🎁 [BG] De-Bloating™ the Base Game -- [4/14] 🫠 We need to rename these soon. Mesh fixes and De-Bloating™ isn't the same thing.

⚔️ TS4: BASE GAME ⋆ 🚀 4/10/2025 ⋆ 🌠 4/11/2025 ⋆ ☄️ NIL
🔄 YES! Notify me via DM, Comments, or Community Chat if it ain't workin'.

😾 CAS Review - https://www.patreon.com/posts/119543984

🕓 The internet is still not playing nice but I'm doing stuff and things in the meantime.

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Each of these overrides attempts to "fix" a Bloated™ Top or Full Body item in the Base Game.

These overrides will not flag the items as "modded" if used by themselves due to the awesome nature of "Resource Overrides". Any screenshots showing items as "modded" are due to "CAS Overrides" that fix improper Part Flags.

DISCLAIMER: I modify these meshes to follow the shape of the "default" female model, but I fine-tune everything to fit Scarlet's body type. These overrides should look fine on most sims who don't have an "hourglass" waist regardless of how bony or thick the sim is, but results may vary. If your sim has an "hourglass" waist, you can still give it a try and see the difference.

This is not intended to body shame anyone with an "hourglass" waist, but EAxis is body shaming the rest of us by unnecessarily making meshes that look horrible on the rest of us and I will not have it. I SAID, I WILL NOT HAVE IT, OH! ⚔️

⋆⋅ HAVE A COOKIE, SENPAI:

🎁 See the post attachments. When these things cross (3) or (5) I'll start doing an All-in-One ZIP ARCHIVE. It is possible that these overrides will receive updates in the future, but for now let's not care about tomorrow.

⋆⋅ WOULD YOU LIKE SOME MILK WITH YOUR COOKIE:

🗺️ CAS Overrides for Base Game - https://../posts/102684641

⋆⋅ THIS IS NOT A PRIORITY PROJECT:

De-Bloating™ takes time and focus - two things I do not wish to dedicate to this project just yet, due to the numerous other projects I'm working on.

What this means is "new arrivals" will be slow.

⋆⋅ THERE ARE DOWNSIDES TO THIS - "SHADING":

If you look very closely, you'll notice that the "shading" on the item changes in some places. This is not a result of De-Bloating™, it happens to all EAxis meshes when they're modified - at least all the ones I've modified.

I noticed this first on my Wearables™ Wigs. It was so bad that it forced me to devise another way to create them. The same can't be done here.

The "shading" change is acceptable on some items and horrendous on others, which means there are some items I will not De-Bloatify™, e.g. the cute "ShirtNight" Full Body Base Game shirt Scarlet wears for Sleepwear is one such item - the Bloat™ is minor, but modifying the mesh completely wrecks the "shading".

I do not have a solution for this yet. It might be a Blender thing that I don't understand yet because making clothes is not something I do... yet. Maybe I need to redo the UV Maps? Who knows! Shirley someone knows!

⋆⋅ THERE ARE DOWNSIDES TO THIS - "CLIPPING":

There are instances, like with "25BDAYTshirt", where De-Bloating™ will exasperate the clipping seen with some Bottoms.

This will mainly affect "long" tops.

I will try to fine-tune for this, but sometimes it might be unavoidable and you'll just have to wear different Bottoms.

⋆⋅ HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY:

By now we should all know that Scarlet is Male / Feminine Frame, but Bloat™ affects all Female and Feminine Frame sims unless they have the tiniest waist possible.

More than most, this project is direct criticism towards EAxis. There have been numerous complaints on Answers HQ over the years about this, and EAxis ignores them all. The worst part is that Bloat™ is not at all necessary - "puffy" or "baggy" clothes can be achieved without it resulting in Bloat™, as we have seen numerous times in my CAS Reviews, but EAxis simply does not give a !@#$ because we keep giving them L-L-L-LOADSAMONEY.

Boys complain endlessly that EAxis caters to Feminine Frame sims more, but they don't actually pay attention to what Feminine Frame sims are getting, which should not at all be surprising. There are a few Bottoms that don't fit Masculine Frame sims properly but there are many Bloated™ Tops and Full Body items for Feminine Frame sims that never get fixed because EAxis doesn't see this as a problem, because "it looks fine on the 'default' waist." Whatever you say, John...

⋆⋅ TBC...