“o.o still no bug reports or complaints… I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing about Mino v2…” — Hi UN! I have your updated mino page up, but haven’t downloaded anything yet. If you don’t mind a few questions… 1) can I keep your v1 files alongside the v2 (haven’t tried them yet either)? 2) To make a mino, it is a skin in CAS, in the normal place right? It’s not clothing etc? I would love to try this out, I just want to know what I’m doing! ;)

untraditionalnerd:

Hey 🙂 

I’m more than happy to answer any question *.* makes me happy  to talk about Minotaur – blush –

1)Yes you can keep both version in the game at the same time. They are 2 different things. The only “problem” is that that only the gloves and the hairstyle can be used on both but the other accessories can’t, So you will have to have everything if you want to use the top and the full body version,

2) I’m unsure about this question so if I don’t answer properly let me know and I will fix it :3

To make a Mino in your game:

 Yes it is clothing. It is an Outfit because there is not another way to do it for now. We don’t have any special tag to use for this kind of CCs. Hopefully we will get a Magic Creature tag or something like that.  Once you put my Mino CCs in your mod folder, you will find the main body in the Outfit section and you will be able to pick the skin color that you like. The horns are in the hat section and the others are in the body accessories.  Random is not allowed for any of my Mino CCs so you will not see anything weird happening :3.

My Mino uses 2 skins. One is set by me that you can pick in the Outfit section and one is the human skin that you can select normally as you would do for any sim. It works with customs skins and overlay skins. 

if there is anything else that you want to know I’m here 😀

UN

That’s what I needed to know!  Your use of the word skin just confused me a bit; in TS2 the way to add new bodyshapes to your game was to download cc skins attached to a new nude mesh, then find cc clothing that matched the new body type.  I wasn’t sure if it was the same situation here. 

Would it be possible to replace one of the default body options in CAS, like the small-shouldered/wide-hipped male?  -If that mesh could be default-replaced and flagged as non-random that would be awesome.  I know someone made a hider for it, but maybe repurposing it could work? 

Thank you very much for the minotaur, he looks great!  I will go test him out immediately! 

After playing for a few months…

… I felt confident enough in my sim-keeping abilities to remake my favorite family from TS2, the Hoppers. 

Tem and Kam were the first two sims I made in TS2, and their son Atticus Finch was the very first born-in-game sim I’ve ever had. 

Nobody died, or collapsed from exhaustion, and they even added another daughter to the family!  Yay! 

[Mother: Temerity (Tem), Father Kamden (Kam), Son: Atticus Finch, Daughter1: Penelope, Daughter2: Charlotte.] 

As a matter of fact, they have never died.  Once the parents aged to elder, I found I couldn’t keep playing that household, not out of disinterest for elders, but because I loved them so much that I couldn’t watch them die.  I’d remake them every so often, but the same thing would happen; before they died, I just couldn’t bring myself to load back in..  But I think it’s time to let them go, they’re very old in sim-time, ancient even with long-lifespan on.  😉

Is it bad when your first proposal turns fatal?

The next two sims I made after Pepper and Colby were Jefani Lesada and her roommate Derek DeLion. 

[Besides the obviously dead/dying man on the floor, another big mistake was to leave the walls down in screenshots.  Sigh.] 

Poor Jefani, she hadn’t meant to kill him, she just didn’t want to get married yet. 

So when he started wandering around the halls, she managed to help him clear his head of the ethereal cobwebs and start acting like himself again.  She invited him to move in with her, and promised that no matter what it took, she would help him find a way to return to life.  

After finding a questionable recipe in a creepy old tome at the back of the library, they both worked hard to find or make the ingredients. 

Death flower?  WTF was a death flower? 

I couldn’t play through a legacy to save my life…

I’m finally going to be posting some gameplay pics here; I can’t seem to finish a full legacy challenge, and I definitely can’t stick to just one family, so in any given post it’ll be whichever family in Sims County that has something interesting going on (or whomever’s turn it was that session).  At least until I settle in and get a better habit going. 

First off, we’ll introduce the Escalante-Jack family. 

This is Colby; he and his mother Pepper were two of my first four sims in TS4.  I think this is my first in game screenshot as well.  It took me way too long to find the camera button.  >_>

As you can see, I managed not to kill him, and he grew up to marry a very funny woman named Marietta Escalante.  That is their daughter Rosetta giving them the stink-eye.  It’s her birthday today.  There was a surprise party planned for later, but Poppie accidentally spoiled it at breakfast… 

TS4: How to correctly tag CC hair

lost-my-plumbbob-in-your-pond:

I’ve been editing a lot of the CC hairstyles I use lately, in order to make them work correctly in game and I thought I could share this with you.
I don’t know if anyone has done this before and I’m not claiming this to be the only correct way.

Correctly tagging CC hair prevents:

  • Colours showing up in random order in CAS
  • Lots of townies with unnatural hair colours
  • Genetics not working properly
  • probably some other things as well

Updated on 06/09/2015. Some changes to the Studio make things easier, and I’d like this to be up-to-date.

Keep reading

[Reblogging for reading later…]

lumialoversims:

I feel so bad for not having posted any CC recently… I’ve worked on a few projects but there is always something about them that hinders me from releasing it, like it’s not good enough. Or I see some amazing CC on my dash and then get discouraged. I don’t know. I’m feeling kinda blah about it. :/

We love your work, don’t feel discouraged!  A break is great to help one come back with fresh eyes, but try not to let doubt get to you.  You could always try posting a few things under “testing” to see if others help with what you sense it’s lacking?  Take your time, and remember you’re doing this for fun!

things my sister has said while playing sims starter sentences

thewebcrawler:


  •  don’t put your baby on the floor, Christ!
  • I know you wanted eleven kids but you’re having two so deal with it
  • oh god, we need to change that. We are changing your hair right now
  • why are you still alive, you’re like 102!
  • get out of my house, oh my god. Who even are you?
  • no you cant have your shitty friend over after school
  • yeah – whinge, whinge!  you are so lucky I haven’t drowned you in a pool
  • you will laugh at my jokes, and you will fall in love with me
  • it was your dream to become a celebrity psychic, not mine!
  • oh come on,  I forgot to feed the kid like, one time!
  • WHY WOULD YOU STEAL HER GARDEN GNOME
  •   woah, no.  I didn’t marry you for 200 shitty dollars where’s my marriage cash?
  • who the FUCK didn’t pay their bills.
  •   I swear if you take my bathroom mirror again I’m going to be so mad
  • stop listening to music and just go to bed! 
  • I don’t even know what language this is
  • when will you get adopted by aliens and give birth to their blue alien baby
  • um is hollaback girl playing on the pop station?
  •   don’t you dare set the kitchen on fire again because I will let you burn
  • look at you, staring anxiously out the window – fucking paranoid nerd
  • aw hell no, I didn’t want twins what the fuck
  • guess you should have made sure there was an exit from the pool
        before you jumped into it, huh?