Lake Creation Tutorial Needed for Attractive Lakes and Beaches

There are a few options for creating lakes in CAW.

For those at sea level:
1. Check out Nilxis' tutorial on making a beach, it describes how to gently slope the beach (which you could use for lakes as well). It just involves creating terrain "steps" with the flatten tool and then gentle smoothing the steps. http://nilxisdesigns.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/como-hacer-una-playa-de-arena-facil.html
Nilxis also has some other really great tutorials if you want to check them out, including some decorating tips.

For those above sea level:
1. Water planes - mod the sims has tutorials on this, but I always found it to be somewhat complicated.
2. SuperCAW pond tool - if you have SuperCAW or download it, it has a pond tool that can be used to carve out lakes and ponds directly in CAW. However, it has known issues, one of which is that if you're not careful it can flood your entire world, and cannot be undone. My suggestion with this is to save right before you use it and make sure the pond/lake has edges above where the water level will be all the way around. If it does flood, exit without saving and reload the world. I've been using the pond tool for years and find it's a decent work-around with careful use.
3. Make a "pond" in a lot using EIG - it won't be part of the official world water, but if you're going for just aesthetics and fishing use, this will work well. If you want boats to use it, this is not a good option.

Hope these help! And if you don't have a world showcase thread already, you should make one so we can watch the progress! :) <3

Thanks for the ideas. Nilxis designs are somewhat better versions of what I tried on my second version of the world. I probably need more practice. I can't do the pond version. I like the idea of putting better spawners on islands in the lakes so sims have to swim out to the island to collect them (or wait till they have the Transporter LTR for 75,000HP). They can't swim in ponds. The lakes I want to create are also too large for a single lot.

I've heard of SuperCAW. I've also heard that there are problems with it. I'd love to have more opinions from those that use it and good tutorials for it. I'm a little afraid to try it with my capabilities as they are now.

The water planes I've heard of, but can't find a decent tutorial for them.

"KhemKat19;c-16427599" wrote:
Hope these help! And if you don't have a world showcase thread already, you should make one so we can watch the progress! :) <3

What is a world showcase thread? It might be interesting, but it might bore everybody to tears.