So this is part three of a set of things for my Arcady Ice Cream Parlour. I made these so that there are some useful recolours of objects which might fit a shop selling my ice creams. There are four sets of recolours here. Please read down the page for information about required meshes and items included. The other parts of the set can be found here:
Awnings
I have created a set of four awning recolours matching the wallpapers for my Arcady Ice Cream Parlour. These are recolours of Windkeeper's Awning Superset which can be found here. You must have the original meshes from Windkeeper to use these recolours. It's TSR unfortunately.
Pictures
I have created a set of four recolours of Shoukeir's Painting 36 which can be found here. I have included the base mesh with the recolours here so you don't need to go to Shoukeir's archive to get it but the set of recolours for that painting are very nice and you might like to have them.
Shop Signs
There are two recolours of the plain OFB shop signs to match the paintings and bucket design of my ice creams (the wording colour is picked up).
Bistro Table and Chairs
To be honest, I am not sure about these recolurs. I, personally, don't think the design gells well with the rest of the set but I finally decided to include them in this upload because, in a technical sense, the recolours came out well. It was a new technique/process to me for recolouring and I like the design - I just don't think they quite fit. But you might like them anyway. Maybe I'll make myself some nice plain recolours instead.
Collection File
Finally, I added a collection file which includes the object recolours and the walls and floors (if you have them) so you can find them more easily.
Additional Credits:
Windkeeper and Shoukeir for the meshes of course. Most of the images and textures were created by me but I got the textures for the tables and chairs off the net and then messed around with them in Paintshop Pro.
I wanted to contribute something to the Performing Arts theme at MTS, so I went back to some lovely images I had collected a while back and made them into some recolours for the in-game Nightlife Pineapple Posters (I've made quite a few of these now!).
Please note - recolours of the Pineapple poster need the CEP and you will need to have Nightlife - the Pineapple poster came with that EP and was not originally recolourable.
The Pineapple poster costs $850 and is found in Decorative>Wall Hangings
There are six posters: two for dance; two for music and two for theatre.
Dance
Music
Theatre
The images used are from the following brilliant creators:
Ballerinas - are from one of my favourite commercial graphic artists Eleanor Grosch. I don't quite know why I love her work so much but it really speaks to me. I think these two ballerinas are very pretty,
Piano and Violin - are from The 1Gallery. I love that random, rainbow colours silhouette effect.
Theatre Masks - the regular theatre mask image is also from 1Gallery (as above) and that looser intriguing, emotional and stylish interpretation of the comedy-tragedy theatre masks is from Marion Bolognesi.
All worth your time to go and have a look at their sites - some lovely images there. I recommend strongly.
I hadn't planned on making any more poster recolours for the Pineapple mesh(es) - well at least just yet. But then I read about these lovely poster designs and saw the pictures and, well, I got waylaid on the way to doing something else.
They are from the travel firm Expedia who commissioned the art works from Matt Lindley, a London-based marketeer. This is from a short article about that project which can be seen here
Quote:When travelling in New Zealand, Matt Lindley started thinking about the flightless moa bird, which was endemic there until it became extinct around 1300AD. This gave him the idea for the series Unknown Tourism (link to the expedia site given above), which commemorates lost wildlife with vintage-style posters inspired by 30s to 50s air travel ads. The project, commissioned by the travel site Expedia UK and illustrated by Jon Barmby, includes the dodo as well as bringing to light the unfamiliar galliwasp. “Hopefully these posters are a fun, visual way to convey that information to a lot of people,” says Lindley. “We felt many of these animals weren’t getting the attention they deserved, so this was a way of paying tribute to them.”
There are six lovely graphics about extinct animals in six countries: Alaska; Jamaica; Mauritius; Costa Rica; New Zealand and Tasmania (well, strictly a mix of countries and states). I set the graphics on the Pineapple poster mesh from Nightlife and Simlished them. So you will need Nightlife and the CEP in order to see them.
L-R: Mauritius; Jamaica; Cost Rica
L-R: Tasmania; Alaska; New Zealand
So there we are - a bonus set of poster recolours from me but no more planned for now (until I see the next lovely set of vintage style posters no doubt - there seems to be something of a fashion for them at the moment!).
I've made lots of posters with vintage style images and in my internet travels found these pussy cats running around unattached to our sims. I thought I'd better fix that.
As before, I used the Nightlife Pineapple poster to make recolours. There are twelve in total. However, it's not quite that straightforward. Five of the images are quite long and narrow and I thought they'd look better on a narrower mesh. As I wanted them to make a set, I made a new mesh based on the Pineapple poster but slimmer and more elegant. Hence there are three files attached to this post - I separated things out so you could choose what versions you'd prefer to download. Please note - recolours of the Pineapple poster need the CEP and NL.
Pineapple recolours - these are the seven more regularly shaped images on the Pineapple mesh (so appear as recolours). They are the pictures by El Gato Gomez, Grosch, Munn and Mibus
Narrow Pineapple Mesh - new mesh - with recolours - five images in total by Moldonado and Beary
Pineapple recolours of the narrower images (five), on the standard mesh not on the narrow mesh (Moldonado and Beary)
So, you can download the straight Pineapple recolours and have a very nice set of seven cat images with which to decorate your sims homes. You can add a further five cat images to that by either downloading my new narrower Pineapple mesh or, if you prefer not to add yet another new mesh to your game (and I understand that, believe me), you can have the alternative version of those slimmer pictures on the standard Pineapple mesh. I hope that's clear. It's envisaged that you'd have either the narrow mesh and its recolours or the alternative setting on the standard mesh.
The new narrow mesh
Please see the swatch pictures to match names to images - the files are named accordingly. The new mesh was cloned from the Pineapple poster and I didn't change the catalogue settings - so it is the same price and in Wall Hangings.
Gomez1; Gomez3; Gomez 2
Grosch; Beary2; Beary1
Moldonado3; Moldonado2; Moldonado1
Munn; Mibus1; Mibus2
Images credits:
The images are not original vintage cat images but modern interpretations of that style. I have used some advertising images from several artists who produce this type of material (and I think you would agree they are very lovely). The artists are as follows and I have provided links so you can go and have a look at their online pages/sites for yourself:
These are in a more traditional (Turkish or Oriental) style than my previous recolours for this mesh. The images came from around the web but, as before, I also got a lot of good quality images from the John Lewis website. See this thread for copies of the mesh files.
So why a more traditional style? Well, there are plenty of rug recolours around in this style but I wanted to get some not just on Nengi's rug meshes but on Huge Lunatic's larger room-sized versions of the mesh which are slaved to Nengi's mesh. You can find Huge Lunatic's larger meshes here. Because, after all, if you are building stately homes, you need big Oriental-style room-sized carpets. Well you do, don't you?
There are 24 recolours in total (I couldn't choose and whittle them down further). I thought this was perhaps a bit much for most people so I have divided the files into four collections of six rugs apiece (see pictures). That way, you can choose the collection you like best and download that.
Collection 1
Collection 2
Collection 3
Collection 4
Here is a comparison picture with Nengi's rugs at the top and the two larger HL versions at the bottom. All rugs are slaved to the 3x4 rug at top-right.
Here are some more recolours for Nengi65’s great rug mesh (lots and lots: 18 recolours in all)! This is my third set of rug recolours using textures taken from the John Lewis site (though I’ve had to do some work with them to make them work with the mesh properly). Why so many collections based on the rugs there? Every time I go back to the site, I find another rug I really like. Sometimes I think I’d like to carpet my entire house with John Lewis rugs (expensive!!!) – they make some gorgeous rugs. But being able to carpet a sims house with these rugs is the next best thing and I so hope you like them too.
Additionally, if you download these additional slave meshes from Huge Lunatic you can also have these lovely rugs in full room sizes too. See this thread for copies of the mesh files.
I have stuck the files in one (large) zip. I have named them all carefully and also the pictures on this page. If there are any rugs you don’t want, you should be able to delete the relevant files easily.
More recolours for Nengi65’s great rug mesh! These textures are taken from interesting things I’ve found on the web or that have been sent to me and that I have adapted for the mesh. They are mostly geometric in style: spots; stripes; circles; squares, though there is one nice oriental flower graphic too.
These are six recolours for the 3x4 master rug from Nengi65's Rug Collection (the recolours will show on all other rugs from the collection as they are slaves to the 3x4 master rug).
Additionally, if you download these additional slave meshes from Huge Lunatic you can also have these lovely rugs in full room sizes too. See this thread for copies of the mesh files.
L-R, Top to Bottom: Spotty; Oriental Flower; Orange Stripes; Multisquare; Brown & Yellow; Blue Stripe
This is a set of recolours for Nengi65's Rug Collection with the textures taken from John Lewis's site - they have some really good quality pictures of their wares on their site which translate very well into nicely detailed textures for the game. Unfortunately, the original meshes for these rugs are no longer available. BUT..... See this thread for my version of the meshes and information about where you might find expansions on the meshes and, possibly, the original files.
These are five recolours for the 3x4 master rug from Nengi65's Rug Collection (the recolours will show on all other rugs from the collection). Additionally, if you download these additional slave meshes from Huge Lunatic you can also have these lovely rugs in full room sizes (as shown in the room pictures).
The download has one file with all 5 recolours together. A version of the meshes is available (given in the link given above) in the Pastels Rugs thread. Names of each recolour below.
L-R, top to bottom: Duck Egg; Montrose Chocolate; Harlequin Kerria; Petrol Gravel; Luna Stairs
Once upon a time, you used to see travel posters for British holiday (vacation) spots and resorts all over the place, especially in railway stations. These were often sponsored, not by the resorts themselves, but by travel companies (coach/bus, railway and even airline) who wanted to stimulate demand for travel. They have an iconic, unmistakable and very British style. Here they are in use at Carping Magna station (my main hood):
When I made Polgannon, I had a huge amount of fun attempting to make a poster after this type to be used to advertise the neighbourhood when I released it. I looked at a lot of travel posters online while I made it. Since then, I have wanted the Polgannon image (which took AGES to create and is the most photoshoppy thing I have done) to have a more permanent in-game existence. Consequently, I made it into a recolour for the base game Pineapple Poster wall decoration.
I thought this poster was a bit lonely, so I chose some other posters which I liked (they are very popular today with collectors and people interested in retro décor and there are a lot of images available on the web) and created a group of four recolours for that poster.
Whitley Bay; Rhyl; Polgannon; Ireland
However, there were also several landscape format posters which I also wanted to include so I made a remesh of the Pineapple poster into landscape format for those. This is a new mesh. I fiddled around a bit with the images, setting them in a frame and mount and converting the text to Simlish. The Skegness poster is the base and the others are recolours of that mesh.
East Coast; Skegness; Devon; Torquay
These are then a set of eight travel posters: four in portrait format and four in landscape format to decorate your railway and bus stations with (or indeed your lounges and dining rooms if you so wish). The portrait format are recolours of the ingame Pineapple Poster - and thus you will need to have Nightlife to see them. The landscape format has a new mesh file and three other recolours. It is set at the same price and catalogue settings as the original and so should appear next to the Pineapple painting. The posters are split into two files: one file is the Pineapple recolours, the other is the landscape mesh and recolours - mainly if you only want to download one or the other but not both.
I've included below some close-up pictures of all the textures. Polygon Count of new mesh: 248
After I released my Retro-1950s-style wall tiles (after quite a long gestation), I’d made these in a further response to a WCIF from Grammapat who wanted to be able to build a retro pink bathroom.
Well, I was fairly pleased with the wall tiles (and toning floors) but it is true that it is still difficult to build a full on pink bathroom since there is little furniture and deco available that will match or blend with the tile colours. In fact, I was asked (by Magicslippers) about a quick and dirty recolour of the Aqua Plus Shower I made for the screenshot on the thread. Well, I’m not much of a recolourer but I can do texture overlaying quite well now so I thought I’d have a go and supply a set of matching shower curtains to get you started.
So here they are. I made shower curtains for all three of the basic EAxis showers: the Colonial Bathtub (expensive); the Aqua Plus Shower-Tub (medium) and the Clean Water Shower (cheap). I started with the Colonial Bathtub since that has (by far) the easiest texture to work with. I made a set of striped curtains and a set of spotty curtains and some random textures I just liked (typical me).
Colonial Stripes
Colonial Spots
I then used those recolours to make spotty curtains for the Aqua Plus Shower-Tub and striped curtains for the Clean Water Shower. The Aqua Plus Shower also has some plainer (though not plain) curtains too.
Aquaplus Turquoise Spots
CleanWater Stripes - colours: I made a set of colours to match the tiled walls in: turquoise; pink; lemon; chartreuse and candy apple red.
But I also decided to round out the colour selection a bit so the curtains could be more generally useful and added a blue, green (less of a limey green than the chartreuse) and a purple-lilac for the spots and striped curtains. You can see the range in the pictures above. I have also lightened the tiles of the Aqua Plus Shower and the Clean Water Shower so they appear to be more of a white than the murkier yellow or greenish tinge they had in the originals. There are some extra recolours using various patterns too for all three showers.
All the stripes for CleanWater
Colonial Extras
These are recolours of EAxis meshes and, as the AquaPlus Shower and Clean Water Shower were not originally made with recolours of their own, you WILL NEED to have the CEP installed to see them. If you use the great and very useful backless showers by Huge Lunatic, you will find these work just fine as recolours for those (since they are a slave of the original EAxis objects anyway).
CleanWater extra recolours
There are 48 files – blimey. I’ve separated the recolours out into sets. There are zips for the following: Colonial Bathtub Stripes; Colonial Bathtub Spots; Colonial Bathtub Extras; Clean Water Shower Stripes; Clean Water Shower Extras; Aqua Plus Plain(ish); Aqua Plus Spots. The one extra Aqua Plus recolour (Willow) is in with the Plain zip. All files are clearly named so if there is a particular recolour you don’t want you should be able to find it and delete it easily. Also remember you can delete recolours like these without problem in-game using the swatch tool.
Aquaplus Plain(ish)
I hope this will help you to start to build the pink (or chartreuse or lemon or turquoise or candy apple red) bathrooms of your dreams.
