🦄 Creator Update: I hath returned ... after two weeks of no internet and my cat toppling over my monitor. ⚡ 6/22/2024 📸

👹 Now I Am Become Death.

Oh, the abhorrent tummy bloat mesh! Calling it a "mesh" is incorrect but I don't fully understand it, so I can't explain it any better. However, that hasn't stopped me from trying to end it's existence and now I'm one step closer.

🩳 Toxic Patriarchy is a hell of a thing.

The above statement has nothing to do with the linked AHQ Bug Report. It's just weird that boys get to run around bareback. How did we normalize men and boys walking around half-naked while shaming women and girls for it?

🦻 ♪ You'll be Thor and I'll be Odin. You rodent, I'm omnipotent!

I've cracked it! We now have Hearing Aids as functioning Medical Wearables, meaning they will apply to every outfit automatically like any other Medical Wearable.

⚔️ Can anyone explain to me why Occult Children can't have fangs and !@#$ed up faces?

Seriously, why?

⚔️ Can anyone explain to- deja vu? Why, oh why did Crilender omit Facial Hair from their CASUnlocks mod?

I'll not speculate. It's fine. I'll do it myself.

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"Write like there's no tomorrow." Pfft, I wish.

After !@#$ing off for a few weeks (I was terribly ill with something), I'm back!

🚧 ♪ Insanity laughs under pressure we're breaking!

Yeah, I know, I've got unfinished projects.

There's not enough me and I have no access to real-life cloning features. I'll get to them Soon™.

🛠️ SP48HoodieStraps with hair?

When I (I say as though I was the only one or even the first) fixed the Bug-Eyed SP48HoodieStraps, I dropped a comment about trying to get hair working with it. I've been mucking around with it on and off since then.

This already exists Elsweyr, but not in a form I like.

Don't expect updates about this. It's not a priority. However, ...

🎁 Wigs and Matching Eyebrows!

... this is the culmination of all the effort I've put into "SP48HoodieStraps with hair?", "Re-linking hair to Everyday Outfit 0?!" and "I WANT BLACK HAIR FOR MY GOTH GALORE OUTFIT BUT I'M A REDHEAD, WHATEVER SHALL I DO?!"

I'm converting hair into hat "wigs" and converting eyebrows into accessories with the PROPER ExcludeFlags ♪ all night long!

I'd like to merge eyebrows and hair textures together so there's only one custom item that changes both but that's a lot of work. Each hairstyle has 24 swatches with 24 matching eyebrow swatches. I have a preferred eyebrow, so I can modify 960 textures for the 40 or so hairstyles I'm starting with no problem, but if the public finds this useful... ♪ Whoa Nelly!

There's like 60 eyebrows with 24 swatches each! I'd have to merge 1200 textures for each wig in order to cover everyone's potential preference! Contrary to popular belief, I'm NOT a robot.

It's easier to convert the eyebrows.

⚡ April 7, 2024 - I definitely made the right choice not merging textures. 28 hairstyles from 18 packs including Base Game have been wigged successfully. Blender 2.70 is a !@#$ing eyesore. I'm gonna need LOADSABREAKS to reduce eye strain. I also re-categorized the eyebrows from Brow Ring Left to Lip Ring Left under Piercings. Lip Ring Left and Right are empty categories that EAxis hasn't bothered to utilize. I'm enamored with EP07FlowerCrown. Now that it's a wig and the flower accessories aren't hard-locked to hairstyle color I want to try applying each of the flower colors to each of the hair colors, so say about 8 flower colors per hair color. I also want to make a black flower swatch with sickly leaves.

⚡ April 8, 2024 - There's an easier way to achieve what I'm trying to do by using an overlay technique like I've seen done Elsweyr, but it doesn't solve the issue of retaining the hair link, but is retaining the hair link post creation really that important? My whole thing is that my sim is forever in WiP, meaning I'm always open to tweaking something to make them look more like I envision them, hence the reason my Tray file is so important to me. I'll look into doing a color overlay alongside this.

⚡ April 9, 2024 - Hair overlays will only work with some hair styles because it's the same situation as with eyebrows - any hairstyle with a transparent texture, like the Fitness Stuff Pack hairstyle I use for my Goth Galore outfit is gonna color bleed. It's kinda fine if your base hair color is black but if it's red like mine or green or blue or pink, you're gonna end up with some weird patches that look like you shopped in the cheap section of the hair dye department. There's a category in Sims 4 Studio named HairColorOverride but I have no idea if it actually works. Wigs it is. I'm trying to streamline the process but eh... still gotta apply a custom edit of the mesh anyway. I should just Quack this, chances are someone else has... had the same bloody idea SIX YEARS AGO! Similar process but they've got that GEOM 0000 thing. I'm off to try that! No more deleting and appending meshes here!

⚡ April 11, 2024 - Being slightly a perfectionist and also a masochist (clearly), I've been really irked by my wigs not being a 1:1 match of the hair. I've narrowed it down to being a package thing, if you'd believe it. It's not the mesh, it's not the textures or the shared textures! It's something with the CAS package "type" (or some attribute I've not yet discovered)? I spent April 10 digging into this and I've finally got my 1:1! Instead of appending and merging the Hair mesh into an exported Hat mesh and importing it into a Hat package, I've figured out how to smash the glitches that come with changing the Hair package categories into Hats! THE HAMMER STRIKES AGAIN! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I was really hoping I'd just find a mod that enables hair color swatches. From my limited testing, the Color Sliders for Hair by thepancake1 and MizoreYukii doesn't do what I'm looking for, so wigs are still on the table. I'm re-creating the wigs I already completed.

⚡ April 11, 2024 - I'm on S4S_com discussing my problems. There's no known solution to the overlay color bleed. It's a transparency thing. ♪ Can you dig it? I love this song.

⚡ April 12, 2024 - PERFECTION HAS BEEN PERFECTED! <cackles maniacally> I encountered an issue with my 1:1 Hair-Categorized-to-Hat solution but I resolved it with help from the S4S community. I'm now able to make perfect wigs from EAxis hair with no embedded resources, reducing file sizes from 3+ MBs to mere KBs! I'm a god, not a man! 🔨😹

🎁 Female Facial Hair!

I've seen simmers talk about this here and there so I had a look into it. Whatever I release will end up as an accessory, sorry. I don't yet have the modding knowledge to unlock facial hair for female sims with functioning hair growth. I don't know if it's even possible, but it should be.

⚡ April 7, 2024 - There are 22 hidden facial hair that use a female face mesh. I'm accessorizing those first, then will work on the others. I know from prior mucking about that some of the male facial hair clips on female faces...

⚡ April 12, 2024 - ...so if I convert every facial hair, it'll probably be in three packages; one for the female meshes, one for the male facial hair that work on female faces and one for the male facial hair that clip. I've been learning how to use the DisplayIndex sensibly so I'll figure out how to get all of these things in order in CAS. I don't like disordered messes.

✒️ Re-linking hair to Everyday Outfit 0?!

I've been meaning to publish a guide for re-linking modified outfit hairstyle to Everyday Outfit 0. It's only slightly complicated and extra tedious thanks to EAxis never bothering to give us a toggle, but they can code in a !@#$ing insulting Shopping Cart icon, right? Maybe if we offer to pay $4.99 they'll sell it in a Hair Mechanics Kit.

⚔️ Overriding EAxis' CAS PartFlags incompetence with added sensible Allow For Random Flags!

This has been a long time coming. EAxis cannot figure out their own CAS PartFlags and it enrages me something fierce. Playing a transframe sim, their incompetence !@#$s with me constantly. Real life !@#$%^&* and changes to Sims 4 Studio are slowing progress but it's coming.

As for the "sensible Allow For Random Flags"; I intended initially to do this in three flavors, one retaining EAxis' AFR flags, one with AFR disabled across the board and one with "sensible" AFR flags but I think I'm sensible enough that my "sensible" AFR flags can be enjoyed by everyone. I think we can all agree that things like makeup and accessories should be AFR disabled by default so we can stop having mismatched clownies walking around the neighborhood.

Up til now, as with my Goth Galore Kit Override, I've only ever included overrides for items that needed overrides but let's be frank here, EAxis has a history of !@#$ing up flags randomly post-release (yes I am talking about the fingernails and no I will never forget it) because the team seems to have no consistency and no understanding of how to implement their own flags in a way that makes any sense.

I'm still figuring out how to go about doing this so I don't burn out. If Sims 4 Studio allowed creating custom batch fixes or gave us more batch fix options I'd be done with this lickety-split, but that's not the case so I have to do this !@#$ manually.

👗 CAS Modesty Override?

... is something else I've seen simmers talking about. I might do it just for the hell of it.

"Overriding EAxis' CAS PartFlags incompetence!" is gonna take me quite some time and it'll be easier to modi- vice versa? I wonder...

🌌 "[...] and beyond!"

There are a few games I want to get back into besides The Sims 4, these include ARK: Survival Evolved (because I love dinosaurs and unicorn ponies), Monster (I swear I typed MOTHER) Hunter: World, PAYDAY 2, The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, and maybe FarCry 3 and Torchlight 2.

I've modded for or tweaked existing mods for all of these games (except ARK) and as I get back into them I'll probably share whatever I do. I also want to finish the guides I started on Reddit (including my World of Warcraft server setup guide) and port them over to Patreon because recent changes to Reddit's UX are atrocious and irritate me. I should make a repository on my new GDrive and port all my stuff over there too in case Patreon ever becomes more !@#$ than it currently is.

Besides my r/Sims4 voluntary responsibilities and my r/RaisedByNarcissists and r/WitchesVsPatriarchy presence, I don't really want to be on Reddit even to contribute to my own subreddit.

I installed the ARK Toolkit. It's- it helps to have a map. This thing makes no sense and takes up almost 400 GB of storage additional to the game! What the !@#$?! Leave it to Epic and Unreal to do the stupid of not utilizing the game files already installed. Don't expect anything from this. I don't think I care enough.

🔞 Uhh... Yes, Goddess, Yes!

⚡ April 9, 2024 - I CAN FIX IT... even though I'm a total Blender newb! 😹

⚡ April 28, 2024 - Heart is a bit of a mess.

⚡ April 28, 2024 - Clarification, Heart's mesh is bloated and LOD 1, 2, 3 are !@#$ed.

⚡ April 29, 2024 - Welp! Heart and Round are similarly !@#$ed. I'm gonna assume the rest are as well. Why do these things have so many vertices and polygons?

⚡ April 29, 2024 - Woop, woop! Learning Blender is fun! I just obliterated so many !@#$ing vertices and polygons from Round you would not believe... unless you know how to Blender then you could likely do this a lot more efficiently than me. Vertices are down from 6635 to 1101 and polygons are down from 10899 to 1679! IN THE !@#! 😹

⚡ April 29, 2024 - I'm contacting the OC for permission to publish the fix. I should have a shippable Round some time today. It's 1:19 AM. Naps might occur.

⚡ April 29, 2024 - Almost 8 hours later, I've finally decided on the spot for Round's UV Map. The new UV Map is done. LOD 0 is ready. I'm bout to bake some Texture Goods. Last but not least, I want to make a Specular Map to give it that BLING, baby! I'm having fun. Learning is fun. Don't let your religious idols tell you otherwise, kids! 😹

⚡ April 30, 2024 - I only just realized the main texture bit on the UV Map is rotated like 180, causing the texture to appear upside down in-game. I adjusted it.

🎁 SP17KinttingFail's wacky UV Space and NormalMap.

⚡ April 15, 2024 - I've managed to match the male top's UV Space (AdditionalTextureSpace) to the female top's UV Space so it no longer looks horrible, but this is an EA Special. "Cut off one head, two more shall take it's place!" Now I see there's another issue with this top's UV Space on both female and male items at the bottom when wearing specific CAS Bottoms including the jeans that came with SP17.

I need to put some effort into this to find a proper solution, but this will work for now.

I just noticed KNITTING is typo'd in the internal file name. Heh. Hahaha! It's minor and trivial.

🔔 Luumia's BodyHair Override

Reminder to self that I want to do this. I despise the low-quality trash EAxis gave us but that doesn't mean I have a thing against body hair.

🔔 Expand the "Gender Animation" mods.

Another reminder to self.

Creators who have touched this stop at a "few" animations and it's kinda annoying. I might need to expand my modding knowledge for this one but I'll figure something out.