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Author: csudibaba | Posted Oct 19, 2009 | 0 comments

After 9 weeks of Simlessness, it was such a joy to be back. I immediately created lots of new lots! :D And also started to create finally a story. The first part is almost ready... The new neighborhood is desert type, so most of the places are Middle-East etc kind of things. Like this one, the Sheherezad park.

Author: csudibaba | Posted Sep 21, 2009 | 1 comments

I had a total computer crash - hardware commiting suicide or what. Just dead. That's it. So came the torture part: reinstalling everything to the new machine. Well, after spending hours and hours with resetting all the stuff I was finally ready to play. (Or create.) But unfortunately, this new PC, which is actually a notebook wouldn't run it. First it started to run OK-ish, except some very strange bugs like not showing the textures. (The videocard is theoretically OK.) And after 3 times it just wouldn't start. I haven't played with the sims for 6 weeks now... Torture. All the projects suspended. Shit.

Author: csudibaba | Posted Aug 2, 2009 | 0 comments

I must admint I am totally unsatisfied with the result. It was just too difficult. Klimt was a genious, so how dare I to imitate any of his work. But I just have this artists series idea in my mind, I must follow through for the sake of following through. Perhaps to prove myself that I am not lazy to finish something that I began - like I normally do. (Too many projects parallely, e.g. 15 books that I started to read and read bits every now and then.)

So let me show you the inspiring pictures and the little details that drove me mad. Basically the "Tree of life" was the drive I used it's colours in the set and small details. The picture's left part is titled "Expectation" and the right part is "Fullfilment". Many times you can find them separately on posters, mugs, T-shirts etc. I am not sure, but it seems the lady on the left is totally jealous but in fact, she is jealous of herself - at a later stage of her own life. I think it is a very complex painting and full of little stories. I used CorelDraw to make the spirals (and actually all other  drawings, like triangles) and used other supplementary software because Corel is unable to export a decent jpg...

Of course Klimt's most famous painting is "The kiss", so I couldn't leave it out. I used the both the man's and the woman's dress pattern for a weird effect - the colours are totally unsync with the rest of the wall. But Klimt was shocking his audience back then, so I am trying to shock myself :D

Here are the small details I really loved here:

And here's what became of it:

Author: csudibaba | Posted Jul 17, 2009 | 0 comments

Well, I had to throw out the original FishTank. It just wouldn't want to work right. The sims could not arrive there and the whole thing crashed. So I created another one. Cautious - this time I kept it simple. But the lot was blessed by a good witch the first time I tried playing my sims there, so I hope this one will be fine. Here are a couple of pictures from the inside and outside.

Author: csudibaba | Posted Jun 28, 2009 | 1 comments

I have a strange technical problem and have no idea how to solve it. I have created a new community lot called The Fishtank. This is a restaurant with a lot of underwater feelings! I created it as usual and still my sims can't enter it. When the screen comes up their icons say "arrive" - normally this lasts until the taxi is there. But in this case the taxi wouldn't show up. Townies and other sims that live in the neighborhood are there, using the lot, having fun, but the family in question is uncontrollable. I have tried with other families, and it's all the same. I would hate to throw this lot away, I have worked so much on it!

Here's a picture:

Author: csudibaba | Posted Jun 15, 2009 | 2 comments

The thing is that I thought I can just make a story and that it will be easy. But the problem is that I actually need a story BEFORE playing the game. I have created my characters and put them in the game, started playing, made tons of screenshots, and than realized there's nothing interesting in the whole thing FOR OTHERS. For a publishable story, one needs just that: a story. An enjoyable thread of events, an adventure, a punchline, something that is unique. Cool shots with normal setups like going to school and work and love and divorce etc are not enough. I haven't given up, but hey, I am not a writer. So I am waiting for that little breeze of inspiration...:D Until that, here's a so called cool shot.

Author: csudibaba | Posted Mar 19, 2009 | 0 comments

I started to create a story. This will be my first. This will be connected to one of the TSR challenges I am currently playing. I introduced a character - a young man - whose looks and partial behaviour was inspired by my ex-boyfriends (well, from long ago in my teenagehood), so it's personally funny. I still have a problem finding good male hairs for my sim boys, though.

Author: csudibaba | Posted Feb 23, 2009 | 0 comments

So I uploaded Heidi's portrait finally. She is very sexy and very mean. And a cruel vampire. Well, not yet, I still have to turn her into one. That's going to complete I guess my efforts about recreating the characters in Twilight. It's high time now to really play with them...:D

And in the mean time, I turned back to the painters wall series, but it's really tough. It goes so slowly and sometimes I just run out of executable ideas. I mean, I know what I want to create but my graphics software skills are so limited. Also, I can't make the Body Shop work for me. It opens in like 20 minutes, and then when I try to start a project it gets me an error message, and that's it. I haven't found any useful solution in the forumes either. It's really a pity, because I have tons of projects on my mind.

Author: csudibaba | Posted Feb 19, 2009 | 0 comments

Well, it happened that my daughter decided to become a dark elf at the school carnival. So I had to educate myself on the subject. My friends recommended to read Salvatore's Homeland and the series about Drizzt Do'Urden, which is probably the basic dark elf. I liked the story and the settings a lot, having a vivid imagination I just HAD TO create a Sim Drizzt. But it's always difficult to find the right clothes, and objects and surroundings for non-modern and non-reallife characters.

Anyway, I started experimenting, and the hair I would love to get for Drizzt is something like on this picture below. I would appreciate help from anyone on this subject.

Author: csudibaba | Posted Feb 16, 2009 | 0 comments

Just that. I've decided to upload an unfurnished version. If someone really wants to play a story something like the Twilight, it really doesn't matter what kind of furniture Jake has, isn't it? I would try to pay more attention to the Cullen's house' furbishing anyway! (Or else, Esme would be upset, wouldn't she?)