Faces: Goblin, Troll, and Pandaren

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted! Time to break that streak. I have 3 different face templates for you today: Goblin, Troll, and Pandaren!

Corri & Gale: The Exes Come To Visit

Posed RP! This is from a chatlog from September 11.

 Galedorin sneaks another kiss from Corrienda in appreciation of her dress.

He holds Myrodan up and zooms about. Myrodan is having lots of fun pretending to be a crow, yelping out flap flaps to tell Galedorin to lift him higher.

Download: Night Elf Hair Dump + Fixed Brows

If you make Night Elf Sims, you want this post!

The left swatch is for males, the right is for females. Sorry Night Elf Death Knights, I keep forgetting to make your gray. >.< Also, I don't use all the colors in each post - usually either Detonator or Afterburner is left out, depending on how bright the colors seemed. If you passionately want the hair in a color that I skipped, please leave a comment.

All these color actions are by Pooklet except for Undine, which is by AlfredAskew. Most of the textures are by Nouk or Pooklet and were put there by Hat, but I'll tell you for each hair where it came from.

Also, I didn't do the side by side comparisons for every single color like I did last time. Hopefully just seeing the hairs in their Sims 2 glory is good enough!

My custom neighborhood!

OK, so, I've slowed down in conversions and I've been posting up random stuff, because I've been hard at work on my own custom neighborhood. I am finally at a place where I can play and show it off! All the townies are custom-created and represent a spread of all the races represented in Warcraft. Here's some of them in the wild:

A human and a gnome:


A gnome talking to a night elf and blood elf (picture was meant to emphasize the gnome's height):


A troll:


A night elf:


And an orc:


Right now, the main neighborhood lacks tauren, undead, worgen, goblins, and pandaren. Three will get their own vacation neighborhood (goblins - Twiikii, pandaren - Takemizu, worgen - Three Lakes). I'm still working on skins for the tauren and I just haven't gotten around to undead yet. ;)

I'm in the process of moving all my previously-created Sims over to the new neighborhood. Stay tuned!

Download: 2 Night Elf Male Hairs, Eyebrows, Beards

A few more hairs, this time for your Night Elf dudes, and eyebrows for ALL!

Long (male)

This is mio0331's Sephiroth mesh from MTS. This isn't an EXACT match since the hair in front doesn't go down far enough, but I chose it because it's got the same peak in front the male hair has:

Unfortunately, the elder hair is totally borked and I couldn't figure out how to fix it, so there is no gray for this set. >.< Toddler-Adult should work just fine though. It looks a little piecey in the lighter colors since the mapping's weird and so are the normals, but hopefully it's not enough to keep you from using it.

Download Long (male)

Long Braided Tail (male)

I can't find the page with the original mesh, but this is Rose's Kangxi Emperor hair. Hat originally retextured this, but I pulled the hair forward to cover the whole head. That also makes the wacky scalp mapping look a lot less wacky. Teen-Elder; child and toddler have heads full of fuzz. Mesh is included.

Here's the gray and the turnaround:

I left the little hanging doodad at the end of the tail but it should be pretty easy to alpha out if you hate it.

These fellows are also modeling the matching beards (basegame originally retextured by Hat) and matching eyebrows (originally by TrappingIt).

Download Long Braided Tail

Download Night Elf Matching Eyebrows

Download Night Elf Groomed Beards

Download: Night Elf Female Hair - Braided Tails

Here are some more Blizzard-match hairs for your Night Elves! This time it's the braided tails, one of the original hairstyles in the game and the one that Corrienda wore forever.

This is the basegame Maxis braids, but expanded to include all ages by Melodie9. Mesh is included.Originally retextured by Hat; if you have her "Secret Garden" file installed you can nuke my Time Bomb since they'll be the same thing.

Download Braided Tails

Download: Night Elf Female Hair - Tomboy

So, I waded into the wonderful world of COLOR ACTIONS, because I wanted to see if I could make good matches for Blizzard's styles colors so people who wanted to create their characters in the Sims could do so more easily. This is my first Night Elf batch and I think it turned out pretty well! This is Tomboy, one of the styles available from the barbershop but not the character creation screen.

May List of Stuff I'm Working On

Not that I think anyone actually reads my blog, but this helps me keep organized. :p Some of these are copied over from the April post, but there's a lot new as well.

Demons

• Fix the skins for the felhunter and beholder accessories
• Finish texturing succubus, import into game
• Create objects of imp, voidwalker, felhunter, beholder
• Create Felguard Sim

Dragons

• Drake in sizes 2, 3
• Protodrake in sizes 2, 3 
• Bearded dragon - size 1, giant size
• Corri statue

Reference list

• Need to finish!

Orc Project

• Tusks: I keep getting SO CLOSE but not quite. AF, TM, TF need to move down slightly
• Orc Guard uniform: Multishoulder (for HBB, SBB, BBG, AG) needs slight adjustments to mesh, recolors of harnesses. HBB bottom done, needs slight retexturing. SBB, BBG, AG bottoms planned.

Other Racial Skins

Draenei

• Need to redo bottom meshes, and possibly start from scratch because I can't for the life of me remember where I cloned the first one from. >.< Need to extract other colors for a variety.
• Need to create chintacles, possibly have on the same accessory as the tail.
• Need to fix AM/TM horns, need to extract more horn varieties.

Troll

• Faces - recontour slightly, upload
• Need to create matching feet

Pandaren

• One skin for Bear BB/RenGal is done, hope to do a couple more
• Faces - fix cleft lip, upload

Goblin

• Faces need slight recontouring, upload

Night Elf

• Have a couple made, need to decide on bodyshape. SBB/FM maybe?

Clothing

• Embersilk, Robes of Insight, Hibernal Robes for Athletic Girl
• Malfurion's Garb
• Finish Lunar Festival suits for both male & female

Download: Gryphons

This was a request from Meiriona over at Plumbbob Keep that's finally ready for upload - gryphons!

Download: Mooncloth Robes

I've been mostly focusing on genetics lately so I can build a diverse Warcraft-themed neighborhood, but I did get the Mooncloth robe done today for Sparkles! And they are in six different sizes and colors!

The white Mooncloth robe is the traditional garb of the Night Elven priestesses of the Moon. The blue and yellow ones are my favorite choices for formal RP functions in game, and while I've been chasing the purple/pink one for years, I've never been successful in finding it. The red/orange one and the green/yellow one are two recolors that are not available in game.

Download: Orc Skins and Faces

In making a Warcraft neighborhood specifically and a fantasy neighborhood in general, I've found that it's REALLY SUPER EASY to make elves but not so easy to make the uglier fantasy races. So, here's a little help!

First: four green skintones suitable for your orcs! Note that these are probably not suitable for goblins and other little green men because these are tied to specific bodyshapes:

AM: HBB w/toes by Marvine
AF: BBG by Marvine/BeosBoxBoy
TM/EM: SBB by Marvine/BeosBoxBoy
TF: Teen AG w/Sexyfeet by Cynnix

The textures are by Louis and were just recolored by me.

Download: Blood Queen Lana'thel

So, I was playing my game, and the Countess whatever grand vampire wandered onto my community lot. My knee-jerk old-school RPer reaction was "oh man, there are no vampires in WoW!" But then I remembered this boss from Icecrown Citadel, and I thought about HOW COOL it would be if the grand vampire was actually this boss!

Blood Queen Lana'thel was the second boss in the Crimson Hall of Icecrown Citadel, the final raid of the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. It was released in December 2009. The fight itself was really pretty fun - she would bite one person, who would have to bite another person, and then both bitten people would have to go bite two more people, and so on - and if you didn't bite someone, she mind controlled you and your friends had to kill you!

April List of Stuff I'm Working On

Not that I think anyone actually reads my blog, but this helps me keep organized. :p

Reference list

• Need to finish!

Blood Queen Lana'thel Sim - done!

• Outfit: Need to pick a different dress mesh and fix the boning on the wings.
• Hair: Augh, how do I do this? Need to fiddle around with adding groups or combining groups so I can add the doodads. This is hard. :p

Orc Project

• Skins: DONE! I just need to take new pictures and upload them. - done!
• Tusks: I keep getting SO CLOSE but not quite. AF, TM, TF need to move down slightly
• Faces: Need to elongate the ears and reimport. - done!
• Orc Guard uniform: Multishoulder (for HBB, SBB, BBG, AG) needs slight adjustments to mesh, recolors of harnesses. HBB bottom done, needs slight retexturing. SBB, BBG, AG bottoms planned.

Other Racial Skins

Draenei

• Need to redo bottom meshes, and possibly start from scratch because I can't for the life of me remember where I cloned the first one from. >.< Need to extract other colors for a variety.
• Need to create chintacles, possibly have on the same accessory as the tail.
• Need to fix AM/TM horns, need to extract more horn varieties.

Troll

• Two done, hope to do 1-2 more
• Faces are almost done
• Need to create matching feet

Pandaren

• One skin for Bear BB/RenGal is done, hope to do a couple more
• Faces are almost done

Goblin

• Skins are done, just need to upload
• Faces are done, just need to upload

Night Elf

• Have a couple made, need to decide on bodyshape. SBB/FM maybe?

Clothing

• Mooncloth Robe - done!
• Finish making alpha dress for another size
• Malfurion's Garb
• Finish Lunar Festival suits for both male & female

Feathermooon: Mayanna, Kelliana, Maurelm, Aurorawind

A few more before I leave town and cannot Sim for awhile:

Here's Mayanna's family:

Mayanna is there with her husband, her step daughter Thywispist has the green hair, Kesia is the child, Thywisp and Esheria are smooching in the lower right.

And here's a closer look at Mayanna and Kesia:

Feathermoon: Skyborne, Tirith, Ysani, and Dir

A couple quick ones:

Skyborne and Tirith!

I'm sure there's much better clothes that I could put Skyborne in, but I wasn't sure what, so as with Grenka and Astrani I went by the profile picture. :p

They were a pretty fun couple. First a pillow fight, then a water balloon fight...

Corri & Gale: The Stag Lounge

MORE POSED RP. Well, sort of. This wasn't actually played out, just hand-waved. Just a few - and even these few took me all morning. /facepalm

Much to Galedorin's bemusement, Corrienda convinced him that they should go to the Stag Lounge together on a Friday night, where they had shows. The dancing girls were pretty good...

Corri & Gale: RP followup

Follow up RP to what I posted before! This was fun to make because it was just snippets of RP on Feathermap and in-game. The entire exchange with the woman at the lounge is "real" but I got to flesh out the details. Also, this is labeled as a "Corri & Gale" story, but it's just Corri here.

Corrienda's in the same dress as she was wearing before because I forgot to change her... and I forgot to get her shoes. >.< Also, I had to crappily Photoshop a picture into her hand because I could not figure out how to get her holding a piece of paper on a community lot, grr.

The next morning, Corrienda got on the buzzbox to make some inquiries. "Does anyone know anything about an establishment called "The Stag Lounge?"

Corrienda listened as her friends gave the place less-than-glowing reviews. "Why on Azeroth do you wanna know about that place?"

Download: Voodoo Robes and Robes of Insight

I had a fever today and didn't have enough energy to do more than curl up in my computer chair like a blob, so that means two dresses tonight. :p

Voodoo Robes

These robes date from the beginning of WoW and can be seen on troll NPCs all over the place. However, only the purple, yellow, and red versions (the last three in the picture) are available to players - the other three I pulled out from the game files.

Corri and Gale: Real RP storytelling (3/20)

After doing some messing around with poseboxes, I decided that I would try using the Sims to create images to go along with the text-based RP that Galedorin and I have done. It kind of took forever going since I don't have a lot of experience with this, but I'm sure it will go faster as I get used to what all the posebox options are and everything. All the captions are lifted from the chatlog. This, of course, represents a colossal misuse of my time but I hope other people will think that it's cool.

To clarify: Corrienda is very pregnant with their second child, and was put on pelvic rest prior to these events for fear of preterm labor. Their son Myrodan is present the whole time, it's just a pain to pose toddlers so I didn't mess with it. :P

Corrienda paints in watercolors a scene that is fairly abstract so far, but  does include small figures in the lower right hand corner.

Cool find: Posebox Reference List

So, if you are using the Sims to tell stories beyond just what randomly happens in game, this file is amazing:

This lists like all the poseboxes and animboxes out there as of Feb 2012 (which, yeah, is 2 years old now, but that's still way better than a lot of Sims 2 reference lists you're going to find out there). It is a table with a picture of the posebox, the creator, where to download it from, and occasionally a little bit more info. A few links were broken, but for the most part it was super handy. At the end of the last file, there was a list of tutorials for how to make awesome pictures - which, as a total noob, I found to be WAY HELPFUL - plus dozens of other handy links for storytellers.

Go download the Posebox Reference List!