The beds each come with all of the TS3 presets, plus five MALM woods. The two metal beds don't come with MALM woods, because that would just be silly. They do come with improved metal textures, though - another thing EA just can't do right...
Each bed comes with two meshes - a basegame version and a Pets version. The Pets version allows pets to sit on/sleep on/destroy the beds and, obviously, requires Pets; the basegame version is self-explanatory. You can use the basegame version with Pets installed if you're some kind of kitty-hating freak; but don't use the Pets version without Pets installed, and don't try to install both versions at once.
All files have been compressorised and had silly unused orphan textures removed.
So, onto the juicy details! Go on, click on the thumbnails - your reading experience will not be interrupted
.| Pic | Pic 2 | Name | Associated witticism | Price | Polycount | TS3 original |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The 'Issa' Bed | Issa Bed. You can sleep on it. What more do you want? | §275 | 1264 | BedSingleCheapFirehouse (Amb) | |
 | Le Curve | Formerly known as "Modern". Geeze, EA, what is the snail doing without its imagination? | §1000 | 1856 | BedSingleModern (BG) | |
 |  | The Marrr!itime Bed | This is one of those gimmicky Generations things that I never use. Ever. Ever. Well... maybe. I kinda fell in love with this bed during the conversion process, especially all that time spent getting intimate with its SHPE. | §1250 | 2791 - High poly! Sorry about that - it's all the curvy bits. | BedSingleGenBoat (Gen) |
 | The Bedstead | I'm pretty sure I've never actually slept in - or even seen - one of these beds. Nevertheless, I have a deep-rooted association between iron bedsteads and stubbed toes. Make sure your sims wear steel-toed boots around this one. | §565 | 2608 - Another high poly one here. | BedSingleBrass (even though EA didn't include a decent brass preset...) (BG) | |
 |  | The Head Bed | Geddit?! Geddit?! Yeah, it is pretty weak. | §720 | 1358 | BedSingleRanchHorse (Pets) |
 |  | The Quadramids | Shut up! It was funny when I thought of it! | §750 | 1638 | BedSingleGenTeen (Gen) |
Polygon Counts:
Issa: 1264
Le Curve: 1856
Marrr!itime: 2781
Bedstead: 2608
Head Bed: 1358
Quadramids: 1638
Additional Credits:
Made using SimPE, Photoshop, Milkshape, Blender, and Wood Workshop. Thanks to the lovely Morphead for his tutorial on baking multis in Blender (sometimes an EA texture just can't be saved).
There's all sorts of CC in the pics, most of which I can't even identify right now. I do know that there are contributions from...
Yeah, I said there was a lot. Thanks, yo!
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13/04/2012 - New versionThanks to Ambular for pointing out a problem with the adult male element of the slider. I've uploaded a fixed version; please delete the old one and use the updated file instead. Your already-created sims who use this slider won't be affected by the update, the slider will continue to work on them as if nothing had changed (well, except that the am bit is fixed...).
So, there I am, quietly making a sim - very pretty sim, stunning in fact. And I swivel the camera, and think "Urgh, something I did to her nose has given her a philtrum like a slide rule" (Well ok, I didn't actually think "philtrum", I googled it afterwards); so I go to find the slider with which to correct this nasal monstrosity, and wtf EA, there isn't one?!
Well, there is now.
40 fracking meshes. You know it takes 40 fracking meshes to make one of these things?
Anyway, the slider works for all ages, male and female, and is found in the Mouth -> Upper Lip CAS panel. Due to the level of detail you're working with when using this, the results will be different for different sims, as the overlip is blended with all the other aspects of the face sculpt. All my models have the slider at either 0% (very sticky-out), or 100% (very sticky-in); and as you can see, the end results vary. The bloke with the face fuzz gets ye olde slide rule - the girl with the black hair ends up looking like Homer Simpson.
The toddler version - see attached pic - is a little bit jaggedy. I apologise for this; there just aren't as many vertices to work with in that part of the toddler face mesh.
Wahay, now I actually deserve that Plastic Surgeon sticker on my profile again!
Does this work with the new EP? Yes.
Does this work with the new patch? Yes.
But you wrote that before the patch even came out! Yes.
Additional Credits:
Made with CmarNYC's wonderful MorphMaker and accompanying tutorial.
The stuff on the sims is by Anubis (black hair), Elexis (toddler hair), and TumTum (brown male hair).
Other stuff, including eyes and skintone, is by -Shady-, LadyFrontbum, Ephemera, and Evie.
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