Date Posted: 14th Oct 2020 at 4:09 PM
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Well, I've been gone for over a year due to personal issues, but I am BACK! and this journal entry has turned into quite the ramble.Â
This last month, I have been working on some sims. If you've seen my earlier comments on this site, (I've been around here for 14 years or so), You'd know I don't think of my self as a sim maker, mainly because the game won't let me adjust the vertices the way I need them to go - It doesn't allow me to do the fine tuning I want.Â
 I am very good at using Milkshape but I suck using blender which is why I haven't made anything for Sims 4.  I have not mastered blender YET! Shameful I know.   I didn't have the time to master blender because my husband was ill for over 6 years and I had to take early retirement to take care of him. He passed last May, 2019. So a year later, I am getting back to my hobbies. I have a whole stockpile of samples I want to turn into Sims 4 stuff and not knowing blender threw me off of meshing for too long.
I've been living on the backside of the rez for over 22 years. After my hubby passed I moved to town mainly because our house was way out there and my knees are too bad to be shoveling snow, much less try to walk over snow and ice using crutches. Yea, my knees can't handle the shimmy-slide footwork anymore.  Also, the snow doesn't drift up in town like it does out there. I used to HATE commuting in winter because I had to open at 7 am and leave home before the plows were out and that SUCKED! On bad days, it took me about 1 1/2 hours to drive 25 miles over icy hills and drifted roads. Couldn't even see the difference between the road or the ditch and in town, no drifted roads. Now that I am retired it's ironic that I live less than 2 miles from my old job at the university. lol I don't even have to leave home if the roads are iced up.   Yea, I LOVE retirement! :D I used to do IT support at the university and I really don't miss the stress of it at all. I do miss all the smart student employees who used to work in tech support with me, now I have to go back Old-school and do my own research like we had to do in the the EARLY days of the internet - 80's-90's, instead of having a brain bank handy. lol As my then skinny 10 year old kid back, in 1986 once exclaimed in astonishment, "You were BORN BEFORE COMPUTERS!?!" He was ASTOUNDED and DUMBFOUNDED! like I was a DINOSAUR!!   said kid now works in Silicon Valley where I once worked before moving to Ida-out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-ho (For the international reader, I moved from the most populated, diverse state of California to the mostly rural, potato and sugar beet farming state of Idaho.)
Huge Bonus! In town I finally have REAL, HIGH-SPEED-INTERNET! (and cell service) (Yea, I was not kidding that we lived on the backside of the reservation.) lol and I can STREAM! and listen to MY KIND of MUSIC! (Since I married my hubby and moved to Idaho, I've been living in head-banger, cowboy/country music land. I don't hear the music I like around here. I grew up listening to pop, R & B, and Latin music) Since I moved to town, I've been watching a lot of YouTube and KDRAMAS! Love Korean dramas! and KPOP! all these talented 'kids' (They are younger than my son so that's why they are talented kids to me) - BTS! TXT, EXO, SHINEE, Stray Kids, VIXX, ... I wish my knees weren't so bad. I LOVE to dance and I jump up to dance when I hear good songs but my knees just can't take it anymore.   *cry*  . I really like BTS. They are so entertaining and have a boatload of content on YouTube. :D  Dynamite has me up and trying to dance again just like the OLD disco days!  lol funny thing is I am not army, why? because I don't have a smart phone so I can't join. lol Which really sucks because I wanted to watch that online concert they had.
So, "What project is in the works?" you ask.... Well...  I've decided to make my 'kids' into sims but I want GOOD sims that look as much like my models as possible. The game presets were frustrating to use because, while better than Sims 2 or Sims 3, Sims 4 is still Cr4p at making ethnic faces. The game's face controls don't allow for much 'fine tuning'. It is especially bad when trying to craft eyes and noses. Most people resort to makeup and skin textures to resolve the game's shortcomings but I want a better face sculpt options.
After spending the last month trying to use the game's presets and fiddling with them to make my sims and not getting the results I want. Can't get the nose close enough to the face with the correct nose end... Can't get the right eye shapes.. I was thinking, 'What I really need to do is model the mesh! I am very good at that, if only I could use Milkshape again! .......   However! I have been inspired by CmarNYC's Morphmaker!  I found that CmarNYC's Morphmaker allows me to export a .m3sd format so I can use Milkshape again!  Instead of doing a 'close enough' face sculpt with the game's presets then applying makeup (which still doesn't make my sim the way I want), I can MASH THE MESH to get exactly what I want by making sliders. I LIKE mashing meshes!
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 Yea, I LOVE retirement! :D I used to do IT support at the university and I really don't miss the stress of it at all. I do miss all the smart student employees who used to work in tech support with me, now I have to go back Old-school and do my own research like we had to do in the the EARLY days of the internet - 80's-90's, instead of having a brain bank handy. lol As my then skinny 10 year old kid back, in 1986 once exclaimed in astonishment, "You were BORN BEFORE COMPUTERS!?!" He was ASTOUNDED and DUMBFOUNDED! like I was a DINOSAUR!! 
 said kid now works in Silicon Valley where I once worked before moving to Ida-out-in-the-middle-of-nowhere-ho (For the international reader, I moved from the most populated, diverse state of California to the mostly rural, potato and sugar beet farming state of Idaho.)
 *cry*  . I really like BTS. They are so entertaining and have a boatload of content on YouTube. :D  Dynamite has me up and trying to dance again just like the OLD disco days!  lol funny thing is I am not army, why? because I don't have a smart phone so I can't join. lol Which really sucks because I wanted to watch that online concert they had.
the 'eye candy' sim model guys were Gong Yoo and Lee Min Ho. and maybe I might try to make Onew into a sim because I love his voice. He's SHINee.