Custom Sims 3

This project has been abandoned, you can have a look at my new project instead: http://customsims3.com/forums/thread-1468.html

This world needs YOU to build houses, read more about that in this thread:
http://customsims3.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=644

Today I got Town Life Stuff from the store, and first thing I tried to do was putting the provided community lots down in my Riverview game... but they didn't look good any way! So I decided to create my own world for them.

The world will only continue base game and Town Life Stuff items and at this moment I have created a town centre out of the 7 TLS community lots and the Generations playground with all Generations items swapped for base game and TLS items (only the seesaw and hopscotches are not there anymore).

What's left is well... the rest of the world. And that is going to be designed partly by the community. Because I will not build the residential lots, but you, and then I will design the world after what houses you have built and on what lot sizes.

But this is the world creation thread, so information and comments about house building should be kept in this other thread:
http://customsims3.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=644

(Regina: we need a Town Life Stuff icon for threads!)

Quote:Regina: we need a Town Life Stuff icon for threads!

You're right, we do! :facepalm: I'll have to find one. :D

Since I couldn't find any proper distant terrain to get the feeling I wanted I started sculpting hills to fill 2 chunks from the end of world to make it feel landlocked but not being a mountain world. What you see on the pictures is the rough outline of hills that I have done at the moment, so I will have to give them a last touch and then make them look real.

I actually don't have much of ideas when it comes to what hills look like. How do I paint them? Should there be trees on them?

I had a look in-game so that my "distant hills" are keeping the camera away from the water, and got this amazing view of the hills when the weather got foggy:

I like the look of the hills, Gurra. I can't wait to see them with texture paint and a few trees. :)

I got the suggestion Meadowmore as a name for the world over at the official TS3 forums and I really liked it so at least for now that's the name for this world. :)

I like that name as well, Gurra! :)

I thought I should post my updates on the world in this thread instead of over in the building thread so here are the latest updates on Meadowmore! :D

I have put in Tangie's 'Urban Dreams' house and a parking lot behind the backyard and I think it looks pretty good.





I also remade the street that goes behind the playground and into Main Street so that I only needed one intersection, which made it look better in my opinion.



What do you think? :)

Ooh, I do like that, Gurra! And look at that! Now you have room for a small community lot or another apartment building right next to the park. :happy:

I have got started painting a really small area of my distant hills now to get the idea of how I want it. Terrain painting is what I like the least since it takes me ages to get it right.

I went over the hills with dry grass on low opacity and falloff. Do they look like real hills or have I painted terribly bad? :giggle:



The half-invisible trees are because I'm in Edit in Game. If I export the world to the real game I might get better pictures.

You can always take the pictures in C-A-W, that way you don't have to export it to get screenshots of the terrain painting.

To me, the tree placement looks off. I'm not sure what terrain where you live is like but I've spent a lot of time in mountains and hilly areas and I've spent a lifetime paying attention to how things grow (I needed something to keep my brain occupied on all those hunting trips with my dad and when I'm a passenger in a car), then for the Shire have gone on countless trips across the internet to round up pictures to use for inspiration, and those trips have paid off wildly.

Plants tend to grow more where water collects, as in run-off from hills is going to collect in gulleys and the bottoms of hills. As such, a concentration of trees and undergrowth is going to be in those areas. Also, tall skinny trees like birches and aspens tend to grow more in clumps and groups, sometimes one will be all by itself but not often.

I think your hill painting is looking good so far. Check for places on the sides of the hills that are steeper and add some dirt. Greenery grows on fairly steep inclines, but there are almost always dirt patches as well.