Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Cute Boy Jack

This is Jack! He blunk when I took his picture.


Jack is a young guy who loves music and wants to be great at it, commanding grand symphonies.


He's brave.


He's artistic.


He's ambitious.


He's a hopeless romantic.


And he's lucky.


Plus he's cute in-game, too!

Jack is loosely loosely based on Rankin Bass' Jack Frost. He's just a cute blonde guy with a lot of dreams. :D

Jack uses this awesome hair/hat converted by Anubis and no other custom content, but he is made with slider enhancements(multipliers) and will require them if you edit him!

Give him a good home. :D

Those...eyebrows...

 When it comes down to it, there are very few people who will swing the bat. 

Monday, April 5, 2010

Screw you, CTU!

It's not working ;-;

I'm trying to just delete the shirt from the apron mesh. But when I do-

-The colors on the apron part are all brighter than they actually are
-The alpha is jagged for some reason on the ribbon on the back
-The enabled texture channels don't save, and I can only change the invisible shirt and the apron

;-; stupid thing


It should not be this hard to have a buff guy walking around the house in an apron with no shirt on D:<

Goth...lip...stuff

I don't know what to call it. I guess paint? I have no idea. Watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force, some lame ICP goth kid whatever had lip stuff like this and I thought depending on the sim it might look kinda cool.

So here's my first ever makeup! :D


I suppose it's a bit of a rare-use depends-on-the-sim kinda thing, instead of an every-other-sim-you-make-will-use-this kinda thing like a new lipstick or eyeliner. <_<;

Because of how faces and facemasks work, there will be distortions based on the sim's face shape. Usually it looks fine though.


So. Yay! It's a lipstick. It's black by default and any other color is dumb because it lets you see the lips.

(The first sim is an altered Syd Vivacious by Epi.)

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Last Chance Gas Station

This lot was built for my World, The Wraithsands. It's the one and only gas station along the main highway. It's another semi-decorative "atmosphere" lot.


There's not much going on inside. It's just a gas station. :\ There's a nectary register, a food register...


Some coffee machines by the entrance...


A garage door, should someone need a tire change or something, and some couches easily pushed aside, used for TV and video games, since there's not much to do in the desert, and people hang out here.


It's best suited for a lot that has a road on either side. You probably don't have a lot the exact size as this one, but if it's just a bit bigger, it's easy to expand the asphalt. Or you can just remove the arrows.


And here's a closer shot of the pumps. These can be turned on (since they're on a different level than ground level, sims won't watch them) and it looks like advertisements on old pumps fitted with fancy new screens.


Size 40x24, so it's suited fine to one of the numerous 40x30 lots most worlds have.

Requires world adventures and nothing else!

Friday, April 2, 2010

Snake Legs Gargoyle Wings made Mini

These wings were made by Snake Legs, and can be found here! I simply resized them! I got permission now, too.

Anyway, these wings are badass, I just didn't like how big they are, so I made them smaller. A couple people requested I upload them, so here they are.


There you can see where they rest on the back.

It's just a resize so it still uses their textures and thumbnails. Again, all credit goes to Snake Legs!

Unlocked WA Mailbox and Regular Mailbox

This unlocks the WA mailbox for purchase, with a few minor issues. Normally if you want this mailbox you have to copy a house from a foreign world and delete everything on it so you can build your house.




There are minor issues:

-There's no mini-door
-There's no flag thingy
-There's a minor animation distortion when the sims try to use it, for a second or so.



I imagine this is because the thing isn't intended to be used ANYWAY, but:

-You can still donate money
-You can still get gems cut and such
-You can still recieve mail
-You can still shift-click on it and get all the same cheat debug options as the regular mailbox


Read the following. READ IT. e_e

HOW TO USE:
-Go to decorative/misc and buy one for 500 simoleons
-Turn on Move Objects, or you can't place it
-Once you place it you'll still have another in your hand (like when placing lights), just click another button or object to get rid of it.
-Delete the original mailbox. This can be done using something like Awesomemod's "Nuke" feature (At least I believe it is awesomemod, it may be a base game testingcheats function) and shift-clicking on the mailbox, selecting "nuke".

If you want the regular mailbox, just buy it, too, and nuke the WA one. Both cost 500 and can be found in Deco -> Misc or Outside -> Lawn Decor.


Fully CASTable.

I have not noticed ANY ill effects from this, so I am assuming that it is safe (unlike in The Sims and The Sims 2, where the mailbox had major functionality and deleting it would basically ruin the whole universe and everything in it). Tested a family for a few days, donated a few times, got some gems cut, recieved and paid bills. Everything still seems to work as normal.  Despite that, use at your own risk. I see no reason it should cause issue, but if you're afraid of it, just don't use it. I am considering it in-testing. I also do not recommend sharing lots with one of these, just for safety purposes. If you're designing a lot around the mailbox you have issues and are crazy anyway.

I've also noticed no issues with multiple mailboxes. You can only use one, but having more doesn't seem to hurt at all, so it's cool for apartments and stuff.

 DO NOT DARE only install one of these mailboxes, because I will not be held responsible if you build some great house using the WA one and then want to use the normal one. e_e Install both so that you can be sure you can always get the normal one back, damnit!

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Unlocked Sarcophaguseses and Cameras

I feel guilty using debug mode to buy these and yet I would like to buy them so now they are in the catalog.


The cameras are in Electronics -> Misc. They cost the same as they do buying them from a merchant.


And as you can see here, each sarcophagus is priced. Imported from an Al Simharan museum, or something like that. They are found under Comfort -> Beds, or the Bed icon in the room sort. Be warned that since it is still the sarcophagus of kings, the sarcophagus of kings WILL turn a sim who sleeps in it for too long into a mummy. It is not advised to use it as a bed. ;D

Blendable Basics Set 1

Based on the idea LemonLeaf used here, with these badass sexy shirts.

A t-shirt, a flowy lady shirt, and a pretty dress! This is easy to do, so I am making some quick enhancements to base game basic clothing by applying it to them.


Not the fanciest example combos, but it's just to get the idea across. They work best with both colors being equally dark or bright, a combination might look a bit odd. The dress is everyday and formal.


Thanks again to LemonLeaf for the idea :D

Blendable Overshirt for Guys

Lemonleaf made this really badass shirt set. And I got really excited, because the colors BLEND! So I tried to match that with some more traditional looking base-game clothing.

Do do do dooooo! Introducing, the blendable button-down overshirt.


You can even blend patterns!


And if you use similar colors, you can blend two patterns into one new design.


Isn't that badass?! :D

Higher Chance of Friends asking YOU to Move In

One of the coolest features of The Sims 3 is that neighbors can not only be visited, but they might ask YOU to move in with THEM.

But I have never seen this happen. S3PE reveals why! The chance of an NPC asking you is 1%. The chance when you are in a romantic relationship is 3%. By that time you probably already asked them to move in with you.

I changed it! Now the chance of them asking during conversation is 10%, and when romantic, 25%. They'll wait 2 days between asking if you say no, so you won't be constantly bombarded by requests. Note that denying the request gives a -10 drop in relationship.

Yay!