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I've moved my butt over to Dreamwidth, so if you're looking for Sims 2 stuffs, please go there instead:

http://esperesa.dreamwidth.org

Almost all of the things that have been posted here have been posted there as well. If you friended this journal to keep track of creations, you can add that journal instead using OpenID. :)

Also, I've been through my friends list here a bit with an eye on TS2-related journals and familiar names, so I sincerely hope you're not offended if I removed you. No ill intentions or anything like that. *dodges rotten tomatoes*

[Retexture + F2M-conversion] Can't stand the sound of rain...
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What, more hair? Yes, I'm afraid you'll suffer the consequences of me still being into TS2. Ha!

Anto WNF JulyAsp'09 set retexture
So, yesterday was the release of the WNF aspiration set and Anto (nooo, I'm not stalking the lad) released this new mesh. It immediately reminded me of a picture I'd seen somewhere of pretty Chinese things. So here we go with a retexture (11 colours, so not just black - I seem to be getting lazier by the day - binned, etc.).

Pick up the meshes here! (and yes, you'll need all four included there if you want it to show up for all the ages.) Its polycount is 9814.





Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi-antojulyaspsetretexture.rar)


Coolsims40 hair retexture
Okay, I'm crazy in love with this style and it is free, but you have to have 10 posts in the Coolsims forum to be able to download the mesh. If you're a bit like me, painfully wary of every letter you're typing (no joke), such a thing might take you months, so you can always drop me a line for that instead (here at Dreamwidth or Livejournal or at GoS, that is). Hope that's a compromise XD. It has 11 colours, as usual.

EDIT - Anto removed the post limit - all you need to do now is register at the forum to get it!
EDIT2 - Now he removed the limit entirely. Yay! Just go to the main site to get the meshes.





Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi-coolsims40retexture.rar)


RaonFH32 F2M
And...oh, I know; qu'est-ce que c'est, mate? I converted this Raon hair to fix my Milkshape (I'd somehow managed to mess up the Unimesh plugins), so I'll just dump it here. These are the original textures - should probably look at retexturing this and the original sometimes. And re-animation (it's...special). All credits go to Raonjena. This one's polycount is 2978.



Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi_raonfh32FtM.rar)

[Retextures] Coolsims37+39
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I had these lounging in my game for some time, but only just now had the time to make previews. Or rather, half-assed screenshots. Just some unimaginative retexturing today - ten colours each, binned/linked and compressorized. Credits to Nouk for the textures I edited and to Anto for the meshes (love your work!).

The meshes are not included - pick them up here! (Note that you need all four files labeled MESH at the end.)



Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi-coolsims37retexture.rar)


Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi-coolsims39retexture.rar)



*wanders off*

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Ohai new banner image! The last one annoyed me to death by now.

I am off to soak my sleep-deprived, irate head in a bucket of cold water.

[Hair conversion] Saelic sî des wunnebernden Meienzît
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Oh, I'm still here. Yes, I have TS3, no, I can't be arsed to install it. My Milkshape install is borked (in the joint departement) so I haven't been doing much mesh-editing wise. Or anything, really. Also, I finally have a Dreamwidth (thanks to Nymphy <3). The idea was to seperate Sims crap from the non-Sims crap, but the crosspost feature is too awesome not to use. So we'll see how all of that goes.


Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi_peggy0591MtF.rar)

This conversion/mirror I'd made for personal use but someone asked for it, so here we go. Because of aforementioned borked Milkshape install I had to kill the animations and keep it adult only, so I warned ye.
Credits to Peggyzone for original mesh, retextures are original/Nouk blend.

I'm pretty sure I have a 'spot a fellow countryman!' type of sixth sense thing going on online. I can totally recognize them from their writing style and grammatical errors. Scary.

[Clothing] Wading through the wastes
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(That title sounded a lot more witty at 4AM.)

These are basically grungifications of Maxis/Aikea textures, but they're the first pieces of clothing I've made that I liked enough to share. Sooo. Three pairs of pants based on ExportDry's edit of HP's boots mesh, with both tucked and untucked versions so they can be worn with almost any top. I have a slight obession with patterned Dr. Martens boots, so I slapped patterns on these too.

Requires mesh by Exportdry HERE. Tops shown are by Yuichen, Ghanima and Bosie. (Images made with shadows turned off because they bloody annoyed me.)



Cut for seperate pictures )
DL at Mediafire or Drop.io (yuxi-clothing-wadingthroughwastes.rar)

That's it for today, me loves.

[Retexture] Doraemon 002 'Japanese hair' edit
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The first rain of the season is falling and the streets are already flooding. The European monsoon? Go us.

I love this hair by Doraemon from the PGshop, but wanted more colour variation. So I blended around with Nouk's textures, went crazy with filters and recoloured the result. Also, while checking out the polycount (which is nice with 4464), I noticed there was a bow on the end of the ponytail in the mesh. Unfortunately I suck at bows or I'd have added it to the alpha.

I included the mesh because it's a bloody hassle to get hold of. All credits to Doraemon for the hair, and to Nouk for the textures I edited.






^ She'll eat your SOUL, no kidding.

Colourpalette (which isn't exactly right, but you get the picture):


Mediafire oder Drop.io (yuxi-doraemon002retexture.rar)

Man, it's getting quiet here on LJ. Should probably try and get a hold of a Dreamwidth thingy or openID whatever one of these days. I'm so behind.

Fast-forward, rewind.
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As requested, here is Layla, inspired by a pretty girl of mixed race from real life. Anti-aliasing is refusing service in BS, so we'll have to do with this crap.
Also, TS3 so doesn't impress me yet *clings to own pimped TS2 game*.


Mediafryer!

Credits and BS pic )

And that's all for today.

[Retexture]PeggyG 7 and Jade hair 05 (XMSims)
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> Links fixed, though I'm in a state of WTF over why they were messed up in the first place. (I totally remember carefully pasting them and shit, pfrt)

I feel like a stuffed pig or something, just dreadful. Anyway, hairs! Because I like hairs like you wouldn't believe.

First is Fhair 07 from PeggyG-shop, with Nouk's textures and alpha-edited bangs, so they're just a wee bit longer. This mesh's polycount is 5566, by the way.






DL at Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi-peggyg07retexture.rar)
Mesh not included, but it's bootified.


Next is a retexture of this hair by Jade, found at XMSims. I realise these pictures are made of suck, but that sim is quite literally on holiday right now (and my neighbourhoods are empty, I'm afraid). Unfortunately, the mesh appears to have some transparency and animation issues and the parting looks a bit particular with lighter colours, but I figured I'd dump these here anyway.






DL at Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi-jadehair05retexture.rar)
Mesh not included, get it here!


All thanks to the original hair creators for the meshes, and to Nouk for the original textures. <3 I'm just a fiddler.

[Retexture + alpha-edit] Peggyzone mesh #0556
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Oh yeaah, it tickled again. An older Peggy mesh with Nouk's textures, basically. Included (really, now) is an edited mesh by Renegade Sims for your convenience (it's re-animated and without loose hairs in the back), but the original will probably work fine with these as well. I also edited the alpha for the bangs, so those are a bit shorter than the original (and look a bit less wonky).
There are 11 colours, binned/linked/compressed, you know the drill. Oh, and the polycount for this one is 5460.


Black:


Blond:


Brown:


Mediafire or Drop.io (yuxi-peggy0089edit.rar)


Edit to add a link for the lightbrown recolour, 'cuz I included a wrong file and it has dark scalp-age. Pffrt.

Je ziet eruit als de dood van het ganzenbord.
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I've been trying really hard the last few days to find an opportunity in which to use the world 'jellymould', but no luck yet.

Anyway, stuffeths. Or me talking about stuff. I've been trudging my way through the Pitt DLC (from Fallout 3, naturally) getting a headache from the damn machine sounds just to see if there is new stuff to be maimed, but it would seem not. I did get freaking heart attacks all the time, with these lads sneaking up on my character:



Well, that aside, there's a load more extracted FO3 crap staring at me from its folders. Here's a part of that;

There is a Mr. Handy too, but he's just too high-poly. Woe.
I'm sort of stuck wondering why all items cloned from the big gold apple thing have sucky textures when zoomed out, why my edited shadows appear as square blobs of black (I've just deleted the layers until now, but objects just look incomplete without a shadow) and why alpha mode blend messes up things in an illogical way. Seriously, game, go headbutt a bullet.

To leave something instead of blabbering nonsense, here's Seyzei being all... bob-haired-y. It's the EAStore bob, but Sail mentioned to me it might look interesting on guys. I think it looks quite cute on them, too, so I figured I'd upload it here as well, for anyone else who's into that sort of thing.
Oh, and psh, retexture and alpha-edit was yanked from Azaya's edit of the female version, which I love and overuse <3.




Mediafire oder Drop.io as yuxi_EAStorebobF2M.rar

Ahh, I just love plopping pretty pixel dollies into ugly, destroyed environments.

My name is Yuxi and I am pissed off.
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Dear limp mowhawk hair mesh: PLEASE TO BE WORKING NAO KTHNX.
I thought this month's theme at GoS was the perfect incentive to finish this damn stinking hair mesh, but it's like a black hole that sucks in all light (an inverted reflection, if you will) and I can't for the life of me figure out what's wrong/what I'm doing/where the milk is @_@. It's also the first time I'm actually drawing the alpha and textures myself. TOO MUCH AT ONCE.
No picture because it doesn't look like much at this moment; I just needed to rant a bit, oi. Yes, I'll get to ya'll soon! I've limited internet access and life-planning angst, hélas.

And here's an (unrelated to the above) picture of Malvilio because I can.



Fiddling on the roof; Derrière lui c'est l'enfer.
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Just poppin' in real fast to dump this here. Two extracted meshes from the IKEA stuff pack (they were stuck on an ugly shelf).The polycounts are 1024 (the frog, so don't make an army!) and 547 (the HIPPOdog). They're recoulorable, but as I was making recolours the system resetted itself and I was too pissed off to continue. Dus.
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Plushies yay!

Going to try and lose some excess energy now. x_x

Smile its black-toothed grin.
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Oh, bless paranoia. I had some old versions of my favourite sims tucked away on Mediafire somewhere. Sooo I started rebuilding my Urban Decay hood and dressed up some dollies again. Ho hum. Here we have Atreya and Yoni.






I'm just happy my game works, really.

[Retexture + FtM] Es lächelt am tiefblauen Himmel so mild...
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...und hat mir das Auge mit Tränen gefüllt. Warum? Warum?

Hum. I wasn't going to post this because I only noticed the polycount (11000) AFTER I was done... =_=... but okay. The one to the left is a chick, the other a guy. I know it's not that obvious save for the lack of boobage.

So I retextured the new female donation hair on PeggyZone with Nouk's textures to fit the rest of my hairs, and kinda half-wondered at what it looked like on guys. Figured I might as well dump both here for anyone who might be interested. I'm not too charmed with my own screenshots today, but blah blah internetlock blah blah. Ten colours each, original mesh (#04902) NOT included because I lost my head.







> Original mesh retexture: DL@Mediafire
> FtM conversion + retexture:DL@Mediafire


All credits go to Juice and to Nouk, of course; I'm just the heathen that remixes it all.

[Retextures] I was going to put something witty here.
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Perhaps I should widen my horizon or something. Anyway, retextures of two of Anto's hairs using Nouk's textures, ahoy. All files are compressed, 10 colours each. The meshes are free and *are* included, but if that's a problem I'll remove them or something.

Hello, HUGE pictures.

No. 32 - Retexture + Alpha-edit (less blunt ends, mainly)

D:@Mediafire
(Polycount = 6452)

No. 31 - Retexture

DL@Mediafire
(Polycount = 3224)


And that is it for me today. XD

More FO3 crap.
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I posted a screenshot of this last month, planning to make more before adding them to my Fo3-crap thread at GoS, but due to shifting priorities and real-life issues I just decided to dump this here until I can get to the rest. No, I'm not finished yet by a long shot. XD

Thinned out, this is what's included (familiar set-up, huh?):


The clean tricycle is just a recolour of the dirty one posted at GoS. The stool and chair are functional, the rest is deco, of course.
Dumped at Mediafire.

Oink, baby.
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Okay, so the problem was that my HD apparently wasn't able to run both Windows and all the other programs at the same time. For shame. So I got a new one, then determined that half of my back-up was corrupted and consequently moved on to non-computer related things. Got my crap together now, so we trudge on.

I've been trying my hand at facial editing in Milkshape 3D to counteract the 'what was I doing again'-feeling I'm having. It's so annoying when you're trying to create (or eradicate) a certain facial characteristic, but it proves impossible with the limiting options of BS. Time will tell what brilliance (or decadence) this approach could produce. -_-

Anyway, the amount and diversity of hairs in my hair bins isn't satisfactory, so I'm going to get off my ass and see which nice meshes are still in need of a touch-up. And catch up with you all, of course.

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Formatted HDs and then being saddled up with stinking Vista make me a unhappy camper. Am off to locate all my CDs and reinstall everything =_=
Oh, and I'm unable to come online at GoS for real now because... I lost my password AND the cookies. XD Should probably poke someone for help.

[Retexture & Brows] Living in borrowed time.
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Remember, my loves; anger without boundaries is a very ugly thing.
I've traded my graphic card for a better one with the old folks (who needs a 9600-something GeForce whatever when all they do is browse the interwebs -_-) but... not much difference, save for lack of anti-aliasing in Bodyshop. Meh.
In any case, moar eyebrows and some hair for you.


Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi-browsc.rar)

This was actually part of that hair spree but I'd misplaced the files somewhere. Mesh not included - get it here (Flora075B): http://www.xmsims.com/sims2/ehtm/hair/hair47.htm
Er, about 11 colours included, which are my recolours of Nouk's textures as usual.





Mediafire/Drop.io (yuxi-xmsims075retexture.rar)

All files are compressed. Sorry for the uninteresting screenshots, but I feel like there are noodles coming through my nose.
Back to the world of no internet : (.