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orikesSo, I'm home sick today. It's not major, but I was feeling crappy enough that I decided to call in. After puttering around (watching the inaugural address, finding more cool cc I didn't really need, etc.) I cornered Sarah and asked her to tell me how to do recolors of paintings. She made me an awesome wedding present for Miranda and Dean, so I knew she knew how to do it.
See, with the rebuild, there were a few things lost that I needed to replace. Namely...
... the generational portraits.
The idea to do these generational group portraits came during the third generation. Someone had gotten an art career reward camera and I was playing around with it when I got the pic of Brody, Micah and Persephone together. I decided then I wanted to do one for each generation.
I was really happy with the one I got for the fourth generation and Bon Voyage allowed me to get at least something up there for the second generation. I wasn't completely happy that they didn't match or that they weren't the best layouts ever, but it was nice to have a family picture of each generation's kids.
When I had to do the rebuild, I knew I was going to have to do these at some point. I wouldnt' be able to let it rest until they were done. Since I got to redo them, I decided that I would set some guidelines.
First, the generational picture would be taken before the eldest child left for college. This would set the age point for each group. If there ever happens to be a late life baby after the eldest goes to college, I'll just summon the eldest back when the youngest is a toddler and get a new picture. Depending on how close the ages are, this may mean that Gen Five's portrait will be of the three of them as teenagers. We shall see when we get closer that point.
In the mean time, here's some close ups of the portraits I took.
Everyone got a little makeover. I discovered that I had removed a couple of teen outfits for the kids when I made them in the photoshoot hood, so I said screw it and gave everyone a makeover. Victoria and Persephone both got different hairstyles - Vic because I would have liked to have given her something like this if I'd had it way back when, and Persephone because I'd gotten rid of her other pigtails and the ones I ended up choosing looked cute on her.
It was kind of fun shooting Zoey and Vic as teens again. I wish I'd thrown a little more plot into their earlier years, but I pretty much played from the beginning of the legacy to the birth of generation three in about a month and a half. It wasn't until the Christian and Tamara thing happened that I slowed down and started realizing how much fun it could be to throw meaty plot chunks into the mix.
It was also fun getting to see Gen Three as children again. While Persephone and Micah aren't close to going just yet, it's going to be coming sooner than I really want to deal with. Brody will live on, but it's still going to be hard seeing them go.
The three of them will have been in my game for two years come February.
Even though that's not the hairstyle Miranda has a kid, I'd deleted her old style a long time ago. I was much happier with this look for her. I liked the first picture with Ian looking at Elijah, but I wanted Elijah to be smiling. So, I went with the second picture instead.
The other detail I had to make sure of for Gen Four was that it was an indoor picture and you could see that it was winter outside. Thank goodness for the Batbox. There's an option on that to give MOAR snow. Yay for faking the winter!
I've been working on 4.10, seeing what I have and what I still need as far as pictures go. Right now, it's either going to be a double update or it's going to be split into 4.10 and 4.11 which will go up relatively soon after one another. There's a dozen or so scenes or pictures I need to fill it out, but none of them should be particularly complicated. Hopefully I'll be done with pictures by this weekend and writing by next week. There's still no guarantee I'll have an update out by the end of the month, but I'll certainly be trying.
See, with the rebuild, there were a few things lost that I needed to replace. Namely...
... the generational portraits.
The idea to do these generational group portraits came during the third generation. Someone had gotten an art career reward camera and I was playing around with it when I got the pic of Brody, Micah and Persephone together. I decided then I wanted to do one for each generation.
I was really happy with the one I got for the fourth generation and Bon Voyage allowed me to get at least something up there for the second generation. I wasn't completely happy that they didn't match or that they weren't the best layouts ever, but it was nice to have a family picture of each generation's kids.
When I had to do the rebuild, I knew I was going to have to do these at some point. I wouldnt' be able to let it rest until they were done. Since I got to redo them, I decided that I would set some guidelines.
First, the generational picture would be taken before the eldest child left for college. This would set the age point for each group. If there ever happens to be a late life baby after the eldest goes to college, I'll just summon the eldest back when the youngest is a toddler and get a new picture. Depending on how close the ages are, this may mean that Gen Five's portrait will be of the three of them as teenagers. We shall see when we get closer that point.
In the mean time, here's some close ups of the portraits I took.
Everyone got a little makeover. I discovered that I had removed a couple of teen outfits for the kids when I made them in the photoshoot hood, so I said screw it and gave everyone a makeover. Victoria and Persephone both got different hairstyles - Vic because I would have liked to have given her something like this if I'd had it way back when, and Persephone because I'd gotten rid of her other pigtails and the ones I ended up choosing looked cute on her.
It was kind of fun shooting Zoey and Vic as teens again. I wish I'd thrown a little more plot into their earlier years, but I pretty much played from the beginning of the legacy to the birth of generation three in about a month and a half. It wasn't until the Christian and Tamara thing happened that I slowed down and started realizing how much fun it could be to throw meaty plot chunks into the mix.
It was also fun getting to see Gen Three as children again. While Persephone and Micah aren't close to going just yet, it's going to be coming sooner than I really want to deal with. Brody will live on, but it's still going to be hard seeing them go.
The three of them will have been in my game for two years come February.
Even though that's not the hairstyle Miranda has a kid, I'd deleted her old style a long time ago. I was much happier with this look for her. I liked the first picture with Ian looking at Elijah, but I wanted Elijah to be smiling. So, I went with the second picture instead.
The other detail I had to make sure of for Gen Four was that it was an indoor picture and you could see that it was winter outside. Thank goodness for the Batbox. There's an option on that to give MOAR snow. Yay for faking the winter!
I've been working on 4.10, seeing what I have and what I still need as far as pictures go. Right now, it's either going to be a double update or it's going to be split into 4.10 and 4.11 which will go up relatively soon after one another. There's a dozen or so scenes or pictures I need to fill it out, but none of them should be particularly complicated. Hopefully I'll be done with pictures by this weekend and writing by next week. There's still no guarantee I'll have an update out by the end of the month, but I'll certainly be trying.
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