#sillysoraya

[simbury]

Hello! I have in my downloads folder what seems to be default replacement files for MogHughson's postal service greetings cards racks. However I can't find the post of yours where they came from and I wanted to see if there were any cards as well, more info etc. Would you be able to point me in the direction of the download again please? Thank you :)

Hello! That is a very old download of mine and I have promised to make some more letters for @simmingregency at some poin, it does have a few included.

You can find it here.

[sims2packrat]

some cc from Liegenschonheit / Ameranthe

Not sure if this is easily found anywhere still, I didn’t see them listed in their GoS profile, but this cc is from 2009 or earlier, found with no preview pictures in my old external harddrive. Please reupload them if you can :)

Hello @sillysoraya! Thank you so much! I re-uploaded your file to my sfs here. Hopefully anon sees this, and I’ll also tag @gothsimmer2002 (in case you’re still interested in their cc)!

Many thanks again :-D

[deedee-sims]

Replies!

Under the cut!

@stoneybrooksims replied to your post “@kayleigh-83 Women's Athletic Outfits for TF and...”:

Aaah thank you! I love these awesome to have them for teens especially!

@gummiluttmts replied to your post “@kayleigh-83 Women's Athletic Outfits for TF and...”:

Super cute! Thank you for taking such good care of our elders and teens females :)

Thank you guys, I'm trying my best! 😊

@sillysoraya replied to your post “Skell's Corset Top with Uni textures Skell made...”:

Yessss

@themeasureofasim replied to your post “Skell's Corset Top with Uni textures Skell made...”:

Very cool!

I'm surprised no one did this before! Well, now it's done 😅

@gummiluttmts replied to your post “Trapping’s Imaginary Friend Suit for TM and EM...”:

These are really nice! Good to have a few different options of suits in different levels of formality :) Looking at it in game, there seems to be a slight shading issue with the arms like how things get when the normals are a bit off. Any chance you'd be willing to take a look at it? :) It's most easily visible with the white one in bodyshop.

Thank you! I haven't noticed anything 😬 But I'll take a second look!

[pforestsims]

14 new looks for TS2 Basegame outfit DressLongTwo

Long Fitted Dress for AF Recolours

Download (SFS)

updated 14.07.23 - corrected shoe sound, it was heels, now it's normal shoes

Lacey / meshy colours categorized as Formal & Everyday, plain knits and two tie-dye ones are Everyday only.

*Pics feature my mesh tweak for this dress, with 3D sandals. I've included an updated version of it (the other long dress as well) - fixed pointy bits below armpits. Replacement is optional.

Enjoy!

Full swatch under the cut:

@sillysoraya has made a replacement for original long dress recolours using these.

Lace and transparent zebra mesh looks good on all skintones.

Btw, if you're struggling with transparent clothing looking weird on certain skintones, most often this is the issue. Also, never ever use any format other than DXT5. If you use Bodyshop to import transparencies, it usually looks like crap 'cuz it also converts textures to DXT3.

[letomills]

Elaboration on my past shameful cc hair practices (I have learned the error of my ways)

Context over there. This here post is an answer to an inquiry by @sillysoraya.

This whole time since I started trying my hand at Sims 2 cc hair recoloring/retexturing, this had been my process: find recolors by a creator whose textures I want to use as a base, export said textures from their recolors via simPE, modify and/or recolor them in GIMP, then make fresh recolor files in bodyshop, reimport them immediately, close bodyshop, promptly delete everything that was generated in the Projects folder, take the new recolor files out of the SavedSims folder, and put my edited textures onto my them by building DTX in simPE.

When I say “textures”, I mean textures that look like this, you know, the ones you see in simPE with the transparent background:

[↑ that's evannamari's DBrown retexture of Newsea Miles Away]

That's how I do it for clothing, so why wouldn't it work for hair, I told myself naively in my immense hubris.

Well turns out there's a reason why the tutorials (such as this one by DeeDee) tell you to apply the textures not in simPE but in bodyshop. You’re supposed to put your textures in the Project folder - this kind of texture, that covers more than just the alpha:

[↑ the texture on the left / the alpha on the right ↑]

And only then you reimport and let bodyshop do its thing. The alpha will do its job carving out the texture properly (or whatever kind of sorcery happens in there).

Because if you give your recolors the already alpha’d out textures with the transparent background, what I believe happens is as the transparent background gets floodfilled with black during bodyshop’s file creation process, all the parts of the texture that had some wispy half-transparent hairs on them now have a layer of black underneath. Or at least what I know for sure is that those wipsy sections don't turn out looking nice but weirdly wire-y, especially on light recolors. Many hairs don’t have wispy strands and therefore are very forgiving (which is why I didn’t see a problem when I did the Rosesims hairs for example) but others have plenty of them, like the Newsea hairs. On those, it makes a clear difference. In game, it shows most as you zoom out, for instance in CAS from a face close-up view to a full-body view. It’s the same principle as this seam problem I had a while ago (and several times since), with clothing texture that was floodfilled with white too close to the borders of the texture mapping. When you zoomed out, the white would start showing.

Anyway, this is definitely stuff that creators in the community have known for 20 years and it’s 100% my fault for not following a hair tutorial and instead relying on prior knowledge of clothing-making that turned out not to be applicable 1:1.

I’m sure I still have a lot to learn on hair retexturing even after figuring this out. I was working on Newsea Yesenia when I had the realization that I was doing things wrong, but before I upload anything else, I’m gonna go back and look at all of the hairs I’ve done so far, fix them up when needed, learn more. Fortunately I think all of the Fakeblood gender conversions are fine but I’ll check and get back to you on that, there’s something I need to investigate. Edit: yes, all the gender conversions and copy-pasta of other people's unedited textures are completely fine, thank god.

Seems like as long as the texture didn't go through GIMP's import-export, it's fine, even if I didn't apply it via the Projects folder.

[goatskickin]

UnderWHERE?! (I fulfilled a request for @sillysoraya at GoS)

Credit for the original 4t2 conversion goes to @skittlessims

[snapdragoned]

WCIF Sydney's gorgeous hair?

(I also got another anon about this hair, consider this me answering them together!)

Thank you! That's a conversion of Tsminh's Heaven. At the time, I was using sillysoraya's default for fhairhighponytail_blond here, but if you want a non-default, there are some similar colors/textures by timeparadoxsims here and mrs-mquve here.

It's apparently pretty high poly, so use sparingly!

[rudhira]

Here’s one (1) clay hair default because uh I said I would do this ages ago. :)

ufhairhatcapup replaced with PinkPatchy Morning converted by @nonsensical-pixels. I’ve made replacements for both logoblack and redgrey, but they are completely identical so only pick one unless you want two of the same hair in your game I guess. Hats for everyday and outerwear, only the hair for the other categories.

Download!

If you’re wondering why I did this, it’s because I thought the black hat would work best as a replacement for logoblack, but @sillysoraya replaced that here, so I chose to also replace another recolour in case you want both defaults.

[marmiteprinter]

With talking finally in the bag for Natalie, Nimue got her cake ready and the small family gathered around to help her age up.

Happy birthday Natalie! She got some updated pigtails and a super cute pink outfit that I absolutely love (courtesy of @madlensims, @kestrelteens, and @sillysoraya) - adorable!

Unfortunately, there was really nowhere for Natalie to sleep that night other than in with her mother, but this small family is making do!

[mrs-mquve-cc]

@sillysoraya @msmeiriona @baticeer-sims @potentialfate-sims

These kind of comments are what keeps me stubbornly sharing my CC when I get discouraged (which unfortunately happens often these days). Thank you all so much for being supportive <3

[cora626]

Hello! I'm loving your new pleasantview, and loving the unique garden areas in 302 Oceanview Parkway. However either I've gone blind or there's no bathroom on that lot, but the lot catalogue says there should be 🤔 anyway thought I best ask!

Well, hello there sillysoraya.

Thank you for your kind words :D. I sure did forget to add a bathroom to this one HAHA sorry about that. I was thinking of making that little empty box on the roof for the bathroom but then I thought about how much of a pain it would be in the winter to change into your coat just to pee. So, I scrapped it and never added the new location for the bathroom. Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. Please try the lot I uploaded below and replace the lot in your town. Please let me know if that works and I will add it to the town and reupload. Thank you again :)

302 Oceanview Parkway

[sims2packrat]

Hello! I wanted to ask if either you or your followers have any content by liegenschonheit posted on MTS only? There's no content there now, but if you look at her archived profile through the wayback machine there's a lot of old content (which she has never uploaded on her website, Digital Perversion/Garden of Shadows).

Hello anon! :-D unfortunately, I couldn't find anything :-( wayback had not saved any download page either unfortunately (as I'm sure you already know) and chomikuj had nothing.

Does anyone have any old downloads from liegenschonheit/amaranthe and could re-upload for anon? Here are some screenshots (very small unfortunately) from wayback showing some of their older, now deleted, content:

Edit 2024-05-28: sillysoraya kindly re-uploaded what they managed to find here!

[sufficeittosimspo]

note to self: using tf only, swatch has six recolors total

I made defaults for @gardenofshadowssims latest monthly theme Wave Your Flag. Find the full post with more info on the forum here! And if you’re already sold without seeing more info, the download link for both is here @vulrien-sims

@itsdiamondeyesuniverse

[pforestsims]

Mesh replacements for five TS2 outfits that came with H&M SP: JaneOverallBoots, CorsetTankShorts, LaraOveralls, GrannyCardigan, SandraJktFitJeans.

H&M clothing tweaks for AF part 1

Download (SFS)

All morphs. Polycounts unchanged, aside from the cardigan outfit where I added 200 polys to improve the boots.

*These are mesh-only defaults, and will work with texture-only defaults. Main pic features this striped texture replacement by @sillysoraya

Enjoy!

More TS2 mesh tweaks.

I've already tweaked three H&M outfits for AF: this, this and this dress.

[andrisims]

🎶✨ When you get this, you have to write down 5 songs you actually listen to and post them. Then send this (ask or tag) to 10 cool ppl✨🎶

yay! a music tag! tks @sometownie for tagging me <3

In the past few days, I've been going back to my metalcore phase, but after a certain age, you become more eclectic. So, to the songs:

Animals - Architects

Relief - Wolves at the gate

I'm Good - David Guetta, Bebe Rexha

Heat Waves - Glass Animals

Undisclosed Desires - Muse

I know it's only five songs, but I need to give an honorable mention to some Brazilian songs, lol

Mó Paz - IZA

Na sua estante - Pitty

And that's it! I have no idea who already did that, so tagging @jawusa @y2sims @rurpleplayssims @mdpthatsme @blackswan-sims @alanna-goth @sillysoraya @potentialfate-sims @horusmenhosetix @timberllania

Please, feel free to ignore :D

[ello-sims]

None of y’all were gonna tell me I didn’t post download links? 😂 Might not be able to update to Sunday but thank you @sillysoraya for letting me know ❤️🙌🏾

Another PSA about not doing things rushed 😳 lol