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Description

I put myself to the challenge of making my own hair when I leave it natural: a big fluffy, frizzy, barely-tamed mess of natural curls, waves, and snarls. By far the hardest hair yet, but I'm pleased with the result and it was worth the ridiculous number of hours I've spent staring at it.

"Adrasteia" is a completely new mesh for child through elder - layers of thick natural curls, parted to one side, flowing over the shoulders with a gentle sweep toward the back. For toddlers, since I didn't think this very thick, longer style was appropriate, I've reworked the toddler version of Nouk's Own Hair to remove the bangs and used it as my toddler mesh (with Nouk's permission, of course).

The texture for these is also from Nouk's Own Hair, used with her permission. The blonde textures are Lavsm's blonde recolours of Nouk's Own Hair, used with Lavsm's permission. What can I say, it's a lovely texture and Nouk's hair looks just like mine when I pull it back.

The hair animates quite smoothly, especially considering how much contact it has with the shoulders and around the face. It's not absolutely perfect (but then, watch a Maxis hair mesh sometime real closely) but I've done my best to get it to animate fairly naturally for the style (which tends to be a little stiff - curls kinda stick together). You'll get smooth head turns and it even looks good in back when a sim has their head tilted back. You may experience minor clipping into the body around the shoulders in situations of, err, heavy shrug (or into the face during a drastic head turn), but again, you get that with Maxis hair too, and I've tried to minimize it as much as possible. You may also experience some minor clipping on the little bit that crosses the forehead on certain face shapes - it is rare and only happens on sims with big ol' domey foreheads.

Just so ya'll know, there's some quite minor transparency issues mostly on the underside around the neck. It shows up a bit more when the head's turned, but is really fairly minor and not that noticeable. You can see it about at its worst in the last pic above... arrows are pointing to the transparency edges. Due to this mesh having so many layers and being so complex, it was pretty unavoidable, but is, again, very minor.

High Poly Alert: It's pretty impossible to make what looks like natural curls out of really flat pieces. Due to the lumpiness and complexity required to make this hair look right, this hair has somewhat more than double the poly count of the highest Maxis hair mesh I know of. I do not believe this will cause any problems for anyone - just don't put this hair on every sim in a big family if you've got a crappy graphics card. You don't have to be scared of it - it won't hurt your game or anything (many commonly-used custom meshes are much higher and cause no real issues)... just be aware of it and use sparingly.

Details

Gender: Female
Ages: Toddler, Child, Teen, Young Adult, Adult, Elder (All Ages)
Mesh Required: Yes!
Expansions Required: No
Polygon Counts:
Toddler: 2112 polygons, 1309 vertices (high end of normal)
Child - Elder: 6684 polygons, 4011 vertices (rather high - use sparingly)
Binned: Yes - all colours except wine red and white are in genetic colour bins.

Credits/Thanks:
Nouk, for the 15 group cloneable package, the original texture, the toddler version, and for general help and support.
Lavsm, for the blonde recolours of Nouk's hair, which I used on my blondes.
Wes_h for all of his plugins, especially Unimesh.
Tiggerypum, for feedback, advice, and huggles.
Everyone in the MTS2 IRC chat who listened to me bitch and moan over this hair.
Everyone who has contributed to the development of SimPE.
Delphy, and the rest of the MTS2 staff.

Model Credits:
Model: Ella, who is an edit of Linuslover30's Cake Tiers sim.
Skin: Corvidophile2
Eyes: Barcelonista
Brows and Blush: Helaene
Eyeliner and Shadow: RenSim
Lips: Bruno
Freckles: Alkaloid
Clothing: All by me or Maxis.

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Download Mesh (561 kb)
Download Recolours (3.3 mb)