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50 Aspects of the Moon [Yoshitoshi - 月岡 芳年]

Link: SFS    

Here I offer a clone of the large-sized BG painting canvas, to which I have added 50 out of the 100 “Aspects of the Moon” by my Favorite ukiyo-e artist Yoshitoshi.      

There is a lot of ‘background’ work that I did on these images… Originally from large-format scans of original prints, I vectorized them all individually, and then made a (rather large) .PDF of them combined. So, in other words, not photographic textures.

Find under Decoration|Wall, by my name 'minimo’, or by my icon. Inexpensive at only 50 Simoleons each.

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MMore Kakejiku

Link: SFS [2 files & 1 texture .psd]

When I first saw the trailer for Snowy Escape, my first thought was that it was a fan-made trailer, as so many of the items in it seemed as if they were CC to me. The kakejiku were one of the main reasons that I got the pack.

While I could have ‘gone wild’ with recoloring them, I calmed myself and decided to simply expand upon the same styles & colors that Maxis made. These are cloned from a BG item, so are BGC, and as a 'bonus’, for the first time I have included within the archive a .PSD file with the texture separated so you can re-color them easily to your own heart’s content…

At the time I made these, I did not have access to any of the terabytes of my reserved Asian art for texturing (I actually still don’t have access to all of it…), so I just grabbed a few select images that I thought most matched the aesthetic that Maxis made.

65 swatches in two files, as stated all using the original colors that Maxis did, so you can mix & match if so desired… (A few more releases are on their way using the same crappy screenshots…)

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Four-Panel Hanging Wall Screen

Link: SFS     

This is a conversion I made from Sims 3 WA to Sims 4. Cloned from BG wall art, so of course is then BGC. 17 different swatches, all with the black frame as shown.

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Wall Scrolls from Dreamland by
Hu Cong Mi Suan - 呼葱觅蒜

Link: SFS [5 files 1 archive]

A little over a year ago I became addicted to the new-ish ‘Historical’ (semi-/fantasy, whatever) C-Dramas that are available on Netflix. My favorite so far is 'Eternal Love’ - 三生三世十里桃花. I then came across the paintings from this amazing artist, who specializes in bringing scenes from them to 'canvas’.

I generally find faceless things to be really creepy, but these enchant me so much that I do not even notice the lack of faces, nor do I think that them having set expressive faces would make them any more magical.

I made these a while ago and have had them 'on the back burner’ to release. They are cloned from the GP02 wall scroll (GP02 - Spa Day required to use). I am now attempting to make ALL of my CC BGC, and would have done so with these, but just could not bring myself to transfer them to a BG clone with all of the swatches involved. Sincere Apologies for that. Shown above at 1x size on a Tall wall.

118 different images in five files, including the 'short/wide’ one shown above. I would like to especially thank @remo-ny for posting many of these for me to use!

Cheers, Have Fun, Be Safe, and Thank You for sticking around with me!

DIY ‘tansu’ (BGC Storage & Dressers)

Link: SFS [folder]     

Offering up another piece of my Asian obsession, this time in the form of build-it-yourself Japanese-styled 'tansu’. There are way too many variations on real tansu, so I tried my best to make it so that you could have the style that suits you best. The individual pieces are displayed in the foreground.

How to tell the difference between them? The dresser versions are to be found under Storage | Dressers, and the storage chest versions can be found under Storage | Misc. (seriously not trying to be cheeky there…), however the storage versions are the ones with the extra 'handles’ on their faces (the brown set above). Each version comes with 18 swatches, light brown wood, dark brown wood, red 'lacquer’ and black 'lacquer’ - each with or without the 'striped’ wood sides. The storage pieces come in two sizes (in case someone wanted Huge storage/moving crates), the dresser version only in the 'half-size’. (two sizes so that the slotting/stacking behaviour works properly)

I Hope you enjoy them, and if you have any suggestions for how to make them better, Please let me know!

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Do The Research (2 New Research Computers)

Link: SFS [archive]

TBH, I am surprised to not have seen any other versions like these… I cloned & tweaked the meshes for two other computers to use for research with Discover University (EP08 required for interaction). For each I enlarged the monitors only, because who really ever looks at a 14" desktop monitor anymore (as they appear to me in-game)? The GtW (EP01) ‘Crystal’ computer and the Curved-Screen City Living computer. They have their original swatches (3 each) and their respective packs are required for use. I have been using these since EP08 came out, as I am not a fan of the ones included. Of course, as I am writing this, it occurs to me to make a combined tuning for the research interaction for use on any computer, but… eh?

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Lemme Meditate On It… (New Meditation Stools)

Link: SFS [3 in 1 archive]     

I wanted some more options for meditation, so I borrowed a couple things from other packs to make some. Spa Day is all that is required to use them. All are portable as the original one is. Included are: a low, curved wooden one (8 swatches), a pair of pillows (18 swatches), and a leather cushion (9 swatches). I promise that the new wall scrolls are ‘coming soon’, as well as the new incense burners. As with all of my CC, it can be found by typing ‘minimo’ in the search box, and have my custom thumbnail…

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A Stranger Alien Garden

Link: SFS [Folder]          

I re-visited my fascination with the EP01 Sixam plants with the new options that we got with Strangerville. This is the result…

There is one plant that is part of the Strangerville plants that has additional recolors (seven), which I then took and applied to the rest of the Strangerville plants as well as the Sixam plants, for a Huge possibility of color combinations. All of the SV plants have been de-tuned into ‘regular’ houseplants, and given slots in case one wants to place then in any pots or such. They require Strangerville (GP07) to use, as the Sixam plants require Get To Work (EP01) to use, naturally… The number of swatches range from 8 - 23 (EP01 plants), 7 - 9 for the SV plants. I also minimized the size of their footprints to make them all easier to place together.

Additionally, I tweaked the Tentacle Sculpture from GP07 by removing the inner ‘support’ of the mesh, and gave it an extra 15 re-colors to go with the original 3 swatches (not shown above). Also available are 5 BG rock clones that I made to give the gardens some 'extra FX’ (all BCG) - one for the fairy, one for Sixam pollen floating upwards, one for Sixam pollen falling downwards, one rather noise-some one with the orbs that appear with the alien abduction event, and lastly one with the ground-based 'aurora’ light rays.

In continuation of my additional heat-lamps HERE, I made clones of the Cats & Dogs (EP04 - required) Training Hoops, and turned them into 'Heated Plasma Lamps’ (I believe Dine Out [GP03] is required to use - no outdoor heat sources included with Seasons, of course… SMH), fully functional & upgrade-able, and each of the three heights have 9 swatches including the original white-only one.

Lastly, I took the Geometric Club Door from Get Together, halved it, and then cloned a divider from Bowling (SP10 required) and made two single-tile 'dividers’ or whatever you may wish them to be… Eight frame choices each with a choice of four lighted colors, for a total of 32 swatches.

[I really should have made a short video for this…] Thank You, and Have Fun!

Signs Of Good Things To Come

Link: SFS [folder]

Seven new signs for your wherevers. These are born from my long-time obsession with world scripts, all taken from various languages via pouring over all of the current Unicode specification. I do not read any of these languages, so I literally do not know if I accidentally created any untoward words with my compiling of the characters… Not Simlish, technically, but to me what I see in the ‘Official’ Simlish signs/text that we have is a commonality of characters being something that *appears* to be a word, but of course isn’t at all. This is the first fruit of what I have had on my 'back burner’ for quite some time, now. I plan/hope to be able to compile several 'Simlish’ fonts using a self-developed methodology of the characters being 'letter-like’ in thier representation.

Cloned from Dine Out signs (GP03 required), each has 9 swatches as shown above. I 'added a bit of random color variation’ to the back-lighting, so that they are not all pure clones of each other (read: I was too stupid to make an action for Photoshop to replicate each color precisely, and instead did each color for each clone individually, without remembering in-between the color numbers for the clone I had just finished… o_0). As demonstrated above, they slot into any of the 'Unfulfilled’ signs that come with D.O., and are shown above @ 1X & 2X size.

Cheers & Thank You for following me!