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Personal Status Update (Sun, 27 Jul 2025)
Hey all, just wanted to let you know that I’m doing okay! I just still have a lot on my plate. I’m in an outright paper war for 3 months now trying to get financial aid, I knew that German bureaucracy can be slow and convoluted, but this is on another level. They also want to have new copies of things I already submitted all the time and it’s very frustrating. I filed the application back in April. In parallel, I have a lot of doctor’s appointments since I need to get it official that I can’t work which is also not easy. Meanwhile, I get scary letters from the “job center” department (they can summon you at will if you are getting this kind of financial aid and make you write job applications and basically force you to work. You can’t even leave the country for a prolonged time because of this). I want to get the kind of aid for people who can’t work instead of for people who can work, but I have to file the one for people who can work first and they need to determine that I need to receive money from the other pot and then pass me on to the next department. I’m scared that they won’t and they will force me to work. Meanwhile, I will need to get a document from a doctor every month saying I’m not fit for work, this means going there every month and the doctor needs to be willing to do it too. I have an appointment with a psychiatrist who can hopefully do that next month, but he and I only had one prior appointment and I’m not sure that is enough time for an assessment like that. Tbh it’s all a bit scary, since I feel like I’m at the whim of people who do not take time to read what I submit and it feels like I’m truly just a number to the people at the financial aid/job center department. I have one person in my corner though that is truly helpful, it feels like a miracle. Every time I get another scary order to hand XYZ in, I can at least get a clarification of what it all means and what I really have to do. I’m generally not good with paperwork and appointments and it’s very frustrating and stressful for me. I’ll be so glad when this initial process is over! In other news, tomorrow, I have the first appointment for an ADHD diagnosis, so that’s also something I’m doing. I hope this process gives me some answers I have longed for for a long time! With all that’s going on, I need to recharge a lot in between. My boyfriend got me back into Elder Scrolls Online, at least for the time being, this is a good distraction from all that’s going on! After things have settled down, I hope to have the headspace to go back to making patterns and return to posting and engaging more regularly. I’m glad to see people still think of me even in my absence ❤️ I hope you all are doing well!
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Rewriting the post completely, because you guys ARE CRAZY OMG I’M SO GRATEFULL. (Sun, 06 Jul 2025)
ts3-rauh: URGENT COMMISSIONS Tldr: I’m being kicked out and don’t have enough for a new place As if the stress from an unpaid commission wasn’t enough, my landlord decided today that we need to leave the place so he can sell it more conveniently (the flat is on sale for 6 months as for now). I’m just crying at this point. I have to find new room to rent by the end of the month and I don’t have enough for a security payment, that will be around 250 dollars. I was able to save only 100 (since I was fired from my job after I developed severe POTS or MS, I still don’t know because without a job I don’t have insurance and no money to get a diagnosis from own pocket. And to this day live on gigs and my partner’ support (he is not able to cover the security payment), unable to find a stable remote job). I can make the payment, but I will have literally no money for food for half a month For people who don’t know what I do - I convert maxis match hairs from ts4 to ts3, with recolouring and manual smooth bone assignment. If you will be so incredibly kind to commission me now or to donate, here is my kofi and the details about commissions are in this post
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Probably the most thorough tips and tricks collection also including niche/advanced tips you can… (Fri, 04 Jul 2025)
toadifylackoffantasy: 4to3 Conversion workflow/tutorial Hi! So, I know I haven’t done that many, start to finish 4to3 conversions yet. But I experiment and help other people a lot behind the scenes, and I soak up teachings from knowledgeable people such as @simlicious @justmiha97 @thornowl @virtual-hugs, a little bit of @elvgreen and more people like a sponge, and have learnt a lot the past months. So I thought I’d write down what I do when I was working on the Aria dress! While it’s a bit chaotic, this essentially functions as a very thorough 4to3 tutorial. 4to3 conversion workflow write down The above document contains my workflow, from start to finish. I use blender 3.6 (unless mentioned otherwise) and no milkshape at all. It is VERY thorough, long, and can be lowkey overwhelming. I hope my table of contents at the beginning is clear enough. All the links are clickable, so you can just go to where it interests you. If you wonder about it, it’s most likely in there, can be extrapolated from the information or I can brainstorm and experiment a how-to(-fix) if needed. Some notes of what it includes: Adapting the TS4 normal, specular and shadow maps to ts3 A clean finishing method to get EAXIS-like finishes that allows you to optimize the UV lay-out (nicer textures!) and further minimize clipping. A quick texture making method to adapt the TS4 texture(s) to a brand new, potentially very different TS3 UV-layout. If you’re lucky (it sometimes acts up) the actual texture-changing takes 5 seconds - puzzling the new UV lay-out beforehand would be the hardest part! (But it’s also fun, puzzling!) Very Precise bone assignment Manually editing morphs, with some tricks for e.g. the fit morph…Why do fit morphs have such ugly boobs, even vanilla stuff? Bonedelta editing to animate well with pregnant bellies or wide skirts. … And more. I put my heart and soul into this! Some things I’d like to try out in the future: Experimenting with adapting the original TS4 bones to TS3 right there in blender. Look at more efficient methods for editing morphs and FTOM and age conversions more in-depth (I didn’t include the FtoM because it is just lots and lots and lots of proportional editing) Converting a high-poly Alpha mesh to be more optimized and maxis-match, while keeping good topology and castability. (Likely lots of dissolving edges like here, rather than purely the decimate modifier, which often messes up the topology) Any questions or something that isn’t clear in the doc, don’t hesitate to ask! Probably the most thorough tips and tricks collection also including niche/advanced tips you can find right now regarding making/converting Sims 3 CC! Check this out if you want to take your CC making skills to the next level.
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(Wed, 25 Jun 2025)
koolzcats: simlicious: Stop planned obsolescence in video games! If you live in the EU, please sign the EU petition to Stop Killing Games. If not, please spread the word! As of June 24 2025, they have gotten 480,842 signatures out of 1,000,000 goal. The deadline is July 31. I don’t live in the EU so I can’t sign but spreading the word can be just as powerful. I’ll try to do updates when I can.
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As you may know the Data Bill is currently going through UK parliament, and Conservative amendment… (Fri, 09 May 2025)
ice-creamforbreakfast: As you may know the Data Bill is currently going through UK parliament, and Conservative amendment would force agencies to record sex/gender as birth sex only. As if this doesn’t go far enough to humiliate and discriminate against trans and intersex people, this amendment would also require all state agencies (DVLA, Passport Office, etc) to revert and purge all sex data that doesn’t correspond to sex at birth within 12 months. This would mean that trans people with corrected documents could see these being voided and replaced, leaving them open to being outed, discriminated against, and in many cases, putting their lives at risk. T*rf organisations like S*x Matters have already mobilised and are encouraging their flying monkeys…I mean supporters to email their MPs about this bill. While it is unlikely that it will go through (Nadia Whittome received assurances that it will be voted down by the government), the support it receives has a high chance of encouraging Labour to put a similar amendment through in the future. We need to show that we stand together as a community against this. It’s probably safe to say that almost everyone here knows and loves a trans and/or intersex person, or in fact is a trans and/or intersex person. Rights are at risk. We can’t just say we love and support our trans siblings, we need to take action. Write to your MP and tell them why this bill is wrong and that trans people MUST be protected and supported. Please do not be rude to your MP or send them verbal abuse (even if it’s tempting). This is not the time for that. Use clear, polite and firm language to make your point. As a community, we must be mindful of how we approach this, as lives are at stake. While you are writing about this issue, please also consider mentioning the detrimental effect the Supreme Court ruling has had. Many trans people find themselves banned from public bathrooms all together as organisations struggle to meet the unrealistic aims of the EHRC. On the 6th of May 1933, the Nazis looted the Institute of Sexology. Do not let them do this in 2025. More information: https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/1kd4s9m/shadow_technology_minister_adds_amendment_to_data/ Find and write to your MP: https://www.writetothem.com/
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Anon asks are off (Fri, 09 May 2025)
While I’m still on a semi-hiatus and not very active on tumblr, I got really annoyed with the spam messages that appear almost daily now in my inbox, so I made the decision to turn anon asks off for now. I hope it isn’t for too long! I’m sorry that I don’t engage much these days or maybe miss some notifications, as I wrote in my personal posts, I need time to focus on other things. Much love to everyone!
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Personal Update (Sat, 19 Apr 2025)
Personal Update Hello everyone! To all who celebrate, I want to wish you a relaxed Easter. That’s what I’m having too. My family except for my brother is in England visiting my sister, and my brother and I engage in lots of co-op gaming Factorio (why is this so addictive?). Tomorrow, I will bake an “Osterzopf” which translates to “Easter Braid”. It is a sweet light bread made with yeast that is braided (hence the name). We traditionally serve it for breakfast on Easter Sunday. We eat it sliced with butter and jam on it. Slightly breaking with tradition, we’ll have it in the afternoon tomorrow (also because my sleep schedule is a mess once again and that will be closer to breakfast time for me anyway). The reason why I can relax without nagging thoughts is that I finally finished the paperwork for financial aid, at least for the first contract application. Apparently, our convoluted bureaucracy demands that I first apply to and fail to get regular financial aid for people who can still work to then apply for the one for people who cannot work. That means it’s a lot of paperwork and things to collect, print, and ship off. Luckily, I found a really great person at the social psychiatric services who is helping me with everything. Now can spend this easter weekend with a proud feeling of accomplishment. And I allowed myself to do whatever I want, really only doing what I want. Doing that without feeling guilt is a rare thing for me, but very welcome since I feel like I have been stuck in a hamster wheel forever (one that doesn’t even turn properly). Scaling back on Tumblr and Sims is also proving good for me. I feel I’m a bit less anxious. I also get creative ideas every now and then but I’m allowing to just let them be instead of guilt-tripping myself into needing to act on them and getting frustrated when I can’t. I only want to create when I really want to and I’m mentally all in, not to ease any guilt I have, which has been happening and is ruining the fun of it and even kept me from opening Photoshop/Blender/the Sims 3 at all. I often find myself involuntarily comparing myself to people who are able and achieve much more than I can even on a good day. Trying to stop that is the hardest thing and it’s why I decided to minimize my tumblr time for the time being. I need to stop comparing myself and stop pressuring myself. I also have perfectionist tendencies that make it much harder to be satisfied with what I create, and I need to get out of the negative feelings. I may have to try to change my workflow in the future or set myself a limit on how much I can edit/revisit something so that I don’t spend time being burnt out on fixing tiny mistakes in my patterns and then get scared to publish anything because things might not be perfect. It’s my biggest struggle that has been making it difficult to publish patterns. For example, I have taken pattern collections and cut them in half because I changed my mind last minute about the quality of several patterns. I’m sitting on hundreds of patterns with little flaws, maybe a missing horizontal and vertical version, or some small continuity issues, or it doesn’t have a color scheme I like or looks slightly off in the game. Maybe they will forever remain a WIP, maybe I will fix them up one by one someday, maybe I will put them out as half-baked. I don’t know what will happen, but one thing is for certain, I don’t want to pressure myself into doing anything with them. It has to happen because I really want to. I also feel guilty showing WIPs that may never even get to you. But if I don’t post WIPs anymore, I hardly have anything sims-related to post apart from reblogs and a few tutorials here and there (which also take a lot of energy to make). I guess most of you know that my WIPs are pretty much just eye candy at this point. I have been struggling with this for years now, and the more I struggle, the harder the mental strain. Deciding to step back is also because I just can’t take the internal guilt anymore. I want to return to a place where it’s fun to create and share and I don’t do it because of a guilty conscience. It’s also hard to accept that you’re not able to do things that worked previously. But I have to face it and accept it and then maybe I can slowly pick it up again when I have made peace with my feelings and get other parts of my life in order. I want to create things because I want to create them, and really wanting to achieve things that I’m unable to achieve at this time is just not healthy. I was beating myself up mentally far too much and losing energy through it. I need to take things slow and focus on my life, how to cope in healthy ways, and regain some of my functionality piece by piece. It’s going to be a long and slow process, that’s for sure. But I’m actually optimistic and hopeful about it. I don’t think that means that I will stop creating altogether, or stop releasing patterns completely. There will be less pics and content on my blog, but I don’t plan on stepping away for good. I feel like I need a reset and reboot and that could take a while. I think I will still occasionally write a post like this and reblog stuff though. Btw, thank you for your kind words on my last personal post. I read them all and treasure them very much! So if I don’t personally answer you, just know that your words still mean a lot to me and I really appreciate you! Thank you for reading all of this
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TIL that the “smoothfacenormals” slider will fuck up clothing with otherwise good neckline seams and will make neckline seams of clothes where they aren’t fixed worse. (Sat, 19 Apr 2025)
toadifylackoffantasy: I KEPT having neckseam normals issues with basically all torsos and tops on Finn specifically, then I realized I heavily use that slider on him and…Welp. I won’t change his face now, I will just keep on editing his pics like I’ve always done, but having redone his torso 500 times in blender following my own tutorial (I extracted facegeoms of all morphs from the game data) and it looks perfect in blender but then not in game I was like ?????????? and I am glad it isn’t my own fault lol, just the cause of a slider that literally edits normals. It’s a cool slider still, I used it on him for a reason, but damn.
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I have been playing sims 3 for years and love it. I wanted to know if you take requests or know anyone who does. I know sims forever will grow because of the CC. i wanted to know if someone could create a way to park on the streets? Also, if babies could be transported in cars by single parents, and if horses could share the training poles so they could race? I have so many ideas, I just do not know how to code to make CC. Any links you could send me would be great. Thank you. (Sun, 13 Apr 2025)
Hi shelterdog31, I'm so sorry for getting back to you so late. CC requests are more common than mod requests and I can't think of anyone taking mod requests, unfortunately. If you want to try to make some CC or mods yourself/get started on the journey, I recommend the forums at modthesims.com for modding resources. You could also check there if maybe someone made the mods you are looking for already at modthesims! It's the #1 site where modders post their mods, but I bet you are already familiar with it. If you want to make CC, @sims3tutorialhub here on tumblr is a good place to start, there are a lot of tutorials and resources to find there. Most CC creators and modders started with an idea and a strong desire to make it happen! Maybe you cannot make the exact mods you have in your mind right away, but you can learn step by step and eventually get there if you are willing to put the effort and time in. There is also the TS3 creator's cave discord where you can find help if you're stuck or looking for advice. I also have been known to lend a hand to beginner CC creators; unfortunately, I don't have the capacity for it at this time. But I also have tutorials and info on how to make CC published on my tumblr (though they are rather snippets/tips and tricks than complete tutorials). For getting started with modding, maybe you could ask the legendary @greenplumbboblover, she has a lot of experience and could maybe point you to some resources. Good luck!
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This tutorial uses the same method that I showed in my Smooth Seams in Blender tutorial, but while… (Sat, 05 Apr 2025)
toadifylackoffantasy: Fixing bad normals along seams in blender I struggled. Is it the shoes? The skirt’s legs? Lets fix the shoes… Ok it is the legs, shoes are fine with other stuff! Lets redo the legs… Nope didn’t work. New WRK project? Nope. Redoing the MTK process … Nope. Let’s just say i ended up with 3 wrk projects, 8 wso’s, and a scrambled brain. I ended up asking @justmiha97, who had a solution - a while ago he used it and might not work, but it did! So I wrote it down for myself and others. Tutorial here You need: - Obj files/meshes of top/feet/bottom/head (depending on your cc) with all morphs, these should be thoroughly checked to have good normals and preferable unscathed fresh from EA, as they are what the seams of your item have to align with. I used the EA feet (Geom and morphs exported from TSRW) and my edit of JVSmith’s torso (for its preg morph) for this skirt. - Smugtomato geom tools - Any version of blender that has the data transfer modifier & that works with geom tools (I use 3.6) This tutorial uses the same method that I showed in my Smooth Seams in Blender tutorial, but while my tutorial is more general, this one specifically shows you how to fix the morphs too, so check it out if you have trouble with waist or feet seams!
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It’s so beautiful, I love the circular arrangement of the garden paths! (Sat, 05 Apr 2025)
mikapikachika: Garden 완성해본 정원 겸 과즙 농장과 요정 정원. 여러 번 부수고 짓기를 반복했지만 만족스럽지는 않다. 완성한 것에 의의를 둔 기록. 출입구. 체스 소원 우물과 심노보리 결혼식 공간 온실 러그로 대체한 요정 정원 지하 과즙 상점 전체 사진. 부지 크기는 40x40, 파일 크기는 3,325kb다. 내 기준 CC를 많이 썼는데 예상보다는 가벼운 건물. 사용한 CC는 sim_man123의 Grant Patio Set, 장미 화분 / Luna심의 장미, 라벤더 / @aminovas 라벤더 / vesco_sim3(MTS)의 벚꽃 나무 DR / Amarysauce(MTS)의 야생 장미, 유카, 수국 / @martassimsbookcc 식물, 전등 / Ronja의 창문 / Gelina의 모듈식 화분 / Pocci의 의자, 목련 화병 / @aa6x7 트랙터 길 수정 / @simlicious 패턴 / loalule의 야생화, 잔디 / @technicallyswagpizza 야생화들 / LilyoftheValley의 Bird Garden 그리고 @asabinsims 의 식물 DR 글을 쓰면서 사진들을 보니 수정할 부분이 많이 보이는데 천천히 수정해야겠다. 언제가 될 지는 모르겠어. 지금은 좀 지쳤거든. It’s so beautiful, I love the circular arrangement of the garden paths!
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Good morning tumblr where is my silly little prank (Tue, 01 Apr 2025)
likedaylighht: Good morning tumblr where is my silly little prank
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I appreciate you (Mon, 24 Mar 2025)
Thanks to those who have donated for my website, it helps a lot and means so much to me! Thanks to all of you who comment and tag me in your screenshots too, stuff like that really lifts my spirits as well, and thank you to all those who have been kind to me in other ways. Now I want to talk a bit about how I’ve been and why I have not been very active lately. It’s mostly because I am very exhausted and I feel a lot of pain, frustration, shame and sadness because I can’t function like I want to. And sometimes, seeing all of your amazing posts on tumblr is just too overwhelming and I feel sad because I cannot partake the way I would like to at this time. I’ve been feeling burnt out for the better part of this year, I have very little energy these days and being social exhausts me too. I have now gotten professional help. It’s not therapy yet, but a social psychiatric service is currently helping me with getting financial aid and we also plan what other things may help me get better. Apparently, I would need to find a really good therapist who is right for me and my specific needs and it seems that is not exactly easy. To distract myself from the depressing feeling of not being able to do stuff, I have been playing a lot of Factorio together with my brother who gifted me the game for my birthday. It’s really fun and addictive! Unfortunately, this has flared up my hand/arm pain again so now I need to take it extra slow, and it’s also very frustrating since I feel my creativity is slowly returning, but at the moment, I cannot really act on it. I’m not yet sure how I can combine working on my mental health together with being creative/ possibly releasing CC and helping you guys with your CC projects, if there is enough energy left. My focus is definitely on myself and getting better. I got a bit of a reality check, though I have always known I will not just magically get better. It will probably take years and years until I am somewhat back to a normal version of myself. I gotta start somewhere, and even taking the tiniest of steps is still moving forward. I just wish it wasn’t so hard! I’m a bit hesitant to call a hiatus, because I think I will still occasionally make posts, just probably not as frequent. Making CC and helping people learn to make CC is really important to me, and I feel like this is where I can make a positive difference in the world. It helps me to feel useful and like I have a place in this world. So I do not want to give it up, I rather want to work on myself so I can feel confident again, starting with small projects, and hope to eventually tackle bigger projects that I have been wanting to do for years. I hope I can find a way to learn how to do them confidently step by step without overwhelming or exhausting myself too much in the process or getting discouraged on the way. I think the key here is perseverance, something I don’t feel I have a lot of but what I need to make long-term progress. I hope I can gather enough of it for the steps to come!
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Sometimes, the reason is simply because we can and because we have fun doing it! (Mon, 24 Mar 2025)
whitecrowsims: JADE - Default Eyes for TS3 -DOWNLOAD <- for if you don’t care about personal crap of a stranger that you really shouldn’t tbh Handpainted 2048x2048 texture, pictures taken with HQ Mod Hi! So I am not really sure if I am going to be back to creating CC, because I still feel like I lost the air for it, but I am back with another upload after 8 friggin years The reason why I am creating for TS3 again instead of 4.. Ask the lord, I don’t even know why. Pretty much I completely lost interest in The Sims series and beginning of COVID I started My Strange Addiction: Minecraft. I tried creating stuff for that too, but it is all code based and that is really no fun if you’re a little more on the dumb side when it comes to numbers and crap. I will be hitting the big 30 this year and it is crazy to think about how much I have changed and matured (I will still fight you so don’t try me). Oh and pretty much I would like EA to know that they can go f themselves and TS4. You have ruined a great franchise that many of us grew up with, and turned it into an Airport Stripclub. TS4 being out since 11 years is insane. Lazy asses. I said it, sue me. That is all, bai bai :3 Sometimes, the reason is simply because we can and because we have fun doing it! Creating for TS3 also feels more impactful to me. Maybe because in our smaller community, we don’t have 4000 other creators who do exactly the same thing?
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Welcome back! There&rsquo;s still plenty of fun to be had with the Sims games (even TS4 on occasion,&hellip; (Tue, 18 Mar 2025)
whitecrowsims: *ominous sounds in the distance* actually its just my sim riding her bike in a rubberbanding manner through Monte Vista, which I have totally legally obtained (which is a lie) I have been suddenly sucked into The Sims again after what, 10 years? (that too is probably a lie) and kinda consider making CC again?? like the itch is there again but I don’t know if I’ll go to the pharmacy to get the cream for it or wait it out. So much nostalgia suddenly hit me and after seing my latest mods for TS4, my stuff didn’t suck all the time (might be a lie). I am close to hitting 30 so that is sadge but oh well. I still have to get all the resources back in order to start creating, but after installing multiple mods for TS2, it shouldn’t be that hard (seriously installing lightning and graphic mods for that game is straight up banana-doodoo). also after seing @simlicious continuing to create beautiful stuff after all these years is really inspiring to me!! @golyhawhaw you owe my like 30 money for buying TS3 again after you so sloppily manhandled our shared Origin/Ea-App account! I love you Welcome back! There’s still plenty of fun to be had with the Sims games (even TS4 on occasion, mainly thanks to all the great modders and CC creators, of course!) If you want to create CC for TS3, I recommend to join the TS3 Creator’s Cave Discord, which is a great place to get help or just vent about things going wrong. Also, @sims3tutorialhub is still a geat place for all kinds of tutorials and resources. I’m not the best at giving info about how to optimize TS3 since my focus is on creating CC for it, but I’m sure someone reading this will leave a link to their favorite guides/mod lists in the comments
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This is my go-to method to decimate all kinds of CC. It&rsquo;s very clean and you can exactly decide&hellip; (Fri, 14 Mar 2025)
bellakenobi: Tiptorial: manually reducing the poly from hair (if you’re crazy enough and have a lot of free time) First of all, get rid of the undersides and remap the whole mesh to the proper ts3 hair texture size; Select one strand, revert the selection with ctrl+i and hide it all with H, to isolate the strand we want to work (do not separate it into another object, if you do that you’ll mess with the strands order and will have transparency issues!); We need to convert the tris into quads, for this, press alt+J. This strand had almost no issues converting it, but some might present it, then you’ll have to select each square manually and dissolve the faces to turn it into a quad. It’s easier to do that in the UV map with sync selection by selecting it like a checkerboard, then dissolve everything, then select one tri and press shift+g and select polygon sides, this will select everything that was not converted and then you can dissolve it. After everything is in quads, alt+click on a edge to select the whole edge loop, then dissolve the edge. You can also press G twice to slide the edge along the mesh to better adjust it. When the strand is like you want it, you can select it and assign to a vertex group so you can easily select all the dissolved strands to better work with the whole mesh (remember, do not separate any strand!) And now you’ll repeat the process with all the other strands This is my go-to method to decimate all kinds of CC. It’s very clean and you can exactly decide where you want to keep denser geometry and where to reduce! To make this process faster, there is a nifty way to select every other edge loop to quickly decimate the loops by 50%, which is especially useful for clothing meshes that have a tubular shape (use it on sleeves, pants, tops, shoelaces, jewelry chains…) Remember to first convert the mesh into quads using alt+j as bellakenobi mentioned or it won’t work. Depending on the structure of the mesh, the loops might not get selected all the way through automatically and some manual selecting is necessary to finetune the result, but it’s worth it. I don’t find this method takes an unreasonable amount of time, and it gives such great and clean results that it makes working with the meshes much easier too since you do not get faces randomly deleted like with the decimate modifier. This is a helpful video tutorial that explains the technique: how to select every other edge loop!! Once the loops are selected according to the video tutorial, you just dissolve the edges (x -> dissolve edges). Remember to also dissolve some of the edges going into the other direction (if you dissolved the vertical loops, also dissolve horizontal ones) to reduce overall density! As bellakenobi mentioned, with one or more parallel loops selected, you can double tap g to enter edge slide mode to re-adjust the remaining edge loops. This is not only very convenient and less prone to cause issues, because it just slides along the surface of the mesh, not elsewhere, but edge slide will automatically adjust the UV map for you too to reflect those changes, which means less work for you. Tips for fixing topology: Selecting edge loops works best on quads, but there are several ways that you can edit and alter a face. for example, by selecting two vertices and pressing j, you can quickly cut a new edge between the two vertices. It’s like a quicker version of the knife tool (which is very good to use too!). With the dissolve options (press x), you can delete unwanted vertices, faces, or edges, depending on what you want. I sometimes dissolve several faces next to each other and then cut out new edge loops in a messy area. Just experiment a bit! It helps to periodically triangulate (ctrl+t) some areas with n-gons (faces with more than 4 edges) when you dissolve a larger area of faces to “settle” them so you do not lose the overall shape of the mesh. You can then convert the area back to quads afterward (ctrl+j). After these edits, you may want to reset the normals in areas with dissolved topology since they may get wonky in the process. But with Mesh->Normals->Average->Face Average you can reset them and make them smooth and gorgeous again. A really helpful tip is to look at the Blender manual which explains a lot of techniques and provides shortcuts, or videos that explain small features that can have a big impact, speed up your workflow, and improve your meshes. I recommend BlenderSecrets, a YouTube channel that offers lots of quick tips for Blender that make life easier.
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My Fur and Leather Pattern Collection was missing the Patchwork Leather pattern. Thankfully,&hellip; (Thu, 06 Mar 2025)
My Fur and Leather Pattern Collection was missing the Patchwork Leather pattern. Thankfully, @syninplays noticed and informed me! You can get the updated version here. As a bonus, it now also has preview thumbnails named like the files themselves like I do with all my newer uploads.
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Status Update (Wed, 26 Feb 2025)
I went all out for my birthday and did a whole spring cleaning on my apartment. I had a bit of help, but I couldn’t have done it without a huge motivational boost, and having birthday guests over gave me that motivation. All the work I did and also the socializing at both my birthday and my mom’s birthday two days later, left me feeling deflated though, but in a happy/content way. So I’m slowly recharging. Meanwhile, I very much enjoy my clean apartment and I am trying to keep it that way for a while. In other news, I was hoping that I would get my fundraiser for my website going by now, but I’m nowhere near energetic enough to do that now, and last week I couldn’t think about anything else than cleaning/getting my apartment ready for my birthday. Thanks to my birthday, I have spare money I can use for now, so I’ll postpone the fundraiser until I feel ready to tackle it. If you want to donate already, however, feel free to do so! Thank you!
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Today is my birthday! My best friend gifted me these gorgeous flowers. I had a lovely day! I had my&hellip; (Sat, 22 Feb 2025)
Today is my birthday! My best friend gifted me these gorgeous flowers. I had a lovely day! I had my family, boyfriend, and best friend over for birthday cake and tea. My parents baked a lovely orange cake for me, and I contributed the lemon cupcake frosting for it to top it off! I forgot to take a picture of it, but it would have only made you hungry, so maybe it’s a good thing Having guests over prompted me to launch into a full-on spring cleaning over several days in the last week. I even cleaned the windows and the radiator. I’m very happy with what I accomplished, but very exhausted too. I wish that burst of motivation to clean would come more often though!
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Love train! Send this to all the blogs you love! Don’t forget to spread the love! (Sat, 22 Feb 2025)
Thank you for thinking of me, I appreciate you so much, @toadifylackoffantasy
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