Inaugural content post, hurrah!
TLDR: A whole lot of maxis meshes, mainly from Apartment Life, recolored in Icad's wood palette and thirty-six of Aelia and CuriousB's colors.
A short list of the things I recolored for this set:
[ socialite sofa + socialite loveseat | socialite living chair | socialite dining chair | socialite end table | socialite dining table | endlessly winding spiral stairs | discourse table | mysterious bookcase | renaissance bookcase | craftmeister booknook + dahlen library bookcase ]
Color palette for all socialite-ism redux downloads:
It's thirty-six fabric colors and twenty woods. Combinitorics teaches us that that makes seven hundred and twenty combinations. Make the numbers work for you. Those medallions in the wood samples are the inlaid tops of the socialite end table. There is a unique medallion for each wood color, but unfortunately, these are not selected separately from the wood. You get what you get.
I have not yet done any metal finishes for this set, nor have I done the socialite lamps, although I do plan to do them in the future, as well as the Nouveau floral lamps I am so fond of. I have also already done the two tile instyle closets from AL, but as the colors seem a little dark or weird, I will refrain from releasing these for now.
I got started making the precursor to this set while working on my Santee Metropolis's Christmas in July present. She said she was fond of maxis mesh recolors, so I immediately thought of the Socialite Set, with its few recolors and unhelpful starter colors. I made her four recolors of that set, including several random meshes I always use in my parlors. Working on those first four made me realize that I was itching to make the set even more pleasing to me and hopefully to others, and so as soon as Socialite-ism was born, Socialite-ism Redux went into production.
I chose Icad's palette of woods because I really like her colors and find them useful and pretty sufficient at covering the spectrum. I already use her stair and fence recolors, along with lots of her hardwood floors, so it just made sense to me. Then I went and made a list of the Aelia and CuriousB colors I thought suited this set (and ultimately myself XD) the best. After that it was just a lot of tedious busy work, but I am quite happy with the result!
Anyway, I do plan on making some more sets like this in the future, like with the Seasons wood furniture and with the sleigh nursery set, and I will be using Icad's woods and probably that same set of fabric colors I have already selected for consistency. I also have some odds and ends that are meant to compliment this set (SR Extras?) that I hope to post soon as well: fireplace, overmantle, grandfather clock, curtains, and of course those closets.
Okay, now that you've read all that, how about some downloads? Woods are separate from fabrics to allow the greatest level of freedom of choice. Fabrics are sorted into subsets as per the swatch at the top. When something is listed like this "Rodney Dangerfield + Maya Angelou" it means those two objects are master-slaved, and there is only one set of textures for multiple pieces of furniture.
Socialite Sofa + Loveseat (Riveting Rivets and Curvaceous Love) [Maxis Mesh from Apartment Life]
[ Icad Woods | Aelia Retros | Aelia Autumns | Aelia Jewels | Curious B ]
Socialite Living Chair (Eloquent Divinity Living Chair) [Maxis Mesh from Apartment Life]
[ Icad Woods | Aelia Retros | Aelia Autumns | Aelia Jewels | Curious B ]
Socialite End Table (Four Legs and a Disc) [Maxis Mesh from Apartment Life]
[ Icad Woods ]
Socialite Dining Chair (Eloquent Living Dining Chair) [Maxis Mesh from Apartment Life]
[ Icad Woods | Aelia Retros | Aelia Autumns | Aelia Jewels | CuriousB ]
Socialite Three Tile Dining Table (Fancy Shmancy) [Maxis Mesh from Apartment Life]
[ Icad Woods ]
Two Tile Non-passageway Bookcase (Mysterious Bookcase) [Maxis Mesh from Apartment Life]
[ Icad Woods ]
Fancy University Bookcase (Renaissance Bookcase) [Maxis Mesh from University]
[ Icad Woods ]
Cheap Bookcase + Expensive Bookcase (Craftmeister Booknook + Dahlen Library Shelves) [Base Game]
[ Icad Woods ]
Two Tile Colonial Dining Table (Discourse Table) [Base Game]
[ Icad Woods ]
Wooden Spiral Stairs (Endlessly Winding Stairs) [Apartment Life]
[ Icad Woods ]
Shannisims 1953 Record Player (Voice of Music Record Player) [Mesh Included]
[ Icad Woods ]
Thanks to Shanni for the mesh and the texture for the record player, Maxis for the game object textures, and Czar Floors for their wood medallions. If you're in the mood for some beautiful hardwood at home, check them out, as their designs are very nice.
Wow, this is amazing. <3 That's all I have to say really. xD Thank you! :3
ReplyDeleteWhere did you get that paneling?
ReplyDeleteI'm really pleased people like this set :) Like I said, it wasn't so much hard work as it was tedious, but sometimes tedious work can be the hardest XD. I want to work on the other meshes to finish off the extras soon, but I have a pretty bad cold right now, so it may be a little bit before I get them finished. I also have to figure out why the closets are so weirdly dark when I preview them in game.
ReplyDeleteTo answer your question Lullabee, I painted that paneling set back in 2010, but I wasn't satisfied with it, so it was sitting in my projects folder until a couple of weeks ago. Then I fiddled with it and tinkered with it, and now I am very happy with it. I intend to release the simple parts of it in Icads colors to match the Socialite-ism set, but the whole set is seventeen walls, a full boiserie set meant to be able to fit around windows, wall sconces, and to do two story panels, carved and uncarved, so I dunno if anyone would actually be interested in having the full set in twenty colors, as that's a lot of walls XD.
Aah, I forgot to say thank you! It was early, excuse me. So, thanks for the recolors and for answering my question!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'd love to get my hands on those panel walls, so, cool! But, you know, now that you mention it, I don't know how I could play the game without a super massive set of paneling stuff. Because paneling is awesome for libraries and pubs and offices and everything... and, I mean, once you have one set of panels, you might want more of a choice, and why not use appropriate wall sconces instead of just any old light, and especially if you put in windows in paneled walls they always do look awkward if there isn't something that fits around them properly, and... well, I never build two-story rooms, but that's just me. So, in short, it'd be nice to see a WIP post of that or something?
I don't think I'd want to keep 17 sets of all the different Icad colors in my game... but it'd be nice to have a look-see at it and keep what's useful, and everyone has a different idea of that.