Luxury dorm - for posh sims!
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Uploaded: 17th Feb 2006 at 11:27 AM
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This is a large luxury dorm!
I wanted to create something grand enough to warrent to look of extreme awe on the students' faces when they first turn up at university (and usually encounter a grotty little dorm half the size of their parental home, but remain impressed!)
I figured it would probably be an old building that had been renovated into student lodgings, maintaining it's original character.
I wanted something castle/gatehouse like, but also something clean and continental looking, rather than rugged and gothic like many such lots are.
The dorm holds 10 students, and has a refectory, plus smaller snack kitchens, a rec room, a study room, a library and a gym.
It is fully furnished, and assigned as a dorm (you will need to use the boolprop dormspecifictoolsdisabled false cheat to edit build)
The grounds are fairly spectacular and take a lot of looking after, you will need a gardener (I use a Christianlov Ain1 NPC, an elderly caretaker who cleans repairs and gardens and lives in the little cottage/shed in the grounds)
Custom bits:
I have included some of Ennaedwyn's (http://modthesims2.com/member.php?u=42496) plush carpets.
You will need to dwn load the following:
The Oh lala balcony collection:http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=110970
You will need these stall recolours:http://modthesims2.com/showthread.p...highlight=stall
I also used frosted glass myne doors: http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=105793
and frosted glass washroom doors: http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=105772
These pictures were taken after I packaged the lot, so there are a couple of discrepancies:
In the pics you will see the garden pagoda has a roof on it, the included package does not include this roof, as I could not find where the Iron filigree floor tiles came from (may have been parsimonious.org). The pagoda in the pack is therefore just a raised platform, no columns or roof. Sorry!
There is also a difference in the exterior decoration. In the package you will find the blue/grey walls and exterior floors are maxis ones, in the pics I have used the teal slate sidings and floors form Parsimonious.org and a brick floor from the same site.
I wanted to create something grand enough to warrent to look of extreme awe on the students' faces when they first turn up at university (and usually encounter a grotty little dorm half the size of their parental home, but remain impressed!)
I figured it would probably be an old building that had been renovated into student lodgings, maintaining it's original character.
I wanted something castle/gatehouse like, but also something clean and continental looking, rather than rugged and gothic like many such lots are.
The dorm holds 10 students, and has a refectory, plus smaller snack kitchens, a rec room, a study room, a library and a gym.
It is fully furnished, and assigned as a dorm (you will need to use the boolprop dormspecifictoolsdisabled false cheat to edit build)
The grounds are fairly spectacular and take a lot of looking after, you will need a gardener (I use a Christianlov Ain1 NPC, an elderly caretaker who cleans repairs and gardens and lives in the little cottage/shed in the grounds)
Custom bits:
I have included some of Ennaedwyn's (http://modthesims2.com/member.php?u=42496) plush carpets.
You will need to dwn load the following:
The Oh lala balcony collection:http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=110970
You will need these stall recolours:http://modthesims2.com/showthread.p...highlight=stall
I also used frosted glass myne doors: http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=105793
and frosted glass washroom doors: http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=105772
These pictures were taken after I packaged the lot, so there are a couple of discrepancies:
In the pics you will see the garden pagoda has a roof on it, the included package does not include this roof, as I could not find where the Iron filigree floor tiles came from (may have been parsimonious.org). The pagoda in the pack is therefore just a raised platform, no columns or roof. Sorry!
There is also a difference in the exterior decoration. In the package you will find the blue/grey walls and exterior floors are maxis ones, in the pics I have used the teal slate sidings and floors form Parsimonious.org and a brick floor from the same site.
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Primarily I'm a builder, I do some recolouring etc, but I know where my limits are! I love creating beautiful lots that function well in game. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and a stickler for details, I could upload a lot more, but I wouldn't be happy with it.
I tend to go through phases of particular styles or types of lot, I take a concept and do it to death, selecting the best bits for upload before moving on.
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3) Have you installed any CC or other lots at a similiar time - are you sure the problem is my lot?
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5) Do you have any global hacks or custom careers installed? I have seen the effects these have for myself and would suggest you temporarily remove them and test your game without them to see if you can reproduce the problem.
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Please do not redistribute my work without permission and no uploading to the exchange!
Primarily I'm a builder, I do some recolouring etc, but I know where my limits are! I love creating beautiful lots that function well in game. I'm a bit of a perfectionist, and a stickler for details, I could upload a lot more, but I wouldn't be happy with it.
I tend to go through phases of particular styles or types of lot, I take a concept and do it to death, selecting the best bits for upload before moving on.
I got really fed up with Sims when a folder of over 40,000 dowloads crippled my gameplay, so I went for a clean install, with no CC - well, a very limited amount of CC, and no build or buy mode stuff, which means that my lots as of August 2007 are all CC free!
Being a Sims addict I have every EP and Stuff pack. Be aware that if you are missing an EP, my lots WILL CRASH YOUR GAME! This is not my fault! EP lots are not backwards compatible! If however you are only missing a Stuff pack, my spies inform me that the lot will work, but you may be missing some content, and have to do some redecorating/furnishing.
As my lots are clean they are unlikely to cause problems in your game. If there is a problem with a lot please let me know, but not before considering the following:
1) Do you have all the correct EPs installed? Due to some confusion regarding stuff pack requirements and combos I would suggest that you apply this to SPs and EPs.
2) Have you installed the lot correctly in your game (I recommend clean installer)?
3) Have you installed any CC or other lots at a similiar time - are you sure the problem is my lot?
4) Have you checked the FAQs on this site for the most likely problems.
5) Do you have any global hacks or custom careers installed? I have seen the effects these have for myself and would suggest you temporarily remove them and test your game without them to see if you can reproduce the problem.
If you have completed the above steps I am more than happy to help you with your problem.
If you have any questions pertinent to a particular download, please ask in the comments of that DL so that others can benefit from the answers, it saves me a lot of PM time!
If you have questions about my work but not specific to a download please feel free to PM me, but please do not use me as a search engine for the FAQs/Wiki. You will get an answer a lot faster if you look for yourself!
I will take requests by PM. Requests are fulfilled faster when they are within my usual style, so do look at my uploads and consider whether your request would sit well amongst them. If you like my work and want something specific, or even have an vague concept you would like to see worked on, I would love to hear about it.
Please do not redistribute my work without permission and no uploading to the exchange!
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