's Blog

Getting back on Track....

I haven't posted anything here in a really long time.

I'm going to try and make some new walls and floors soon.

I've been on a hiatus from the sims, but I'm missing creating things.

Birthday

Today is my 15th birthday. For once in my life, I may not be depressed. I finally am accepted by people at school, I have more friends than last year and my time at school is way better.

I'm so busy!

Hey guys!

Thanks so much to all of you that have downloaded my homes. It's really cool to see they are getting some feedback. I didn't expect that much. Unfortunately, school has got me sooo busy, and I haven't had time to finish anything new.  Please keep checking back because I've got some awesome houses in construction that I hope you will all like!

Thanks!

Allison

Some updates and fixes

Hello again! Time for some updates on what we've been doing for the last days.

First off we've done some maitenance on the submission server, which resulted in some downtime over the weekend. It should be back to normal now however so feel free to submit!

Secondly, we've had some problems with logins in the forums. This is/was due to a hardware failure on the forum server that caused us to relocate the whole forum to a new server. There are some settings left to do before it works flawlessly, but it should work better now then it did last week. Speaking of login issues, we've also found the reason for the strange login problems some have reported - this only applies to those using Internet Explorer with security settings set to high. This problem is now solved so if you had this problem, please try again!

We've also added a new feature for subscribers:

On the index page and FA minisite index pages you will now find all the latest FA releases in the right column below the big black buttons. On the main index you will only see today's FA releases, while on a minisite you will see all releases by that artist for the whole week.

We also found and solved an irritating bug that caused the wrong expansion/stuff pack icons to show on the item details page. It would only show the Sims 2 icon over and over if any stuff packs were required. This now shows correctly again.

There are many more behind the scenes changes going on as we speak, so check for another update soon :)

Creations Update

Hi all,

The large Circus lot I have been building has had to be delayed. I tried to start up Bodyshop, something went wrong and I lost all my current in Game creations. Thankfully I had everything backed up except the actual building of the Circus lot which was lost. The 24 wallpapers were all backed up on my external hard drive so thank goodness I haven't got to start from scratch. I hope to release that in about 2 weeks. (Sorry this is a very big project, so lots of time needed to finish this set).

I have just created a starter house which will be hopefully released soon. It's part of a set of starter homes that I am in the middle of creating. I have called the set "Back to basics". Great for the new gamer or just anyone who wants to get into playing without a big lot slowing down your PC's.

I have also just about finished a lot which is called "St Patrick's Plaza". A corner lot with an fully furnished Irish themed pub/Restaurant and 3 other shops that will be decorated but left empty for you to furnish yourself. I have made about 15 St Patrick day wallpapers so they will be released as a seperate wallpaper set too. I have tried to do a parade outside the lots, but it hasn't turned out as good as I hoped, will release the snapshots before I release it,l so let me know what you all think.

I forgot all about Pancake day which is tommorow, but I may still create something with that theme and release it anyway.

Bye for now

Sim.x

Hmmmmm, what is a Blog other than a "Public Journal Entry"

I haven't been on the site very much recently, due to life having a habit of getting in the way. I've changed my major in college and I'm now heading out of the world of business management and into a completely different field. It's not a career with which I am unfamiliar, but it is unusual. I'm going to take my National Boards for becoming an Undertaker and Restorative Artist. I know, I know, some of you would say, "CREEPY"!!! But it's really not. It's not the dead that scare me one iota, it's the living. Some real people just creep me way the heck out. However, for fun I'm going to keep up with the Sims!

How many out there are looking forward to the new Sims 3???! I know that I am, and I haven't really had that much time to master all the twists and turns with 2! Sims 3 looks so unbelieveably real it's like they could be real people, places and things. Hopefully they'll come up with easier ways of creating things for the new game, that would be more fun for me.

Keep up with the great work everyone! I'm going to try and submit some things before too long.

naeme

 "May the sun always be in your face, the wind always be at your back and your favorite ice cream in a cone by your side".

Apartments - then and now

Right now I am working on a couple of apartment buildings, or to be honest I am working on one.

The idea is that I started out making an apartment complex in Victorian slum style. It has 23 very small apartments and is a “bit” rundown. The next step is for me to renovate it and make some shiny new apartments for the rick and beautiful modern sims.

I have finally got the hang on the lotadjuster which means that they are made so you can do a whole row of them.

For some reason I have found out how to put pics in my blog so you can see the progress here:

http://forums.thesimsresource.com/showthread.php?p=3796359#post3796359

or check out my gallery.

Maybe upload a house..........

I have a few houses I made. I might upload them. Hopefully if my game feels like working. I just need to find out the price and the lot size. I also have a bakery I built that looks like a cute little cottage for the feel that your sims can go inside and be comfortable. Anyways I also made an Indian sim so hopefully I can get some photos of her to upload her.

Story Featured

I am very excited! Time after Time was featured on the homepage. It's not often that you get lucky enough to have something featured on the homepage. I'm not sure, but this might be my first story to be featured there, which really excites me. The comments so far regarding the story have been great.

I am also happy to report that Chapter 2 is well under way. About half of the screenshots have been taking and the story is taking shape nicely (at least in my head). Keep an eye out for it! As always, happy simming!

FRUSTRATED

I AM VERY UPSET I CAN'T USE PHOTO SHOP MY COMPUTER DOESN'T LIKE IT AND I CAN'T GET MY CREATIONS TO POST.

I LOVE DOING THE TC AND NOW I CAN'T EVEN SHOW MY WORK.

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO BE ABLE TO THANK PEOPLE FOR THEIR COMMENTS ON MY CREATIONS BUT HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO FIND OUT WHO COMMENTED ON WHAT. IF ANYONE KNOWS HOW PLEASE LET ME KNOW.

THANKS EVERYONE