May update! (Patreon)

Hiya! Can't believe it's May already, that means I've been modding about 6 months! The first 4 months were a bloodbath, nothing ever showed up in HS2, Unity was giving me the business, and Blender was (and mostly still is) a mysterious, magical, dangerous place where wonderful things could happen but you had to give up your soul to the YT donut guy. Crazy to think about where I started, where I am now, and where I hope to be in the future! I've been having a lot fun now that mods actually work, but it really was a struggle trying to make it all work. Anyway, you guys don't care about all this, let's get into stuff I'm working on!

Just kidding, first, I want to thank everyone who's joined at the free tier, I'm almost at 100 followers, that's a lot of people! That doesn't sound like a lot until you think about 100 people in your house, then it sounds like way too many and I'm gonna have a panic attack if all these people don't get out of my home!!!!!!!!!! I especially want to thank those of you who've subbed at the Sweet Pickles tier, y'all make me wanna cry. I figured it would take a couple months to get subs at that tier since it's only one month's worth of exclusive stuff so I'm really grateful for people who've joined this early, truly.

Okay, forreal this time, time to get into WIPs! This month's Sweet Pickles' exclusive hair and accessory is actually going to be 3 hairs, a hat, and earrings! I'm actually almost ready to release the mods, I just need to do the promo rendering for them! I got the free trial for Adobe Substance Painter and unfortunately, I really like it for modding. Pour one out for another soul lost to Adobe. I was able to retexture the hat entirely in SP without having to spend forever figuring out the textures that came with the original model that usually get kind of weird when ripped from games. One of the biggest issues I've had with porting clothes and accessories has been the texturing and with this program I think I'm going to be able to get past that big hurdle much easier now (although let's not talk about weightpainting). Anyway, this month is a mushroom theme!

I made three different colorways for the mushroom hat with matching earring colors as well! All the accessories are broken up into a bunch of parts that are individually colorable but some of the brighter colors are harder to color over. I'm going to try making proper color masks for future mods so they're more easily colorable, but for now please enjoy the color presets!

For hairs, I've made three that all fit the mushroom style. I won't always make multiple hairs for the monthly exclusives, but I couldn't decide which hair to make so I ended up making them all and I liked all of them for this month, so y'all get a lot more goodies this month!

I'm hoping to release these in the next week depending on how busy life gets. I wanted to get it out earlier in the month so people who subbed for last month can still get this month's even if they canceled. I'll also probably release another two hair packs this month but no official dates.

With regards to the free hairs, it'll probably be another two sets this month since I should be getting the monthly exclusives done early. Is there anything in particular people are hoping I'll release? I really just do whatever I'm feeling at the time, but I do appreciate when people take the time to comment, so if you've got something you want to see, please tell me and I'll try to make it!

Phew, this post really got out of hand with the yapping. I can't guarantee all the update posts are going to be less wordy, I'm too chatty for that. Thanks for reading this through to the end and please be on the lookout for the new mods this month! Byeee!