It's Romance, Not a Carnival Ride

[crabofdoom]

Red. And. Pink.

Whomever decided that these were the colors or ultimate love and lust deserves a paper cut from every greeting card they handle, forever. Of course, even people like Disney hop on this crazy train (poor, poor Ariel,) and Maxis is no exception, either.

I speak of none other object but... the Love Tub. The free-with-aspiration-points, incredibly useful when you have the point-recharging hack, boon to every Romance sim's social life, and more decorative than the wooden one, what with the leaves and flowers Love Tub. But gaddamn, its colors are ugly.

No longer!



The thing is recolorable, but... I guess rare is the person who ever gets around to it. Hey, it's taken me years, as you can see. Colors included are, from left to right:
Original Hideousness > Depth Charge > Flash Powder > Gold (for that special Wealth sim in your life) > Mail Bomb > Pipe Bomb > Pipe Bomb Double > Shrapnel > and TerraCotta (for all your desert dwelling needs.)

All recolors come with white roses and candles, and are naturally basegame compatible. I think you can only recolor the tub once it's placed, but I'm not 100% certain. And because I'd never had recolors before, I didn't realize this, but:



Tubs and housings are interchangeable! Tuxedo Tub is quite fetching, no?

Oh, and the Love Tub shown is my default replacement from the GoS low-poly theme, which removes the heart cushions. The exact same tub, in fact.


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Thanks to Pooklet and CuriousB for the colors! These are otherwise just Maxis files, so do whatever you wish, so long as they stay free and you don't claim you made them.

Comments

[curiousb]

I could kiss you, really I could! Cheesy, cliched 'romantic red contrasted with passion pink' is not for me, but these colours are - thank so much! (Now I'm wondering about defaulting one of your recolours, as well as your mesh edit...)

[crabofdoom]

Thanks! Always glad when things I want help others out, too!

Hmm. Defaulting shouldn't be hard, really, probably just adding the TXTR file to the mesh's package. Which should be the default, though, the lightest? It would match the pillars and vases and be like a 'blank canvas'. And the white-ishness could suggest sacrificing virginity *cough*.

[glennisonfire.livejournal.com]

Most useful indeed. I may now actually use this freaking hot tub with your recolors and mesh replacement. Thank you.

[columnar]

I never knew I needed this, but thank you so much! I haven't used that tub in AGES, and I think I just realized why.

[russianspidercat]

I love it. Now more sims are bound to have the tub of luuuuuuuuurve.

[(Anonymous)]

Very good idea to recolor this, thank you!

[harpers_child]

i'm rebuilding my game and just found out that the DL link for this and your default replacement are no more. the mediafire invalid/deleted message comes up when i click. would you mind re-uploading?

[crabofdoom]

Sorry this is late, but the link's been updated as of 04/15/2013.

[harpers_child]

thank you very muchly! as for time, i was grabbing bits and pieces to restart a sims 'hood in the last few weeks leading up to my wedding. i'm currently in the middle of moving. i'm hoping to actually be able to play sometime next month.

[simlili]

Like many people, I refrained from having that huge bright red thing disfiguring my lots, but with your recolours, I feel like decorating special rooms for it. My romance sims thank you and so do I!