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Karababy52
5 years agoLegend
@permanentrose The debug items are SO useful in decorating/landscaping, especially for financially challenged Sims, such as when playing a Rags to Riches challenge. There's no need for them to live on a bare lot out in the open anymore. I once built an almost fully functional house for my Sim using nothing but free debug items. The 'walls' were debug fencing. Sadly, I didn't take a screenshot of it. :(
Anyway, just like you, I love using the debug pond to decorate my Sims backyards. Just add things around it, or even in it, and it can look very pretty. This is from a build I did for BuildnShare a long time ago.
As mentioned above, I love playing with Rags to Riches Sims and it can be especially rough for them starting out in Winter. One trick I learned to do to get them some shelter when they don't have a lot or any simoleans is to use a roof piece as a temporary 'house.'
My Sims love to display their family photos in fun arrangements using the alt key and/or MOO as well. But there's also something else they can do for cheap/free beautiful art for their walls if they can't afford to buy paintings or even if they can but consider themselves photographers. Have them go out into the worlds and snap some landscape shots, interesting Sims, plants, or any other theme you can think of for them to photograph. Play around with the filters too. I learned about doing this from a photography challenge and now do it all the time. Here's some examples from my Sim I used for the challenge displayed in her photography studio and her house:
One thing TS2 had that I wish we had for TS4 was the ability to have outdoor lights snap to fence posts. We have a fence with lights on the posts given in a free base game update, but I don't want to always use the same fence just to have the lights. So I use MOO quite often to place lights on fence posts. Two examples:
This is a tip/trick that maybe others already know about, but if you push the large wall of plants object from the EL pack a little bit into the wall, it looks like the different planters are 'on' the wall instead of connected to a separate piece. You'll need to have the MOO cheat on to do it.
This is another thing I learned just recently by reading about it on a thread here. It's a HUGE game changer for me since I love to have gardens in the game. With the new platform tool, you can now have trees in planters inside a greenhouse without the need to use the tallest wall. Just lower the room 2-3 times and voila!
I have many other standard things I like to do and have learned over the years when building, such as I always use MOO to put the cookbooks or other objects on top of the refrigerator, I like to create unique vanities in my Sims' bathrooms and I love using the wall stickers to create 'scenes' when decorating in children's bedrooms.
For instance using one of the height wall chart stickers with bunnies on it, I put the two bunnies sitting next to each other sticker on top of it and above that and a little to the side, I put the leaping bunnies sticker to make it look like they were jumping on top of the in-wall closet next to the chart.
Lastly, it's also fun to create 'shadow boxes' of outdoor scenes inside too. For instance I did an Autumn Forest Scene on a raised platform for my most recent witch in her basement bedroom and added her cauldron to it.
Okay, this is getting long, so I'll stop now. I hope this is the kind of things you were looking for examples. Thanks for posting the thread and...
Happy Simming! <3
Anyway, just like you, I love using the debug pond to decorate my Sims backyards. Just add things around it, or even in it, and it can look very pretty. This is from a build I did for BuildnShare a long time ago.
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/b8y4Q7L.png
As mentioned above, I love playing with Rags to Riches Sims and it can be especially rough for them starting out in Winter. One trick I learned to do to get them some shelter when they don't have a lot or any simoleans is to use a roof piece as a temporary 'house.'
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/PsD0vB0.png
Here's what it looked like on the inside after this Sim had a few simoleans to buy a few things. The 'floor' is terrain paint.
https://i.imgur.com/BStXKvc.png
Here's what it looked like on the inside after this Sim had a few simoleans to buy a few things. The 'floor' is terrain paint.
https://i.imgur.com/BStXKvc.png
My Sims love to display their family photos in fun arrangements using the alt key and/or MOO as well. But there's also something else they can do for cheap/free beautiful art for their walls if they can't afford to buy paintings or even if they can but consider themselves photographers. Have them go out into the worlds and snap some landscape shots, interesting Sims, plants, or any other theme you can think of for them to photograph. Play around with the filters too. I learned about doing this from a photography challenge and now do it all the time. Here's some examples from my Sim I used for the challenge displayed in her photography studio and her house:
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/WszZMVy.png
https://i.imgur.com/qYnu6Ex.png
https://i.imgur.com/LxtDOFA.png
https://i.imgur.com/3v3qNTk.png
https://i.imgur.com/UIgLwda.png
https://i.imgur.com/qYnu6Ex.png
https://i.imgur.com/LxtDOFA.png
https://i.imgur.com/3v3qNTk.png
https://i.imgur.com/UIgLwda.png
One thing TS2 had that I wish we had for TS4 was the ability to have outdoor lights snap to fence posts. We have a fence with lights on the posts given in a free base game update, but I don't want to always use the same fence just to have the lights. So I use MOO quite often to place lights on fence posts. Two examples:
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/2yA3qbY.png
https://i.imgur.com/TZM47n0.png
https://i.imgur.com/TZM47n0.png
This is a tip/trick that maybe others already know about, but if you push the large wall of plants object from the EL pack a little bit into the wall, it looks like the different planters are 'on' the wall instead of connected to a separate piece. You'll need to have the MOO cheat on to do it.
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/idVouNt.png
This is another thing I learned just recently by reading about it on a thread here. It's a HUGE game changer for me since I love to have gardens in the game. With the new platform tool, you can now have trees in planters inside a greenhouse without the need to use the tallest wall. Just lower the room 2-3 times and voila!
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/3szv2GJ.png
I have many other standard things I like to do and have learned over the years when building, such as I always use MOO to put the cookbooks or other objects on top of the refrigerator, I like to create unique vanities in my Sims' bathrooms and I love using the wall stickers to create 'scenes' when decorating in children's bedrooms.
For instance using one of the height wall chart stickers with bunnies on it, I put the two bunnies sitting next to each other sticker on top of it and above that and a little to the side, I put the leaping bunnies sticker to make it look like they were jumping on top of the in-wall closet next to the chart.
Lastly, it's also fun to create 'shadow boxes' of outdoor scenes inside too. For instance I did an Autumn Forest Scene on a raised platform for my most recent witch in her basement bedroom and added her cauldron to it.
Spoiler
https://i.imgur.com/fiDSP5c.png
Okay, this is getting long, so I'll stop now. I hope this is the kind of things you were looking for examples. Thanks for posting the thread and...
Happy Simming! <3
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