I'm taking the download down for now. I'll post the defaults and contacts together later.

I was working on getting/redoing screenshots of the SN, Bella, and LoL eyes and noticed something that was annoying me on the SN contacts (a little bit of the texture sticking out on one side that makes it look lumpy since it's not there on the other side as well). It's there on the defaults as well, just not as noticeable. So I'm going to try to fix that for both defaults and contacts.

I'll try to get this done soon, but if you keep up with this journal, you know I fail at deadlines.

Contact version of the defaults I posted before. I think I like the defaults as they are, so those are done. I'll probably look at these contacts a little bit more. Part of me likes the controls, part of me doesn't. I might try to lighten the texture up a bit more, but as usual, that might take out too much of the texture. So I'll see.

BTW, these are called "Starry Night" in my folder. I used some brushes to make these(and edited the results a lot) and I had downloaded some star/sparkle brushes. In the end, I don't think I actually really used any star brushes on the eyes, but oh well. There's the name :P

I made an entry with a list of brushes I have, for credits. I don't entirely remember which ones I used for these eyes, but I tried to list the sets in that entry.

( Screens. )

Anyway, I'll try to get these completely done and released in the next few days. Or possibly tomorrow.

I'll probably use MTS-friendly screenshots (no retextured pay hair, etc) for these when I post them for download. I'm going to try to get these eyes, the LoL eyes, and the Bella eyes uploaded on MTS. I should have been taking MTS-friendly screenshots all along to save me time now. I'll have to go back and do more screens of LoL and Bella. Ugh.

Posting in a separate entry, in case I ever decide to use some brushes on some future eyes. That way I can just link back to this post and not copy and paste.

These are the brushes I have downloaded for GIMP.

Posting for reference in case I use them when making some eyes.

There are a list of eyes that I have used brushes for below this list.

( List of GIMP brushes. )

( List of my eyes that use the above brushes. )

Sort of.

( Screens under the cut. )

Anyway, after deleting a few things that probably shouldn't have been in some of my downloads folders (whoopsie), my game is magically 20x faster than it was before. So it's playable again. I don't have expansions on my laptop right now, but I still might start up something on here anyway... Legacy, asylum, whatever.

I know it wasn't too long ago that I posted saying that it would probably be a while before I did anything again (entry removed as it doesn't hold any value anymore).

...but circumstances change :P I'm waiting for graduation at the moment, so I don't have too much to do for the next week or so. And those orphaned kittens are doing well and are fairly easy and quick to take care of right now.

So I'm going to try and finish up some eyes I have lying around while I have time. Maybe try to do something new (unlikely; new things tend to come out of a fit of boredom where I just start randomly playing around in GIMP). I'll try to start working on things a little tonight.

My main issue is that the last time I tried to work on some eyes, my game was being extremely slow and that annoyed me a lot. I'll probably have to clear out my CC and use a bare minimum of things and see if that helps. But there really shouldn't be any reason for why it's suddenly so slow as I don't download CC anymore. Maybe my laptop is just getting worn out. Maybe I should just reinstall the game and start clean with a bare minimum of things and see what happens.

Anyway.

I would like to note that I did see some really pretty eyes on MTS. They're the most realistic eyes I've seen so far, in my opinion, and they do look really nice (and I don't even really like realism in my game, hence why most of the eyes I make tend to be cartoon-ish looking). I don't usually post things like this as I don't even really keep up with CC anymore, but I really do like these eyes, based on previews... I haven't tried them myself, but I think I will. I'd like to try to play TS3 some again instead of just making eyes/contacts/lipstick/other simplistic CC. If I can fix the issue of my slow game, anyway.

So eyes by SimRivers, if you haven't seen them already (and probably have): http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=475508

I had said I might try to lighten the texture some, but I didn't. I did lighten it some, but realized it wouldn't be much lighter than it originally was. So I just left it as it was so that some of the details wouldn't get lost due to me lightening it.

So, as with most of my contacts, the lightest the eyes can get is really more of a light-medium color. You can't get extremely light colors on these contacts.

There are four color channels. Three for the iris, one for the eye whites.

Should be for males and females, toddler through elder. Unless I messed something up.

( Screens and download link in the cut: )

Lipsticks 2 & 3 have been updated so that they now have custom thumbnails.

You can get the download link from their entries (Lipstick 2, Lipstick 3).

I'm working on getting the LoL contacts together and done. I do have things put together, but I messed up when repackaging them to put in a thumbnail. I put the wrong texture in. It doesn't make much of a difference (the eye whites are a little darker), but it does make some. So I'm going to redo them again.

It'll take a little while because I'm just being lazy and impatient don't feel like loading my game to check that it looks right and everything works right. My game has been so slow lately and I have no clue why. It takes forever for the CAS to load and for the game to load after I exit CAS. I just don't have the patience to quickly load the game to check something out since "quickly" means "slowly" now.

I'll try to get them posted tonight/tomorrow once I quit being so impatient/lazy. I'll let the game load while I turn my 360 on to play on Skyrim later.

I kind of forgot I had said I'd release the "lol" eyes soon.

SO. Here are the defaults. I have screens of the contacts done, but I might decide to try to lighten the texture a teeny bit before I release them. So I'll try to get those posted today/tomorrow. Hopefully. If I remember.

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Sorry, but I probably won't get the eyes up until the end of the week. I'm kind of busy with classes and such until then.
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Long story short, they're called "lol" eyes because when I originally made them, I was just playing around and wasn't expecting them to turn into anything. Now I'm too lazy to rename them and not creative enough to come up with a good name that "lol" stands for.

So they're just called LoL eyes, which stands for nothing at all unless you want to make it stand for something in your game, because otherwise they'd be named something strange and stupid like Lights of Lasagna. Most people don't care what these things are named anyway. I could name them Eye #5u7s678 and no one would care.

( Screens and download link in the cut. )

Just to post something. I was bored and messing around with some stuff a little bit tonight last night (wrote the entry then and didn't post till the next morning).

I will probably try to release the "lol" eyes (defaults and contacts) sometime late this week. I'm kind of busy up till Thursday, maybe later. So possibly look for them after Thursday, if you care about them. I don't think I'm going to edit these eyes any more, so I might as well mark them off my list of things to do and release them already.

...They also need a better name. Either that or make "lol" an acronym for something... Like "Light of *insert another 'L' word here*". But that just sounds kind of cheesy to me. Eh. Possibly better than naming it after chinchillas or something, like I've done before.

Also, there's another eye I've had sitting in a folder for a long time. The first time I tried it the texture was too blurry, so out of boredom, I sharpened the texture. I think it has (at least some) potential. They just need some work to fix some things (like the dark parts on the border, which you'll see if you look at the screens). I don't know. The one thing about it is that I made it out of bunch of random brushes I downloaded for GIMP just to see what would happen, and I don't remember what I used :P I don't want to release it and not give credit for the brushes.

But I did bookmark all the links I downloaded from, unless I removed/forgot one. I guess I could link to all of them, even if I might not have actually used brushes from them... Err. If that works.

Anyway. Screenshots of the old eyes and the lol contacts just to post something.

( Cut. )

Considering that Mass Effect 3 comes out soon, along with some things going on in life (last semester of college, trying to get a job for after graduation, moving, etc), I probably definitely won't get much of anything done for a while >_> Sorry to anyone who keeps up with this journal.

I will post some screens of some eyes I have in-progress, just to put up something.

( Cut with screens. )

[edit] Oh, and as a last note... I still can't get thumbnails to work on the lipsticks I've done. *shrug* I don't know why, but it's not working when using CTU. I should try to Google it or something sometime. *lazy*