maya40's Sims2 and other stuff

Dear recolorists, sims players, conversion makers!
I ask you not to forget the slight little respect that goes to the original creators when redistributing. This applies to meshes and textures alike.
This project would not have been possible without the help of LizCrea. We also used the work of Moirae (MTScake - closed chinese website). Thanks! Maya40

I’ve been wanting to make some jewelry for a long time that - unfortunately - didn’t match the existing mesh.
Most tiara mesh are too small and / or not very well designed.
(I have a similar problem with necklace meshes created for men, which unfortunately, with the exception of a single set of mesh I know, are all made for EAMaxis body shape and have not been addressed by anyone since.
Thus, these meshes sink into the larger chest-perimeter garments, or into the LBB and other male bodies.)

As a test, I made a very simple, "old School" mesh in Milkshape, for which I designed crowns, or tiaras surrounding the head.

During a longer correspondence - which took place between LizCrea and me - this stuff came up, and then we further brainstormed and developed my half-finished plan.
Thus, it eventually became a multi-crown mesh that essentially became a “3 in 1” piece of jewelry.
One crown section at the top of the head, another cylindrical crown around the forehead, and finally a hairpin ornament of Chinese origin was added, hanging on two sides.

This piece of jewelry is basically suitable for almost anything because it doesn’t distort the texture anywhere.
It does not repeat the detail of the texture, such as the crowns and tiaras of Wawa, which are excellent and very usable anyway.
This is especially important if the texture we are making is not symmetrical or not the same height on all sides.
Parts of the mesh composition can be freely edited or unnecessary details can be removed as needed.

I - quite selfishly - only thought of the female version, but thanks to the development of LizCrea, there were also two extra versions that were larger in diameter so they could be applied to a male head as well.

Middle Ages? Fantasy? Regency or Victorian?
Everything fits.
Since I still have a lot of plans, now I only brought you trial jewels made in accelerated mode.

Some pictures:

The design phase





Bodyshop test



An empir / regency tiara decorated with cameos



(Basically, this hair made me start thinking about a new headdress mesh as most of the existing ones sank into the braided bun of the hairstyle.)

LizCrea also added two extra mesh to this set.
In addition to my original version, this became a "medium size" and a "larger size" version.

The medium size version:




A few words about textures:

For now, I’m working with newer jewelry photos, but I’ll also assign these crown meshes to older jewelry sets later. There will be Historical and Fantasy, Fairytale, and of course my big favorite theme, The Game of Thrones.

The beginning of the Historical theme:
Based on Danish, Austrian and Brazilian crowns



Fantasy theme....
 

Comment:
Since - LOTR fans don’t seem to care about Elessar’s crown, I couldn’t find a usable photo of the film’s version. :P
I didn’t want to work from cosplay stuff, but luckily I found only one usable processing.
This crown was made based on the 3D model of Tomislav Uroš. I found it on ArtStation


And the Game of Thrones...





Size difference between oroiginal and medium crown - or wolf pack survives :D

There will be several versions of the Baratheon crowns to make them wearable in any way.



New creations are constantly being made.
I did not separate the upload folders by theme and type, but by size. That’s why I suggest you check out the photo gallery before downloading any of them.

The gallery

The downloads

The mesh set is in a separate folder.
Folder name:
LizCrea_forMaya40_BulgariancrownOriginal.zip or
LizCrea_forMaya40_BulgariancrownMedium.zip