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Hey everyone, as usual old man winter has us working very hard at the hospital, I'll be sure to finish up a few things here soon! Sorry there hasn't been anything new and exciting lately!-GamerG
Sugar and Spice
It would appear that Christmas has gone to my head, given the names of my next two submissions! May I introduce you to The Sugarcube and Cinnamon Court:
Thanks
I know there are several comments on my creations--and I haven't been able to read them. Sorry! I like to respond to everyone who leaves me a comment, but I haven't been able to since mid-December. Thanks to all who have downloaded my stuff and have left comments--hopefully I'll get to read them and respond to them very soon!The Cyclonesue Apology Forum
Yes, that is what I'm going to ask TSR to name my blog. Except it wouldn't be a forum because no-one has chance to answer back here. That's the way I like it. I'll make my pathetic excuses and then assure myself that no-one is the slightest bit upset, losing patience etc.So, ANOTHER apology!
That set, glorified on the TSR front page today. Urban Renewal with EVERYTHING already in it! And you've been trying to download it - except you can't. You see: TSR haven't yet had the time to build the functionality for uber-sets that contain lots, sub sets and all that. And TSR explained this yesterday AFTER I'd already put the set up for release (my fault, because I never even asked about this concept until AFTER I'd put up the set).
So, once again, I am sorry. I must sound like a cracked record (or just cracked) with all these 'sorry' notes. And no, I'm NOT displaying some horrendous antiquity by mentioning 'records' either, but 'cracked CD' doesn't have the same ring to it and, in any case, a cracked CD doesn't have the same repeat-a-few-words affect either; it just jitters through an entire section at incredible speed and is therefore a redundant...[snip]
Back to the point. You know what is the MOST bizarre thing about me putting out that big set? Some of the things inside it are not yet released! The series comes to its natural conclusion on 9th or 10th January - unless I can bleed it dry of any other urban tat I can think of adding, that is.
Some people shouldn't be allowed near a TSR submission form!
Sheer curtains in single tile version
Hi, Remember this "Sheer Curtains" set?
You might have downloaded this set some time ago, and wished there also was a single-tile version.
Someone requested this last week, and I also noticed the need for it myself while decorating a room. So, I converted the mesh into a single tile version.
A complete set will be available next week, all matching the original ones in color and pattern. I hope you will enjoy this version as much as most of you did the two-tile version.
Welcome
Hello all, and welcome to my blog. I'll be using this space to keep everyone up-to-date with the Sims1 creations I'm working on for TSR. I had 5 holiday-themed skins that were just posted, based on Barbie dolls. I also have 2 heads that are waiting to be published -- actress Vanessa Marcil and actor Tyler Christopher.I'm currently working on more items from the Fashion Fever collection of Barbie dolls. As I get them completed, I will be posting preview pics here.
Thanks for visiting my mini-site!!
Back home from a nice new year celebration. Well I have been home for a couple of days and I have bee struggling with a tub. Everything that can go wrong with an object has gone wrong, but finaly it seems to work. I have some shadows to fix and perhaps some more decorative objects to make before its time to submit the set, but it is getting closer!
Take one SIMPLE process, and what will Cyclonesue do with it?
The TSR submission form. It's not rocket science really. And if any of you have tried the Batch Edit form, you'll know that it's wonderfully easy to edit an entire set at once.I wanted to upload 6 wallpapers for my 'Elevator Construction Kit. By the way, if you've downloaded this set already, you were no doubt cursing me earlier. You see, there are six submission forms before me - one for each wallpaper. So, the first one I called "Elevator Panelling" (that was the black paper with a border), then I called the next one "Elevator Panelling" (that was a steel paper - no border). And I added all 6 wallpapers industriously, calling each and every one "Elevator Panelling".
I have NO idea why I did that. When all 6 papers are on the same submission form, there is NO excuse for giving each one the SAME NAME!
So, downloaders everywhere are being vexed by being asked if the next wallpaer should overwrite the last. Thanks to Shakeshaft who risked my furious wrath by telling me about this, I have corrected the problem.
Sorry - again.
Oh, my hat!
Cyclonesue has done it again!In my very first set of Urban Renewal signs and posters (remember that far back? I know, there have been MILLIONS since then), there was a 'hard hat' warning poster.
Unfortunately, there was the tiniest problem with it. It, erm, didn't show up in the game. I borked one of the internal files. You wouldn't think I could do that, given that the internal files did NOT need touching!
Anyway, my apologies if you downloaded and failed to reap the benefits of this, er, majestic poster. You can redownload it from here. That is an ORDER, by the way!
Recovering from 'flu
Oh well - best intentions, etc!!! My plans for writing tutorials on thatched roofs and spaceships were scuppered the day after Christmas, when 'flu (non-Bird) hit us hard. Today is my first day back online.I was really taken aback, returning to TSR, to read so many wonderfully kind wishes in my Guestbook - thank you and please be patient while I reply!
Many Thanks
I just want to say a big thank you to everyone for their kind and generous comments, and for the warm welcome everyone has given me, lets all have a great 2006.And my last laugh (now Windkeeper's last laugh)...
Check out the junk picture two blog entries ago. See the grass I made?THAT is unusable too!!! Sims will NOT walk through it. What a hoot! So, I shall include unusable grass with the unusable junk!
Ha ha ha, ha ha HA, HA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Umph.....
[Enter Windkeeper - with a fix]
Okay, so my grass now works. A BIG, HUGE thanks to Windkeeper (who actually KNOWS how to make things; me, I just guess). Anyway, your Sims can stand pointlessly all day in my bad weed if they so wish...
Trust me when I say Bitzybus and SimAddict99 have made MUCH better grasses - go check their profiles. Simaddict's grass is pictured in the 'board' entry immediately below this. MY grass is the bad stuff in the junk picture in the entry below THAT entry.
Anyway, this veritable weed will still be uploaded with my non-working junk. I do warn you that Windkeeper's magic has NOT been woven on that disgusting toilet. It is too far gone. My wrecking saw to that.
Are you 'board' of urban renewal yet?
Yes, bad joke (but you have to admit I've made bad jokes into an art form), but I expect you ARE already bored with yet more "Urban Renewal" sets... Well, never mind. Can't be helped. You see, I'm NOT bored of it yet, and so I have made some boarded windows for your lots. They're cloned curtains and so can be placed easily over any window (or wall) and work on diagonals too.
And it was NO joke!
I wonder if you really did think I was joking about unusable objects? One or two people have written to say they think it's a wonderful idea (thanks - chuffed!), so I'm not the only one with such hair-brained ideas. But no, I wasn't joking. I was deadly serious! I bring you the Unusable Collection Of Junk...
New upload!
After having problems using the new submissions system in Firefox, I've had to resort to uploading using IE *grumbles*.The good news though, is that there IS a new lot on the way. The Sheridan is a modern, suburban house for your sims, which will be released on the 5th Jan. I hope you like it!
Log bathroom
I finally finished the log bathroom :) the mesh set will be published this Thursday, Jan 5 (preview at left). The recolors to match my Rustic and Denim Log room sets will follow in a few days.Teen Graci
Teen graci for those who wanted the teen version sorry it's late.Prepare to be AMAZED! Again.
I had an idea. Unusable objects! How about that?! There - I'm most proud of it. As far as I can tell, no-one else here is in a huge rush to make unusable objects, so I feel as though I've hit upon an untapped goldmine. My first unusable object is an unusable toilet. I've removed the cistern and seat (the Cyclonesue School of DIY) and dirtied it up a bit - oh, and nudged it into a peculiar unusable angle. [insert applause and admiration here]
Welcome!
January 02, 2006.This year is starting out great. Sure am glad I ate those black eyed peas, turnip greens and ham.
I have big plans for new creations this year. Hope you like! Don't be a stranger, drop me a line!
Debra
Bentform Nursery
Well, I once again have home internet (yay!) and am slogging away on completing the Bentform Nursery. So far a toddler bed, change table, potty, and toybox are essentially complete (just have to fix their wall shadows) and I'm cursing my way through getting a working high chair done. I also need to do a baby crib still. Hopefully I'll manage to get things finished for release the second week in January, if not earlier.Me an FA
Gosh this was a surprise, I hope I will not disappoint anyone with my creations, at the moment I am doing a series of small family homes in Holly Drive, also I have some Wallpaper Sets to come and some more Hed Khandi Prints.Hello!
Well, I guess it's time I made use of this little corner of my minisite. :D No one in my family seems to understand my Sims addiction. I told them that if it was just a game, it wouldn't be so bad. But it gives me such a creative outlet that I could be involved with it for the rest of my life and be happy. Since I started actually playing the game, I've learned a thing or two about building houses. I'm thinking about uploading the house from my legacy challenge (The Life of the Goldmans - check it out in the challenge forums).
But right now, my current projects are some dining rooms. So here goes a little preview. :D
This is the Malibu Dining collection:
As you can see, it still needs a little work ... what with the floating side table and all. I'll be doing a few recolors of it, so if you have any suggestions, let me know. :D
This is the Edgewater Dining collection ... I only have MilkShape previews of it:
Beach, Sun and Surf...
While a lot of you are trudging along through sleet and snow - on my side of the world it is lovely and warm!
It's really hard to think about creating winter woolies and cosy furniture when the sun is blazing and the cat, a nice glass of sav and a good book are calling you outside to sit on the deck.
Given that, I couldn't resist these colours! And yes I know green again! Bright and bold - like that fantastic fabric you get on deck chairs. This will be the last I do of this set - I hope you enjoy it.
Happy New Year!
I want to wish all of you a Happy New Year. I'm looking forward to what being able to continue creating for the Sims, and seeing what new things I can learn. Be sure to keep an eye out for the next theme week. I think it's going to be a great one!Happy New Year!
New Year resolutions...I don't make them, because I never keep them, lol. Have a wonderful New Year!Happy New Year!
I'd just like to wish everyone a great 2006!To everyone who downloads my houses, thank you very much for all your support over the last year - I just hope you enjoy this year's creations as much!
I've got 2 new Lots lined up for release as soon as I can get the Submission page working for me, so keep checking back!
Almost finished...
Well, I have been making a lot of progress with the recoloring of the Romanza Bedroom. It is almost finished and I thought I give you a little peek of what it will be like. It turned rather well, if I may say so myself :) Here is a little peek, just enough to make you all curious.
So, what are YOU doing?
Tonight is, of course, New Year's Eve (I can feel you marvelling at my intelligence already - fancy me knowing THAT!). So, what will you be doing?If you're going out on the town, visiting family, partying or hosting a party - have brilliant fun! Have a wonderful, riotous time. Lots of hopes and expectations for a good and prosperous 2006.
And if you're NOT doing anything special? Well, take a look around you. Yes, right where you're sitting. What you'll see are YOUR things, and maybe YOUR people too. Most of all, your home. Yes, be PROUD that you (a) get to stay all secure and comfy indoors with your things around you, that (b) you're not just 'following the crowd' and going out for the sake of it (a lot of people ARE - or have no choice), and (c) you have all that time for Simming without any obligation to be anywhere, or without the resultant 'morning after'! What better could you ask for? Me and my partner are staying put by choice. We love to have that choice and I hope you do too.
Have a real good evening, whatever you do. :-)
Absolutely Love Winter
I just absolutely adore winter in Pennsylvania. You just really don't know what is around the corner..LOLWe did not have a white Xmas, as a matter of fact we are having a heat wave right now. Today it hit 52 degrees. But it won't last for long, we are more than likely going to get a blast sometime or another. But we did have a nice snow about 1 1/2 weeks ago..
So this is what I saw when I looked out my Front door and up the road..It is snowing so hard that you can't even see the mountains in the background..I live at the foothills of the range of mountains...
And now this is what I saw when I looked out my back door..
/Linda
New recolor
Hi you all. Well after a week of tears about my dog Esra a went on with my life. So simming again.... Here is my new recolor. I saw this a few weeks ago on the "Sims 2 Play" site, and planned to make a recolor. Can't find anything to make my new meshes. I'm working on some fences and gates, but the gates won't do what I planned. So here is the new recolor.
And some new pictures to give your bathroom something extra.
And Now For Something A Little Different...
Well not really :P But I love this living room set so much I plan to do it in a few colours. I got inspired by this Laura Ashley pattern - so here is an overwhelmingly pretty pink set!
As it is so hard to see in the picture because the colours are so pale - I have added some of the swatches I have used :)
PS...
I bet you're REALLY glad, what with a great game on your PCs and consoles, that there is someone out here (yes - me talking about myself again) making you all this lovely stuff...Lovey stuff that never, ever works, that is!
Did you see a puff of smoke rise from my industrial chimney stacks? Did you ever see anyone CLIMB my stupid ladders? And do your Sims fill up their motors at one of my gas pumps (or do they leap back in disgusted surprise when they find the gas pump is a mere floor lamp?)...
So, yes, a blog now full of staying-right-where-it-is elevators and a CCTV camera that's blind as a bat!
Enjoy your game. ;-)
Moving on
I have just uploaded the Romanza Bedroomset, it will be available from monday nextweek. Ofcourse several recolors will follow, I have already planned the first recolor and if I can stay on track (without any unplanned new mesh ideas) it might be even finished shortly after this weekend. This is a sample of the colors I am gonna use for this set:
That sure something different, isn't it :)
Cheat!
As every good lot builder knows, the easiest way to achieve something is to cheat. And there we all are. Cheat to your heart's content. Bend and warp tiles into places they're not meant to go with 'boolprop constrainFloorElevation false' and 'locktiles', slap trees in the middle of your living room with 'moveobjects on' (that's your Sims' living room - NOT yours!), and centre the uncenterable with 'boolprop snapObjectsToGrid false'. Yep, in the lot-building world, cheating IS everything. For the life of me, I cannot think of a single lot where I haven't cheated in some way to achieve an effect.With that in mind, I'd therefore just like to point out that the elevator in my last blog is also a cheat. Sure, my Sims are using it, but it doesn't travel up and down (now THAT would be some cheat!). Instead, it uses another of my useless creations: invisible modular stairs (I'm releasing those in my up-and-coming "Urban Renewal Elevator Construction Kit set). These invisible stairs are being used as 'elevator stairs' (Judyhugsnoopy has written a blindingly good tutorial on this in TSR's own Build-A-Lot forums - and it is SIMPLE). This cheat allows you to place a small portion of steps into a tiny space. Yes, this lift might only be 3 x 2 squares in size, but in it is a stairway to the next level.
Or you could simply save yourself the grief and go to one of those 'other' sites we all know about where people have already made working 'stair teleporters'... I suppose, if pressed, I would have to admit (through gritted zipped teeth) that I'm not good enough to make something like that, so therefore MY option is, simply, to cheat!
All arguments on a postcard to the usual address, please.
Log Bathroom
here is anothe
r quick rpeview of the Log Bathroom. It's almost finished. With the Holidays I don't have as much time as I'd like to create so it's taking a little longer, but now there's only a few shadow edits, tiled walls, and the wall lamp mesh left to do.
Hope you like what I've got so far :)
A little bit of this...
...and a little bit of that!My latest set is in yellow/green and gold and I must apologise to you first off that I am unable to add the links directly in the mesh so you have to check out the descriptions in the items to access the original meshes. These are based on some very gorgeous meshes by Holy Simoly (living room set and lights) and Sims2Play blinds.
Urban Renewal
I'm working on a HUGE new project (well, the biggest since my "Industrial Age" series).The "Urban Renewal" series will be a mixture of 'reality' downtown lots and various objects belonging to the concrete jungle. As well as lots (of course), there will be a 'security' kit (posters and CCTV), fences, safety signs set, and this elevator construction kit (and all those digital panels are ANIMATED!)...
And here is one of the lots queueing for upload...
I just need to get a move-on with it all! One lot in the series is already in my release calendar, but I have NO idea how I'll be ready with the rest of it all!!!
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