Ralton-on-Sea ~ A WIP

Awesome <3 You have really captured the feel of a Cornish seaside town, particularly the harbour. Those cottages remind me very much of St Ives. I do hope Captain Cutlass turns out to have redeeming features and that his descendants still live in Ralton :)

I love your harbour. It looks awesome Missy :smiley:

@MissyHissy , I definitely agree with Bettyboop55 and tammyjo329 ... your harbour area looks fabulous!!! :)

@Bettyboop55 - Thank you very much! The cottages are replicas of cottages along the beachfront in Looe. I lived there for a few years and went to school there so it's a town I know very well and adore <3 Yes, Captain Cutlass will have descendants living in Ralton. I'll delve into his backstory a little more in the next post, probably over the weekend. Thanks for your lovely comment! :)

@tammyjo329 - Thank you! It's the first time I've had a harbour work just as I've wanted it to. :)

@Hidehi - Thank you very much! :)

Hopefully more pictures to come over the weekend.

I love the harbor! I want to create a tropical town in CAW, and I would love to create a harbor as well! If only I could figure out how to do it! :D

@equuest Thank you! The harbour wasn't too difficult to do, really. I positioned the harbour walls where I wanted them and cut away the terrain. I then used the smallest brush size to tidy the terrain so nothing peeks through the wall. It's quite tedious but I think the final effect is worth it. I also recommend using the XYZ coordinates to position the walls exactly in line (also because I've raised the water level in this one to accommodate dive lots). It's probably an idea to use a blank map and experiment with it before trying it in an actual world. Love the sound of a tropical town though! <3

Update time! I've been working on Ralton a bit more this weekend and the harbour is more or less done. There's probably going to be a few more small details to add at a later date, probably in SuperCAW. Any thoughts or suggestions are welcome, of course :)

I added some more details along the harbour. Again, this is very loosely based on Mevagissey, where there is car parking right along the harbour wall. I don't think I'd fancy parking my car there but each to their own :D
https://i.imgur.com/8TBM0d8.jpg?1

These are designed to be apartments along the harbour. Once again, like the cottages, these will be largely NPC housing, with one functional unit. I'm aiming to cut down on overall NPC routing issues by having several areas with NPC housing. Like Bridgeport but without the elevators. Since the buildings on the waterfront will be shops, with cash registers, I'm hoping the cashiers will actually reside in these buildings and not have too far to go for work. Of course, this is Sims 3 so time will tell :smiley:
https://i.imgur.com/uDfcLzN.jpg?1

Ralton Yacht Club. Currently only a shell, since my community lots are often CC heavy and I don't want any more CC than strictly necessary in here before I export. This building's exterior is based on the Royal Yacht Club in Falmouth.
https://i.imgur.com/d15e93C.jpg?1

Some shots of the harbour now the building shells are all present.
https://i.imgur.com/9ikFZ5G.jpg?1

https://i.imgur.com/2N3WLYL.jpg?1

This is the path going up to Ralton Castle. The castle isn't there yet but will actually be the ruins of the castle when I'm ready to build it. The main reason I haven't yet is because this is going to be an actual tomb and I've only just finished building one in Westward Cove and I needed a little break first.
https://i.imgur.com/JwKZztW.jpg?1

An overhead shot of the harbour. This was actually taken yesterday, before I finished painting the terrain at the back.
https://i.imgur.com/PSpTYQP.jpg?2

Whereas this was taken just now. Westward Cove is in the top right corner of the image. None of the buildings are there yet but there is a tomb hidden up there and there's a dive lot in the bay. The beach near the harbour won't have a lot on there because it was deemed too close to the castle for smugglers to work there. There is going to be another dive lot in that bay too.
https://i.imgur.com/kfOuTvn.jpg?1

Awesome <3 Your water looks a beautiful blue. Are you going to base your castle on Tintagel? The original certainly looks like it might have a few tombs within it.

I had no idea so many simmers were busy building worlds, love this one as well. You really manage to capture the English atmosphere, it looks awesome.

Your harbour looks awesome! :D

I saw you post on the custom music thread and ran to look up ralton as I'm always looking for new worlds, see its a WIP but it looks great!