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

[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.