"Armilus616;c-16219307" wrote:
Those mods are, as far as I can tell, just texture replacers. The only way to make seasons cycle with such mods is to keep installing and uninstalling them. In a proper Sims pack, Snow should be more than a white texture that replaces the grass textures and some rock and tree texture parts.
If they made it like that, they would have to have multiple texture sets and a script that changes the textures depending on certain conditions.
Having Snow pile like in TS 3 would be better, but that is even more complicated when it comes to code.
And for all of that, the neighbourhood must be compatible. And changing them to be compatible could potentially lead to corrupted saves.
I don't know how much they can change the existing worlds without breaking savegames. Modders can replace and edit textures no problem. even replacement meshes are possible. But buildable apartments in oasis springs is clearly something they cannot do for technical reasons.
Thanks to the vampires game pack, modders are able to change the day and night cycle in neighbourhoods, making it eternal night everywhere, and all that, safely. So there is hope. Making Days longer and shorter might be doable.
They won't be able to make the pack as big as in Sims 3, but I hope they find a way to put in what is necessary and to make it good.
What I could see them doing is first Seasons EP where they add all seasons, weather and basic weather and seasons related gameplay. Just the must-have stuff (Like freezing in winter, snow, falling leaves, interactions with snow and leaves... you get it), some outfits and some objects, and then later a vacation GP that adds a snowy mountain destination world that adds more interactions to snow and ice and all the other stuff. People who do not have seasons would not have snow outside that destination world, but would still have it there, and for those who own seasons, most of the new Gameplay would be unlocked in all the normal worlds during winter.
This way, they could bring us the best of both worlds.
Yeah like I said the weather doesn't rotate but I've just both in my saves and it hasn't corrupted them. I love seeing snow accumulate and Sims 3 did do it really well. I think it is doable too.
Yeah I have a feeling that will be it. For me I wouldn't want a vacations destination to just be a snowy area or any one single weather area. I'm hoping that if seasons pack comes, I can make Outdoor Retreat my fall and winter vacation destination because man the snow mod really looks nice there. I kind of hope we get like an Australian world destination where there is an outback, forests, and ocean areas in the neighborhood. It would be something different. Then again it could also be like the big island Hawaii which offers a snow area, a jungle area, a dry area, and beach areas. You can see snow in the middle of it with this map. It is beautiful there:
https://www.lonelyplanet.com/maps/north-america/usa/hawaii/hawaii---the-big-island/map_of_hawaii---the-big-island.jpg
