About My Penguin Default

About my penguin default

I had nothing in mind when I decided on clothes for the penguin, I took random EA textures and tweaked them until I liked them. I’m white, so it’s totally not my place to say if it’s cultural appropriation or such, so if you feel like my penguin default is problematic or you feel offended by my choice of clothes, please let me know and I’ll delete the download and re-do the clothes :-)

While we’re at it, I updated the download to include this suit version:

And you can find it in the original post.

UPDATE 18/06: updated the files to make the hat not covered in snow during winter (cloned from Nopke’s fix, you’ll still need that fix as well). If you don’t use Nopke’s fix and want the hat to be covered in snow during winter, get one of the files from the old zip file. The new updated files are in the "vegankaktus_penguinDEFAULT_updated".

You ever look at a penguin and think “this penguin needs a hat and some clothes”? ... No? Well I did >:-D with this default replacement you get just that - a penguin with hat and clothes! Many problems and errors later, (this makes it sound like I’ve been working on it for ages, but it’s literally been a day lmao) I present to you: my penguin default replacement!

Included in the download are three four files, but you have to choose one of them since they are all defaults. If you already have a penguin default in your downloads folder, you have to remove it before installing mine. The only ones I know of are this and this though. I also recommend this fix by Nopke. It’s compatible with my DR (but not required)!

All files have been compressed to reduce file size. If you experience anything weird when using my default, let me know!

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: @strangetomato​ for their default replacement with kinemortophobia’s alien eyes, xmsims for the hat mesh (new texture by me), Yuxi/esperesa for the clothes’ texture (second download, "in stride”) and EA for the necklace (it’s from afbodybohemian) and @simnopke​ for the txmt I cloned for the hat (in the updated version).

And lasty, a huge thank you to @hugelunatic​, @itsdiamondeyesuniverse​ and @deedee-sims​ for taking the time trying to helping me. I wouldn’t have figured out how to fix all the problems I stumbled upon if it weren’t for them. I promised cookies, so here!! Have some well deserved cookies:

aaaaa That's so awesome! I've always wanted a default for the neon disaster that is (not anymore: WAS) maxis' paper delivery uniforms, but they either came without the paper bag or weren't the same for men and women. Thank you thank you thank you!! Could it be there's plans of a similar project for the mail carriers, or am I being rudely greedy? =P

I’m very happy you like it! :-D I’m excited to finally share it, so thank you for sharing my excitement haha!! And yes, you are absolutely right my friend, mail delivery defaults are coming as well ;---)

How about homework replacements ?

Hi! Perhaps you’re the same anon as from this ask I answered some months ago? Homework defaults are still something I’m working on, I can try to finish them after sharing my mail default :-)

Stuff I’ve found during my ~adventures~ in SimPE

I’ve been working since last year on defaulting all of EA’s ep/sp food. I’m improving textures etc (+ making them all vegan >:-D) and through this I’ve found some things I feel the need to share:

1. one of EA’s “foodplatterappetizer” has dog poo in it:

like? what even is that

2. EA accidentally wrote “ingrediants” instead of “ingredients” on the mac n cheese texture:

3. when working on my mail delivery default (which I’m hopefully going to share soon) I noticed that there’s English on one of the letters:

“certified mail“

4. this is legit EA’s onion texture:

I mean I knew it was bad, but that’s just plain sad..

5. there’s a texture for a single pea:

in what situation is this even being used?? I have so many questions

6. it seems EA originally planned on adding some sort of neighborhood “walking sim”:

lifo file:

7. WHAT EVEN IS THIS:

HELP.

8. huh:

???

9. what is this and why do I feel like I’ve seen it before:

10. and oh, nearly forgot, mby I’m late to the party but the bowls when sims are making cereals are completely white:

and taking the texture from the milk cartoon, like this:

idk why I found this so funny. I mean, EA know how to repository stuff, why didn’t they just keep the bowls as a separate group and then referenced them to their texture? Why choose to do it this way?? So that’s what I did bc it bothered me. Unfortunately I won’t put it up for download just yet, it will be shared when I’m done with defaulting all of EA’s food. I have more fixes to share..

You know, I like the newspaper NPC in ts2 but the colors. What was EA thinking? and don’t even get me started on the shoes..

I shoeswapped tfbodypaperdelivery and tmbodypaperdelivery with shoes from EA’s tmbottomboardshorts (“converted” to females by me) and also edited the clothes + cap’s textures. I disliked EA’s hair, so I’ve also included a hair default replacement for tmhairhatballcapnpc and tfhairhatballcapnpc (which only affects the newspaper delivery’s hair). This default is a mesh edit by me of rented-space‘s 3t2 baseball cap, but with EA’s NPC cap (using fanseelamb‘s edited mesh on the male one). There were a lot of hair recolors/systems available for this mesh, so I’ve included many options but you have to choose one of them since they are all defaults. Of course, if you would like EA’s original hair you have that as an option as well.

I’ve changed and fixed things in both textures and meshes, therefore there’s some stuff I need to explain. This might be confusing since I have to use the word “newspaper” a lot (I’ve re-written this part so many times now lol). I tried my best to not make it confusing but if you really don’t understand or there’s some part you can’t grasp, then feel free to message me.

I’ll put the rest under the cut, since it’s quite long :-)

NPC Clothing

Fixed some clipping in the meshes

Erased some weird shadows on the clothes’ texture

Fixed the socks’ edges + erased EA’s horrendous shadows under the shorts + on the socks as well

Shoeswapped with shoes from tmbottomboardsshorts

For some reason, the socks on the male mesh is noticeable lower than on the female mesh. This bothered me so I edited the mapping on the male mesh to make the socks a bit higher, but this resulted in the skin’s highlight being moved a bit upwards. I personally don’t mind this, but I’ve included two files so you can choose if you want this change or not (meaning you have to choose one of them). I did it this way since I found it unneccessary to add a whole new texture just bc of some socks haha. You can compare them here.

EA originally added the texture for the newspapers in the bag on the back onto the clothing texture. What I did instead was making them a separate group, remapped them a bit and then texture referenced them to newspaper-inside-pages-clean-01_txtr (why I texture referenced it to the inside page is because I couldn’t get it to look good using the outside texture unfortunately)

If you choose to use my newspaper texture default replacement (for the object), the NPC clothing’s newspapers in the bag will automatically pick up the newspaper default replacement (like seen on the image). This means that you can use my NPC clothing default without using my newspaper texture default if you would like to. It will then use EA’s newspaper texture (or whatever default you have for newspaper-inside-pages-clean-01_txtr). If you on the other hand only install my newspaper texture default (for the object) and another NPC newspaper delivery clothing default (or EA’s for that matter), the newspapers in the bag on the clothing will not be using my newspaper texture (since it’s not a separate group and will be using the texture from the clothes’ texture).

NPC Hair

Included in the download is a default replacement for the newspaper delivery NPC’s hair. It’s a mesh edit by me of rented-space‘s 3t2 baseball cap, but with EA’s NPC cap (using fanseelamb‘s edited mesh on the male one). The hair textures were all 1024x1024, but I decreased them down to 512x512 since I tbh didn’t notice any quality loss but if you really want them in 1024x1024 you can easily replace the textures in SimPE. Also, the hair has some minor transparency issues but nothing too noticable, plus, the newspaper delivery’s hair is always blond and the transparency issues are nearly invisible on the blond hair.

There’s also a texture replacement for the caps included. I texture referenced the cap’s texture (on my mesh edit default that is) to uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblond_txtr and uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblond_txtr. This means that if you use my new NPC hair default, you will still need my cap texture replacement file, otherwise the caps will not be in my new color. In other words: both files are supposed to be used together. If you on the other hand would like to have EA’s original hair but my new cap, only install my cap texture replacement.

Since I texture referenced the cap’s texture, it is possible to use my hair mesh default replacement with any default for uuhairhatballcapnpc-fblond_txtr and uuhairhatballcapnpc-mblond_txtr you might have, it will automatically pick up your default (or EA’s original for that matter).

Newspaper Texture

My newspaper default replacement replaces EA’s boring monochrome textures with new, colorful pictures (+ nicer weather icons)! Textures defaulted are:

newspaper-outside-pages-clean_txtr

newspaper-outside-pages-dirty_txtr

newspaper-inside-pages-clean-01_txtr

newspaper-inside-pages-clean-02_txtr

newspaper-inside-pages-dirty_txtr

newsprintparticle_txtr

newspaper_printing_txtr

I’ve enlarged the clean pages (by using this) so the textures are now 512x512 instead of 256x256. The dirty pages are still 256x256 though as I didn’t see a need for them to be bigger. You can compare EA’s textures with mine here, the dirty textures can be compared here, newsprintparticle here and newspaper_printing here.

I have absolutely no idea when or how “newsprintparticle” and “newspaper_printing” are used, but I replaced them with colorful versions anyway. If you know, please enlighten me!

@itsdiamondeyesuniverse​ has a mod here which randomizes the NPC newspaper delivery hair (+ others) and smithycpl has a more realistic newspaper mod here which might be of interest to you. None of these are required for my defaults to work (but they are compatible), I just felt like recommending them :-)

As usual, if you have any defaults in your downloads folder defaulting the same thing as any of my files, you have to remove them before installing mine. If you stumble upon any problems or such, let me know! All files have been compressed to reduce file size. No merged versions available this time, to reduce any more confusion haha.

DOWNLOAD: SFS | MTS

Credits: 

@criquette-was-here​​, @deedee-sims​​, @dreadpirate​​, @episims​​, @serabiet​​, @taylors-simblr​​ and @poppet-sims​​ for their beautiful pictures I’ve used in the newspaper textures :-) thank you all again for letting me use them! I also want to thank simmer22 for helping me whenever I asked for help on MTS :-)

Weather icons (slightly edited by me) are from vectorstock, the pizza is this picture from simsfandom and the image used in the printing txtr is this. I’ve also used this image in the texture, but I genuinely can’t find the original source of it. Hopefully the simmer behind it will be ok with me using it. If you know who it’s from, please let me know so I can credit them properly!

@rented-space​​​ for the hair conversion and pooklet + lilith hair recolors, Lemonlion for defaulting the hair, @fanseelamb​​ for the edited male cap mesh, @selenaq13​​ for the remi hair recolors, @peppermint-ginger​​ for their hair colors, @taylors-simblr​​ for the poppet v1+v2 hair recolors, @krabbysims​​ for their hair recolors and Pooklet, Lilith, Remi, Zeusar, Poppet and TheRaven for textures/colors. Plus anyone else these talented people would have credited. All these hair systems are making my head spin lmao so if I missed anyone, please let me know. Otherwise, I think that’s all? Happy simming!

Edit: you might be interested in my mail defaults as well!