Sims 4 Gallery Questions and Speculations
Hi Fellow Simmers! I have been digging through a lot of old threads from 2009 etc. and couldn't find a recently active Q&A on Sims 4, specifically pertaining to Gallery Postings. So, here's my quest...
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Maybe they have been building these lots for years and save them up then upload them? Or they never leave their desk. I know when I'm in a creative mood I might spend way too much time doing things in these games that cause my legs to go numb from never leaving my desk.
If I share things it's not something I just did, but finished and held until I created more. (Custom content etc.) If I build lots, yes, I'm a really slow builder, but I don't upload lots as soon as I finished them, either. Those who build can do this pretty fast by having several lots with the base box as a starter on each lot then just take off like a rabbit and finish them. Some builders never play test their lots. That is a big red flag to me, because unless I was just building a replica/model of something in these games, I always play tested my lots then uploaded a clean non played lot copy to the Exchanges/Gallery. If the builder isn't play testing their lots then maybe stop following them.
Someone who builds can do this much faster than an average person because they know exactly where the content they need is located even back in TS2 we could create our own 'collections' to go to that folder and get all the build mode materials without having to flip through a catalog of building stuff. It's quicker if you are building particular styles to have all that stuff in a 'collection' folder. Simple houses don't take an hour. Elaborate houses don't take weeks, unless it is something made up in the head. Most actual builders look at actual homes and blue prints, first. Or pictures of the type of lots they want to build. And they know exactly where in the game catalog those details to use are located.
Maybe they aren't borrowing other people's builds. But it's been known to happen on TS4's Gallery, often.
ETA: the more familiar you become with building the faster it goes. But if you have to sort through hundreds of Maxis content and cc then it is slower, that's why most builders have this stuff somewhere in a catalog in the game (TS2/TS3) I don't know about TS4, so they can quickly grab what they want to use for a style.
If I share things it's not something I just did, but finished and held until I created more. (Custom content etc.) If I build lots, yes, I'm a really slow builder, but I don't upload lots as soon as I finished them, either. Those who build can do this pretty fast by having several lots with the base box as a starter on each lot then just take off like a rabbit and finish them. Some builders never play test their lots. That is a big red flag to me, because unless I was just building a replica/model of something in these games, I always play tested my lots then uploaded a clean non played lot copy to the Exchanges/Gallery. If the builder isn't play testing their lots then maybe stop following them.
Someone who builds can do this much faster than an average person because they know exactly where the content they need is located even back in TS2 we could create our own 'collections' to go to that folder and get all the build mode materials without having to flip through a catalog of building stuff. It's quicker if you are building particular styles to have all that stuff in a 'collection' folder. Simple houses don't take an hour. Elaborate houses don't take weeks, unless it is something made up in the head. Most actual builders look at actual homes and blue prints, first. Or pictures of the type of lots they want to build. And they know exactly where in the game catalog those details to use are located.
Maybe they aren't borrowing other people's builds. But it's been known to happen on TS4's Gallery, often.
ETA: the more familiar you become with building the faster it goes. But if you have to sort through hundreds of Maxis content and cc then it is slower, that's why most builders have this stuff somewhere in a catalog in the game (TS2/TS3) I don't know about TS4, so they can quickly grab what they want to use for a style.
