Objects: Victorian Fire Surround

[disemporium]

Ok, so this is an update of something which those of you who follow my story or LJ will have seen before.  A couple of years ago, I had a go at creating a fire surround for my Victorian kitchens.  It was the first object I created from scratch, and while I was very proud with how it turned out, it didn't quite meet my standards for sharing my content.  The mantle was fine, but the walls didn't quite do what I wanted, plus it only had one recolourable subset.  Well, whilst I was working on the default foods, I started to think about re-doing this object, so that's what I've done.  I completely remade the wall portion of this, mapping it much better than the first version, and I also made it have 2 recolourable subset, the walls and the surround itself.

Included in the archive is the mesh, and several recolours of the walls to match some of the Maxis walls I use the most when decorating my kitchens. I've tried to make it as easy as possible to recolour to match any other walls you may use.  Simply extract the wall texture using homecrafter, and paste onto the lefthand side of the wall texture file.  As long as the dimensions are 512x256, the standard Maxis size, there's no need to do any scaling.




There are also two recolours of the surround itself.






I'm also uploading the texture replacement I did of a Blacky's stove I found years ago.  If I went and found the file on Blacky's website again, I could probably make it recolourable and upload just a black lead recolour, but I'm feeling lazy at the moment, and besides, no respectable Victorian woman would ever forgo black leading her range.

 

As always files are compresorrised, and let me know if you spot any problems.

Downloads:

Stove.
Victorian fire surround.


Credits:

Blacky's for the stove mesh.

Comments

[vllygrl]

Thanks for this -- I love it,Di -- and it looks beautiful in game! Any chance I could beg, borrow or wheedle the beautiful black leaded stove recolor out of you? I use that Blacky's stove a lot, but it looks so much better and so much more period appropriate in black! Love your site, by the way! :)

[dicreasy]

:D You're welcome. I've uploaded the recolour above, and linked to it where it says "stove." Since I had to texture replace, you'll need to remove the original from Blacky first. :D

[vllygrl]

Thank you SO MUCH!!!!
Er . . . feeling kinda dumb, but . . . I don't understand how to remove the original (texture?) from Blacky first. I don't know how to do recolors or anything useful like that (you may remember my challenges from MTS and PBK, Di, but sadly, those are the extent of my skillz!)

[dicreasy]

You're welcome. :D You just need to remove Blacky's file from your downloads, and put mine in, or let mine override it. I don't think I renamed it.

[vllygrl]

Oh goodness! That sounds ridiculously easy -- even I should be able to manage that! Thanks again for your patience. You have inspired me to build another Regency/Victorian hood, so these details make such a difference! ;)

[vllygrl]

It worked! And looks fantastic in game! Thank you, thank you, thank you!:)