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Hmm...
Well, I installed GIMP and got the DDS plugins...and I can't work out how to install them! LOL!
Think I'll save up for Adobe Photoshop and work the DDS plugins into that instead because it's a hell of a lot easier having an automated install wizard put the plugins into the program for you rather than having to code the damn things like you seem to have to do when using GIMP. I'm pretty good with computers but not that good. LOL!
Think I somehow managed to make a texture of Alice Cooper in the pattern creator though...I think...well, I've installed it into the game. Will just have to see how that goes when I actually start the game up. I'm not hopeful.
Going to work on celebrity Sims for the moment, I think. Will start on texturing tshirts and the like after I've bought Photoshop.
September 27th, Release of Traditional Kitchen Set
Finally!!!! LOL, My traditional kitchen set is scheduled for publication on September 27th. The kitchen has a vintage flair and spicy red appliances. The kitchen features all new meshes and recolors. Featured meshes are: 2-tile stove (3 decorative slots), 2 stove hoods, 6 styles of upper cabinets, hutch (3 decorative slots), and lots more...
Good Eats!
Carolyn
Sidetable
More progress for the Modest Dining set. Here is a preview of a sidetable with 3 recolrable parts.
Soon I'm finished with this small diningset.
CD
Head's Up!
Just a head's up for all of you, in 24 hours I'll be taking my computer down and packing it up. No no, no freak outs. Let me explain.
On Friday, 9-25 (my 23rd birthday), I'll be closing on my first house. :D ...all weekend long we'll be moving our things in. With any luck, we'll be completely done by Sunday afternoon (we don't have much stuff and the house comes fully furnished).
So, I will be away from tomorrow afternoon until probably Monday. Maybe not...it really depends on how long I can go without my interent. =)
Anywho, I have a few things that'll be published on the days I'm not here...so, remember to keep checking back during that time.
Blah
Hello...
Just a quickie blog post.
Having a few problems on this site.
Whenever I upload one of my creations the item goes through but the page goes blank which is a bit odd!
Also sometimes it wont let me rate screenshots/Stories etc no matter how many times i click it...even when refreshing...but yet other times it does it first time!
Maybe it's just my internet connection lol.
Anyway got some more items coming soon!
Thanks for the comments! <3
Dabaling in Creating
Well... over the last few days or so i have been thinking about creating my own items to share with you all at TSR.
I am now in the process of creating Walls and maybe Flooring to match. I am taking my time with it because i am new to this and want everything to be perfect.
I had a little trouble at the beginning but with the wonderful help, patience and guidance received from Missy_Sceeter, i finally managed to create my first wall. Hurray! I was so pleased with myself.
It really makes you concentrate and i can understand now how the other creators here at TSR feel plus it can take ages to create a wonderful item. *Phew that was a mouth full*
I will submit my creations in due course so please bear with me.
Thank you for reading my Blog. :)
I need your help!
Hey all. I am trying to do a Sims 3 version of a music video that I did for Sims 2, and a lot of people loved it. So, all I ask for, are a few conversions. Thank you in advance.
Hair Conversion from DLMulsow's Sim~Antics - Kavar Havok Hair in Natural Colors - Registration is Required to view the post.
Please, and thank you.
Sim Conversion to go with that hair...
His name is Jack from LianaSims2 net. Here is a picture. I do not need the peircings. Thanks!
The Female Sim Conversion - Not sure where I found her, but she was a vampire when I downloaded her! hehe. 
Please, let me know where I may get this stuff. I am not willing to pay, so I would like this done for free. Please, and thank you again!
~LS3alexis
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View my forum post here: http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?p=3858369#post3858369
Poll results and a little rambling
Heya. I still am leaving my poll open. Sims 3 got 13 votes and Sims 2 - 11 votes
Thing now is I am going to take a little break from TS3. I do not want to destroy my computer just because of the hardware errors I am encountering from the game or at least have sorted this out. So it will take me a while to post Sims 3 screens. :/ I wish that TS3 do not have this bugs. To be honest I never encountered hardware problems like this with my TS2. I have a high-end gaming PC in which TS2, TS3, and my other games - Crysis, Tomb Raider, Second Life and Lost Planet are installed. I am really disappointed that I can run my Sims 2 games [All EP and SP plus big, big game modifications] plus almost 16GB of CC's as well as all my other games with no problem at all. [that includes another EA game -- Crysis but with TS3?] :(I really don't want to think its complete waste of my money. But is it?
The gaming tower was built especially for TS3. More than enough than the actual TS3 game requires. Has Quad Core Processors, ginormous RAM, 750GB hardrive, 9800GTX graphics and all the fancy stuff. All drivers updated, scanning viruses and spamwares everyday... For every CC I install in TS3, I play my game and test for about 1 hour max. Even double checking all downloaded CC's [scanning for virus and such]. While working on my video I started to get BSOD. I haven't encountered BSOD's until I started to play with a newly created family for the video. My Sim family actors, they are 5 in the household. One Mom, 2 daughters (children), one father and one son. None of them are using custom content even in their houses when I'm not filming. Prolly thinking it's the number of Sims per household? I have other household with 8 residents and have no problems playing with them - NO BSOD. In the first 20 scenes that I already filmed, I did not encounter any problems. Now, the headache started when I played with the family with kids. It's driving me nuts. My game will either quit to desktop or ka-boom get BSOD. I looked for whatever I could have missed in the process. There's two lighting hack I have in the game, plus four more mods that kills certain unrealistic animations in TS3. They are fully tested and working in my game with no conflicts at all. But to be on the safe side and since most of these are still in its beta stages, I am only using that for filming. They are uninstalled when I'm on gameplay. Other than that, I don't have any heavy hacks or core mods installed. My TS3 game is still pretty clean and CC's very organized. I clean all the cache files once it get to a certain limit or installing new defaults. When I played with the family, [they aren't dressed to the max with CC's for the movie, just skilling them and developing their relationships] I don't get BSOD. I zoom in and out and can play long, 2 hours at the max - that's my limit. Now when I'm ready to film and shoot them with the correct CC's I need for the scene, in less than a minute, my game will get a BSOD! I really don't know what to do because all the CC's I have are tested. The only possibility I was looking to are the two custom hairs from Rose. They are fully tested and working in my game. No crash or quit to desktop. However, the BSOD's are only happening when my Sims are using those hairs. :/ I have tested and retested them for how many times, and they seemed okay, my game never crashed or quit to desktop. Only this time, Sim kids are wearing them. I'm going to delete these particular hairs from my game and will still have to see. I tried playing with other families and don't get BSOD at all. Only in that particular household. I really do not want to delete them just yet. I still have to shoot 8 more scenes with them. :( Starting fresh/Redoing the family would take an awfully long time and am really not looking at that as an option. *Sigh* I guess the most reasonable fix for this atm is to clean all my TS3 saved games that I have and start clean again. Geez, I'm already tired. :( This game is built this way and it will stay this way for long...
I'll just take a break from TS3. I know BSOD has something to do with faulty hardware installation but is not likely in my case. Only happening in TS3... I know my PC that well, hardware or whatever is causing the error, I am not going to risk destroying my PC by playing TS3.
Too bad, I actually love TS3. :(
Assignments....
Well, I'm getting through my assginments slowly but surely. I'm trying to get my story done in between doing this but forgive me if they're taking slightly longer to come out. I've got an exam in a few minutes so fingers crossed, I'm pretty confident about it though so I should be ok! ;-) I'm looking out the window right now and there's a huge dust storm out there so I don't really want to go out, but what can I do? haha. Well, I better go, ciao!
Excited about a upcoming pattern
<Dances>
Ok, I am so excited about one of the patterns I will have upcoming in a day or so. It is a Indian/Oriental carpet pattern. It is extremely detailed and I just love it. I am SOOOOO happy with how it turned out. Learned a couple new techniques for working with something so tight.
Anyways, hope you all enjoy it, I know my Sims sure do.
Me & Sims
Oh how I love to create! I really do love building & making new pets! OK I'm not that fond of making the packages up......that is not nearly as enjoyable to me as the creating part within the game is. HOWEVER........I do it because of all the wonderful people who download. The comments keep me inspired to keep on submitting. The kudos we get for uploading are a nice way of "payment", but the best payment of all are the wonderful comments I see on my creations. I got pretty good at making MAXIS look good (yes thats right people "MAXIS can look good") while I was unable to have my game run letalone WITH custom content. But now even though I am able to have all sorts of cc goodies......I'll still mostly upload in 100% MAXIS ONLY! I know I could probably get a few more people downloading my lots if I used cc......& I probably will use cc in lots here & there.........but I just think it takes a bit more "imagination" to put together a nice 100% MAXIS lot. It's just an opinion that it's easier to make lots "sell" with cc than MAXIS.......but I'd rather stick to MAXIS. My Mom asked if there was any way to "get paid" for making all these lots & pets.......eh not really. If some day I got to be an SA......OMG that would be SOOO AWESOME!!! Free TSR membership........BRING IT ON! BUT as I said before......it's the wonderful comments that keeps me submitting. If I were doing the building JUST FOR ME.......I'd use what ever cc I like cuz there's no problem using whatever for your own use. So I guess this is mostly a "thank you" to all of the TSRians who've left me lovely comments & words of encouragement. <3 <3 <3 <3 <3
What would I change about Sims 3? Well...
There are many but small things I miss from the previous Sims games and expansion packs that I would've like to have seen in Sims 3. However I do completely get why everything couldn't have been put in..
What I would bring in from Sims 1 & 2...
- Guinea pigs! I thought they were great!
- Hot Date was great for going out but also buying cool new stuff like jewelry was great to give to a loved one! It would be cool if Sims 3 had this option...
- Getting ill was a realistic feature.. being able to get time off work because you were bitten on those fantastic guinea pigs with the chance of death was amazing!
- You didn't have to garden! You could pay someone to do it for you!
- You could actually see the buildings your Sim went to when they went to town.
- Being able to do things like make out and Wohoo in the car... or even Wohoo in public!
- Sims dating... You should have that option rather than tour an army base... not very romantic... Bring back fancy dining and being rated on your dating skills then getting gifts from it!
- Shopping for clothes and groceries... at the time I was annoyed that you didn't have all the clothes in your wardrobe already but thinking back I did like my Sim going out an trying on stuff etc. With the groceries I liked them being delivered online when I felt lazy.
- Having the option to invite the Headmaster over to get your kids into private school was was fantastic feature even if I was angry with him most of the time for not accepting!
- Riding a bike places rather than driving
- Not having loading screens
- Events happening around the town
- People can stay over
- The wishes are a lot more interesting
- You get to go to neighbors houses
- You choose their traits to make it more realistic
- Sneezing and coughing, slamming the fridge door and getting annoyed at the draws not opening is a nice realistic feature...
Genius!
This being my first blog I am going to jabber on about my Sim and how she has gained amazing skill levels. To be honest I'm quite proud of myself.
Basically I told myself that I would create a character who lives in a dingy little bungalow alone, with hardly any money. Shamefully after about a week I got frustrated with her continuously going on how how she hasn't had enough fun, food or sleep as she spent her life working so I could get her to have more luxuries.
I was naughty and went against my rule of no money cheats. I decided to use it once or twice to make the bungalow respectable. Feeling disappointed in myself i made up for it making sure that my sim was the best in every skill and then I would get her to complete every goal...
After a while she made it to the top of her journalism career, met someone who moved in and brought even more money into the house, making it easier for her to get higher up in her skills! I spent long enough trying to find the life seed and grow the life plant but it was a fun process as she got better at her collecting.
So now she has her skills all the way up I got her to move on in life, making a family. A young boy and twin girls.... My god I didn't know how hard it would be to control! But eventually they grew up....
For me when you have reached all your goals, had a family, got married, kids have moved out and you have got to the top in all you can there is nothing else to do.... I have had to take a break as it has really got to the stage where I can't think of what else to do without getting bored! I am looking forward to the World Adventures expansion pack gets released!
EA Store stuff etc...
I know I should probably think less and build more but something I've been pondering lately is the use of EA store items in uploaded lots. So far I have been inclined to keep the use of such items to a bare minimum but occasionally I'll build a lot in which some of those store items would enhance the look and feel of the building both inside and out.
I know that downloaders who don't own these items will just have the default game replacements instead but I'd like to know your thoughts on this. Does a lot that uses a number of store items put you off downloading it? Or come to that, the use of custom content in general?
I know I've been steering clear of using custom patterns in my lots although that's more of a personal preference. I enjoy the challenge of seeing how many different looks I get from the in game textures. Anyway, if you have any thoughts on this I'd love to hear 'em!
Thou hath returned... along with new house designs and stories!!!
Greetings to one and all...
Yes, I have been away for some time now, moving house and studies does seem to steal precious time away from me to my dismay!
But I am back, with new house designs as well as new screenshots and stories to go along with them too. I had some wonderful feedback from my last story which was flattering and made me feel all warm and fuzzy!!
Keep an eye out for my newest story that will be up soon along with a few others to follow and new house designs of grandness for all your sims to live in whether it be in peace or catastrophe!
Blessings to all
Miss Ivory
New meshes: Garden set Valencia
Finaly my first object set for Sims 3 is ready! It will be published on the september 23: The Garden Set Valencia. All meshes are recolorable, and have a high and low poly version, as well as shadow meshes. The special wood pattern is included in the object meshes. The flowers of the plant (Hosta) are also recolorable. Have fun with it!
Pardon my dust...
Pardon my dust, I am still trying to get everything figured out and put together here. :)
Error with Benchwright Orchid
It has been pointed out to me that currently, my Benchwright Orchid will overwrite the original EA orchid vase. I am aware of this and will be releasing an updated version that is stand-alone soon. If you want the original EA orchide back in the mean time, simply deleting mine will allow the original to show up again 
Reinstall - HELL
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.
I'll be back in a week or 2!
Hey everyone! If you were wondering where I've been, I'm actually in the middle of a move! We'll be in the new place by the 1st of Oct. After I get the internet all set up and such, I'll be back in action.
Have a great week!
K
Away for sometime. And a new lot with a waterfall.
Hey everyone.
Hope you are all doing well.
Thought I would tell you tht I will be away for sometime.
I have some important exams coming.
So I won't be around for almost a month or more.
I also have school, so i won't be able to create that much stuff.
But, here is one last treat, The Falling Water Modern:
http://www.thesimsresource.com/artists/LightSide93/downloads/details/category/sims3-lots-residential/title/The%20Falling%20Water%20Modern/id/915893/
This lot is very special, it has a water fall running under the house itself, this was inspired by Frank Lloyds amazing building, falling water. You can check the lot, and get more info over at the link.
Hope you all like it.
And hope see you soon.
~Light~
New pattern maker here.
Hi there everyone,
I seem to have caught the bug that is going on around here (making patterns). I am new to this kind of thing, so hopefully I will improve with time and lots of help and suggestions. Come on in and check out my minisite and let me know what you think. All comments are welcome. Have a wonderful Simming Day.
Diana
aka: dltn43, d and/or dianalynn43
Modest Dining
I have made some progress with the meshing and I've finished the table and the chair. Now it just needs some deco items maybe, then it's time to upload.
Hope you'll like it
CD
The Sims 2 Homecrafter Plus
Hello Everyone
I have decided over the weekend, that i want to give something back to TSR and so i have decided that i am now going to create walls and flooring for our sims to enjoy.
I have just installed The Sims 2 Homecrafter Plus after AudreyMay has pointed me in the direction of the Tutorials. Thank you hun. I am now going to have to purchase a Paintshop Program so i can begin creating and share my creations with you all.
I am a bit nervous as this is the first time since playing the Sims and also being a member of TSR, that i am going to be something like this, so you all have to be gentle with my first creations lol.
Hopefully soon i will have my first creation submitted to TSR.
Thank you.
Cherry x
Cosplay Photos & Haruhi Dance Video
haven't been on in a long while o3o and haven't uploaded anything
either. but anyways, here's me, practicing the hare hare yukai dance
that my group will be doing next con =3
lotsa mistakes, humping dog and...dead toenails (PAIN!) but I'll still do my best lol
BEHOLD!
yeah, please tell me what you think.
My mom said its a lil ungraceful and I agree, it needs more hella work since I've only been practicing for a total of about 8 hours, and that's not enough.
I tried again, and perfected it, will post that video some time later.
The cosplay pics are at my deviantart as usual: kanzenatsume.deviantart.com but here are some if you're too lazy to go there lol
I'll work on Lorelei soon after the Con Season =3 thanks for your support
Hi Sim Luvers!
Hi people!thank you for taking the time to read my blog.
If you have a youtube account plz add me.
my accont name is chelsey2hip
send me a mesage,friend request,or post a comment on my videos!
i ♥ sims just like every1 on this site
i hope we can all share what we ♥ about sims 1 day!
until next time
peace,,,
Chelsey2Hip♥
The Mansion
Hi
I've started work on a new mansion. This one is gonna be big. So far I have just finished building most of the structure and added windows and doors, as well as a swimming pool, and a few other odds and ends. This also has a small river/stream going through the front of the property, with a nice bridge going over it (please see two of my pictures to see what the bridge looks like during the day and night times). So far it's costing around 260,000. It still needs decorating and furnishing.
List of Rooms
- Grandstair case
- Three show off rooms, one gallery for art, one for your stones and metals, one for your fish. I will be adding a few to start you off
- Livingroom
- Kitchen
- Dinning Room
- Bathrroms around 18 bathrooms, some of those are half ones
- 6 normal bedrooms
- 1 Master Bedroom
- 1 Nursery
- Games Room - Chess, foosball etc
- Kids Playroom - all kiddy toys
- Study and Library
- Observatory - Balcony
- Barbaque - Balcony
- Relaxing area - Balcony (sunning yourself)
- Parents Private Balcony
- Ballroom, for birthday parties and Weddings. Will be set up ready for it all
As you can see, this is gonna be quiet the little project for me. I do enjoy them though. If you have any sugestions for rooms for another mansion I'd like to do, say so and I'll see about adding them.
Duochan
Story - Incendia
Oh kay.
Sorry for this but the photos I had for the second part of the Incendia have disapered from my computer. I am working on getting them back, but it will take time, since I can't remember what there all were. My apologies.
Duochan
Just Got Photoshop!
Hi Friends! I just Got Photo-Shop Elements 7 and I Love it. It Really takes Your Pictures Further. Thank you all for you nice Comments on my Screenshots and all your Help and Support. I coudn't Have it done without all of You. Hugs and Kisses all around.
Is Love Enough: Alyssa's Story
Unfortunately work of late has been a little manic and I haven't had time to create lots to share. I have a few part-finished which hopefully will start appearing here soon. Instead, I've been actually playing the game whenever I can snatch a spare hour or two.
Alyssa's story, which I submitted yesterday, came about because I decided to let my sims get a little bit of control back in their lives. I'm such a control freak I usually have everything mapped out from birth to death and it can get a little boring. It's been a lot of fun to watch what Alyssa does, who she wants to talk to, and how she reacts to new challenges put in her path (with the occasionally suggestion from me).
I hope you enjoy her story as it unfolds. I still don't know how it will end ... but I guess that is part of the fun!
Back home
Back home from Mother Lode Country! I put 3 pics in my gallery, more to come.
Dear friends! I'm here again to watch your every step again! Watch out!
I really want to thank everybody who stopped by my guestbook to say hello and to tell me how you missed me! Now that is heart warming! I have loads and loads of catching up to do! Being gone for 3 weeks left me with 150 emails unread and I'm not even talking about my minisite, guestbook entries and thank you's I have to reply! But I will! If I miss to do so and not reply to one of your messages I am really sorry, I try to answer them all!
Love, Frederique
Holy Simoly update
Hi there
For anyone who's interested - we've updated over at holy simoly! There's a cute Sims 3 Lot and new Sims 2 mesh... I won't say what it is, but if you like rustic stuff or our 'Mountain Retreat' items then run over there faster than you can say 'rustic staircase'. Oh... :)
www.holysimoly.com
Working on a new lot
Hi there :-)
atm I'm working on this new seaside-resort architectured (German: Bäderarchitektur) lot.
Seagull
It is almost finished but I can't upload this lot because I used some new TSR object-meshes. TSRAA for TS3 object-meshes is still in development. So I have to wait with submitting this lot.
Something is missing...
If you happen to notice any missing images in my blog here, or in any of my FA thread posts or forum stories, the reason why is pretty simple - someone apparently saw
fit last weekend to abuse access to a Sims2 web site in order to steal
the passwords of myself and several other TSR FAs and SAs (not going to
point fingers since we don't have proof enough yet to narrow it down to
any one specific site, though I can say it was not TSR), then try those
passwords against other places on the internet where any of us had an
identifiable web presence.
In my case I was
lucky - I'd already been phasing that particular password out of use
since I knew I'd used it on at least two Sims2 sites in the past that
can now be characterized as being havens for so-called pirates. Whoever
it was that did this only hit the jackpot on one location, my
Photobucket account, which they promptly redirected to a (probably fictitious) email address, deleted many of my pictures, and replaced
most of the remainder. One of the "replacements" they made - replacing
a photograph of me with the same photograph overlaid with the word
"ATWAT", which, yes, I am aware is the pirate's chosen name for an
ex-TSR staff member that they apparently have an obsessive, fanatical
hatred of - made it pretty clear that whomever did this is part of the
pirate faction of the Sims2 community.
The first I learned of
this was on Tuesday morning, when I got a phone call from my brother
letting me know that my online portfolio, which I'd just spent weeks
putting together, having only just completed it on Friday of last week,
was screwed up. Thankfully I hadn't started shopping it around on job
applications yet - linking to a site full of Photobucket's "Image moved
or deleted" and "Violation of our terms of service" images would NOT
have made a good first impression on potential employers. It might have
been even worse then that - one person reported that she had her
family photo album replaced with indecent images.
As I say, I was
lucky - I'm aware of someone who had been using the
password which was stolen on their primary email account as well. I'm
sure you can image the "fun" whoever did this had with password reset
utilities over the weekend as a result. In all, the person or person(s) responsible
for this is so far known to have vandalized Photobucket, Flickr,
MySpace, Youtube, and other online presences of at least 5 people. No,
I won't name names - it's up to those FAs or SAs to decide for
themselves if they wish to make any statements on this latest
vindictive behaviour against those of us who call TSR home.
Photobucket
support gave me back control of my account, and I've since re-uploaded
almost all my images. There are some missing, which I'll re-upload as I
locate them. Thankfully I'm a packrat, so except for a few isolated
images I'm pretty sure I still have local copies of just about
everything I've ever posted to Photobucket.
In the meantime, to
whomever did this, and to anyone in the pirate community that delights
in, supports, and condones this kind of behaviour, I can only hope that the bad karma this
sort of petty vandalism earns turns around and bites you in the ass.
Thanks to Everyone..
..who posted comments on my screenshots. Love getting comments...love taking pics. Always thought my pics were rather boring, but Sims3 means you can take some good mood pics. I love landscape pics and funnily enough in real life most of my pics are of scenery not people..so thanks again everyone, it makes me feel that even though i don't submit lots or downloadable items i'm still part of the community.
Just Wanted To Say...
...thank you all so much for your lovely comments on my items and screenshots.
I know i'm not perfect at creating custom content but it's a great boost of confidence for me to receive such lovely feedback from skilled artists. It means a lot to me. :)
Hello!
I didn't realize I can only have 5MB worth of images here (and my images are pretty huge, averaging from 100KB to 1.5MB depending on quality and colors XD ), 5MB is not enough for me. That's only 3-picture-equivalent of pictures I normally process. I bought more storage here in TSR and I have two gallery now here in my mini-site. One for TS2 and one for TS3. It's still unorganized but I'll be updating them soon.
This weekend, I will be playing and updating my TS3 game. I went on a full CC shopping spree today. I'll get back on TS2 after I get done testing with the new TS3 goodies and capture scenes for my upcoming TS3 video. ^^ I'm so happy to find more, more custom objects! I haven't played TS3 for a week, so lol, I'm excited to go in my game, build more sets and decorate!
So yeah, that's about it for now. Have a lovely weekend.
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