SimPE and OMGPETZ!

[Solowren]

Does anyone know if it would be "safe" to bin hair with OfBSimPE while I have Pets installed? I'd been planning to stay away from SimPE until it was updated just in case I screwed something up, but I obtained quite a few new hairs today and I just know that having them all in custom is going to bug the royal shit out of me.

[J. M. Pescado]

I see no reason why binning hair would have changed. I still do all my hacking in Ye Olde SimPE, which I think got discontinued before OFB even came out.

[Solowren]

I see no reason why binning hair would have changed. I still do all my hacking in Ye Olde SimPE, which I think got discontinued before OFB even came out.

Thank ye kindly.

Now if only I could stay awake long enough to bin some harr......

[Ness]

If only I could find some decent custom hair worth downloading and binning...   

[Bangelnuts]

I am using the test version of simpe for pets and the biggest change I see is in the sim browser pets are listed as family members and or townies if they are stray's and the object files now of course include Pet items.
   the other change is net 2.0 is now required for SimPe to be used. I imagine it won't be much longer til Sim PE for Pets is released

[Solowren]

If only I could find some decent custom hair worth downloading and binning...   

I recently discovered what is now my new favorite site ever. *....asidefromherecough*

It involves quite a bit of pillaging and booty and other pirate-istic things.

[Ness]

been there, done that...  hated most of it!

I'm really fussy with hair...  needs to look natural (could I see a real person with hair like this?) be animated if it's not an up-do, and be available in all 4 maxis colours...  doesn't leave much after that!

[trancejeremy]

Does anyone know if it would be "safe" to bin hair with OfBSimPE while I have Pets installed? I'd been planning to stay away from SimPE until it was updated just in case I screwed something up, but I obtained quite a few new hairs today and I just know that having them all in custom is going to bug the royal shit out of me.

Yeah, I just binned some myself and it worked fine. (I think the only thing that gets broken is loading a neighborhood)

[Surelyfunke]

Ness, do you like Sunair's hair meshes? There are lots of recolours for her meshes on TSR, some of them in Maxis-type colours as well.

I know those aren't up on PMBD, but if there is enough interest, I'm sure they will find their way there....

[Ness]

Ness, do you like Sunair's hair meshes? There are lots of recolours for her meshes on TSR, some of them in Maxis-type colours as well.

I know those aren't up on PMBD, but if there is enough interest, I'm sure they will find their way there....

To be honest, I've not tried them...  do they seem like they would pass the incredbly high ness-standard?  Because there's actually a few I've seen that I certainly wouldn't mind trying.

[Surelyfunke]

No harm trying, Ness. All free anyway . FWIW, I like her animations - they are very subtle and realistic. Also, I don't notice any gaps in the neck, or other blindingly broken parts. Unlike with Rose and Peggy .

[Ness]

ugh!  I forgot the freaking neck gaps!  I've had quite a few nice up-dos that I've chucked because of gaps!

Anyway, they sound like it's certainly worth taking a look, so I'll keep an eye on PMBD for them.

Thanks, Surelyfunke

[verdaeni]

okay im stupid.  what do you mean by 'bin' hair?

[Surelyfunke]

Ness, all the hairs are up. Recolours by other TSR creators are not, though. So if you see any you like.....*cough*

[Ness]

okay im stupid.  what do you mean by 'bin' hair?

Make the hairs show up in the colour bins, rather than all jumbled together in the custom bin.

[verdaeni]

ah, thats a very useful thing indeed then.  i hate going through pages and pages of custom hair.

[Ness]

it's actually quite easy once you get the hang of it...

Surelyfunke, PMBD has been raided and I'm finding the process of binning hair to be quite therapeutic!     All 31 of them!

[idtaminger]

Lol. Wow. 31. What a hoard.

I've been trying to whittle down my hair folder, but I just can't let go of a huge chunk of my hairs, and then I'm surfing PMBD at the same time? Gah! Every time I try to delete hairs my d/ls folder balloons.

[Motoki]

Ness: All of the Sunair stuff I have gotten is not animated. Don't know if he has newer stuff that is animated or not.  Like the other Asian modders he does a bazillion different colors, many of them rainbow Anime and his reds tend to be maroon magenta.

I guess if you downloaded only updos, binned them yourself and re-did the red to something that actually looked natural some of them might be tolerable. Don't know if it's worth all the effort though. 

[aqualectrix]

Ness, your standards for hair sound a lot like what I look for.  (Except I'm not nearly as good at keeping my greedy little hands off things that don't meet those standards...)  I'd be very interested in knowing what hairs meet the Ness-standard!

[idtaminger]

Ah! The reds always piss me off. I have to edit about 90% of all the red hairs to fix the color. Sometimes it's too brown, but, esp. in the Asian hair cases, it's way too magenta-red.

I guess it can't be helped, since in Asia the closest Asian pple get to red hair is hair dye, but sheesh, it's not like it's hard to google a celebrity or something.

[Ness]

In the end, something like 10 of them stayed in game...  there's some animations, and many that are styled in such a way that they don't seem to need it.  Some of the 10 that stayed are likely to find themselves turfed after I see how they look in game, but they seemed decent enough to stay after the massive CAS purge.  I also can't see me ever using them on a red-head, but fixing that aspect of them is not something that is within my skill set.

At this stage, my two favourite custom hairs for females would be Lola's sometimes hair, and Nouk's fuzzy tail...  I think that's what it's called...

[Jelenedra]

Yeah, my problem is I can't keep my hands off of long hair. I get all giddy when the hair animates, but it never bothers me if it doesn't.

Currently, I have too many ponytail variations. And PMBD hurt my downloads folder. =p

And it looks like Peggy, XMSims, and Rose started binning their hairs, so you just have to family them together now.

[idtaminger]

And it looks like Peggy, XMSims, and Rose started binning their hairs, so you just have to family them together now.

Which is just more work for me, esp. on the rose hairs, b/c her newer meshes are constantly 4-6,000 polys, and I don't want those spawning on the neanderthal creatures that are some of the townies. Why waste my processing power on them, I say.

It takes me ages to actually put a hair set into my game, but it doesn't seem to slow down my acquisition any - just makes it that much more frustrating. Yesterday, it took me like 3 hours to properly fix 7 hair sets. The longest time is spent fixing the damned colors. My biggest peeves - sets w/3 nearly identical blondes, fuschia/magenta reds, and grey-looking blacks. And Peggy always sticks in 4 brown variations, which I then have to sort and chuck/keep. Why can't they all just stick to 4-6 natural colors and a grey?

[Motoki]

I don't know either. Drives me nuts! They have to make every hair in 5,000 colors, do we really need that many? If people want to recolor a hair it's not that hard to do, or she can just make the 4 base colors and consistantly use the same shades and stick the rest on separate pages as alternate extra downloads.