Moi's Ardalloeur (furnished; EP00TS2-01UNI & EP2NL)(10 Oct, 2005)

Lot Name: Ardalloeur (furnished; EP00TS2-01UNI & EP2NL)(10 Oct, 2005)


Description:

A. Brief Intro:

It's been a long while since I made a big residence lot... Ardalloeur is just one big lot... It has diagonal arches and above it is a small port for aero-vehicles, a big swim-pool and an indoor swim-pool, a colourful room, an odd pond, a guest house, several potential washroom areas, watery decorative area... I don't normally dream on a big mansion but a modrately spacy and silent living place. So, this house isn't really that big in terms of usable areas. It is among those with more decorative areas. I admit I'm not good at interior design and colour-work most of the time, and so doing that is you users' work.

Note:
1. Now 2 versions:
a. EP00TS2-01UNI (No EP with jgwhiteus's 2005-Feb 21 coloured lights, >=EP2 incompatible when these lights are installed);
b. EP2NL (the use of jgwhiteus's EP2 coloured lights);
2. As for the terrain painting,sorry, TS2 engine can't distinguish which paints a person is using and will pack whichever appears in the dl folders. Even worse is that the stupid engine counts any "missing" (even though not used at all) terrain paint (present in the game system during the the lot making) as "absence of terrain paint" and so will delete all the terrain work. I can't help it and lost most of my terrain paint works! So, if sharing lots, only install the terrain paints you're gonna use and save them along with your lots.
3. redecorated and further less custom objects used.
4. The dive-board in the centre has been removed in this improved version. So, that's what doesn't match the pix.
5. furnished with Maxis things only except those aethetical furnishings.


B. Copyright Issues:
B1. Feel free to decorate/re-decorate it... (Feel free to remodify and if share, you can only claim credits for what you've done on it.
B2. This lot is banned to be for any direct or indirect commercial usage.)
B3. No permission is necessary for redistribution of this lot with proper instruction like this page unless stated.


C. System specifications (when the lot was made):
C1. hack-free (except Inge Jones & Rentechd's Stargate (SG1) Teleporter, RGiles' transparent tiles, and Numenor's transparent windows)
C2. some customised contents (check with the Clean Installer; for authors, credits, and links for infos & downloads, please read part H.)
C3. made without any EP (So, EP what and/or what not required)
C4. Running smooth @ build mode & @ play mode in a system (OS = MS-winxp-sp2; P4 3.0GHz; 1Gb DDR RAM; video card = 8x 128Mb) If any problem, welcome to report your system settings for providing info to other readers.


D. Lot Specifications:
D1. Lot Size: 5 x 5
D2. Lot type: Residence
D3. Price: ~368 S$ for the furnished.


E. Building Specifications:
E1. Major Theme: a combination of realistic styles, but modern and post-moden are the majors.
E2. Major Colourational Style: Modern, whitish, greyish, blackish, brownish and stony at the exterior, but variedly-colourised in the interior
E3. Major Structural Characteristics: Brasstex's wonderful domes & similars, Raphael's stealth stair, visually octagonal pool, diagonal arches, mini-aeroport, an odd pond (experimental, but I'm just over-whelmingly appealled to its oddness), wall-sculpture-arts etc...
E4. Building Motivation: aesthetic usage >= efficiently functional usage


F. File Decompression & Install Tips:
F0. Whether the furnished or the unfurnished version, only 7-zip (.7z) has been used unless specified.
F1. unzip the zip downloaded file with zip-supported compressor or above or else by right-clicking and "extract...(whichever way)"
F2. you'll find a file with an extension ".7z" or called 7-zip. just decompress/extract it as if it's "rar" or "zip" when WinRAR >=3.41, 7-zip-manager >=3, IZArc >=3.5, power archiver >=9, ZipGenius >=6 or else... by right-clicking and "extract...(whichever way)"
F3. double click on the sims2pack to open it. To install it with Clean Installer is recommended coz you can choose what to install to avoid unwanted or redundant contents installed into your game system.
F4. Installation of a lot without ensuring the presence of the corresponding terrain paints can be destructive to the lot files.
F5. [No restart of the game] is needed to [install a lot in sims2pack file] and [access the installed lot @ "house bin"]. The trick is by any means to have your neighbourhood screen reload. Say, entering a lot and go back to the neighbourhood screen, or switching to another neighbourhood. After a neighbourhood screen has reloaded, the installed lot will appear in the house bin without the game restart. This is true when the Clean Installer is used.
F6. Floor tiles, wallpapers, terrain paints have to be installed earlier than or at the same time as the lot is installed for them to show up in a lot.


G. Play-tips:
G1. Whenever geting a new house, you can scan and choose for things in the package with Clean Installer before installation
G2. You can ALWAYS check the playability of the lots to your system @ lot-building mode in the neighbourhood screen before playing them.
G3. Should you need, you can play-test it with the cheat "BoolProp TestingCheatsEnabled (True/false)".


H. Credits, links and authors:


000-artists @ MTS2

Brasstex
EP compatible - Medieval fairgrounds set (12pieces) Recolourable (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=52997
ep ready: Castle rooftops and more (7pieces) Now recolourable (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=54257
ep ready: Monastic Mountain set (6 pieces) Recolourable (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthre...hlight=Brasstex

dewshine
*Testers Wanted* Recolors for Brassex's non-roof meshes (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=55535
*testers wanted* Updated April 8 Recolors Brassex's Arabian, Castle, & Monstery Roofs (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=55156

Fat D
EP Ready - Updated 07-19: Creative/special recolors for Numenor's wall-window set (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=73393

jgwhiteus
Colored Lightbulbs with Colored Light (EP0-1 users) (version Feb21, the used included)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=46317
Colored Ceiling Bulbs With Colored Light - Nightlife Only (NOT included) (EP2 users, read thoroughly before use)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=763816

klarsicht42
KS InFloor Lamp (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=66743
KS Simple Round Lamp (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=66709

Numenor
"WallWindow" glass set V.2 (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=70222

RGiles
Testers Wanted: Transparent Floor Tile Set (NOT INCLUDED)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=34012
For the doubly-sided version,
http://www.modthesims2.com/showpost...3&postcount=126


000-hacks

Stargate (SG1) Teleporter (NOT INCLUDED)
teleport mod by Inge Jones & Stargate Mesh by Rentechd
http://www.variousimmers.net/vsimfo...hread.php?t=286


000-wall

V1ND1CARE
The Arc de Triomphe's ADT-maps1-3 (worthy to visit the thread if haven't) (NOT INCLUDED though allowed to use)
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=42434


As for those floor tiles, wallpapers, and terrain paints with "Moi_" prefix, they were made/"sim"-ulated by this lot author. Thus, they're provided with the lot "as if" any other free things. Credits are not to be claimed on but these floor tiles, wallpapers, and terrain paints are regarded as the world public's things. So, feel free to use them however and redistribute them wherever with no permission needed, except that file renaming or any direct and/or indirect commercial usage is prohibited. (included)