Various bits and bobs by Cyber

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Waterside Park...

Beach lot!

Overhead view of some of my lots from Barter Street



Barter Street is part of a set of new lots built in the style of some shops in Shrewsbury - loosely based on the buildings around Tanner's Wine Merchants.

Another watery community lot..



With cafe...


And a new house nearby... with stripy lawn (thanks, Lipsy! )

Been experimenting with swimmable lakes today...



Could put the shiny new watery terrain paint I made up for download...

Going for something a bit larger this time...



Oh, surprise, surprise, a waterfall!

Both community lots.
EDIT: Simbert the test Sim tries out the diving board...

i like them, great job gals

New lake lot. Recoloured water paint.

With neighbourhood decorations in the background...


Mini-waterfall...

wow, if there were a log cabin there that would dbe somewhere i can see myself visiting for a weeks break.
so do them water tiles behave like water, or are they just regukar floor tiles:)

cinder144uk wrote:wow, if there were a log cabin there that would dbe somewhere i can see myself visiting for a weeks break.
so do them water tiles behave like water, or are they just regukar floor tiles:)

It's terrain paint, so it comes under ground cover. You have to fiddle around with the terrain tools a bit: dig down 4 clicks for the pool itself, then raise the borders of the pool by at least another click all the way around. Then, once you have a pool with a depth of at least 5 clicks, your Sims can climb down into it or dive off the diving board and they'll swim. Need to use move_objects on to place the board and ladder but no cheats needed when the Sims swim.

You have to check your Sims can get out of it though, or they'll swim forever.

Tried making a public garden thingie tonight after spending ages trawling through work stuff. Need to have a good Sim to relax!

Hope you like!

By day...




By night...

would you teach us how you made that awsome gazzibo i have seen them in a few lots online, but no idea how to make them
i will give you loads of hugs if you tell us

May post a tutorial when I get a moment, but I have the class from Planet Zob tomorrow so I'm off to bed. Night!

Shiny! I love boolprop!

Glad you like it! An 'Ooh shiny' from Lipsy is like a hallmark.

New garden! Had some great fun just combining stuff to make new objects (move_objects on, we love you!) and playing with boolprop again...

Love that one, looks like one of them Ancent Greek Shrines to the goddes athena
another fantastic job Cyber

Nice, Cyber! I never thought about adding floor tiles to gazebos for that effect you have. Looks great!

Been experimenting with boolprop again - I looked at a tutorial on Mike's designed to make humpback bridges but I couldn't get it to work, so I adapted the 'curved roof' method (also at Mike's) to make my own humpback bridge.




Might try and make this a swimmable stream but not decided yet.

johnetta9 wrote:Nice, Cyber! I never thought about adding floor tiles to gazebos for that effect you have. Looks great!

Thanks - I'd been playing around with a curved roof tutorial at Mike's and wondered what'd happen if I just left the roof tiles on. If you look at the top of the roof I made a pattern with the white short wall. If you use the coloured concrete floors it looks really cool, but it didn't seem to fit with this particular one.

Working on a huge lot at the moment, which I planned yesterday in a restaurant while waiting for my lunch. It's not coming on too badly, either. Will post when done.

Ok, the rules are simple:

Find an image of a famous painting online and post it here. Recreate teh painting as closely as you can using TS2. Examples or themes could include:

Monet's Garden
Munch's The Scream
Van Gogh's The White House at Night

Or any of your own, of course!

Have fun!

Entries will be judged and results announced 25th May 2007 ~now closed~. Winner receives custom rank name of their choice plus an award graphic to add to their sig.

can you edit it in a paintshop ?
Can you use custom stuff ?
Dose the painting have to be well knowen ?

just making sure i understand

cinder144uk wrote:can you edit it in a paintshop ?
Can you use custom stuff ?
Dose the painting have to be well knowen ?

just making sure i understand

Useful questions...

Yes you may use Paint Shop / Photoshop / any other image editor as long as the main bulk of the image is created using The Sims.
Custom downloads can be used, as with most Simming competitions.
The painting doesn't have to be one of the great well-known paintings but you will need to post a copy of the original image with your entry.

HTH

Yup that helped a lot thanks

will only be using paint to give the picture a painted efect

Sounds good. You can use it to make a frame as well, if you want to.

Here's an example:



It's based on several paintings of Monet's garden - he painted the same scene many times at different times of the year. I've used Paint Shop to add an art media effect and a mosaic border with a gold frame.

There are endless paintings and links to various Monet images, so I'm posting this link instead of one image.

... And yes, the bridge needs some work. Still, it was fun to build!