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dead-lights · 4 days

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star wars: occult of the empire

lmao i know i'm all over the place but i got bored and made star wars: edge of the empire tabletop player character folios for my favorite occults because this is what happens when adhd and autism gang up on me

i didn't pay $10 for journey to batuu for the gameplay all right

Force-Sensitive Exile (Explorer)

The Jedi are gone, the vast majority hunted down and destroyed by the Emperor and his minions. If any survive, they do so in hiding at the farthest edges of the galaxy. The Galactic Empire regards the ability to use the Force as a crime punishable by the harshest measures. In a few short decades, most of the galaxy has forgotten the Jedi, and dismissed the Force as an ancient religion. For many, this is by far the safest option. In the hidden corners of the galaxy, those who can touch the Force remain hidden, hunted, and outcast... but alive.

Scoundrel (Smuggler)

A Galaxy of Marks

Part con artist, part gunslinger, and part cantina brawler, the Scoundrel is quick-witted, fast on his feet, and quick to get himself into a great deal of trouble at the drop of a hat. He doesn't care one whit for rules or laws, except where he can use them to work an angle that either nets him a lot of credits or brings down an enemy. If he's really lucky - and he tends to have an unshakeable faith in his luck - he'll manage both.

Marauder (Hired Gun)

Up Close and Personal

Marauders don't necessarily mind shooting their opponents, but they would much rather get mixed up in a melee, weapons in hand, smashing and slashing their way through. Marauders are tough - probably the toughest combatants in any conflict. They tend to take a great deal of punishment while dealing out far more to any who would dare go against them.

Survivalist (Bounty Hunter)

Master of the Wild

Beyond Civilization, in the farthest reaches of the galaxy, there are places where few (if any) sentients have ever trodden the ground. Places like this are ideal hiding places for those fleeing the law or retribution for their actions. Places like this are where the Bounty Hunters who specialize as Survivalists thrive.

folio template by kainrath morgyn's pose by @honeyssims4 caleb's pose by @rebouks lilith's pose by @ladykendalsims lily's pose by @funkyllama

#caleb gets to keep his normal hair bc it's silly enough for star wars #morgyn ember #caleb vatore #lilith vatore #lily zhu #journey to batuu #star wars ffg #star wars #ts4 render #ts4 star wars #ts4 premades #ts4 townies #ts4 townie makeover #townie makeover #deadit

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dead-lights · 5 days

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I love you, I love this, and I love our silly boys <3 <3 <3

Drew these characters for my friend Iris’ birthday <3

#rhywhitefang #lindoodle

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dead-lights · 5 days

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♥️ love train! send this to all the blogs you love! don’t forget to spread the love! ♥️

aww thank you!

#asked #i love how unsettling that icon is next to such cute hearts

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dead-lights · 5 days

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📩 Simblr question of the day: It's time to appreciate the small things! What's a small detail from one of your posts that you love? Could be a small tattoo on a sim, specific clutter in a sims' room, a little detail in a render or screenshot, whatever is applicable to you.

This was sent on to me to spread the SQOTD! Passing it on to you.

thank you for asking!

i specifically got into simblr to motivate me to learn blender. i made this render because I wanted to learn how to work with liquids - the surface started out as a blank disc and now it ripples, refracts light so the ladle appears to bend, and emits a pretty blue glow that lights Tess up like a fairy princess! it was the most advanced thing I'd done up to that point and I'm still very proud of it :)

#asked

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dead-lights · 8 days

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Had to go out of state for a few days and will be away from my computer - I'll be slow responding but in the meantime here's some out of context Morgyn and Elle!

I was not expecting to have so much fun with Elle. She fits in so well with the reality tv format. Even if it means we've got L-with-an-L and Elle-with-two-Ls.

Morgyn, Elle, and Wolfgang are paired up for the first challenge, by which I mean Morgyn and Elle stand around making intense/silly/intensely silly faces at each other while Wolfgang actually gets shit done.

#yes morgyn gets a countertop cauldron instead of a stand mixer lmao #i'm trying to push through some gnarly writers block tbh #maybe spending a few days away from the computer will help #this is pretty typical for me tho #ahdh ruins all my stories ahahha #ah well there's a reason i'm trying something super formulaic #evil iris #gobc #morgyn ember #elle devampiro

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dead-lights · 9 days

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the divine trickster // l. faba

them hermes vibes tho

pose by @katverse

sirius earrings and stardrop rings by @clumsyalienn

dark delight dress 1 by @madlensims

20s bracelet by @glitterberrysims

#l. faba #l faba #ts4 realm of magic #ts4 spellcasters #ts4 simblr #simblr #sims 4 townie #ts4 townie #sims 4 townie makeover #ts4 townie makeover #townie makeover #realm of magic #deadit #gobc #ts4 spellcaster #sims 4 spellcasters #sims 4 witches

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dead-lights · 14 days

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I know nothing about blender but I love the photos you make of Caleb and the other townies so thank you for making and sharing them! (I also love his absolutely iconic hairstyle).

This was so nice to wake up to! Thank you so much ❤️ I really love these characters and it means a lot to me that you like what I'm doing with them.

Part of why I love Caleb's hair is that it makes him look like someone who would've partied with my mom - she went through a punk/goth/alt phase and had a similar haircut. To me it makes him feel lost in time, which is great for a vampire! Incidentally, mom's brother had Rory's haircut at some point (tho not blue). It looks wayyyy better on Rory.

Thanks again ❤️

#asked #<3 #iris rambles

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dead-lights · 15 days

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I genuinely love Caleb's default EA model, but jfc he's so annoying to work with in Blender. Exact same import process for these two with VERY different results. this is the main reason i don't render him as often as other characters despite him being my favorite to write.

as a rule, I don't alter townie/premade body shapes or facial features at all - that's the constraint I put on myself - but I'm using Caleb often enough now that I might need to make an exception... I've identified six separate points of failure on him that keep ruining my renders and it's annoying to deal with.

blender people, esp those with experience rendering caleb - i ramble about my problems under the cut, I'd appreciate advice or commiseration <3 i'm using cycles.

Caleb's hair is poorly fitted to the rest of his model, so when I try to clean up seams with 'merge by distance' I get those awful hairline shadows. I can generally fix those by separating the faces and then re-merging by distance, but it's a pain in the ass and doesn't always work. This happens with other sims, but not as consistently. It’s an enormous problem when I’m trying to subdivide the surface - I pretty much can’t do that with him.

Caleb's texture already has the shadow from his hair baked on - this is completely unnecessary bc I have lights casting actual shadows in the scene, and it makes him look like Prince Zuko face-on. I tried fixing this with lighting but I think it'll be easiest to just edit the shadows off of the texture.

His eyelids are very deep set, which causes some clipping issues & sometimes makes his eyeballs poke through the lids. I occasionally get this with Lilith and Morgyn, though much less often. I don't think this one is fixable, or worth putting too much time into trying to fix - I just have to be careful with poses, and I may occasionally need to pop an eyeball back into his face.

The bridge of his nose has a sharp dip, which results in some really odd shadows. I think the issue might be that it's too low-poly and it's rendering like a sharp edge, but I haven't had any luck trying to smooth out the surface without substantially changing the shape (i'm not great with meshes). This one is kinda tough for me - I actively do not want to change anybody's facial features, but I have to edit almost every single render I do of him to smooth out the shadows. I'm not trying to get rid of the dip or eliminate the shadows, I just want it to look more like it does in-game. I generally try to address this with Affinity later, but when I don't it kinda looks like he's wearing glasses, only without frames or lenses. His nose looks fine in the render above, but less so in the ones below.

Caleb has an unusually full upper torso, which sometimes causes issues with shirts around the collarbone. That's generally pretty easy to fix by merging some specific vertices on his chest, but it's still something I have to keep an eye out for. I definitely thought this particular mesh issue (the pit in his shirt at his collarbone) was part of the shirt until I looked closer.

Caleb's forearms are unusually thick relative to his wrists, which can make some poses look kinda weird. Jacob & the default model's wrists look pretty normal in this pose, but Caleb's wrists look very broken. This isn't necessarily something worth changing, but I do need to be careful with certain poses.

I think my biggest issue is the bridge of his nose - I can find a decent workaround to most of the other problems, but I haven't found a way to get around this one except editing the final render in Affinity, which can result in me inadvertently obscuring the shape and takes a fair amount of time.

#i recognize i could eliminate some of those problems by choosing less fussy hair but like #that hair is a crime against god and i love it #caleb vatore #evil iris

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dead-lights · 21 days

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grand occult bake off: the judges

Who better to judge an occult baking competition than our favorite foodies?

I'm having a surprisingly good time writing these three together. Lily didn't get onboard with the side bangs, but at least L. gets to look like a magical space empress when she's shitting all over Wolfgang's soufflé.

cc below the cut, also a full view of L's dress because I love it and I love her

poses by @helgatisha

pendant earrings by @bluecravingcc

sirius earrings and stardrop rings by @clumsyalienn

dark delight dress 1 by @madlensims

20s bracelet by @glitterberrysims

pose by @sciophobis

#lily zhu #caleb vatore #l. faba #l faba #i loooooove L with short hair #she's so pretty once you get her out of her awful awful default outfits #ts4 realm of magic #townie makeover #ts4 townies #ts4 townie makeover #ts4 townie #ts4 render #deadit #GOBC

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dead-lights · 22 days

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so I managed to fit the phrase "Who needs virgins when you have sauerkraut?" into a scene and I have never been prouder of myself in my life.

#evil iris #i wasn't kidding when i said i was writing something ridiculous #GOBC

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I've made progress on my baking competition! Still working on things like choosing fonts/formats/camera angles in the kitchen, but progress! I finished the confessional set today and I'm very happy with it. What better place to cry about one's hopes and dreams than a very broken magical greenhouse?

So far this is unnecessarily dramatic, campy, and extremely silly - which is pretty much what I'm going for. Baking shows are ridiculous and silly, the Sims is ridiculous and silly, and I'm having a ton of fun leaning into that reality TV vibe.

#sorry to spam #adhd makes it really hard to find the motivation to finish big projects #posting about them helps a lot #also lmao going from historical costuming to *this*#evil iris #deadit #GOBC

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dead-lights · 25 days

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spooky bakers

so i've been stress-watching a bunch of baking shows and this happened. i also built a competition kitchen. and wrote an episode. and rigged the competition. also i baked a fuckton of cupcakes irl because i'm a good person. lmao what am i doing.

#inna cents #morgyn ember #elle devampiro #jacob volkov #wolfgang wilder #emilia ernest #darrel charm #brandy wood #i'm working on something more narrative but am struggling #something silly and formulaic like a baking competition is way easier #and seems like a good way to see if i can handle writing something larger and more intensive #and to cope with writers block tbh #so i'm doing an occult baking competition instead #GOBC

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in a complete departure from my normal content, here's tess dyer, morgyn ember, lilith vatore, and l. faba as possessed fungal zombie weirdos. it's for a thing.

eyes, accessories, and skin details from strange biology by @dizzyrobinsims (this pack is AWESOME)

mother's vines by @stillplayingthisgameiguess

octetsica's occult skintones

#tw: body horror #lilith vatore #morgyn ember #tess dyer #l. faba #ts4 strangerville #strangerville #ts4 realm of magic #ts4 vampires #ts4 render #ts4 edit #townie makeover #ts4 townies #ts4 premades #ts4 plantsim #plantsim #deadit

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me trying to figure out how to use pose player

pretty sure i'm an expert now 😂

#i usually just do everything in blender...#also “pretend to bite” is adorable in-game but hilarious when you only see the vampire #lily standing there smiling watching her cousin burn to a crisp in the sun #lilith vatore #caleb vatore #lily zhu #evil iris

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household // 1910s caleb & lilith & lily [DOWNLOAD]

It's so much fun throwing the Vatores into random historical eras. This is what you'll get if you throw my late Edwardian Zhu-Vatore household into your game! I may have gone a bit overboard.

↓↓↓ tl;dr household download link & required cc below the cut ↓↓↓

There's absolutely gorgeous Edwardian cc out there, so I collected it for you 💖

The Edwardian era was marked by excess and conspicuous consumption. They liked big hair and big hats, and by the end of the period people had come to agree that the sexiest shape a woman can be is cylindrical.

Caleb, Lily, and Lilith really pull off the look. Neither lady is particularly cylindrical, but they look great in these dresses and absolutely rock the Gibson Girl updo and fancy hats.

I aged Lily down and changed her hair color, removed Lilith's tattoos, and gave Caleb a basic dark form, but no other changes. I tried to make them cousins? But when I loaded the household onto my laptop, they weren't cousins anymore :(

You'll need Vintage Glamour, in addition to Vampires and Werewolves. A few of Caleb's outfits and his hair are from VG and you CANNOT pair side bangs with Edwardian clothing. It's a fashion law.

In order to cut back on the amount of cc, there's less variety of hats, hair, gloves, and shoes than I'd like. I also didn't include jewelry. If people are interested, I can put together a list of supplementary cc that can be swapped in.

Please tag me @dead-lights if you use these for anything! I'd love to see my pixel buddies walking around in other people's saves.

Now buckle up, y'all. This gets long.

download household [SFS]

Extract that into your Tray folder (in the same folder as your Mods folder). You should see the household in CAS when you open your gallery.

required cc

@happylifesims

fedora shape no. 2

peaky blinders outfit

wilbur outfit

1920s coat

rose's boarding outfit

rose's dinner dress

rose's lunch dress

rose's flying dress

rose’s jump dress

rose's swim dress

1910s day dress 01

my recolor of day dress 01

1910s day dress 02

1920s nightgown

@historicalsimslife

men's casual edwardian suit

edwardian men's underwear + sleep wear

edwardian women's hat + coat

edwardian women's nightgown

@gilded-ghosts

the hartfield shoes

summer swells dress

flower accessory

gilded gibson hair

fanny's finery gown (dropbox)

perfectly plain skirt

clair de lune nightgown (dropbox)

promenade dress

demure day dress (dropbox)

astor dress (direct link)

coquette corset (dropbox)

@linzlu

picnic tops 2 & 3

bathing belle

florence outwear (direct link)

miss scarlet evening gown

hattie dress (direct link)

&

vintage swimwear by @eirflower

duchess of xviii hat by @rustys-cc

white garden gloves by rustys-cc

sunday hair by @saurusness

season's greetings hat by @nolan-sims

edwardian satin bow pumps by @waxesnostalgic

knickerbockers by waxesnostalgic

gibson curl updo by @the-melancholy-maiden

vintage glam hat by @madlensims

avery skirt by madlensims

scholar vest by @magnolianfarewell

edwardian huntress dress by @elfdor

tyrell by @clumsyalienn

bespoke corset by @dzifasims

my recolor of bespoke corset

fur hat by @lilis-palace

carla by @buzzardly28

hattie dress by @dancemachinetrait

"tea time" vintage edwardian hat by shawnthesimmer

lingerie dress by @javitrulovesims

If you're trying to replace the default in-game:

move this household into wolfsbane manor with the default vatores, then delete the defaults

use mods/cheats to make the new lily the vatores' cousin (i think mccc and ui cheats can both do it)

move custom lily in with the volkov household - use cheats/mods to copy her default relationships if you'd like - and then delete default lily. you will also need to mod/cheat lily back into the moonwood collective if you want her to keep her position. all three characters still have their occult rank and powers. she does NOT keep her special moonwood mill gossip dialogue - not sure why.

TOU

don't put my stuff behind a paywall

don't claim my stuff as your own

don't violate the TOUs of the cc makers i've included

Please let me know if there are any problems - this is my first time putting up a household and I'm only mostly sure I did it right 😅 I managed to get it to work on my laptop, so there's that.

If you're just here for the download, you're done now! If you're interested in learning more about Edwardian fashion, let me ramble at you for a bit :)

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This isn't the most historically accurate set, but I'm calling it close enough - if you're interested in learning more about the era, Edwardian Promenade is a great place to start.

Edwardians had really weird, complicated rules about hat and glove wearing. For most of these outfits, people would don and remove their hats and gloves based on social context - they shouldn't be wearing gloves when they eat, for example, but should always wear gloves when they're dancing. It's hard to find consistent information about the specific rules, but I've read excerpts from the Edwardian equivalents of Miss Manners and Good Housekeeping and they are fascinating.

I found some great reference images for sportswear from Silhouettes Costumes. Caleb's athletic outfit is based on this contemporary illustration. The unfastened bottom button is a nice detail to have - it was fashionable for men to leave the last button undone, as a nod to King Edward.

The ladies have 3 sleep outfits - the first are nightgowns that they would wear to sleep, the second are corsets, with other undergarments still on underneath, and the third are chemises, which were worn under their corsets - the underest part of the underwear, essentially.

For an in-depth explanation of Edwardian lingerie, check out The Fashion Archaeologist's Blog. For information about Edwardian nighttime hair care, check out Sew Historically.

The girls are wearing lingerie dresses for their hot weather outfits - lacy dresses made with the same materials & techniques as lingerie. These were good casual afternoon dresses, and were sometimes worn without a corset. Learn more about them from The Dreamstress!

#caleb vatore #lilith vatore #lily zhu #ts4 historical #ts4 lookbook #ts4 download #ts4 cc #s4cc #townie makeover #ts4 townie makeover #ts4 townie #ts4 premades #ts4 edwardian #ts4 1910s #ts4 vampires #ts4 werewolves #sim dump #dead-lights cc

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preview: vatore household, 1910s edition

I think I'm finally ready to move on from the Edwardian era (at least for a bit) but I wanted to do one last big thing. Since I spent so much time researching the period, looking at cc, and playing around in CAS, I remade the Vatore household 1910s-style and plan to put it up for download. Caleb has 9 outfits. Lilith has 19 like oh my god, including these 3 athletic outfits. Yes, that heavy skirt counted as "athletic" in the 1910s.

The big question: should I include Lily as well?

I have a fair amount left to do, including making previews. Do people prefer Blender, CAS, or in-game previews? I'm going out of town Friday and will try to get this up before then, but if not it'll be some time next week.

#lilith vatore #ts4 historical #ts4 edwardian #evil iris

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dead-lights · 2 months

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NEW RECOLORS: HIGH SCHOOL YEARS [SFS]

dijon: an EA blonde hair override - now with high school years!

Lemme just put it out there: Morgyn Ember deserves better hair. It took a while, but I went and made a bunch. tl;dr: you can download the recolors here on SFS and see previews/info here.

This was supposed to be a simple mod to pretty up my Rite of Ascension screenshots, but EA’s default blonde looks like it belongs on a sad, soggy sandwich and I decided not to stop there. I came up with something closer to Dijon mustard than yellow - a better color for a fancier sandwich. Also, better hair.

Please keep in mind - this is an override pack. It replaces the default blonde in the game with my recolor, which means that any blonde sims already in the game will have their hair updated. Please let me know if you have any problems!

Download all [SFS]

Base game only [SFS]

Eyebrows only [SFS]

Eyebrows aren't included with the base game package. Make sure you grab both.

Everything is divided up by pack, and needs to be downloaded separately. Only download the ones for the packs you own.

To go back to yellow hair, just remove my packages from your mods folder.

Feel free to tag me! I'd love to see what you do with this.

Don't put my stuff behind a paywall.

If you want to make your own Dijon recolors, you can download a photoshop or affinity template here. Do whatever you'd like as long as you respect cc hair makers' TOUs when it comes to recolors.

**Please note: I do not own every pack. You can check here to see which packs I've finished and which ones I don't own. I will update as I buy more packs, and I can give instructions on how to make your own recolors for anyone interested.

@maxismatchccworld @s4library @public-ccfinds @mmfinds

#updated!#not sure how I should be doing updates? but I’m not planning to buy another pack for a bit so not a huge deal

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