Im Back With Another Default! This Time Its For The Mail Delivery, And Just Like With My Newspaper Delivery

I’m back with another default! This time it’s for the mail delivery, and just like with my newspaper delivery defaults I have changed and fixed things in here as well. I’ll do my best to explain everything.

EA did a much better job with this clothing than with the newspaper delivery’s outfit, I’ll give them that. But once again; what was EA thinking when choosing shoes?? They are awful. Not anymore though! I shoeswapped afbodymaildelivery and ambodymaildelivery with MDP’s 4t2 shoes from here (recolored black by me) but with EA’s socks, bc.. idk. I’ll put the rest under the cut since I can’t keep it short ahah

NPC Clothing

Got rid of all shadows (AF+AM)

Made the color a bit more vibrant

Removed the logo on the shirt (AF+AM)

Improved the logo on the bag (AF+AM)

Fixed the logo on the cap (AF+AM)

Fixed the stripes on the shorts (AF)

Fixed the shirt (AM)

Fixed the belt’s “edges” to make them blend in more nicely (AF)

*Removed ribbon (AF) + added ribbon (AM)

Remapped the shirt a bit to better fit the non-ribbon version (AF) but it looks better imo with the ribbon as well so I kept it in both versions

Edited and added more details (belt etc) to the bump-maps (AF+AM)

*In other words, you can choose if you want the ribbon or not.

Another thing I’ve changed is the bag. It’s now a separate group and has it’s own texture (aubodymaildelivery-bag_txtr). I fixed the logo in Photoshop, but SimPE totally destroyed it again when importing the texture. It really bothered me, so I decided to do it like this instead so the logo can keep it’s quality. I also had to increase the size of uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblack and uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblack from 512x512 to 1024x1024 for SimPE to not ruin the logo on the cap as well. uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblack and uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblack is included in the clothing default, so it’s not a separate file.

NPC Hair

Included in the download is an optional hair default for afhairhatballcapnpc and amhairhatballcapnpc by me (replacing the hair for the mail delivery only). It’s a mashup (meshup? :p) of EA’s pixie hair and EA’s NPC cap. The male pixie hair is a conversion by Andie, and the cap on the male mesh is fansleelamb’s fixed male mesh. Andie’s TOU is to not restribute their meshes, but they haven’t been active since 2011 so I’m just going to cross my fingers and hope that they won’t haunt me down for this hahah. I had to get rid of the hair animation though, since it behaved really weird when I didn’t. I don’t have the motivation to dig into this problem deeper, so no animated hair it is. Sorry!

Unfortunately, you have to have university for my hair DR to work (I believe?). I extracted the resources from University, since I couldn’t get the hair default to work with the ones extracted from basegame (plus, de GPZS looked very different in those, and I wasn’t sure on how to edit them properly). I’m not sure though, as the files seems to have the same numbers, instances etc. So if anyone of you doesn’t have University, please try out my hair mesh replacement and let me know if it works! And if it doesn’t, anyone who wants to make it BG-compatible is more than welcome to do so, or if you know how I can make it myself I would be more than happy to learn from you.

The cap on my hair default is texture referenced to uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblack and uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblack, which is included in the clothing default.

There’s also three versions of this hair default available, which means you have to choose one. One of the files is texture referenced to EA’s afhairpixie textures from Freetime, the other one is texture referenced to EA’s afhairpixie from OFB (which I haven’t been able to test if it works as it should, so please let me know if it doesn’t!) and the last one is a custom version. The custom version is not texture referenced to any of EA’s txtrs, so for those of you who do not have OFB or Freetime or simply have a mesh default for afhairpixie you don’t want to delete, this is the file you want :-)

This means that if you have any texture default replacement for afhairpixie, my repositoried (aka my Freetime/OFB files) default will pick up that. I’ve made + listed some afhairpixie texture defaults here which are compatible with my mesh replacement. The ones I used in my preview here is deedee-sims recolors on shinasims’ alpha edit, which you can find in the link above. Since my custom version is not referenced to EA’s textures, you will have to swap textures in SimPE yourself if you wish to use any other textures than EA’s or shinasims’ alpha edit of EA’s textures (which are the custom versions I’ve included). If you don’t use SimPE and would like to get help with swapping textures, let me know! I’ll be more than happy to help you.

The female mesh pixie hair unfortunately has some small transparency issues in certain angles (which is weird, since EA’s original doesn’t have that). If anyone would like to try and fix it, you’re more than welcome to try and do so!

Bills Texture

Included in the download is also an optional, improved default replacement for the bills! Textures defaulted are:

mailbox-billsred_txtr

mailbox-billswhite_txtr

mailbox-billsyellow_txtr

mailbox-billsorange_txtr

The textures are still the same size (512x256) but I re-wrote most of the text to make it less blurry (more like, smashed random keys on my keyboard lmao). I’ve also replaced the stamps with colorful pictures. Some years ago, in Sweden we had pride stamps and I really liked those, so I thought it would be nice to have them here as well! I’m not part of the LGBTQ+ community (or at least, I don’t think so. But I mean, Bae Doona has tbh got me questioning my sexuality, not gonna lie) so I hope I don’t offend anyone by using it here. I totally support the LGBTQ+ community! Therefore I hope this comes accross as me being an ally, not “using” the flag or anything :-)

@itsdiamondeyesuniverse​​​​​ has a mod here which randomizes the mail delivery’s hair (+ others) and there are two bills mod here and here, which migh be of interest to you. None of these are required for my default, but they are compatible!

As usual, if you have any default(s) in your downloads folder defaulting the same thing as any of my defaults, you have to remove those before installing mine. Hopefully the anon who sent me this sweet ask a month ago sees this, and I hope you like this as well! :-)

All files have been compressed to reduce file size. Let me know if you stumble upon any problems, or if I messed up anywhere.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: @mdpthatsme​​​​​​ for the shoes, @fanseelamb​​​​​​​ for their improved male cap mesh, Andie for the ftm pixie hair, @hafiseazale​​​​​​​ for their preview of the Bella statue I edited a bit and used as a stamp, iconfinder for the leaf icon and pngio for the blue crown icon.

I think that’s all? Happy simming!

Hi VeganKaktus - I've removed myself from the sims2packrat group. I haven't be helpful to the group in so long. I'm still willing to help out if needed, but to be honest, I'm not sure how I can do that.

Hello celebkiriedhel! :-D 

I hope it wasn’t me who made you feel like you had to leave! If you ever want to join again though, feel free to message me and I’ll gladly send you an invite (and thank you for being willing to help out if I need help! :-))

(Also, I hope you don’t mind me answering this publicly, whenever I reply to asks I always save them in drafts first (since I really hate writing in the inbox itself) but by doing this it seems I couldn’t answer you privately. Sorry about that!)

I played a bit in Photoshop with the colors and hey! It does fit very well as a painting :-D

Well, since I managed to get my game flashing a lot but not crashing at all I took the rare opportunity to admire the scenery. This one would make a pretty good painting, imo!

Replies :>

@kooli-sims​​ replied to your post:

I love it! Thank you!

@kaiquisition​​ reblogged your post and added:

yay for mail! thank you :D

You’re both very welcome! :-D

@inlovewiththebeatles replied to your post:

I think, you did an great job!<3

Thank you (;´༎ຶД༎ຶ`) ♡

@jennamaxon​​ replied to your post:

Those are great - looking a bit used might be good too.

Thank you! I was thinking that as well, so I ended up using EA’s texture around the edges (which are llooking a bit used) and it turned out much better! Also, tumblr seems to have made me unfollow you? Just wanted to let you know I didn’t unfollow/softblock you or anything :-)

@knowledgeaspiration​​ reblogged your post and added:

makes me think of -

I’ve been blessed with edits of this meme twice now and I LOVE IT

@grilledcheese-ccstash​​ reblogged your post and added:

yo this is cool as fuck

I’m glad you think so! :-D

god bless EA for creating the skunks in ts2

hi hi! (this is grilledcheese aspiration!) i am wondering if you have a step by step on how you made the penguin clothing defaults?! id like to try and make a spooky variation for my spooky themed nhood since you are not taking requests atm!

Hello! :-D so sorry for my late reply. I haven’t made any posts explaining how I did them, but I can totally try and make a tutorial for you, no problem! I’ll do it asap tomorrow :-)