Boreal Vibrance OATS - Default Cottage Living Animal Eyes

By
GaymerBorealis
Mods

Boreal Vibrance default eyes for CoL animals, with custom specular.

Oh hey, I'm not dead just yet, and I have some more eye defaults for ya!

This part covers the eye textures of all the farm animals and forest critters of Cottage Living, that is cows, llamas, chickens, rabbits and foxes! They're made to match the style of the rest of the Boreal Vibrance sets and give your animals vibrant and stylized eyes that still are accurate to the real life animals.

Features

Maxis-match sclera
Different and unique variants and a good variation of swatches
Custom subtle specular (eye gloss)
Fully handpainted with a slight "imperfect" illustration style
Species accurate; ie correct pupil shapes and side-facing herbivore eyes.

A note about the foxes

It seems fox eyes are currently bugged in the game (at least for me, even without mods) and simply overriding the actual fox eye textures would still just result in dark or cloudy looking eyes. There also was an issue where the nose, paw pad and lip/eye rim textures weren't showing. So as a work-around I've actually overriden a different texture layer file, originally containing just inner mouth textures, to also include my eye defaults as well as the missing nose and skin color details. I tried various texture files but this one was the only one that worked.

Anyway, my fox eye override work well (the fox in the pictures is an actual in-game fox with my override), no issues as far as I can tell (despite the less than optimal method of implementation lol), and you also get the bonus of a nose/lip/etc color fix. I even edited the head specular to include my custom one too.

Should this bug be fixed I'll update this mod, but until then this will have to do.

These new clear and vibrant eyes gives a lot of life and charm to your sims' furry and feathered friends!

I've done my very best to paint eyes that are accurate stylistic representations of the real life animals, because i'm a little nerd like that. For cows, llamas, chickens and rabbits I've placed the eye textures such that they'll be side-facing in their neutral position (they'll still animate the same, though I think they look a bit better there too) similar to how the eyes are positioned on these animals in real life.

Pupils are also accurate shapes; slit pupils for the foxes (the og textures did get that one right at least), round pupils for rabbits and chickens, and most importantly; horizontal pupils for cows and llamas. I honestly don't know why ungulates are always given round human pupils anytime they're stylized (with the exception of goats, do people not realize this is not a trait exclusive to goats??). Ahem, anyway.

And as always these eyes come with a custom subtle specular aka gloss/shine effect that's a lot less extreme than the vanilla one but still gives a nice, natural sheen.

Note: the above swatch chart shows the color of each animal variant, even if some of them use the same eye color/texture. Just so you can see what I've replaced with what.