14 EA ponytails converted to children + 5 to toddler

Sims need more low poly ponytails and ponytail-ish hairs, and EA has created some nice ones, but unfortunately many are not available for children and/or toddlers.
This post aims to fix that a bit.

Some of these have probably been done before, but I didn't find them.

All of the hairs should be base game compatible. They have EA-matching textures. All the hat hairs have recolorable accessories and can be found in the hat hair section.


Edit: updated the Child hairs 1 and Toddler hairs zip files. The toddler Buckley Winifred hair now has the texture issue with the hair tie resolved and better lods 2 and 3. The child Buckley Yolanda hairs now have betters lods 2 and 3. The child EP9 Dreads Side hair now has 4 hat channels instead of 3. The child Ponytail And Ribbon hair now no longer has hair growing out of one ear (whoops). Redownload if you want these improvements.


Details:

Store cfHairBandana: female, 2 recolorable channels (bandana and hair tie), disabled for random. Retextured by Carver.

Store cfHairBatterUpPonytail: female, 1 recolorable channel (hair tie), disabled for random.

Store cfHairBeehivePonytail: female, 1 recolorable channel (ribbon), disabled for random.

Store Frightful hair set hair without hairbands (no longer available)/cfhairBuckleyLaura: female, 4 recolorable channels (hair ties), disabled for random. Retextured by Buckley. Buckley's adult version can be found HERE.

Store Harmony headband hairstyle without butterflies/cfHairBuckleyWinifred: female, 2 recolorable channels (hairband and hair tie), disabled for random. Retextured by Buckley. Buckley's adult version can be found HERE.

Store Feathers and braids without feathers/cfHairBuckleyYolanda: female, disabled for random. Two versions: straight and slightly wavy. Straight version retextured by Buckley. Buckley's adult version can be found HERE.

Store cfHairCitySideBraids: female, disabled for random. Retextured by Serabiet.

Ambitions cfHairEP2StylistSweep: female, 1 recolorable channel (hair tie), disabled for random.

Pets cfHairEP5PonytailBraid: female, disabled for random.

University Life cfHairEP9DreadsSide: female, 4 recolorable channels (beads and hair tie), disabled for random. Retextured by i-like-teh-sims.

Store cfHairHighPonytail: female, 1 recolorable channel (hair tie), disabled for random.

Store cfHairPonytailAndRibbon: female, 1 recolorable channel (ribbon), disabled for random.

Store cfHairTierraLaBouff: female, 3 recolorable channels (tiara and flowers), disabled for random.

Store cuHairSkinnyDreads: unisex, 1 recolorable channel (hair tie), disabled for random.

Store Harmony headband hairstyle without butterflies/pfHairBuckleyWinifred: female, 2 recolorable channels (hairband and hair tie), disabled for random. Retextured by Buckley.

Generations pfHairEP4PonytailLow: female, 1 recolorable channel (hair tie), disabled for random.

Generations pfHairUpdoPlayfulRight: female, disabled for random.

Store pfHairHighPonytail: female, 1 recolorable channel (hair tie), disabled for random.

Store pfHairTheSitcomStyle: female, 1 recolorable channel (ribbon), disabled for random. A child version can be found HERE.



All of the hairs are under 4500 poly at lod 0 & 1, under 2000 poly at lod 2 and under 1000 poly at lod 3.
Exact polycounts are listed in the spoiler below.



The hairs don't have costum thumbnails, which means the game will generate them.

Not all the hairs are without flaws ❗ Some have some small texture oddities. The Buckley Winifred hair ties are only recolorable on the front for children, while the back has a hair texture, because I apparently messed something up. I managed to fix it for toddlers, but the child hair wouldn't co-operate. The child high ponytail hair decided to ignore part of the alpha map for whatever reason when I took the screenshots, because the Sims 3. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I wanted to add 2 more hairs: 1 for child and 1 for toddler, but those hairs had too many texture problems for now.
All the hairs have scalp textures, but the high ponytail one looks a bit odd because of the hair diffuse alpha. I edited the hair diffuse alpha a bit to make it look less odd, but it only marginally improved the look.

Control by Anubis, diffuse by... I'm not sure. Pooklet, maybe?


Rextextures, conversions and improvements are very welcome! These aren't my textures nor my meshes after all. Please improve any hairs with problems if you can and want to.


Thanks to Blender, Milkshape, TSRW, S3PE, S3OC, cmomoney's Pose Player, all pose creators, Wesley Howe's Milkshape plugins, Texture Tweaker, Mesh Tool Kit, gruesims and MaryJane for the tutorials.