☆☆ Sims 4 Quality Control Practice Challenges ☆☆

Feel free to do any of the older challenges at any time and if you would like feedback just let me know



So we are starting off small with a 30x20 lot
Download shell here

Firstly we are doing the landscaping as it was my weakest part of creating and steskens would like to learn more with it to.
Dont touch the shell exterior or inside yet we will get to that later.
Feel free to post pics once your done and if you would like some feedback just let me know happy to download and check out in game and give advice. Also would love some more experienced creators to have a go and post pictures with tips to help our less experienced builders.

Part 1: Landscaping
So requirements will be to have:
1. Terrain paint pathing leading to the front door from the street and from the front of the house around to the back off the house (you can go around either side of the house.
2. Some garden beds, up against the front of the house, side of the house and rear of the house and some in the yard itself (anywhere you like). Garden beds can include things like rocks, flowers and shrubs ect....
3. A small water feature in the front yard, made with either fountain tool or pool tool, try make it look natural by lining it with plants, flowers and rocks and I suggest to help with the natural look dont make it square. You can decorate with fountains or lilies or anything you can think of.
4. In the backyard - Outdoor seating and bbq area, so make sure you have a bbq and table and chairs
5. In the backyard - a small veggie garden

Ok remember these are all about decorating and using clutter, so do your best to try be creative and feel free to ask advice anytime.

Dont touch the exterior of the house or inside yet just concentrate on the landscaping and things above, I will do the same and will post pics.

There is no budget for these so let your imagination go wild, the goal is to decorate.
Tips:
Make sure to double check that nothing is sticking into other things, hold down the Control key on your keyboard to move items away slightly to a better position to prevent this.
Also using the bb.moveobjects cheat will help with this
Landscaping does not have to be perfect, sometimes being messy with flowers and such can give a more natural and real look.

Feel free anyone to add more helpful tips on this subject

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Part 2: House Exterior and Roofing
Download shell here or continue on with the your shell from part 1

Ok so now we can work on the roofing and the exterior of the house
1. For the roofing itself I would like everyone to use at least 3 pieces of roofing but you can use as many as you like.
2. Use some kind of roofing trim
2. Exterior of house use at least 2 different wall coverings (this helps to break up the look and give it more texture)
3. Use some wall decorations or planter pots on windows
4. Use more than 1 type of window

Tips:
Dont be afraid to use items to decorate your roofing to suit your theme, using debug items on shops like an oversized coffee cup for a coffee shop. Also make sure to remember to use a chimney of some sort if you have placed a fireplace on your lot.
Another style to give more life to your roofing is to build a roof top garden or put a swimming pool on your roof.

Anyone that is wanting some in depth feedback please ask or message me and I am happy to download your lot and discuss it with you.
Also again for those more experienced builders please have a go, show pics and share your tips.

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Part 3: Interior design
Download shell here or continue on with the shell from parts 1 & 2.

Ok so time to give that house some inside life, so this is all about decorating for now so please don't add any walls try and use what is in the shell.
One thing we all need in our life is a bit of clutter hehe.
My first tip for any interior is Decorate! Decorate! Decorate!

So you need to decide on your style/theme you are going for and try keeping within that style/theme through out the house so that it flows nicely.
Also you need to decide who you are building for, is a family going to live here with kids? Is it for a bachelor or bachelorette? Maybe a young married couple? What about housemates?

So with your post please include what style/theme you went with and also who you decorated it for (how many sims and what ages/sexes are they?)

So the requirements for this part of the challenge is:
1. 2 bedrooms (state who they are for)
2. shared bathroom
3. kitchen
4. dining area
5. living room
6. study nook

Make sure you concentrate on these areas:

What we want to see in this challenge is the use of clutter to give this house some personality and a lived in feel to it. bb.showhiddenobjects and debug items are your friends.
Fill bare areas

Required items
1. Clutter
2. at least 2 different floor coverings in the open living/kitchen area
3. at least 2 different wall coverings used in the open living/kitchen area
4. wall decoration of any kind
5. some pot plants/flowers used

Make sure the house has all the necessities needed to live day to day.

TIPS:
Get creative, try create out of the box decoration that gives your house personality and different from a normal plain house with the basics.
One thing we find is when using standing plant pots that most of them if placed on the tile the game places it next to a wall more often than not it will be sticking through the wall so hold the CTRL button down on your keyboard and move the item slightly away.
Cheat bb.moveobjects aka moo is great tool for decorating and placing items on shelves, or making things look more creative.
Always PLAY TEST everything, especially if you are using Moo make sure everything that can be used is able to be used.
When you think you are finished go back and decorate some more lol.

When your finished zoom your camera out and look for bare areas that could be filled, this also means bare walls.
You dont have to over decorate but you don't want big empty gaps
Try not to rush as that usually leads to finding placement and play issues.

Your House should now be complete, make sure you sim test finished houses as decorating and moving things around can sometimes affect other items and make them unusable.
There is nothing more annoying that downloading a beautiful house from the gallery to find that hardly anything can be used.

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We will be working on a 30x20 lot again but we will attempt a few different things.
Download shell here Shell has been supplied by the lovely @crysk

Firstly we are doing the landscaping.
Dont touch the shell exterior or inside yet we will get to that later.
Feel free to post pics once your done and if you would like some feedback just let me know happy to download and check out in game and give advice. Also would love some more experienced creators to have a go and post pictures with tips to help our less experienced builders.

Part 1: Landscaping
So requirements will be to have:
1. A pool (not square) with some kind of feature decoration, such as you could leave sections of land in the centre and make a centre piece decoration with plants or fountains. Or decorate the pool to look more natural like the natural pond from challenge 1. Or decorate the back side of the pool with statues, flowers or fountains.
2. We would like to see at least 3 different terrain paints used in the landscaping, can be used for pathing or creative paint used to make the flower beds and gardens more natural.
3. Add another area for sims to use, it is up to you what it is. It can be a bbq area, a kids play area, a veggie garden, a activities area with such things like chess and easel or anything you can think up just be creative and try think up something that sets your practice build apart from the others
Ok remember these are all about decorating and using clutter, so do your best to try be creative and feel free to ask advice anytime.

Dont touch the exterior (incl patio) of the house or inside yet just concentrate on the landscaping and things above, I will do the same and will post pics.

There is no budget for these so let your imagination go wild, the goal is to decorate.
Tips:
Make sure to double check that nothing is sticking into other things, hold down the Control key on your keyboard to move items away slightly to a better position to prevent this.
Also using the bb.moveobjects cheat will help with this
Landscaping does not have to be perfect, sometimes being messy with flowers and such can give a more natural and real look.

Feel free anyone to add more helpful tips on this subject

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Part 2: House Exterior, Patio and Roofing
Requirements are
1. Lattice style roofing on the patio (Lattice roofing tutorial here)
It doesn't have to be completely open we would like to see some different styles of lattice roofing as long as some of it is open.
2. At least 2 pieces of roofing
3. At least 2 different wall coverings on exterior
4. Rooftop patio usable by sims (this can either be on the 2nd floor or top roof).
5. At least 2 types of windows

So the main focus of this challenge is to learn the lattice roofing and a decorative rooftop patio. Feel free to ask any questions or for help along the way

Please attach this form when posting your challenge
Origin ID:
Challenge/Part no:
Lot name that you built on:
Would you like feedback:
Gallery Link:

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Part 3: Interior design
From time to time in challenges I see people create rooms that are just to big and they end up having trouble decorating them which leaves them looking bare, so we would like to see you create your rooms within the shell and decorate it without anything looking bare. You may decide on the type of rooms and number of bedrooms/bathrooms.
Also we are going to try some different types of decorating.
Requirements are:
1. In the kitchen we would like to see a creative counter island, decorate it so it doesn't look like a plain round island. We are looking for out of the box designs that are still functional.
2. Create your own shelving and use bb.moveobjects to put items onto the shelving. We would like to see this in the kitchen and any of the other rooms.

Tip: To do this press SHIFT, CTRL and C on your keyboard then type bb.moveobjects. Press SHIFT, CTRL and C to close box again. Place your shelving, then select the clutter item you would like to place on the shelving. Press the 9 button to raise the item from the floor to the level of your shelf, once you have the level hold down the ALT button on your keyboard and move the mouse til the item is in the spot on the shelf you would like it then press the left mouse button to place. Make sure the items are NOT sticking into other items.

3. Create some feature walls, this can be done in several ways. You can create your own bedheads decoration at the top of a bed. Decorate a feature wall in the living room around a fireplace or behind a television.

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You be the judge!
One thing us judges all agree on is since we started judging we see things differently now when looking at builds. We are always looking for placement issues, or items that don't work because of placement.
This challenge is to try test your eyes for when you test your builds.

@pebblycat built a house but I don't think its up to the quality control standard, I keep telling her there is lots of mistakes and errors but she doesn't believe me. So I need your help, there are 20 faults with this house and we would like you to find as many as you can, hopefully all.
They range from all different types of mistakes like unusable items, to placement issues, missing things, bareness and so on.
Some are more obvious than others, can you find all the mistakes and judge pebblys house?

We have some signature banners for people who give this a go which will have the following gold stars on them.
if you find
1 gold star: 3 - 6 errors
2 gold stars: 7 - 10 errors
3 gold stars: 11 - 14 errors
4 gold stars: 15 - 18 errors
5 gold stars: 19 - 20 errors

Now the house that pebbly built is base game items only so that anyone can do this challenge whether you have any of the packs or not.

Instructions:
The lot that you will place the house on is the Daisy Hovel (30x20) in Willow Creek.
Before placing the lot press SHIFT, CTRL and C button at the same time to open the chat box on top
Type bb.moveobjects.
Also if you need more money to buy it type in the chat box the cheat: testingcheats on (enter)
Then type money 90000 (or the amount you need) hit enter.
Press SHIFT, CTRL and C button at the same time to close chat box.
Download @pebblycat's house here: QC Practice Challenge 3

Make sure you have a sim on the lot to sim test.
Find the 20 mistakes/errors but do NOT post them here as that will spoil it and make it easy for others.
Once you have found as many as you can you are to private message @pebblycat with your list to get your score and get the full list.

We will award your siggie on the thread.

I warn you though pebbly is a tough judge and shes done an impeccable job and creating this issues with her house, even myself and @lisa17ann didn't find them all hehe.

PLEASE READ: Again do NOT post your list on the thread as it will spoil it for others please message @Pebblycat privately

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For this challenge I would like you to create your shell. Also this challenge will involve building on stilts and to work with different shapes.
We will be changing the order in the way we build this time.

To be built on 30x20 lot

Part 1: Shell and raised foundation
This challenge we are going to build on stilts, so the house itself will be built off the ground. Also I want everyone to experiment with shapes, the shell itself for the house can NOT be square. Lets create something different as I notice some people always do the same shape or always do square houses. So push yourself out of your comfort zone.

1. Create your elevated base for your house on stilts, use the patio tool to build it and create its shape, add your stairs. (Stilts should be 1x1 square wall pieces or 2x1 at most to leave plenty of room on the ground floor for decorating). Don't worry about doing fencing types or trims yet we will do that in part 2.
2. Build the shell of your house on the patio area, make sure its not plain square, we would like to see experimenting with shapes. At least 2 floors but you can go higher if you like. (I have challenged myself with 3 floors)

No decorating yet just leave your entry as the patio landing, plain fencing, stairs and your plain shell.
Once you are done if your wanting feedback please upload and post with your entry form.

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Part 2: House Exterior, Patio and Roofing

So let's up the difficulty a bit, this challenge is about pushing your limits. Try create something you haven't created before. Think up a creative theme and let us know what it is with your entry and photos. Experiment and decorate I would rather see you over decorate than have things looking bare.
Remember to be careful with placement you don't want things looking unnatural by sticking into other things

1. Creative theme and style (think outside the box rather than a normal looking house)
2. Use at least 10 pieces of roofing to create new shapes
3. Use roof and exterior trims
4. On the exterior of the house use some decoration that is not windows or lights
5. At least 2 types of windows
6. Add a balcony/patio on 2nd or third floor of house
7. Patio activities, give your sims something to do out on the balconies where they can enjoy the views.
8. Night view well lit

You may also adjust the shape and size of your stilts to match your exterior they don't have to be square as long as they don't take up to much space on the ground floor.

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Part 3: Interior design

So this challenge so far has been all about experimenting, so that's what we are going to do hehe
I would like you do experiment with some items for decoration purposes, to use two different items together to create something new. Now there is a fine line between looking like something new and decorative and looking like one item sticking into another item. The reason I say for decorative purposes is if you do this with usable items you run the risk of making them unusable and we don't want that.
1. Create some decorative pieces using more than one item together
2. At least 1 bathroom
3. At least 1 bedroom
4. Kitchen and dining (together or separated up to you)
5. Living room
6. At least one activity room of your choice (can be any type of activity as long as its a room sims can do something in)

Tips: Try to keep your overall theme of your interior the same so that it flows but you can use different wall coverings and flooring to break up solid colors. Also remember to check each room when finished for any bare areas that could be filled.
Lastly test and check everything works and that nothing is sticking into something else (thats not meant to be :) )

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Part 4: Landscaping

Detail and decoration
In this challenge we are going to really get picky with detail and decoration. Really push yourselves to dress up the ground floor of your build.
1. Pathing running around the ground floor (preferably terrain paint)
2. A center piece feature on your garden, this can be a custom fountain with decoration or a garden center piece with a statue. We would love to see detail and creativity using several items to create your center piece feature.
3. Garden lighting, impress with that night view especially since the garden is under the build it will need to be lightened up.
4. Plenty of flowers, plants, rocks or decoration. We want to see detail and effort to dress up this garden to suit the theme of your build.

Tips: Think unique, what will make your build different from the rest? Make it eye catching always zoom out and think does this look appealing.
One thing I always do is make sure the gallery picture looks appealing, though make sure your decorate all of your build not just the front view. If you are wanting downloads remember first impressions count so having beautiful unique landscaping, exterior and great gallery picture really help.

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ROOFING CHALLENGE
A lot of people I know hate roofing, me included. It was always my weakest point but I pushed myself to do as much of it as I can to get more comfortable with it, even though I am still not an expert it did help me improve a lot.

So for this challenge you are to download the shells below:
Download --> QC Practice Ch 5

To be placed on a 30x20 lot

There is four small shells that we are just going to use to create some creative and interesting rooves. Each one is a different shape and I would like to see 4 different types of roofing.

1. Use a minimum of 3 pieces of roofing on each shell
2. Use roof trim

A tip I have learnt with rooves is the more pieces you use the more creative and detail it looks.
Push yourself out of your comfort zone and try create some roofing you have never attempted before.
I have posted my examples on the thread without using decoration but you are welcome to use some on yours.

Lets see how creative you can be with roofing
If you say yes to feedback on your form please make sure you include a gallery link so I can download and look at them in game.

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