Awww, anon! ;_; Thank you so much for the wonderful compliments. ❤ I’m afraid I won’t be uploading the entire neighborhood, though. 😦 For starters, I don’t know the first thing about uploading a whole neighborhood. D: Also, I’m pretty sure it wouldn’t just be buggy – it seems like there are a million things that could go wrong with uploading an inhabited neighborhood. D: 

For the neighborhood itself, I placed a lot of hood deco to fill in the “urban” part of town, but as you can see from this post, the majority of the terrain is still empty. (I didn’t even have to place the trees – voleste​ did all the work!). So the neighborhood itself isn’t all that fleshed out, anyway. 😉

As for buildings, there are some exceptions (such as the boardwalk – damn finicky beach lots), but I’m willing to upload many of the lots I build should anyone request it. I’d also post floor plans/overhead views of anything else you’d like to see! I’ve actually been meaning to build a couple of empty shell/low-CC homes as a followers’ gift of sorts (also because I need some in my own game XD). I could do a community lot or two as well. 🙂 So, I wouldn’t say I’m open for lot requests per se, but I’m definitely open to suggestions for when I finally get around to doing this!

This is a good question! I haven’t tried to do that myself, and a quick google search didn’t really turn up anything. So I’m not sure. D: I use quite a few custom collections myself, but I use the “organize collections” option in-game to move all my custom ones to the front of the catalogue and rearrange them in order of how frequently I use them, etc. (OMSP collection is always number one!)

The organize-collection feature is kind of tedious (you move the collection up or down the line one click at a time), but if you have all your custom ones in the beginning, you won’t have to pass all the Maxis ones to find something. 🙂 

Hi there! I’ve tried looking up floor plans in the past, but I’m miserable at following them. Sometimes I’ll look up floor plans to get a general idea for a layout, but mostly I build on a whim. Oddly enough, I spend more time looking up inspiration for exteriors, and then just winging the layout of the interior myself. 

For example, for the loft lot I googled “brooklyn factory loft apartment” and opened a couple pictures in a new tab – some interior, some exterior. The actual building and floor plan I did myself (that’s why it’s so lame :D), but I took some inspiration for color schemes and decor and such from the search results. 🙂 

You read my mind, anon! I was just posting it for another friendly anon here. 😀

Hi there! To make my custom dorm (and my custom hood in general), firstly, I used empty templates. I did this so the game wouldn’t spawn EAxis townies and NPCs. (This tutorial spells out the process of installing empty neighborhood templates better than I ever could! I follow it every time I do a reinstall.) As for creating the actual townies, there are a couple of ways you can do this – you can choose to batch create townies (the game will randomly generate townies for you), or you can create completely custom townies to your own liking in bodyshop, and then townify them. I went into more detail about creating custom townies in my post HERE. 🙂 

I’m not sure if you mean populating a Maxis dorm as in the lot itself, or populating a premade Uni subhood (such as Sim State University) with custom dormies. If you want to use a premade Maxis dorm building and plop it into your own university subhood, as long as you followed the instructions to install empty neighborhood templates and placed the necessary antiredundancy/notownieregen/nodormieregen mods in your Downloads folder, you will be able to spawn or create your own dormies and they will move into the building. I’m fairly certain the same thing would work if you wanted to add an entire Maxis uni subhood as long as you had empty templates installed. (Someone correct me if I’m wrong??? I either use completely Maxis neighborhoods with townies and all, or completely empty ones. I’ve not tried the middle-of-the-road attempt. D:)

I feel like I’m babbling now and I’m not sure if I’m making any sense. XD SO UM here’s another link for you that might break it down a little more. I think some of the links at the end of the page are dead, but you can follow the instructions to determine what you’re looking for (empty vs. clean templates, etc.). The GoS tutorial has a link to download empty templates if you need them. 🙂 

Please let me know if you need further clarification on anything! I’m a bit sleep-deprived and thought this would be a good time to answer messages so I’m sorry if I’m completely unhelpful. D: 

Hi friend! Unfortunately, it’s packed with CC – and not the kind that easily packages, either. The house is like 95% painting recolors which would take me an unholy amount of time to track down and link to. D: It’s also a very plain shape – your run-of-the-mill boxy apartment. 

If you’d like, I can post the floor plan soon (even though there’s not much to it)? I don’t have my game open at the moment because I’ve been organizing my bodyshop defaults, but I can do it as soon as I have it loaded again. 🙂

And as always, if you see anything specific you want from the screenshots, feel free to send me a WCIF!