Holy crap, I actually adjusted a mesh!

[silverbellelj]

For plot reasons, I needed sailor hats for my Navy boys.  Uniforms too, but I was able to fake them with some basic recoloring in Body Shop.  Hats however, remained elusive.  I was to the point where I was going to fake it with some game content (one of the hats that came with the Oceanography career).  But then I found this:

Pretty close to what I wanted/needed.  I knew I could easily recolor it, but it was for girls only.  After some research, I managed to change it in SimPE so it was enabled for boys as well.  But the angle looked odd.  So I got myself a big cup of coffee, an accessory meshing tutorial, and crossed my fingers.

The result?

HUZZAH!!!  I DID IT!!!!!

Okay, it still doesn't line up quite properly in the back of the head, but with some of the poofier custom hairs I have, it won't be too noticeable.  So I'm impressed with myself for more than one reason, mostly that I made something with Milkshape and it didn't explode or have gigantic holes in it.  Maybe, I'll get brave and try something new in the future.

Comments

[biglenny.livejournal.com]

Hooray! :D

[silverbelle1220.livejournal.com]

:D indeed.

[dicreasy.livejournal.com]

Excellent, that looks really good. I'm glad you managed to get it sorted. :D (And see, Milkshape isn't that bad. We'll have you come over to the darkside of meshing yet. :p)

[silverbelle1220.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Even thought it's relitivley minor in the grand scheme of the chapter, it's nice to be able to make the little details happen.

I make no promises with Milkshape. But seeing as how I've made a successful project with it for once, I am more willing to try again.

[joandsarah.livejournal.com]

Yah! I know you have wanted to get the navy uniforms right for awhile now. That looks great.

[silverbelle1220.livejournal.com]

I *have* wanted to get the uniforms right for quite a while now. Because what's a Navy guy without his sailor hat?!? Thanks.

[penguingirl03.livejournal.com]

Yay! It looks great!

[silverbelle1220.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[katmiesterk8.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! One of these days I, too, will join the Darkside and learn to mesh, etc. things, but that will have to wait until life settles down for me a bit.

[silverbelle1220.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I can't take too much credit, as all I did was reposition the hat, but success has certainly given me the courage to try something a bit more complicated.

[ms-norrington.livejournal.com]

awesome work :)

[silverbelle1220.livejournal.com]

Thanks!