Introducing The House From The Future!

Sorry, no pictures at the moment. But here's what to expect:

Two 2035 Audi RSQs
4x4 lot
Lots of glass
Futuristic items (duh)
Lots of flat-screen TVs

And a very high price.
But it isn't a mansion.



The price is 262,185. Even though it's sized like a normal home.

You might want to have a look at this awesome tutorial before you continue working on that: Tutorials:Building Great Realistic Houses - From the Ground Up^wiki

I know it's written for TS3, but it works just as well in TS2 - and if you don't like the traditional style of house that's used in the pics, you can still apply the same suggestions and methods to building a modern-style house. It really does make building interesting, aesthetically pleasing houses much less of a mystery.

There's a few things you need to improve on, as Nysha said, that tutorial could help on making it realistic.

- It looks a bit to plain, a house needs to be more Homely
- Could we have some inside pictures, we need to judge the inside as well as the outside, maybe some more angles of the house too
- Some people may disagree, but that wall covering has seams, and it makes it look, unrealistic, i'd say
- The outside is dull, maybe add some outside decor, like trees, plants, maybe even floor paint
- You only really need 1 telescope, more just puts the price up for no apparent reason
- The roofs don't look right to me, even the modernest of homes, wouldn't have full glass roofs all over
- For the house size, the lot size is a bit too big, makes the front look empty and useless

That's enough constructive Criticism for one day, take what i said into account though

This house is to go outside the realistic. Hence the word "future".

Just because it's futuristic doesn't mean you shouldn't consider they're suggestions; most of which I agree with.

Uh ok. But how do I build a realistic future house?

Take a look at some of the super cool ultra-modern houses available here and elsewhere around the community for ideas (for example, have you seen Serenity? it's for TS3, not TS2, but something along those lines with the cool arches, but done in more "futuristic" textures and some colourful lighting... I'd totally believe a spaceship would dock there instead of boats... or what about Modern Contours? or 8 White Water Ave.?). I've seen some amazing stuff done with CFE'd wavy roofs and that kind of thing... A more varied structure, breaking up the boxyness into various "chunks" painted in different textures can help a lot too. Of course don't just -copy- those, but they should be good inspiration and lead you to some techniques that would be helpful to learn.

And if you must copy a home design to turn into Sims 2 content, consider the homes found on Google's image searches. In all those cases, there's either green grass with trees in the background, or it's a house surrounded by some water & green grass. It's as though their future is environmentally friendly with abstract shapes, rather than a box house.

Good news to NissanGTRFan. If you can make the boxy house look right in game, it's okay.



Here is the direct link if you want to read the whole threadhttp://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=512790

eliseluong: I don't think that it is very helpful for NissanGTRFan to take the boxy-houses-debate from one thread to another. If you think that this house is boxy and that boxy houses shouldn't be allowed on MTS, that's fine, but I think it's more useful to give OP some constructive hints on how to improve their building skills.

Klaartje68: Cross reference with another thread is fine on the very same subject. I have seen a lot of nice looking boxy houses got approved and published on this site, and got lots of downloads. If the Creator Guidelines were followed strictly, I wouldn't have found any boxy house published here. The fact that there are plenty boxy houses published here, I knew the guidelines were flexible. NissanGTRFan just needs to make it looks right in the sims game, as stated by Leefish, with some landscaping.

As one example, check out this boxy apt here, http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=500011, created by me by the way. I experienced no resistance when I submitted the lot, it got approved over night, with a total score of 144/145 possible stars, which is 99.31%. This is the third highest score I have gotten from my uploaded houses here. If MTS allowed one creator to upload a boxy house, they should allow other creators to do the same.

I think the staff doesn't mind box-y houses, but do mind just box houses. Also that house really isn't a box. It's rectangles place upon each other. Plus it's far more interesting than seeing a box with landscaping. It's varied.

Here's an example of a box-y house, but with plenty of interesting design outside. Technically, still a rectangle, but if it didn't have landscaping/interesting looking designs, I'm sure the staff would have complained about auto-roofing, and box shape.

And then here's another example of a box-y house, although I'm guessing the intent is to use as apartment rows.

Also, these are recent submissions. I didn't even have to use the examples of the Econo-Box designs, created 7 years ago for this website.

I don't believe that is what is meant by 'boxy' There is a huge difference between a box just put on the ground and your upload. One I like very much by the way, I have it in my game.

It depends if the building is a house, apartment or a commercial building. Also what style it is and if it's based on a real building or not.

eliseluong - Please do not turn this feedback thread into a debate about boxy houses. Please stick to giving constructive feedback on the lot in this thread.

EDIT: gah! more posts! So for everyone, this is not a debate thread on boxy houses. We have a debate forum over in the community section if you wish to debate the issue.

Dear HugeLunatic: Sorry about that, I didn't mean to turn this into a debate thread of boxy house, I will set up a new thread for this topic as suggested. I think the definition of a boxy looking house needs to be clarified, it is kind of vague as written right now on the creator guidelines. I too got confused by jo's post#13 now.

Edit: Add link. http://www.modthesims.info/showthre...d=1#post4264783.

d-dgjdhh: I followed your google links to look at the real life futuristic houses. They are amazing! Absolutely stunning. Only one or two on that page could be built in the sims2 game. I consider myself have mastered all the building techniques of the game, and still there is no way I can build exactly the same thing using the sims2 building tools (with cheats or no cheat). Each structure needs a whole lot of unique custom content made specifically for it.

NissanGTRFan: I understand why people like boxy houses, because it is practical and economical. Boxy house provides the most living area but cost the least, it's just math. Nevertheless, to increase the chance of getting approved, you needs to make it looks right in game, and adding some landscaping. To answer your other question of how to build a realistic future house, you may want to take a look at this one here http://vogerbitssims.freeforums.org...house-t116.html, this is my kind of realistic futuristic house. cheers.



Hi, HP has answered his definition of a box, yes, it includes rectangular shape, http://see here http://modthesims.i...ad.php?t=514032

Then again, it is possible to do curves. Many of those houses may be able to be made in the Sims 2, with some determination:
http://www.modthesims.info/browse.php?gs=0&u=3555&f=143
http://www.modthesims.info/browse.p...&u=756953&f=143
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=461322

That's just a couple of examples. I'm sure that there are lots of other examples. Yes, you may need to create CC, but that's different than being impossible.

None of the house you showed on the links look like the ones on google. Good luck with the CCs. Let me know when you upload one, I will download it.

But, I already did one of them. One which many people considered impossible.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=461322

The links that I provided were meant to show what's possible in the game. Only one of them was on d_dgjdhh's list of houses; the rest show techniques rather than specific houses.

Close, yes, 100% nope, where are the floor to ceiling curved windows? Need more CCs to make it exactly the same. Nevertheless, I did hit the 'thanks' button.

Alright guys; I appreciate that everyone's trying to provide info and ideas which might be helpful to the OP, but we have gotten rather off-track. Please stick to feedback on the OP's house from here on out.