Any Decent Custom Hair?
ZephyrZodiac:
Some sites tell you the count for everything, others don't. Some, like SimFreaks2, guarantee that everything on the site is within the limits recommended by Maxis.
You can use SimPE to check on poly counts, but I'll pass on explaining it and let someone more knowledgeable help you with that. All I know is, if you have a lot of downloads, you're talking hours and hours running through them!
Brynne:
I've wondered that, too. As far as hair meshes (and clothing, too, for that matter) how high is too high-poly?
Ugh I wish there was an easier way to clean out some of those more awful hair meshes from my folder, lol.
I always hate to name names because I'm afraid the creator of the hairstyle would drop by and read it and get offended, but I have a lot of Janna's hair that just looks terrible. Somehow it looked okay in the pictures on the site, but in the game it looks like cemented Medusa hair, or something.
I said above and I say again since so many people here have, I love Neptune Suzy's recolors. They're all nice and shiny. Really pretty stuff. Her medieval hair is gorgeous. She's definitely in my top 5 fave artists at TSR, and worth letting them take money out of my account every month for...
Motoki:
This is kind of my guidelines, so take it with a grain of salt, but I would say for the face count:
under 1k = great, no problem
1k-2k = pretty good
2k-3k = not too bad, but might want to use sparingly
3k-4k = kinda pushing it, use sparingly
4k-5k = only use if you absolutely love it to death and try not to give it to more than one sim on a lot if you can help it.
5k+ = too high
You can get away with ones with higher counts sometimes without problems, but remember it's not necessarily the one mesh that will cause problems alone (well unless it's like 30k+ faces :P) but moreso the cumulative effect. Consider the fact if you download a lot of other stuff it will add up and some of the Maxis stuff itself isn't always super low poly. Also try to think about the type of family you will be using the hair with. A single sim in a small starter home might not have problems with a high poly hair, but later on if she gets married and has 6 kids and moves into a huge mansion on a large lot with a bunch of junk it's not going to help the game run any faster that's for sure.
Also, if you are putting custom hairs on townies try to be mindful of the counts and avoid putting high poly hairs on them. A bunch of townies all on the same lot with high poly hairs could be asking for trouble. At least in my game those community lots, particularly the downtown ones, run slow enough as it is and don't need any help. :P
Brynne:
Okay, thanks for the guide, Motoki! Luckily my main house consists of males, mostly, which just use recolored maxis hair. Some of the visiting girlfriends, though...I'll have to check them out.
Ness:
I just checked the simply elau site - nice looking hair there!
just wondering - do the colours that match the maxis ones show up in the colour categories, or are they all lumped in custom?
getting ready for work, otherwise I would grab a few and check for myself.
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