Weekend Project Post

[ex_pooklet817]

Was sick for the better part of the day yesterday and cold meds do some hilarious things to your priorities, let me tell you. So it looks like our first Saturday Project Post will be on a, er, Sunday.

So here's how this is going to work: every Saturday, a mod will make a post with themed threads that members can reply to and discuss in. We've picked some themes to start but depending on what direction the posts take, threads may be modified or added.

See the starter comments below to get an idea of the format, and comment away! If you have any questions or want to discuss something not covered by the main threads, reply here!

Comments

Re: General Sims Chatter

[spyroeldragon]

Ok I will go second.
I finally started a new neighborhood because it's ~summer~ and I can actually play the game now.. but I've got no idea what to do with it. Also I suck at building and um... 8D

Re: General Sims Chatter

[ex_pooklet817]

I like to look at pictures of real places and then smush them together into a single location for my neighborhoods. 8D My legacy hood is based in part on Bo-Kaap. 8D

Re: General Sims Chatter

[spyroeldragon]

I do that sometimes, too. And other simmer's pictures. Everything still ends up boxy with a shit ton of trees everywhere, but it works. 8D

And I love what you've done with that newsea hair. I wish I could help. I can't stand hairs with built-in accessories. D:

Re: General Sims Chatter

[ex_pooklet817]

I have a few standard house shapes I build but beyond that, yeah, everything's a fucking box. :[ I need to get into the habit of downloading lots.

SAME. Which is why I carved that shit off. But I am crap at age converting hair. CONUNDRUM.

Re: General Sims Chatter

[spyroeldragon]

Me too! Then I try to go ~outside the box~ but then it's an even bigger box with a bunch of mini boxes and it's JUST TERRIBLE.

I can't even find any tutorials on it. D: But I'm guessing the hardest part would be scaling it down and fitting it to the scalp-thingamajig?

Re: General Sims Chatter

[ex_pooklet817]

I tend to make boxes with, like, one diagonal wall at a corner. And then another box tacked on for a tiny, useless room. ~CREATIVE~

Yeah. I can just never get it to look right and I'm not comfortable enough with the process to do it without managing to cause a thousand billion errors, throw a hissy, and then just leave it forever untouched. 8-x

Re: General Sims Chatter

[spyroeldragon]

Yeah. Not only do I suck at making structures, but I always use the same exact doors and windows for almost every single houses. I wish I could steal other people's game sometimes. :C

You'd think there would be an easier way to do meshing stuff by now. I don't understand how can peggy and newsea and other meshers can come out with stuff in a matter of days. I understand it gets easier with practice, but I always manage to screw stuff up! And this is with basic body meshing.

Re: General Sims Chatter

[ex_pooklet817]

OH MAN ME TOO ME TOO. I have been hoarding links for more build stuff but I am crap at keeping things organized so they are all over and ultimately not very helpful. :(

Yeah idek, man. Maybe they use a different program, or have elaborate robots that do all the work for them? WHO KNOWS.

Re: General Sims Chatter

[spyroeldragon]

I feel your pain man. But what about neighborhoods? I actually download pre-decorated neighborhoods half the time. I really want my game to look cool, but am too lazy to do so.

THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW.

Re: General Sims Chatter

[ex_pooklet817]

I haven't done that because then it feels like it isn't ~my neighborhood~ you know?