#ts4 historical look book

[agentoctosims]

The Lowell family in the early 1900s 

close ups because I just like em 🥰

credits under the cut!

Anya

Hair: @buzzardly28 Skin blend: @laeska and @wildlyminiaturesandwich freckles Eye shapes: @twisted-cat Eyelashes: kijiko-catfood Clothes: @gilded-ghosts

Aris

Hair: @laeska Skin blend: @laeska and @wildlyminiaturesandwich freckles Eye shapes: @twisted-cat Eyebrows: @twisted-cat Clothes:  Top: @chere-indolente Bottom: @waxesnostalgic

Ivy

Hair: base game Skin: @llumisims  Freckles: @sims3melancholic Eye shapes: @twisted-cat Blush: Heihu Clothes:  Dress: @linzlu Hat: Base game 

Erik

Hair: base game Skin: @llumisims  Freckles: @sims3melancholic  Eye shape: @twisted-cat Blush: heihu  Clothes:  @linzlu

Irene

Hair: base game Freckles: @wildlyminiaturesandwich  Skin: @sims3melancholic Clothes:  Base game

#this was mondays post that I forgot to finish editing before hand LMAOO #this is my first time doing a look book I hope I didnt miss any creators I used! #twisted cat eye shapes has a fucking GRIP on my life #My favorite download so far fr fr #When I update townies to fit my decades canon I cant resist giving them a lil eye shape here n there #ts4 #the sims 4 #sims 4 #ts4 gameplay #sims 4 decades challenge #sims 4 decades #ts4 decades challenge #historical sims #gameplay #1900 #ts4 1900s #lowell legacy

[simsfromtheconvent]

Pt 1 of me celebrating my birthday weirdly, here is a look book for the 1900′s, featuring my sim Addie.

She is a teen sim from a lower middle class background, and isn’t as concerned with fitting to the conventional styles for women of the period.

Normal Hair: Here Everyday: Top, Skirt, Shoes (BG Boots) Going Out: Dress, Hat, Shoes (BG Boots) Formal: Hair, Dress, Shoes Athletic: Top (CL EP), Trousers, Hat, Shoes (BG Boots) Sleepwear: Hair, Dress Party: Top (Mathilda Cardigan), Skirt (Alina Skirt), Shoes (BG Boots) Swimming: Suit, Shoes Hot Weather: Dress, Hat, Shoes Cold Weather: Dress, Scarf (Rae Scarf), Gloves, Hat, Shoes (BG Boots)

If I missed anything please do send me a message :)

#ts4 historical #ts4 decades challenge #sims 4 historical #sims 4 decades #sims 4 decades challenge #decades legacy #ts4 1900s #ts4 historical look book #ts4 look book #addie holston

[needleworkreve]

Roaring Twenties Look Book

Genetics

Squeamish Sims Beetle Eyes, Nesurii Calluna Skin, HellFrozeOver’s Pearly Whites, Roaring Twenties Makeup

Day Looks, from left to right

1 dress, hair, City Living Flats

2 dress, hair, earrings, shoes

3 dress, hair, shoes

4 dress, hair, shoes

5 outfit, hair, shoes

Evening Looks, from left to right

1 dress, hair, Earrings BG

2 dress, hair, jewelry, gloves

3 dress, hair, jewelry

4 dress, hair, necklace, earrings, gloves

5 tuxedo, hair

Thank you to the creators!

@joliebean @sentate @ice-creamforbreakfast @melonsloth @simthing-clever @simmister @happylifesimsreblogs @nesurii @squeamishsims @linzlu @waxesnostalgic @pepperoni-puffin

#roaring twenties #ts4 lookbook #ts4 cas #ts4 decades challenge #decades challenge #1920s look book #ts4 1920s #sims 4 cas #sims 4 look book #sims 4 historical #ts4 historical #sims 4 decades #sims 4 decades challenge #ts4 look book #sims 4 lookbook #Lookbook

[kat-simss]

McGuffey’s Reader - Historical Homework Defaults

Hello! As per the usual Saturday procrastination session, I have a new piece of cc for you! 

I’ve been playing my decades challenge recently, and while scrolling through old photos, I realized that I hadn’t been able to find a good default for the homework in ts4, and the yellow one that came with the game definitely wouldn’t cut it in almost any historical time period, so I created these! 

This was originally just going to be McGuffey’s Reader, which was commonly used in the 19th and 20th centuries in elementary schools (at least in America, as far as I know), but I hit a slight roadblock: the textures on the homework are, by default, incredibly small. 

Although I got my originally idea into my game, it didn’t look as good as I’d hoped, and any attempts to upsize the texture and still have it function proved futile. So, I also included some options with leather books, as well as a red and blue option for variety. And here we are!

Remember: you can only use one default in your game at a time!

I’ll probably mess around with these textures some more and see if I can get a larger texture to work properly, but until then, I’ve also included all (I mean literally everything, I like organizing a little bit too much sometimes) of the things I used (textures, psds, etc.) to create these, so you can customize them to your heart’s content!

I finally got around to updating these textures to be higher-res, and adding recolor options which can be used alongside the defaults. However, keep in mind that books can’t be recolored with the design tool, so you’d have to purchase the homework in other colors via the order>order books option on a computer.

I also plan to do a version for the university homework, but I’m a bit pressed for time, and the uni homework is mapped differently for some reason, so I’d have to redo the textures, but look out for that in the next few weeks! Now includes defaults for the high school/secondary school homework as well as the university homework!

Enjoy your (slightly) more historically accurate games!

and yes I just now realized that I spelt McGuffey’s as McGuffrey’s but it’s all in simlish so it’s fine

Download: MEGA/Box

credits: simulacrabymotherof70 for their original medieval defaults here, serindipitysims for the palette, and @willowcreekbaby’s original 1920s homework defaults for inspiration (which I can’t seem to find right now, and their blog is gone, so feel free to drop me a link if you have one)!

Update 3/21/21: Added new colors from @serindipitysims’s Historian Palette, and removed the McGuffey one, since it’s incredibly low quality and I want to see if I can fix it. If anyone still wants it for some reason, the old files are here: creator’s kit (OLD, the download above has the updated one)/original defaults (OLD)

Update 3/27/21: Added defaults for high school/secondary school and university, + updated all of them to use dds textures rather than pngs.

Update 7/15/21: I finally got around to updating these with higher-res textures, and added recolor options to be used alongside the defaults, so please redownload!

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[sims4historicalhq]

Sims 4 Historical Default Overrides

As usual, please let me know if any of these links/overrides stop working or if you know of anything that could be added! :)

Timeless: A world decluttering mod (overrides much of the modern stuff in the world)

**SRSLY’S JUST A STICK FISHING POLE**

DR for TS4 Mop (turns mop into an old broom) 

Wood Firelighter

Bugspray Replacer

Linen Hanging Laundry Override

Toilet Bush Recolors

Medievalish Sheet Music Override

KITCHEN:

DR Trash Assortment (Make trash bags look like burlap)

Plate & Fork override (makes them look like wood)

Medieval Silverware Replacement Set

Medieval Silverware Replacement (@simverses)

WFS2 Coffee Maker & DR Oblivion Coffee Mug (Makes the coffee & tea mugs sims use look more old timey)

Rusticized Kitchen Project Set 1 (cutting board & related tools)

Rusticized Kitchen Project Set 2

Medievalish Cook Book Overrides

BABIES & KIDS:

Baby and Crib (Gets RID of the bassinet and allows you to put the baby wherever you want (aka in cc cribs)

Crib Recolor (Makes bassinett shades of brown and look woven, good for any time frame)

Baby Skin Default replacements:

Prehistoric Baby Defaults

Early Civilization Baby Overrides (plain white onesies)

Medieval Baby Override 

Old Western Baby Overrides 

Little Lamb by Martine Default Skin plus build your own baby (Some more inconspicuous clothes & a cloth diaper)

DRs for Pencil and Children's Homework (Turns pencils & book into a quill & old timey book)

1920s Grade School Homework Override (Makes homework look era appropriate)

last updated: july 30, 2020

#ts4 #ts4 historical #sims 4 historical #the sims #sims 4 #sims 4 history #sims 4 mods #sims 4 cc #ts4 mods #ts4 cc #default overrides #babies #homework

[windermeresimblr]

Story Process Challenge

I was tagged by @danjaley and @treason-and-plot (in alphabetical order, not tagging order). Thank you both so much!

Summary: My process makes sense to myself alone and it’s very much a work in progress! Also, I’m very boring and don’t do gifs or videos, so you’ll just have to look at my screenshots. Sorry!

This is behind the jump for length.

1. Your writing process - show us a part of your script or explain how you write your scenes. Do you write in screenplay format or novel format? Etc, etc.

I write in novel format if it’s a wholly-posed story, mostly because that’s easier for me than a script. I feel like it really helps build the ~aesthetic~ of a scene that way. For my attempts at partially-posed/gameplay stories, I’ve gone for screenplay format, but it’s very new to me and I feel much more comfortable with the novel format. I usually write in Google Docs, since that can go with me everywhere and I can write on my lunch hour/waiting for my mom to get out of the pharmacy/etc, but sometimes I will write in Notepad. 

(Yes, this IS a flashback to Alasdair and Ma. Yolanda meeting; they were perfect teenage hellions causing chaos at a society party, don’t worry.)

2. Scene building - show us you in the middle of scene building through pictures, gifs, or a video. Explain what is the best thing about scene building and what is the worst!

I’m still learning how to make a very good scene build; this is where being a historical player kind of hurts. It’s hard to get a good sense of what a 1810s Spanish drawing room or a 1600s merchant’s house in Amsterdam really looked like without abusing my library privileges! (Images from Wikipedia and historical sites only go so far.) The best thing about scene-building is when the vision of the room in my head matches the room that’s in-game, which is pretty difficult. The worst thing about scene building is that I’m very perfectionistic and a control freak, which does not help, and frequently I do get lost in the details and can’t see the forest for the trees. 

(This isn’t a scene, it’s that Iron Age Roundhouse, but it’s a good example of how I do things--all the lights on, everything bright white paint or the $0 floor until I am happy with the shape and placement, and then I decorate.) 

3. CC/Pose Making - do you make your own cc/poses for your scene? If so, what is your process like to create? Do you just go off the top of your head? Do you use reference photos?

I’d love to be able to make my own CC and poses specifically for scenes! I’m still very new at CC-making--see my hats collection--and again, I’m very much a control freak. I use a lot of reference photos, especially historical costuming sites and books, because it gives me a lot of pride to have the clothing and accessories look just right. 

The creation process is usually: gosh, I need a crispinette/gable hood/palla/whatever for this character, let me see if there’s a mesh from TS2 or TS4 that I can wrangle into submission if I can’t repurpose an existing mesh, and then a prolonged period of fighting with Milkshape and TSRW and other programs until it looks serviceable and works. I’m not very technically skilled yet.

I don’t make my own poses--I’d love to, I have a hand-spinning poseset idea living rent-free in my mind at all times, complete with a drop spindle accessory, but I’m not very confident with Blender or hand accessories, etc. When I pose my Sims, I do use reference photos if I haven’t already planned out how they’re moving around in the scene. (Well, reference paintings, usually, although sometimes I’m lucky enough to find reenactment photos!)

4. Getting in the zone - What do you do to get in the zone to work on a scene? Examples include: show us your playlist you use when working on a scene, what’s your go-to scene snack/drink, etc.

I don’t know if I get into a zone as much as I just carve out time to work on things as I can. I don’t have playlists for my characters. (Not a Deaf thing; I just haven’t really...had the urge to do that. I’m worried I’m a neglectful Simmer now, ha ha.) I don’t have a go-to writing snack or drink. I just...try to relax a bit, usually, and sometimes I will look at my past chapters to see what we were doing last time. 

5. Screenshot folder - give us a look into your screenshot folder to show us just how much goes into ONE scene for your story. (Scrapped pictures encouraged!!!)

Do you REALLY want to see this? Really? I’m an AWFUL packrat. I try to organize it and I can’t. (Sorry. I’m very messy.)

6. Captions - are you a caption on the picture kind of storyteller or captions in text box type of storyteller? Why? Do you do both?

Captions and text go in the text box.

I’d love to be able to put dialogue in speech bubbles, because it seems cool, but I talk too much! (This is the same reason why I kind of go back and forth with Netflix-style captions. I don’t know when to shut up.) I also worry that the captions wouldn’t be visible in scenes with low lighting or overly-bright lighting. 

7. Editing!!!!! - explain and show us your process editing a scene through a video, gif, or picture. A Before and after will suffice if you aren’t in the middle of editing a scene as you answer this.

Philomena, before...

Philomena, after. (This is one of those images where I just threw up my hands at the hair editing. I wish TS3 had hat chops like TS4 did.)

I’m really not confident with editing--I want to have my pictures look aesthetically pleasing, consistent with the other images in the chapter, and “nice” in general. It doesn’t help that while I’m 95% Maxis-match, my aesthetic inspiration for scenes changes with the wind. I use pooklet’s lighting actions, and then from there I tend to use the Holy Colors, Batman actions. But I’m trying to find my own way of doing things--reliant on others’ actions, yes, but more consistently done and somehow conveying that it’s “of my workshop.”

8. Throwback-  show us an ANCIENT story scene you did in the past and explain how you would do the scene differently today!

First: I think I’d choose a different pose for Vicar Max here. (It doesn’t quite fit; why would he be staring at Alasdair like that? It’s more of a mid-conversation pose.) I liked how it looked like Alasdair was genuflecting as he sat in the pew, but again, the pose needs to be changed. I might just go for neutral sitting-and-talking-looking-straight-ahead poses. 

This was one of those pictures taken when I was trying to understand Reshade, so I’d obviously skip that. I’d also add Pooklet’s lighting actions, of course.

It’s definitely not lit well in the back--I’m not sure how I’d change that. I didn’t want to lose the “quiet chapel” feel, but there has to be a balance, not letting the characters look like they’re spotlit. 

The angle also looks weird, but I’m horrible at angles; I have a lot to learn still.  I’d either close-up on the faces or I’d zoom out more. (I think I was having issues with Alasdair on the OMSP, for some reason.)

I tag whoever would like to do this!

[simsfromtheconvent]

Part 2 of me celebrating my birthday in a weird way; here is a 1900′s young-adult look book for my other sim Isabelle.

Isabelle married into my legacy but was originally the only child of a wealthy middle class family, so the majority of her clothing is very refined. Although in some aspects it has been modified to fit her new lifestyle.

Normal Hair: VG SP, Side Bun Everyday: Top, Skirt, Shoes Going Out: Dress, Hat, Shoes Formal: Dress, Necklace, Shoes Athletic: Top, Skirt, Shoes Sleepwear: Hair (Andromeda Hair), Dress, Socks Party: Dress, Shoes Swimming: Suit, Shoes Hot Weather: Dress, Hat, Shoes (BG Boots) Cold Weather: Dress, Scarf (female woollen scarf), Gloves, Hat, Shoes (BG Boots)

Again, if I missed anything please send me a message :)

#ts4 historical #ts4 decades challenge #sims 4 historical #sims 4 decades #sims 4 decades challenge #decades legacy #ts4 1900s #ts4 historical look book #ts4 look book #isabelle larson

[simsfromtheconvent]

Very often, Clara comes around to visit, bringing little Edith with her to play with Frannie. Clara keeps Isabelle company, and helps with her mother too.

Still, Isabelle is grateful for a friend, and entertainment in this boring village.

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[simsfromtheconvent]

One of the Christmas gifts that the children received was new bicycles, which they used every morning to get to school. It was much faster than walking.

Still, James and Larson used it as a competition, trying to speed along Henford-on-Bagley's roads, leaving Frannie trailing behind them.

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