Pan Nymira - A high fantasy world WiP

Wow it looks great so far!! I love the terrain painting of the rivers, and your island looks very natural (your terrain sculpting in general looks very natural)! Adding the lore in is a great idea, a lot of us love backstories :) I can't wait to watch the development of your world!
Oh, and welcome to the forum!! <3

Your world looks awesome already. If this is your first CAW world it is going to be great. I hope you share more pictures soon.

Update 1 (May 16 2019) - Farmlands

Thank you for your comments! I find them very encouraging.
Sadly, this is a very small update, since I'm busy with my final exams. I'm looking forward to being finished with it all and hopefully more will happen with this world when I'm done in about a month.

That being said! Here's the update:

I've been working on the farmlands. It's so hard to make fields look believable and right, so I did a lot of remakes of them, and I'm still not sure I'm satisfied with it. I've put down some lots too, most of which will be fields with fruits and vegetables that sim can nuture and harvest. I've also put down the nectary lot and one of the total four large mansions, called Tiera.
I'm using the cypres trees to indicate something that is (not exactly royal, but definately) higher class, which is why they are planted along the avenue that leads to the palace, and now also to Tiera.
I'm pretty sure I want to replace the storage shacks with a lot and build something that looks more in the style I have planned for the world. But for now, it sits there...

I've added pictures to the album (still here: https://imgur.com/a/2OGH05I ) below the old ones.

If you have any critisism of the farmlands and/or how to make them look good, please help me! Haha!

Good Luck with your exams :)

Looks great so far! I also struggle with EIG (it's REALLY unstable for me and crashes often) so what I do is I finish the world building in CAW (sculpting, painting, putting down all the effects, spanwers, trees etc) then I export the world and build them in the actual game. When they're done I save them to the library, then just load them into EIG and save after every 1-3 lots (do NOT alt tab!). Then if EIG crashes all I've lost is the loading time for plopping the lot down.

Best of luck on your exams!

Good luck with your exams, and your world is looking absolutely beautiful, I can't wait to see more of it :)

Update 2 (June 10 2019) - Epassia Feuro

First of all, thank you for wishing me luck with my exams! It seems like it worked, because so far it's been going great! I have my very last exam in a week, so after that I will finally have some time to actually do some progres on Pan Nymira!
Secondly, I must admit it makes me a little happy to see that many people have clicked this thread! I'm excited!
Thirdly, this is another tiny update, but I wanted to give you at least something.

I've been looking into why CaW bugs out when I try to EIG (edit in game) and, according to the threads I've found, it's because my Sims 3 basegame has the "Go Social" feature with Origin. So I don't know how I will fix that - I'm not exactly happy about having to buy a new game for it.

The actual update:
I've worked a little bit in one corner of the world, called Epassia Feuro (two new pictures in the same album, same link: https://imgur.com/a/2OGH05I ). The names in this world have actual meaning, but for now I wont tell you what (*evil grin*) - maybe I will give you clues later, maybe you can figure it out yourselves, like a puzzle of sorts! In this area there's a stone quarry next to a mine, a forest, another waterfall, a spot for one of the four castles (called Feuro) and lots for a village (sadly I can't build because of the above-mentioned bug *eyeroll*)
There's also a big forest next to the palace grounds - who knows what one might find in there? I'm thinking about making it even bigger, and also removing all the roads to just replace them with terrain paint. I don't like the modern look of them.

I would have like to safe the lore for when actual buildings and architecture started to get put into place, but since it might take a while to fix EIG.

I hope you are all well! See you soon!

It's looking good :) Glad to hear the exams are going well.

EIG can be tricky. Before you go buy another base game have you tried to turn off the Go Social feature in Origin. It might be worth asking a question about it in the CAW tool section. I was not even aware of a Go Social feature :) Most of us find too much store content or cc will also crash EIG. Others believe a large downloads folder can crash EIG. Before you delete any content or clear the downloads folder you would be well advised to back up your game and take copies of the DCCache, DCCache backup and Downloads folder. Keep somewhere safe like your desktop or an EHD. I then went through all my store content and uninstalled all those things I was sure I didn't want for my CAW project. I also cleared the same items from my downloads folder.

As for Imgur Upload your picture, in the corner you will see a box called copy with a drop down menu, select shared links, then press the copy button next to the box labelled BBC code for message boards and forums. Next create your post here on the forum and when you want to put your image into the post right click your mouse and select paste from the pop up menu which appears. A line of text will appear which becomes the picture when you post comment. It is also true you can't post pictures when you first join the forum so you may have to wait a little while longer.

Your world is looking awesome! I see you have been very busy and it shows :D

Update 3 (July 25 2019) - Roads, City Layout and Lore

Goodday! I hope you are enjoying summer!
It's been such a long time since I last posted - I'm sorry about that - due to a mix of IRL stuff and lacking motivation. I still can't EIG because of the Origin issue and it really kills my motivation, since I would just love to start building - it would add so much to the world, too. Because of that I'm mostly just sculpting and painting.

For this post I will share some basic lore and before and after pictures. These really help me keep going when I feel I'm not progressing! I finally figured out how to post images directly in this forum (yay!), but I will keep the link to the old album up, so we can revisit it just in case.

If you have any comments, critiques or feedback - on anything and everything - I'd love to hear it as always, and if you want to see more pictures, you can request it.

Progress in CaW

First up, here's the before and after pictures of the city map - for clarity, I have turned off the "fog" in CaW, which also makes the water invisible, so it looks a little odd.

Before:
https://i.imgur.com/JjcgdLz.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/rggxoSp.png

And from the overview from mountain range:

Before:
https://i.imgur.com/dup8Eoe.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/pkabK81.png

I'm actually getting somewhere! Here's some pictures to get a feel of the city (without any buildings... -_-")

https://i.imgur.com/Ym7mCzG.png

https://i.imgur.com/hmoEqIM.png

Here's an image of what Pan Nymira looks like from the sea with the harbour in front:
https://i.imgur.com/t9AJtnD.png

I'm also using the stone walls to make Pan Nymira seem less flat and make the different hight levels more distinct, for an example here, where the town hall lot is supposed to be on the left lot, the public bath (pool) in front and the colosseum (stadium) on the elevated lot (the yellow one) in the background.
https://i.imgur.com/yZjpINi.png

So far I've only really worked on the city area, which is incircled by the mountain range - therefore there isn't anything interesting to "photograph" outside of it - apart from Aerie Island.

I have removed all of the roads to stay true to the late medieval or renaissance time period - so no cars in this world! You will have to walk, horse ride or sail (broom flying not adviseable*).
I've done a lot of mountain sculpting and terrain painting. This is - in my opinion - the most tedious and annoying thing to do in CaW, but the results are very satisfying to me. I really like the way Aerie Island is turning out, as you can see in the pictures below.

Aerie Island
Before:
https://i.imgur.com/zrrtJGq.png?1
After:
https://i.imgur.com/brmm83M.png

At first, I didn't like the lightblue of the water - it seemed off to be or too extreme - but the more I work with it, the more I like it.

Most of my mountains are rather smooth - which almost makes them look like hills - but I really like the wrinkledness and roughness of some of the sculpting of the mountain and rockformations (as highlighted with green circles) - I think it makes them look more like actual stone, rock and mountain and therefore more realistic.

Introduction to lore
The people of Pan Nymira originally came from another nation and moved away due to instability. They are very ideological. They believe that everything is supposed to be in balance and stability, peace and order, and left their homeland to start a nation that strived to their own beliefs. The island they found were perfect to them - isolated from the chaos of the outside world, protected by a natural defense in the great mountain range. But inside this nation, there would be no walls seperating its people - every human should be equal in every way. Someone has to govern, though, to make sure the ideals are upheld, so a family was selected to be the main leader, but always advised by a counsil, which consists of four families.

And so, Pan Nymira was made everything it set out to be. A lush and open place where nobody is poor, where order rules and stability resides. It seems a paradise.
But maybe Pan Nymira isn't as perfect as it seems...

Feedback
As always, I love any feedback you have.
I hope to update soon!