substituting default pets with my own creations
amjoie:
LOL! You'll all have me busy for the next few months, if this continues. :D
I think a Manchester is doable. I'll sure give it a try. :)
I enjoy making pets. It's a lot of fun. But the problem with trying to make Sims 2 dogs look like real dogs is that Maxis/EA didn't give us enough maneuver room within CAS.
For instance, to make longer coats, I have to enlarge bodies. The coat itself is one length for smooth/one length for hairy -- and that's it. And both are really short. So the body itself has to enlarge to look like longer coats. If you take the extra hairy texture off the collie, it will just be a very fat smooth dog.
Ears remain smooth, regardless of how much hair is on the body. The poodle has more hair on the ear, but the only way to access that is through the whole poodle cut. Legs are all one length, and bodies are all the same size from chest to tail -- so no dachshunds are possible. Only certain patterns/colors are possible, although there is a bit more flex in that because of opaque to transparent color layers. But I can't put eyeliner on pets, so many cat breeds just don't look right.
I guess what I am saying is that I could paint you a perfect pet off a photo, but I can only do a "so-so" job, at best, for the Sim 2 pets. I am really hampered by not having enough options in CAS.
Undaunted, however, I will go on trying. LOL
maxon:
Amjoie - we all understand that and still like your efforts.
My gripe is the fold over ears - there aren't any. You can have upright and floppy but not fold over. The Liver Doberman you did is very like my Harry except I'm English and we don't crop the ears and (sometimes) the tails over here. Well, the tail I can deal with but Harry's ears weren't clipped so they dropped over as he grew up and you can't get that for love nor money with the pet builder.
amjoie:
OK, see if you can download this RAR of the requested dogs, below, and test them in the game. Let me know if they will work for you.
I hope AMjoie Bailey Boy is supposed to have a short tail. If it is long, let me know. I couldn't get the cute fluff on his ears, and the markings are hit and miss. But I did my best. Sigh.
Is the AMjoie Black and White Cockapoo anything like you had in mind? Sorry about the fluff missing on the feet. No way to do it.
I think you will like the AMjoie Megchester. She turned out cute.
I am really upset by the AMjoie Red Setter. I *can't get longer ears*!! Soooooo annoying. What would it have cost Maxis/EA to give us longer ears in the slidebar option for ears? I am not awsome enough to know how to change the limitation, so the poor AMjoie Red Setter will never make it to Ireland. :-\
These are only CAS pics, and they are always a bit distorted. The dogs should look better in the game. The only large dog is the AMjoie Red Setter. The rest are small dogs.
http://www.virtualpetz.net/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/latestdogsbyrequest.rar
maxon:
Fantastic - I'll test those for you this morning.
amjoie:
Maxon, I certainly agree with you about the ears. I tried the Dobie with short hanging ears and he looked stupid. So I just left the cropped ears. We desperately need fold over ears. So many breeds have them. Sigh.
I realised after I uploaded the RAR and pics that I missed the white feet on the AMjoie Black and White Cockapoo. I'll make that correction.
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