Theraven's crazy collection of simmies (11.June 20 - TS4 sidetrack)

[Theraven]

The old one has half the polycount

[Carlwashere]

Poly count. 
peggy hair is probably at least 4x the poly count in one hair. 
And to me it's definitely worth the polys. 

[Katie]

To be perfectly honest, I don't even know what a polycount is...

[Theraven]

To put it simply, a mesh is built up of polygons (square, flat shapes). They're also called Faces/triangles - since each polygon has two triangles in them. Counting in faces doubles the polycount (2000 polys = 4000 faces).

The more polys an object has, the more memory the computer will need to show it (lighting, textures, shadows, and all graphic settings affect this too). Bodymeshes (clothing) in sims usually has about 2000-5000 faces when they're considered to have OK polycount. Cars are usually around 10-20 000, and so on.

For more realistic looking 3D graphics (ranging from my simple student film to more advanced 3D graphics like Shrek or Avatar), polycounts on characters usually go from 100 000 to several million, depending on the quality and detail (and whether or not you've got a renderfarm and 400 co-workers with you to get the movie done  )

<-- nerdy...  

[Katie]

I like your nerdiness!  It matches mine!


I never, ever would have known that.

I have windows 7, bring it!

[Theraven]

So... Got Castaway for Christmas, and didn't install it until just a few days ago. I'll bring a bigger update later, but I thought I'd say that I was really happy when I figured out infant outfits (and hairs) works in CS too
Since CS is technically a sims 2 game, I don't feel bad about posting them here...

This is Hani, with his mother (I'm bad with names, but it's one of the two starter sims)
(Outfit was specially made for the CS gameplay, since the babies looked too cold in diapers )
Behind them is their cabin/house, and inside is their pet parrot Toto.


And his older brother Yoneko.




So far 5 kids, one of the twins (firstborn) moved out together with the pet monkey they had, so now there's room for more. Planning on moving out her twin too, but I just have to fix his girlfriend trouble first...

[Katie]

Awww <3

[Carlwashere]

Castaway doesn't look too different from the actual game.
It's just less vampiric to computers I guess. Because I don't see much of a difference from your pictures. 

[Theraven]

The two last pics are from the story camera, while the first is from gameplay. And yes, with everything upped, it looks much the same - but it's faster, since I don't have much CC for it. Just some defaults I can't play without, plus some hairs. 

I just installed Sims 3, and the graphics disappoint me... With ALL graphics upped on both, sims 2 still looks better, with less edgy graphics...

CS looks much the same as Sims 2, but I do like the added features

So far, Sims 2 is still my favorite, and will probably still be my only resource for story pictures.
I suspect Sims 3 will be used mostly for the gameplay. Babies and toddlers just aren't cute, which is bad, because they're my favorite ages...  
CS will be used mainly for gameplay, but also for gameplay pictures.

[Katie]

I really like sims 2, and am afraid to get sims 3 because to me they look like play dough...

You make all the pictures look amazing somehow! 

[Theraven]

I always feel a bit bad when I go around requesting stuff, so since there were some more conversions I've wanted for some time, I decided it was about time to finally learn the how-to.

After hours upon hours (that particular timerate wasn't planned... but since I was distracted by something shiny and new that just wouldn't add up, I forgot the time entirely) of ignoring my schoolwork, these two outfits came to be. Conversions of the hidden scrubs mesh, and the BV female towel. Still a couple of things to work out with the towel, but so far, so good...

BV Towels


These under are some of the recolors, though on the first version of the mesh...



Scrubs (darkest blue + green are originals, the rest are just a few of the recolors)



And after finally getting the hang of it (and finding a few methods that saved loads of time), this one took me about an hour...
(I usually learn very quick when I make mistakes)

Adult female bathrobe --> child

[Katie]

Whoa!!! *love*

[tundra]

Those bathrobes, towels and scrubs are soooo cute Theraven.

[marcolopez]

I love the hospital stuff

[Theraven]

(I just put up the towels and bathrobes )

Oh, and these two want to say hi again