Monthly Patreon Mods M06 Preview (Patreon)

Edit 8/8: In all my infinite wisdom, I posted this right before I went to sleep at 3am and set it as a paid post rather than unlocked for my Sweet Pickles patrons. Really sorry about that! All post purchases have been refunded if the post should have been unlocked for you. I'll make sure something like this doesn't happen again and to make up for it, I set up a 40% shop discount code for all my Sweet Pickles. The code is in the monthly mod post here as well as your welcome note. This code works for everything in the shop, including every new pack that comes out this month, and lasts through the end of the month. Make sure you enter it at checkout when you buy anything from my shop!!

Hiya! I'm here with my September monthly mods for my Sweet Pickles subs! I finally listened to Cure's suggestion to add info on the actual preview image for what the mods are, so hopefully things are clearer right from the start of this post :) I mentioned it in the September update post, but these shorts were originally supposed to be a bonus mod for August but time got away from me and then I ended up doing way more than I expected for them(not to mention the number of times I've restarted or the number of versions of this mod that have been built/tested). Sorry they didn't make it in time for last month but I hope you enjoy them this month! I'm aiming to release more than one clothing/accessory mod a month if I can swing it, but no promises.

Onto the preview! This month's hair is a short, slightly messy wavy hair with full bangs along with a pair of basketball shorts made for men and women! The mods are featuring the MC and one of the main love interests of Love by the Water, Wake Shelley and Sasha Godwin! They're having a sleepover and Sasha doesn't have any pajama pants, but luckily, Wake has about 10 pairs of the same shorts in multiple colors! If you'd like to get these mods, they're part of my Sweet Pickles tier and you can get them here!

As usual, the hair is available in the back/bangs/side hair slots, has dynamic bones, and is broken up into multiple toggleable/colorable parts. The shorts are available in the male and female bottoms section, is colorable, and there are two versions of each: one masked and one unmasked. I'm not the greatest at weightpainting (or even mediocre really) and generally any character with body proportions that aren't similar to the base HS2 always end up with a lot of clipping, so the solution to that was to mask everything underneath the shorts. This came with its own issues as I included a bunch of blendshapes that don't work with a hidden body, thus, a second mod was included without any masking.

A general disclaimer: I tried to build blendshapes to accomodate different body types, but one of the biggest things is a big ass just make the shorts look pretty rough in the crotch area. Play around with the butt angle and size and that should help. Additionally, if your character's thighs are larger and don't have a corresponding larger butt, that can cause the back of the legs of the shorts to look kinda weird also, so I suggest a bigger ass (which I consider a solution for most problems in life).

The shorts are properly colorable in the normal character creator color tab area, so no more fiddling around with MaterialEditor anymore, yippeee!! There's a half state for both the female and male shorts and I also tried to build as many blendshapes I could think of (I couldn't think of that many) so you can do more fun stuff with the shorts.

I added blendshapes for various parts of the shorts being pulled down as well as blendshapes for tightening and loosing the shorts. The loosen blendshape is mainly if there's slight clipping, wheresa the tighten blendshape is really good for poses like sitting or laying down where the shorts are closer to the body like they would be when in a seated pose. All the blendshapes are pretty decently timelineable if you wanna do animations with them. The only one that's not the best for animating is the female blendshape that pulls down the back of the shorts. That one mainly is there as a max slider state option, as it fully clips into the butt when you're sliding towards the max.

The male shorts also have some blendshapes. They have the same tighten/loosen as the female version, a pulled down version, and a higher waist version. I kind of made these basketball shorts pretty low-waisted so the higher waist blendshape is just to give you another option for styling.

Anywhooo I think that about sums up the preview for this month's main mods! I'm sorry I didn't focus as much on the hair this time. I know I started these monthly mods to be a hair mod plus something that goes with it, but it's starting to be a clothing mod plus a hair that goes with it. I know my account is mainly for hair mods and that's not changing, but I hope you'll stick around for the clothes and accessories too! Okie byeee!