"AngelEb95;c-17926634" wrote:
Looks like a cc hair by Ebonix. I don't like Alpha cc. Looks so weird.
Yeah. I like a lot of things from Ebonix but not this kind of hair - I wouldn't even call it 'realistic' style. It's made by taking a couple of flat panels and painting a texture on them, then arranging them in something like a double 'X' on your head (8 points instead of 4, so basically you're wearing a textured 'asterisk'... The result is that it looks extremely weird from any angle other than the 'perfect one' used in promotional screenshots.
- It's basically the 'easy way' to make something like an Afro. A similar tactic was very popular for years in 'Second Life' to make dresses, plants, and long hair - flat panel objects with the texture painted on, and then set to 'bend and move' in the wind... causing them to look very bad when viewed from the wrong angle. If you google it, over there they call this trick 'flexi'.
Grab the wrong Skyrim mod and you can end up with a pile of this kind of stuff in your game there too...
Curiously enough - this method, while easy to make, is very hard on your graphics cards compared to a properly made 3D model because of the 'bending' of things that have parts of them see-through (the areas outside what you painted on) meaning your graphics card has to do a massive amount of 'real time math' to figure out what shows through... This is one of many reasons why some older games can cause your computer fans to spin up while a newer 'more detailed looking game' doesn't.
And that means using hair like this in Sims will heat up your computer...
All this noted, anytime I find some Mod/CC in my game that isn't looking the way I thought it would when I first downloaded it, I export that sim to my library, and then open it with 'Sims 4 Tray Importer' to find the exact file that I've found I'm not as fond of as I'd hoped I would be, and remove that mod.
