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Where did Alice go?

Alas, poor Alice!

No dining set.  Any downloaders foolish enough to trust anything I make will be the proud owner of the most pointless dining set yet.  The Alice dining set can't, erm, be dined at.....

Before you start assuming that I just throw random files at the servers, I do have an excuse.  It's feeble, but an excuse IS never-the-less an excuse! 

I first made the set with the publicly available Workshop 0.8.7.  I tested the chairs both independently of a table, with the Alice table and with other tables, indoors and outdoors.  Everything was fine!  But then the TSR dream-team came out with a new closed beta version of Workshop that also generates the shadow meshes automatically AND perfectly.  Any object creators who have tried lining up shadows won't be reading this because they will already be committed in some local asylum somewhere, but yes, it's true: the dream-team have made sunshadow worries a thing of the past - dead easy.  No more MLOD2 and MLOD3 nonsense; no more wailing about disconnected, badly shaped shadows.  One click and the shadows are made automatically.  Beautiful.

So, I ran the Alice dining chairs through the closed beta version, loaded up my game to admire the perfect shadows (and they are perfect - kudos to the developers), and sat a Sim on each chair just to be sure they still worked.  I also placed the chairs at a dining table to ensure they placed correctly, moved when the table was picked up etc.  Fine again!  So, I uploaded the set. 

What I forgot to do in the second round of testing was park a dining table in front of the chairs AND sit a Sim at the table!  Sims can indeed sit on those chairs, but not when they're at a table.  The latest closed beta of the Workshop also automatically adjusts the green footprint beneath the object (extremely, brilliantly useful) but dining chairs have an odd arrangement (a hidden footprint behind the chair when at a dining table) which the Workshop had not accounted for, meaning the Sim could not pull out the chair in order to sit on it at a table.  Fortunately, the beta also allows the footprint to be adjusted manually, so I've made those adjustments and am happy to confirm that the chairs now do work properly. 

The set will be back up shortly.   And the new beta Workshop will be out shortly too!

Sims 3 World Adventures - testing the new adventures out.

I have just gotten World Adventures.  So far I really love Shang Simla.  I am fully exploring each vacation area.  I first found out that you can only go for 3 days the first time you go as you have 0 Visa points.  But as you build your adventuring skills by completing tasks for the residents you win Visa points, gold coins (you need those to buy special items to help out exploring) and regular simoleons as well as treasure, relics, and new types of rocks, jems and stones.  I am going to be posting my screen shots of Abby and Skye Hampton as they go along.  They can now go back for 5 days as they have 1 Visa point a piece now.  But they need to work on some promotions to earn the money for a return trip.  Or a mysterious relative neither ever new could die and leave them $50,000 simoleons I haven't decided yet.  Let me know what you think.  Thanks.

Ocikitten

Results from Learning to Love Character Poll

I thought it was about time to change my poll, because I have had the favourite Learning to Love character one up for so long. And it's been finished for a few weeks now! Thanks everyone for a great response, and here are the results.

Nick                  22.95%

Adriana             55.74%

Zak                    4.92%

Jonas                13.11%

Someone else    21.31%

Well, Adriana was a clear favourite, hogging 55% of the votes! Zak obviously wasn't the most liked, but then he didn't play a huge role. It's great to know which characters are favourites or not, anyway :-)

I've now got a new poll up to see which of my stories, so far, is your favourite. Ciao for now!

Making some more stuff today-don't worry! LOL!

Going to be making some new clothes today...had a couple of days off from designing because I've recently got a new laptop and been transferring stuff over from one to the other and that's taken quite a bit of time. Plus, yesterday, I had a problem getting TSR Workshop to work on my new laptop, so had to sort that little technical difficulty out.

I've already made some new Sims to put up when I next upload...all that remains for me to do, really, is to install PSP back onto my laptop so then I can take screen captures of the Sims/new clothes etc for my previews. Doesn't seem to want to do it on Photoshop at the moment. *shrugs*

Just been picking up some new pictures from Google Images for inspiration for future projects...still focussing on pretty cute characters...got some Kirby, Pokemon, Morph and Moomins. Hopefully. by the end of today, I will have made some things that are good enough to post and hopefully will be approved overnight.

Poll result on first EP for Sims 3

As the EP now is available for some around the world I've closed my poll. I still haven't got my copy yet but it will come maybe today or tomorrow. What's strange is that in the list if you count there are 79 in the total and in the list I have that voted only 76 are mentioned! Here is the result of the poll and out of all who have voted, most have said they will wait until it's released. Just under a third have preordered it.

A big Thank you for voting!

I'm now waiting in excitement for my copy

CD

I'm Back and Writing

Hey all,

Wow....haven't been around for a while, sorry bout that I've been so swamped with all this stuff from exams to TAFE courses which sadly meant that I couldn't write the next chapters to some of my stories that I've been wanting to finish off. So hopefully I can do that now..ish because I've got some free time. So Escape from Paradise and Good vs. Evil should be out soon, I left you all on a bit of a cliff hanger for Good vs. Evil, whoopsi I wasn't expecting to get so swamped.

But I'll get those stories done and hopefully out in the next couple of days. On top of those stories my minds been going crazy thinking up two more stories....so much thinking I've been dreaming about them. That was a really weird dream I remember going 'No! that's the wrong cover!' then I got paranoid that I hadn't saved the cover I created. But I did. So all is good.

Anyhoo, i'm off for lunch. Having some weird chickeny, taco-y rice thing....I don't know it's real name but it is AWSUM! and the microwave just beeped and I can smell it. I think the smell went in my eye, it hurts. Can smells attack eyes? Well there's something to ponder whilst I have lunch.

Hope you're all well! and looking forward to reading what you think about my stories...when I publish them!

Adios cada uno

xox

Sims 3

So I caved and purchased Sims 3 yesterday. (yes I am aware an expansion comes out today).  I only got a chance to try it for about an hour...Not bad. Will hopefully get used to it soon, but I love sims 2 so much I just don't know how #3 will stack up.

Lots without Sims 3 Store content

I would just like to know if anybody would like alternative lots that are Sims 3 Store content free?

Please leave a comment if you do!

I 'd like somebody create

This female hair please ;-)

Thank you so much ;-)

Empire Line dresses - revised and improved versions are available.

The original mesh used for Empire Line dresses has been replaced for another one which works better in game. I must thank to Lianaa for the new mesh applied.

So, to those ones who have downloaded the Empire Line serie, I suggest to uninstall the old files (from Sims 3 Launcher) and then to download and to install the new ones.

I apologize for this matter, I have made these changes in order to improve quality of stuff.

Below I leave the links for the revised and improved dresses.

OSSA - Dress F034 Empire Line : http://www.thesimsresource.com/members/SandraR/downloads/details/category/sims3-clothing-female/title/OSSA%20-%20Dress%20F034%20Empire%20Line/id/923594/

OSSA - Dress F032 Empire Line : http://www.thesimsresource.com/members/SandraR/downloads/details/category/sims3-clothing-female/title/OSSA%20-%20Dress%20F032%20Empire%20Line/id/923100/

OSSA - Dress F028 Empire Line : http://www.thesimsresource.com/members/SandraR/downloads/details/category/sims3-clothing-female/title/OSSA%20-%20Dress%20F028%20Empire%20Line/id/921589/

OSSA - Dress F026 Empire Line : http://www.thesimsresource.com/members/SandraR/downloads/details/category/sims3-clothing-female/title/OSSA%20-%20Dress%20F026%20Empire%20Line/id/920444/

Sorry for inconvenience and enjoy improved Empire Line!

Hughs,

SandraR