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I bet we all like to click on those convinient table entry links so much, and usually not think about the tedious work needed to put them there.
I got a bunny sticker today! Thank you, MTS Staff. :lovestruc
But the star sticker stayed, even though I no longer have a picked creation. I'm hoping the moderation is not thinking: "Better put something decent up already, and try to earn that star!" I guess once received stickers can't be replaced or taken away, only added, even when they don't reflect exact state of creator's achievements anymore.
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I think that sounds like a good reason to upload something
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The only thing Frederick Garnett cared about in college were his bike and his computer. He studied computer science, and he could spend hours just cleaning his bike, making sure the tire pressure was exactly right for the next trip he planned and sometimes he even went biking in the Driftwood Hills. A lot of things changed when he met Dana Elliot. She was lively, always the soul of the party and when she liked him, Frederick just fell for her. It wasn't long before she told him she was pregnant. Frederick wanted to marry her right away, but she wouldn't hear of it (What would she look like in a wedding dress pregnant? And no drinking juice on her on wedding day? Never!). So Rosalie was born out of wedlock and got her mothers surname. When Rosalie was a toddler and old enough to spend a night with the babysitter, Frederick insisted on making things right and married Dana. To keep things simpler, he took his wifes name. But Dana just wasn't made for family life. When they moved away from college, into their first real home in the driftwood community, the first thing Dana did was flirt with the first neighbour that walked by. So Frederick, broken-hearted, took his little princess and moved her into their own home. Dana still visits sometimes, and he still dreams of her kisses...
foundation level.
Ground Floor. Fire Alarm in the kitchen, Phone next to the bathroom door and in the office.
Daddy's office is locked to Rosalie, but she can enter his bedroom. She hates red, so there is no red in the living room even though it is Frederick's favourite colour. Required object is the chair Frederick is sitting on.
Frederick works as a web designer because he can do it from home and have an eye on his Princess when she comes home from school. He wants to be a gamer, so he might get a job when Rosalie is old enough to be left home alone.
Rosalie got the big bedroom because she also has her "office" in there. She picked all her own colours. Since she loves purple and pink, that is what her room and clothes are all about. She likes having two different wallpapers to separate bedroom from "office space". From her window, she can see all the lovely flowers in the garden. The garden is Rosalies responsability. She likes dancing around the flowers in her fairy costume. I had to remove the screen to take the pictures, I hope that's allright.
Frederick's Workshop. He still likes working on his bike. It's a good one, so the workshop is kept locked.
Both of them like blue, so Frederick kept the living room and kitchen in this colour (bathroom too, actually).
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I built the Lambert house in AGS to ensure I made no further mistakes about what was and wasn't CC, and then transferred the lot to Crooked Beach in my full game for playtesting and eventual picture taking. This price shot is the only one taken in AGS, and the only one I couldn't get the gridlines out of. Thanks to the number of rooms and the necessity for far more complicated corners than I would normally have, it was hard to keep the pictures down to the correct number and I may yet have counted wrong. I realize some of them are also a bit crooked, but I am so tired of taking pictures and still pretty sick, so, it is what it is.
First up, let's meet some requirements.
Welcome to the home of the Lamberts of Crooked Beach: Leon and Rachel, Marina, Sabrina, Bert, Ernie, Elvira, and Elvis.
The foundation shot also serves as a handy floorplan for the playground. You'll notice that the house is on the corner and the play equipment is pretty close to the road - so I pretty much had to afford a fence! If I'd gone for anything more expensive, I couldn't have done it. Note koi pond and bird feeder in side yard, which are visible from the kitchen windows in an area less trampled by the thundering hordes than the rest of the yard.
Ground floor plan. Yes, the bathroom is enormous; yes, they'll have to figure out how to fit more seating into the kitchen once the toddlers grow up. Sufficient unto the day and all that. The plan was to hang a bunch of family photos and some offspring-generated artwork on the walls down here, but I simply had not the energy. Over time, they'll fill up.
Upper floor plan. It bugs me a little that I couldn't fit the bathroom on the other side of the house and have a proper wet wall on the building, but it made routing infinitely more difficult, so playability won over realism here. Rachel and Leon have the smallest bedroom because they have the simplest needs. Sabrina and Marina accept their direct access to the nursery and the responsibilities it brings as the price of being able to work out their own ways to share space. They had identical budgets and are a little proud of how their room came out, particularly that they were able to get different-colored wallpaper in the same pattern. Toddlers Elivra and Elvis are comfortable in their nursery and prone to getting up early and playing quietly with their toys awhile before crawling into other rooms looking for people to feed them. Bert and Ernie have turned their whole room into an extension of their treehouse. All the desks are good for helping with homework. As for the treehouse...well...
It was hard to tell what was going on with the treehouse with the tree in the middle of it, so I took it out and made a technically-not-required-but-I-think-necessary floorplan shot. Is it cheating for a treehouse to be essentially a labyrinthine balcony that can be walked to straight out of the boys' door? Maybe; but I didn't want to build the fort type of house and this seemed to me the simplest no-CC solution to the problem of accessibility. No roof, because about half the treehouses I was ever in had no roof because the tree was in the way. The boys use it a lot, is the main thing; and they share with their sisters and parents, who use the easel and sometimes enjoy lunch at the card table. The toddlers have yet to make it out here, which is just as well as they could fit under that railing easily. (Again, couldn't afford anything better.) As for what's supporting it - cantilevering and bracing against the branches from below. Honest.
Roof is not inspired and if I had more energy I'd work harder at it, but - I don't. It is what it is.
Rear view. The slatted ceiling was the best I could do to indicate the bracing under the treehouse.
And finally..
A shot of the boys' room showing the Waderfall picture, along with some bits of the boys' activity table artwork. Bert's heading to bed right after school because he was up all night on the playground and then had to go to school. It's okay - he'll get that homework done. I know that looks like the autumn leaf carpet on the ceiling there, but it's wallpaper. All the ceiling treatments are wallpaper; an old-fashioned dodge, but a good one. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
All right, that was nine pictures, leaving me nine with which to show all the rooms at sims'-eye view. Ain't happening. Too many rooms, with too many obscuring corners! So let's cover the most important things.
You've already seen part of the boys' room; have another part, while Sabrina tucks Bert in. Rachel and Leon don't like that the boys don't have a proper bookcase of their own, but their favorites fit on the shelves over their bed and Marina and Sabrina wanted to keep most of the children's books they grew up with anyhow. I'm afraid the boys aren't big readers.
Elvis and Elvira's nursery, where again that's definitely starry-sky wallpaper on the ceiling, not carpet at all.
Sabrina's half of the girls' room, all black, red, and purple. She wanted the whole Goth bedroom set but had to bow to budget considerations and at least the chair and bed are black.
Leon helps Marina get her fun up in her light, bright half of the room. Also couldn't get the full bedroom set.
Oh, yeah, Leon and Rachel sleep up here, too.
Living room, from play area, with bonus view of kitchen. Believe it or not, even with visitors I never had one traffic jam on those stairs!
And everything in the play corner is fully accessible!
Got to have a playground shot, right?
And one last angle on that treehouse! I think I've counted right and that's the 18 allowed for a two-story house. If I counted wrong let me know and I'll take down this one.
Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
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What picked creation? You only have one creation uploaded and it's a feature. If you have a missing achievement post to site or creator issues.
@Phaenoh Isn't it just. I messed up that linking 'Score' for round 2, four times last night! At least not many people would be on to see my mess ups since most are asleep.
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There are a lot of new entries recently It’s good to see that most people keep going, I hope there will be so many contestants up to the end
Also, I realised I never posted pictures of my application entry edited to use in my main save, so here it is. I placed it in Oasis Valley near the road with Moroccan-modern buildings; while it isn’t that style (it’s modern with tikki elements), it still fits there because of the outside colours.
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Peni, I love your treehouse. I think you built without CC, but if you did want to add a support or two, the angled OMSPs plus columns might work very well. How funny about wallpapered ceilings. I must admit it would have never occurred to me to put coloured wallpaper on a ceiling. It's common to use plain white with texture here (aaaargh... textured wallpaper... how I despise you!)
That is interesting Jo about pool fences, I was reading about this the other day, I think it is only Australia and some of the Southern US states which require fencing by law. I've seen a few residential pools in various homes in Europe, several with children, and none of them fenced. In fact a friend moved away from a beautiful house when she had her second child in part because she was forever anxious about her toddler around the pool. It was interesting because reading about the alarmed gates etc you can get made me think I should probably fence my sims' pools in more often than I do (rarely).
I use the sims as a psychology simulator...
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@Peni Griffin don’t you have a mod that makes the roofs lighter? The roof shown in the price picture is much darker. |
Huh. So it is. I don't think I do. It's the sort of thing I never notice so I don't know why I'd download one, but I suppose it might've piggybacked on something else. Or it might be a difference in the lighting for time of day? Or some fluctuation in my monitor? I have no idea.
As for wallpaper on the ceiling; my own house is 100 years old and in some rooms still has original wallpaper on the ceilings. It's very faded and stained now, but when we were repapering the dining room and had to pull the old stuff down and got a close look at it, we could tell it had been beautiful stuff, with a leaf pattern done in metallic copper. So since then the sky's the limit on what I'll consider putting on my ceilings.
Ugly is in the heart of the beholder.
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YESSSSSS! I got the exact emoticon I was hoping for!!! BEST SCORE EVAR! :lovestruc |
I just now noticed this post.
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MystAngel - I think all of us appreciate you finding the links for Jo.
Jo, I hope you get a chance to take a day off and take your kids to look at kangaroo's or something ( - I think you deserve it.
As for the judges - well, they are going to have a seriously hard time in this round! I am off to work over the weekend, but the fermented fruit juice bar is fully stocked : See you all on (my) Monday!
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Penni, the lot seems like a family paradise. About the roof... if you don't want to make a new CC-free Sims 2 folder for a contest, maybe you can package the lot and scan it with clean installer? Although, to be true, I don't know how it handles default replacements, or mods that affect game environment, since I don't have any. But that can wait; if you're sick, you should rest and only do fun things that relax you. Personally, don't think the roof thing is a big deal anyway.
Having multiple TS2/TS3 save folders is my regular playstyle in any case, not just for this contest. For whatever new theme, or hood, or type of play, or CC bundle - I start a completely clean game and add only what is needed. It's easier for me to back the game up that way, put a little description about what it contains and easily find it when needed. Also, that is how is easier for me to play and use it in the active game folder; it is smaller, cleaner, it runs smoother...
Glad I could help, Justpetro. You'll be missed, see you soon.
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simsfreq, I understand Peni took the price picture in her AGS hood where she built the house, and took the other pictures in her main game. So it looks to me like she's got something in her main game that affects the colour of the roof. It's a bit odd, because I thought lighting mods went in the Program Files and affected everything including AGS games. Unless of course her AGS game is on another computer. Jo could you just accept that the roof is really the colour it appears in the price picture and give her the No-CC bonus anyway?
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Voeille, I absolutely ADORE your lush desert. How do you do that? I want an entire hood like that. My desert hoods keep looking like the American West during a 10 year drought. (Which is cool on it's own, but I want yours too!)
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@Phaenoh your Strangetown looks interesting, and I see you added roads too Mine is a bit random, its subhood Oasis Valley is a bit more organised, but still unfinished as I decorate my hoods gradually – every added lot involves adding more hood deco.
As for desert gardens, I make sure that there is a smooth transition between grass terrain paint and sand (this set turned out to be useful for that), and that the terrain under plants is grass, not sand. Firstly I start with the transition terrain paint, then a grass one, and I adjust it after placing bushes and flowers (but before placing trees so they don’t get in the view). Sometimes I use colder green and cold plants colours in general, like here:
Or use warmer shades and have either mixed colours of plants, or mostly warm ones, like here:
Sometimes I also add typical desert plants in addition to that, or stick to those almost exclusively.
Many years ago someone somewhere said that plants look better in groups, and that is true – I place plants in clusters, close to each other, with only a few lone ones, which creates a natural lush effect, like here:
But again, whatever style I decided for, I always make sure to have grass terrain paint under plants (or the grass-sand transition for desert plants, such as cacti), and if I create gardens in grass hoods, I always have darker grass under plants, it really improves the looks You can’t make a great garden without using terrain paints, unless you completely cover the area with plants so the ground isn’t visible at all
And I’ve got several stars but never a feature too, but maybe at some point I’ll manage to create something spectacular enough, who knows
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As far as my entry for this round is concerned: It's mostly done, but I'm not completely satisfied with it, yet. =/
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And what recolours? I post a lot so I don’t always remember what I mentioned in which thread
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