Red Dunes- A desert neighbourhood built around an oasis.
Red Dunes is a decorated main neighbourhood with residential and community lots. There are no sims and no subhoods.
It is made using all EPs and SPs on a fully patched game. You will need a patched game with all EPs and SPs, or else the Ultimate Collection, to play this neighbourhood.
There is no custom content in this neighbourhood.
Neighbourhood ID: SRED UID: 2113
Terrain Type Desert
6 Community lots
17 Residential Lots
2 Apartment lots, each with 4 rentable units
Community:
Caldera Coffee & Noodles
No-one knows where the breakdancer lives.
Blue Flamingo Casino
Watch out for the sharp that counts the cards.
Mesa Mall
The gyros are a bit dodgy.
Mesa Spa
One of the masseuses is not too good.
Crater Beach
There are no waves, it's a lake. Be careful on the pier.
Residential:
105 Caldera Road
1 bedroom, 1 bathroom; §19,964
11 Mesa Loop
3 bedroom, 2 bathroom; §46,121
19 Mesa Loop
2 bedroom, 1 bathroom; §77,896
14 Caldera Road (Apartment)
4 rentable units; §1,378 to §3,486
10 Enderly Road
1 bedroom, 1 bathroom; §43,265
To edit the 10 Enderly Road lot highest levels you will need to use the cheat 'SetHighestAllowedLevel 8'
The Adobe Motel is zoned as a Hotel; your sims will be able to visit, check in and sleep there, but not save the game until they leave the lot. Ordinary townies may not show up there, but if you either add a vacation subhood, or else spawn some tourist sims, then these have a chance to turn up and check-in to a room.
Crater Beach has no waves; I did this deliberately as I envisaged it as being on a non-tidal desert salt lake. If you wish to have waves on this beach, you can download the
portal revealer and wave portals by Inge Jones to allow you to replace these. Load a standard beach lot in another neighbourhood to see correct pacement of the waves.
Portal revealer and wave portals by Inge Jones
Allow souvenirs in non-vacation hoods by Lord Darcy
Colour Enabler Package by Numenor (without this, the public toilets will be the wrong colour)
CEP Extra Qube by HugeLunatic (without this, the qube tables will be the wrong colour)
Bamboo texture fix by me
I used my own modded camera parameters to build this neighbourhood. It is recommended, but not necessary, to use a camera mod to play. There are several available on this site.
Portal revealer and wave portals by Inge Jones
Caldera Coffee & Noodles lot was built using
Sunnyside 3X1 community lot by Aelflaed
Hood lighting remedy by Criquette
Unlocked career rewards by SophieDavid
Hood Deco allowed in lots by SaraMK
More Hood Deco allowed in lots by Zazazu
Colour Enabler Package by Numenor
CEP Extra Qube by HugeLunatic
Unlocked buyable items by HugeLunatic
Notownieregen by JM Pescado
You do not need to download these to play Red Dunes.
Pond and sea water overhaul by Voeille
Radiance lighting by dDefinder and GunMod
You do not need to download these to play Red Dunes.
Thank you to:
Special thanks to Tashiketh for Modthesims, and to all of the people who have discovered the inner workings of the game and written tools and tutorials to help people like me.
Condolences to Alvin Chip who died several times during the testing of this neighbourhood.
Huge thanks to Rush, Pretty Maids, Miles Davies, Weather Report, Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson for the music I listened to when creating this neighbourhood.
Custom installation instructions! READ ME!
In addition to the normal installation instructions, this download also has a custom instruction, as follows:
1.
Download: Click the download link to save the .rar or .zip file(s) to your computer.
2.
Extract the zip, rar, or 7z file
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3. This is a Main Neighbourhood.
Download SSIN.7zip and extract to Documents\ EA Games\ The Sims 2\ Neighbourhoods
Please make sure to read it before commenting that it doesn't work. :)
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