Wow! Everyone's pictures are so beautiful!

I really need TS3. *dies*

EDIT: This town, Sunset Valley, has been scrapped.

tizerist, that is SO awesome! *drools*

I wish there were some community lot objects for making restaurants and stores. Hopefully in a future EP!

thanks panther00567

my hood is pretty much ready for stores, clubs and shops, the buildings in the picture are basically just "on hold" until theres something worthwhile to put inside them

The water on all your pictures look so good, is it a mod?
Because I have a GeForce GTS 250 with 1GB, turned everything in the graphics setup to the maximum and forced texture filtering and antialiasing in my graphic card's driver, but the water doesn't look that good. =/

heres the town progression from an aeriel view:
JUNE:


AUGUST:

EDIT: This town, Sunset Valley, has been scrapped.

I posted these in the Random thread, but I imagine they were better suited here, so sorry lol






I love everyone's idea of moving the rabbit holes to the sea, very seasidey haha

tizerist, i'm going to sound really stupid but ... how did you fit the sports arena there?

and some absolutely gorgeous pictures here.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say he used moveobjects on. I imagine if the door is accessible on the lot it was placed on, then it doesn't matter that the rest of the building flows onto the other lots.

oh that would make sense ... wouldn't that screw up when you actually play the neighbourhood though ... being that it's not where the lot is??

Basically Chris just said it.
The stadium flows onto all 4 lots in that area, but its actually situated on the middle one.
Its an illusion, but it works well in real time.
I also use the two lots on the sides as residential lots with sims living on them. This gives the illusion of sports fans being around the stadium.
And see the fence by the window? It stops them running onto, what they think, is empty ground. Cause the stadiums not on that actual lot.
EDIT: This town, Sunset Valley, has been scrapped.

Wow thats pretty cool. Thanks for that, i think i might just have to do that myself .

I'm inspired by this thread. lol.
Just wish my graphics settings could be higher.

No probs, I can send you the lots if you would like

Actually, the more I think about it, I may have set myself a task that is too much for just one person, building a whole real town.

That is so clever with the stadium. I'm trying to turn that area (which was formerly those lofts) into sort of a "shopping center" with the bistro and a martial arts practice studio (when World Adventures comes out there should be practicing objects, at least that's what they said on Gamespot)

where did you get the taxis from?!
and do you also have the other NPCs? (non playeble cars)

Actually yeah. I wasn't going to show any of this until it was more complete, but if you lot are getting the vibe then here is the Fire Station and Police Station. Cars by Wintermuteai1.

Fire Station




Police Station!
They patrol around the town too! Yesterday, I was just observing another park area, and a car with 2 police got out and started walking around - just like real life

Wow those lots are amazing tizerist, you did an excellent job.

wow, looks phenomenal!
if you don't mind, I'm going to make one of those police stations (at least I'll try)
tho I couldn't find Wintermuteai1 cars.

Nice, thanks.

The cars are at simslice.com, they are pay cars.
I didn't pay for them though, someone with a nice booty did instead.

hmm.. shame

They're pay cars...even though they use the mesh included with the game? Erm...rip off much?

Still, your town looks awesome; it's coming along nicely

Beautiful towns, Babolat and Tizerist!

I've kinda created my own town using the Sunset Valley template. It's called Shore City. I'm actually very pleased with it, even though there's no neighborhood tool out yet to edit the scenery and etc.

Here is a view of Shore City at Dawn.



Here is a street in downtown... the "Civic Center" which is the district that has the city hall, art gallery, library, and Doo Peas office. In the pic, the one non-rabbit hole building on the far left is the Library, and the close up building on the right is a cafe.



I also made a church with a wedding reception room, lol but I've only used it once, for a neighbor's wedding

For some reason the three other pics I have are too big to be posted on this thread, even though I resized them. Two of the pictures were of the art gallery I made, and when World Adventures comes out I plan on adding an Egyptian exhibit to it.