Curious

[aikea_guinea]

I was starting to work on making a new black tank top (I deleted my old one in a fit of cleaning), and I got to thinking about what you look for when downloading outfits for your simlets.  I thought I'd make a fancy-pants poll here and get some input from everyone.  Feel free to leave a comment if you'd like to.  ^_^

Poll Clothing Preferences
Personally, it varies for me.  I

Comments

[orikes13]

I tend to prefer using complete outfits rather than using the separates. I've noticed that there seem to be more creators doing separates as of late, so I may have to break down and start getting more of them.

In part, I think it's easier to manage having whole outfits than having separates. Sure, separates theoretically offer more flexibility, but they require that the pieces you're matching are of similar quality and look. With a whole outfit, I know that the look is going to be unified and that's that. With separates, I've got more choices than I want to deal with.

I also don't know if it's relevant, but it seems to take up more drive space to use separates rather than whole outfits. If an outfit is 120kb, and then two separates are both 90kb... the separates are going to clog up more of my precious, precious cc space. :)

[aikea_guinea]

You know, I never even thought about the issue of drive space! I know I've had a couple of full outfits that were borderline insane as far as that goes, but generally that's very true about the total size of the two separates.

[orikes13]

I'm already sliding past 2.5 GB of cc, so I've been trying to be more careful about what I download. I've gotten better about furniture and other objects, but clothes just seem to make me go, "oooh, I need that!" but they're not as easy to find and clear out.

[aikea_guinea]

I'm creeping up on 4GB (3.98 to be exact) compressorized, so I hear you on that one! Hair seems to be what gets me in the most trouble, and that stuff is just unpleasant to go through.

[fated_oph3lia]

I have 5GBs of bodyshop content alone... it's the damn hair causing me trouble too.

[aikea_guinea]

It would be nice if there were some way of easily getting rid of the hair you don't want. My downloads folder is miles away from being organized (though at least I do have things generally subfoldered), so I can't even go in and just delete a 'hair' folder and start over.

[fated_oph3lia]

Yeah, I'm trying to sort mine at the moment but especially with peggy hairs its hard to tell what mesh goes with what recolour... mostly I end up spending hours deleting in bodyshop and use the downloads organiser but its hardly accurate on orphaned hair meshes >_

[akatonbo]

If an outfit is 120kb, and then two separates are both 90kb... the separates are going to clog up more of my precious, precious cc space.

This is true but also has an opposite side to the coin -- if a full outfit is 120KB and separates are 90KB, let's say you have 3 colors for the pants (i.e. light blue, dark blue, and black, for jeans) and 6 for the shirt. That's 18 possible combination, so if all 18 are actually made as full outfits that's 18 120KB files for a total of 2160KB. Whereas if they are separates that's 9 90KB files for a total of 810KB. Separates are more efficient when you want a lot of variety -- and that's just the one set.