#dlafbottom

First things first: These are bottom clothing.

This means, depending on the top you combine the skirts with your results might vary. The necklines gave me a little headache, because it took me an embarrasing long time to figure out, why the textures seem to “jump” sometimes. Yeah. It was because of the top mesh. I tested these with prevalent untucked meshes for medieval clothing and those worked fine. Most default Eaxis meshes do not play nicely. However, the skirts were made to replace eaxian clothing, so one would think, that it might make sense to use top replacements as well. (It is been rumored, that someone did that already...)

Because I’m not a mesh creator, not all styles are avaiable for all ages. I also have yet to learn, how colors work, so textures with the same name do not look 100% the same.

Let’s go by alphabetical order:

Cynnix’s full skirt with Turnshoe - Sleeveless Kirtles

They are available for child, teen and adult sims. The skirts are categorised as everyday and formal wear. Adult and teen skirts can also be worn as maternity clothing. They’ll use the “normal shoe” sound.

As it is tradition, the skirts share their normal map. Teen skirts reference adult skirts to save disk space.

I had some issues with the child skirts, when I first tried to reference adult textures:

That’s why I created new textures for them. Child skirts will work on their own. I removed their normal map as well. It made them unfortunatly flat, but I didn’t want to clutter the upload more than necessary.

Turnaround for child and teen skirts:

Adult and teen skirts look exactly the same by the way.

As you might have spotted too: The textures at the bottom do not line up. I didn’t really notice at first. When I did, I was just too lazy to fix that to be honest.

They will not spawn on townies. The reason beeing: If you combine them with Almighty Hat’s Placket tops, the placket is peeping through. Maybe not noticeable at first glance, but noticeable enough to annoy me.

Cynnix’s slim skirt - Simple dress

Inspired by Almighty Hat’s Kirtles with aprons, I made a skirt, that covers a good part of the top, so it looks more like a dress. The feet don’t have a texture, so diffrent textures for socks/hose (applied to a top) can be shown. The mesh is nice, because it isn’t long, but includes accurate footwear. It made me think about peasants on the fields, who don’t want to drag long skirts through the mud.

The skirts are categorised as everyday and formal wear. Adult and teen skirts can also be worn as maternity clothing. They use the normal shoe sound.

I removed all bump maps. Shading did enough levelling on the texture as far as I’m concerned.

I made the child textures first, after encountering the problems on the full skirt mesh. The child textures are a little squeezed on the hip, but is not noticeable enough for me to care. These skirts are easily combined with untuckable tops, so they are townie friendly. The plackets of Almighty Hat’s tops will peep through the small lacing.

From left to right combined with:

Almighty Hat’s Placket tops

Silvain tops with hose (by me)

Fire_flower’s viking underdress

DeeDee’s maxi skirt with sandals - More sleeveless kirtles

I did these last and by that time, the momentum had left me to be honest. Still, I already shared my default for afbottomskirttight and annonced, that I will share the customs, so here we are:

The mesh is not available for children, but for elders. You might know by now, that I prefer to have elders in the eaxian elder shape, rather than adult, so I’m always happy to find meshes for that shape, that are at least vaguely historic.

They are categorised as everyday and formal wear. Adult skirts can be worn as maternity clothing too. They use the sandal sound.

I honestly don’t know anymore, why I only made 5 recolors and changed rust to brown. I’m sorry. My brain has not been reliable. This whole thing took waaaay longer, than I thought it would and I don’t want to deal with these skirts any time in the near future.

Since these skirts use almost the same texture as the ones for the full skirt, they have the same “problem”. The placket of Almighty Hat’s Placket tops would peep through, if one would combine them, so they are not available for townies.

The dreaded technical info

Merged, Separated, Masterfiles - oh, the agony. If you just want a quick guide, then scroll down to the downloads. 😉

Merged or separated?

All sets come in both versions.

If you like all colours, then get the merged files. The packages include multiple skirts at once. They are only split up by ages.

If you want to pick colours get the separated files. These packages will add one skirt at a time to your game, so you can delete the ones you don’t like. Only thing to watch out for: The recolours for Cynnix’s full skirt come with a separate masterfile (MASTERFILE_CynnixFSTS-sleevelesskirtle-bmp_12Raben), which contains the normal map all skirts of that set are linked to. So please, don’t forget to add it.

But most importantly: Adult skirts provide textures for ALL sets, so to use ANY OTHER AGE GROUP, you’ll have to use the adult files.

All files have been compressed. I added toolipps. Preview pictures are included in the archive and files have been clearly named.

Per the generous policies of both Cynnix and DeeDee, the required meshes are included with thanks.

+Credits+

Meshes:

Cynnix

DeeDee

Textures:

Cynnix

DeeDee

iamliz13

kgcowbell

Sherabim

Sunni

All files are available at Simfileshare. Here is the folder.

Cynnix’s Full Skirt - Separated

Quick & Dirty Install instructions:

Each file contains one skirt. Please refer to the included swatch.

All files share one normal map. (MASTERFILE_CynnixFSTS-sleevelesskirtle-bmp_12Raben)

Adult file is required for the teen file to work properly.

E.g.

TF-bottom-Cynnix-FullSkirtTurnshoe-SomeSkirts-Forest_12Raben requires

AF-bottom-Cynnix-FullSkirtTurnshoe-SomeSkirts-Forest_12Raben and MASTERFILE_CynnixSkirt-sleevelesskirtle-bmp_12Raben

Child skirts will work on their own.

Put the recolour packages and the mesh(es) into your downloads folder

Cynnix’s Full Skirt - Merged

Quick & Dirty Install instructions:

Files contain 6 skirts for each age group.

Adult file is required for the teen file to work properly.

Child skirts will work on their own.

Put the recolour packages and the mesh(es) into your downloads folder

Cynnix’s Slim Skirt - Separated

Quick & Dirty Install instructions:

Each file contains one skirt. Please refer to the included swatch

Adult file is required for the teen and child files to work properly.

E.g.

CF-bottom-Cynnix-SlimSkirtTurnshoe-SomeSkirts-Forest_12Raben and/or

TF-bottom-Cynnix-SlimSkirtTurnshoe-SomeSkirts-Forest_12Raben require:

AF-bottom-Cynnix-SlimSkirtTurnshoe-SomeSkirts-Forest_12Raben

Put the recolour packages and the mesh(es) into your downloads folder

Cynnix’s Slim Skirt - Merged

Quick & Dirty Install instructions:

Files contain 6 skirts for each age group.

Adult file is required for the teen and child file to work properly.

Put the recolour packages and the mesh(es) into your downloads folder

DeeDee’s Maxi Skirt with Sandals - Separated

Quick & Dirty Install instructions:

Each file contains one skirt. Please refer to the included swatch

Adult file is required for the teen and elder files to work properly.

E.g.

EF-bottom-DeeDee-MaxisSkirtSandals-SomeSkirts-Brown_12Raben and/or

TF-bottom-DeeDee-MaxisSkirtSandals-SomeSkirts-Brown_12Raben require:

AF-bottom-DeeDee-MaxisSkirtSandals-SomeSkirts-Brown_12Raben

Put the recolour packages and the mesh(es) into your downloads folder

DeeDee’s Maxi Skirt with Sandals - Merged

Quick & Dirty Install instructions:

Files contain 5 skirts each age group.

Adult file is required for the teen and elder file to work properly

Put the recolour packages and the mesh(es) into your downloads folder

Last, but not least:

To access any of the skirts in categories other than everyday, you will need a piece of top clothing, that is available in matching categories.  

Recommended, but not necessary:  Lazyduchess’ Separate Top/Bottoms for non-Everyday Clothes Mod

When looking up the mesh, I realised, that I previously had written down the wrong mesh. I had to rename the files and update the tooltips for customs as well as the read me file. If by any chance I missed a spot: You need Skell’s medieval skirt, not the matchmaker skirt. Which I stupidly assumed to be the one, I had been using. *facepalm* Skell designed the mesh with bare feet. I slapped a shoe texture by sherabim on it anyway, because it’s block feet not marvine/sexy feet. It doesn’t line up 100%, but it is bearable, I think. (Hm. Will this post be affected, because I used the words “feet” and “sexy” in one sentence? We’ll see.)

The skirts are categorised as everyday, maternity and outerwear. They might spawn on townies and use the normal shoe sound.

As I said before: Depending on the top, the skirts are combined with, the results may vary. The preview pictures above show it combined with my replacement for aftopnaked.

Here another preview picture, combined with (from left to right):

aftopneohippie replacement (Front laced kirtles)

aftopmomshirt replacement (Almighty Hat’s Placket tops)

aftopkasa replacement (Silvain’s top with Almighty Hat’s hose)

aftopnaked replacement (fireflower’s viking underdress)

If you don’t want to use the default, a custom version is included as well. 

The custom version comes merged only. Feel free to extract the textures, if you rather have individual recolour files.

Custom Dresses are tooltipped.

All files have been compressed. Preview pictures are included in the archive.

Thanks to Skell’s open policy, the mesh is included in the archive.

Credit

Mesh:

Skell

Textures:

Almighty Hat

Andavri

Morganna 

Sherabim

+Download (SFS)+

Quick & Dirty Install instructions:

Default Replacement:

Delete any default for yfbottomneohippiedress you might already have!

Put “DR_yfbottomneohippiedress-Skell-MedievalSkirt_12Raben“ and the mesh in your downloads folder.

Custom Dresses:

Put the merged file and the mesh in your downloads folder.

To access the skirts in categories other than everyday, you will need a piece of top clothing, that is available in matching categories.  

Recommended, but not necessary:  Lazyduchess’ Separate Top/Bottoms for non-Everyday Clothes Mod