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What are you currently building?! Show us pictures, we lovez teh piktures! :D

A college...Full thing based on a place I went as a kid

Stoneyhurst college : google it :D

Ahah, that is very challenging architecture. I wish you the best of luck wit that. Teehe.

I love many types of building styles (as evidenced by my japanese/medieval/victorian/rural/urban uploads). Right now, I'm enjoying Mansions and Gardens and enhancing my Victorian era neighborhood with a few more styles from all around europe and america at the time.

Well Ive put it on the back burner due to a problem that no one seems to be able to answer lol

I mean Ive made the bloody domes, the columns and some other stuff (like signage etc) but I actually have a game problem that has made me stuck?!

When I change it to a dorm lot I can move a student in it but when you get to the lot again it wont let you play them rofl

Oh well Ill carry it on some time when I figure out why its doing that

(major sucks has I have made the main dorm, the church, the rectory)

You change it to a dorm in neighborhood view? Yes?

then you move a student in, yes?

Then when you leave the lot and go back to it you can't do anything with the people on the lot? Yes?

if all the above is true.

1: Install patch for all the EP's you have - test..

2: If that still fails. Save your sims 2 folder and uninstall and reinstall your game. It's a bug in your game.

V These are some things i am working on...

I think I want to continue with my Tucson theme. Its kinda fun and different for me. Also I want to recreate another TV house. It's just that doing known houses is so painstakingly detailed. You can't just use your imagination. Last year I wanted to do the Brady house and I had so many photos. It would have been easy. But I did a search and it was already done a few times. How many Brady houses can you have.

Nice stuff. Bloody Wings hates closed meshes rofl when you come to map it it freaks out half the time lmao

Hate using classic uv mapper to

I just got a lot uploaded, and I ordered Apartment Life on Amazon. Once it arrives, I'm going to take a crack at building a simple apartment complex.

Until then, I am going to take yet another shot at meshing. I have tried to mesh before, and it turned out... well, pretty sad, actually.

Apartments get boring to furnish if you make them too large, which is why i never want to build another...ever :D

[QUOTE=QBUILDERZ]Apartments get boring to furnish if you make them too large, which is why i never want to build another...ever :D[/QUOTE

I've decided to only partially furnish (light fixtures, bathrooms, telephone) and to finish furnishing each time I move someone in. That way I don't waste energy furnishing for some townie, but everyone can still be called. I totally know what you mean - I run out of steam after perfectly furnishing 1 apartment, let alone four or more.

I think if you put just the basics, lights, plumbing, beds and tables and chairs, its probably enough. Furnishing is often the least enthusiastic part of building a lot, for me at least. The last apartments I did were huge and filled with furniture. I totally decorated each apartment in different styles to seem realistic. By the time i was finished I wanted to never look at it again. But then it was time to take screenshots. Thats another function I dread. Well, its gotta get done I guess

Furnishing is terrible, screen shots are WAYYY worse, esecially if you have to edit them together

When furnishing apartments I give the sims the basics - bed, table, chair, sofa, counters, fridge, sink, toilet and shower, enough for the NPCs to survive. For walls and floors, pretty much the same. It keeps the cost down and takes some of the drag out of furnishing it. I often make one apartment nicer than the rest and that is my screenshot apartment.

Most downloaders redecorate anyway.

I have been building since I have had the Sims 2 (since late 2004 or something like that) and I have made big mansions small houses complex desings. My dad is an architect and I have made alot of his modern designs. But at the moment I am making a big House/Mansion which is sort of 3 levels in one part and 2 levels in the other part. I'm no where near finished but I could show some pictures if you like.

^ OOH! Yes, i wanna see :D

Here is a building I have been working on, it is HUGE, so I think I will make it a community lot - bank or library or something

WARNING - contains CC - custom windows

cool nnice building it looks like a big bank to me but it also looks like ti could be a library... panic!

Well, Apartment Life has arrived. I've got two different apartments in mind to build. I honestly don't mind spending hordes of time putting in furniture, etc. I like it.

One apartment is a more modern type, with four regular apartments and a pent house (plus kitchen, dining room and main room on the first floor). The other apartment is a more country style house that has about 4 or 5 regular apartments.

^ can't wait to see it!

As for me, i have started another mesh, and it will NOT work for me (making me very mad) haha

I'm working with my "american houses set" now i have built 4 houses... i hope i have new ideas...

I have four of my Livingston Lane homes currently in the Creator Feedback Forum, and another one that I'm working on. I don't like doing just one at a time. Having more than one ensures that I'm never just sitting there twiddling my thumbs while waiting for suggestions and responses to my threads in the CFF.

Well I like furnishing very much, although I'm not that good, and I have to admit that it's very time expensive to furnish every apartment, but if you look at the screenshots it's looks way better with more furniture. I edit my screens with paint (at least I delete the red frames), because I'm too stupid for photoshopping or things like that but at least I got this Fraps programm now, so I don't have to wait hours anymore for minimizing and reloading the game after every screenshot- that was annoying!!!
but back to the topic- my project is to complete the whole Desiderata Valley neighborhood and I hope it will be finished till the end of this year

I have had one of my four lots approved just today. My other three need a little more work, one especially. I hope to get to them soon, I've been so busy of late.

Stoffelsim - You can DL Numenors anygame starter, pick the EP's you wanna use ahve it set for a windowed game. It makes it so you can simply click on your desktop BG and you can work from there, when you wanna go back jsut click in the window.

My mesh set is 90% complete, 5 out of 8 meshes are working to full extent (working, recolorable, etc.) But 1 still needs recolors, and 2 will not recolor (for reasons un known)

I hope to be done by some time this week!

Well, the Victorian Bushfires have made me think, so I have made a set of 5 mini houses. I am still waiting for a PM. Gah! I am so impatient! *checks inbox for the 72nd time*

EDIT: Beguh! (Rough translation from gibberish: By the way, make that, the 87th time.)

Ok, i have built some houses... now i'm projecting a beautiful, very very expansive, restaurant.

I'm working on a lot of Base Game Mini-Starter homes at the moment. I've got 4 of them uploaded, Starting work on the 5th soon. Also trying some meshing jobs, I'll post pictures later.

I've seen your houses, Dj. They're great! :D

Aww thanks tree4me! I've just looked at yours, You're doing the same idea for lots as me! Yours are great too!

Thanks! That really made my day.

To the "What Made Your Day Today" thread on S2C! *de ne ne ne ne ne ne ne*

I'm currently working on vehicle recolors, like this one which will be on MTS2 soon:

Uhm... Welcome on a country-side ^^ My current project. I'm gonna to correct it, don't worry. I know it needs some adjustments xd.

oh wow, I like that, Jasiuuu! The only thing that doesn't appeal much is how the house blends so well with itself. it is hard to see the difference between the house itself and the furniture stuff in front of it.

Love your cottage, Jasiuuu!

One of my current projects is kinda big. I suddenly got the inspiration to try to create something similar to the bridge dwelling that William Gibson (guess many of you know him, wonderful author I can't recommend enough) describes in Virtual Light and All Tomorrow's Parties. Basically, the stories take place in some near future. The San Fransico bridge has collapsed and people have build new dwellings on the now unused bridge.



As you can see it's still very much work in progress. I'm not trying to copy things from the books, it's more the idea of creating something new out of the descarded. Right now I'm just toying around. I try to create it so that it's playable and hope to make it into 5-6 flats, maybe even a few shops, eventually. But that's a long way off.

Here is my latest project - a community lot - it is a train station (I know sims don't have trains, but if they did it would look like this I hope). It will have a lot of CC - advertising posters, small old fashioned vending machine, a coffee bar/restaurant, newspaper stand, etc.

I hope to get cc with a generous download policy so I can include a CC pack with meshes. I will do two versions - with and without cc, a lot of the cc I will make myself, or use CC that is a must have anyway - like pixelhate's walls. EPS required are UNI, NL and AL

Little Simton

Jasiuuu - beautiful landscaping, very goodlooking so far

Wow, Leesester! Neat lot! Does it require and SPs?

I really like your lot/neighborhood as well, Smmi73. I've never read those books, but those buildings in the very least look quite authentic. They have those rustic sort of looks found in refineries, etc.

leesester, nice. That's really realistic and good-planed.

smmi73, I like unnatural. I'm waiting for full version of your lot

Today, I'll show u furnished version and for several days I'm gonna to upload it.

Jasiuu, thank you

Naeniver - no SP's , but the CC count will be high for the best looks

Lee, You already know I love that Station!
Jasiuu, That lot is stunning! It's so surreal! I'll be looking forward to that!
smmi73, Wow! It's a great start! The second I looked at it I thought of a Futuristic style! :D

Thanks guys. It'll take a while for me to finish. Any of you know the books?

Leester, what a beautiful station! The illusion of a track's really convincing. Will you be combining it with Crickuette's hood pieces?

Uhm... I've just furnished my house and then the game quit to the Windows. No message, no anything. I just saw my beautiful desktop :<. And ofc I didn't save it... It's seems to me that the house won't be in a few days. I'm angry with that hopeless game :/

But I upload my house, that was built two months ago. Enjoy ^^.

Aww Jasiuu, That sucks! That happened to me about 6 months ago, Every since then I save after every room or so It's a bit paranoid but it just protects my work.

Poor you Jasiuu. It's just the worst feeling to have done al that work for nothing ...

I hate roofing!
 

I am trying to re-create my real life house. The first floor layout is perfect. The second floor is okay, but could be fiddled with a little. I just cannot get the roof right! Is there a way to have a roof bend in the middle? I had to adjust the roofslopeangle to 55 to get the roof to over the second floor, but now it looks tall and ugly. I wish I could make it bend at a shallow angle, like 30 above the porch. Also, in the room above the garage, when I have the whole exterior be blue shingles, one wall inside turns to blue shingles too. Help?!?!?

Melethana, have you tried to make a separate very low angled roof over the porch?Alternatively, you could try the pagoda style roofs if you've got BV. They end up having a similar effect sometimes.

In the room above the garage you need to replace the wall that's now a part of the roof with a regular wall as explained in this tute:http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=223637 That way you also ensure that the room is weatherproof if you've got seasons.

Have fun

I don't know how to say it in English, so may be mistakes ^^

Try to make roof one section thiner. Then enter individualroofslopeangle 30 code, and make roof on a place, where is hole. Click on a roof holding "alt" and using roof tool.

smmi73 - thanks for that tuturial on how to fix my wallpaper issue. I am going to try that the next time I get a chance!

jasiuuu - I would like to use that cheat, but it's listed as only working with Pets. Sadly, I do not have Pets.
Your English looks just fine to me!

Hmmm... Really? I've thought, individual... works from NL. But, I checked it, and unfortunetlly it's true. So, now I don't have any good ideas. Maybe try with boolprop constrainfloorelevation. It's harder, but you can have the same effect.

oh! That cheat works for you with NL? Then maybe it will work for me. I have NL, OfB, and FT.

No, I thought, that this cheat works with NL, becuase roofslopeangle came with NL, but maybe EA add it in later EPs. If their didn't make it, try to use boolprop constrain....

Individual came in in pets...and all EPs beyond

melethana, If you've got Freetime than the Individual should work.

I still haven't managed to see if that works for my ugly roof, but here is the latest house I finished. It's based on one of the houses in Minefield in Fallout3, but spruced up and made all new & shiny!
If anyone wants it, it's uploaded on the Exchange
http://thesims2.ea.com/mysimpage/po...user_id=5422052

That's really nice melethana, It's a wee bit big for my taste. (I'm a real small lot player)

Thanks everyone! I fixed my roof and wallpaper, and now the sim version of my real house is soooooo much better!!!


DJMusic - I know what you mean about not wanting to play are larger lots.

Ooh! Wow! Nice lots everyone!
I too have a little something I am working on.

melethana, glad you got your problem solved. The house looks cute from what you show here.

GoldenSimmer, that resort looks lovely ...

thanks! That's why I'm spending the next 25 years paying off the real life one! LOL

GS, That beach place looks fantastic!

This is my current project, it is a starter home.

oh, wow, Christine! That is one sweet house, especially for a starter. Is there furniture inside, or is the house still cheap enough to be able to buy the necessities? I don't know if it was your intention, but it looks like a faerie house. You know, some sort of home from a faerie tale.

Yes the house is fully furnished for just under 20k and yes I was going for a fairytale sort of look. Thanks for your lovely comment.

That is wonderful Christine!

QBUILDERZ I truly love your V project, that's a great idea... I hope to see more

Christine - I want that house! Will you be uploading it somewhere?

I have already uploaded it to my Simpage: http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/lot...asset_id=800509

If I have time I may upload it here. (DV)

oh, it's too bad I don't have all the EPs and SPs required

If you don't have some of EPs or SPs try to install using Clean Installer .

I have Clean Installer, but I keep forgetting that I can use it to remove certain features.

This is the one that I am waiting to get a reply on. I don't think it is that half bad, if I do say so myself. This is a first attempt at a corner lot. :p

I m makeing a gamers heaven the place where a rice sim gamer will surely live at.

Pic come out soon

I am trying to make some BG no CC houses currently it is not going well though haha

Hahaha, good luck DD, i don't see you succeeding at that :P

Good luck, DD.

Yeah, i miss my CC!! rofl

Hmmm, I never posted in this thread...
This is one house of my houses currently in the moderation queue:

From what I see (through the windows) it is not furnished? It looks interesting (though I am typically not into the modern-type buildings).

I had a question which I haven't found any place to ask. I am going to try and build a medieval castle (complete with moat and whatnot; though completely modern). A friend (in RL) requested it, calling it his "dream house". So I've been searching around for all sorts of medieval stuff to fill the house with. This friend has a morbid fascination with storms (lightning, thunder, tornado's, etc), so I wanted some pictures of lightning and tornado's to go on the walls. Unfortunately, I found none (well, one picture, but that's it). So I wanted to make some of my own to furnish the house with. This is where my questions (I have two, actually) come in. If I make a pretty big set of wall hangings (pictures), could I upload them? I saw somewhere that (because there are so many) mts2 wasn't accepting them anymore for upload. secondly: could someone direct me to a tutorial on making my own wall hangings? I've searched but with no success. I'm sure I must just be looking in the wrong place, but if someone could give me a little boost in the right direction, I'd be very grateful.

good Luck with your project Naeniver - would this tute do?

pinkykitty, cute house!

Thanks, Smmi! That should work well, I hope! I've had trouble with SimPE in the past. I hope the process isn't to technical. I don't really know how to use SimPE.

BTW, I definitely agree with your signature. Windowed mode is a blessing indeed! What would we do without it?!

Hi there!

I just finished a few days ago 4 Victorian Residentials, made with Numerors anygamestarter. They need basegame, nightlife and M&G.
Let me show you some pictures:


I hope you like them!

Inspired by my own house ^^. Old house has to wait, because it's on my old computer.

That's a gorgeous house Jasiuuu ! I love it ! The gazebos are so cute ! I hope you'll be able to upload it soon !

Lovely house Jasiuuu! I really adore it!

Very nice done,Jasiuuu.It looks like house from sims 3 neighbourhood.

Great job, Jasiuuu! I really like it! What's the inside like?

Eloissa, I liked the Victorian Black Pearl one especially, though all four were lovely! And these had no CC, just Nightlife and M&G? Amazing! I am planning on getting M&G for a secret project of mine.

Naeniver, smth like this (but it isn't 100% complete). And I've completly done the garden, so I'm going to furnish it now.



BTW, and almost no CC. Just some ground covers, walls and floors.

WOW ! Gorgeous inside too Jasiuuu ! I can't wait to see the final result of your house !

ditto Guardgian. The inside really looks cozy and inviting.

I made this funny house for an "Outside The Box" contest on the theme Alice in Wonderland. I turned the Cheshire Grin into a house.

You can see MTS2 Lethe_s' Caterpillar Forest items on the pics and SS2 GranDuchessEmerald Crazy Plants on the pics.

What do you think about it ?

Guardgian-That's the crazies hause I've ever seen!
Jasiuuu, Its awesome!
That's my house:

I'd say this is pretty much self-explanatory:



HOPEFULLY it will be finished along the timeline I've said it would. =\

Kuba11 : nicely done and very sweet house !
Ash3sandgh0st : Stunning lot ! I love the fences and the door/windows WOW !

You can download the house now;]
I finished it 2 days ago ^^
That's how it looks like ;

Btw,Ash3sandgh0st,Georgus house *-*

Such a sweet house, Kuba. I'm definitely a fan of these kinds of homes.





My turn! This is the one I made that's in the moderation cue. 10 Secondary Lane:

Ashes, gorgeous!
Kuba - LOVE IT!
Tree - AWESOME!

I am continuing to expiriment with EP's, as many people seem to like these alot more :p

Some new photos. Garden and ground-floor are furnished. Just first-floor. Enjoy! ^^








tree4me, nice, but I don't think if yellow looks good with that grey stone. Really nice garden.

Jasiuuu,very nice look from inside!I like how you worked on details.
I want to ask something,how do you upload pictures in comments?