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A New Project - My Next Sims 3 Lot
Well I haven't created a lot in a while as I've been too busy creating new objects, clothes, etc. I decided it was about time to create another house and so I am busy working on it...and working on it...and working on it. This house really is taking a long time to do the way I want and I am spending a lot longer than I would normally.
I have been inspired by the likes of drib_ydal here on TSR to really give this project my best shot and so it is taking a bit longer than usual. In the meantime I am still creating other items but you probably won't see as much from me over the next few days while I try and get this house perfect.
It is a mix of the old and the new in my opinion. The floor plan and exterior are generally very modern while some of the internal furnishings and decorations add a nostalgic air to the home. I have called the home 'A River Runs Through It'. Not at all based on the movie by that name but because a river literally does run through the house, or at least the yard. The ground floor of the home is broken into two due to the river with a nice deck from which your sim can fish and a bridge to walk over to reach the other side of the house.
The second floor forms a bridge over the river as well as being on either side of it and has huge windows to view the river from.
There is also a basement which is an aquarium room looking onto the fish in the river. This basement area is also a multi-purpose living area with a private reading corner, the main social area where the sofas face the aquarium window for viewing, and a kids corner with toys and furniture for the kids.
This home is also going to be packed with custom content - mostly my own but also plenty from other TSRAA creators as well.
Now to leave you in suspense, I will try to get some screenshots up soon.
Home with multiple visual and sound effects
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjkxlCQsMtE
So.........
So i have not been on in a while but now i have sims 3.
So now i am very happy about that and i am hoping to start making some stuff to put on here some time in the the next little while. I will have my first item by next week.
News! Current Projects!
I am currently working on 2 new projects for Sims 3, but it is slow going due to work commitments, pre-assignments for college courses, and having very little free time to create. I hope to release a new mini-set soon *crosses fingers,* which will probably be a collection of table lamps. Oops! I forgot to include the Guinevere Nursery table lamp with the set's release, I plan to add it to another set and release it soon. Hence, the creation of a table lamp collection!
Additionally, I am working on a vintage half-tester bed, which is now my new favorite bed, lol! Here are a few pictures...
Take Care and Happy Simming,
Carolyn
Vintage Half-Tester bed, I'm also working on a nightstand and dresser for the bedroom set.
You may remember this table lamp from a Sims 2 Vintage Charm set.
Another Vintage Charm table lamp.
Little Princess table lamp, base and lampshade are both recolorable.
Sims housing projects and architecture...
I've been playing the Sims for a long time now. Suffice to say, I'm a bit of an addict. I didn't play anything yesterday, and went the whole day feeling like I was missing something (someone should start a Sims Anonymous...). The first two games, I built houses, never uploaded anything (that I can remember), downloaded lots and lots of stuff. But the Sims 3 has given me new light to architecture in general.
My sister is an architect. My boyfriend's father is an architect. So lately, I've come to study general architecture, both commercial and residential, and compared these buildings to that which I create virtually. I was never good at design, color, art is generally not my field. I'm a writer, through and through, down to the bitter core. So when I build houses, I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. But I think I'm actually getting the hang of it. Here are some things that I've learned:
1. Remember to generally keep the plumbing in one place. I've noticed in all houses, bathrooms are stacked on top of each other, or near major plumbing lines. I knew this, it's common sense, but it never registered with me. So as I'd build sims homes in Sims 2, I'd have bathrooms all over the place, basically wherever I felt they needed to be. But realistically speaking, it's feasible, but not exactly wise to just throw a john in here or there.
2. Efficiency. It's so wonderful to create these monstrous estates in the Sims, we all want our sims to live large. However, I find it INCREDIBLY annoying for my sims (in Sims 3) to take a good half hour to an hour getting from one part of the house to the other. As I look over real life floor plans of houses and commercial lots, I notice the more direct routes through the core of the house, the efficiency of movement, the placement of general rooms and how they branch off to different sections of the house. It shouldn't take my sims half an hour to get from the kitchen to the sidewalk to go to work. That drives me guano.
3. Waste of space. Given that all sims houses are on a grid, and we have to make due with the space we're given, I'm discovering a severe waste of space in designs. I'm just going to slam a couch, loveseat, coffee table, bookshelf, lamp, TV and stereo in a 10x10 square room, and hope for the best. In the Sims 1 & 2, we had to do that. Now that we don't have to snap crap to a grid, we can cut the size of the room in half, hold down the alt button, and maneuver. It's wonderful! More room for...what? Do I really need a 40x40 lot? Nah. Cut that sucker down to 20 and you can still throw a pond in there to fish out of.
4. Structural physics. There's a reason, I discovered, that floor tiles can't be placed more than two spaces outside of a wall. Realisticly and virtually speaking, anything past 2 spaces in real life would collapse (assuming that the metric equivilant to a sims "space square" would be 3-4 feet). No support. So I built a house in my Sims 3 game. It had balconies reaching into the sunset, glass walls, jutting slabs of roof, et. al. Wonderful, I was pumped, all kinds of happy and proud of my architectural prowess, and showed it to my sister. She shook her head. "Looks great, but that sucker would collapse so quickly. Too bad you don't have lawsuits in the Sims..." After explaining to me the physics of basic architecture, I had to get somewhat bitter. I personally think that in the Sims, they need to create some sort of architectural collapse feature, so I don't get too crazy with my weirdo designs. Glass houses, as wonderful as they look, couldn't go over well, unless seriously thick glass is used (thus turning the home into a greenhouse...), due to cracking and collapse of glass. Beams and columns are needed every once in a while to keep the house from caving in. And seriously, if that feature was in the sims, the collapse and caving in feature, I'd be one frustrated builder. "My house keeps caving in!! Why?!"
My houses that I create will most likely never be published unless I feel particularly proud of one and it passes my sister's seal of architectural approval. I know what everone thinks. "Sal, this is a game. A virtual world where anything is possible with cheats." I know this. But I'm into realism. I like to make my sims as real as they can possibly get. Judging by the custom content floating around in the community, so does everyone else. Oh yeah, sure, it's good to dream up amazing modern homes, and I fall victim to dreamland too. But, as my first gallery will show (if it does show up on my minipage), the house looks great, but it's completely and utterly ridiculous, architecturally speaking.
I'm gonna need to study a bit more...
I'm back =)
Hello everyone!I'm back for a few days already and I'm currently submitting my newest creation,I think it will be approved tomorrow =)
Some sneak-peaks:
my simself gossiping with new model about new outfits
Isnt that top and model's pose pure cuteness?
Minimal
Minimal! What does that mean! My minimal is not the same as your minimal Shirley surely 
Gina (Dreamer) and Alexander Goth: circule of life.
Household; Cassandra Goth = elder
Alexander Goth = Adult
Gina (Dreamer) Goth = Adult
Simon Goth = infant/ toddler
Abby Goth= infant/toddler
Bubba = Adult cat, male
Gina was quickly becoming the princess in a fairy tale life. As a child Gina had grown up in the house behind the Goth Manor. Her own family home was by no means small but was still a modest size in comparison. Her Father, Darren Dreamer had bought the house when he married her mother, Tara Katt. Dirk, Gina’s half brother was a teen when she was born. She was barely a toddler when he left for Sim State.
Gina had been to the Goth Manor several times as a child to play with the twins, Saturday and Sunday. The twins Uncle Alexander was at Sim State and Gina had only seen him from time to time. She had hardly paid him much mind. He was a silent and over weight young man. All of Pleasantview had wondered if and who he would eventually marry. Even Gina herself had wondered. Never in her wildest dreams had she imagined it would be her.
Alexander had struck up a brief romance with Sydney Roseland while he was still at Sim State. After his graduation she fell for someone closer to her own age, Stanley Caliente. Alexander had begun spending time with a teen aged girl, Donella Lothario. The neighbor- hood was sure when she grew up the two would be a couple. Gina had gone to Sim State only a few seasons before Donella.
Alexander often visited his old dorm at Sim State as some of his old dorm mates where still in college. He’d heard that some new girls had moved in and one of them was in his old room. He’d stopped in on one of the mingle parties that had become a tradition at the university. He got to meet the girl who was now living in his old dorm room, the sweet Gina Dreamer.
Everyone said it must have been destiny that had placed Gina in Alexander’s old dorm room. Both being knowledge sims they fell in love quickly but Alexander took his time charming the young girl. Their courtship lasting as long as her college stay. The neigh- borhood watched with approval to see if Alexander had finally picked his future bride.
Gina was visiting with Cassandra Goth, as she had grown found of her during her many visits to the Goth Manor when a snow storm hit. With childish delight Gina wondered into the back yard of the Goth Manor and started building a snow man. She was knee deep and covered in snow when Alexander returned home from work. She was a vision of loveliness to him and he proposed to her in the star lit snowy night.
As soon as she graduated they were married in the back yard at Goth Manor, and Alexander whisked her off to the most expensive Beach resort.
The Honeymoon was like a dream. Their room was right on the beach. They spent hours combing the beach and building sand castle. One night they enjoyed a bon fire on the beach. They shopped and went sight seeing. They even conceived a child. The only thing they had found disappointing about the honeymoon was there had not been a restaurant at the hotel and they had to rely on room service for their meals. Gina also grew tired more frequently from her pregnancy.
They returned home to the Goth Manor with bowels of beautiful glass, some sea shells, lots of jewelry they had found and a few store bought souvenirs. Alexander returned to work and Gina took to her bed. Her pregnancy made her so tired. Cassandra, who had moved to the third floor apartment that had been built for Brandi, looked after the house.
Although Alexander had a love for nature and tried to keep Benjamin’s garden well tended he often returned home from work very tired. Cassandra pitched in to help and she still had a gardener coming. Cassandra also made time for her own hobby, tinkering. She surprised Alexander with an unexpected wedding present of a car she had rebuilt herself.
When Gina wasn’t resting she helped Cassandra around the house and worked towards achieving her life long goal of maxing out her skills. When the day finally came for her to give birth she was relieved that Alexander had the day off. He and Cassandra where both there for the delivery. Gina gave birth to a set of twins; a boy, Simon and a girl, Abby.
Gina was thankful for Cassandra’s help. It seemed to take all three adults to care for the infants. Gina depended on Cassandra’s experience with raising twins.
The twins’ birthday seem to come up fast. Cassandra took charge of inviting the guest. Wanting to keep the party from being to overwhelming for the babies Cassandra stuck to inviting Family, And it still made for a large party. Bell was there with her son Gunny. The weekend twins, Saturday and Sunday both had to work but their husbands Dude Lames and Gilly Broke came with their kids. Gilly had his twins Betsey and Jim-bob. And Morty arrived with his dad Dude. Brie and Clyde Kim attended with their son Rob. Dustin Broke came by himself. Beau Broke couldn’t make it. Gina’s family showed up. Her mom Tara and her Brother Dirk both came. Dirk’s wife Megan had chosen to stay home to watch over her set of twin boys, Turk and JD.
The party was in full swing when the proud parents brought their infants to the cake. As they leaned in to blow out the candles an uninvited guest arrived. With the candles blown out the twins were set down with growing up as everyone turned to face the unwelcomed party crasher; the Grim Reaper.
Not caring that no one wanted him there the Grim Reaper went about doing his job and took Cassandra away leaving a small silver urn next to baby Simon. Everyone started crying, except for Rob Kim who was more interested in getting a slice of cake.
When everyone started to get their composure back, Alexander put two more cakes out.
“Let’s get these babies grown, shall we,” Alexander said. He scooped up Simon and had him grow up. Then he got Abby and she grew up.
Gina was in a daze. She had come to depend heavily on Cassandra’s help. She didn’t know how she would manage two toddlers without her. Then there was all the other stuff required to run the Goth Manor. Gina realized that she was now the lady of the house. Her eyes drifted upwards. There was an age difference between her and Alexander. Would she one day find herself living in the attic.
A soft meow snapped Gina from her thoughts. Bubba, Cassandra’s cat would need to be cared for as well.
After the party, Alexander helped Gina get the toddlers feed and put to bed.
“Let’s get some sleep while we can.” He instructed his wife. “I’ll take care of everything tomorrow. Don’t worry.”
With a gentle kiss he sent her to bed, he checked the cat’s food dish then joined his wife.
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