careful not to cut yourself on it. It’s sharp! Also when you use a rotary cutter, have the cutting board underneath everything. Otherwise you’re gonna ruin whatever surface you’re cutting on top of.

So when I first started out it was with hand-sewing (the broken sewing machine wasn’t mine so I couldn’t always use it) which is a bitch a lotta the time. I mean, if you wanna do it I’m not gonna stop you. But I don’t really have any advice in this category cause all that time I just spent winging shit.

Okay so, Sewing Machine.

Some things that you definitely want a sewing machine to have are a Straight Stretch Stitch, Zigzag Stitch, and Overlock stitch (this is in place of a serger cause that’s like a whole nother machine it’s easier to just get a sewing machine with this thingy).

This is the sewing machine that I have. Again, only have a broken one to compare it to so I can’t really say if it’s better than most or not. I mean, I love it. Occasionally eats stretch fabric though if you’re sewing close to the edge of the fabric.

Also, when first starting out, don’t jump right away into your project. Get some scrap fabric and test out some of the stitching. Each one handles differently. And be careful to make sure you’re using the right foot and needle for the type of stitching (some need a twin needle and such.)

Stuff I’ve found useful:

In order to sew a straight line, you can use the Seam gauge to make some markers occasionally where the stitching is gonna go. Then, line the fabric up with the sewing machine (pay attention to where the needle is going to land. Always start sewing with the needle already dropped into the fabric). Take a piece of tape and place it alongside the edge of the fabric. Now when you’re sewing, just make sure that the paper stays right alongside that tape. Your line should be pretty straight! The gauge is just so you can occasionally look up and make sure you’re still goin the right way.

Also, if you put your needles in perpendicular to the direction you’ll be sewing, you don’t have to take the needles out as you go, you can just do that at the end!

I don’t know how other people do it, but when I have fabric that I’ve got to fold back to hem, what I do is put it on top of the pattern. The pattern should have the seam allowance on it marked. Then I stick a bunch of needles into it so the fabric and paper stay connected. Then, I use the rotary cutter/scissors to cut along the fabric so it matches up to the pattern’s shape. Then I take out the needles on one of the sides and start folding that side back to match up with the seam allowance, pinning a ton as I go so it holds in place, also putting some pins through into the paper too so it stays put for when I move to the other sides. This way you can make sure all your seam allowances are lined up!

If you want something to be symmetrical, make the pattern of just one half of it, then fold your fabric in half and pin it to the pattern. Once you’ve cut it out, if you unfold it it should be the full piece. This method also works for things like pants. Rather than cutting out both back legs at different times, you can just fold the fabric and cut through two layers to get two leg pieces.

Before you start sewing, make sure there’s enough thread in the bobbin. The bobbin’s the part with the string that goes inside the machine, rather than the spool of thread on the top (you use both). Sometimes you’ll be sewing a bunch of stuff and not notice the bobbin runs out, then you’re just left sewing completely unaware that nothing’s staying together and you gotta go back.

The sewing machine usually works with a pump. The harder you press down the faster it goes. Start out slow and then work your way to fast, but don’t go too fast cause then your sewing might get out of line if you’re not experienced with it.

Also keep an eye on where the fabric meets the needle and make sure the sewing machine continues to push the fabric forward. If it stays in one place, that means it’s stuck inside the machine. Fortunately with most sewing machines you can take the top part off that area and go inside and fish out the fabric. But there’s a good chance the fabric will be ruined.

Also, you will never have picked up all the needles. There are always going to be needles on the ground.

When you join two pieces of fabric together, make sure it’s on the side you’re going to have inside the clothing. In general just always make sure you’re sewing on the side you need to sew on.

Always cut a little bit more initially than you think you’ll need. You’ll narrow it down more when you get it over the pattern.

With stretch fabric, use either a zigzag stitch or straight stretch stitch. Also, if you attach stretch fabric to non-stretch fabric, it’s not gonna stretch anymore regardless of the stitch.

There’s a way to make it so that the stitching doesn’t show on the outside. It’s called facing, and I haven’t really mastered it yet. There’s tutorials for it online though.

If you have to sew designs to something, like letters or a patch, I’ve found that Heat n Bond works really well. It’s got this web stuff on the back that, while not permanent, keeps whatever you’re attaching stationary on the other fabric so you can sew it into place. When I do these things with stretchable fabric a straight stretch stitch is the best. You’ll have to go slow and also occasionally pick up the foot to slightly adjust the fabric for turns and such.

Also, since I’m doing cosplay I’m gonna reiterate something I remember reading a while back: Cosplay can be only two of these three things: Cheap, Fast, and Accurate. If you’re like me and want to go the Cheap and Accurate route, don’t be like me and start planning early. Don’t fall victim to Con Crunch.

Okay, that’s all I got for now, but if you got any other questions feel free to ask!

[heleuss]

 Hello,

It’s me.

After a much needed hiatus, I’m finally back in action!

You probably want to know that all this time I kept messing with game files, so now there’s fair amount of various mods accumulated on my hard drive. I thought I'd upload the files for those who might be interested.

Let’s start from something simpler. Say…

ME3 FEMSHEP HIGH QUALITY TEXTURES

(Please visit my flickr album for more pictures)

This is the massive redo of my old mod. Redid textures from scratch for much better details and overall appearance. I also tried to keep things as close to vanilla as possible, but you know how it always is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The mod has gained two additional face textures that are not present in chargen options, but could be spotted on female NPCs.

There are several .tpf files inside the archive:

[ME3] KH_femShep_face_textures.tpf contains all three complexion textures plus those additional ones I spoke about earlier;

[ME3] KH_femShep_eyelashes.tpf replaces dead tarantula legs with something that actually resembles eyelashes;

[ME3] KH_eyes.tpf applying this means changing all human/asari eyes (see picture for reference);

[ME3] KH_femShep_masks.tpf this file answers for much less pixelated makeup and replacing that fugly ME3 wrinkle mask (one that makes Shepard grimace like Grinch instead of smiling or frowning);

[ME3] KH_femShep_brows.tpf experimental mod, not properly tested in game, thus no guarantees it’ll work flawlessly. My ultimate goal was to recreate all 15 eyebrows in HR without straying too far away from their vanilla shape no matter how ugly it is. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You have two ways to get the mod to work: oldschool (applying .tpfs with TexMod) and modern (using ME3Explorer TPF Tools). Take your pick.

Note: I suggest Texmod for the first go in case you don’t like the changes. Applying textures with TPF Tools is permanent.

 Hate that I need to mention this, but I work hard on my mods and I’m not okay with people taking credit for them. Nope, slapping on some moles here and there doesn’t make it your own self-made complexion. Do whatever you want with the textures as long as it’s for your personal use only. No modifying and redistributing without permission. No commercial use.

 Credits go to 3d.sk for stock photos and voodooseason for lip gloss mask. DOWNLOAD

Enjoy!

Upd: please, re-download the mod if you have problems with TPFs not working with TexMod. (Thank you again, craseydreams29!)

[simper-fi]

Replies! <3

Regarding my CC hunt, defaulting, name mods, and some gameplay screenshots. :D

Ooh, what was it that you were looking for?

bennibenasi replied to your post “I. have been searching. for a SINGLE PIECE OF CC. for over an hour. ...”

I also want to know! maybe it's something I never knew I desperately need O_O

twofee replied to your post “I. have been searching. for a SINGLE PIECE OF CC. for over an hour. ...”

now i wanna know what piece of cc it was....

It was a plaid shirt by Mork! I remembered one that I used to have in my game before I redid my downloads folder and thought it’d be good for one of my defaults. I knew it was by Mork and I knew Aquilegia made the mesh, but the post had a broken image so I must’ve scrolled right past it. :P Which led me to searching on MTS, GoS, Google, and Pinterest for an hour...

ofgodsandllamas replied to your post “Back on the defaulting train...”

you've been so busy!

Hahaha, like I don’t have a million other things I should be doing! I’ve just accepted at this point that my hair retextures will never be finished, and neither will my defaults. :D I really just want to play but I need to build a cemetery for Sycamore Cove and I’m kind of balking at all the landscaping that needs to be done....

crystaldollhouse replied to your photoset “Xavier and Keffria strike me as that neighborhood couple that goes all...”

It looks SO cool. Halloween is not very celebrated where I live, I wish it was!

Awww, thank you! To be honest, I don’t celebrate Halloween too much either (most people around here just use it as an excuse to go out and get drunk, which is fine, but not for me :D). One year I’d like to do an actual Halloween party, where everyone really puts thought and work into their costumes, and we do Halloween things, like bobbing for apples (used to do that as a kid!) or watching a scary movie, or having spooky-themed snacks and drinks. :D (Not a Halloween party where everyone just wears a cat ear headband and calls it a costume, and everyone plays beer pong in the basement... been there, done that. :P)

didilysims replied to your post “corruptuslocus replied to your post: ...”

I use the second one. Haven't seen anything too crazy yet, but got some fun ones like Misery the cashier and my lovable Horton the business reviewer. I can definitely verify that I have never seen a name duplicated with it.

Awww, Horton! :P Misery is also quite an interesting name. I think I will change my name mod to that one, even though I rarely need to spawn new townies or NPCs anymore. But change can be fun! didilysims replied to your photoset “And Luna aged up at the same time as her dad, so I missed the...”

Oh wow--future heartbreaker!

Haha, especially in this town where affairs are rampant, Chase and Zynlos might do well to forbid her from going out until she’s 25! ;)

corruptuslocus replied to your post “corruptuslocus replied to your post: ...”

I had a dormie named Pharoah! Darcy and Nevena hated him and he ended up getting killed by ghosts. I think it was ghosts at least, because in my game's uni, its usually ghosts.

LOL well I wouldn’t expect anything less from the Death Dorm!

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Celebrity Drive: Todd Hoffman of Discovery’s ‘Gold Rush’

Quick Stats: Todd Hoffman, star of Discovery’s Gold Rush Daily Driver: 2017 Ram 2500 (Todd’s rating: 9.5 on a scale of 1 to 10) Other cars: see below Favorite road trip: Breckenridge to Fairplay, Colorado. Car he learned to drive in: 1980s Honda Civic First car bought: 1980 Chevy Monza

Although most people think the gold rush has come and gone, Todd Hoffman never got the memo. Hoffman has shown that one can still find success in gold mining in this day and age—and have a hit TV show to boot.

Photo courtesy Discovery Communications

When he’s not mining for gold and being filmed for Discovery’s Gold Rush, Hoffman always has a car project waiting for him. “I’ve got a lot of half-done projects sitting at home,” Hoffman tells Motor Trend.

In his projects, Hoffman seeks to preserve classic cars and their history yet adds newer parts below the hood. With his recent announcement that this season will be his last, Hoffman and his dad, Jack, might have more time to tackle car projects now that they won’t be on the show’s filming schedule.

1972 Chevy Camaro

Rating: 9

Hoffman is proud of the restoration of his split-bumper 1972 Chevrolet Camaro. “I put an LS motor in it; it’s a resto mod.” he says. “The newer Camaros—you’re kind of sitting down in. It feels like you’re too deep into the car and the windshield’s too small.”

For Hoffman, he appreciates the better visibility of older Camaros. “They’re cool,” he says. “A lot better than the newer ones. I would never buy a newer Camaro, but I sure like the older ones.”

Hoffman bought the Camaro specifically so he could complete the project. “I found a project that was half done and was able to finish it,” he says.

He says although he was born in 1969, this 1972 Camaro isn’t really about nostalgia and the cars he grew up around. “I didn’t make out with a bunch of girls in the back seat of one of those,” he says. “It’s more like I just liked the look of it. The guy had started on the project, and I was able to make a good deal on it and finish the project.”

Hoffman also wanted something to be able to just cruise around in. “It’s got a 400-something-horse engine in it,” he says. “It’s more of a driver. I didn’t want it to be like a drag racer. Some of the parts are new, and some of the parts are old. And some of the parts are new but look old.”

Hoffman likes old cars because they’re good project cars to work on with his dad. “We like to fix up old trucks,” he says. “My dad’s doing a 1959 Chevy Apache truck. And I just finished a 1949 Chevy truck 3100 five-window, and I turned it into a lowrider.”

1949 Chevy 3100 five-window truck

Rating: 10

“There’s a style that I like on the old trucks,” he says. “I like an old-patina truck that looks like it came out of the barn, has all the scratches and the old paint, but then it’s got brand-new running gear, brand-new engine, tranny, the interior’s all fixed up nice, but you leave the outside the way it was. The best of the old and the best of the new.”

Hoffman gives it a perfect 10 because he says it’s unique. “You do them differently, and you leave the old character,” he says. “You can see where some farmer welded on the bumper—he welded a little hook on there. You leave that kind of stuff.”

He loves the car’s lowrider vibe. “You hit the remote control, and you can lay it right on the ground, man,” he says. “The frame and everything—you can let all the air out and just lay it out on the ground. It looks cool. I chopped the frame, redid all the frame, put a new engine in it, new transmission and then a full Airtekk Air Ride system on it. … It’s kind of tricky. It’s not easy. There’s a lot to it.”

2017 Ram 2500

Rating: 9.5

Hoffman’s 2017 Ram 2500 diesel can be seen on Gold Rush. He’s particular on this choice of vehicle as well as the differences between a Chevy and a Ram truck.

“I’m really happy with it,” he says. “I got the Mega Cab short bed, but I use it mostly almost like an SUV. But I like Chevy Suburbans for my wife and everybody else. I got the Longhorn edition, so it’s got lighter tan leather in it. It’s nice.”

Hoffman rates it a 9.5 on a scale of 10 and also appreciates the Mega Cab truck’s spaciousness.

“[With four big guys inside], it’s nice to have the back seats lean down,” he says. “The back seats have heaters. … If you’ve got a little bit of a beer gut, it’s always nice to kind of lean back a little bit.”

There aren’t too many things he dislikes about the truck. “It actually rides pretty good, but it is still a little bit stiff,” he says, adding that he is happy that the big diesel truck gets 17–18 mpg.

2011 BMW X6

Rating: 9

“It’s fast, it’s sporty, but … it’s a small SUV—it’s only got four seats in it,” he says. “If you want to take another couple out and to get around town, it’s nice for two couples. What I’d like to buy at some point is a Porsche [911] Turbo, somewhere between 2013 and 2016. I like the Cabriolet [models]. That would be a wish.”

Hoffman loves his X6, giving it a 9 on a scale of 10, and says it’s nice even though it’s six years old. “It’s a V-8 twin-turbo, and I don’t know why, but I like that little SUV,” he says. “That’s what I drive around when I’m at home and not mining, and then my [truck] when I’m at the mines.”

There is one slight drawback about the BMW. “The head room—as you’re getting into it, you’ve got to squat down,” he says. “I’ve had a couple buddies who could barely get into it.”

Photo courtesy Discovery Communications

For fans wondering what Hoffman will do with his time without a TV show, he already has a full life even without a show. “I’m trying to work on my cars, I’m trying to stay married, I’m trying to be a good dad, and then I’m trying to sing,” he says. “I have five songs on the Internet. I’ll record a song and shoot a music video.”

One of the songs is a poignant rendition of “Sound of Silence,” as well as a cover of “Don’t Let the Sun.”

Car he learned to drive in

Hoffman learned to drive in his mom’s little 1980s Honda Civic. His dad taught him in it on the streets of northeast Portland, where he grew up.

“It was a stick shift, and it was hard to learn how to drive in it, but we were pretty poor, man,  so we didn’t have a lot of fancy cars and fancy things,” Hoffman recalls.

Although it was hard to learn on the manual Civic, it was easy on Portland’s suburban streets. “You try to start out driving in the neighborhood and then work your way into the busy city, but back then Portland wasn’t that busy,” he says.

Photo courtesy Discovery Communications

First car bought

After gold mining in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1985, Hoffman came home with some money that enabled him to buy a circa 1980 Chevy Monza for $1,500. Hoffman says that only a few folks are left who even know about the Monza.

“You never see them on the road,” he says. “It didn’t get me very many dates, but it got me through high school.”

Hoffman would often try to take the eight-cylinder Monza to its limits when he was on the freeway. “I was young,and it was awesome,” he says. “Why did any of us do that stuff? It was a horrible car to go 115 mph in. I’m surprised I’m alive.”

Favorite road trip

“I hate saying this: I have a big RV, a diesel pusher, and it’s fun to get the guys together and go on a road trip,” he says. “It’s fun to drive. It drives like a big Cadillac, but it’s 30 feet long. People don’t think that’s cool, but it’s fun when you pile in the guys and go for a roadie with your RV.”

He’s driven the motorhome all the way to the Yukon to mine for gold. “I like when we were all caravaning up to the Klondike,” he says. “It was fun. Now we mine in Colorado. The beauty up in the Rockies far surpasses the Klondike and whatever’s up north.”

Photo courtesy Discovery Communications

Hoffman particularly likes the drive from Breckenridge to Fairplay, Colorado. “The drives up here are just phenomenal,” he says. “You go up over the Continental Divide, and you come down into the Breckenridge ski area. It’s not a long drive, but it’s a good drive.”

Discovery’s Gold Rush, Fridays at 9 p.m.

Although much of earlier seasons were in Klondike, the current and final season is about finding gold back here. “I’m trying to mine gold in the United States,” he says. “People don’t think that you can do that anymore and it is a real thing. I’m trying to make a living, I’m trying to get as much gold as I can, I’m trying to feed my family, I’m trying to get as much gold for my guys, and in the meantime I’m getting followed around with this camera crew, and it’s just kind of odd. My son is 18 years old, and he’s kind of slowly taking over, and it’s been very fun to work with my family and watch my son. It’s pretty cool.”

Photo courtesy Discovery Communications

This season takes place in Fairplay, Colorado. “There’s some very difficult things that they’re going to watch, but overall it’s how one group of guys deals with adversity, and do we conquer adversity, or do it let run over us?” Hoffman says of this season. “There’s some crazy stuff. We actually put a guy in jail. Probably one of the most insane seasons we’ve ever shot.”

Hoffman sees the show as always being educational, and this season that means seeing more equipment and different equipment to find gold. “Guys love it,” he says. “It’s a worldwide hit.”

In his folksy manner, Hoffman reflects about what he most enjoys about the show. “You know what I like? It’s getting gold, because I don’t know if you’ve noticed what’s going on in the world,” he says. “We’re on the edge of nuclear war with North Korea, and that weighs on the mind of every man or woman at work or home. When there’s adversity in the world, gold goes up. Why? Because it’s a safe haven.”

Photo courtesy Discovery Communications

He said it’s good to have gold in the bank. “It’s a worldwide currency, and you kick the tires on gold,” he says. “That’s why I got into it, is I believe in gold and I want to get as much as I can for my family because you never know what’s going to happen out there.”

Gold Rush airs Fridays at 9 p.m., with the season finale on March 9.

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