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Alright well here's a WIP before we go to bed. Guess that blorbo!

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More hair! Yay!

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Setsuna Hairstyle

Sweats. Okay. Here it is.

NO hat chops

All standard swatches.

Hair back cloned from a @kamiiri hair, thank you for the generous TOU!

Used a hairline on the top preview, but the others are pictured without.

4978 verts / 7075 polys

Where to get under the cut.

SFS

#negima #mahou sensei negima #ts4cc #s4cc #iowa cc #i'm scared lol

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More tweaks + another fucking WIP.

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Hi! I recently found out about this blender trick to easily remove splits in a hair mesh when exported. When you export a hair using sims 4 studio, it will be split along the uv borders, but it will also be split on multiple other places, causing weird cuts all over the hair in game.

This tutorial will show you how to keep the hair split between the different parts, while removing the cuts and doubles in the middle of the uv islands. Continued under the cut.

Keep reading

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Setsuna's hairstyle, pass two! This time wanted to do the bangs and the ponytail from scratch. Hair back courtesy of @kamiiri's generous TOU; we couldn't find a good side ponytail to work with anywhere.

I don't think we did that badly for our first full hairstyle (besides the back) honestly! Personally I want to reconfigure and modify a few things, but they're thankfully very small things. Not sure if anyone would want it...? Might make a no-bangs version.

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Okay hi sorry people, ran into an issue with the link and Tumblr's nonsense. If you reblogged the previous post, please remove it. 🙏

Here is where you can get the plugin we've been using:

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How did you learn how to make CC hair? The ones you've made so far look good! Any suggestions on tutorials?

I'll be honest: We just clicked buttons until things we wanted to happen, happened. If we needed to know something, we either Googled it or asked our friends for help.

But the other half is this Blender plugin we were shown by @itsonlythee-sims; Blender Anime Hair I believe it's called. It confused us as first until we were willing to sit down and actually work with it, which is how the first pass of Setsuna's hair came to be. Lessons from that led us to the second pass.

Our brain hates video tutorials unless they are short. We will actively go out of our way to avoid video tutorials. Vroid was also too high poly and it was pissing me off. This fueled us to try and do things on our own based on the limited knowledge we had. (But that plugin is a fucking lifesaver, holy shit.)

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Setsuna's hairstyle, pass two! This time wanted to do the bangs and the ponytail from scratch. Hair back courtesy of @kamiiri's generous TOU; we couldn't find a good side ponytail to work with anywhere.

I don't think we did that badly for our first full hairstyle (besides the back) honestly! Personally I want to reconfigure and modify a few things, but they're thankfully very small things. Not sure if anyone would want it...? Might make a no-bangs version.

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The goal was always to get to the point where we can make our own hairs eventually, I'm just surprised that we actually did get there.

I mean, not to put the cart before the horse or anything, since we've got a long road ahead before we're at the skill level of our friends, but we can still, like, do the thing, and it surprises me.

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UPDATE: Jol's hair was missing. Now it's not!

Small Batch of Goodies

A bunch of @meghewlett hair edits (THANK YOU for the generous TOU). Honestly, more credit should go to her than to me. There is also a set of converted eyes.

Details under the cut. A lot of these were made for personal use so I apologize for any jank.

Miho Hair + Miho Hair no headband - NO HAT CHOPS - 24 swatches + purple swatch - F Frame - Hybrid of Homura hair and Konoha hair - Headband compatible with Megu's accessory swatch recolor

Amelie Hair + Amelie Hair no headband - YES HAT CHOPS - 24 swatches + darker black swatch - F Frame - Hybrid of Homura hair and Rukia hair - Headband compatible with Megu's accessory swatch recol

Asuna Ponytail - NO HAT CHOPS - 24 swatches - F Frame - Hybrid of Asuna v1 and Hasumi hair

Jol Hair (shorter) - NO HAT CHOPS - 24 swatches + dark green swatch - Both frames - Hybrid of Joel hair and Anya v2

Homura Hair (no headband) - YES HAT CHOPS - 24 swatches + darker black - F Frame - Edit of Homura hair

Meta-Philia Chainsaw Eyes - Occult Eye Lid category - 130 swatches, including some duo and trio tones - All frames/ages - SOURCE - There's a weird error where, for some reason, my Katsu eyes show up in a couple of swatches. I have no idea what it's about but I will happily update it if I can figure out what the issue is.

DOWNLOAD (SFS FOLDER)

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But the good news is we get the general gist of how this works.

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hi! i love your newest CC post but there's no jol hair (short) in the sfs folder.

GAH OF COURSE. Should be fixed now. Thank you!

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Rant: The early access model has kind of creatively bankrupted CC, actually.

#PREACH

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How do you throw a party in outer space? You planet.

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We're going to take a break from learning new things for a bit, but our next goal is to tackle clothing mesh edits. We figured out it's VERY easy to edit EA meshes, but it's a bit harder to get them back into the game, so that's what we're gonna tackle Eventually.

But the more we see how the sausage is made, the more we get pissed at people for fucking charging for EA mesh edits...

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