Hi! Okay So This Is A Pretty Simple Question But I Have No Skill In Explaining Things, So I'll Do My

Hi! Okay so this is a pretty simple question but I have no skill in explaining things, so I'll do my best. I want to attempt to make a homework default, but I want to leave the original EA barcode texture and maybe the pages and the crumpled edges, in a way that doesn't make the file as big. Is it possible to pull these fragments of textures into my own default (so that they share)? Or does it pull them automatically, and I'm just overthinking

Hello anon! :-D don't worry, I suck at explaining things myself so no worries! (but I think you explained it very good!!)

Repo'd stuff must be in a separate mesh group and you can't really "extract" the homework's edges/barcode into a mesh/group like that (or I mean you can, but that's a lot of mesh-related stuff and a lot of unneccessary work) and it wouldn't save you any "texture memory" at all since the game would have to load both your new textures and EA's original instead of just your new textures :-)

The best (and only way, really) is to replace the textures :-D hopefully I understood you correct? Let me know if I didn't! (♡˙ㅂ˙♡)b

When working on my homework defaults (which I fear won't see the daylight anytime soon lol) I removed EA's icons but kept the barcode (+ text) and rough edges + texture. It's not perfect, but perhaps it could work as a base for your defaults? I can totally share my psd if you'd like! :-D

ts1 -> ts2

got rid of the fatshaming(?) so now it reads "sim sims meals" and.. idk what I wrote under haha

(first image found here)

I absolutely love Episims' book defaults, but I also like some of EA's original book textures, so I decided to make my own defaults using both EA's and Epi's textures! Then I can simply get the books I don't re-use from Epi's default as deco instead (yay!) :-D

Here are some sneak peeks no one asked for 🥴

My edit of Epi's (totally awesome) cook book cover:

I used EA's "reference" book's texture as an overlay and re-sized it back to EA's original 256x256 size, since my other defaults will be using that size :-D

my edit of EA's romance book cover:

I had a blast editing this one, I wonder why it's so fun poking at textures like this? Also - how come I've never noticed that the dude is holding a FEATHER-DUSTER and he's wearing EA's maid outfit?! What kind of romantic story is this.... (; ಠㅂಠ)

my edit of EA's reward(?) book cover (from the career bookshelf):

Not sure about the design nor font yet (when am I ever sure about fonts lol?)

Now I'm going to sleep 🥴

@yakumtsaki, @userdata, @goatskickin, @mdpthatsme, @blinddivine, @sim-corner, @tvickiesims thank you all so much for the feedback! :-D

in the end I decided I didn’t like EA’s purple flowers haha, so I removed them and added a new flower, but... I think I really like the cream version! but at the same time I feel like there’s something missing *sigh* so I thought I’d try adding a yellow flower texture to the “middle” like EA’s original but I can’t seem to find a fitting texture (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`) I tried sprinkles (real quick) too but idk:

ughhh idk sorry haha I’m being so dramatic over a cake

is my default too “boring”? I mean I want to keep EA’s aesthetic and I try to re-use as much textures from them I possibly can, but idk. At first I absolutely hated this cake’s texture but now I think… it’s kind of cute?

You're saying you're sorry for rambling in your posts, but I'm genuinelly thinking "that's so cool!" everytime you talk about your wip .-. I'm also the same about missing actually playing the game -- except for the part where I don't create default replacements. Technically, I've been playing since late last year, when I "finished" reconstructing my downloads folder (it never really ends, though, right? I'm constantly editing files and getting new cc...), but only hood building and lot makeovers

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It made me very happy hearing you like my rambling, omg, that went like straight to the heart ( ´༎ຶㅂ༎ຶ`) thank you!!

As for the playing part, sad to hear you also got that problem anon (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`) but happy to hear your downloads folder is done! :-D well, like you said it will never be done but.. yeah 🥴 I don't even want to take a look at my bookmark folder with things I want to download... (; ಠㅂಠ)

Anyhow, good luck with your 'hood and dl-folder! :-D hopefully I'll start playing soon too. I got a lot of lovely replies on my post (which I haven't replied to yet, sorry!! I will!) and a lot of useful tips :-))

I wish you (and anyone reading this ofc) a nice day!! :-D

I saw @phoebe-twiddle’s default for the maid outfit and knew exactly what I wanted to do: matching defaults for afbodydressmaid and ambodymanmaid!

NPC Clothing

I got rid of the shorts on EA’s Kitchen&Bath pre-order outfit, extracted the pants from afbodydeliveryperson / ambodydeliveryperson and colored them brown. I also made the gloves yellow, but there is a version included with pink gloves as well (choose only one file!). My default contains two 1024x1024 textures, and both AF and AM share those textures. The shoes are my fixed umbottomwillpants shoes from my pizza default.

This is my first time converting AF -> AM so the mesh is not perfect by any means, but it’s good enough for me. They both have fat morphs, of course! This was also my first time making a fat morph (AM) from scratch. I apologize, it’s not perfect either D-:

I did my best to reduce as much clipping as possible, but there are still some clipping during certain animations between the pants and shirt at the back. There’s also a slight (skin texture) seam/difference between the neck and body on AM. I was thinking of replacing the neck mesh with a “true” AM-neck mesh, but then I was unsure of how I would add the apron mesh back onto it.

In other words; I’m too tired/not sure how to solve these issues, but if anyone wants to try and fix them or know how I could fix them myself, please feel free to do so/let me know! :-D

EA original polycount:

female: 2932

male: 2280

My default’s polycount:

female: 2564

male: 2562

Vehicle

Included in the default is a simple texture default for the maid car, replacing EA’s pink maid logo with my new logo. I also cleaned up the registration sign and removed the shadow under the side mirror :-) the logo on the engine hood (is it really called hood in English?) has been replaced as well.

Recommended Mods

These are maid related mods I recommend downloading. They are not required for my defaults to work, though :-)

Amura’s fair wages for service NPCs

rio-sims’ random maid hair

You can also browse sims2defaults for a default of hairhatmaid. 

My default will not conflict with whattheskell‘s maid completer / male maid separates since @rudhira​ was kind and threw together my default file the “right” way! Also worth mentioning, EA originally had three different colors for the male maid but my default does not.

All defaults seen in this post have been merged into one single file, and the files have been compressed to reduce file size. If you have any other defaults in your downloads folder for afbodydressmaid, ambodymanmaid or vehiclemaid-main_txtr you have to remove those before installing mine! And remember to choose between yellow or pink gloves :-) if you encounter any problems, let me know!

Edit: I separated the vehicle default for an anon, so if you don’t want to use my NPC outfit defaults but my car default download the “vegankaktus_DEFAULTvehiclemaid” file :-)

Edit #2: if you have the “Buyable Work and NPC Clothes” you will probably see my default with invisible pants. Delete the maid gzps from that file and all is good :-)

Edit 2021-09-11: I updated my vehicle default with the nicer bumper texture from my taxi defaults! here is a quick image showing the new texture:

both the separated car default and the merged file have been updated with my new texture :-) please re-download!

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: freepik for the icon, @rudhira for being so kind and helping me so much(♡), phoebe-twiddle for the yellow gloves idea and lastly, EA :-)