I have just completed the exterior of the Summerdream family home, 71 Bard Boulevard. The inside needs a few tweaks with CAS still.
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This home has one of the stranger entrances out there. Also, most of the entrances are archways instead of doors. Ive added more curtains to these spots, and am assuming they are enchanted to keep unsavoury people out to a degree and the inside temperature normal, while maintaining the free floor plan they had originally
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I really dislike the side of the house with the platform with nothing on it, and no fence. I didnt want to change TOO much, so ive left it as-is, but I'd probably put planter pots up there for the fairies to grow even more crops (I have many of these indoors replacing decorative plants already) You can also see the small grave area, which has the non-Summerdream grandparents of Oberon and Titania. Oberon's parents are indoors in urns, one is in a spot where a vase used to sit, the other is on a free spot nearby. I wanted Oberon to give respect to his parents in the same way as Titania, without usurping her lineage thing
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No raging party yet with the Capps and Monty teens, sorry. I added a few bits around the edges of the left and right raised platforms that the bottom one had. I used the Origin-ecxlusive pinball machines that came with 70s/80s/90s Stuff Pack, sorry. But any other pinball machine can fill those slots really. I used them because they have a very similar shape to the originals.
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The four big graves by the pond are a new addition; they belong to Brillante and Pistol, the first Summerdream couple on the family tree and presumably former King and Queen of the Fae, and Fae and Elvin, the parents of Titania, the successing monarchs, till their untimely deaths. There is also a Fairy Castle nestled in the rose bushes with a little dirt path leading out that is new, and a fairy bungalow on the other side of the hills by the smaller graves. Ive witnessed the ghosts at night sleeping or partying in these houses when they aren't dancing away by the pool. Night owls indeed. A neat touch is that the four previous monarchs by the pool still have fairy retinues circling them from time to time, even in death.
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Titania was brought in from Moonlight Falls, where she appears as a townie. I aged her up to Adult, and gave her the Queen of the Fae lifetime reward, which not only matches her lore namesake, but also fits her matrilineal family. Oddly, in Sims 3, she was married to Oberon, but he had his original surname, while in Sims 2, they aren't married, but he HAS her surname. I've set them as boyfriend/girlfriend with Oberon's original surname so that the player can marry them as Sims 2 generally sets up. Formally bring in the new King and Queen of the Fae's reign!
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Oberon was also brought in from Moonlight Falls and aged. I made do with face paint from the Into the Future registration gifts to replace his blue hero mask. He has the King of the Fae trait despite not being married yet, due to his namesake. Just remember to make Titania do all the marrying to keep the matrilineal thing going, otherwise you'll end up with Titania Gossamer.
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Puck's long shorts did not exist in any capacity, had to either go with normal shorts or long pants, but I instead chose to use the fairy pants, which were, amusingly enough, the right length. Sims 3 made the Summerdreams and Gossamers fairies, so I generally assume Puck is too what with him and his parents having the elf ears too, and Oberon and Titania being the king and queen of the Fae, they likely took some young fairies into their care. His face makeup is much less awful to look at this time too. There wasn't anything as obnoxious in 3, fortunately.
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Bottom had the worst luck. Children generally get a real short end of the stick in this game, with their faces all looking the same, and if you customise a child's face too much, their teenage face onwards takes a huge hit. I always age up the child to adult, then customise the Sims 2 version based on their adult face structure, then age them down to child. Bottom's dreadlocks hairstyle isn't represented in any form in Sims 3; dreadlocks in general are barely there for females, I keep having to use this one terrible style for them.
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Next post I'll post the Summerdream/Gossamer ancestors and how I made neat characters out of low-res mugshots with no body data that only existed in family trees. But here is the full tree, it even carries the EXACT same order tha it does in Sims 2 when you open Puck and bottom's family tree. Ancestors in this family always show the father on the right, as if all the fairies in these four families are matrilineal. Oberon is oddly shown on the left on both Puck and Oberon's family tree, and ive kept that. To fix it, detach Puck and Bottom from Oberon and Titania's family tree with Master Controller, then re-add the parents, selecting Titania first; she will then be on the left.
