"cmbaker16;c-17718079" wrote:
Yes, in sims 2 there is this expensive beach house that i always had my sims buy so i decided to recreate it in 3 for my sims to enjoy. I've also rebuilt my favorite farm home from 2 into 3.
Didn't really do much sim recreation except once. I did one huge project for a very close friend of mine and I used the create a world tool to create Belladonna Cove as a sims 3 world. I went back and forth from 2 and 3 to make sure every lot was where it was suppose to be and to make sure the homes/community lots were as prefect as I could get them. Some of the community lots where changed a tad to fit in the needed rabbit holes and some got just a small transformation to have more sims 3 like activities but I did my best to keep it as it was in 2. I also recreated all of the sims and moved them into their rightful lots doing my best to keep them as similar as possible. It's the only time I went all out to make an exact replica of something from sims 2.
I've also remade some sims 2 sims in sims 4 like Caster Nova and Heather and that became a project to recreate all the sorority/fraternity sims in 4 when university came out. though what I did instead of playing those sims, I paired them up the way I use to in sims 2 and randomize a child for them. Than I rebuilt the sorority house from sims 2 for one of my sims to stay in I put the randomized children in the sorority house so my sim went to university with the children of the sorority/fraternity sims children instead of them going with the sims 2 sims cause I figure it bring a bit of old and new to my game.
Create-A-World is something I just cant get the hang of, its not all that newbie friendly sadly. Would be neat to try my hand at making a Strangetown that also features the PSP areas, and more living space.
The worst part is definitely the ancestors and NPCs, its sheer tedium, but if you DONT do it, you get things like the Curious family able to romance thier cousins, and 'pudding face' service sims with outlandish haphazard outfits. Its quite possible to improvise with a lot of NPCs though; Exterminators can become the town ghost hunters, excess social workers can be assigned to the pet adoption side, Headmasters simply become employed in the Education career to give playables a boss and coworkers, I even have a hilarious idea for the nannies; im making them into the Crazy Nannies daycare company with a branch in each town xD (Since nraas mods now have an option to send kids to someones daycare rather than hire a babysitter). Things like gardeners, carpool drivers and delivery men can simply find new jobs to fill out other roles, or be left in the homeless pool for the game to assign to things. Also, with the Repomen and Social Workers, since despite having generic names, they DO have very unique personality points, aspirations and skill points, I make them too but give them names Sims 2 style; I look at the credits and match two names together
Making brand new lots to fill out gaps the original neighbourhoods didnt have, like rabbit holes and lots like graveyards is where im not very good, seems im not quite that good at original content. Mimicing EA's designs and reworking their stuff to translate to one engine to another
https://i.imgur.com/FD7u33g.jpg
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This is my attempt at a simple non-nonsense graveyard to house the 68 dead ancestors I had to make (Well, 68 minus the two at the Monty house, the grave of Hero at Antonio's, the four previous rulers at the Summerdream house, and the Capp's personal graveyard). It has a deathfish pond, two death flower plants, and enough graves to replace with the ancestors packaged in the various lots
https://i.imgur.com/nYuHcu5.jpg
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This is a little bonus lot I made to include the 'fairy side' of the town, the Summerdream Gardens. Its basically a small lot with the plants the Veronaville Market doesnt have, stuff like alchemy plants, herbs, mushrooms and the fruit trees, and the Arboretum rabbithole.
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Titania comes with the Queen of the Fae lifetime reward in the fairy version of the family, made a non-fairy version of the family too to closer match how they played in TS2
