So I realllllly love to build, it's probably my faveourite thing about Sims, and I'm just curious! Where do everyone here get their inspiration???
I myself use google, pintrest, youtube and real life as inspirations. I don't have any specific sites I use, but I just find an image and get inspired by that. Right now I'm doing a build thats a Traditional-Modern japanese house for a collab with @MLDesign wich is turning out pretty sweet, I probably never wouldhave had the idea if not for the collab :D So I find that the challenges and collabing with people ahve given me new inspiration, and that is soooo much fun! What are your favourite inspirations for bulding??
Sometimes I just get a picture in my mind of how I want something to look like. I even did stuff like this when I was a kid, and way before I even got into playing any of the Sims games. Most of the time what I like doing is taking building either from the gallery or that are already in the game and add to them, either new designs or just updating them for the packs that are not already in them.
One of my favorite things to do is to add a sleeping quarter and adding showers to the community lots, especially those in San Myshuno. I have issues with the festivals, where if I have my sim leave before it is over, things don't completely clear up, and it gets very messy when the next festival rolls around. To make matters worse, usually, after the festival has completely cleared up, the game won't let my sim go home, because a "vampire is breaking in", so it usually means my sim can't go home until around 6 am.
Click the spoiler if you want to see some of the work I have done at a few of the community lots in my game.
Planet Honey Pop! https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/42151340_1113489602134667_8340475787572412416_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=b8ff1eae95414769a9fb876776f75968&oe=5C1B551A Added a little internet cafe, because I can't even tell you the number of times it was raining, and the geek festival going on at the game time. It won't count if your sim is trying to play the contest, but gives them a little something to do if the electronics outside are getting fried in the rain. https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/41961940_1113489535468007_8348187646165516288_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=1a62ab9e7dad83da1a46fc0447b329fb&oe=5C1E6F07
Waterside Wable Turned the second floor into a one bedroom apartment, although it is still labeled as a karaoke bar. But I did this for several reasons, the main one being what I already mentioned, and also when it is time for Father Winter to show, and he does show up. I just keep my sims around till a little after 2 am, so he doesn't show up at their homes. He does a really good job leaving when he is supposed to here. Plus not all my sims have room in their homes for a Christmas Tree and a big dining table for those Grand Meals.
I added glass roofs to locations, such as this one at the gym in San Myshuno. https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/41913906_1113490178801276_2345363803622866944_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=36a1df3274ac8bcd19aa41d3afb61d0b&oe=5C615BC5 Down in the basement of the same building. https://scontent-dfw5-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/41923648_1113489555468005_5292166639507210240_o.jpg?_nc_cat=0&oh=e667ee2df00ec4475140676dad8b8c3b&oe=5C18E3CC
"Linnsane;d-948264" wrote: So I realllllly love to build, it's probably my faveourite thing about Sims, and I'm just curious! Where do everyone here get their inspiration???
I myself use google, pintrest, youtube and real life as inspirations. I don't have any specific sites I use, but I just find an image and get inspired by that. Right now I'm doing a build thats a Traditional-Modern japanese house for a collab with @MLDesign wich is turning out pretty sweet, I probably never wouldhave had the idea if not for the collab :D So I find that the challenges and collabing with people ahve given me new inspiration, and that is soooo much fun! What are your favourite inspirations for bulding??
I pretty much only build and I get my inspiration from lots of different places. I watch youtube creators and then I go and google certain house types.
"Linnsane;d-948264" wrote: So I realllllly love to build, it's probably my faveourite thing about Sims, and I'm just curious! Where do everyone here get their inspiration???
I myself use google, pintrest, youtube and real life as inspirations. I don't have any specific sites I use, but I just find an image and get inspired by that. Right now I'm doing a build thats a Traditional-Modern japanese house for a collab with @MLDesign wich is turning out pretty sweet, I probably never wouldhave had the idea if not for the collab :D So I find that the challenges and collabing with people ahve given me new inspiration, and that is soooo much fun! What are your favourite inspirations for bulding??
My fav TV shows - currently The Arrow and The Flash
Sometimes, I'll see a house I want to build while I'm out walking, but a lot of my inspiraton comes from reading. I've never used pre-made houses or gallery houses - I'm very picky about the way I want my houses arranged, and to me, that's part of the fun of the game - designing and decorating the house.
When I first started to build houses, way back in Sims2 my inspiration was houses I'd lived in. Or ones I'd been in often enough to have memorized the floor plan.
When I first started playing TS1 back in 2003, I used to have to go to hospital 3 times a week, so to pass the time on the journey I would pay close attention to all the buildings I saw on the way; I used to wonder what that particular building would look like in my game. It's a habit I still have today if I have to travel anywhere. :smiley:
I never look for pictures of houses or stuff like that, all I build is very improvised. I get a style or an idea in mind and I go from there to wherever it takes me. I also like to build lots with specific households in mind (if they are residential lots) or if it's a community lot with a specific neighbourhood and its inhabitants or with a club I created in mind. This way everything seems more personal and it kind of flows.
I might sometimes see something someone else has done or a house or building that I love in real life and want to do something similar on occasion, (usually it looks nothing like the original) but mostly I just start building and change things until I like the way it looks and the layout. Its mostly just out of my own head... With elements of specific build styles. For instance, I really like the look of 50's modern and Art Deco so most things I build are in the spirit of one or both of those. That said, I've done a few victorian or contemporary inspired builds too.
I am a landscape designer by trade so the Sims builds are really just an extension of that. My passion is making yards beautiful using 3D modeling software and the Sims is basically that just in game form!
