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TWO NEW POLLS

Hi to everybody!!

I have just published two new polls, and I invite all of you to participate.

Your answers will help me to improve my stuff.

Thanks!!

Sandra

More Stuff coming

Hi everyone, I have just uploaded more patterns for the Sims 3 and some walls and floors for the Sims 2, I do not know when as yet they will be published, so keep your eyes open and happy doenloading.

The White House

I'll probably never get to visit the White House in Washington, but I sure can visit every corner of it in the game!

I've spent considerable time searching the internet for house plans and pictures of the White House. I still had to make lots of modifications, as not even the biggest Sims2 lot was large enough to house the Residence, West Wing and East Wing in their actual shapes and sizes.

My White House residence has 2 floors and no basement, and both wings have one floor only. As there are no descriptions and very few pictures available of the East Wing, I transformed it into a recreation area. The bowling alley that should be in the basement of the residence is moved here, as is the game room that should be in the residence top floor. The movie theater should be in the east corridor but did not fit there, so it was also relocated to the East Wing. Another problem is that the East Wing entrance should face east, but as there wasn't space enough, I had to turn it north instead.

The West Wing is compressed and includes only the central features: the Cabinet room and, of course, the Oval Office. The Press briefing room is in the west corridor. I couldn't fit in the palm room, so it is moved to the east corridor instead.

Have you noticed that the Residence is 2 floors high from the north side and 3 floors high from the south side (not counting the top floor on the roof)? I simply kept the 2 floors that are seen from the north. My ground floor includes the entrance hall, the cross hall, the East room, the Green room, the Blue room, the Red room, and the State dining room. The family dining room is moved upstairs. Other rooms upstairs include the Truman balcony, the west and east bedrooms, the Queen's bedroom (now the family gym), east and west sitting halls, the Lincoln bedroom (now a study), the Yellow oval room and the master bedroom. The presidential living room and the Treaty room are missing.

I've tried to keep to the actual color schemes (even though these seem to change with each president). At times I couldn't find Maxis walls and floors that were close enough to the original ones, so I made my own.

The main reason as to why I didn't build the top floor was that it didn't look good in the game. The actual roof balustrad is so high so you hardly see the top floor, but in the game I couldn't find a solution that would work. However, I but an elevator here so that your simmies can visit the roof anyhow. At least your Secret Service simmies will like to keep an eye on the surroundings from the roof top.

As for the exterior, I did make the Rose garden, but not the Jacqueline Kennedy garden, for the simple reason that your garderner would be overworked. I put a dog house both front and back, in case you want to have Bo in your game.

I re-zoned the lot because I first tought it should be a public lot, men then changed it back, losing the mailbox. Sorry about that...

PS: You can find the Barack Obama sim here at TSR, thanks to Jirka, and Michelle Obama at MTS2, thanks to Vera Marina. Just follow the links.

hey hey :]

so, i have FINALLY got approved of my first creation to be posted on tsr.

YAY.

it'll be published tomorrow (august 24th) and i can't wait for everyone to check it out :] hope you enjoy it, i loovee it ;]

My first residential lot: Villa

Hi to everyone I made my first residential lot, called Villa, it will be published the 24 august 2009.

I hope you will like that :D

More earrings coming

While learning more in the Workshop I've started another set with earrings. Here is the first pair or should I say, the earrings are going to be separate. Left and right ear.

It is a bit hard to find new shapes of the hoops but I think I can come up with some more for you. This set will come later during the week.

CD

Trees? Trees!

I successfully modified the Italian pine tree! I made it shorter and a bit wider. This is currently only a replacement because no programm can yet clone trees/shrubbery correctly. This is also why the textures aren't changed.

The foliage sways correctly in the wind and also the lower detail mesh works. This tree modding is currently very experimental! Also due to the special software used (a demo, very limited) it's very unlikely we're going to see many new custom trees/shrubbery. :(

Finaly meshing again..

Oh wow, how great it is to be meshing for sims3. It won't be long before Workshop is ready for new sims 3 meshes. It needs some more adjusting but gladly most stuff is solved already. Woot! to the whole TSR team working on this tool. Easy to use and adjust your textures and meshes.. 

Anyway some previews will be here soon! 

Will Be Away for a While

I'll be having a bit of a hiatus in building as school work has started to pile up.... but no worries though, I have not deserted the game completely! Hehehe...

Alyosha

SHUSH! will you!?

Okay - so I DID make a lot of excited screaming noises in the background.  Now shushed.  But GREAT NEWS FOR BUILDERS!

Early days, but the first object I made with the in-beta-this-week Object Workshop (a bad lamp not even worthy of picturing) DOES actually package properly with uploaded lots!!!  That's the first time I've been able to upload a lot with a custom object inside it!  All my previous objects (experiments) have refused because they were installed as .package files rather than Sims3Packs.  Failures included stairs, windows - even terrain paints.  But it seems a Sims3Pack installs content properly, and is picked up by lots when they're shared.

I am one very happy builder!  Kudos to the TSR developers for what is looking to be a fantastic object creation program.