Wednesday 30 January 2008

New EP!!!

So I have a new EP. I bought pets from Zavvi (formally known as Virgin Mega Store). It was reduced to £13, that's cheaper than Amazon. I've been testing it out and I'm impressed. The fact that you can see other houses from you lot now is quite aesthetically pleasing. The default animals aren't to bad either. They aren't the best but they don't look awful. I will download some new animals for the sims anyway. I feel like I should at least give them custom animals.
I still plan on getting some more EP's, sadly I spent a lot of money on dollfie stuff so I need to stop spending for a while. I installed a couple more hacks too. I now have brighter lights in bodyshop and now I have some lovely spiral staircases. I just wish I was a better builder. My houses always look awful. It's just as well that I'm going to download a few of the lots. I could never make lots as pretty as V1ND1CARE . Her creations are absolutely gorgeous ^^.

Ahh I've thought of another hack I need. I found a hack that allows you to place neighbourhood objects within lots. This presented a problem for me. You can only pick 4 terrain types-
Desert, Temperate (grass), Dirt or Concrete. The city I'm making is an old medieval gothic type place with cobble stones. So naturally I'd concrete because it matches up. No. The problem is that I have a hill which I want to be grassy. So I need to use the grass object on there. That means that I can't have lots up there because You can't put lots on objects. Well the hack will let me do this. I'm not entirely sure if it works with grass though. I may have to ask or just try it an see. Oh this is where I found it http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=265020 . I must start writing out the story. I can't really do anything else until I plan out the story. So I'll see you in the next post *^_^*

Wednesday 23 January 2008

Technical Stuff

So right now I'm going to run you by all the technical stuff that I am going to need to create my world.
These are the EP's I have:
University
Night Life

I will have more soon. I plan on buying Open for Business and either Seasons or Bon Voyage next.

First I need clean hoods. I don't want anything running around my neighbourhoods spoiling the view, such as the ugly maxis downtownies and regular townie. I just pray that this works- http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,5861.0.html

Next I'm going to need hacks, lots of 'em. I'm going to get a couple to enforce the clean neighbourhoods tutorial. I need to go find No Townie Regen and No Dormie Spawn. I need a decent camera hack too. I had one before but when I installed NL the hack was over ridden and it disappeared. I know where to find it though so there's no problem

I've also installed a pixel removal hack (via SimsPE) and Crammy boy's penis hack. Seriously, my men are men.

I'm also wading my way though tons of custom content. I have at least 9 pages of favourites on MTS2. I had to remove all the stuff that I had originally installed too because the game crashed constantly. I figure there was a bad object in there somewhere.

I need to find my terrains too. I think by the time all the EPs are installed you end up with one main hood and 3 sub hoods.
This is what I have so far....
This will be the main hood (aka The Amethyst City)
















This will be the down town hood (aka The Opal city)
















This will be the shopping district (aka The Sapphire district)













And this will be the Holiday hood (aka The Peridot Islands

















The names and terrains may change but I promise to keep you all informed should that happen.

That's all for now *^_^*

Sunday 20 January 2008

So this is where I begin

If your here, then you probably know what this is about. I'm trying to build an environment in my Sims 2 game that is almost perfect and totally hand customised by me. I have a plan.... well, an idea at least. I will be using a storyline that I wrote for a comic that I won't ever use. I'll update you all with the story in the next post. I will be drawing up character designs and showing you all pictures of how the sims turn out so look out for them. Well that's it for the starting post. I hope you enjoy my blog ^_^