How are your house building skills?
The title says it all "How are your house building skills"?
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I feel almost conceited picking this option but I've been building in the sims games ever since I was 6 years old. I have a lot of fun building, especially in TS4 as it's the best game in the series for builders. I like it so much I even considered becoming an architect for like 5 seconds aha. Almost every single lot in every single one of my worlds was made by myself, with a few homes in Willow Creek from the gallery I slapped down just to get rid of some of the unsightly premade buildings that I didn't have a reason to rebuild myself. Lately I've been working on remodeling all the CL apartments just for fun.
For family homes specifically, sometimes I'll look online for inspiration or even occasionally look up some floor plans. You can't just copy floor plans 100% though because the size of them does not translate over to the sims grid system very well. Also you have to keep in mind certain things that have to be worked around like staircase sizes, making sure sims have enough room to move around. Not having so much room that the house feels cavernous. It's a bit of a fine line to walk. I've been using grid paper to plan my builds since TS2. It works great, I recommend it! I find it easier to visualize that way, then alter it while building if need be.
But all of my public lots are made 100% without reference or inspiration. I especially like making multi-purpose lots. I just finished building my new high school for the HSY pack, and made sure it has a music room, an art room, and a centrally located auditorium so I can make some artsy after school clubs. It's a decent size, but also tried to make it as small as I could so sims don't take forever to get anywhere. Just waiting to actually get the pack so I can decorate it.
I build and decorate with move objects, but since I'm also a player I need to make sure every single lot is functional and not overly cluttered. That's really the biggest reason that I don't use the gallery all that much, because there are so many untested, overly decorated lots.
I have a few of my University lots on the gallery (under thespacemaid, an old username). It's cool to see the few I have posted receive double digit downloads since I didn't even expect anyone to see them honestly. I've always meant to post more of my builds, but I play offline most of the time so it just doesn't really happen. But I am really proud of my builds ? I put a lot of attention and care into each and every one of them.
For family homes specifically, sometimes I'll look online for inspiration or even occasionally look up some floor plans. You can't just copy floor plans 100% though because the size of them does not translate over to the sims grid system very well. Also you have to keep in mind certain things that have to be worked around like staircase sizes, making sure sims have enough room to move around. Not having so much room that the house feels cavernous. It's a bit of a fine line to walk. I've been using grid paper to plan my builds since TS2. It works great, I recommend it! I find it easier to visualize that way, then alter it while building if need be.
But all of my public lots are made 100% without reference or inspiration. I especially like making multi-purpose lots. I just finished building my new high school for the HSY pack, and made sure it has a music room, an art room, and a centrally located auditorium so I can make some artsy after school clubs. It's a decent size, but also tried to make it as small as I could so sims don't take forever to get anywhere. Just waiting to actually get the pack so I can decorate it.
I build and decorate with move objects, but since I'm also a player I need to make sure every single lot is functional and not overly cluttered. That's really the biggest reason that I don't use the gallery all that much, because there are so many untested, overly decorated lots.
I have a few of my University lots on the gallery (under thespacemaid, an old username). It's cool to see the few I have posted receive double digit downloads since I didn't even expect anyone to see them honestly. I've always meant to post more of my builds, but I play offline most of the time so it just doesn't really happen. But I am really proud of my builds ? I put a lot of attention and care into each and every one of them.
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