Thackaray Set
Description:
One of the things I’ve most frequently done for custom content creation for The Sims 2 is to take an existing mesh, such as a sofa, and reshape the mesh to create additional matching pieces – what’s known within the TS2 community as a “completer set”. These can range from things as simple as making a matching loveseat and/or armchair out of a particular sofa, to, as in this case, creating several suites worth of furniture.
TS2 supports a repository texture system, whereby one master mesh can hold the textures used by multiple slave meshes. Completer sets usually make use of this system, since it means any recolour anyone makes for the original mesh will automatically show up on all the completer pieces as well. It does, of course, have the drawback that you have to make all your completer meshes map to the existing texture space of the original object.
In this case, a friend of mine had asked me if I might be able to make a matching sofa and loveseat out of an ornate armchair she liked, called the “Thackaray chair”, that didn’t have any matching pieces in the game. Sizing up is usually a lot more tricky then sizing down, but in this case the armchair and its texture both lent themselves well to the technique; so well, in fact, that I ended up making considerably more then just a loveseat and sofa out of it.
Created With: 3DS Max 3.0, Photoshop 7, Milkshape, SimPE
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