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mysims-mod · 2 days ago

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Unused Essences - Part 1

Seven(!) years ago I wrote about the unused Hedgehog essence and mentioned that there was one other noteworthy unused essence to write about at a later date. It is now later.

But in the seven(!) years since I wrote that post, I discovered a whopping six(!) more unused essences that were previously unknown! I won’t be saving those for later though, I don’t want to wait until 2032! 😩

I originally wanted to do this all in one post. But I hit the 30 image power post limit! So instead I am splitting this into two parts. Part 1 will cover two essences that were previously known but I hadn’t written about here as well as two new unused essences and how these new discoveries were made. Part 2 will cover the remaining four new unused essences.

This is still going to be a long one, so without further ado, here’s Part 1 below the cut.

So first up we have Wood! Just wood.

This essence itself isn’t technically unused. But it isn’t accessible like other essences.

When building an object in the workshop in addition to using essences as paint, you also have access to a “default” swatch.

This is treated by the game as an essence of its very own, complete with its own DEF file and a unique <IsDefault> tag not seen in other essences.

By copying most of its properties over to a brand new essence file, it can be used like a normal essence!

The only things of note though is the flair model and the icons which are otherwise unused and never seen by the player.

The flair icon, strangely enough, is the same as the paint icons that can be seen in-game. The paint icon showcases an earlier style where they resembled actual paint pallets, as seen in some early footage.

The paint icon also showcases an earlier set of textures they planned to use. Unfortunately the textures for these no longer exist in the files though.

Fun fact about the wood essence model, is that it can be seen in some different early footage. Which is pretty neat!

Next up we have the Acorn, an actual unused essence.

This essence does not have any leftover data, and has to be reconstructed to be accessible in-game. Something that will have to be done for all of the remaining essences to discuss.

By copying and modifying an existing essence file, we can load it up in-game and see that it has a paint set! Sort of. The two patterned swatches work, while the flat swatches are pure white, just like the hedgehog essence.

There’s also a flair model leftover as well! Giving us a good look at what the Acorn essence would have looked like if it was finished.

These are the essences that have been known about already, in fact they have been on the Cutting Room Floor page for several years now. But these next five essences were completely unknown even to myself until just recently. But before I discuss the next few essences, let me explain how I was able to find them in the first place.

These new discoveries were actually made possible thanks to the Cozy Bundle, after “obtaining” a copy of the game, I was able to dump the ROMF, and look through all of the files. From there using Switch Toolbox, I could export all of the new HD textures to regular .PNG files, and amazingly enough, the original file names were intact!

Amazingly enough, all of the essences received new high-resolution textures, even though they are unused. Which is what I will be using for this blog post because seeing these in high resolution is just so much more pleasing to the eye.

Previous methods of dumping textures from the 2008 PC version of MySims did not retain the original file names. While all of the files necessary for these few next essences are inside the 2008 PC version, since the file names were unknown, they couldn’t be reimplemented, until now of course.

This little guy, called ‘applewood’, has a full paint set with fully working flat swatches unlike the previous essences, making it more complete than the other essences discussed so far.

There is also a paint icon leftover! But no flair icon to be seen…

Now internally while it’s referred to as ‘applewood’ the leftover text strings refer to it as ‘Light Wood’ instead, suggesting it was either an earlier incarnation of the final Light Wood essence, or had its original text strings overridden before a new entry made was made for the final Light Wood essence.

This next one is called ‘oakwood’, and with this one we’re back to only having two full pattern swatches and pure white flats.

But thanks to a leftover paint icon, we do know what they would have looked like. And it's brown and beige.

Interestingly this also has the same quirk as Applewood, where internally it is referred to as ‘oakwood’ but the leftover text strings refer to it as ‘Dark Wood’. Suggesting it was either an earlier incarnation of the final Dark Wood essence, or had its original text strings overridden before a new entry was made for the final Dark Wood essence.

Unfortunately This is where I have to cut off for Part 1.

Part 2 will have even more unused essences to discuss, and they get much, much more interesting from here.

You can read Part 2 here.

#mysims #mysims (game)#research #essences #the graphic design is load bearing here it needed the sauce it brings #but it's also why i had to split it up #tumblr my beloathed

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pnwfoodpolls · 2 days ago

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First, the award for this first initial misguided poll, Taco Time (overall) will recieve the Hidden Gem award! while it is visibly well loved, there is a significant amount of naysayers and critics, which brings us to the situation at hand: what's the difference between Taco Times in Western Washington, and Taco Times anywhere else?

In 1960, Eugene, Oregon, the very first Taco Time location was opened by owner Ron Fraedrick. Specializing in Mexican-American cuisine, it quickly became known for its original hot sauce recipe. Fraedrick partnered with a man named Frank Tonkin Sr. to open the first Taco Time location outside of Oregon, in White Center, Washington, 1962. (Some sites mention Tacoma, but for now I am going with White Center as the first Washington location.)

Fraedrick's Taco Time franchise, which was eventually bought by parent company Kahala Corporation, continued to expand; first covering the western states in the first decade, then eventually becoming internationally incorporated in 1975 in Lethbridge, Alberta.

In 1979, Tonkin split from the original Taco Time franchise, incorporating as Accord Inc. to continue operating his Taco Time restaurants with Western Washington. These restaurants were re-branded as Taco Time NW, or Taco Time Northwest- however, none of them have been openly rebranded as such, and still use the same signs and logos. These locations are still owned and managed by the Tonkin family, and is not affiliated with the Kahala Corporation (save for the Taco Time NW Wenatchee location, which seems to be floating in some murky grey area of mystery).

There are two Taco Time NW locations outside of the western washington containment area, being Wenatchee (as previously mentioned), and Moses Lake. I was unable to get a full clear picture of what Taco Time NW constitutes as the western washington containment area, but I can make an educated guess that if it is west of the cascades and south of the states/Canada border that is probably Taco Time NW, and if you are additionally north of Tacoma and east of the Puget Sound, that is definitely Taco Time NW, if you want to be absolutely certain than visit their Renton or Seattle locations. alternatively, the company website has a list of all their locations!

The two similarly named restaurants use differing ingredients and recipes, although both serve a type of "mexi-fry" (also known by other names, including pillow-fry), a formed clump of shredded and fried potato similar to a very small hashbrown. Taco Time NW is allegedly much more delicious and beloved than Taco Time under Kahala Corp.

sources: tacotime.com, tacotimenw.com, a Renton Reporter article by Dean Radford, and a Seattle Met article by Allecia Vermillion.

feel free to add fun facts or insight on this pnw food- however, please note that i plan to run two new polls in the future that distinguish between Taco Time NW and Taco Time (Kahala Corp), as these two are not actually the same thing anymore at all!

#hidden gem #eugene #white center #washington #oregon #1960 #1962 #mexican-american cuisine #kahala corporation #taco time nw #taco time

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undertheopensky · 1 year ago

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Concealed

Whumptober Day 15: Suppressed Suffering

Characters: Four

Trigger warnings: Stab wound, blood, electrocution, violence to a child (if you personally consider Four a child)

Spoiler warnings: This is set in the TotK Hyrule, so there may be some environment-related spoilers!

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Four huddles in a dark corner, nursing bruises and a new disdain for Wild’s ‘Yiga’ cult.

They definitely hadn’t been prepared to hold onto someone child-sized. Even at their tightest, it had only cost Four a little skin and some time to wriggle free of the manacles, and that gap above the door was clearly not supposed to be large enough to fit a whole person through. Sometimes, the side-effects of being immersed in Minish magic at such a young age came in handy.

Now, his main problem is just that they’re fucking everywhere.

We have got to help Wild clear some of these bastards out, Blue grumbles. I thought he said they were a splinter group?

Well they’re clearly a sizeable splinter group, says Vio, now shut up and let me focus. We have to time this just right.

Four waits for the guard to turn away from the tunnel he wants, and darts forward. He’s following the pull of fresh air, the sense of relief that is the earth spilling an opening to the outside world, rather than a map or empirical exploration. Which is great, because these tunnels are ridiculous, he’d get so lost doing that. It’s rooms upon rooms and tunnels that all look the same, except for however many fucking Yiga inhabit each one. He’d call it a miracle none of them have caught him yet, but they don’t seem… all that bright. He’d overheard a three-way argument on the best way to cook bananas, with a fourth person proudly chiming in about how the Hero had told him to try freezing them and they were amazing, only to get dogpiled by the others because when did you talk to the Hero?! Why didn’t you kill him?! “But banana ice cream!” they wailed from the bottom of the heap. “It’s so good, you have to try it!”

Blue in particular is offended they’d been captured by these guys, though Green is also not pleased.

All the wet stone and moss makes for slippery footing. It makes it even harder to get out without attracting attention, struggling not to flail or fall over or do anything attention grabbing.

This doesn’t seem very safe, Red muses. Four is climbing up a wall, very carefully choosing his grips and praying no one looks up.

Who the fuck even has a tunnel that people have to climb vertically?!

It doesn’t look like it was carved, says Green. Maybe it’s just the way the cave happened?

Ignoring all of them, Four peers over his shoulder as he nears the lip of the overhang to make sure no one can see him. Fortunately there’s a stack of crates in the way, so he climbs up using them as cover.

Look at all the moss on the stone, no one uses this as a regular path, Vio is arguing. At best it’s utilised for air ventilation.

I still think it’s fucking stupid to just have an open hole any idiot can fall down in your secret base!

“Maybe it’s how they weed out the stupidest,” Four mutters under his breath.

Red giggles guiltily.

The crates make a great but ultimately unnecessary barrier; no one’s in the room or any of the nearest corridors. Four creeps onwards. Distant laughter echoes; he can’t help tensing, despite knowing it’s just another card game. Identities hidden behind masks and magic, even their voices sound the same, and that eerily-similar laughter was the last thing he heard before waking up in a moss-covered cell. Some part of him still expects the cold touch of a blade or a hard fist to be waiting around every corner, punctuated by mocking laughter.

Four turns a corner and catches a glimpse of sunlight, a snatch of pine-scented air.

His heart leaps. The exit!

There’s no one along this stretch of tunnel, probably because of the small cliff he has to climb. Why bother guarding something no one will bother with, or will fall down like a blind idiot and then lie around moaning over their broken leg?

Blue’s annoying but he’s not wrong. The cliff is high enough to force Four to shove a crate up against it to climb onto first, since he isn’t Wild and can’t climb like a lizard with thumbs. They must not use this entrance much if there isn’t so much as a ladder for access. Goddess, he can see the sky from here, he can even see the castle.

Four takes the last few steps at a run, desperate to feel sunlight again -

Pain bursts in his side.

“Haha! So the great Hero thought he could sneak past me…”

The words fade into meaningless noise. Lost in static, Four staggers as the blade is yanked back. He nearly falls. Doesn’t, thanks to the combined efforts of the four screaming Colours in his head, pulling at every muscle to lock him in place until the dizziness hardens. One shaking hand comes up to cup the new wound, blood hot and wet and flooding his fingers.

The Yiga is just standing there, Four’s blood dripping off their wicked hooked blade.

He doesn’t stick around to see what their next move will be. He runs.

The steep grade of the path yanks gasping sobs from him with every agonising step. Even breathing hurts. It pulls at the new hole in his side every time he inhales. In his mind the Colours are a strained hum. They all experience the same pain, the same fear; all their words have fled in the face of it.

Instinct drags him towards the heavy shadows and reaching trees of the forest. Maybe it’s the promise of hiding places; maybe it’s the memory of the Minish Woods, a lifelong haven for them. Whatever the case, the dappled shadows and thick underbrush are a visceral relief.

…they should be hunting him by now. Even if that guard was too incompetent to call for backup, someone had to have found his empty cell.

He’s stumbling, dizzy with pain and shock. He needs to get away - needs to get enough distance - but he’s so slow right now there’s no way they won’t outpace him -

Voices. Loud, angry; the sound of metal on metal.

Out of time.

The tree is so ancient that its roots cradle empty hollows where the dirt of centuries has been washed away by rain. Four crawls into this empty space, burrowing into the thick carpet of leaves. He hopes the bright colours will disguise any blood that he gets on them in the process.

Burying his nose in musty dirt to hide his breath, he waits.

The voices come closer.

“- you kidding me?! In the time it took you to remember to do your rounds he could have made it off the Plateau entirely! He could be anywhere by now!”

“Aw, come off it, Marn! None of us thought the kid would get out of those chains!”

“Besides, I’ve been wanting to test this thing out!”

There’s a crackling sound Four is all-too familiar with. His eyes widen, and he shoves as much of his bracer-covered forearm in his mouth as he can manage before -

Thunder booms directly overhead.

Four feels it more than hears it. Ears ringing, brain whiting out, electricity dancing over his skin; the pain that had been radiating from his side is overridden by the lightning in every nerve screaming to life. It goes on, and on, and on -

Then it stops, just as suddenly as it started.

Four lies in the leaves, gulping air that burns, and knows he screamed through the makeshift gag. Can only pray it did enough, just as he can only pray no one was looking at this pile of leaves while his body thrashed and jerked. He’s in no condition to stand up, much less run, if the Yiga noticed him.

His ears still ring.

Through the buzz, he hears more shouting, but it takes a moment for the words to register. The Yiga are fighting - arguing, rather.

“Oam, what in the DAMNED HELL was that for?!”

“It’s lightning! If he was in range, he woulda gone down like a sack of rocks!”

“You idiot!” There’s the sound of someone being smacked upside the head. “There’s no way he’s still close enough! You just zapped all of us instead! And look, you called up a damn thunderstorm! Quick, everyone get inside!”

Four lies very very still in the fallen leaves, waiting for the footsteps to fade away.

Then he drags himself up, clamps a hand over the still-bleeding wound in his side, and starts to move.

#whumptober 2023 #linked universe #lu four #lu fic #skies writes #fun fact this is not what was originally planned #that one was absolutely insistent on being 10k+ and i went 'fuck that'#and threw this together instead #new problem: the fuck do i title it #totk spoilers #sort of

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ricky-mortis · 8 months ago

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Curtwen Week Day 4: Haunted

#fuck yall I really wasn’t sure about this last night but looking at it now I think it’s grown on me #I tried going for a 1960s comic book look #because I really like the vibes of old comics #they’re very cool #honestly this came out very different from what I had planned originally #but then I had this idea and ran with it #also I made the executive decision of doing long hair Curt because A) It’s my drawing and I can do what I want and B) I love the idea that #curt had the long hair like in SAD post fall #whoever originally had that idea is a genius- I wish I could remember who it was #but yeah I love doing stylized stuff like this #I don’t do it as often as I want to #I have another saf idea similar to this that I’ve had on the back burner that I might do soon ish #i suppose we’ll see #I’m not making any promises #but yeah this one is a bit different from the drawings for the other three days #I got a bit of reprieve from all the rendering I’ve been doing #fun fact: palm trees are technically a type of grass #because it doesn’t have bark and it doesn’t have rings to tell how old it is #curtwen week #Curtwen week 2024 #Curtwen #spies are forever #tin can bros #tin can brothers #agent Curt mega #curt mega #owen carvour #Joey richter #my art #cw guns

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pearl-kite · 28 days ago

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Will probably never draw those tattoos again (thank you duplicate layer 🙏), but I rewarded myself with pseudo-blacklight.

Anyway, I'm calling this done, I only started it in August (￣y▽,￣)╭

#kirehn draws #digital art #character art #fhr #sidestep #pk:ocs #pk:gale #I'm sleepy no brainpower for categorical tags #ever work on something for so long that it starts to look wrong #not BAD per se but off like it's not how it would look if you started it now? I checked and I started this canvas 5 months ago _(:'з」∠)_#was originally planning a turnaround reference but. no. I am tired. none of us will ever know what those things look like from behind #turns out I have a brush for plaid from a texture pack but it's just so much more satisfying to do it yourself #also fun fact: I didn't mean to shade this at all but when I tried to give the jacket a leather texture I kind of oops ¯\_(ツ)_/¯#and I can't have just one part shaded so then I shaded everything else #and then I turned the jacket layer back on and realized my light source was on the other side (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉

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i-have-art-block · 1 month ago

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(re) introducing Pelagic Paradox from Anarchy Bay!!!

Their story is the same (except for who plays what instrument), but I wanted to updated their designs to more accurately reflect my new vision for these characters. (original designs)

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itsnotjustgibberish · 7 months ago

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“The flames keep on beckoning, but I won’t let this forest burn for me.”

The Forest For The Trees will not leave my brain I adore both the song and music video so very much. I want to make for art for it once July has passed since I’m a bit more focused on Artfight at the moment, but for now here’s what I suppose would be ‘sonas’ for this song.

Anyways. Love this song it’s already become very personal and important to me, and I have so many thoughts about the meanings, as well as the specific symbolism for these designs, but I do not feel the need to articulate them right now. Perhaps I will at another point

#I originally planned to give current/green Gibb flaming wings #along with having red butterflies flutter around said wings #considering what red butterflies imply throughout my artwork and the forest fire metaphors #More of a iykyk fun fact but some may find it interesting #[excluded simply because I couldn’t get them to look right within the context of the entire piece)#new jash #chonny jash #chonny jash fanart #the forest for the trees #chonny jash the forest for the trees #cj the forest for the trees #cj tfftt #itsnotjustgibberish #the anarchy anthology #cringle jimble from my songs #Gibberish ocs #gibberish persona

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cathalbravecog · 2 years ago

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QUACK QUACK QUACK QUACK

#my brain treats these things the same as it does spamton. almost. i want to see them dead i want to chew on them. i want to kiss them gentl #y and tuck them in bed and sign up adoption papers for them. i want to hit them with a baseball bat. i will take a bullet for them #yknow?#you get me.#again an experimental fun quick drawing #that i ended up ... popping off on. oops.#i have... 0 self control in art #fun fact originally this was gonna be a painting but i went hmm what if i do the thing #ive been doing with sketch lineart on paper but... digitally? angular and sketchy and sharper #aw yea #guz art #toontown corporate clash #low baller #also i had to post this on clashcord and bail instantly because the second i see angst for stuff i like that i havent made myself #i lowkey start breaking down oops #i dont do well with other fans of things that im not familiar with.... my brain works in mysterious ways !#i say this as my next drawing i plan is literally oc angst ... oops !#something i aint done in a while....i only ever do vent stuff i never post if anything. i try not to be like.... venty edgy like that it #just. aint for me. well i say while i ramble on and vent constantly. oops. but yknow what i mean - not let my art reflect that? be goofy #with the stuff i do? but like yeah either way. lore gettin angsty. have we gotten to the point in our lore / rp yet? no. is it kinda an #inescapeable point? yes. i loooooove making my characters suffer the consequences of their actions #WHY AM I TALKING SO ELABORATELY ABOUT THIS. THIS IS A LOW BALLER DRAWING.#BY TALOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY BRAIN!! OH WELL if you like these. thanks for reading you are swag. you probably went thru #like. 5465465341564 thomas 'fights' now havent you #oh well gotta have a place to dump my thoughts somewhere!

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quirkle2 · 2 months ago

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some stuff i didn't get to finish this year, mostly bc the motivation ran dry. even if i don't finish a piece i still have a blast makin the sketches

#qktalks #qkdraws #that fourth one is actually finished i just scrapped it bc . i hated it <3 #but . i don't think i'm comin back to mp100 any time soon so i might as well post it instead of let it rot in my folders #i know what i'd do different now so i'm not too upset abt the ''fail'' there. if i had the motivation to redo it i would #man i did that other mob one ... ages ago #still deciding on rett's (the rabbit) design and still kinda figurin out how to draw bunny faces in a way that i like #but i plan to finish that one for sure. gotta design him ! tac can't go without his bestie #that tac doodle page was the first conception of him fun fact #and i changed the text for this post but originally it said ''Alec'' instead of Rett #alec was a placeholder name back when i wasn't even sure of his buddy's species #and ohhh man . that pkmn one. had a whole fic planned out for that one #had a whole au and teams for everybody n shit. that was so fun #here's to another year of drawing and loving every second of it

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qoldenskies · 2 months ago

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Also you 🤝me

Doing Bad Things Happen Bingo looking at Rise and cackling wickedly…..now to make them their own separate thing or write more CC brainrot

always the option to mix it up a little !!! i'll probably be writing a little cc if i get an idea for something really good with my bthb but im probably going to focus mooostly on original prompts so mess around. do what your heart desires!!!

#ask #my brain races in circles for ages until i get a Zing #and that is what makes me write the good shit #and i literally could not tell you what makes it happen it just kinda. pop #WHERE DID I GET THE CANARIES FROM BRUH #fun fact for CU i was originally planning on doing a curse that affected all of them #to draw a line between donnie and his family like #its a kind of affliction that can be mitigated with physical touch #for the rest of them it barely means anything. its so easy to handle #so they dont even consider donnie at all at first until its too late #and they werent even told it COULD get that bad because why would they be???#i couldnt find a structure for it so i changed it to venom instead howeverrr #i am very invested in the idea of doing some whump for all of them like that #like idk pollen that heightens paranoia severely or something #and splinter has to confront the ways his neglect has affected his children definitely by the ways they act #OH THE ZING HAPPENED #splinter pov ....#raph fight leo flight mikey freeze donnie fawn...... chat im cooking. CHAT IM COOKING #eyeing the self loathing prompt #like mikey cant do anything but cry and cling to his family #and raph is super protective and trying to herd them and keep them AWAY from splinter out of distrust #and leo flees because he's ashamed of being distress and they cant see him like that #while donnie obsessively cleans and checks stock #and splinter thinks he's being reliable 'as ever' until he breaks down over something so simple #like not enough food and its the day before grocery day #CHAT IM COOKING #omfg

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braisedhoney · 2 years ago

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hey bud, can you pass the wine instead of spilling it everywhere pretty please

(super experimental bc i need practice with perspective and lighting lol. tried to limit my color palette and not use any blending modes either. fun challenge!!)

#hannibal #hannibal fanart #nbc hannibal #nbc hannibal fanart #will graham #will graham fanart #ney’s art #i use blending modes SO MUCH so not using any was #difficult #also fun fact the blood red color was not my original plan!!#i left the warm light thing on by accident it was meant to be more gold but #once i realized i figured that actually fit him super well lmao #what season is this? idk #also also i was staring at a lot of vintage art. like the oil painting type from advertisements #and dystopias. usually dystopias.

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purble-gaymer · 1 year ago

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i am not a buffoon! i don’t even know what a buffoon is! seriously, what is it? some type of monkey? (new chapter!)