Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holiday. Show all posts

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Valentine's Day greeting cards

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Well, Valentine's Day is here, and love is in the air. :)) Even if you're not in love or in a relationship, I'm sure your sims are ))) A greeting card is an attribute of any holiday or a special occasion and a perfect way to express one's feelings for another... Does your Sim have a significant other? Or maybe is in love with someone but too afraid or shy to declare their love? Now your Sim can sign a beautiful Valentine's card and send it to their sweetheart. :)

I've created a variety of special Hallmark Valentine Day greeting cards that come in 2 groups:
- unpersonalized (without a recipient/giver's name on them)
- personalized (with a recipient/giver's name on them that you can change, good for stories and such).

The Valentine cards are categorized into 8 types of relationships:
to boyfriend (3 personalized, 3 unpersonalized), to girlfriend (3p, 3), to fiance (3p, 3), to fiancee (3p, 3), to husband (3p, 3), to wife (3p, 3), to special one (3p, 3), from secret admirer (6p)

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The base card package consists of 2 subsets with sample textures for your recoloring pleasure:
1) card subset (card texture)
2) alpha subset (alpha enabled texture for a recipient's name text or blank subset for unpersonalized cards)




Unpersonalized cards
Once again, these cards are general meaning they are simply addressed to a particular type of relationship. These are very simple: in game design mode you just have to combine desired card recolor with blank alpha recolor.


Personalized cards
These cards can be signed to a particular person (with a recipient's name) of certain type of relationship.


Example:
You want a Sim girl to give her boyfriend named Kevin a personalized card with his name on it. And vice versa :)



How to create your own personalized card (these instructions are also included in alphatemplates.rar):
1) First off, you have to have a graphics software that supports alpha layers (I'm using Photoshop)
2) Open needed PSD template of your chosen boyfriend type card (that comes in template rar) in your graphics program, or if it doesn't support PSD format, use provided PNG file
3) In your opened PSD template change #name to Kevin (with PNG template it's a bit different, because you have to actually replace the words)
4) Save your personalized file in png (!! only in png, because it supports alphas)
5) Import your PNG texture into the corresponding SimPE package provided in the alphatemplates.rar
6) Save your package and put it into game folder

(for personalized cards)

Total card RCs:
27 personalized
21 unpersonalized
Polycount: 28
Deco item only

Happy Valentine's Day!
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Saturday, January 5, 2013

New Year's dolls: Ded Moroz & Snegurochka

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Happy New Year, dear Simmers! I wanted to share with you these dolls I've been working on for quite a long time, it took me much longer to create them than was planned. But here they are even though New Year's celebration is pretty much over (however, New Year's holidays are still continuing here, in Russia :)

New Year is a special holiday for many Russian people, it is even more important than Christmas. There are many traditions and symbols of the Russian New Year celebration... Ded Moroz & Snegurochka are two of those symbols. These characters are especially loved by kids, and without them there wouldn't be that special holiday magic children look forward to every year!
Ded Moroz is the prototype of Santa Claus. Literally his name means "Old man Frost" (I know it sounds funny, but that's what he is). He brings holiday presents & sweets in his big red sack.
Snegurochka, a "Snow girl", is Ded Moroz's granddaughter. She helps him entertain children and grown-ups on this very special day of the year.

Anyway, here they are. Snegurochka & Ded Moroz dolls for your Sims homes!


Meshes by me. Found in Decorative > Sculptures. Base game compatible. These figurines are a bit high poly, so use them sparingly.
Snegurochka: 2364 polys
Ded Moroz: 2566 polys

С Новым годом!


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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Victory Day (1941-1945)

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Today is the most sacred holiday for our people. It marks the end of Great Patriotic War and liberation of the Soviet Union from Nazis. In total almost 27 million Soviet people died during the war including those remaining in the occupied areas and 700 thousands of those starved to death in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) during the blockade that lasted for 872 days...

Nothing is forgotten. Nobody is forgotten. Every family has been affected. Every heart is aching for the lost son, brother, father, grandfather, beloved...
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