September recap and October update! (Patreon)

Hiya! I'm here with my September recap and update for this spooky month! It's cooled off a tiny bit here, but that just means I'm not boiling inside my home, only outside of it. It might be hot, but at least it's pumpkin season!! I hope you're all excited for Halloween!

Anywho, September was a pretty decent month for mods! I've definitely leaned into making more clothing mods as of late, which I hope people like. No one actually prefers I stick to only hairs, right? This last month was still packed with hairs, totaling up to 26 hairs, along with 2 clothing mods, a female/male pair of basketball shorts, and a cute tie front crop top. I've linked everything I made last month below, so check it out to see if there's anything here you might've missed or want to check out again!

Paid Hair Pack #16 / Hair Pack # 17

Paid Male Hair Pack #3

Free Hairs 37-38 / 39-40 / 41-42 / 43-44 / 45-46

Free hairs 39 and 40 were also a collab with a fellow HS2 creator, Honoka! She made the characters below for this set which you can get here! Make sure you download hairs 39 and 40 from the link above so her character cards load properly!

Paid Sweet Pickles M06 Mods- short wavy full bangs hair-female/male basketball shorts

Paid M06 Bonus mod (will be free when October's monthly mods come out!)-tie front crop top with dynamic bones on the front and back ties

As usual, with the release of hair packs 16/17, Sweet Pickles subs gained access to hair packs 6/7 as part of their tier perks. If you're looking for a good deal, think about subbing to me at the Sweet Pickles tier, it's 5 bucks and it gets you a lot of stuff!

Phew, that was a lot of mods for September, but let's move onto October's update/preview! So I knew I wanted to do some spooky related stuff but I had to plan it out ahead of time so everything particularly spooky could come out early enough in the month for people to actually use it before Halloween. I took a day to properly plan out what I wanted to make, and when I wanted everything released by. It's only taken me 7 months to finally get organized lol I've got releases planned for every week, both paid and free stuff, so I hope you're excited!! Just to preface, none of the old stuff I mentioned I was working on is going to be released this month because I've either gotten lazy, tried and failed, or just plain didn't want to work on what it was I originally planned on doing the last few months, so I hope you're not somehow holding onto hope that I was going to actually do what I said I didn't want any of you holding me accountable for. I hope what I do have planned this month is good enough replacement at least!

Anywho, this month I have two paid female hair packs, 3 free female hair packs (one being pretty Halloweeny), free pumpkin head mods, a big wavy/curly long hair plus hooded cloak Sweet Pickles mods, and if all goes well, a pair of bat sunglasses and bat pants as bonus mods!!!! All the hair packs are done, the pumpkin heads are 99% done, the Sweet Pickles hair is mostly done just missing blendshapes and possibly additional mesh finagling, and the hooded cloak's proof of concept is done but needs texturing and probably a little more work on the actual mesh as well as a half state and maybe some blendshapes. I haven't started on the pants or sunglasses because I've been focused on the cloak the last few days, but I should have time to get those out as planned, barring any issues.

I really wanted people to be able to play around with the pumpkin heads for Halloween renders if they felt like it, so I got these out of the way after I finished all the hair packs. Their hats have some dynamic bone movement which is a lot of fun I think! These will be released next week once I finish some last minute touches.

The Sweet Pickles clothing mod is something I've wanted to try making for a bit and this felt like the perfect month for it! It's a hooded cloak with dynamic bones! When I figured out how to make clothing with additional bones, it really opened up a lot of possibilities for me while at the same time also made modding clothing way more complicated than it already was! I regularly bite off more than I can chew and this was no exception! I'm still not fully done with it but I'm quite happy with how it's turned out so far. It's a short cloak with front and back dynamic bone chains along with dynamic bones in the hood so they move with animations pretty decently! I've always wondered if I could make clothes with more movement without having to figure out cloth physics and I think this is a good middle ground. The dynamic bones work with animations pretty well but also allow you to move parts of the cloak better for static renders too either with the dynamic bone tab in HS2PE or the individual bones in advanced bonemod. There are plenty of mesh/bone adjusting plugins out there now but I figure if I can make the option available to move things around without use of a plugin, I should try!

I'm hoping to make these sunglasses and pants as October's bonus mods. They're pretty fun and spooky but would still work after the spooky season, so if I'm a little late with these, it won't be the end of the world. Pants generally aren't the worst to mod and accessories are definitely simple enough so the biggest time sucker will be texturing for these mods. The original game rip textures usually aren't the best quality, so oftentimes I end up fully retexturing everything. Fingers crossed these textures are workable enough to at least only need a bit of extra texturing. Like with last month's bonus mods, this month's bonus mods (assuming all goes well and they actually are released this month) will be available to both Sweet Pickles and Gherkins tiers and then made free when November's monthly mods are released.

Wowie this was a long post, thanks for reading all the way through(I know you didn't, but that's okay, I hope you at least looked at the pictures)! I hope you're excited about this month's releases because I am :) Thanks for being here, byeee!!!