Takissis Shell Challenge - October Challenge
October Shell Challenge Entries due by October 31, 2020. There is a theme for this month. This month I would like to see this simple home turned into either a fall scene or a spooky home. I loo...
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@Takissis Thanks for your in depth review :) You are totally fine offering feedback. You have great detail and I want to hear opinions. Everybody can improve somewhere.
I had a LOT of fun building this one! The name Toreador was intentional as well as the fact that I added all of the creative skill items because that clan is the more artistic one. I hadn't done a vampire build in forever, and I think Caleb really likes his new house. He was in the premade Maxis house before I moved him.
You actually did a masterful job on the roofs in the shell and I almost didn't change them other than to change the slope. I finally did because when I changed the slope it completely messed up the blending. The eaves were a problem. When I pulled them out on the right side, I couldn't get the small roof and large roof slopes to blend no matter what I did. I wish we could adjust that more finely... or if we can, I wish I knew how.
I really debated whether to add a kitchen and bar, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. There is a plasma fruit salad recipe that people with high enough vampire skill can make. His plasma fruit tree is outside for him to harvest. Also, when he marries his lady love and they have kids, they will need to eat food from the kitchen until they turn to teens and acquire their vampire appetite. The bar was for potions, like sunlight resistance which was the reason for the wolfsbane and garlic. Caleb wasn't entirely pleased when I told him to water the garlic plant and complained about it for about a half hour. Its worth it in the long run for the potions though so he went along with it.
I like the suggestion about terrain painting around the building, which I don't always do! I checked for clipping but I guess I missed the rose bushes :( Clipping really irritates me so that is high on my list of things to look for. On the fishbowl, I guess that is a bad one to use, because I added fish and if they don't show on download its broken. I wanted to add the dining out fish tank, but that would have broken my use of only one pack. Fish are very important for plasma (especially for Caleb) so that's why it is there. When I redid the house for his needs in my game after uploading, I added the big one and changed the living room to fit it.
The wood colors is the bane of my sims building existence :( I originally had the light wood in at the desk in the master bedroom but the blue was all wrong so my choice was the wrong shade of blue or the wrong shade of wood. *sigh* So, I went for the darker wood because of the gray inlay. I had a different desk in there for a while with no inlay but it didn't seem to fit the old world theme. I hate wood colors.... hate hate hate. (ok rant over)
It is a llama dragon!!! I was almost gleeful to put it in there. It is probably the coolest llama thing in the game which I almost never use!
I had a LOT of fun building this one! The name Toreador was intentional as well as the fact that I added all of the creative skill items because that clan is the more artistic one. I hadn't done a vampire build in forever, and I think Caleb really likes his new house. He was in the premade Maxis house before I moved him.
You actually did a masterful job on the roofs in the shell and I almost didn't change them other than to change the slope. I finally did because when I changed the slope it completely messed up the blending. The eaves were a problem. When I pulled them out on the right side, I couldn't get the small roof and large roof slopes to blend no matter what I did. I wish we could adjust that more finely... or if we can, I wish I knew how.
I really debated whether to add a kitchen and bar, but the more I thought about it the more it made sense. There is a plasma fruit salad recipe that people with high enough vampire skill can make. His plasma fruit tree is outside for him to harvest. Also, when he marries his lady love and they have kids, they will need to eat food from the kitchen until they turn to teens and acquire their vampire appetite. The bar was for potions, like sunlight resistance which was the reason for the wolfsbane and garlic. Caleb wasn't entirely pleased when I told him to water the garlic plant and complained about it for about a half hour. Its worth it in the long run for the potions though so he went along with it.
I like the suggestion about terrain painting around the building, which I don't always do! I checked for clipping but I guess I missed the rose bushes :( Clipping really irritates me so that is high on my list of things to look for. On the fishbowl, I guess that is a bad one to use, because I added fish and if they don't show on download its broken. I wanted to add the dining out fish tank, but that would have broken my use of only one pack. Fish are very important for plasma (especially for Caleb) so that's why it is there. When I redid the house for his needs in my game after uploading, I added the big one and changed the living room to fit it.
The wood colors is the bane of my sims building existence :( I originally had the light wood in at the desk in the master bedroom but the blue was all wrong so my choice was the wrong shade of blue or the wrong shade of wood. *sigh* So, I went for the darker wood because of the gray inlay. I had a different desk in there for a while with no inlay but it didn't seem to fit the old world theme. I hate wood colors.... hate hate hate. (ok rant over)
It is a llama dragon!!! I was almost gleeful to put it in there. It is probably the coolest llama thing in the game which I almost never use!
