Mermaids on Cake Island

I just finished loading a mermaid/diving video to YouTube. It's only just over 4 minutes so it's a little one. Just a look around the Cake Island dive lot with 2 mermaids who ignored me and spent the whole time chatting to each other. Then there is a pretty scene at the end when they set off for home.

https://youtu.be/TDFl2-pUeiQ

As a result of me building dive lots for my mermaids on Cake Island I've had a few requests to do a video on building dive lots. I've just posted that video to YouTube.

https://youtu.be/xQYREabahSE


I decided to do the video in Sunlit Tides because I keep seeing people post about how that world is not good for dive lots. Well this one seems to work.

I'm about to start decorating the dive lot and that'll be a second video.

I added another video on my Mermaids in Cake Island

https://youtu.be/sz6MDUdxNyI

This shows how they used to float through the air when crossing the boundary to the dive lot before I worked out how to stop that happening and made my tutorial video on how to build a dive lot.

I still have to fix the dive lots in Cake Island.

Yesterday I spent the day collecting Sims from various games to use as townies in Cake Island.

I have a collection with a few humans but mostly plant sims (who are all still very young - ages toddler up to teen only - but there are at least 6 of them from different games mostly). I also have found a mummy who I might put into a house on his own. Plus genies, fairies, werewolves and some very colourful hybrids with bejeweled skins.

I downloaded some Orcs made by @imdragonit . There are already fawns living on the version of Cake Island I have put together for the McFluffs to move to.

After finding all the various sims from many different worlds I concentrated on trying to get the original tail colours for the 4 mermaids from Isla Paradiso. I was under the impression I could easily do that by cloning them as I got a nice yellow tail on Triton King's clone, Terry, in the Isla Paradiso Bunch save. But it turns out boy mermaids get the yellow/orange tail and the girls get pink.

Then I started searching the internet for information. There was plenty of the same thing over and over again but none of what I wanted to know. I knew someone who said she'd found the numbers to use for the tail colours. So I contacted her and she gave them to me. But by that time I'd remembered an old external hard drive and found a game set in Isla Paradiso and last saved back in 2013. I wasn't sure it would help because the family in that game had never gone diving. I made them dive and eventually was able to use Master Controller to bring all 4 mermaids into the household and they all had their original tail/scale colours.

I then get into my Cake Island save and changed the colours of the relevant tails. By that time I'd already cloned Salty Seaworth and Mia Azul. So I used the numbers I found on Mia Azul and the numbers @lanlyn found on the internet on the clones.

Salty and Maya are young adults while Mia and Triton are adults in my old game that I found. That is the version of them you see in CAS. The others are the ones in Cake Island and I've changed their scale colours.

Here are a few pictures with the replacement scale colours

https://s5.postimg.cc/6kghm5k7r/Mermaid_Triton_King001.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/guiwlccnb/Mermaid_Salty_Seaworth001.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/vqhfsyix3/Mermaids005.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/mvglig1uf/Mermaids004.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/4fw4l18af/Mermaids003.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/dawyvkk87/Mermaids002.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/8c9gh1o53/Mermaids001.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/dnod1pzx3/Mermaid_Mia_Azul002.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/b6cluhy13/Mermaid_Mia_Azul001.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/tlx2rv1uv/Mermaid_Maya_Ocean001.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/imbvg5gjr/Salty_And_Sandy001.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/kqw8h8pw7/Mia_And_Mary.jpg
https://s5.postimg.cc/x5j0hjmjb/Mary_Azul001.jpg


By the way, when I cloned my fairy/mermaid hybrid I made using Master Controller, I got a fairy toddler. This is consistent with everything I've read that says you can't get hybrids of any other occult with mermaid.


This gave me some trouble too - the gnome seems to have taken control of the bear but wouldn't complete the process while I watched. She eventually jumped away and left the bear unusable so I deleted it using Debug Enabler.
https://s5.postimg.cc/ffhbwjqyv/Screenshot-181.jpg

@Karritz Thought I should share here what I'd replied to your post in the other thread. :)

"Karritz;c-16433497" wrote:
With the assistance of @lanlyn I have managed to fix the colours of my mermaids from Isla Paradiso.
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@lanlyn had previously found the numbers on the internet.
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Salty's clone is Sandy
Mia Azul's clone is Mary
Here they are holding their clones.
https://s5.postimg.cc/imbvg5gjr/Salty_And_Sandy001.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/kqw8h8pw7/Mia_And_Mary.jpg
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@Karritz Glad you got your mermaids fixed up and saved!

But Sandy (Salty's clone) doesn't have the same color of scales that my Salty does. My Salty's scales are darker--midnight blue. The other mermaids look pretty much the same as mine though. Here are the values I have again.

Salty:
R......57.....109......76.......97
G......63.....123......92.....123
B......84.....153.....128.....175

Triton:
R.....240.....240......69......69
G.....195.....240.....100....222
B.......97.....240......151...240

Mia:
R.....148.......0.......0......75
G.....171...188...157....140
B.....242...207...142....196

Maya:
R........0......50........9......71
G....210....123....100.....77
B....224....222....183...175

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Ntuoq2b4iW4yTLAy73IxQxg0hsJ6aEyllAPRctWMLgvTrHc-htSEdwpNusWiluUEec-XgizkSgOnQIeGknwc7sJ9cHX0fGPDadYiGdC7Kp8yumPDEx9_2I-uDEUTO8plOI4VDjM9dyPDC6FW-h0LnoitKr4OgNAsAiL8Wt3FzkpRORb0FfrZeep_9Du291pUFo_yjcaIjwr4IWUiwkpp9cfb0-03dmZS6r_Ev7Bfi4lfviXHyY4AESqlDvfRJBv_9oake5It_a4SdjbGHbqqlI5cYYKTrO75ye7VdTQ36U0bJN-8BRVSJsDVS3cFzthdFPF5V1CX7tEzJFPA7KOd9a394e-2iMAVlVvBb6mDbNgstbV-SEVAGPib7KvEHe1NOcUQTIvJwE3YP8MUI5zl8eDmyt5txG9kPToMVdAoRWubS35WQg2EyFjo9AKRFPn4SavzQUXcLvDnwSRO_Wmh7aDr_cWCMUMbdtVXs6sZxmy-Z6aGeAGXUy3ZfydEOa569-sC32KmX8xT3v1iYbeihp5B38xb7dfhrbsnR6Ibv4a2Q9ThwGGd_wAy1QSIQnrdfzWc2fmcdGOtaY57S2p3HfpBmYmBTUIih1bVT5sj=w576-h415-no

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/B_NafypvENVaNVDWgFoW6v9Rq2fu49O9RLn0FnTV8ymVu9xMVHyPANALQa4AAXZqRcMpk4s4-yQE7k_sKbyRll-s-85xa8NXgHVxqUFapnp87BJ24pvxWk1Jga0wRDDHmkIYc7JJb2AwJNb5fb8KFD6S9RfkzXUhUYGvcDi-0k9bBiY2HSJEhcv9IX5K30MEuR16wAVDuBnbmWZ3Vygb8J4fZohA304SByOSTkZKeFNZ3c5lIp2atududOCZsB98mES-6FdSMjn4u-0XEaRDIsnpoLKIha4lzDhzCwz-bCoONKjxz5SClXnCMnUlYrMLkIb3_5h4Ipa9qoH8RN2x8M7E4wc30JQFSvJx5rzg5dAclNGPm6FEBK8eV9xncE3AejK4rC4jWWzdPlep57W0fkfxbfC2U6wVEBozsZcLaBKN6D5R9pn3K6SCezmaYHAfPojzx1x2z3xfgB8B_SprsOy6jvFJHcQgRm6SfSu5kEPyDe1lWlYIgcfuKJ4nj7Z6UU_COPcLc5nGbBxLRAJPt9G_VOlzqy7lYtsaijQ6Szorm-Pr2ZrmAIYlAvJuvMrkqwMUi3RTAjUbKNOu66nyVv6oe3_mZ12kPWtDeVLo=w1600-h896-no


Also, I love your little fairy toddler! So darling.

Thanks @lanlyn. I wondered about what I'd written down for her.

Here's the numbers I have:

Salty
R......100 .....61.....68....167
G......109 ....62 ...105....161
B......116....167 ..151....150


I'm wondering if the person who read the numbers did it in Stylist when the mermaids were in their tails. I did it in the mirror with Change Scale Colour. It would probably produce different numbers doing it in different ways.


Mia Azul
R.....170.......0.......1.....170
G.....196..200....159 ...229
B.....229..207....110 ...229

Maya Ocean
R.....157.....104.....104.....104
G.....222.....153.....153.....153
B.....203.....211.....211.....211

Triton King is the same as @lanlyn

I think, looking at the end result either set of numbers will work just as well. I don't think you'd pick the difference if you put them side by side.

It's probably just an average and I don't really know how those numbers work in the background - although I do have a book on that subject written by an artist I know who has spent decades working on how those numbers work and has come up with an entirely new colour theory for artists and printers.

All I know for sure is whatever number is used 'something' goes on in the background to make the image into a 3D representation so it can't be the exact same colour all over. If it was the exact same colour all over then it'd be just a flat colour with no shading or shaping to it.

I already had this conversation elsewhere in this thread a few days ago where hair colours vary slightly between hair styles.

@lanlyn I fixed Sandy's scales and they are now the numbers you provided. I think your Salty may be slightly darker overall than mine.

https://s5.postimg.cc/3ubr2ui3b/Sandy002.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/5m4pxqtqf/Sandy001.jpg

Those 3 numbers are used to somehow produce the hex number which we don't have and it's possibly the same hex number being produced by different sets of numbers.

I might have a look at what hex number is produced by using our two different sets of numbers to see if there is much, or any, difference between them.

Here's my lineup - Salty looks like a teen in his pic I think. :)

https://s5.postimg.cc/e5o3vh77r/Mermaids_From_IP001.jpg

I doubt you'd tell the difference between them even though the RGB numbers are very different for 3 of them. Depending if you look at my or @lanlyn pictures.

EDIT: FYI Salty and Maya are young adults. Mia and Triton are adults.

@Karritz Your Maya and Triton look very similar to mine. Your Mia has a little more green on the bottom of her legs and Salty has more blue on the top, but they're very close to what I have. Might be a difference in our monitor settings too.

I think they all, yours and mine, look like the screenshots I've seen of the originals. :)

I've given up on the computer for tonight. Every time some app tries to find my pc location norton turns off my internet connection. Then I wait 5 to 10 minutes and internet is back until the next time they try to get my location and that can be anything between a couple of seconds to a few minutes. Very frustrating. I've switched off every possible switch that could give permission to edge, cortana and apps in general to want to know my location.

Between long periods of waiting for a connection and an hour at the dog park i bulldozed the old dive lots I made on cake island before I worked out how to stop them flying through the air when they crossed the dive lot boundary. Then I made a new dive lot for them using my new method. Lucky i had the video as I couldn't remember how to do it. They need a dive lot as they keep getting moodlets about needing to be in salt wsster. I placed the new lot closer to where they get into the water so it won't take so long for them to get to and from the lot.

I can't post pictures tonight due to no computer.

I added my new plant sim toddler to the household and changed her name to Petal Jayne.

One of the human sims in the household is named Sarah Jayne and the household name happens to be the Jayne household. I wanted Petal to be a different sim to her original self who will remain with her original family. More to be seen of her in future videos of her household.

When I break up the household I plan to put the humans into a different household than the mermaids and I'll probably place Petal with the humans. The humans might be broken up into more than one household and the mermaids will most likely find themselves in at least two households.

For the moment they are all together.

I don't have all of this on video so am adding the screen shots here so you all know what's going on. I might even add the screen shots to a video as well to keep the progress complete in the video series.

Little Petal waited near the letter box wondering where she was and who would collect her and where she'd go next.

Eventually a huge mermaid named Triton King collected her and carried her inside.
https://s5.postimg.cc/islhcgjgn/Triton_And_Petal001.jpg

Here is Petal showing off her flower trail.
https://s5.postimg.cc/j5cvimmav/Petal002.jpg
She has already learned to walk, talk and potty as well as completed her peg box and xylophone skills.

https://s5.postimg.cc/49ecb1y1j/Petal001.jpg
She just needs to read her toddler books before she'll be ready to age up with a cake.

I still don't have a clone of Maya Ocean. I told George to ask her for a DNA sample. Several times. No go. She didn't refuse him - it's just that nothing happened. Maybe the household is too overstuffed. I'll keep trying. It could be we get no clone of Maya Ocean until I break up the household. Or maybe it will never happen. At least we have her original.

https://s5.postimg.cc/ejgraa8hj/George_And_Maya_Ocean001.jpg

I have a mod in. It is one I just recently put in, and it gives toddlers more activities. It seems to be the thing that is forcing puddles to become magnets for them. They find every broken tap, sink, shower, dishwasher etc in the house and sit around it playing in the puddles. It is certainly helpful in that I'm finding lots of broken plumbing around the house that I wasn't previously aware of and can now organise repair crews.

I built a large nursery on the second top basement level. There wasn't any room up above in the top level basement.

https://s5.postimg.cc/lzg0we953/Nursery001.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/49ecbdqfb/Nursery002.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/xbsme6x9j/Nursery003.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/49ecbdipj/Nursery004.jpg

Finally I got them all facing the same way towards me.
https://s5.postimg.cc/9kt8w2pcn/Nursery005.jpg

I'll have to get one of the sims in the household to buy toddler books next.

I put 6 cribs in the nursery on the assumption there'd be more babies/toddlers soon but if George can't/won't get a DNA sample from Maya Ocean it may not happen.