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>>539799315
give me a lil bit of time, i'll tidy this shit up and make it look at least a little presentable

>>539797127
yeah, since I mostly make them for myself, I don't have to worry about making it work for everyone else
making a new mesh means I can add all the detail I want to
but I do that way too, see >>539415547 for an example

>Very rarely bother with normals either, don't seem to do all that much on Sims.
it very much does. See this? that's entirely from the normal map interacting with the specular map. The diffuse texture for this is very flat