Christmas presents!

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

Hi there everyone! Enjoying December? Done all your gift shopping? No, me neither. But I do have virtual presents!



First is more flags. (You can find the old flags, plus previews, here.) In my game, there's three sets of pictures I tend to stick to when making recolours - the Bon Voyage travel posters, plain posters pinned or taped to the wall, and the Grilled Cheese and Pineapple ones. The Bon Voyage and plain posters were all available in landscape, portrait and square, but there was no horizontal mesh that I knew of that matched the pineapple and cheese.

Until now. There I was, surfing around, looking for stuff, when I found this mesh. PERFECT. And so I remade those 50 flag posters as recolours for it.



Grab them from the links below! Mesh is included for your convenience.
Mediafire links: RAR | ZIP
Megaupload links: RAR | ZIP

Next is Chibitalia. Nuff said. :D



OK, so that's not nuff said, here's some actual information. The version I have here is my male Italy, aged down. Yes, that dress is enabled for boys. However, it's also enabled for girls, in case you wanted a female Chibitalia. It's an edit of fakepeeps handkerchief dresses which I love to bits, just with bare legs and puffier sleeves. You can have both dresses in the game, it will not affect fakepeeps' ones at all.
The bandana was originally attatched to some hair in the Kitchen and Bathroom stuff pack, I just detatched it and used a texture I found on Garden Of Shadows. It's available for both boys and girls, but the girls version is slightly bigger - this is because a lot of the girl hairs are bigger than the boy hairs and I wanted it to look good on as many as possible. Sadly it will clip into very big hair. There is nothing I can do about this, it's one of the big problems with hats in the game. It was a pain to recolour though, as it takes the glasses frames colour as a base, and has some weird lighting and texturing going on. At one point I accidentally turned it pink, another time it turned itself inside out. It's all working now though. Hopefully.

Two lots of files for you, as usual, the RAR file contains a Sims2Pack and the accessory mesh. The ZIP file contains the unpacked files. Pop them in Downloads and you'll find Chibitalia in the male child section on CAS. Enjoy!

Mediafire links: RAR | ZIP
Megaupload links: RAR | ZIP

Oh, and as a bonus, I've included some recolours of the dress for Romano. ^^ There doesn't seem to be much agreement on what colour he wears, so there's an orangey colour and a pale blue. They're all for boys or girls, so have fun!


Romano: Merry Christmas. ASSHOLE.

Comments

Wahh

[arthur ispikedyourtea kirkland (from livejournal.com)]

<3 i've loved all of your sims and i've been waiting so long for chibitalia! thanks!

Re: Wahh

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

Glad you like them all! :D I hope they're all having fun in your game.

[sayonara-chan.livejournal.com]

Chibitalia and HRE sitting on a tree...
K-I-S-S-I-N-- OH DEAR LORD HRE FELL OFF THE TREE!

I guess our HRE will no longer be lonely this Christmas ;D

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

I've decided in my game, they will be townie child BFFs forever. No-one will ever be allowed to age them up! Together FOREVER! Or at least until the end of my challenge, when I roll back my neighbourhood and have to create them again.

[tsuxlink.livejournal.com]

*squeal* Thank you so much, Sushi! They're so cute! *Spanishplz*

They're sure to get a good place in my game. <3

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

They are very cute, aren't they? Just don't say that within earshot of Romano. ^^

meep o.o

[arthur ispikedyourtea kirkland (from livejournal.com)]

the bandanna for chibitalia... whenever i try to use it (CAS, GamePlay, Body shop) it just turns into this solid white mass... Any suggestions for how to fix it? Or is it just a failed coloring file?

Re: meep o.o

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

Hmm. If it were blue, I'd have ideas how to fix it. White though, that's new to me. :/ What's the texture detail settings like in your graphics options?

Re: meep o.o

[arthur ispikedyourtea kirkland (from livejournal.com)]

high / normal i think. at first i thought it was just a texturing problom, but when i tryed to just do a recolor... well nothing changed, it was solid white too. i even tried other colors e-e

Re: meep o.o

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that's odd. Maybe I've done something silly like include the version where I was playing around with the lighting. I'll isolate it in my downloads and play with it a bit, but I'm afraid that's going to have to be a bit later as I'm visiting my sister today. :(

ETA: I've just had a look at in in Bodyshop, making sure the recolour and the mesh were the only bits of CC loaded and it's looking fine on my end. Do you mind if I ask what expansions and stuff packs you have? In the meantime, I'm going to ask on MTS if anyone knows what might be going on.

Re: meep o.o

[arthur ispikedyourtea kirkland (from livejournal.com)]

It's cool I don't mind waiting (I've just been using chibitalia without the bandanna for now.)

And I have all the EP but no stuff packs. Thanks again for trying to help ^^ most people just tell me its my problem now.

Re: meep o.o

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

I haven't heard anything back from MTS yet, I'll try asking on GOS too. I was hoping it was one of those Pets glitches (so many things borked with that EP!) but that doesn't seem likely. I'll keep trying though, I don't like having broken things floating around!

ETA: I shouldv'e asked sooner - could you give me a screencap of the bandanna please?

Re: meep o.o

[arthur ispikedyourtea kirkland (from livejournal.com)]

I will as soon as my laptop gets fixed >.< somewhere i got a virus from a CC download so i gotta scan each .package file till i find it. It sucks ><

Re: meep o.o

[arthur ispikedyourtea kirkland (from livejournal.com)]

Oki, i got a screen cap in CAS but its the same in game too (both creating the sim and in game play)

http://i40.tinypic.com/10ym1hx.jpg

Re: meep o.o

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

Whoa, that's peculiar. D: I... don't have any idea what's causing that and no-one's replied to my threads, but in the meantime, how about trying this hair (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=21472.msg548707#msg548707) with the white bandanna? It uses the same texture, so it'll be interesting to see if it works or not.

Re: meep o.o

[arthur ispikedyourtea kirkland (from livejournal.com)]

kk i'll let you know what happens the next time i load up the sims (it runs really rough on my laptop so if i'm not planing on playing for a while its a pain in the but to get to work)

[chibirussia450.livejournal.com]

How do you install the meshes? I keep getting a message saying that windows can't open the package files that I get out of the zip and rar folders.

[sushigal007.livejournal.com]

The .package files don't need to be opened at all, just unzip them to My Douments/EA Games/The Sims 2/Downloads. If you don't have a downloads folder, just make one (it needs a capital D) and they should appear in your game. You may need to enable custom content in your game first.
For sims2pack files, double-clicking them should open the default installer (but Clean Installer (http://sims2pack.modthesims2.com/) is MUCH better for installing stuff) and then just click install. :)Hope that helps.