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OK, herewith my last offering for this month's theme at GoS...

I have a thing about old maps - I think they're beautiful and fascinating (and I figured that I can't be the only one who feels this way?). So, when I recently came across some wonderful textures, I had to put them in my game. The problem was, so few Maxis meshes were the right size or proportions (why so many square pictures, Maxis, and so few rectangular ones?!), and I was too lazy to hunt down exactly the right custom meshes. And, call me crazy, but I actually prefer to use Maxis meshes whenever I can. Hence, this idea - stolen partly from Fantasyrogue and Graverobber - was born.

I ended up with 14 new meshes, which all started life as Maxis meshes and have now been stretched and cajoled into different and more useable, shapes, sizes and proportions, all slaved to Maxis textures. Plus my map recolours.

Of course, if you don't happen to be into old maps, you can just use the new meshes as a Maxis add-on set, and a convenient way of re-framing any existing recolors of the meshes to which they are slaved.

Some of the new meshes are slaved to Maxis pictures from various EPs and SPs, but for those who don't happen to have the packs in question, I have also created base-game versions of the Maxis meshes, so the EPs/SPs aren't actually required (just remember to download the extra base-game-friendly meshes if you need them).

( Maxis add-ons and cartographical goodies under here... )

My first contribution to the GoS clutter theme (more to come later): as requested a couple of weeks ago by Casiotone, single polaroids for the wall!

( Walk this way, you know you want to... )

A while ago evanesco at GoS requested a TS2 conversion of some rather splendid fences that Cyclonesue had released for TS3. I was very happy to oblige, since I think it a huge shame that Cyclonesue has abandoned TS2, and don't see why only TS3 should have her new pretties. ;)

After several minor hiccups, they are finally done!

( Lots more fenceyness this way... )

I've been meaning to do this for a while, and kept getting distracted, but since it's very nearly September... So, my santee for the GoS 'Christmas in July' fest was Aquilegia, and since she very generously decided to share her gift, I thought I'd pop it up here as well. I'm sure many people who want these will already have them, but just in case.

Anyway, it's early morning and I've not had a lot of sleep (or enough tea), so less wiffle and more downloads, yes?

( Pook'd and Aelia'd walls, Maxis-match floors and recoloured Maxis build mode sets, all under here... )

As requested by autumnparanoia, the Dalek 'To Victory!' poster, but this time on aikea-guinea's half-height wall-writing mesh (included in download):

The eagle-eyed among you will spot that the aspect ratio is a little different to the version on the Maxis mesh, but this one is actually closer to the original. ;)

Also, there is a bonus extra recolour: the vanilla and grungy recolours are the same as before, but there is now a new lightly worn version too.

Plus, given the inveterate fiddler that I am, I decided to go back and revamp the Maxis version a little. So, I've now made a lightly worn recolour for that as well. And since in retrospect I thought that the grungy recolour looked a little odd with such ultra-shiny drawing pins, I've given it some nice rusty ones instead.

Go grab the revised Maxis version here.

The good old BBC, of course.
Aikea-guinea for the extremely useful mesh.

As requested by psychosim at GoS, my update of Aviolina's "Silent Hill" stairs made 'open-underneath'. And because I can't resist fiddling in SimPE, they are now also recolourable, thanks to a bit of help from HugeLunatic at MTS. So, in an attempt to make my efforts worthwhile I've also chucked in a handful of recolours, plus some matching fences.

( This way for the mesh and recolours... )

The second set of opening goodies: as requested by pinketamine at GoS, DOT's add-on sofa and chair slaved to the Maxis Satinistics loveseat for textures.

Since this is way overdue, by way of consolation I have also rustled up 18 recolours of DOT's texture using Aelia's Photoshop actions. These are recolours of the Maxis loveseat, but by the magic that is the repository technique, will also apply to the modifed sofa and chair too, as will any other recolours of the Maxis loveseat that you happen to already have kicking around in your game.

Speaking of which, can I also recommend Ja's fabulous recolours, which I believe were the inspiration for the original request (hence the name of my set is also a small homage to the name of Ja's set, as well as being a tongue-in-cheek song title reference, as usual).

There is one teeny issue with the sofa to tell you about: textures with a non-symmetrical pattern (such as one or two of Ja's) might not work terribly well on the sofa, due to the way it is mapped, and I'm afraid I couldn't do anything about this. Plain and symmetrical textures however, look just fine and dandy. And all textures work perfectly with the chair.

Also, these have different file names and GUIDs to DOT's original versions, and so won't overwrite them - you can have both in your game at once if you want, but you will need to find and delete DOT's files from your downloads folder if you don't.


CREDITS:

Full credit to DOT for the original mesh and texture, and to aelia for the colours; I just did what I like best, and mashed them together in Photoshop and SimPE. :)

And thanks to pinketamine, for the splendid idea.