tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56476688423475549642011-07-30T12:08:33.283-04:00Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.comBlogger1311100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-38181810568823976182009-08-03T16:44:00.006-04:002010-06-02T12:49:54.821-04:00

No, I don't have the game installed yet. In fact, I'm feeling like crap and I did say don't expect anything for a while, right? But I've been looking at my downloads and mods and stuff anyhow, trying to figure out what I want to keep, and ACR is on the "only maybe" list. Don't get me wrong; ACR has given me plenty of lolz and thrown me some fun curveballs (unexpected third pregnancy resulting in

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-22536484289330485382009-07-28T06:36:00.002-04:002010-06-02T12:50:10.472-04:00

Okay, well, after thinking about it some more, since I'm still feeling iffy about the old projects, I think maybe I'd be better off just making a fresh start. So, as soon as my back pain allows, I guess I'll go ahead and look for the disks and install. See if I can get FT working without hitches, or deal with the hitches, see if I can get that bodyshop compression workaround doing some good (and

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-58635208722649950112009-07-25T04:31:00.004-04:002010-06-02T12:50:24.778-04:00

Or, more like, "last few months' dilemma". I've been pondering reinstalling the Sims. Again. Still. Whichever. Unfortunately, I'm still having health issues. Yes, I'm trying to do something about them, but being that I'm using the local po' folks' insurance, time between appointments gets long... not to mention that the last appointment I had I missed because, heh, I was sick. And then my

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-3128529129724598462009-06-09T17:38:00.003-04:002009-06-09T17:47:14.760-04:00

...seems like Pescado is still a genius, because if I'm reading this description of his mod correctly, he actually figured out a way to address the number one biggest problem I'd have with the game:1. TS2-Style Aging [Optional - Default: Disabled] Allows you to have sims age TS2-style, with only the active household. Not enabled by default.Which still isn't 100% ideal, but I'd far rather

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-45943135291179094282009-06-04T16:08:00.004-04:002010-06-02T12:50:44.753-04:00

Which isn't the point of the post, but since I don't want to nap while the oven is on, I thought I'd take a bit of time to give my impressions of other people's reports of the Sims 3. I actually already posted some of this in a comment to an LJ post but I've since read and seen more and figured I'd do a bit more complete post with like, categories and more words. A lot more words. To be clear,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-58469056925557847962009-02-28T23:00:00.005-05:002010-06-02T12:51:01.809-04:00

I remembered recently that right before I started my extended Sims break I said I was going to explain how I pulled Sims or objects from a scene to do effects to them as I do now with Twilight Dreams; the first few times I did it by hand and it's reallllly slow that way. This way is rather easier, and leaves very little to clean up by hand. This is pretty long, but I promise it's actually very

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-29992797996267240832009-02-02T15:12:00.003-05:002009-02-02T15:12:51.009-05:00

I realized I never posted pointers on this blog, so: my non-Sims gaming blog does have posts in it. 4 from early January, 3 from today. Click the link on the side.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-57165268981489301602009-02-01T09:26:00.008-05:002010-06-02T12:54:21.768-04:00

I guess everyone knows I'm not getting the Sims 3, at least not anytime soon, but with its immiment(ish) release, I wanted to go over why... it's a big list, probably bore you to tears, but hey, I like blogging about things. In reverse order of importance (er, more or less): 6) EA's patch distribution policy. I've been ticked off at this for a while, though it wouldn't have been enough by

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-27871627233430352632009-01-03T10:02:00.002-05:002009-01-03T10:03:22.263-05:00

I've made a new blog for my non-Simming gaming blather, if anyone's interested. Incidentally, both this and the new blog now have links on the bottom if you want to use an RSS reader to keep up with them, though I'll continue to post links from my LJ as well (and occasionally posts will be made just there as usual).

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-27393452972323396082008-10-24T12:04:00.002-04:002008-10-24T12:16:10.410-04:00

So, okay. I got sick of sites telling me how horrible I was for not upgrading to IE7, and tired of Windows Update trying to suggest it, so I did.Boy, was that a mistake. I now understand why so many people dislike IE these days. IE6 was fine. IE7 is a piece of crap.Microsoft has Star Trek syndrome. For those of you who aren't geeks, Star Trek Syndrome is this thing where the Star Trek movies tend

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-45136553053886396402008-10-10T20:17:00.002-04:002008-10-10T20:25:17.418-04:00

Thank you for the folks who left a comment on my ER trip post. Yeah, it was kinda scary. I'm just old enough and in bad enough shape to honestly be at risk for a heart attack, so that's ultimately why I went to the ER. They don't know what happened, and neither do I... I think maybe just a blood pressure spike or something, though, since my BP and heart rate were so up, and once they dropped I

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-83983014512883429902008-10-09T04:08:00.002-04:002008-10-09T04:25:46.947-04:00

...but for a while there, I wasn't so sure.I've had chest muscle pain before, what with being amply endowed and all, but this was different. Plus this time, aside from the chest pain, I had arm pain. And then tingly arm. And then numbish arm and tingly the rest of me. And moving around made me feel like I was going to pass out. Plus either the temperature dropped or I was having chills.When the

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-50022426897121098162008-10-07T10:21:00.004-04:002010-06-02T12:58:30.438-04:00

First off, kudos to EA for finding yet another way to be completely incompetent and non-user-friendly. Uninstalling a game warns you it will delete your "saved game files". What it means is "Will completely obliterate your EA Games directory and all its contents." Yes, I had backups, but I pity the poor person who doesn't realize "saved game files" is a code phrase for "all related files at all,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-30269586497482560682008-10-07T07:22:00.003-04:002010-06-02T12:58:53.752-04:00

So, I'm still having serious animation lag and freezes. Maybe I was unclear in my last post, I don't know, but yes, the hacks were updated except for ones that didn't seem to have updates (mostly animation/movie-making things) and I had already found an update to one of those which fixed one problem, but not the one with the cars that prompted the post. And as I said, I had already tried pulling

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-86818482627322521642008-10-06T19:28:00.004-04:002010-06-02T12:59:41.997-04:00

I found one fixable problem (jump problem that turned out to be from an outdated hack that I didn't realize had a newer version) and did a bit more testing with the test neighborhood with regular gameplay, including some hobby objects. Everything was looking okay... Until I loaded my Simself's house. I did some building additions to add hobby objects, gave her some aspiration reward thingies

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-56454746862565574052008-10-06T11:13:00.004-04:002010-06-02T13:00:35.429-04:00

I've got Free Time installed and so far everything's okay, in that it seems to have loaded everything, but I haven't done any real playtesting. I'm playing around in a test 'hood right now, and if nothing is obviously screwy I'll go load my Simself's house in S&S and see how that's working. CC is showing up (including object recolours) and I can spawn an ACR adjuster and inSim items are findable,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-43174789558712484232008-10-02T04:09:00.003-04:002010-06-02T13:00:50.672-04:00

So, this is some blather about anime and Japanese drama shows and my inability to speak Japanese and something to do with Twilight Dreams, but it's mainly blather, so feel free to skip it. I actually have fairly picky tastes in anime. Despite what I'm doing, mahou shoujo (magical girl) anime is generally not what I'm into. Shoujo in general (there's non-magical girl shoujo, yes; the 'shoujo'

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-78411977953502030272008-10-01T13:57:00.004-04:002008-10-01T14:03:16.654-04:00

Okay, but, srsly, I've got some Twilight Dreams stuff, yay!Omake (Extras) for Volume 1:DVD cover: Front - BackTwilight Dreams Revised Opening Theme (video)The Prequel that Wasn't Made Opening Theme (video) (There's some notes in the summary post which are also posted on the boolProp thread.)And then there's the actual episode. Episode 5: Tests

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-27974183927831214542008-09-30T17:51:00.002-04:002008-09-30T17:59:23.881-04:00

I didn't really do any editing for TD over the weekend like I thought, although I did get some more S&S college played. Some folks are graduated. Some have a bit longer to go. Should be able to do it fairly quickly next time I load up the game.Skipped Simming yesterday because I felt a little burned out on the concept of college, and because, honestly, I've been dithering about something in the

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-7139693007699112312008-09-27T07:06:00.006-04:002010-06-02T13:01:11.834-04:00

As cited on a gaming blog I sometimes read: EA Games president and God of Mountebanks Frank Gibeau recently said: "We assumed that consumers understand piracy is a huge problem - and that if games that take 1-4 years to develop are effectively stolen the day they launch, developers and publishers will simply stop investing in PC games." Dear Frank Gibeau, I hate to tell you this, but that's

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-28342963774785427442008-09-26T15:16:00.005-04:002010-06-02T13:01:27.843-04:00

Today is apparently the day for weird friggin' glitches. First, my computer. I've been troubles off and on with my browser, probably because the new Windows updates are doing weird things to my old browser. I haven't updated because I really don't like tabbed browsing very much and anyhow I don't really like what I've seen of the new IE interface (and, no, I don't like Firefox, either), though I

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-74523444590181010672008-09-22T15:02:00.003-04:002008-09-22T15:31:06.166-04:00

This week, I hope to get done what I didn't get done last week.I didn't make zero progress, but right after posting that last post, I started feeling ill. Ran a fever for a couple days, and generally have been foggy (and not sleeping well, either). Today I'm pretty foggy as well... I've been physically awake for about an hour but I feel like I'm still asleep. So I don't know how much (if anything

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-43152847501064866532008-09-16T13:34:00.004-04:002010-06-02T13:02:01.143-04:00

...I intend on getting Twilight Dreams #5 done. I've got a complete shot list and just took a last look at the script. Then I took a look at 6 through 9 (yeah, I got 9 done), and did about half of 10. I know what goes in the other half, I just need to break it down into shots and dialogue/voiceover. So today or tomorrow I'll work on shooting the shots. However, I also want to finish up S&S

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-3554452546128559032008-09-13T16:46:00.003-04:002008-09-13T16:47:39.542-04:00

Saints & Sinners, Generation A, Chapter 4 is finally up!

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-41262397973508913372008-08-28T21:37:00.002-04:002008-08-28T21:39:06.764-04:00

Today's lesson: if you queue up someone to do something in a room with a couch, but they haven't gotten there yet, and then the two people who are in the room have their ACR timer go off, there is great potential for lulz.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-46321084248743214082008-08-28T14:25:00.004-04:002010-06-02T13:02:27.228-04:00

I'm not going to bore you with the details of why I've not posted anything, blog or otherwise, except to mention "8 days of migraine symptoms", and now I'm done. Anyhow... I finally finished the second video for TD, and after some consideration and inability to figure out the best way to do it, decided to drop the third one, which was meant to be one of two ending themes. I'm just going to work

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-2967726034078197382008-08-15T18:11:00.004-04:002010-06-02T13:02:44.196-04:00

Okay, I actually have been doing stuff, albeit still slowly. Twilight Dreams Episodes: E5-E7 scripts finalized, barring minor changes on the fly as usual. E8 drafted. E9 is being worked on and hopefully will be done next week. Next two commercials planned, for E5 and E6; for E7 I know who I want but the author is having computer issues so I'm waiting to ask. Also I know who will likely be E8.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-80591364053729290052008-08-04T07:06:00.003-04:002010-06-02T13:03:04.163-04:00

Okay, first, the non-Simmy stuff: they put Dr. Horrible back up as a hulu stream, which I found out about yesterday, so I've now gotten to see the whole thing. I think I'm kinda a little in love with Neil Patrick Harris. Not quite "OMG I want to make babies" with him—though granted I don't want kids anyhow and besides, he's, y'know, gay—but definitely I'd love to see him do more stuff like this.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-10676888242358772412008-07-30T16:14:00.001-04:002008-07-30T16:17:00.017-04:00

Aside from the fun recounted in my last post, there was also the cold or flu or something, continued other health problems (and continued lack of insurance), the a/c freezing routinely such that it can't be run all the time (and yes, it's quite hot and humid 'round here) and then, of course, the transformer for the DSL modem fried. Which is obviously fixed, but it was just so nice to go along

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-5817118363082094652008-07-21T17:23:00.005-04:002010-06-02T13:03:34.564-04:00

Let me give this post a full title: "How I came to not watch Dr. Horrible, ended up with wet pillows, and had Monday luck start early but leave late". Yesterday morning started out fine. We had pancakes and sausage for breakfast, and we were going to go do a few things in Guild Wars, then watch Dr. Horrible and do some cleaning, than do some more Guild Wars... we were trying to get to a specific

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-29824831468007859162008-07-17T13:12:00.003-04:002008-07-17T13:18:13.374-04:00

Eeeeeevvvvveeeeeerrrrryyyyyytthhhiiiiinnnng iiiiiisssss gooooiiiiinnnng vvvveeeeerrrrrryyyyy ssssssslllllllloooooOOOOoooowwwww.Seriously, I looked at some of what I shot yesterday. Something that turned out to be a total of 5 seconds of video took a full minute of sitting there to shoot, because the Sims is too stupid to take advantage of my multicore system.For those of you who aren't into math,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-65082404063896246112008-07-08T14:38:00.006-04:002008-07-08T14:51:04.543-04:00

I'm organizing stuff in preparation for shooting video for Twilight Dreams, but I haven't actually started, and I don't think I'm going to until tomorrow, because I'm not feeling patient enough to deal with the "5 minutes of shooting is 30 seconds of video" ratio today. (Thursday-Sunday was All Guild Wars All The Time, because they had a holiday weekend, too, and yesterday I had housework to do,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-16236426619977081482008-07-02T18:20:00.001-04:002008-07-02T18:22:01.550-04:00

Episode 4 of Twilight Dreams, "...becoming the Now", is finally, finally, finally up.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-55280737304774523532008-06-28T14:48:00.002-04:002008-06-28T15:07:31.447-04:00

Chapter 3Yeah, um. I still have no idea why that took so long. But it's done now, and next week I'll work on TD, which is also insanely overdue.The good news is, Picasa finally fixed their mass upload widget so it didn't compress all images the same regardless of your setting, so uploading is now less tedious than before (and slightly faster).Non-LJ users: I will be posting a spoilery followup

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-16604843806908502962008-06-27T18:53:00.003-04:002008-06-27T18:57:46.671-04:00

I'm... really not sure what happened to the week. Again. On the good news front, my sleep schedule, which has been really munged up, seems to be back to normal, so I'm hoping that'll help. And I got some comments to folks on boolProp. On the bad news front, no, I'm still not done writing the new S&S chapter and haven't gotten anywhere with TD. Both of which suck, yea verily.I did, however,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-67739919247809018342008-06-24T12:04:00.003-04:002008-06-24T12:05:59.088-04:00

Pictures are sorted and split, one set for the chapter I'm working on and the rest thrown into a folder for a second chapter later.I really need to go comment on some recent releases, aside from the brief comments a couple people got on LJ posts... maybe not today, but I am reading even if you aren't seeing comments...The molasses? That's my brain.More later, I hope.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-75829260558830701282008-06-20T16:54:00.003-04:002008-06-20T17:03:54.892-04:00

And all the Gen B kids are finally in college. I just had another of those easily-distracted weeks, and this weekend is just gonna be worse because the Gub'mint Stimulus Check came and we're getting new games with part of it. I will work on sorting pics and writing as quickly as I can, though don't expect to see an S&S update until after the weekend, and TD probably... end of next week, maybe?

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-91080963829233018542008-06-14T22:12:00.003-04:002008-06-14T22:17:48.744-04:00

There's something really screwy going on with elder hair colours in my game. I don't know if I'm having game issues or binning issues or what, but some hair that appears white in previews and even appeared white after change spontaneously became black, and now it's white in previews and portraits but black on the head...I'm going to rebin all the hair I binned in the hopes it's just some weird

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-739377873262091132008-06-12T19:13:00.006-04:002008-06-13T08:12:58.045-04:00

Okay, I got distracted, there were health issues, and now it's Thursday and I'm about where I'd hoped to be Monday night... so everything's behind.I'm going to get the Gen B kids to college and then do a chapter, which may or may not go up to that point. Likely "not", but we'll see. A few are already there, but I've still got the younger ones to go. I'm not bothering to play college until

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-73761753119181831722008-06-04T18:17:00.003-04:002008-06-04T18:22:40.328-04:00

So, I did go fiddle with my Uni housing, but only in the sense of fiddling with existing designs and adding another 2-bedroom option. I'll do a 3- and maybe a 4-bedroom next time.Then I went to actually, y'know. Play. I've had some issues with my headmaster being a jerk, at least in one house. Two visits, two barely-scraping-by approvals. He rejected almost all the schmoozing. So I was thinking

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-18426292383317189682008-06-03T20:09:00.008-04:002010-06-02T13:07:53.296-04:00

I actually have the game loaded still right now, but I am taking a quick break after some bafflement. Backtrack a bit. It took me several hours to play 3 days in the main house. Granted, it's a pretty full house, and I threw a few (single-person) community visits in there, but honestly, it seemed to drag quite a bit. I think I'm still feeling unfocussed. Also, there were a few Sims Not Listening

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-80199987086151249612008-06-02T14:09:00.004-04:002008-06-02T14:24:15.673-04:00

I'm so behind. I just... haven't loaded the game. I have skimmed the updates on my list but not read in depth or (obviously) left comments. Oh, except Miranda's BC, I need to go read that. I actually do want to play, I just keep getting distracted by other things. Like, um, I was going to play last week, but then I found the FMVs/cutscenes from a game I couldn't finish, so I was watching those,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-80058245085571959252008-05-21T06:53:00.002-04:002008-05-21T06:58:44.343-04:00

I almost forgot that was this weekend... and my sweetie is taking a couple extra days around it, so it's actually going to be an extra-long weekend for him, during which I imagine I sha'n't get much Simming done.So... I'm guessing I won't be putting out any more updates of either project until early June, though hopefully it'll be fairly early June for both of them.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-37822005246214033472008-05-19T15:18:00.002-04:002008-05-19T15:22:13.004-04:00

Quite aside from my sleep schedule being munged up and not having enough sleep last night (really "this morning"), I've also got the lovely Extra Tired because it's That Time of the Month. Apparently any focus is out of the question today, as even coffee isn't helping. So I really doubt I'm getting to any Twilight Dreams stuff the next couple days. Maybe later in the week, I don't know.I may

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-50189091314080980652008-05-18T16:14:00.007-04:002010-06-02T13:09:33.899-04:00

Can't Sim this weekend. Too busy a) making enough money for Very Expensive New Armor, b) dying on the way to get One Specific Piece, c) dyeing it, after dying, and d) taking advantage of it to go Kick Some Butt. :) Asi & Xylia in their new, freshly-custom-dyed armor, newly redesigned-cloaks fluttering behind them. Also, Xylia's cat Cocoamunga. Blather: "Very Expensive" and custom dyeing:

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-53172019568917352922008-05-16T02:50:00.003-04:002010-06-02T13:10:54.379-04:00

I've been doing other stuff, but I did get in a short round of the houses. I think I mentioned I was somewhat further than the update showed. I've actually got several teens now, in fact. And what is probably the youngest of gen B are toddlers. I've been judiciously elixiring my founders so they wouldn't die when their grandkids were still babies or whatever, but I think I probably could've given

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-51311810766365436392008-05-12T22:54:00.002-04:002008-05-12T22:55:04.453-04:00

It can be found here, so go read it!

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-40702030500314867302008-05-12T02:09:00.003-04:002008-05-12T02:12:10.765-04:00

This weekend has just been full of distractions. Lousy mission in Guild Wars we had to repeat several times. Feeling sick and tired for no reason. You know. Stuff.I'm a tad shy of halfway through the captions. I can probably do the remaining ones tomorrow and get the chapter up without problem, though. Assuming I don't fall asleep three or four times, which has been known to happen once in a

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-62842045538347527622008-05-09T19:51:00.002-04:002008-05-09T19:53:20.175-04:00

I've sorted through what I had and picked out what I want for the update. It's definitely going to be a large update, and it won't even cover everything I've played through. Which is probably good, being ahead is generally not a bad thing.Anyhow, I've done 20 slides so far. Which is about 10% of the total. So... figure tomorrow night for an update, I guess? Or maybe Sunday, depending on how much

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-38978465843270364402008-05-08T02:31:00.003-04:002008-05-08T02:36:42.690-04:00

Not a lot, but some. Two kittens and two puppies are now ready to be adopted. Each breeder's pets had three, so I kept one and gave up the other two, right after birth.Then I decided I wanted to see what my babies looked like toddlerized. Only gotten to one of those so far, though. Also, ACR did something that made me sputter and write notes in ALL CAPS. Even the notes sputter. But I won't tell

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-83622691554298642932008-05-07T03:04:00.003-04:002008-05-07T03:11:58.539-04:00

Was up Very Late last night, then didn't get enough sleep. Then I napped in the afternoon and woke up to a BSOD. However despite that nothing seems to be wrong with my computer. As opposed to my guy's computer, which suffered RAID issues earlier.Anyhow, I've made it through a few rounds of Saints and Sinners households. There are 6 kids (in three households) and one on the way. Five of six are

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-47445433718919858672008-05-05T19:38:00.007-04:002010-06-02T13:13:35.316-04:00

Feeling very flighty and unfocussed today. Doesn't help that I've got some not-very-controllable pain, which tends to be distracting. I am sorta playing, though I just really got started, and don't know how much I'll do today. I did do some other stuff. There's teen townies now. And downtownies, including two teens. The adult downtownies are custom. The teens are all generated. And I made a cat

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-88963580305239871422008-05-04T15:59:00.005-04:002010-06-02T13:14:10.771-04:00

I just finished up the shot list for E4 of Twilight Dreams, and went over the video shotlist to see if I could think of anything else. I'll probably start filming the video while I'm doing other shots, though I have a lot of video to be done in places the shots are precisely not. Of course. Heh. Haven't done any actual play in S&S, but I did do a bit of building-related stuff. First I cleaned up

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-84320805483393217752008-05-03T01:05:00.003-04:002008-05-03T01:16:51.135-04:00

Episode 3 of Twilight Dreams is ready (click):Also crossed off my to-do list were two more buildings for S&S, leaving two. I may just wait to make them since neither of them is likely to be used much for a while, and I want to play, darn it.I also fixed a couple people's last names/household names (I wanted to hyphenate for Adrian, and Abby's household name was not her married name), and took a

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-43822218829837591802008-05-01T19:52:00.003-04:002008-05-01T20:08:53.009-04:00

I'm probably still going to do a bit more Simming tonight, but even if I don't, I got a fair amount done.Twilight Dreams - All shots are done. I do have a lot of editing this time around (you'll see why), but I think despite that I might have Episode 3 out tomorrow night. If not, sometime over the weekend... I have to be a bit more vague there because weekend Simming time is erratic.On the topic

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-71091057968611126692008-05-01T01:00:00.004-04:002008-05-01T01:10:18.990-04:00

Yesterday was a deliberate Sims-free day. I had other stuff I needed to do. Doing it caused me some backache, though, so I've been a little slow today because I'm finding sitting up a long time a little uncomfortable. Still, I've made some progress.For Twilight Dreams, I made a revised shot list, double-checked the script while I was at it, and marked off the shots I already had.For Saints &

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-88405922407529764212008-04-28T18:25:00.001-04:002008-04-28T18:26:20.207-04:00

Go read it! It's done! Yay!

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-39141415027396147432008-04-28T17:54:00.004-04:002008-04-28T18:03:56.243-04:00

Things I Intend on Doing for SureSort existing Twilight Dreams pictures for Episode 3 and make a new shot list once I'm sure what I have and what I don't.Shoot the rest of episode 3Decide if TD needs the quality drop S&S is gettingEdit and caption photos and release episodeMake revised shot and video shot list for Episode 4 and the video I'm going to be releasing with itBuild downtown for S&S

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-36232673126043163122008-04-28T17:31:00.004-04:002008-04-28T18:07:56.100-04:00

I'm uploading S&S now... going a little slow because I still need to use the five-at-a-time loader because of compression issues with the batch one. I'll post again when it's done.Starting with the next chapter, either picture size, graphics format, or both, is going to have to change. The current chapter is 63M, about average for the S&S chapters, because I settled on an 800 pixel wide picture

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-77103326460886851382008-04-28T01:10:00.003-04:002008-04-28T01:19:33.509-04:00

I got started a little late on the writing, and it's going slow... actually, that's not true. The writing is going fine. The cropping and resizing and re-canvas-sizing for text and re-cropping is going slow. I'm basically doing it in chunks of maybe 10, and I'm at about 80/140. So it probably won't be up tonight, unless I stay up later than I think I'm going to, but I should be able to finish it

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-48548385347537376982008-04-25T11:43:00.004-04:002010-06-02T13:15:24.216-04:00

I've been up since about 2 AM, mainly because I went to take a short nap yesterday and it turned into 9 hours of sleep. o_O Anyhow, so... all three S&S households have had some playtime. There's been marriages (and one wedding). There are two babies and a toddler. The two lots I had on my list for the main 'hood are built: Library (well, library and computer center and statue balcony and),

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-70806971309071833002008-04-23T13:34:00.003-04:002008-04-23T13:45:22.554-04:00

All the kids are graduated. Abby and her sweetie are moved in and have a fairly big house considering I went with what they had on hand, and it's all baby-ready. I think they're just going to marry in the livingroom and go straight to the baby-getting. (Probably adoption, though I'm thinking of boolPropping them one.) Aaron's home. He grew up in a ridiculous but somehow fitting outfit. Since I

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-70862578442869258922008-04-22T17:46:00.005-04:002008-04-22T18:00:46.118-04:00

There will be a Saints & Sinners update this week. I'm almost done with college (Abby's graduated and moved into her new house, Aaron's most of the way through his last semester, Adrian's got a year to go). I may want to play ahead a bit before tackling the actual update, so I have a head start on the next one. I think I'll be playing regularly again now... the anniversaries of suck are past, and

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-50784478174413479862008-04-11T17:46:00.001-04:002008-04-11T17:47:41.264-04:00

Just... having a bleah month. I played a little. Still working on college. But mostly I've been distracted by other things.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-13860551814687425322008-03-26T18:35:00.004-04:002008-03-26T18:49:55.173-04:00

Seriously, I seem to have come down with a serious case of the "easily distracted brain fog", or something. I haven't fired up the game in nearly two weeks, which seems so odd because I actually do want to play. I'm going to blame it on it being nearly April, even though most of it occurred in March. April's historically been a bad month for me*. Maybe my brain is cringing in the expectation of

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-88607502712297912792008-03-11T13:47:00.003-04:002010-06-02T13:17:28.955-04:00

I actually, after all that dithering, never got around to doing much play for Saints and Sinners the last few days... my body decided to go on one of its excessive-fatigue jags (the counterpart to the insomnia, whee) so I spent a lot of time sleeping instead. I'm playing now, and trying to find some suitable candidates for Heir's Wife. Aaron has decided at least four women are worthy of two

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-49046438903961682992008-03-07T10:37:00.004-05:002008-03-07T10:48:30.349-05:00

Since it's the end of the week anyhow I think I'll stick to Saints and Sinners for today and get some quality Generation A college time in. I can put together the next Twilight Dreams next week.I have plenty of free time[1] since I'm not working and all[2] so it's not like a day or two is really going to matter, and this early into a legacy everything goes by really quickly. Once I have multiple

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-35383806582862837062008-03-07T03:45:00.001-05:002008-03-07T03:46:31.085-05:00

Generation 0's second and final chapter.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-71156181273644951062008-03-06T16:35:00.003-05:002008-03-06T16:46:00.775-05:00

I'm taking a break from working on the S&S update... I've chosen and organized the pictures with some thoughts about captions, but haven't edited or written them yet. So maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow, depending on how long that takes. I'm still feeling my way with characters—not that this is heavily character-driven yet but I'd like it to work towards it—so it's gonna be narration-heavy again,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-41270468039377347742008-03-04T21:14:00.004-05:002008-03-04T21:26:01.350-05:00

So, since Saints and Sinners is (at this point) an uglacy, obviously the heir is going to be the person I judge with the worst combination of genes (or, if you like, the ugliest, though at this stage I hesitate to use that word).I know who the winner is now. I was pretty sure it was going to be the middle kid, Aaron, when I saw him transition to teen, but I wanted to let little brother Adrian get

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-22616977895093632342008-03-03T18:33:00.004-05:002008-03-03T18:39:55.961-05:00

So, I've decided from now on when I send legacy kids to college I'm going to determine their major based on one of three things: 1) If they roll a Want for a specific major, I'll go with that (if they roll multiple ones at the same time, the leftmost wins), 2) If they don't and there's a clear choice based on personality, I'll pick that (like June declaring Psych in the Greenes... it just seemed

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-2357735298391078972008-03-01T11:32:00.002-05:002008-03-01T11:46:06.683-05:00

Although I do think it came out interestingly and actually scans more or less like an opening sequence, there's a few bits that I'm not happy with, and I'm already planning a revised version. I'd like to clean up the video if possible (I still am not sure where that weird artifacting came in and so I'm not sure that it is possible), clean up and add to the visual thoughts Miho has on the couch,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-48870787473520317582008-02-29T15:06:00.002-05:002008-02-29T15:08:35.439-05:00

Episode 2: NeighborsBonus Video: Opening Credits

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-44864475619052009402008-02-28T11:41:00.003-05:002008-02-28T11:45:23.877-05:00

That's my eye, twitching. Periodically I get weird eye tics, usually short-lived (a few hours off and on, say). This time it's lasted a couple days, and as you can imagine it makes it hard to concentrate on anything. It's not a constant twitching but it's frequent enough to be really distracting.But in the meantime I'm at least thinking about the video. I've got the basic filming done, and the

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-25697201230699010002008-02-26T15:28:00.005-05:002008-02-26T15:43:20.181-05:00

...I hope to get episode 2 of Twilight Dreams out, as well as the first video, though between insomnia (which you might think would let me get more done, but no, trust me, it doesn't work that way, at least not with this sort) and recovering from a cold I am not sure how much I can concentrate. I've got about... 1/2 of the stuff shot I need to, or so, actually a bit more I suppose. The episode

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-91745899288825747542008-02-23T16:06:00.009-05:002009-02-28T23:46:02.182-05:00

Saints and Sinners is my custom genetic legacy: 13 generations of Uglacy followed by 13 generations of Prettacy. It has a Catholic Saints name theme, which should be fun around the time I hit 'Q', and I've got some ideas in mind to keep the legacy family from acquiring a boring amount of cash on hand, including making Generation M restart on a new lot (since they'll be 'founding' the Prettacy

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-192844297151234212008-02-20T07:13:00.003-05:002008-02-20T07:26:08.832-05:00

Welcome to Episode #1 of Tasogare Yume: Twilight Dreams! Twilight Dreams is an episodic anime-inspired Sims story.Read here.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-8987666961044045002008-02-15T07:39:00.002-05:002008-02-15T07:47:31.999-05:00

Despite insomnia, cramps, toothaches, etc. I have managed to do a few things:Finished up building the main Twilight Dreams neighborhood. Well, mostly; there's one lot that's only partly developed but it doesn't need to be more than it is for now.Populated the neighborhood, including with a few generic non-important people so my walkbys aren't always feature characters.Improved the dithering

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-91981702386455579582008-02-13T08:48:00.003-05:002008-02-13T08:55:15.889-05:00

I cannot make any of the charcoal clothing not dither into craptacularity. Seriously, I've spent the last several hours working on the charcoal versions of several things and except for in one single case I've yet to come up with anything that works. The other colours, yes, I can improve, but charcoal? No.I do not know how the hell they make their own clothes work, either, considering if I

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-56146262593637240552008-02-13T04:45:00.004-05:002008-02-13T04:53:32.045-05:00

So, apparently if I check the item by running Photoshop's DDS filter and make sure it doesn't dither poorly, I can predict if it'll look okay in-game, provided I do then go and do my other workaround.I'll work on rebuilding the clothes soon, using this method. In the meantime, I've removed the links to the downloads and put a note up about it.In other news, the backstory neighborhood is built and

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-49284057254016637292008-02-12T23:15:00.003-05:002008-02-12T23:32:12.549-05:00

Well, the game is still insisting on compressing (or possibly converting) textures in the game. On most colours this doesn't seem to matter much and unlike before it's not corrupting the FILES, just the displayed texture, but in the darkest colours it looks like total crap.I'm not quite sure what to do about this at this point. I already rebuilt one dark skirt with a nearly-flat colour to try to

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-11949124695344983792008-02-12T20:12:00.000-05:002008-02-12T20:15:52.677-05:00

I think I might be a little too thorough sometimes. Because that neighborhood you got to see a tiny pic of yesterday? That's the BACKSTORY neighborhood. I'm probably going to shoot about 30 pictures total (well, okay, I'm probably going to keep about 30 pictures total) and maybe 10 minutes of video. Naturally I've spent 2 days working on it.Tomorrow I start the actual story neighborhood.

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-25225062975328743312008-02-11T20:12:00.001-05:002008-02-11T20:22:36.515-05:00

Okay, first, pursuant to the last post, we are buying a copy of an older version of Sony Vegas, for $42 including shipping. I think it's actually the version I once did download a trial for a few years ago, which I recall having very little trouble adapting to. So hopefully that will take care of any editing woes... I'm about 98% certain that it's got that variable chromakeying, since I found an

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-52777849175660366812008-02-11T12:01:00.001-05:002010-06-02T13:21:36.485-04:00

It's no news to me that Windows Movie Maker is not precisely a robust video editor. It's serviceable, if what you want is simple compositing, and I could probably do most of what I want with it, but one thing I'd hoped to do that I just tested turns out to be impractical... partly because of WMM's limitations and partly because of Sims lighting. See, WMM will do chromakeying to an arbitrary

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-54807916429095208172008-02-11T03:48:00.001-05:002010-06-02T13:22:31.756-04:00

All Homecrafter and Object files downloaded from me prior to February 9th should be replaced. Due to renames and/or reorganization, I advise deleting all relevant files, then downloading the new versions and putting them in place. [If you're worried, make backups... but I did this without trouble.] Existing collections and decorated items should remain unchanged (except as noted below), as the

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-62543378369973532882008-02-06T19:47:00.001-05:002008-02-06T19:57:22.008-05:00

(Click to expand.)(That's all the update you get today.)

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-47229513574872219202008-02-05T19:12:00.001-05:002008-02-05T19:15:11.810-05:00

Oh, look. My object recolours have the same compression problems.*sighs weightily*Okay. I've pulled all the download links except for the clothing, which I already worked around the compression issues for. I'll be searching through my archives for the original graphics files and fixing the packages as soon as possible.If you have downloaded ANYTHING from me besides clothing, you will want to keep

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-43800035720366703392008-02-05T16:26:00.001-05:002008-02-05T16:38:01.531-05:00

*tears hair out*So, I used the ORIGINAL bmps that I loaded into Homecrafter for the solid colour paints to fix up the ones that were off... only it turns out that THOSE don't match the IN-GAME versions, probably because of compression issues.So essentially I have three choices:a) Rebuild all 880 file graphics (835, I guess, since I'd be starting with the regular paint colours) and reload them

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-44571133150167386852008-02-04T20:11:00.000-05:002008-02-04T23:28:20.654-05:00

...it's more widespread than I thought. I'm not sure how so yet, but I'm now going to be going through ALL the paint colours in ALL their variations and figure it out.I suppose I could just call it "Manufacturer's variance" and live with it, since few people are going to combine, say, the original paint with the paint w/dark crown and kick, but it irritates me, so I'll probably end up

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-61071024193196645182008-02-04T19:32:00.000-05:002008-02-04T19:45:06.761-05:00

Okay, I'm not quite done with the collectionizing. Seriously, it's well over 1000 files I'm doing, so I'm not surprised. More, counting Maxis colours. And I'm not just throwing them in a collections folder... I'm organizing them by hue, grouping like stuff together (e.g., pastel rose, rose, victorian rose go next to each other; pastel rose with white kick can be found with pastel rose with light,

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-5860792014396314182008-02-03T22:51:00.000-05:002008-02-03T22:56:14.101-05:00

Well, okay, not THAT productive... but even though I usually don't get much Sims stuff done on the weekends (and in fact am about to go play Guild Wars) I did manage to do a couple things. The object recolours were mostly things I did before but the livingroom stuff was done today, and yesterday I collectionized some of the flooring. Today I put together the first building in the backstory

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-79231867742464231802008-02-03T16:24:00.001-05:002008-02-03T16:41:04.412-05:00

Object recolours (requiring CEP) have been aded to the custom content post. Right now it's just a link to the top folder, which has subfolders, to help save some space. There are pictures (matching the rar file names) to give you an idea of what's available in any given file.I may make some separate links to the subfolders later if it becomes an issue; I've been thinking of reorganizing by adding

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-42993341110461642022008-02-01T21:46:00.014-05:002010-06-02T13:25:02.154-04:00

Tasogare Yume (Twilight Dreams) is an episodic Sims story, influenced by anime. The setting is sorta-Japan... things in the setting are based at least loosely on places and character types I've seen in both anime and Japanese drama shows. It's a filtered-through-Westerner-eyes Japan, though, and I make no claims that it's accurate. The character style is also based on anime. Volume 1: Now and

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First: Recolours My custom content post has been updated and slightly reorganized. This link is also always available in the side bar. Updated = first-pass casual clothing for both genders is up. I started to do pants for guys, saw how much I'd have to deconstruct it, and shrugged. I'll live with what's available. I may do another round of updates for full outfits next week, but in the meantime

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Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-41016137083560394202008-01-31T13:54:00.000-05:002008-01-31T14:09:54.335-05:00

The game runs really well on the new computer. Load times are incredible, and while I got the pause when the game generated a paper girl and a garden club member in my test neighborhood (yeah, I got my blank templates in, for everything but the three basic vacation destinations*) it wasn't very bad. Also it runs just fine in windowed mode, no slowdown at all, which was not really the case on the

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-42664356924133374552008-01-30T15:27:00.001-05:002010-06-02T13:26:17.591-04:00

Well, I can run the Sims in widescreen, but not at my native resolution. Unfortunately, running in a non-widescreen resolution does NOT do the black bar thing; I think this particular monitor might not know how to respond to that instruction or something? I don't know. However, there's a teeny problem with widescreen: video filming is done in 4:3 ratio. I could probably learn to deal with the

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-50873271006865801112008-01-29T17:21:00.002-05:002010-06-02T13:27:27.447-04:00

My allergies are just out of control today. It's very distracting. Amazingly, that doesn't mean I've done nothing. I have a bunch of the first-pass adult women's casual clothing done. What's "first-pass" mean? Enough recolours that I will feel like I've got a lot of choice, but not nearly as many as I intend on eventually making. In this case it specifically means polo shirts, the crop sweater

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-16188318953442524912008-01-28T23:58:00.001-05:002008-01-29T00:00:42.752-05:00

Well, still moving a little slow (I had a very sleepy day) but I now have BV, simPE and CEP installed and all my downloads (including updated versions of AwesomeWare and a couple new things) in place, and I got a small bit of clothing done. I still haven't actually loaded the game and fiddled with settings yet, though.It's pizza time. Actually, french bread pizza from Stouffer's time. More

Tinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17501225796369200145noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5647668842347554964.post-27728596274365134632008-01-25T11:57:00.001-05:002010-06-02T13:28:22.400-04:00

Okay, see, I got Zoo Tycoon 2 for Christmas, so I spent a few days playing that, and then we got Guild Wars, which is highly addictive, which is most of what I've been doing since the beginning of the month. So I'm just now re-installing the Sims. I did get through Seasons (including two stuff packs) installed, and paused there to check something about Body Shop; you might recall I was having

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