~Photography Corner~

Insects

This technique is for those who would like to photograph insects and have the option to control the background. This way you also save yourself a lot of time by NOT having to go out in search of beetles and butterflies.

When I snapped my insect set for myself, I did it the long-winded way by loading my home lot with spawners, waiting for appropriate insects to spawn, move them into a white room and then snap them. Then I discovered fog emitter.

Ever since the fog emitter item has been changed from being an Ambitions item to being a basegame item, this method isn't restricted to those with Ambitions only. :D

Prepare your room - change the wallpaper and floor to suit your taste, it will the background for butterfly photos since they fly around. Change the floor if you're going to be photographing beetles since they crawl on the ground. Place down the fog emitter, found in buydebug menu. ("TestingCheatsEnabled on"->"BuyDebug" ) It's an uneven-looking shiny blueish ball thing.

http://imageshack.us/a/img837/2264/screenshot49zf.jpg "width=640" "height=480"

Now (while still in Buy/Build mode) shift+ctrl+click the fog emitter and choose "Set Visual Effect...", an action window should pop up, with an action for fog likely already keyed in there (ep2SpiritFog). Change it to:

http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/l/ladybug.gif Beetles:

Assassin beetle (Chinese): beetleassassinfree
Cerambyx beetle (French): beetlecerambyxfree
Cockroach: beetlecockroachfree
Japanese beetle: beetlejapanesefree
Ladybug: beetleladyfree
Light beetle: beetlelightfree
Rainbow beetle: beetlerainbowfree
Rhino beetle: beetlerhinofree
Scarab beetle (Egyptian): beetlescarabfree
Spider (Late Night): beetlespiderfree
Stag beetle: beetlestagfree
Termite (Late Night): beetletermitefree
Trilobite beetle: beetletrilobitefree
Water beetle: beetlewaterfree

I left out Spotted beetle because its graphics have been broken for ages, but if for some reason you'd still like to photograph it: beetlespottedfree


http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/butterfly.gif Butterflies:

Bamboo Straight Swift butterfly (Chinese): butterflybamboofree
Mission Blue butterfly: butterflybluefree
Cleopatra butterfly (Egyptian): butterflycleopatrafree
Crypt Moth (Egyptian): butterflycryptfree
Yellow Band Dart butterfly (Chinese): butterflydartfree
Glowy Fly (French): butterflyglowyfree
Zephyr Metalmark butterfly: butterflygoldfree
Green Swallowtail butterfly: butterflygreenfree
Rainbow butterfly: butterflykitefree
Monarch butterfly: butterflymonarchfree
Moth: butterflymothfree
Two-tailed Pasha butterfly (French): butterflypashafree
Royal Purple butterfly: butterflypurplefree
Red Admiral butterfly: butterflyredfree
Silver-spotted Skipper butterfly: butterflysilverfree
Zebra butterfly: butterflyzebrafree


http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/b/bug.gif Fireflies:

Firefly caeruleus (blue) - ep6glowbugsblue_main
Firefly pratinus (green) - ep6glowbugsgreen_main
Firefly luteus (orange) - ep6glowbugsorange_main
Firefly roseus (pink) - ep6glowbugspink_main
Firefly purpureus (purple) - ep6glowbugspurple_main
Firefly ruber (red) - ep6glowbugsred_main
Firefly albus (white) - ep6glowbugswhite_main
Firefly fulvus (yellow) - ep6glowbugsyellow_main


Misc. insects:

Teeny tiny bees - bees
Teeny weeny ants - ants
Super small flies - fliesinter
Tiny flying ladybugs - ladybugs
Pink Zephyr Metalmark butterfly-lookalike (flaps wings really fast) - ep6butterflywhite
WA Fireflies (only visible during the evening/night and also cover an enormous area) - fireflies
Blue wisp - butterflywillowispbluefree
Green wisp - butterflywillowispgreenfree
Pink wisp - butterflywillowisppinkfree

Non-continuous bug animations:

Black bug - bug1floor
Centipede - bug2floor
Spider - bug3floor
Black centipede - bug4floor

Choose an insect you want to photograph and key in the action code into the fog emitter, then go into livemode and the insects should be there.

I've started off with a Bamboo butterfly.

http://imageshack.us/a/img820/6097/insect2.png

After you've snapped one you're happy with, enter Buy/Build mode and shift+click the fog emitter to change it to a different insect.

http://imageshack.us/a/img812/2192/insect1.png

http://imageshack.us/a/img233/3026/insect3.png

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