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Now I don't watch Star Trek, but even to me that Sunair hair just SCREAMS Klingon.

[LadySandyOinkers]

For the sake of a side-by-side (or top-to-bottom?), here's Chaz's mess.



Here's a similar one by Helga. (I'm in love with this hair by the way.)


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Absolutely no comparison. The helga hair is so pretty! And exactly what I have been looking for (for my self sim)! Thanks for bringing it to our attention!

[dusdeedawn]

Seriously? You couldn't cut out the pictures for that?

[jilly]

See the difference between this fugly TSR castle, complete with no terrain or landscape:




and this lovely MTS2 castle?

[fway]

Kate @ Parsimonious' Wandering

http://www.parsimonious.org/furniture2/build/k8-Wandering.shtml


vs. Shakeshaft's TOTAL RIPOFF 'Romany Life in Mauve' - I'm assuming the rest of this set will be coming... or already has

[Millie]

I have Kates caravans in game. They are perfect, right down to the last detail - old fashioned telephone, bath/shower recolours to fit the Gypsy theme, kitchen gypsified. I love it.

[Rissa]

See the difference between this fugly TSR castle, complete with no terrain or landscape:

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and this lovely MTS2 castle?


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If you want to compare castles you just have to mention the wonderful free castles by Dimorasims!

[Silver Arrows]

Oh my, get your panties out of a twist.

My knickers are utterly not in a twist. Sorry if you think I'm being confrontational or summin. Just the way you said "peggy's crap over helga's" sounded (to me) like you were bunching them both as crap.

You're free to prefer peggy's hairstyles over any other artists, but you can't deny, at least helga's meshes are free and  good quality i.e no neck gaps and possessed hair flying around every time your sims breathe. Why get pay content when free artists make much better quality items? And that is what this thread's about.

And to me, the colors of the [peggy] hair don't matter because I retexture them anyway

Although Helga's probably gap-less, I think her textures are kind of eh....

Uh?

[jilly]

If you want to compare castles you just have to mention the wonderful free castles by Dimorasims!

Hmm I didn't see that one, but the castles are awesome 

[Markus]

That caravan at Parsimonious looks awesome.

[Emma]

That caravan at Parsimonious looks awesome.

I must download them and have me some Gypsy sims! I think I might move Natasha Una into one

[Rissa]

Oh my, get your panties out of a twist.

My knickers are utterly not in a twist. Sorry if you think I'm being confrontational or summin. Just the way you said "peggy's crap over helga's" sounded (to me) like you were bunching them both as crap.

You're free to prefer peggy's hairstyles over any other artists, but you can't deny, at least helga's meshes are free and  good quality i.e no neck gaps and possessed hair flying around every time your sims breathe. Why get pay content when free artists make much better quality items? And that is what this thread's about.

And to me, the colors of the [peggy] hair don't matter because I retexture them anyway

Although Helga's probably gap-less, I think her textures are kind of eh....

Uh?

I think what Caedre wants to say is that most Peggysims textures are rather straight so that they are easy to retexture while most hairs by Helga are at least a bit wavy/curly. This means that if you don't like the rather realistic textures by Helga and want to retexture them, you'd either use a straight texture which makes the hair look kinda strange, or you have to work really hard to get the original wavy look but with textures to your liking.
And if I remember right Caedre prefers Maxis-matching textures which might look nice on some of Helga's hairs, but not on all of them...

Just export some hairtextures by Helga and Peggy and compare them, and you'll notice the difference.

This of course doesn't mean that Helga's hairs are worse than Peggy's, they just use totally different ways of texturing, but from the view of someone who deals with hair textures on a daily basis Caedre's arguments are understandable.
For someone who just downloads the original style or recolors are these arguments irrelevant though.


Edit: typo

[dusdeedawn]

I think it's great when free creators recolor pay meshes and actually make them look better than the original creator's textures. Because, really, if you're going to create the mesh, shouldn't you make the hair look good?

Thus, we have peggy's mesh and her version of crazy colored hair:


versus Ana's version of crazy colored hair (with the same mesh)
which you can find right here (in the new aspiration set - YAY).

[falln_angel]

which you can find right here (in the new aspiration set - YAY).

Yay from me too! I didn't realize the new set was up until just now.

[Caedre]

Oh my, get your panties out of a twist.

My knickers are utterly not in a twist. Sorry if you think I'm being confrontational or summin. Just the way you said "peggy's crap over helga's" sounded (to me) like you were bunching them both as crap.

You're free to prefer peggy's hairstyles over any other artists, but you can't deny, at least helga's meshes are free and  good quality i.e no neck gaps and possessed hair flying around every time your sims breathe. Why get pay content when free artists make much better quality items? And that is what this thread's about.

And to me, the colors of the [peggy] hair don't matter because I retexture them anyway

Although Helga's probably gap-less, I think her textures are kind of eh....

Uh?

I think what Caedre wants to say is that most Peggysims textures are rather straight so that they are easy to retexture while most hairs by Helga are at least a bit wavy/curly. This means that if you don't like the rather realistic textures by Helga and want to retexture them, you'd either use a straight texture which makes the hair look kinda strange, or you have to work really hard to get the original wavy look but with textures to your liking.
And if I remember right Caedre prefers Maxis-matching textures which might look nice on some of Helga's hairs, but not on all of them...

Just export some hairtextures by Helga and Peggy and compare them, and you'll notice the difference.

This of course doesn't mean that Helga's hairs are worse than Peggy's, they just use totally different ways of texturing, but from the view of someone who deals with hair textures on a daily basis Caedre's arguments are understandable.
For someone who just downloads the original style or recolors are these arguments irrelevant though.


Edit: typo

Hmm hmm yeah n____n thank you!

I'm not good at explaining myself anyway x___x but if you Helga's meshes and Peggy's.. compare the curly ones, for me Peggy's curly ones are more fun to paint because theyre actually on a flat mesh.
I just dont like meshed curls, my personal preference.

And yeah, I love maxis textures <3

Anyway, on topic:

I've got something to compare aswell, something I noticed while looking for a hairstyle I used to have..



Peggy hair vs XM Sims hair:



Is it to me or are they similar? XM Sims' actually animated and Peggy's isnt.


Also; If I'm being confusing.. english isn't my native tongue n___n