Well here we go, I present the first TS3 Pay items thanks to Peggy

[Motoki]

*gets the pitchfork and the torch ready and heads to China*

Oh and if anyone wants to Arrrr them and hasn't been following the thread at MATY MistyK put them up here

However Delphy notes: "As I posted on MTS, she's done it *extremely* amatuerishly, too.  Just the basics, to get it to show in game but she's left a whole heap of linkages back to the store hair still." so use at your own risk!

[kenmtl]

Speaking of Peggy Hair.

Problem:


Response:

Unfortunately, it is inevitable that some of the face shapes will not work with the hairstyle and will intersect the hair

Ya really. Just use a normal face shape and not one of those weird ones. Gawd

[CatOfWar]

I did not know that much hair fail was even possible.  Peggy has outdone herself.

[rum nate]

Speaking of Peggy Hair.

Problem:
<snip scary hair>

Response:

Unfortunately, it is inevitable that some of the face shapes will not work with the hairstyle and will intersect the hair

Ya really. Just use a normal face shape and not one of those weird ones. Gawd

Kenmtl, do you have any of the store hairs in your game?

[Missbonbon]

That hair that Ken has I believe was her earlier version that just replaced the mohawk. Apparently it worked "fine" in CAS for a lot of users, but once in the real game it caused many games to crash. I think I read somewhere that the sims 3 operates on very low polys, and anything of very high poly will cause your game to crash. But don't quote me on that because I could have been dream simming.  The hairs that Delphy was referring to are her newer pay hairs. I personally haven't tried them out but if I understand correctly her hair won't work unless you have the corresponding store hairs. Which would make sense since already a couple of the GOSlings are having issues with her hairs.

I was reading on the creator forums on how close Delphy/HP are to actually having stand alone meshes, and that apparently Delphy has some sort of "tool" to run the hair meshes through. I can't wait for HP to start converting some Nouky goodness! I needs me some neena tails! 

[HystericalParoxysm]

Not just close - doing it successfully.

 I'm currently working on converting one of Nouk's male hairs (the Sport short hair) for all ages.  Possibly also for females too because it looks pretty cute on them (though still needs some fixing up).  I've also got my Cherub hair about 60% converted (the remaining 40% is the shitty horrible part that I hate - control maps, how I LOATHE YOU). 

Part of this is putting D's tool through its paces and finding the bugs and working out its kinks.. 

I'll be concentrating on decent male hair out of mine and Nouk's catalogs at first, since I have a feeling TS3 male hairs will be the same My Little Pony WTFery we had for TS2, but after I get the hang of it and have it down to a science, I'll start plugging forward on more of Nouk's pretty hairs like the dreads and fluffy ponytails and whatnot.

[kenmtl]

That's not mine I pulled it off her forum. Here  I just thought the response was funny and typical.

[Motoki]

@HP: Oh nice! We definitely need more male hairs, and real ones too, not froofy doofy girly Anime layered crap converted over from the women to men. I don't want my guys looking like an emo tranny, thanks.

[Missbonbon]

@HP: Nice! I hope there will be a tut out for those of us who want to plug our favorite TS2 hairs into TS3 without having to beg for help. 
@Ken: My bad, I assumed it was yours and didn't read very well. I should have known better that you would not commit suicide to your game by putting that hair in there. My apologies. 

[HystericalParoxysm]

Missbonbon - Eventually, yes, once I get the hang of doing it myself reliably.  It's really -not- easy though.  Part a science but a lot of it is still an art.  A tedious, masochistic, "god I hate meshing so fucking much" art.  It'll probably be more a tiptorial than a tutorial, geared toward folks who already do some meshing but just want the rough parts explained.  And won't be coming super soon though I may post a real basic summary when D posts up his tool.  Hard to find enough time to work on the meshes themselves these days let alone teach others how, but I'll try. 

[Jojoba]

UPDATE
We have confirmation that Peggy has callously disregarded the license prohibitions against making Payware with the WesHtool.

No surprise there. So what is Wes going to do about it? When Delphy releases his tool, am sure she (and others) will do the same.

[Pescado]

Tangentially related LOLWUT. I am pretty sure that TSR's new plan is to attempt to murder me with laughter:

< ThomasTSR> Pescado, will you respect our efforts to do things the right way this time around and thus respect our copyright also?

I wonder if he realizes that by saying this he has admitted that he was WRONG last time...and since he doesn't appear to be changing this position and EA *STILL* claims to own everything, he STILL IS.

[Motoki]

UPDATE
We have confirmation that Peggy has callously disregarded the license prohibitions against making Payware with the WesHtool.

No surprise there. So what is Wes going to do about it? When Delphy releases his tool, am sure she (and others) will do the same.

He's said there really isn't much he can do. I mean she's in China so not like EA or US lawyers or anyone have any jurisdiction there. You'd have better luck anonymously tipping off the Chinese government that she's using her internet profits to fund the Falun Gong.

Tangentially related LOLWUT. I am pretty sure that TSR's new plan is to attempt to murder me with laughter:

< ThomasTSR> Pescado, will you respect our efforts to do things the right way this time around and thus respect our copyright also?

I wonder if he realizes that by saying this he has admitted that he was WRONG last time...and since he doesn't appear to be changing this position and EA *STILL* claims to own everything, he STILL IS.

Ugh, so TSR had to put their two cents in too? I'm sure they're just pissed off that someone else beat them to the punch putting out the first TS3 pay item. 

[Dr House]

Paden, don't forget that Peggy's chinese and the notion of 'perfect propotions' beauty differs in the world. That's why her heads are generally round with pointy chin, bigger eyes and higher mouth.

I saw Peggy's hairs topic at MATY. These hairs don't seem to crash the game since they don't replace actual hairs. BUT they're only alpha-edits of store hairs and Delphy supposes that her hairs may not work correctly if you don't have the store hairs she used installed in your game. Plus they don't have the elder part. That girl hates elders ^^
I'm pissed off. That bitch blatantly used a free tool with an anti-pay tos to make pay hairs. *prepares torches and pitchforks*

[alwaysvindicated]

I've downloaded the free male hair and one of the free female hairs to see what they look like in game. But their files sizes are large, much like the store hair files. The male hair was 7.4Mbs, and the female hair I got was 4.6Mbs.

I also noticed that her hair files are huge, but running them through the compressor got them to about 1/3 of their original file size.