Bell Dress with flats: retexture, recolor, and mesh edit of a dress by yagami

[needlecream]

This is another Yagami edit. The original dress was white with knee-high black boots and some very noticeable seams,
so I added a fabric texture, painted on some fabric seams, added some flats and morphs, and recolored. The mesh has fat and preg morphs, and comes in 6 colors and 4 patterns. It is categorized as everyday, maternity, and formal.
In the shot above, the purple is the preg morph and the blue pattern is the fat morph, and in the shot below the yellow is the fat morph and the pink pattern is the preg morph.



credits
Yagami for the original dress mesh and texture
Google for the fabric texture
kkkayleighh for the flats mesh
aelia + amaryll for the flats texture
Lillany for the tutorial on making seams

swatches (a copy is included in the download):


Download Bell Dress retextures and mesh
sims file share download

EDIT 9/29/2012: Download these dresses as TOPS here.
EDIT 2/5/2012: Glor did a version with some colorful leggings here.

I wanted to make more patterns, but I accidentally deleted my .psd and didn't want to make a new one. If you'd like to make any different patterns or recolors, please send me a link because I'd love to see them! :D

Have a nice day!

Comments

[olivethegreat.livejournal.com]

These are wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing. They are quite cute. :)

[needlecream.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I was really excited when I saw the original dress, I thought it had so much potential and I hope I did a good job fixing it up. :D

[mikelisryker.livejournal.com]

These are amazing, I always need more outfits with preg morphs. Thanks so much <3

[needlecream.livejournal.com]

:D
I'm really really happy you like them! I've been working on these for a long time.

[niloublue.livejournal.com]

Love, love, love!
This dress is exactly the kind of dresses I love to use in my game (and in RL too, hehe!). I already liked the original mesh and textures but you really improved them (once again, yay for morphs!)!
Thank you so much for sharing! :D

[dhearest.livejournal.com]

Really cute and has my favorite shoe type on them too thank you!

[needlecream.livejournal.com]

<3
I love this kind of dress, too. I really hope I did the mesh justice, I feel like my textures aren't good enough for the awesomeness of the mesh!

thank you!

[needlecream.livejournal.com]

Thank you, enjoy them!

[needlecream.livejournal.com]

I know, I just love those shoes! Every time I want to change the shoes of a mesh, these shoes are the first ones I think to use. xD

[simmergal.livejournal.com]

this is seriously cute as a maternity dress!!!!
thanks :D

[ferretsims.livejournal.com]

Um, these are just the most PERFECT maternity dresses ever!! Thanks for sharing.

[pnkpnthr334.livejournal.com]

These are super adorable! And yay pregnancy morphs. :D

[wisteria-sims.livejournal.com]

These look amazing! And the fact that it's on flats and has a preg morph makes it even better <3 <3

[fated-oph3lia.livejournal.com]

Lovely XD

[niloublue.livejournal.com]

Oh, you definitely did! Your textures are just perfect for this mesh, they make it looks a lot prettier! :D

Also, I don't want to bother you too much, but, can I ask where I can find Lillany's tutorial you mentioned above? I would love to check it but it seems I wasn't able to find it (me + Google = fail!). Thank you in advance! ^ ^

[selenaq13.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm officially a spoiled. Gorgeous!

[rhiannon-alexis.livejournal.com]

These are adorable! Thank you! :)

[bunheadsbuns.livejournal.com]

I just can't resist a mesh with a preg morph, and your patterns are always so nice! Grabby grab!

[lillany.livejournal.com]

These are great. I'm so happy I was able to help.

[spyroeldragon.livejournal.com]

I absolutely love these. <3
Keep making cute outfits for my sims, please? :D

[dorkasaur-sims.livejournal.com]

these are absolutely brilliant, thanks for sharing! I always get so giddy when I can find some pretty clothes with preg morphs.

[budgie-budgie.livejournal.com]

I just love everything you do. Thank you so much for sharing!

[cosmetical.livejournal.com]

These are awesome, thank you!

[yeahyeahjess.livejournal.com]

These are so damn cute!!

And I love you alone for both morphs. ♥♥♥

[needlecream.livejournal.com]

She actually made the tutorial just for me! I told her she should post it publicly, but I never heard a response after that.
I uploaded it so you can have it too:
http://www.mediafire.com/?9g5gx4v2dx87o4z

In the tutorial, it says to clear out all of the UV map lines until just the ones you want remain, but when I did it I just painted over the lines myself using the line tool. That worked really well, and I think it takes less time.
you also might want lithUnwrap, to extract nice UV maps. (I tried just extracting them in milkshape and it didn't work right) It was actually pretty hard to find and I had to register somewhere to get it, so I uploaded it for you, too. Just open the zip file anywhere you want and there's a file inside the folder to start the program, you don't have to install anything.
http://www.mediafire.com/?n2smn8rjx259ddd

I hope that helps!