A Simple Preview + Stolen Ones Bc Im Lazy :p

A simple preview + stolen ones bc I’m lazy :p

This is a dump of default replacements for afhairpixie (texture only). EA’s Pixie hair is the hair I’ve used on my mail delivery default which I’m going to share soon. In other words, my default (for the mail NPC’s hair) is referenced to afhairpixie’s textures, meaning it will pick up any texture default you have for it (or EA’s original for that matter). 

Remember to only install one file since they are all defaults, and if you already have a default for afhairpixie you have to delete that before using any of my files!

Other defaults compatible with my mail NPC default (coming soon):

Shinasims’ default/alpha edit (you’ll have to install this box link workaround to be able to download it).

Simgaroop’s default in remi’s v2 textures (the default for afhairpixie is in the “female - pixie” folder).

Ja-viera’s OFB defaults (preview here). This file is merged and is defaulting all of the OFB hairs, so I extracted the afhairpixie default only (which you can find in my download).

Since there’s two afhairpixie’s in the game (one from OFB and one from Freetime) there’s two folders. Choose one file from either OFB or Freetime. If you own both, it’s one file from the Freetime folder you’ll want :-) if anything doesn’t work or I messed up somewhere, let me know. All files have been compressed to reduce file size.

Edit 26/06: I messed up the alphaedit default with deedee-sims’ recolors a bit. They are now fixed!

DOWNLOAD: SFS

Credits: @deedee-sims​ for the simgarooped pixie hair recolors, shinasims’ for the alpha edit, BastDawn for their recolors and ja-viera for their OFB default.

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!

Old + Recent Replies :>

Newspaper default replies:

@kaiquisition reblogged your post and added:

thank you for this! i've been thinking of getting default newspapers recently 😆

You’re very welcome! I’m glad you like them :-D

@ejsims replied to your post:

I love these defaults! Thank you!

Thank you! I’m happy you like them, and you’re very welcome :-D

@episims reblogged your post and added:

These really needed a good default replacement, thank you! ^___^

Indeed haha! You’re very welcome! I’m happy I finally got to share it, and thank you once again for letting me use your beautiful image in the texture! :-D

@krabbysims replied to your post:

Great improvement! Thank you!

Thank you! :-D I’m happy you like it, and you’re very welcome!

@pikselis reblogged your post and added:

I really like the colors on those uniforms. I always hated the maxis ones <3 thank you. bless :3

Thank you! I’m happy you like them, and you’re very welcome! :-D

@lurking-lilibeth replied to your post:

Yesss this is perfect!

Thank you! I’m happy to hear you think so :-D

Penguin default replies:

@bellagothss replied to your post:

GIRL YOU DID IT!

YES I DID! >:-D (saw your tag on the reblog btw, it totally cracked me up lmao)

@itsdiamondeyesuniverse replied to your post:

Yay! Glad you figured it out! So cute! :3

Me too, haha! I was close on giving up, but I did not >:-D Thank you, I’m glad you like it!

@hexagonal-bipyramid replied to your post:

So cute!! Thank you for sharing!

Thank you!! I’m happy you like it, and you’re very welcome! :-D

@shastakiss replied to your post:

Congrats on the cute!

Thank you!! :--D

@yakumtsaki replied to your post:

OMGGG

That’s what I said when I finally got the hat to work hahah! >:-D I take that as you liking the penguin ;---)

@mistysensation reblogged your post and added:

This is amazing asdfghjkl

@simmerjames​ reblogged your post and added:

THIS IS EVERYTHING I WANTED IN LIFE. The penguin gives me life.

I’m glad you like it! :-D

@iliketodissectsims​ reblogged your post and added:

this is the greatest piece of cc i have ever laid my eyes on

B)))

Random replies:

@squeezleprime replied to your post:

curly girlz rule!

@hexagonal-bipyramid replied to your post:

Omg #7 looks like an “enhanced” version of TS1 babies texture!

I never played TS1 unfortunately, but you’re right!! It totally does :ooo

@illykitty​ replied to your post:

Some of these (esp. the baby) are nightmare inducing. It's really interesting to see what you dug up in game files. Anyway, looking forward to your food defaults. I use some veggie replacements I found here and there but not everything has been made.

Glad I’m not the only one who found the baby texture terrifying ahah! It’s really fun to go through the game files, there’s so much unused stuff in there. Also, I’m happy you look forward to my veggie DRs! I'm excited about sharing them :-D

Thank you for all your replies!

URL song tag

I was tagged by @itsdiamondeyesuniverse, thank you!! :-D I’ve actually done this months ago, but I’m happy I get to do it again B)

Rules: spell out your URL with song titles and tag people

Vanishing things - Shim Hyun Bo

Eden - MoonMoon

Goodbye - Gift

Actually - Zico

No more - Lim Kim

Kiss - Nine9

All of my life - Park Won

Kkungttari-Shabara - IU

TMI - Gray

U Need Me - SHINee

Suit up - Jonghyun

I won’t tag anyone, but if you see this and feel like doing it, consider yourself tagged by me! :-D

Retailsims re-upload

Since retailsims is closing down, I spent the whole day yesterday downloading everything from the site. I’ve re-uploaded all things over at SFS here. Pictures, zip files and screenshots from the site is included in every folder. I couldn’t download some things so if it’s not included, that’s why (I also wrote this on the screenshot if that’s the case, showing which download is not included).

I also totally missed that Fireflowersims had already uploaded everything here, if I’d seen this I wouldn’t have spent the whole day yesterday doing this lmao but oh well, doesn’t hurt to have one more backup I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Lastly, I think I accidentally copied a zip file (from another set) into another one in the OFB folder, so if you find a zip file in a zip file which obviously doesn’t belong there, you know why haha. I’m really not going to go through 62773827473 files just to find which one I accidentally copied a file into, hope you understand.

All credit goes to retailsims of course, I own nothing.

Edit 2020-06-10: I realised that I missed some screenshots of the site in the landscape.zip, they are now updated and included! There was also a wall (Asian7) which wasn’t downloadable, I re-did it in Homecrafter (by using the picture available on retailsims) so that’s now included as well.

Edit: 2020-07-23: since I’ve taken over @sims2packrat I decided to move this folder to my sims2packrat folder. Or I thought I did, but it turns out: I deleted every. goddamn. folder. 

Yeah I hate myself too.