1850s 'Maggie' skirt

Happy belated birthday @simstomaggie!!!

So! I know I said I probably won't make any 1850s/1860s pieces, but yesterday I learned that my friend and fellow simmer Maggie just had her birthday, so I spontaneously decided to finally make her a mid-Victorian skirt for which she'd been asking me for ages. As expected, it was a bit of a nightmare as nothing wanted to work properly (even textures, are you kidding me?!), but eventually I won :P. I went only for 1850s this time, so it's still not as huge as crinoline skirts from 1860s, but I hope it'll still be useful! I tried really hard to make it big enough. And as for 1860s... Maybe next time? It should be just a matter of scaling the mesh a bit...

Comes in 24 swatches, all inspired by real 1850s fashion plates:

• polycount: ca. 5,5K
• Base Game compatible
• HQ mod compatible (pictures taken with the mod)
• all LODs
• custom thumbnail, bump and specular maps, some shine
• tagged as everyday, formal, party, hot and cold weather
• found under skirts subcategory (duh)
• colour tagged
• disallowed for random
• no texture file this time, as my usual way of making swatches in paint.net didn't work, so I baked them all directly in blender. You can try to use the white swatch for recolours - maybe with Gimp or Photoshop you'll get better results! The mesh is unwrapped in a pattern-friendly way - i.e. I checked, they will look good :)

It should go without saying, but in case you wonder: the skirt bends in all the right places and your sims can sit down in it.

The weights at the back are not as 100% ideal as I wish they were, but I think it still looks good enough to turn a blind eye on that little imperfection. Stupid TS4 with its 4 bones limit, I need 5 to make it smooth! Two calves, two thighs AND pelvis!

I hope you'll like it (especially you Maggie!), enjoy!

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Info for CC creators

I made this skirt hoping that it could become a base for many mid-Victorian outfits (my tou is: 'take it and make something pretty out of it' ;)). However, please be aware that if you use it as a base (I don't mean recolours, those won't be affected), you'll run into some problems with rig slots (i.e. hands hanging high in the air while sitting). You'll need to read my short tutorial on fixing arms' position (HERE) and then put the following numbers into OffsetFromIntersectionOs: -0.1,-0.1,0 for b__L_ThighFrontTarget_slot and -0.0006073937,-0.1,-0.1 for b__R_ThighFrontTarget_slot. That way you should get the same result as I did:

Just make sure you put the numbers in right places - and for all the LODs!

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Terms of Use

Don’t: claim it’s yours or monetise in any way

Do: convert, recolour, include the mesh, edit the mesh to create something amazing - just please tag me once you publish it, so that I could also see it!