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Terrain painting - Judy Sims - 06-17-2011 09:09 AM
Is it possible to turn the brush straight when it is on the square brush? It always looks angled to the grid. Am I doing something stupid here.:bounce:
RE: Terrain painting - Spacerox - 06-17-2011 11:22 AM
If you're looking to do straight straight lines with terrain paint, have you ever tried using carpet to cover the stuff you don't want to paint. It always works for me, but I have found it does NOT work with the eraser or diagonal carpets. Diagonals will fill the whole tile even if half of it is covered and erasing deletes all paint, not just the uncovered stuff, so if you wander off with the brush erasing, it deletes all paint underneath as well.
I'm sure that the brush is straight, but the fact that the grid disappears and that the camera will go off on angles at the slightest provocation DOES make it very hard to create straight lines without a few little tricks.
RE: Terrain painting - Ghost - 06-17-2011 12:19 PM
For diagonals, I put a fence to guide it and use the smallest brush with a softness setting that gives a very tiny radius to fill the diagonal portions of the square along that spot, plus a bit of the square next to it (that is going to be painted anyway) to be sure that I have covered everything.Then I use the floor tile technique for the rest of it, and delete the extraneous fence when I'm finished. The brush is actually straight if you look at it with the floor tiles acting as a grid for you.
* Ghost HATES the Sims 3 camera system, other than the camera pre-set options.
RE: Terrain painting - Judy Sims - 06-17-2011 12:59 PM
(06-17-2011 12:19 PM)Ghost Wrote: For diagonals, I put a fence to guide it and use the smallest brush with a softness setting that gives a very tiny radius to fill the diagonal portions of the square along that spot, plus a bit of the square next to it (that is going to be painted anyway) to be sure that I have covered everything.Then I use the floor tile technique for the rest of it, and delete the extraneous fence when I'm finished. The brush is actually straight if you look at it with the floor tiles acting as a grid for you.
* Ghost HATES the Sims 3 camera system, other than the camera pre-set options.
I don't think that works in CAW. Guess I was not clear what I was painting. :MrGreen: I can't lay down a fence or floor tiles. I did have the grid on and the flat brush always appears angled to the tiles on the grid in CAW. I was wondering is there any way to turn the brush to line up with the squares. Thanks, though.
RE: Terrain painting - Regina - 06-17-2011 12:59 PM
I don't think you're doing anything wrong, Judy. It is angled to go along the grid but you just made me wonder about something that I'm going to check out. Checked it and bummer, because it doesn't even rotate when you rotate the grid lines to a different angle. If there's another way I haven't heard of it but that doesn't mean there isn't one, just that I haven't been getting out much lately. I really don't use the square brush much in C-A-W because rarely is anything on the grid to have it work correctly.
RE: Terrain painting - Judy Sims - 06-17-2011 01:03 PM
(06-17-2011 12:59 PM)Regina Wrote: I don't think you're doing anything wrong, Judy. It is angled to go along the grid but you just made me wonder about something that I'm going to check out. Checked it and bummer, because it doesn't even rotate when you rotate the grid lines to a different angle. If there's another way I haven't heard of it but that doesn't mean there isn't one, just that I haven't been getting out much lately. I really don't use the square brush much in C-A-W because rarely is anything on the grid to have it work correctly.
I wanted to paint some crops, but want them lined up behind this lot and the square brush always wants to be on the angle. Who wants angled looking crops? I guess I will play around with it and see what I can do. Why does EA have to make everything so hard.:MrGreen: Any ideas?
RE: Terrain painting - Regina - 06-17-2011 01:26 PM
When I've experimented with crops I tried to make sure they were in an area where they could line up with the grid because otherwise they're going at a diagonal unless you're using an edited crop texture that runs diagonally. I'm afraid I haven't done enough of that to have much in the way of good advice, though. :bag:
RE: Terrain painting - Spacerox - 06-17-2011 02:55 PM
Lol, sorry, I didn't read the thread/directory this was in and so I jumped straight to in-game.
Hope you figure it out.
RE: Terrain painting - Judy Sims - 06-17-2011 04:54 PM
(06-17-2011 01:26 PM)Regina Wrote: When I've experimented with crops I tried to make sure they were in an area where they could line up with the grid because otherwise they're going at a diagonal unless you're using an edited crop texture that runs diagonally. I'm afraid I haven't done enough of that to have much in the way of good advice, though. :bag:
It would have been such a simple thing to be able to turn the square brush to line up with the grid. There is a diagnonal crop. I will try it. Today has been a bummer in getting some lots set. No matter how many times I resmooth, it is uneven when I set the lot and flatten it. Any tips? I usually don't have such a problem, but I guess I am just tired or something. :bounce:
RE: Terrain painting - Regina - 06-17-2011 11:52 PM
Do you use the Conform tool on the lots? I've read that sometimes help. Otherwise check to make sure you don't have lots straddling the chunk boundaries. Sometimes those will cause some tearing.
RE: Terrain painting - Judy Sims - 06-18-2011 06:47 AM
(06-17-2011 11:52 PM)Regina Wrote: Do you use the Conform tool on the lots? I've read that sometimes help. Otherwise check to make sure you don't have lots straddling the chunk boundaries. Sometimes those will cause some tearing.
Oh yes, I always use the conform tool on all my lots and flatten. I am a real stickler about my lots being flat and sealed down. It was happening when I flattened the lot. It was like I never even smoothed it. I was going to put a pond there. Then something dawned on me yesterday, I don't have to flatten a community lot that I am going to put a pond on. If it has no building on it, it doesn't matter so much. I am so slow sometimes.
Okay, I hear you talk about a chunk boundry, but I have no idea what it is. That is where you check to see how many paints are in one area? And I don't know how you see that.
RE: Terrain painting - Regina - 06-18-2011 12:39 PM
Here's hoping that fixes that.
Yeah, sometimes I miss the most obvious things. :PThere are two views that will show the chunks. Click on View then the option to show the chunk boundaries and you'll see what looks almost like pale blueish-purple lines painting the borders and these are the lines that turn red if too many textures are used in a chunk. The other view is bounding boxes, which outlines each chunk with a cube that can be very handy in determining the height of mountains and the like. A world is divided into chunks so a whole world doesn't load all at once in the game. I've noticed that sometimes trying to sculpt something on the boundary brings up the edge of one of the chunks and those borders are often really difficult to sculpt, at least on a small scale. I mean if you're trying to build a large hill or stream or something like that it's not so much of a problem, but trying to do minor stuff is sometimes nearly impossible on the boundaries.
RE: Terrain painting - Judy Sims - 06-18-2011 01:44 PM
(06-18-2011 12:39 PM)Regina Wrote: Here's hoping that fixes that.
There are two views that will show the chunks. Click on View then the option to show the chunk boundaries and you'll see what looks almost like pale blueish-purple lines painting the borders and these are the lines that turn red if too many textures are used in a chunk. The other view is bounding boxes, which outlines each chunk with a cube that can be very handy in determining the height of mountains and the like. A world is divided into chunks so a whole world doesn't load all at once in the game. I've noticed that sometimes trying to sculpt something on the boundary brings up the edge of one of the chunks and those borders are often really difficult to sculpt, at least on a small scale. I mean if you're trying to build a large hill or stream or something like that it's not so much of a problem, but trying to do minor stuff is sometimes nearly impossible on the boundaries.
Thanks, Regina. I printed that off and will take a look at it. I am still learning things in CAW as I go.
Question: If you put garden plants on a community lot, will they live without watering or die? And if you need to keep them watered, can you put that sprinkler on the lot??? I was thinking the plants would not die. I decided to make that crop area a community garden. LOL That stupid crop would not paint right, so I gave up on that idea. I might try in another area.
RE: Terrain painting - Regina - 06-18-2011 02:46 PM
Quote:I am still learning things in CAW as I go.There is much to learn in that program. It seems the more you know the more there is to know.
Just like in SV and RV, the crops on community lots live with no care. If you use debug mode to place them they'll never be very good quality but that doesn't bother me because I really don't like my gardening Sims starting out with perfect plants anyway.
RE: Terrain painting - Judy Sims - 06-18-2011 04:35 PM
(06-18-2011 02:46 PM)Regina Wrote:Quote:I am still learning things in CAW as I go.There is much to learn in that program. It seems the more you know the more there is to know.
Just like in SV and RV, the crops on community lots live with no care. If you use debug mode to place them they'll never be very good quality but that doesn't bother me because I really don't like my gardening Sims starting out with perfect plants anyway.
Thanks and I plan on using debug mode. The sims can plant better ones if they want them.
I am a lazy god.:bounce: