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5 years ago
I have completed every single lot in Veronaville now! Including all the variants on the english side, with little differences in each, and a small adaption of the Tiny Tudor and Helluva Hacienda lots from the base game lot bin, which were clearly meant to be used in Veronaville. All the lots are downloadable! I must note though that one lot has a backwards thumbnail; this is due to a build design that I forgot to account for. In Sims 3, you cant have a front door behind an archway, the game gets confused and thinks the back door is the front entrance. Several Veronaville homes feature this design, I solved it by replacing the archway with a glass door, thus making that the 'front door' for paper delivery and lot thumbnail stuff. Too late to reupload over a minor bug.
https://i.imgur.com/8txHB7L.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LBEReZX.jpg
The Capp/Monty rivalry is in full force
https://i.imgur.com/GhHciBt.jpg
I have two versions of Antonio Monty's family made; one is in the family bin for accuracy, the other is a prebuilt lot for him to live in with his kids. I moved him into a Tiny Tudor remake and edited it to match Veronaville's dirty lots. Seriously, the ground in Veronaville lots is always so muddy and torn up D:
You can see here the 'glass doorway' I talked about above too.
https://i.imgur.com/6t6OEE4.jpg
Its moderately decorated, as Antonio had to move out of his old home to make ends meet after Hero died.
https://i.imgur.com/3qbkIB0.jpg
I made the tiny room on the upstairs level wider to accommodate a bedroom for each of the twins; never liked making a girl and a boy share a room.
https://i.imgur.com/MDdbaWo.jpg
Antonio's version of the lot has Hero's grave out back. I don't know if I did a convincing job, but its better than Sims 2, where her data was shredded and her grave non-existent. Antonio has all of Hero's ancestors in his inventory, to be moved into a graveyard. Family tree SHOULD be linked, ive been finding that only certain methods of uploading preserve the family tree; if it doesnt stay linked, you'll just have to use Master Controller to fix it yourself. Technically you'll have to use MC anyway, since Veronaville is ALL about the giant connected family trees. Cant have Antonio falling in love with Bianca now :p
https://i.imgur.com/c3SNZ1a.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/twLlCtL.jpg
The big lot with the hedge maze, I often wonder if this is where Cordelia and Caliban lived. Theres not really enough room for a couple and three teens, as all Veronaville tudor homes can usually fit two or three small bedrooms, but you can probably make it work.
Also been working on Strangetown again, for a small town it has a LOT of work to do if you factor in PS2 and PSP Strangetown lots and sims, even more if you try to tackle the GBA stuff (I'll be adding as many of the sims from that as I can, but the buildings are just too different to do)
https://i.imgur.com/dhCFAbR.jpg
Finally got the Smith family perfected, and packaged up. Spent way too much time making Johnny complete all his school things so that it really feels like hes on his last day. Players may want to bump up his alien DNA percentage to 50% after he ages to YA to unlock his alien powers; he has the black alien eyes in Sims 2 PSP, so people can assume they developed late. In Sims 3, alien powers are available as long as your alien DNA is 20% or higher, with the tradeoff of always having black eyes and an echoey voice. There is no real dilution, sadly. Thus to have Johnny with his trademark human eyes, he has 19.99999% alien DNA
https://i.imgur.com/7y56nkO.jpg
Pascal and Tycho Curious. It was too much hassle to have it exactly like in Sims 2, where he gives birth shortly after loading the lot. It was unfair on me to try to manage the timing of that, plus the nightmare of maternity clothes :p
Sims 2 PSP canon establishes the baby as a male named Tycho, so I just skipped the birth and have Tycho already freshly born. You can link up the Pollination Technician to the family tree by replacing one of the default aliens with my Pollination Technician skin, making the alien father actually reachable :p
https://i.imgur.com/H5z97KL.jpg
Vidcund Curious was hard to recreate, he has this really specific look. I think I did well though. The science station replaces the chess table in the Curous family lot, as the chess table oddly cant fit in that room due to engine differences. Its relocated in the plant room though, so they can still play chess.
https://i.imgur.com/FT2q2lD.jpg
Lazlo looks a bit different, but he still feels like the 'chill-out' brother of the three.
https://i.imgur.com/AcnsZEF.jpg
The most animated ive ever seen a baby in Sims 3. I completely forgot strollers were a thing.
https://i.imgur.com/yveRYgU.jpg
The game decided to crash on me after several hours of unsaved work on the Specter lot, so I have to redo a LOT of ghost fixing (I swear, this lot is buggy in BOTH games), but I did catch this rather silly moment of Ophelia pillow fighting with Grim.
https://i.imgur.com/8txHB7L.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/LBEReZX.jpg
The Capp/Monty rivalry is in full force
https://i.imgur.com/GhHciBt.jpg
I have two versions of Antonio Monty's family made; one is in the family bin for accuracy, the other is a prebuilt lot for him to live in with his kids. I moved him into a Tiny Tudor remake and edited it to match Veronaville's dirty lots. Seriously, the ground in Veronaville lots is always so muddy and torn up D:
You can see here the 'glass doorway' I talked about above too.
https://i.imgur.com/6t6OEE4.jpg
Its moderately decorated, as Antonio had to move out of his old home to make ends meet after Hero died.
https://i.imgur.com/3qbkIB0.jpg
I made the tiny room on the upstairs level wider to accommodate a bedroom for each of the twins; never liked making a girl and a boy share a room.
https://i.imgur.com/MDdbaWo.jpg
Antonio's version of the lot has Hero's grave out back. I don't know if I did a convincing job, but its better than Sims 2, where her data was shredded and her grave non-existent. Antonio has all of Hero's ancestors in his inventory, to be moved into a graveyard. Family tree SHOULD be linked, ive been finding that only certain methods of uploading preserve the family tree; if it doesnt stay linked, you'll just have to use Master Controller to fix it yourself. Technically you'll have to use MC anyway, since Veronaville is ALL about the giant connected family trees. Cant have Antonio falling in love with Bianca now :p
https://i.imgur.com/c3SNZ1a.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/twLlCtL.jpg
The big lot with the hedge maze, I often wonder if this is where Cordelia and Caliban lived. Theres not really enough room for a couple and three teens, as all Veronaville tudor homes can usually fit two or three small bedrooms, but you can probably make it work.
Also been working on Strangetown again, for a small town it has a LOT of work to do if you factor in PS2 and PSP Strangetown lots and sims, even more if you try to tackle the GBA stuff (I'll be adding as many of the sims from that as I can, but the buildings are just too different to do)
https://i.imgur.com/dhCFAbR.jpg
Finally got the Smith family perfected, and packaged up. Spent way too much time making Johnny complete all his school things so that it really feels like hes on his last day. Players may want to bump up his alien DNA percentage to 50% after he ages to YA to unlock his alien powers; he has the black alien eyes in Sims 2 PSP, so people can assume they developed late. In Sims 3, alien powers are available as long as your alien DNA is 20% or higher, with the tradeoff of always having black eyes and an echoey voice. There is no real dilution, sadly. Thus to have Johnny with his trademark human eyes, he has 19.99999% alien DNA
https://i.imgur.com/7y56nkO.jpg
Pascal and Tycho Curious. It was too much hassle to have it exactly like in Sims 2, where he gives birth shortly after loading the lot. It was unfair on me to try to manage the timing of that, plus the nightmare of maternity clothes :p
Sims 2 PSP canon establishes the baby as a male named Tycho, so I just skipped the birth and have Tycho already freshly born. You can link up the Pollination Technician to the family tree by replacing one of the default aliens with my Pollination Technician skin, making the alien father actually reachable :p
https://i.imgur.com/H5z97KL.jpg
Vidcund Curious was hard to recreate, he has this really specific look. I think I did well though. The science station replaces the chess table in the Curous family lot, as the chess table oddly cant fit in that room due to engine differences. Its relocated in the plant room though, so they can still play chess.
https://i.imgur.com/FT2q2lD.jpg
Lazlo looks a bit different, but he still feels like the 'chill-out' brother of the three.
https://i.imgur.com/AcnsZEF.jpg
The most animated ive ever seen a baby in Sims 3. I completely forgot strollers were a thing.
https://i.imgur.com/yveRYgU.jpg
The game decided to crash on me after several hours of unsaved work on the Specter lot, so I have to redo a LOT of ghost fixing (I swear, this lot is buggy in BOTH games), but I did catch this rather silly moment of Ophelia pillow fighting with Grim.