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Hello, and welcome to the Acme Catalog! Here, we hope you will find quality items for your Medieval, Victorian, Steampunk, Fantasy, and other themed Sims 2 games. The Acme Catalog is the combined skills of CelestialSpider and rugrat0ne, and also hosts some of their selected individual projects, as well.

Since we first created our Acme Starter Kits – 4 complete Medieval wardrobes in one for various body shapes – we have found our brainstorming and project-planning snowballing beyond what we could have imagined. Our hope is that this blog will enable us to expand our creating beyond simply Medieval and Renaissance creations, while still being part of the Medieval Simming community.

We plan to continue hosting our Medieval and Victorian content at Plumb Bob Keep, where we met, but will also post it here. This blog will also host our work in other more fanciful realms. We will be using this blog in conjunction with a Simblr, but all downloads will be hosted here.

OUR POLICY – Our policy is simple: for the most part, do what you want with our creations, just give credit where credit is due – not just to us, but to the many creators that we borrowed from as well. NO paysites. We make no money off our creations, so no one else should either! NO NSFW Content We just don't like our items used that way, please. Link backs and notifications are always nice, but not required.

“What's another word for 'gleaming'? It's a perfectly perfect word as many words go but the bother is nothing rhymes, you see.”

(Bonus points to anyone who recognizes the quote.)

I wanted a skintone set that really covered a lot of bases, with a wide range of coloration, but I couldn't find one I liked, so I made one myself. “Effulgent” is a set of 60 skintones embracing a large spectrum of colorings with distinctive undertones.

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Sims wearing various dresses from the set

The aim of the ACME Starter Kit project is to provide Simmers with full ready-to-go medieval wardrobes for a variety of bodyshapes, and several classes of Sim, as well as creating a bodyshape mesh library of some of the most common medieval outfits for folks to make their own conversions and recolors as they like.

This particular Starter Kit is designed for Ren Gal ver. 2, originally created by Warlokk and modified to version 2 by Cynnix. Our separate skintone upload has all necessary showerproof meshes, to allow your sim to hold their shape and to avoid floating heads in the shower.

We have created 4 full sets of clothing, Teen-Elder, with 5 recolors per outfit, using Shadowfell’s natural dye actions and some of our favorite outfits and meshes. There is also a brand-new mesh, the Short Chemise, that Spider has created just for these sets. These wardrobes should be suitable for peasants, merchants, nobles, and royalty, both in design and color (although we make no claim to historical accuracy). All outfits have fat and pregnancy morphs (even teens) and are enabled to be used as maternity wear, if you are using something like Boiling Oil’s Plan Maternity Outfit mod or a “Wear Any Outfit” mod.

To help with the bulk, we have also made a Maxis-size set of outfits for adults, and repositoried all other adult and teen outfits to them. This can bring a file size down from often as much as 1000 KB to just 4 KB (less after compressorizing).

You MUST have the base Maxis-size outfits for the rest of the sets to work.
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The aim of the ACME Starter Kit project is to provide Simmers with full ready-to-go medieval wardrobes for a variety of bodyshapes, and several classes of Sim, as well as creating a bodyshape mesh library of some of the most common medieval outfits for folks to make their own conversions and recolors as they like.

This particular Starter Kit is designed for Momma Lisa, originally created by the now-defunct Frannysims. Our separate skintone upload has all necessary showerproof meshes, to allow your sim to hold their shape and to avoid floating heads in the shower.

We have created 4 full sets of clothing, Teen-Elder, with 5 recolors per outfit, using Shadowfell’s natural dye actions and some of our favorite outfits and meshes. There is also a brand-new mesh, the Short Chemise, that Spider has created just for these sets. These wardrobes should be suitable for peasants, merchants, nobles, and royalty, both in design and color (although we make no claim to historical accuracy). All outfits have fat and pregnancy morphs (even teens) and are enabled to be used as maternity wear, if you are using something like Boiling Oil’s Plan Maternity Outfit mod or a “Wear Any Outfit” mod.

To help with the bulk, we have also made a Maxis-size set of outfits for adults, and repositoried all other adult and teen outfits to them. This can bring a file size down from often as much as 1000 KB to just 4 KB (less after compressorizing).

You MUST have the base Maxis-size outfits for the rest of the sets to work.
( Read more... )

The aim of the ACME Starter Kit project is to provide Simmers with full ready-to-go medieval wardrobes for a variety of bodyshapes, and several classes of Sim, as well as creating a bodyshape mesh library of some of the most common medieval outfits for folks to make their own conversions and recolors as they like.

This particular Starter Kit is designed for Lady Apple, a brand-new shape created by Celestial Spider. Our separate introduction thread and skintone upload have all necessary showerproof meshes to allow your sim to hold their shape, and to avoid floating heads in the shower.

We have created 4 full sets of clothing, Teen-Elder, with 5 recolors per outfit, using Shadowfell’s natural dye actions and some of our favorite outfits and meshes. There is also a brand-new mesh, the Short Chemise, that Spider has created just for these sets. These wardrobes should be suitable for peasants, merchants, nobles, and royalty, both in design and color (although we make no claim to historical accuracy). All outfits have fat and pregnancy morphs (even teens) and are enabled to be used as maternity wear, if you are using something like Boiling Oil’s Plan Maternity Outfit mod or a “Wear Any Outfit” mod.

To help with the bulk, we have also made a Maxis-size set of outfits for adults, and repositoried all other adult and teen outfits to them. This can bring a file size down from often as much as 1000 KB to just 4 KB (less after compressorizing).

You MUST have the base Maxis-size outfits for the rest of the sets to work.
( Read more... )

The ACME Catalog proudly presents a brand new bodyshape: Lady Apple! Unlike her hourglass and pear-shaped counterparts, Lady Apple is modeled on those women who tend to carry their weight in the stomach area, adding a little more variety to the bodyshape world.

Lady Apple is available for Teen-Elders (elders keep adult shape), and has fat morphs for all and preg morphs for Adults and Teens. She has been added to the Bodyshape Organization Kit (BSOK) and her outfits will be marked with a little apple.

In this post we have included all the necessary meshes, in a Lady Apple female/Maxis male combo, as well as one un-repositoried skintone, so that you can clone it and make your own skintone versions if you wish. G-Knee has an easy tutorial for it here. You can find 4 full wardrobes for Lady Apple in the ACME Starter Kit, and the 4 repositoried skintones are available through ACME Insta-Skin.

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A bottle of Acme Insta-Skin pills, and a Sim about to shower in a waterfall

Weary of Sims wearing only bones and muscle? Tired of your Sim changing shape every time they shower? Then ACME Insta-skin is for you!

Presenting showerproof sets of 4 skin tones, originally based on Needlecream’s edit of Enayla’s Opaline skin. They are paired with the Maxis size of the opposite gender, and have been colored to approximate the 4 basic Maxis skintones. Skins are barbie from the waist down, and do not have any meshed-on details. Skins are GENETICIZED (basic Maxis genetics – 0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 0.9) but are NOT townified.

The bodyshape skins are REPOSITORIED, meaning you'll need the Maxis originals for them to work, but they will save you a lot of space (around 1000 KB down to 100 KB).

4 Sims in bathing suits showing the 4 skintones

4 Sims in bathing suits showing the 4 skintones

We will be adding to this series as we create content for more bodyshapes, and hope to do combo skins in the future, as well. If you prefer your own sets of skintones and want to transfer them over to bodyshapes, there is a wonderful tutorial on how to do that written by G-Knee (it’s super simple!).

We’d like to thank:

Cynnix (showerproof mesh)
Enayla (skintone base)
Needlecream (skintone edit)
Fire_flower (skin repository help – BIG Thank you!)
Nonni (screenshot lot)
Pinky (and the Brain)

Lady Apple Insta-Skin Set
Momma Lisa Insta-Skin Set
Ren Gal v.2 Insta-Skin Set

Finally, it’s here! A replacement for all those modern images that our Sims insist on talking about! A few easy files to drop in your download folder (and one harder one that’s totally optional), and you’ll be on your way to far more soothly speech amongst your medieval Sims.

All image files use clipart gleaned from the Internet that are free to use, and the text files are my own creation. One down note, they do get a bit blurry close-up, I don’t think there’s much I can do about that with what I have for images.

Of course, your Sims will still use the same animations while chatting, so you'll still have knights doing air guitar, unfortunately.

A big, big thanks to Sunni of PBK who worked with me on figuring this out!( Read more... )

As promised, here are some more replacements for your various speech bubbles! This time up, we have Free Time hobbies, Apartment Life stories, and Pets interests. This, combined with the first set of replacements, should cover most of the speech bubbles that don’t require redoing the images for Wants and Fears and such.

Some of the images are reused from the first group of replacements, but most are new. I just had some failures of inspiration at times, so I doubled up. You guys don’t mind, though, do you?

All image files use clipart gleaned from the Internet that are free to use, and the text files are my own creation. To my eyes, at least, they do get a bit blurry close-up, I don’t think there’s much I can do about that with what I have for images. Hopefully, they go over better with a less critical audience!

Once more, a big, big thanks to Sunni of PBK who worked with me on figuring this out!( Read more... )

After reading a WCIF thread at Plumb Bob Keep and seeing the mod made by CandyToast over at MATY, I decided to make my own version of this, one that actually works with Almighty Hat's book covers.

What is it? 45 Replacement images for the plot elements screen when your Sim is writing a novel. All these images come from public domain clip art I found here and there on the web, and have a medieval/fantasy theme.( Read more... )

Bloom (showerproof mesh)
Marvine (showerproof mesh)
Enayla (skintone base)
Needlecream (skintone edit)
Julie J (showerproof skintone base)
Fire_flower (skin repository help – BIG Thank you!)
Nonni (screenshot lot)
Pinky (and the Brain)

Maxis Insta-Skin Set
Athletic Girl Insta-Skin Set
Well Rounded Sim Insta-Skin Set

The aim of the ACME Starter Kit project is to provide Simmers with full ready-to-go medieval wardrobes for a variety of bodyshapes, and several classes of Sim, as well as creating a bodyshape mesh library of some of the most common medieval outfits for folks to make their own conversions and recolors as they like.

This particular Starter Kit is designed for the Well-Rounded Sim, originally created by Dr_Pixel at Mod the Sims. Our separate skintone upload has all necessary showerproof meshes, to allow your sim to hold their shape, and to avoid floating heads in the shower.

We have created 4 full sets of clothing, Teen-Elder, with 5 recolors per outfit, using Shadowfell’s natural dye actions and some of our favorite outfits and meshes. There is also a brand-new mesh, the Short Chemise, that Spider has created just for these sets. These wardrobes should be suitable for peasants, merchants, nobles, and royalty, both in design and color (although we make no claim to historical accuracy). All outfits have fat and pregnancy morphs (even teens) and are enabled to be used as maternity wear, if you are using something like Boiling Oil’s Plan Maternity Outfit mod or a “Wear Any Outfit” mod.

To help with the bulk, we have also made a Maxis-size set of outfits for adults, and repositoried all other adult and teen outfits to them. This can bring a file size down from often as much as 1000 KB to just 4 KB (less after compressorizing).

You MUST have the base Maxis-size outfits for the rest of the sets to work.
( Read more... )

The aim of the ACME Starter Kit project is to provide Simmers with full ready-to-go medieval wardrobes for a variety of bodyshapes, and several classes of Sim, as well as creating a bodyshape mesh library of some of the most common medieval outfits for folks to make their own conversions and recolors as they like.

This particular Starter Kit is designed for the Athletic Girl, originally created by Marvine at Insimenator. Our separate skintone upload has all necessary showerproof meshes, to allow your sim to hold their shape, and to avoid floating heads in the shower.

We have created 4 full sets of clothing, Teen-Elder, with 5 recolors per outfit, using Shadowfell’s natural dye actions and some of our favorite outfits and meshes. There is also a brand-new mesh, the Short Chemise, that Spider has created just for these sets. These wardrobes should be suitable for peasants, merchants, nobles, and royalty, both in design and color (although we make no claim to historical accuracy). All outfits have fat and pregnancy morphs (even teens) and are enabled to be used as maternity wear, if you are using something like Boiling Oil’s Plan Maternity Outfit mod or a “Wear Any Outfit” mod.

To help with the bulk, we have also made a Maxis-size set of outfits for adults, and repositoried all other adult and teen outfits to them. This can bring a file size down from often as much as 1000 KB to just 4 KB (less after compressorizing).

You MUST have the base Maxis-size outfits for the rest of the sets to work.
( Read more... )

Sims wearing various dresses from the Starter Kit

The aim of the ACME Starter Kit project is to provide Simmers with full ready-to-go medieval wardrobes for a variety of bodyshapes, and several classes of Sim, as well as creating a bodyshape mesh library of some of the most common medieval outfits for folks to make their own conversions and recolors as they like.

This is the keystone of our series of repository sets. This Starter Kit is for the regular Maxis/B-34 bodyshape, and you must have this set for any of the other sets to show their textures!

We have created 4 full sets of clothing, Teen-Elder, with 5 recolors per outfit, using Shadowfell’s natural dye actions and some of our favorite outfits and meshes. There is also a brand-new mesh, the Short Chemise, that Spider has created just for these sets. These wardrobes should be suitable for peasants, merchants, nobles, and royalty, both in design and color (although we make no claim to historical accuracy). All outfits have fat and pregnancy morphs (even teens) and are enabled to be used as maternity wear, if you are using something like Boiling Oil’s Plan Maternity Outfit mod or a “Wear Any Outfit” mod.

To help with the bulk, we have also made a Maxis-size set of outfits for adults, and repositoried all other adult and teen outfits to them. This can bring a file size down from often as much as 1000 KB to just 4 KB (less after compressorizing).

You MUST have the base Maxis-size outfits for the rest of the sets to work.
( Read more... )

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Welcome!
Effulgent - 60 New Skintones
ACME Starter Kit - Ren Gal V2
ACME Starter Kit - Momma Lisa
ACME Starter Kit - Lady Apple
Lady Apple - Brand New Bodyshape!
ACME Insta-Skin -Showerproof Skins for Bodyshapes - Lady Apple, Momma Lisa, Ren Gal v2
Gift of the Gab: Speech Bubble Replacements
Gift of the Gab II: AL Stories, Pets, and FT Hobbies
A Novel Idea: Plot Element Replacement Pics
ACME Insta-Skin -Showerproof Skins for Bodyshapes - Maxis, AG, WRS
ACME Starter Kit - Well Rounded Sim
ACME Starter Kit - Athletic Girl
ACME Starter Kit - Maxis Size

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Sticky: Welcome!

Effulgent - 60 New Skintones

ACME Starter Kit - Ren Gal V2

ACME Starter Kit - Momma Lisa

ACME Starter Kit - Lady Apple

Lady Apple - Brand New Bodyshape!

ACME Insta-Skin -Showerproof Skins for Bodyshapes - Lady Apple, Momma Lisa, Ren Gal v2

Gift of the Gab: Speech Bubble Replacements

Gift of the Gab II: AL Stories, Pets, and FT Hobbies

A Novel Idea: Plot Element Replacement Pics

ACME Insta-Skin -Showerproof Skins for Bodyshapes - Maxis, AG, WRS

ACME Starter Kit - Well Rounded Sim

ACME Starter Kit - Athletic Girl

ACME Starter Kit - Maxis Size