Sims 3 and things

Do you mind posting the link here?

Ok. I'll post them later as I'm out of the house for a few hours today. Getting the car serviced. I'm using my phone.

Sorry this is a bit late. I had a huge day - out all day getting the car serviced. I've been trying to catch up on a few things here and now it's morning and I haven't been to sleep yet. So I will hurry.

This one is about to get a new episode posted, probably tomorrow as I've already done most of the work for it.

It's a crazy fantasy story and just about anything could happen. The inspiration for it came when I found some interesting CC skins. My imagination whirred for a while and finally I came up with an extremely not plausible story and it's a lot of fun.

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/931699/the-mcfluff-story#latest


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This one is yet another attempt to get badges. Caroline is living alone at the moment as it is the beginning of this story and there are a few badges I've completed a few times but they've not been awared. Apparently they have to be completed with a single sim household for them to trigger. I can say that having her alone did the trick but so far in the videos we haven't quite got to the point of the badges being awarded. As soon as she gets those 4 badege a friend will move in to assist her and later on extre house mates will arrive as required to do various badges. I'll just look for badges I haven't got yet to work out what they will be working towards next.

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/931342/caroline-and-friends#latest

The game starts out in Isla Paradiso because that's where the badges need to be done for the ones that only trigger if there is a single sim household. I have mods and they'll be moving to different worlds as the videos progress.

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This one is fairly crazy too. It's about relationships and people.

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/931841/the-story-of-oscar-and-louise#latest

In the videos, Oscar and Louise haven't met yet.

The first 3 videos were devoted to establishing Oscar in Hidden Springs.

Video 4 is about Louise's parents in Riverview. There will be two more episodes in Riverview before she leaves home and ends up in Hidden Springs where she bumps into Oscar and they get to know each other and end up married with children. Many children.

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This is my first ever series of videos. I had no clue back in January 2017 but wanted to give it a go. My technology was somewhat limited so the first few videos aren't brilliant but they do improve. I must say I have a brand new computer and a proper microphone now as well as new software to put the videos together.

http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/923345/isla-paradiso-bunch#latest

The original game started out to get a badge - have a sim make 300 elixirs. I've tried to get that one a few times now and so far it hasn't happened in spite of having several hundred elixirs. I don't plan to try it again.

As I said before, I have mods now and I've added a mod to increase the number of elixirs they can make and that migh interfere with the badge being awarded. I didn't have than mod in when I tried for the badge previously though.

It is set in Isla Paradiso. It started out with 2 sims I made to help me sort out some cc. Then I added a witch I've played with often and decided they really ought to have a couple of blokes and then genies are fun so I went looking for a genie from my library and couldn't decide which one I wanted out of the three I was thinking about. So I added all three. Then, fortunately I have mods, one of the genies met up with Salty Seaworth and he wants to see the ghost of his wealthy spouse. They got engaged - no wedding yet but there are twins. Both are genies. And then the witch planted two forbidden fruit in the hope that one might produce a plant sim - and she got two plant sim boys. Later on she cloned Triton King and now there's a mermaid toddler in it too.

After completing badges, but not getting them awarded due to the household having more than one sim in it they started to go adventuring and I decided I want them to get all of the tomb collection from each of the WA worlds. The latest videos in this series see them mostly doing tombs. But there are more babies to come but they haven't appeared in the videos yet - but will start appearing soon. I had nothing to do with those babies - I'm blaming NRAAS and their Story Progression.

When they've completed the tomb collections and done all of the tombs in the various worlds, they start globe trotting - using NRAAS Traveler mod they move to various worlds to have a little look around and showcase some of my builds - since my showcase thread got deleted.

Then when I'm tired of that, and it probably won't last long because I'm keen to merge them into my BIG GAME. The BIG GAME has hundreds of Sims in it and has been going for a few years. I will be rotating between different households and worlds. I have a fairy village in Barnacle Bay, a Witches Villag in Dragon Valley and a boarding school in Cake Island. Plus sims living in Legacy Island III, Moonlit Falls, Sunlit Tides, Hidden Springs and other worlds.

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Now I'm off to get some sleep - it's just after 2 am.

Bye for now

I hope you get a chance to watch the videos. I'll probably be posting a new one tomorrow. The McFluff household are beginning to sculpt in ice and other materials.

Happy Simming.

The long awaited Episode 6 of The McFluff story is finally up on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/TIN4VttGNxc

The main thing with this video is the arrival of the sculptors and the sculptures they are making. We still see (and hear) plenty of the cats and Gertie does some sculpting and inventing.

The Isla Paradiso Bunch Episode 59 is now up on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/iDOgGoltHts

Craig, Meryl and Muriel travel from Egypt to France. They complete some adventures including A Viscious Delicacy; A Purple Delicacy; The Goundkeeper's Journal; The Key Please; A New Ring (Gold); A New Ring (Amethyst); Here's The Key.

Craig begins the Chateau Crawl adventure. This adventure will be completed in Episode 60.

Happy Simming - and enjoy the video

I've been working on the next episode of Oscar and Louise. That'll be up when I do the narration. Problem is the heat here - it's getting hotter now and I've been preoccupied on other things this morning. It gets too hot to comfortably work with the headset on. Need the headset on to do the narration. But the video is all done. Just need to do the narration.

Now last night, at about 2 am I had an idea and this morning I've been working on it.

Another of my stories is the McFluff story. Currently it's generation 0 and they are living in Hidden Springs. In about 3 more episodes, the one after the sculptors move out, the Green family will move in. Once the Greens arrive we will be on Generation 1 as the generation count is for their family. Gertie McFluff has no descendants and the Greens will carry on her legacy.

Eventually, by the time we get to Generation 4 or 5 the whole household will have moved to Cake Island. That's a world made by @Rflong7.

If you don't know it, here's a shot of the entire world from above. It's a cake.

https://s5.postimg.cc/ijnhu08cn/CakeIsland002.jpg

As I said previously, the McFluff story is pure fantasy and I want to make it as magical as I can.

Cake Island, or at least the version I have of it, is unpopulated and the lots are mostly empty. I spent some time adding builds that I thought I wanted in the world.

https://s5.postimg.cc/v9wbku5on/AroundTown001.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/6vk7ehfwn/Caroline004.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/gh96h1hon/Graveyard001.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/b5poil687/MountainsAndLighthouse001.jpg

I started adding households to give the place a bit of life. I want it to be magical so don't want too many regular sims there. So far the only household I've added is a pair of fawns.

https://s5.postimg.cc/6j21ta0xz/Fawns001.jpg

They live in a little house I originally built for Sally to live in while they were in Twin Towns (a world by @jillbg )

https://s5.postimg.cc/woulo4rrb/TT343.jpg
This is a pic of the house in Twin Towns - I don't have a good one of the house in Cake Island.

https://s5.postimg.cc/wkzhfkbwn/Fawns003.jpg

The McFluff lot is done too but I'll probably bulldoze it, or at least get rid of most of what I've already done as my ideas have changed so I won't show pics of it. It is a 64x64 lot.

Then last night, at about 2 am, when I should have been sleeping, it occurred to me that a household of mermaids would be fun. So I've been making mermaids this morning. I will pick up a lot I made for a household in Legacy Island III (by @rflong7 ) . That lot will require a lot of redoing for what I now want but it has a tower built on it that I want to include and it took ages to make so I will try to grab a copy of that lot for my mermaids.

They will live on another big lot. I think it's also 64x64. I was going to have 6 mermaids but I seem to have 8 now so that'll have to do. Or I could break them up between two lots.

I might add some fairies, witches, werewolves and perhaps even a vampire. But I don't like vampires. Will need to think about that. If I put one in and it starts turning other sims into vampires I might have to get rid of it. So it might be best to leave it out to start with.

So that gives you some idea of where the McFluff story is going.

Now, I started putting CC into my game after Sims 4 was released. I do own Sims 4 base game but haven't launched it for a year or more now. It got to the point where I'd launch it and wait for it to load so I could shut it down again so decided to stop launching it.

Well, in Sims 3 game I now have quite a collection of skins and hairs. The Fawns are wearing an example of one set of CC skins - but they have more than skins on them to make them look like that.

A few weeks ago I grabbed an old sim out of my library. She is a Sim I originally made as a nanny back in 2009. One of the first sims I ever made. I loved playing with her as her bubbly personality made the game quite lively - until I got tired of her playing in the sprinklers. I stopped playing with her and stopped giving any new sims the loves the outdoor trait and also, eventually, stopped using sprinklers too - mostly.

Here's an example of why I prefer to keep my Sims away from sprinklers.
https://s5.postimg.cc/c8edy9ll3/Old_Mill_Cafe_00006.jpg

Yep - it's snowing outside and I found this sim playing in the sprinkler.

At least Ella never played in sprinklers while it was snowing - probably because she never got into a game after Seasons was released.

Recently I got a copy of Ella and placed her in a house in Isla Paradiso because I wanted to try out some of my CC on her.

Here's the original Ella.
https://s5.postimg.cc/dkd3qo1yv/Ella002.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/3n22xmhif/Ella001.jpg

And this is what she looks like after adding CC skin, hair and a little makeup
https://s5.postimg.cc/nho4jqhaf/Elaine002.jpg

https://s5.postimg.cc/y4hxp5x5j/Elaine001.jpg
I called the new version of Ella, Elaine.

I think I'll do another make over of the original Ella. This time I'll just give her new skin and makeup. Keep the hair.

Now back to the mermaid thing.

I made a couple of new Sims to be mermaids - but I have hundreds of sims already made in my library, so I decided to grab a few of them and give them makeovers and new names.

I can make mermaids by using NRAAS Master Controller > Intermediate > Occult: Add

I have added the mermaid occult to some humans, a witch, a fairy and a genie. I will also add it to Ella and Elaine and give them new names so the mermaid version will be different sims and I can keep the human originals.

Here's some pics.

You can see some of my new mermaids behind the pictures of Elaine above.

George, Belinda and Sukie are conveniently together.
https://s5.postimg.cc/n7gm05i13/George_Belinda_Sukie001.jpg

George is a fairy and he was already in my library. I just added mermaid to his occult state and changed the colour of his scales and wings.

Belinda is a witch and was already in my library. I just added mermaid to her occult state and changed the colour of her scales.

Sukie is new today. I just made her and kept the default scale colour the game gave her.

I gave most of them the 'loves to swim' trait. I'm not sure if that is necessary for mermaids to have but I wanted to be sure they keep hydrated as they will mostly be left alone as if they are just townie sims.

I've noticed George likes to play tricks on the others and has been very active in that regard while I've been trying to do things with them.

This next pic is of Matthew and Harry.

https://s5.postimg.cc/42dcqeisn/Matthew_Harry001.jpg

Harry is a genie. Matthew wants to be the Emperor of Evil. They both came from my library. I just added their occult state and changed a few things about them. Neither had traits I particularly wanted - but did keep the Evil trait for Matthew.

This is Simon. He's human and I just made him today.
https://s5.postimg.cc/ag2ftoatz/Simon001.jpg

They should be a colourful and lively group to add to Cake Island. Now I've done this much, I'll finish off Ella and Elaine so they are also mermaids and save the whole lot of them to my library where they'll be ready to place into Cake Island when I next get to work on it in preparation for the arrival of the Greens, and maybe Gertie will still be with them. She's a witch and witches do live a long time.

Happy Simming

Episode 5 of Oscar and Louise is now available on YouTube

https://youtu.be/TOhaXqD5hao

In this video Bluey and Lorna continue dating. They become girlfriend and boyfriend. Then get engaged and married. We do see the wedding at the Gazebo in town. They live in Riverview.

They then go on their honeymoon to Sunlit Tides. Soon after they return home they discover Lorna is pregnant and at the end of the video Louise is born in hospital at Riverview.

Enjoy

Happy Simming

I was thinking of how to add interesting households to the empty Cake Island when I eventually move my McFluff story to Cake Island. There are already a pair of Fawns living there - they have Custom Content skin, hooves and horns to make them appear to be some sort of hairy creature known as a fawn.

Then I came up with the idea of a household of mermaids. I won't want to play them, at least not often, but it would be nice to see them around town occasionally. In order to prepare them for their addition to Cake Island, and so I can get to know them, I've made them and added them to a house in Isla Paradiso - because there are dive lots there.

I got some video of them and have decided to show some short videos of their progress as we learn about each other.

Here is the first video. It goes for about 10 minutes and shows their first introduction to water and to diving at Pearls Deep.

The first mermaid video is now up on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/hRs-GRu2NQA

It is their first swim and goes for about 10 minutes.

Here is the link to Episode 7 of Caroline and Friends.

https://youtu.be/m57ypTmaELI

In this episode Caroline is quite busy. She rescues several sims from drowning - I actually lost count but I think it was more than 6 all up throughout the video. She also finally managed to beat one shark in a fight. That completes her requirement for the next step in her quest to find Refuge Island, but I've decided to keep her there and try for the badge to beat 3 sharks in a fight. So next episode she'll be fighting two sharks at the very start.

Caroline did a few other things too - such as chat with Triton King and read a book at the library.

The second Colourful Mermaids video is now available on YouTube.

It is just under 9 minutes.

The mermaids are still swimming around at Pearl's Deep. I now know them a little better and can tell you their names. I take Julia into CAS to try to remove her sunglasses as I don't like mermaids swimming around under water wearing sun glasses.

George finds a hidden island, Diver's Den Island. This is because mermaids start out with level 10 diving skill. That's why, on their first dive they are able to dive at Pearl's Deep dive lot. Being able to find Diver's Den island requires a sim to have level 10 diving skill.

https://youtu.be/_fKNXl8nfNY

That's Julia on the left and Estelle on the right. They are both based on my old sim, Ella. I think Ella must have sunglasses on when in her swimming outfit and now this pair have sunglasses on when diving. I'm trying to fix that. They share a yellow tail as I want them to be alike to indicate they are from the same original 2009 sim.

I am highly likely to continue to change the appearance, especially tail colours of any of the mermaids as this is my first game that's all about mermaids.

Enjoy