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Quick Disclaimer

Hi everyone!

Just a quick note to you all about support. There seems to be some people who are taking .sims3packs and converting back to .packages - I, personally, do not really care what format you want to install your CC in. I understand that some people prefer .package for the ease of drag-and-drop installation and such, but please note that .package is NOT a generally supported format for TS3. Converting .sims3pack to .package may break/corrupt the file! If you convert files, or you've downloaded them from somewhere else as .package, please don't tell me they are broken or ask me to fix them - because I can't. If you download and install them as .sims3pack, then the content should install into your game and work just fine.

Sims3pack files integrate themselves into the game, versus .package files which are basically plug-n-play. Using .sims3pack provides a smooth transition when updating, installing patches, SP/EPs, etc, and is your safest bet to ensure that the content continues to work after the game updates are done, versus .package files which should be removed when updating the game and then put back afterwords - with no guarantee that they will continue to work. Obviously, it's up to you which method you choose, but please keep in mind I will not help with broken CC for TS3 that was converted to .package - we were given the .sims3pack format for a reason!

Strelitzia nicola� Set published

I am very happy to present you today Strelitzia nicolaï (White Bird of Paradise), one of my favourite plants. His very particular fan-shaped gives him an artificial aspect, but, contrary, it's very complicated to realize the mesh. I reconstructed and worked a lot the mesh to bring realistic details, and give different looks to the various sizes.

In the real life, it's a fantastic plant which I appreciate to look in my garden, and I hope that you will appreciate him so much in the game !

Enjoy !

Hmmmmm....Why is this?

I've just been looking at my paintings that are up for download and I've noticed that they can be viewed in sets and objects but not in the 'Paintings and Posters' sub category :-o...why is this? Have I missed something out somewhere when uploading to TSR? I'm stumped (YET AGAIN!)....

More and More Pictures ;-)

My China set of screenshot pictures has just been published today.....

you might recognise some of them from my screenshot gallery, there will be some new ones that haven't been seen, but I've tried to pick the ones that have had the most comments :-) but I've probably renamed them as paintings...I've also submitted my third set, France, today..so if the file is ok, they should be up for download on Tuesday..

So I hope everyone likes these as much as they seem to have liked my Eygpt set :-) .....And a huge thank you to everyone who has downloaded them :-) I wasn't sure if anyone would like them enough to download them, but I guess you did :-)...I only wish I could somehow add screenshots that you could download to use as desktop wallpaper if you wanted

because they make lovely backgrounds ....(anyway, not to everyone's taste ;-) ) I've tried copy and pasting the gallery screenshots and screenshots off of the downloads themselves and the graphic quality is pretty pooh :-( ...so I've kind of given up on that idea ;-) ...

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and may the coming week be filled with happy simming :-D

Milk

Checks fredbrennys mini for oatmeal raisin cookies for breakfast

Thank you everybody!

For my first post on my blog, I wanted to thank all the persons who download and appreciate my creations, those who write comments on my creations or my guestbook.

I don’t answer every time due to the lack of time, but I read and estimate each of your lovely words. Also I try to take into account the requests and the precious advice which you give me.

I hope that you like playing with my creations and that they transform the landscape of your game as they transform mine.

A big thank you for all this.

Alex

ATTENTION

Please don't download these items: - Wisteria Lane Houses: 3 McCluskey -Wisteria Lane Houses: 2 Scavo because i will re-upload with some changes. thank's

My policy

Please  don't re-upload my lot and my CC on Pay-site. Thank you.

My sims

Hey! I noticed that one of my sims were subscriber only!!!! Only a few sims are subscriber only!!!! I'm so happy!!!

The Last Sheet!

I haven't forgotten about the washroom set - far from it.  A new 'who left the seat up?' toilet joins the other three questionable thrones and now I'm finishing off with a few decorative touches...

The so-called piece of art on the left is aptly named "The Last Sheet".  It joins it's stable-mate called "Too Bad!" on the right.

There are also three 'puddles' that can make your bathrooms look totallywrecked.  Sims can walk through them and they can be placed indoors or outdoors.  They can only be cleaned up (ie deleted) by you though - otherwise your poor Sims have to put up and shut up!

One of the bigger delays in this set (tutorial-writing aside) has been me not being satisfied.  

My first goal for this set was the typical toilets (washrooms to those of you over the pond) that you might find in those run-down parks and such.  The sort of thing that would be found in the lower picture is still an unfortunate 'feature' of 'beautiful Britain' - especially in tourist places like coastal resorts.

But I don't like suffocating the versatility of Sims 3 either.    What if you want to write a story that happens to need clean washrooms in it at some point?  So I've been cleaning up my act a bit!  I've revisited all the meshes to ensure that, without compromising on grunge or sizes of the files, the object can still offer a convincing clean-and-new version too.  The top piccie shows the same items from below spruced up and new-looking (ignore those ugly shadows under the sinks - they're gone now).

I now need to make a nice closet door (I only have that ugly old fashioned version in the set right now) and then I think I'm done!  Not bad going either!  I only started this set last October...