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6 years ago

Sims Life Stories: Four Corners - lots and sims rebuilt for Sims 3

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For the last few months, I have been remaking various odds and ends from Sims 2 and its spinoffs inside Sims 3 as a sort of personal challenge. Today I have completed the majority of Four Corners, using Riverview as the 'construction ground' for everything.

Four Corners is the primary neighbourhood shipped with Sims Life Stories, and is for all intents and purposes, a 'lost' Sims 2 town, as it can, with a lot of work, be imported into Sims 2 itself. Since its pretty much unknown by a lot of Sims players, I focused on finishing remakes of its content before the likes of Pleasantview or Strangetown.

Four Corners exists in two variants: 'Riley's Story', the primary version of Four Corners, where the story mode takes places, and 'Freeplay', a cut down version with several story characters deleted, and almost every lot from the original is present, but altered in some way. The playable sims also have some differences, usually in the clothing assignments and bios. Freeplay also has an (almost) ENTIRELY different set of townies and NPCs, with only one townie preset in both versions (and even then, he has different skills and so forth between them). I have created these variants as alternative downloads, and the optimal Four Corners for Sims 3 would be a mix of the two.

Sadly, I cannot figure out how to use Create-A-World, it seems to be the most user-unfriendly editor I have ever used, and is extremely counter-intuitive. Riverview works fine though, just delete a lot of the default lots, remove the premades and NPCs with master controller, and you can simulate the Four Corners story. Ive had a blast doing so. If anyone wants to take a crack at building a fully fledged world for these lots, that would be amazing!

I will be posting lots and families in this thread one by one. As of this post, I still have the townies and NPCs to make, but they are rather low priority. In each lot or family, I'll share the alternative versions, and also share technical info needed to stitch together the neighbourhood with Master Controller and other maintenance mods

Other Sims 2 town lots and sims rebuilt for Sims 3:



  • Tutorial World - Fully Complete! (Thread restructuring needed)
  • Pleasantview - Early Progress (Thread coming eventually!)
  • Strangetown - Nearing Completion (Thread coming eventually!)
  • Veronaville - Complete, requires Townies and NPCs
  • Bitville - Complete, requires Townies and NPCs
  • 17 Replies

    • 12 and 15 Hyacinth Circle

      Download 12 Hyacinth Circle, aka Cape Cod Corner, here
      Download 15 Hyacinth Circle, aka Craftman's Corner, here

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      12 Hyacinth Circle is the lot right next door to Sharon's house, and is a heavily modified Cape Cod Classic from the Sims 2 Lot Bin. I always move Sharon here after she moves out in the story, as its a big classy house she can easily afford, and its literally right next door to her niece, and the children she wanted Riley to 'make many of'.

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      15 Hyacinth Circle is the only 30x30 residential lot in Four Corners, and is a modified Craftman's Pride from the Sims 2 Lot Bin. The story version of the lot is messed up, someone lived in it and was moved out, taking all the furnishings with it, and EA did not replace anything. The Freeplay version shows what the lot SHOULD look like. The lot has many small structural changes from the Craftman's Pride, and there is a building trick I had to use to get the stairs working like they are. Sims 3 does not allow ANY tiles above stairs to be covered in floor tiles, unlike Sims 2 allowing one single tile over the highest point. Even building cheats cannot overcome this. To get around this, I have placed a cleverly hidden mat over this hole in the ceiling where the stairs are, giving the illusion of a completely sealed floor. I once moved Debbie Gonzaga into this house to fill all the default homes, but its too big for one sim to live in all alone.
    • Old Grove Park and Gardens

      Old Grove Park is Four Corner's neighborhood play area. Grand birch trees used to line the park, but were removed after they died from a previously unknown type of bronze birch borer.

      Old Grove Gardens is a tranquil part of Four Corners where residents come to enjoy peace, the occasional wedding, and gazing at the pond.

      Download the combined Old Grove Park and Old Grove Gardens here
      Download the Freeplay version of Old Grove Park here

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      The standard story version of Four Corners splits the 30x30 park into two seperate lots, to contain the story wedding to its own spot. I was not going to do that, so I combined them into one continuous lot. This does mean you need road on both sides of the park, but thats also how it is in the original town anyway. I wonder what number of Hyacinth Circle this lot would have?

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      The Freeplay version of the park is very similar, but makes use of the full 30x30 space in one singular lot, as it always should have been.
    • The Three Community Lots

      Why buy later when you can buy right now? Come to The Corner Boutique for all the latest fashions!

      Lead's Gym is a full featured Club offering the following amenities - Pool, Two Floors of Training Equipment, and Sauna. Get the Lead Out! Join Now!

      Enjoy a romantic outing at our Bistro style cafe featuring full course meals for the discriminating Sim! In a hurry? Then shop at our market featuring the freshest produce.


      Download 'The Corner Boutique' here
      Download 'Lead's Gym' here
      Download 'Starlight Cafe and Market' here

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      The Corner Boutique was the clothing store of Four Corners. Clothing stores do not exist in Sims 3, so I have adapted the store to a Consignment Store, mixed with a Nerd Shop. Was considering the Elixir store for the second register where the magazine racks used to be, but the Stories games dont really have occults, so it wouldn't make sense, and also would break the theme. I forgot to place a single rug behind the old clothing register, but its okay, as rugs that are three tiles long dont exist in 3.

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      Lead's Gym required no real changes to it, however I did add a few extra exercise items to the top floor. The front door of this lot keeps resetting to the door at the very back of the lot, changing the lot thumbnail, the only way to fix it is to change the lot to residential, move in someone, then set the front door manually. So yeah, just a heads up that the thumbnail MAY break again, I had to fix it twice already.

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      Starlight Cafe and Market has lots of things that just dont work in Sims 3, like the grocery store. I replaced that with a book store and the premium content that sells vegetables and produce. Its the closest you'll get, and Four Corners IS located in a rural farm area so it makes sense. The little restaurant is working, via the Bistro store content, and I made the menu as close to the original as I could, although I doubt that menu was saved with the lot; if something basic like gender preference isnt saved on sims, why would a DLC item's custom menu be?

      As a little extra touch, I also added the lemonade stand nd baked goods stand for kids to sell their products, as this is Four Corner's local market

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      With this post, all official lots and families are accounted for. Coming eventually is a custom Four Corners graveyard, with two versions, one for Story mode which has Riley's mother's data, and the second is for a Freeplay recreation, with the graves of all those mysteriously missing sims, and there is still more characters to make, such as the townies and NPCs. They will be big batch uploads, nd possibly some of the townies will be like Debbie, moved into the empty homes and exclusive lot bin homes.
    • Four Corners Graveyard

      Even a quiet little town like Four Corners needs a place for the dead to rest..

      Download the regular story version of the Graveyard here
      Download the Freeplay version of the Graveyard here

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      I finished this lot a long time ago, shortly after finishing up the main lots and sims, but forgot to upload them. This is a simple graveyard in the style of the Four Corners lots. There are two versions, one has empty graves, intended for the 'story version', the other is a graveyard that houses the missing sims from the Freeplay versions, explaining what actually happened to them.

      https://i.imgur.com/gtxXvKa.jpg
      The Freeplay version specifically has Agora, Mickey (Named Mickey Finn just like in the Freeplay version's files), Dylan (wearing the freeplay version's shirt), Sharon, and Jane Harlow. I still need to upload Jane Harlow in a living form some day, but other projects take precedence.

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      The little building off to the side is like a memorial service building for funerals. I had too much space on the lot to fill in :p
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      There is still no progress on the NPCs and townies, as I have been busy finishing up Bitville and Veronaville, and working on Strangetown. Four Corners has two whole sets of NPCs and Townies, so its a very dull task, will likely work on them once other things are done.
    • Wow this amazing.

      Does this come with it's own world?

      I'm wondering if I download it, would it be individual lots or a whole world of it's own so it has it's own storyline and drama.
    • "OnlyMinnie;c-18263275" wrote:
      Wow this amazing.

      Does this come with it's own world?

      I'm wondering if I download it, would it be individual lots or a whole world of it's own so it has it's own storyline and drama.


      As I cannot figure out how on earth the Sims 3 World Builder works, its just lots to be placed in an existing world, sadly. A street on Riverview can house almost every one of the residential homes, however.

      I never got around to making more stuff for this (making NPCs and Townies isn't very fun), and with the unexplained closure and mysterious moderator edit of my Bitville thread, I probably wont continue.

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