SIms 4 Country Kitchen Kit

"Loanet;c-17819601" wrote:
For a Kitchen pack, there isn't much in it. There's the cabinet sets and a few clutter items, and they are cute, but are they worth half the price of a Stuff Pack?

There's just 15 items in it - all of them skins and non-functional clutter that the most noobish of skinners could create - whereas in a full Stuff Pack there's on average 60 items, sometimes as much as 70 - clothes, hair, lots of items, and something adding to gameplay. So that's a quarter of the size. They should be at most $2.50.

We don't even know what their other swatches will be. They might only have two or three, which is definitely not much effort for what is meant to be official work.

You can't seriously call wallpaper and floor tiles 'work', can you?

Kitchens are one of the hardest and and most tedious things to make for the sims. Because of how they chose to do them, by including every mesh shape variant into one mesh.

One standard kitchen counter is made up 10 unique meshes (even tho it only looks like one item, because all of the other meshes are "inside" of the main counter shape.

Then the texturing! ..... Nightmare! ....... all of the objects use the same textures .... there is one for the counter base and one for the countertop. And those meshes have to be unwrapped in a way that the common areas can share a texture space seemlessly so that there is no weird shadows or texture issues when you change the mesh from the main cabinet to a corner or whatever.

I can assure a lot of work goes into making cabinets and counters!


Counter = 10 Unique Meshes
Counter Island = 7 Unique Meshes
Upper Cabinets = 14 Unique Meshes - this object has a High LOD (Level of Detail) and a Medium LOD so it has more meshes

For every mesh you see, there is also a "Shadow Mesh" which is what makes the shape of the shadow on the wall, but that just uses the same meshes and some settings are changed for it.


To give you an idea of exactly how many meshes make up the average kitchen, I've attached some pics ... this is The Harbinger set