fade into you

I'm trying my hand at making a custom world for The Sims 3. It's... more difficult than I thought it would be. It took over four hours just to sort out the mountains and get the roads connecting right, not to mention the bridges. I could raise them one minute and not the next, then I realized it was the grid disallowing it. Heh!

Now I don't really know what to do. There's so many things I could add but I don't know where to start. I found rather quickly that I missed the cluster of firs and pines from TS2. Didn't matter what you did, they always seemed to look good along mountain ranges. I can't seem to do anything decent with these ones. Doesn't look natural... just messy. Blargh.

Okay, I have become the biggest dork ever. I've been poking at things in Sims3, mainly because I play that more now and felt like I should at least try to make something other than sims and houses. There was a lot of cussing and whining over many failed attempts, but when things finally worked... loud squeals. Yes.

( Simple stuff )

I have a question to those on my list who play TS3 and have for some time, with custom content.

Is anyone else having to wait forever to load a fucking house? When I was using mostly package files it was fine, and I had to do some extra steps to use the sims3packs and have the stuff actually show up. Now it lags more than my Sims 2 game with considerably more stuff. Am I missing something??

Solved the issue thanks to Living Sims' tutorial. Thanks for linking me, Jenny! =D

I tried making some of my characters over again in TS3, and while they looked pretty good in CAS, they look awful in game. Good features blurred and ruined them. Especially Sloane, she looks kind of scary. I don't remember my others looking so different. Maybe it's about time I get the final version of the game.

( See how much I suck at building ts3 sims )

x-posted to LJ & Dreamwidth

Apparently this is my TS3 journal. I was thinking about it and right now I don't think there's much sense in moving the Cutlers here even if I can cross-post. It's like... if there's no real reason to move, why do it? Most people will comment on the LJ anyway.

Maybe I can use this for TS3 and CC project previews. If nothing else it would keep things out of my main sims journal.

( Because I'm babbling, here's the pics )

To kill some time today (it was ridiculously humid which makes for a crabby and useless Yui) I played The Sims 3 for a while. At first I had a hard time holding interest in the game but after fixing up their house I was feeling a little more optimistic. I ended up playing for about five or six hours and the second generation has finally become a teen.

( In the Straub house cake gets the evil eye... )