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IllusoryThrall
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4 years ago

IllusoryThrall's 2020 Advent Manor Shell Challenge

So, I built a shell on my twitch stream and am opening it up for everyone to do. It's a base game shell, and is on a 50 by 50 lot. I used Oakenstead in Willow Creek.

Rules: No changing the floorplan or outside shell of house. (terrain and landscaping is fine) No pack or budget restrictions, and using different fences or stairs inside is ok. Floors, walls, and interior colors are your choice. Changing Room platform heights is okay, but changing room heights is not (it'll mess up the roof). Using a different style fireplace is also fine, but keep a fireplace at the locations where I placed one. Leave all doors and windows. Lighting is placed just to let you see what you're doing, feel free to add or delete any lights. I will allow swapping out a window for a door in the back of the house if you choose to add a veranda or patio out back. No CC, but use of mods and cheats (TOOL mod, red shelf, move objects, debug, that sort of thing) to build is okay.

How to play:
1. Search out the hashtag of #2020AdventManor on the gallery, or under my gallery ID Wyldhawke.
2. Turn on the move objects cheat (bb.moveobjects on)
3. Download the 2020 Advent Manor Shell and place on a lot in any world you want.
4. Starting Dec 1, furnish one room per day until Dec 25. (There are 25 rooms not including the kitchen pantry.)
5. After December 25th, finish your build off with terrain paints and landscaping.
6. Upload your build to the Gallery with the hashtag of #2020AdventManor by December 31st. (Absolutely last moment to upload is January 1st at 4PM EST.)
7. I will tour builds on Friday Jan 1 starting at 4 pm EST on my twitch channel (IllusoryThrall). I will also post some highlight photos to my blog (http://illusorythrall.wordpress.com/) for those who are not into watching twitch streams.

I'm not 100% sure it needs move objects to place, but some of the pillars might disappear without it. Feel free to ask me any questions you have, this is the first shell I've done, so I'm just playing this by ear. If I have enough entries, I'll continue tours at the same time on Saturday, but I'm not expecting it to be a problem.

https://illusorythrall.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/advent.jpg

Some tips: I designed it to have a butler suite in the front right of the build, just behind the drive through "carport". The small room upstairs was for a linen closet, and there was also room for a sauna and a fitness room upstairs. The left area of the upstairs was for a master bedroom and bathroom. The sunken area by the room I meant for a kitchen is a "keeping room" (a living-room type area where you can gather socially to keep the cook company, apparently), and both the "great room" and the "foyer" are both open to the second floor. Obviously, all room choices are up to your discretion, there's no need to use the room for what it was designed for!

Above anything else, have fun with this build!


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    IllusoryThrall
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    @icanhassims If you miss a day, you can always catch up the next day. As long as it's turned in on or before Dec. 31, it'll be just fine. I plan on doing the shell, as well, and I'll show my build on stream, too. I had this idea when I couldn't sleep last night and I thought it sounded like a really fun concept. Glad to see you participating! I look forward to seeing your take on it!
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    IllusoryThrall
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    @icanhassims I toured your build today on my twitch stream, and I LOVE it! I waited to look at it until I was on stream, so it was a complete surprise, and wow.. you did a fabulous job! The colors and layout you chose are amazing, it's so different from mine! It's a lovely modern, luxurious mansion any family would be lucky to live in.

    Oh, and on that note, I did post my finished build to the gallery today as well, I barely got it done in time! Next day I have time, I'll post some pictures of it to my blog and here for any interested parties.

    This was not an easy challenge, so anyone who didn't get their builds in on time for today's stream can still post their builds, and I will try to tour them in a future stream, and I will definitely reply to anything posted here!
  • This is such a great idea!! I have no idea if I'll be able to stick to the schedule, but I'm sure I'll have fun with this shell. :)
  • I can't believe I did it! My website has a bunch more photos: https://icanhassims.weebly.com/2020-advent-manor.html

    but here are the basics:
    https://icanhassims.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/7/5/16754788/12-24-20-3-03-51-pm_orig.png
    https://icanhassims.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/7/5/16754788/12-24-20-3-04-06-pm_orig.png
    https://icanhassims.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/7/5/16754788/12-24-20-3-04-32-pm.png
    https://icanhassims.weebly.com/uploads/1/6/7/5/16754788/12-24-20-3-04-26-pm.png

    Thanks for such a fun project, @IllusoryThrall! :)
  • Thank you @IllusoryThrall! It was a really great shell to work with and I had lots of fun decorating it. Thank you for another fantastic challenge. :)