Monday, June 7, 2010

Buyable Hygienator, Harvester, and Miner (with reasonable prices)

I figure these are reasonable enough devices that our sims could order one online or something, right?

Hygienator: Misc Electronics, cost 10,000 (Since it's basically just a fancy air conditioning sytstem?)
Harvester: Hobbies/Skills, cost 50,000 (Since it's more of a bonus for being a good gardener)
Miner: Misc Vehicles, cost 80,000 (Since you'll make that much in a day with the damn thing)

Requires Ambitions, obviously.


Miner's Shack (With Miner included)


This shack, way out by the mines, used to be used by Miners. It was abandoned and put on the real estate market.


It has not been cleaned up, having holes and burned storage shed on the land. There are oil barrels in front of the home.


There's even some mining equipment left behind.


As well as firewood and a bunch of junk.


Since it wasn't intended as an actual residence, the inside is a bit cluttered- to the point where the front door cannot be used, as there is a couch in front of it.


The kitchen is small and the home does not have much room for expansion.



Though there is a basement, but it's empty.



It's very secluded from the rest of town!

This is a 20x15 lot. I placed a custom lot as shown in the first and last pictures, near the mine. It costs just under 16,000 simoleons, leaving a new one sim family with 500. You won't be able to use the Miner until you clean up the land, though!

Requires World Adventures (for the nectar machine, only, you can live without it if you want) and Ambitions. It does have some fog spawners on it, but they can easily be removed if you dont like them.

Hairband Hair Unlocked for Males

I had a similar hair in The Sims 2, but without the bangs. I think it makes for a nice villain type hair.


Requires Ambitions.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Non-replacement Camera Lense Simbot Eyes

The simbot eyes scare me. I am genuinely scared of them. I cannot have a simbot because of this, unless I give them sunglasses or a mask.


So I made a non-replacement meant to resemble camera lenses.


This is a hairstyle, found under hats. Rusty versions, too, both male and female. You must use EditSim or the supercomputer to edit your simbot and change his hair to this.

How to make your own: 
1. Open TSRW (Or your preferred editing program)
2. Find the Simbot head (named with Frankensim)
3. Find the Hair Textures. These are basically an "Overlay" texture.
4. The eyes are in the lower right corner. Simply draw/paste/whatever over them. Note that they are flipped (the left and right eyes will be flipped horizontally if your replacement is not symmetrical).
5. Replace the textures, and make sure the hair is not hidden in CAS. Save as a unique package.


All Time Travel Clothing Unlocked (Updated: Added Biosuit)




Set Includes:
Medieval Male Knight Outfit
Medieval Male Boots
Medieval Male Knight Hair
Dark Ages Male Outfit
Dark Ages Male Shoes
Dark Ages Male Hair
Cro Magnon Male Outfit
Cro Magnon Male Hair
Male Cyber Suit
Dark Ages Female Dress
Dark Ages Female Hair
Cro Magnon Female Outfit
Cro Magnon Female Hair
Female Cyber Suit
Female Bio Suit

There is no Medieval female outfit, as far as I can tell, and not all outfits came with shoes. Each one has 3 color options by default!

Package contains all individual files so you can pick and choose.

Slower Profession Advancement Mod - Nevermind

Test cancelled! Mod doesn't appear to actually do a thing, instead, it freezes progression for the first 3 levels...instead of making it slower. Ouch!

Friday, June 4, 2010

Little Robot Shack

So you finally got 40,000 Lifetime Happiness Points. Your accomplishments added up and you sent in your Happy Stickers to the Happy Magazine Shopping Catalog and ordered...My Best Friend.

But your best friend came with some pretty crappy traits and you made no connection with him. He was a toy that got old the minute you got it home. And, having no connection, you threw him out with the trash.

What happened to him?


He ended up at the junk yard. Where he gathered scraps of metal and wood...


And piled them onto one another to make a home.


The ground is wet and flooded and he doesn't have a thing that isn't second-hand.


He doesn't even have two rooms.


He found a junky computer, and some random knick-knacks. He put an old TV back together.


He found some fabric and an old cot.


And uses a discarded bathroom stall for waste, and spends his time hoping to get good enough at building to make a companion.


And maybe when he does, they can move back into town, and show you what you're missing out on.

Don't throw away your simbots.

10x10 lot, costs just under 10k. Requires Ambitions and WA (for the windows only, you can still use it without WA, you just wont have the windows)

Unlocked Caveman Hair (Male and Female)

Your sim can get this hair when they go back and time, I think. I unlocked it and now it is available in CAS! Teen-Adult only.



If you put it in the documents mods folder, it will have both an ambitions logo and a custom content logo on it.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Shuttle Station Diner

When Twinbrook's railroads started to die, something had to be done. Trains just weren't coming through the town anymore. So what use was there for the railroads? In a misguided attempt to bolster town interest and tourism Twinbrook wanted to become the first town in all of SimNation with a shuttle system. It might not be ultra-modern, but it would match the feel of the community and provide a fun new way to get around town, instead of driving on the bumpy roads or trekking through the swamp.

But...once the shuttle was purchased, it came to light that the railroads were in such disrepair that the town couldn't afford to get them up to code. They had gone unused too long. Not to mention the shuttle was too wide for the tracks. And so the shuttle sits inside its custom-built station, being used as a diner. The railroad continued to fall apart but the station stays clean-ish and is a hangout for the locals.


Note that the layout is a bit different than in the diner shots, you can see it in the overhead. I had to remove a set of stairs so sims would stop whining about route failure even when none existed.

This was just a fun way to play with some of the new stuff from Ambitions. I used column-pattern wallpaper to make a fun pseudo-column effect that I think a poor town would use in place of real columns, I made some train tracks, and I used Friezes below the roof. 

Size is 30x20 and it is meant to fit where the diner is in Twinbrook (this way it lines up with the tracks that go next to the bridge). Requires both WA and Ambitions!

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Emergency Exit Sign

First ambitions upload! The default exit sign has a sim running to a door, but I wanted a more american-style EXIT sign instead.


 Two colorable channels like the original.



Costs 10 simoleons and can be found in Wall Deco. Requires Ambitions!