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LiELF
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago

Omg building is hard! Lol

So, I'm not much of a builder. But I decided to give it a go in the spirit of the Tiny Living contest. (Really not expecting to win or anything, just for fun. I'm way too amateur, lol.) I figured I'd make it a little easier by limiting myself to base game items and making it a starter build with no cheats, no MOO, just simplicity.

Well. First off, it would seem that there are some categories in build mode that won't let you select "base game", so I had to ignore everything with an icon in the corner and try to work around it. In the end, I wound up with four different pack items in there somewhere that I couldn't find, so I deactivated those packs in Origin, tweaked the build, and uploaded it. Turns out, the price of the lot was off too, once you place it down, so it just went over the starter price. Gaa!

I was going to leave it be, but it bothered me, because I had written in the description that it was a starter. So I decided to tweak it further. I figured that while I was in there, I'd make it a 100 tile lot, like the challenge in the pack. So I deleted the porches and made a couple little finishing touches, tested the build, it stayed within starter price, so I uploaded it. Now it's showing that I used something from Outdoor Retreat! I'm about to send a Sim to set this place on fire, lol.

You'd think that I'd just give up by now. But it's going to bother me. So off I go to try to pick out that OR item and send it to the Abyss. I feel bad for the Gurus for being spammed by the hashtag and downloading all of the lots to look at. They're going to be like, "this one again?? *eye roll*. If anyone sees @SimGuruNinja , send him my apologies, lol.

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  • @LiELF I've been modifying an apartment in San Myshuno. Maybe I'll build it to be usable by any Sims and upload it today before I get too crazy with it. I've been customizing it for that "Unflirty" chef guy and his elder mother. First time I've played a sim with "unflirty" trait who not only has trouble with finding romance, but the aspiration is big family. Now THAT is a challenge! So I've had him taking photos of other sims when flirty (close friends of course) and rebuilding the apartment to be romantic and comfortable (if he ever finds a woman and has kids.) Heh!
    And to boot, his mother is always nagging him to find a wife, LMAO!
  • Well that's a shame! Can't save apartment lots to library. Well, here's some screenshots then:
    https://i.imgur.com/dtzOfeC.png

    Spoiler

    https://i.imgur.com/inKhGaa.png
    https://i.imgur.com/uGhWbEK.png
    https://i.imgur.com/H8Ra1Oq.png


    I kept open areas in the bedroom, living-room, and kitchen. In anticipation of eventually needing space for toddler and kid stuff. ;)
  • > @Admiral8Q said:
    > Well that's a shame! Can't save apartment lots to library. Well, here's some screenshots then:

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    > I kept open areas in the bedroom, living-room, and kitchen. In anticipation of eventually needing space for toddler and kid stuff. ;)

    @Admiral8Q If I'm not mistaken (and I discovered this last night), I think you can save apartments such as the one you renovated as rooms, where as penthouses are saved as lots. Discovered this last night when I decided to redo the apartment next to Diego Lobo and tried finding something to download from the gallery.

  • "WHW_Simmer;c-17378440" wrote:

    @Admiral8Q If I'm not mistaken (and I discovered this last night), I think you can save apartments such as the one you renovated as rooms, where as penthouses are saved as lots. Discovered this last night when I decided to redo the apartment next to Diego Lobo and tried finding something to download from the gallery.


    Good idea. I smashed out three walls to turn it all into one room. (Circled in yellow) That can be built back in easily. :)
    Saved it as "Living Room".
    I tested it. The room can be plopped down perfectly.

    https://i.imgur.com/Dw2LA4A.png

    On the gallery under rooms as "20 Culpepper House 8Q"
  • > @Admiral8Q said:
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    > Good idea. I smashed out three walls to turn it all into one room. (Circled in yellow) That can be built back in easily. :)
    > Saved it as "Living Room".
    > I tested it. The room can be plopped down perfectly.
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    > (Image)
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    > On the gallery under rooms as "20 Culpepper House 8Q"

    I'm going to be on the lookout for that apartment either this evening or tomorrow after I get off work. Looks great!

    This is the kind of apartment I've been looking for when trying to place one of the WWE sims I downloaded off the gallery. Given the duo nature of the layout, I think it would be perfect for the Sasha Banks and Bayley duo I downloaded off the gallery. Again, great job!

  • "cutefrutypie;c-17381518" wrote:
    I know! Well, I like to build but, the part that I hate doing is babies' room, lol. I simply dont like t build them. And I cant do gardens.

    They are so hard, everything looks weird when i do it


    By 'babies rooms' do you mean toddlers rooms? That was a challenge for me.
  • LiELF's avatar
    LiELF
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    "JACKIEJOY;c-17381439" wrote:
    Do you guys ever download an interesting lot just to deconstruct it to try and figure out how they did that? Before I really started posting here, that is what I did to learn build tricks.


    That's a very interesting approach! I might give that a try.
  • @LiELF I found an awesome place for your Eccentric Oddity house!!!

    Veressa Calhouni wanted to move out of her mom's place now that she her own toddler son. She is a snob, wants to be rich. Found a 'garbage' house in Oasis Springs. (I buldozed it. Not even worth saving to library) Had it torn down and your awesome house built there. Took her son along but ended up sending him back to her Mother's toddler paradise: Cassie Calhouni's place. He can move back when he's older.

    LiELF, I love the interior design. Exterior is nice too. I slightly modified it, extending the upstairs bedroom out one tile towards the inside with the railing. The exterior decks I extended 1 tile outward also so Veressa's exercise machine would fit. The little bedroom that is down that you put in, I love that! Reminds me of real houses. I took out the bed and put a desk and computer there.

    Otherwise, just replaced the plum fridge, toilet, shower and bed with expensive ones. Veressa is a snob and was given 200k simoleons from her mother to go on her own. Haha! She's down to 140k already and is still a teen. She needs to age up quickly to young adult soon, I think. ;)

    Bernard Lyon, Johny Zest, and Darrious Xion did a "welcome to the neighborhood".

    https://i.imgur.com/qXz0rU9.png
    https://i.imgur.com/jdqMrKV.png

    More screenshots here:

    Spoiler

    https://i.imgur.com/48cdZ9O.png
    https://i.imgur.com/hRotYlo.png
    https://i.imgur.com/QS8DU96.png
    https://i.imgur.com/TYWeNHF.png
    https://i.imgur.com/DQYpbjQ.png
    https://i.imgur.com/uf4Kuli.png
  • LiELF's avatar
    LiELF
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    "Admiral8Q;c-17384414" wrote:
    @LiELF I found an awesome place for your Eccentric Oddity house!!!

    Veressa Calhouni wanted to move out of her mom's place now that she her own toddler son. She is a snob, wants to be rich. Found a 'garbage' house in Oasis Springs. (I buldozed it. Not even worth saving to library) Had it torn down and your awesome house built there. Took her son along but ended up sending him back to her Mother's toddler paradise: Cassie Calhouni's place. He can move back when he's older.

    LiELF, I love the interior design. Exterior is nice too. I slightly modified it, extending the upstairs bedroom out one tile towards the inside with the railing. The exterior decks I extended 1 tile outward also so Veressa's exercise machine would fit. The little bedroom that is down that you put in, I love that! Reminds me of real houses. I took out the bed and put a desk and computer there.

    Otherwise, just replaced the plum fridge, toilet, shower and bed with expensive ones. Veressa is a snob and was given 200k simoleons from her mother to go on her own. Haha! She's down to 140k already and is still a teen. She needs to age up quickly to young adult soon, I think. ;)

    Bernard Lyon, Johny Zest, and Darrious Xion did a "welcome to the neighborhood".

    https://i.imgur.com/qXz0rU9.png
    https://i.imgur.com/jdqMrKV.png

    More screenshots here:

    Spoiler

    https://i.imgur.com/48cdZ9O.png
    https://i.imgur.com/hRotYlo.png
    https://i.imgur.com/QS8DU96.png
    https://i.imgur.com/TYWeNHF.png
    https://i.imgur.com/DQYpbjQ.png
    https://i.imgur.com/uf4Kuli.png


    Wow, that's so cool! To see my first residential build in someone else's game is kind of special. I'm glad you're enjoying it, your Sim seems to be a perfect fit! :smile: