I’ll see what I can do! I’m off on Thursday and the weather is supposed to be crappy, so I’m hoping to make it a TS2 day – maybe I can put a little something up for download. 😀
I suppose I could upload the apartment complex if no one minds the routing failures and other problems I mentioned here. D: *adds to list*
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. 🙂
Hi there! Sorry for the delay in responding.
If you just want empty templates (no playables, townies, or NPCs whatsoever, you will have to prompt the game to spawn them especially if you’ve downloaded the notownieregen/nodormieregen mods, etc.) – you can grab them all in one handy .zip in Pooklet’s thread HERE.
If you want clean templates (which, as the MATY thread would lead me to believe, contain Maxis neighborhoods and playables, but shouldn’t have townies/dormies/etc.), you can get them from HERE (thank you to the kind soul on MATY who put this working link up.)
I would actually suggest reading through the MATY thread – it’s a bit lengthy and some of the information early on may be outdated, but it will definitely be helpful in answering a lot of questions on starting clean, custom neighborhoods, keeping file sizes down, and generally preventing the game from becoming unnecessarily bloated.
You read my mind, anon! I was just posting it for another friendly anon here. 😀
Here we go, anon friend! My terribly unexciting floorplans. 😀
I was planning to make this a two-unit apartment block, but I think I went too crazy with the outdoor spaces on the first unit (even though everything is fully fenced-in?) that I’m not sure if the game will recognize is at part of the apartment and not common space. I have to put a copy in my test hood and see. 🙂
Third floor (which isn’t a floor at all but the level I added to give the “high ceiling” effect).
Second floor (the “actual” floor). Also with balcony access!
aAAAAND ground floor, with both front and back garden spaces and a still-unfurnished bathroom. 😀 (To be fair, I almost never decorate houses before moving sims in anyway, but I got a little excited about this one…) Check out my sweet pipe-laying skills in the kitchen and don’t ask me how long it took.
Hope this helps! If you have any other questions, feel free to send another message!
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:
(answering this publicly because it got a bit lengthy and because I always enjoy reading how people play their games and maybe other people will be interested as well??)
Since I’ve added ACR to my game, I pretty much let my Sims determine their own fate – which of course will take into account their turn-ons, turn-offs, jealousy settings, gender preferences, etc. However, as you might expect with ACR (especially in a large dorm where only two or three of the Sims are controllable and everyone else just runs on free will), there are bound to be a ton of unplanned hookups. 😛 In that case, I tried to pair off my Sims with who they matched with best, but in some cases my own “ships”, if you will, got in the way. 😛
I liked Sheila and Alfred together from the start – they hit it off fairly quickly, but then out of nowhere he started acting like an ass and they had a bunch of negative interactions and he was constantly engaging in romantic interactions with, like, every other girl in the dorm. I even had Sheila fall in love with the evil warlock NPC instead, and with another dormie Chase (I later found out that ACR randomized his gender preference to male but I had already forced Sheila upon him so now they still have a weird “in love” relationship :3). But somewhere after that, Alfred kept calling her, visiting her, initiating romantic interactions, etc., so I just let that play out. I think they’re only one-bolters, though.
Same with Nate and Tabitha – although you’d never believe they were one-bolters by the way they act. XD There was a time when I moved Tabitha out of the main dorm and Nate fell in love with another dormie (his best friend). I’m a sucker for the best-friends-in-love-who-can’t-be-together scenario, and I was *THISCLOSE* to breaking off his engagement to Tabitha in favor of the other sim. D: But when he next reunited with Tabitha they were just so cute and so in love that I couldn’t bring myself to do it. D:
In my last hood, I had one couple predetermined from their inception in bodyshop – and they were adorable together. 😛 But the rest of the pairings were based on chemistry alone. In fact, one of the couples were paired together on a blind date, hit it off, got married, started a family – and that’s where Tabitha came from. :3 Out of all the kidlets from the previous hood, she was my favorite, so I extracted her and aged her up and moved her to Sycamore Cove to start a life of her own. /tangent
Well, that was a lot more information than you asked for. XD But it’s crazy how a few mods can stir up enough drama in the game to keep it interesting and unpredictable! So the short answer to your question would be – I try to use the chemistry system and let ACR have its way with everyone, but my own bias tends to get in the way sometimes. 😛
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!
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