Description:
This Art Deco style fridge is based on photos of a Crosley ‘Shelvador’ refrigerator from the 1930s that can be seen at the South Kensington Science Museum website.

This is part of an ongoing project of mine to mesh a set of 1930s kitchen appliances for a furniture set for use in The Sims 2 and The Sims 3.

Created With: 3DS Max 2009, Photoshop CS4, MilkShape, SimPE
Count: 3,016 polys

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Textures:
The following are scaled down from their in-game dimensions:
In TS2 – UV Unwrap, diffuse

Additional Credits:
Rendered view uses several material shaders from MR Materials

Description:
This retro blender was designed as part of a small set of 1950s kitchen appliances. Most of them were created based on existing meshes by another artist, but this blender was meshed from scratch. The base is modelled after an Osterizer “bee hive” blender, while the glass jar is based on the Waring blender’s clover-leaf cross-section.

It has been set up as a functional object in both The Sims 2 and The Sims 3, where it works as a food processor.

Created With: 3DS Max 2009, Photoshop CS4, MilkShape, SimPE, TSR Workshop
Count: 1,822 polys

Additional Views:

Textures:
In TS2 – diffuse
In TS3 – UV Unwrap, multiplier

Additional Credits:
Rendered view uses several material shaders from MR Materials

Description:
For some time I’d wanted to make my own original furniture set that took advantage of the repository texturing system in The Sims 2 (TS2) so that all of the furniture shared a single texture. It would both be very easy to recolour, since you’d only need to change one texture to add a new recolour for all meshes in the set, plus I’d be able to use a larger, more detailed texture size since it would be one texture for x-many meshes instead of x-many textures at one per mesh.

This is a similar concept to my earlier Thackeray furniture set for TS2, except that in this case I was working from scratch rather then modifying the mesh of an existing object, and doing my own texture layout rather then working within an existing texture space. I started by making and unwrapping one of the larger and more complex meshes needed for the set, then for each subsequent mesh I made as much of it as possible by re-using already mapped pieces from previous meshes, adding and unwrapping new poly shapes as they were needed. Once I had the majority of the set completed, I did a final unwrap, fitting everything within a square texture area, and any additional meshes I made beyond that point have had to work within this established texture space.

Since my goal was to use the repository system as much as possible, I used mesh portions from existing in-game objects, and their existing textures and recolours, whenever possible. So, for example, the change table I meshed uses the changing pad and miscellaneous changing clutter from the existing in-game change table.

At present the furniture set has some 60-odd pieces of furniture all utilizing the same 1024×1024 texture, including furniture for bedrooms, nursery, living room, study, bathroom and kitchen use.

Created With: 3DS Max Design 2009, Photoshop CS4, MilkShape, SimPE
Poly Count: Varies widely – I tried to keep it around 2000 polys per floor tile occupied for the higher poly items

Additional Views:

Textures:
The following textures have been scaled down from the original versions.
Wood diffuse

Additional Credits:
Uses some mesh parts and existing textures from objects created by EA/Maxis for The Sims 2.