Soup Keeping Me Busy, But...

I managed to get all the meshes for the counter-matching chairs made just before the holidays. I'll be taking a break from working on my Legacy story some time this week to convert them into .packages and get them posted.

I'm also hoping to find time to make some recolours of my long tshirts, since they seem to have been quite well received. They'll probably be just simple colour shifts in the main, though if I find some inpiration I might make some with graphics or patterns, who knows.

Have a few other things I'm planning to make too (more bedding-match and Maxis-match items, for one...) if only the Soups and all the other inhabitants of Canne and Stock would stop tapping me on the shoulder and insisting I get their stories told *now*.

Long Alpha TShirts

Well, after recreating my Sim-Me, and making the "Legacy Soup" image used in the greeting card below, I decided I really wanted to make a "Legacy Soup" TShirt for Sim-Me to wear in game.

I really like what both aikea_guinea here on TSR and fanseelamb over on MTS2 are doing with shirts that have a long alpha on the body, so they can be worn with even low-rise jeans or pants for an untucked and/or non-bare-midriff look. So, naturally, I decided I just had to make my own long alpha tshirt base to use for the "Legacy Soup" shirts.

Did a fairly basic conversion of the Maxis V-necked TShirt to create my base, in both black and white, and then made my "Legacy Soup" shirts out of the bases. And I've decided I might as well post both the two base shirts and my Legacy Soup shirt here on TSR for people to enjoy.

Please feel free to use the base shirts to create your own recolours! Just remember to credit me for the base if you post it anywhere.

Season's Greetings!

Happy Holiday to everyone, whichever holiday it is you do (or don't!) celebrate at this time of year. Recreated my sim-self lately to play around with maybe making a new avatar image or two for myself, and while I had her loaded in my Legacy neighborhood, I decided to make a greetings image using her :) And yes, I really did spend over half an hour working on the soup can image just to shrink it down to near-unreadable size for the final thought balloon image, hah! For those of you not already familiar with my epic story and it's cast of thousands (okay, maybe not quite that many... yet!) you can read it here on the TSR forums. It doesn't really start to hit it's stride until after the first nine pages, when I finished the first 10 generations (under the University challenge rules) and started in on the second 10 (using Progress Over Time rules). You can see how much more verbose I've gotten with writing it when you note I'm currently up to page 38 and still have 4 more generations to go for this set of 10... Overall, I'm quite pleased with it these days, hehehe!

Cryogenic Freezer Beds

I recently needed a very special custom object for my Soup Legacy story here on TSR, and ended up spending most of a day throwing together a freezer bed. This is a fairly fast and dirty job, but overall I liked how it turned out and decided to make it publically available for the rest of the mad story tellers to gloat over and use. If I have time, I may make a "Mark II" version of it, with more details and better texturing, and based on the vampire coffin so that it can actually open and close. Saddly sims currently just kind of crawl right through the sides of this one! Of course, so would you - it's COLD in there!

Bedding-Match Pet Beds

Naturally the very first thing I tackled as soon as I got my hands on a beta of SimPE that works with the Pets expansion is to make bedding-match versions of the three cheapest pet beds - have to have those matching items for when your pet's bed is in your sim's bedroom!

Fairly simple conversions overall, and I did two version of the cheapest pet pad, one of which is covered in the "sheet" part of the bedding texture and one of which has a top and bottom side of "mattress" material. Variety is good :)

Chez Moi Counter-Matching Tables

It always drives me up the wall when I want to put a table in my kitchen and can't find anything that is a decent match for the colour and style of the counters I'm using. Of course, there's an obvious solution to this; make tables that match!

My first set is a pair of tables to match the "Chez Moi French Country Counters" by Maxis. They automatically have access to the same textures as your existing counters. The table top can be coloured separately from the legs, so whatever combination of counter base and counter top you've used, you can match exactly with the table.

This will hopefully just be the first of several such counter-matching tables... and yes, I hope to tackle making matching chairs as well at some point, time allowing.

Maxis-Match "Lap of Luxury" Seating

With my Soup Legacy family currently working their way through the Victorian generation of the Progressive challenge, I've found a sad lack of old fashioned furniture for decorating with. I loved the look of the "Lap of Luxury" sofa, but there was no matching loveseat or armchair to use with it. So, naturally enough, I broke out the meshing program and SimPE, and made a pair.

Now if only I could figure out how to adequately remesh the "Luxuriare" loveseat as a sofa and armchair as well - it's so much easier to cut a big mesh down to a smaller one then to try and size a mesh up instead!

Double-Wide Sill-Length Curtains

I recently received a request to make sill-length versions of the double-length curtains in my bedding-match Bentform and Tieback curtain sets. Since this was a very trivial revision to make (about 2 minutes to modify the necessary meshes, and 15-20 to create the relevant .package files) I've gone ahead and done it. Hope you all enjoy the new additions to the decor!

Now I'm wondering what other object it would be fun to make a bedding-match version of...

Flat Broke Bed Set

Waaaay back last year when I was making my 'Flat Broke' set, I worked on a double and single bed for the set but never finished them. Having been reminded of their existance by a recent conversation, I blew the dust off their files and completed them, along with one fast-and-dirty recolour. They should be available for download within the next few days. Enjoy!

Railway Tunnel

After using cyclonesue's great railway wagon set in one of the lots of my Legacy neighborhood, I badly needed an arched tunnel piece to disguise where the railway tracks dissapeared into a hill side. So... I made one, of course! It's based off of a one-tile sculpture to make placement easy, so if you want to make sure your sims don't walk through it if it's in an accessible area, you'll need to use something like Dr. Pixel's traffic cone to block the places you don't want them going.

My pet peeve of the day: Feedback that says something like "doesn't work" but gives absolutely zero information about in what way the object commented on does not work. Details, people, details!