Hair re-categorizing the fun way!

[angelyne]

Okay, l lied, it's not really fun after you do your XXX hair, but it was exciting when I actually go it to work.  Thanks to Yetyak who got me started and Dewshine whose post provided me with more info, I was able to put all the hair in their correct bins, fix it so that the style transition smoothly from color to color, eliminate extraneous textures and eliminate duplicate grey color for the same style.  I even fixed genetics so that the hair behaves like Maxis hair.  I was so intent on the task last night that my boyfriend wondered if I was still alive "in there".  I told him so long as he hears clicking sounds, I'm alive

So now that I finally know how to do this, the world is my oyster and I need decent hair.  I'm picky; I don't want stiff plastic hair with no animation. Given that most meshed hair fit that criteria, what I am especially interested in are very good recolors of existing Maxis hair.  Maxis has decent styles but their textures frankly suck sometimes.

Does anyone have outstanding Maxis recolors they would like to share with me ?

[BlueSoup]

I know of this site that has these paler ash blonde recolours of both male and female styles, but I can't find the link right now.  If no one else has, I'll take a look for them when I get home and figure out who made them.  They're really nice looking in game.

Also, I know there's some recolours of Maxis hair on TSR, like the Nightlife vampire hair without jewels.

[kattybiz]

The ash blonde recolors are at Lyran's site - http://www.lyran.net/ts2/  The hair is under the 'Genetics' section.

[BlueSoup]

Oh thank you.  I normally hate blond hair on men, and male Sims  , but I really love the colour of that hair.

[Ellatrue]

Okay, l lied, it's not really fun after you do your XXX hair, but it was exciting when I actually go it to work.  Thanks to Yetyak who got me started and Dewshine whose post provided me with more info, I was able to put all the hair in their correct bins, fix it so that the style transition smoothly from color to color, eliminate extraneous textures and eliminate duplicate grey color for the same style.  I even fixed genetics so that the hair behaves like Maxis hair.  I was so intent on the task last night that my boyfriend wondered if I was still alive "in there".

Which posts are these, and how exactly did you do it? I think you might want to look at some of the older hairstyles at pronupsims. I also use some of the hair from genensims, because it adds more interesting haircolors to the game, and they have recolored some of the uglier maxis hairstyles so that they look better by making ugly bangs, etc, invisible. Their textures don't have much depth, but I still like them, especially the black, apricot, and light brown

[kattybiz]

You're welcome Blue - I just downloaded all of her blonde hair over the weekend so I could finally have some blonde sims that didn't look bad!

[angelyne]

Okay, l lied, it's not really fun after you do your XXX hair, but it was exciting when I actually go it to work.  Thanks to Yetyak who got me started and Dewshine whose post provided me with more info, I was able to put all the hair in their correct bins, fix it so that the style transition smoothly from color to color, eliminate extraneous textures and eliminate duplicate grey color for the same style.  I even fixed genetics so that the hair behaves like Maxis hair.  I was so intent on the task last night that my boyfriend wondered if I was still alive "in there".

Which posts are these, and how exactly did you do it? I think you might want to look at some of the older hairstyles at pronupsims. I also use some of the hair from genensims, because it adds more interesting haircolors to the game, and they have recolored some of the uglier maxis hairstyles so that they look better by making ugly bangs, etc, invisible. Their textures don't have much depth, but I still like them, especially the black, apricot, and light brown

The post was here : http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2119.0  about halfway down.  Dewshine even included some screen shot.  Some of the things I done, I had to guess at, but I guessed correctly. 

Thanks for the link Blue, I'll check it out later.  As always you need to see things in the game to really judge.  I downloaded some of NeptuneSuzie's hair over at TSR (http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/Neptunesuzy).  Some of her textures are really nice and some are not.  It's a mixed bag.  The quest continues ...

[SciBirg]

I normally enjoy "sim-maintenance" but that task is just a tad too daunting...

I hope there is a SimPe wizard to do it soon!

[angelyne]

I normally enjoy "sim-maintenance" but that task is just a tad too daunting...

I hope there is a SimPe wizard to do it soon!

That's one of those things that looks very complicated until you actually do it.  Then it's quite simple and straighforward.  It's just tedious if you have lots and lots of hair.

[yetyak]

It certainly isn't something you can zip right through, but perserverance will pay off in the long run.  I would do ten or so, then do something else, then a few more.  Now I'm done, and just do any that I download as I install them.  Granted it did take a month to do all 1030 that I kept out of my 1700+ hair files....

I, personally, would rather have done it this way than to have something more automated.  This way if anything got messed up, I knew for a fact that I did it!   

[J. M. Pescado]

That's one of those things that looks very complicated until you actually do it.  Then it's quite simple and straighforward.  It's just tedious if you have lots and lots of hair.

Straightforward and tedious is exactly the kind of thing you make the computer do.

[BlueSoup]

Uhhh....necromancy is bad, m'kay, JM? 

[JadeEliott]

Unless, of course, it is his forum and he can do any resurrecting he pleases. *eyeroll*

You musta been bored, JM.

[J. M. Pescado]

Hmm. This was on the front page earlier. Somebody must have deleted their post.

[Motoki]

lmao! They framed you.