#locarik

I believe Locarik is a Russian Simmer, but it doesn't seem like they've been active in a long time so I wanted to give these ladies a good scrub by updating them to be less resource intensive & more recolor friendly. GUIDs are unique so if you have the originals they can co-exist.

The original versions had a recolorable head and body, but the underwear was hard-painted on the body so each outfit recolor also included the skin pattern underneath (which made them huge files since skins are 1024x1024 by default).

I remade the meshes into new objects and I joined the head and body into one group (skin) and made a second layer just for clothes (lingerie). My skin file is a little clunky at 2048x1024 and has a lot of negative space, but if you're interested in recoloring the mannequins all you need to do is find your head & body of choice and plop them onto this template in Photoshop or GIMP (face images tend to be 512x512 and skins 1024x1024).

The lingerie subset can now use any Maxis underwear or bathing suits you already have, and your recolors will be a much more manageable file size.

But, a few caveats:

(1) The lingerie mesh is actually a bodysuit that ends at the thighs. Underwear textures with garters, leggings, thigh high socks etc. will get clipped on this mesh. Boyshorts should be okay, anything longer may look funky. I did try to make the lingerie subset extend down the legs to the feet, but the meshing was too chaotic to make it work.

(2) The crawling, sitting, and kneeling models are in pretty contorted poses so the textures get squiggly in some parts (especially bra straps). Your mileage may vary with more complicated or highly detailed textures.

(3) The standing mannequin is the PARENT object, the other three are CHILD meshes. Be sure to recolor the tallest gal in order to change the textures for all.

They'll be in General > Dressers for §299. I included the three recolors you see in the preview pics.

Download here (SFS)

Credits: Locarik, for original creations (I'm sorry I can't find a good link/website for this Simmer! If you can read Russian and know where they live online, please let me know); Eir/Eir-Sims/Eir-Ung for the mannequin skin (I believe they are also permanently offline). SalixTree and Chibi Sylphe at Parsimonious for underwear textures; @gryning for an additional lingerie pattern.