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#1
1st Feb 2018 at 4:03 PM
Last edited by gazania : 1st Feb 2018 at 10:17 PM.
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This one is hopefully an easy question ... sink or not?
I'm rebuilding my Newman house in the Community Spirit contest from the ground up in a fresh game to make sure it's copasetic. It might be part of the Pets theme, though that is a little iffy because I had made it some time ago. Even so, it has already taken me about four or five hours of looking at screenshots, looking for the few items of CC I wanted (it was quite the search, since the mesh for one item was on a site that no longer exists, so I had to find it elsewhere), to rebuild it and make a few corrections. Six items of CC ... the cabinets (plus mesh ... no cabinets in a kitchen looks really odd!!), the smoke alarm hood range (plus mesh) and a backsplash (plus mesh). No womrat and bird cage .. the player can put them in there, and if you move/delete a few things, there is still room for them. It went a little over budget, but I feel there is no need to keep it in that budget outside of the contest. I did make it a point to keep the increase no higher than 10% of the budget, so it's just under 38,000 Simoleons (limit would be 38,500).I'm about 70% done. It is not an exact representation, because I altered a small detail or two and might have moved something a hair left or right, but it's pretty close. I need to add terrain (Maxis), check quickly to see if playability is OK (it should be, since I did not alter anything having to do with routing, and I put a sub-roof under the roof, so weather should be fine) and aesthetics (did I forget a wallpaper?), but I would like to put this in the queue in two or three days. I will not have time to finish it after Sunday ... too many doctor visits.
The thing is sinking the foundation. The original house plans had a low porch, so I sunk the house two steps in the contest. Small dogs can climb up the stairs easily, but without a mod, large dogs cannot. That was fine for the contest, but it may be a pain for players who don't want to add an extra mod to allow the large pets to pass, and I'm not sure if cats can use a sunken foundation. My cats seemed to be house cats in the contest! (I gave them a job in one iteration, but they wouldn't leave. I could test that again.) Rabbie requires a mod for toddlers to visit, true, but it could be re-worked for school-aged children instead of toddlers if the person didn't want the mod. I'm trying to keep the Newman lot simple, with no more than six CC items needed for it to work as pictured. That includes meshes. (Does not include CEP ... that is pretty much an essential mod.)
I always package lots sunken and unsunken because sometimes, I prefer the unsunken lot in a few situations. Aesthetically, it looks OK either way.
So sink, don't sink, or offer both versions (again, since I had two Naftali versions)?
EDIT. Might be nice to actually post my WIP ... or my WIP based on the original lot. It really hasn't changed very much, but it would save a search looking for the original!
Unsunk lot. Actually, the more I'm looking at it, the more I'm leaning toward NOT sinking it. I was kind of up in the air about it in the contest as well ... 50/50 whether to do it or not. it needs terrain and some brown stuff in the kennel area before packaging, but it's almost done.
There are no steps because you add steps AFTER you sink the lot. This is the backup lot I package before I sink, just in case something goes very, very wrong, which it can if you mess up!
I fully agreed with the judge in the contest who wrote that the color scheme in the kitchen was bland and needed a little breaking up. This is the type of kitchen I wouldn't mind! I cook a lot ... maybe you can tell. I really like the backsplash, and admit to using backsplashes a whole lot in my personal builds. I don't have a backsplash in my real-life kitchen. I hate to tell you what the wallpaper looks like after years of stuff splattering!
I have weird requirements for personal lots in my game. Cabinets and backsplashes are BOTH musts.
Original contest entry:
Since I no longer have a budget, but still want to keep it below 38,500, I've been playing around with that fence. Problem is that because of the back porch, many Maxis fences look like they connect to nothing in particular. The fence may change. Or not.
Other than a picture here or a slight color-change or item switch there, and no womrat or bird cage. the lot looks the same as it does in the contest. Since it's already been critiqued, I don't want to make too many changes.
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#2
1st Feb 2018 at 8:46 PM
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Hard to answer, though
I like the lot, and I think the foundation with the pebbles looks lovely.
The lot would probably look just as good if it is sunk though
Windows 10 and the Ultimate Collection
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=568275
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=614833
I like the lot, and I think the foundation with the pebbles looks lovely.
The lot would probably look just as good if it is sunk though
Windows 10 and the Ultimate Collection
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=568275
http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=614833
#3
4th Feb 2018 at 12:29 AM
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Why not use Moo's Grid Adjuster http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=327439
I love that for shrinking foundations (rather than sinking them)
I love that for shrinking foundations (rather than sinking them)
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