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Heya to you all!
After i´ve showed some pictures of my current project I had the big luck to get permission from the site staff to start something like a region portrait with this town, and I am very thankful for this. Some of you may know me as someone, who loves framework,  some may have seen the few pictures of finished scenes I ever had created in SC4. Sadly I lost all of my interest in it, and one of the reasons was another game.

And so I will start with an exerpt: "and now for something completely different..."

I am part of the SimForum staff, and we not only have a section for SimCity4, we also have two much bigger parts, where people meet, who play Sims games. Nothing to wonder, as all these games come from one home, EA.
So it was only a question of time, when - not that - I started playing Sims 2. For this game I could use SC4 to build a layout (with only 90 degree ankles on streets sadly), where I could place lots and build houses on it. Two villages grew this way.
Some time later I bought my first Sims 3 game, I was interested in the new abilities, the new graphics, the curved streets. First it was nice, it looked very good but it was and is buggy. Until today you need mods to play successful, mods alone to clean up your savegames. So it had to leave my harddrive soon again.
Last year, after the last addon and also a last patch came out, I started again, now with the first addons. I downloaded actualized mods for the game, and I started to play around with some of the modding tools for it, mostly to organize my mods/downloads folder.
And one of these tools is provided by EA itself, the CreateAWorldTool. As long as you own a sims game, you are allowed to download and to use it to create your own worlds and share them with the community.
First time i fired it on, I was frustrated after a few hours, nothing worked like I wanted, too much adjusting knobs... I needed weeks of "playing" around with this tool to lay out my first streets without glitch. And then I decided to use a smaller mapsize - less place - less problems...
So I started again on a small map, 256x256, like the smallest one in SC4. And yeah, this time, with a less spectacular landscape, with only one level of water I was able to design a layout, where I could start to build "my" town.
For the most Sims players a map is something you can download and play with, and I had to learn, that pictures of a growing town aren´t, what the most of them want to see. Like I mentioned, the CAW is no game, it is still a modding tool, although I like to play with it.

Here you will see some kind of town portrait mixed with informations to the programs I use. I hope, this is at your like. I choosed this method, cause the main aspect of my work isn´t the simulation of a big town, it always was the interest in history and how towns worked in different times. I always tried to find out, how an "organic" grown looking old town was planned. So it was logical for me to choose this program.
What I will show now, is not comparable with SC4, it is a sandbox, so to say. It cannot replace any simulator, as every simulation here starts after finishing the file and starting a new game. But it is a very handy tool, if someone likes details, full3D, and nearly no grid. And aside from this, a well made world file can be a nice gift to other players.
Like I said, I am an absolute beginner here, there are people, who create stunning places with absolute phantastic landscape and architecture. More pictures of a handful of very well made worlds you can find here (http://www.sims3createaworld.com/the-sim-3-best-custom-worlds/) especially I love "Praaven" and "Cladbridge on Stowe", another favorite for me is Vice City. If anyone here is fan of the GTA series - have a look into and be sure, that you are sitting anywhere...  $%Grinno$%

But now it is time to start with the first pictures. Today I will give You a little view into the CAW first. If you open the program it will look like this, (depending on the language you use). I am creating a new file now:
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I have to give in a size (there are some similar to the SC4 tiles), I have to choose a terrain, and then a heightmap, - yeah, a greyscale! Sounds familiar, eh?
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I am using a flat one here to explain:
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If I want, there IS grid. And for now I want:
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Here you can see why: the palm tree has a shadow, and depending on the time, this shadow will rise. Now it is 11am here (there is a clock built in, so you can change time and date -and season - if you have this addon):
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I rotate the camera to look from south and place a small plant in front of the palm to mark the direction from south to north:
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I zoom out a bit:
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And this is the size of the complete map, the same I am using for my current project:
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Zoomed in again, and yes, the grid can rotate in steps of 1 degree, this can be very handy to place lots or streets or objects:
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Then landscaping, exactly like in terraformer, the same possibilites, but less exactly like the terraformer sadly. But nice though:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F37422eb5f513330032b7151797c0cf67.jpg&hash=b86511403724369e0d74ef9315639bef70be8d94) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

And painting: that is a part I try and error. You can use different sizes and intensitivity, it is something I still have to learn, how to use:
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An early picture of the map I am now working on:
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And how it looks now (from east):
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A picture looking from the little lake to the town, I really like the detailed terrainpaints. Ingame it looks like real...
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This view is only possible inside the CAW. All the forest, you can see at the borders will be unroutable for Sims ingame, also the camera will be restricted to the inner part of the map later. And sadly the railway is only deco:
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The next pictures I´ve made ingame. With the little diamond in the upper line of the CAW I can open the game without leaving the tool. So I can build on lots, that I´ve placed in CAW before. And I have to admit: I am NOT showing real buildings or places, this town is an idealized impression of a "typical" small Hessian town in a rural environment.

Here is an oversight over the old town, how it looks at the moment.
First a picture to the south:
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From west:
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From south:
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Here a first look to the "Schlossplatz" where a small, baroque castle dominates the quarter:
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All the houses you can see here currently are facades only. I plan the whole town as an essemble, so in a way function follows form here. Later I will decide, wether a building will be built as a residential or  a community lot. I need to place more than 50 places for community related game interactions, sometimes I can use a lot for more than one of them. But this will definitively happen at a later point in time. The castle from the south side. The green slope here will be filled with plants, trees, bushes and so. But first the buildings. Only for example: I needed five hours to build only facade and staircase of the castle. Houses like this are built with a lot of cheats for the so called build mode ingame. I will talk more about it later:
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The marketplace like it looks now, on the left side you can see the old town hall with lots of different roofs and a tower on the backside - more details will come:
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An early shot from one bridge to the old town. During the reformation aera a 30 years long during war destroyed a lot of towns and villages in later Germany. After this time towns were rebuilt in the common style, so here many of the framework houses and the former castle. Framework isn´t medieval, it is the most common way to build wooden houses since ancient times. The Amish in the USA for example build houses and barns exactly this way till today.:
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An early view to the mostly finished facade of the church, another typical building of the early baroque (no original, only an impression):
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Here a s view in the eastern entrance to the old Jewish lane:
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This quarter is mostly finished from street view. So I decided to show pictures from here first. The white house in the middle is the school and synagogue. It is no rebuild of a historical building, merely it is an impression of old framework synagogues you can see in small Hessian towns. The most aren´t in use anymore, but here in my Simsworld things happened different to the reality:
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And a wonderful summer sunday shot, the first picture, I really liked:
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This portrait is not only special, as it shows my way from a green plain to a town, I would like to live in. It also is hopefully a way to open the eyes of the community to our own best. We all are interested in townplanning, we all are detail-fascinated, and sometimes I think of "us" as a kind of virtual "model railway" builders. In my view, SimCity4 isn´t outdated, there was and is no game comparable to this. But there are other programs, people interested in townplanning, traffic organizing, architecture, and the discussion about the how and why, should mention them.
And to be honest: good graphics are nice, but a hobby like ours only needs inspiration and some kind of knowledge. No ideal program or game is availlable. So the programs we use are tools to show pictures (or videos) of our imagination. And every program, that is usable to plan a town, is worth a view. Here You can see my start into the CAW, as for me the grid was the most inacceptable part in SC4. I can live with a railway as deco only, cause here I build something, others will play with. It will start to live after my work is done. And this is fascinating me especially.

Don´t be shy, tell me, what do You think? Is this portrait at the right place here or not?

But at first place I really hope, You liked this small excursion. I will be back soon.

EDIT: sorry Catty, some of the pictures were too big. I´ve changed it.

A great start to this MD, I'm at work so am just popping in to say   :thumbsup:   &apls  and will be back later to have a proper look at everything, especially want to have a good look at the pictures as I'm using an old internet browser and the pictures have got chopped off in the middle.

-catty
Moderator

Interesting. I didn't know "The Sims" series had a city-building feature. I have bookmarked the site you mentioned above and plan to return for a closer look. My favorite screen shot here is ..."looking from the little lake to the town..." and the one following it – the railroad. The idea of "terrainpaints" sounds intriguing, too. You have left me eager to see more of your work.

Quote from: carlfatal on June 04, 2014, 03:04:06 PM
...But at first place I really hope, You liked this small excursion. I will be back soon.

EDIT: sorry Catty, some of the pictures were too big. I´ve changed it.

:thumbsup:

Thanks for that, it certainly surprised me what you can achieve using CreateAWorldTool, the bridge and the last pictures you posted are   &apls  its got a very similiar feel to Cities in Motion 1 when you are using its Map Editor.

And thanks for taking that step into the unknown as far as starting a non-SC4 MD here ... a karma point heading your way.   :)

It looks eerily familiar, yet completely different.  %confuso :D

The grid is the most limiting aspect in sc4 indeed, even though we have FA roads nowadays not many BATs exists to go along. I can also understand the appeal that others will be able to play with your map once it's finished. I guess that's also the reason why there aren't any sims around yet? And if I understand correctly you'll also model the interior of all the houses? That'd be a hell of a lot of work I imagine.  &Thk/(

Anyway, a lovely town and I'd like to see more pictures for sure!  :thumbsup:

Great start  &apls  It's really impressive what you've been able to create in these pictures and it must be really nice to be able to do some of the things SC4 just won't let you do with regard to the grid and detail. I'm definitely reminded a little of Waldley. It's nice that you explained the way the program works as it helps to understand the pictures. This is really interesting stuff and I look forward to following it  :)

Heya again!

First a big thankyou for your nice comments!

@Jmouse,
indeed the Sims always had integrated a city building program, for Sims 2 you can create neighborhoods with SimCity4´s smalles tiles. Creating a landscape with the SC4 tools, laying out roads and planting bushes and trees. Everything will be there in Sims 2.
But here, in Sims 3 the CAW is a substantial part of the game itself, as all neighborhoods here were created with this program and it is not used for anything else. More to this and also to terrainpaints  at a later point...

@catty,
Yeah, Cities In Motion... It was a nice game, better than it´s sequel, cause it was modable. But it was a short thing, never it had the chance to become something like SimCity did. And to be honest: I was addicted by Sims 3 only cause of the plants here. Never before I saw something realistic, and words can´t describe, how it looks, when the wind moves the leaves of different trees here, ElderScrolls is nothing against this level of detail. I try my best with pictures but...
And: a big thankyou for the k-point!  :)

@vortext,
I remember, you`ve  modded Daves houses, this absolute wonderful framework set. But nothing was enough for me, searching for a more "organic" structure.
Citizens first have to be created, and this step is one of the last I will have to do - if I will do it. Also the players themself can populate the town to their own likes, and I am not good in creating dollies. And yes, to create something, others can play with... For me the greatest luck would be to see someone creating a story using this map. To see it living - that my work makes "sense" ingame. I think, that is, why people like to mod...
And interieur - have a look, I will show a first view into a house today.

@noahclem,
in a way this is the same like Waldey was, I am a framework maniac, or better a historic town maniac. For now this program is my game, although it is a sandbox and needs to be finished to be playable. 

Okay, it goes forward, but first again I want to say a few words. Some may ask, what this blog will be. Some may say, that this not only is another game, it also is a modding project - not a game. People may look sceptic here into cause of this but I will answer "no" with a big smile. This is MY game, this is - in a way - the game I was looking for since years, cause I love framework, old, sleepy towns, plants and nature and - details.
The last days I learned again something, that is important for any modder in SC4 too. You have to clean up your downloads folder before planning things for an upload. So I did two days ago, reorganized everything, cause - again like in SC4 - every user has to have the same downloads in his/her game to see my creation. But here I do not speak about files of maybe 10mb. I tried to minimize the stuff, people need to download, and now I have around 250mb in my mods/downloads folder.
And after all I saw, that some of my bildings lost windows and doors, lost patterns for the facades, in short: it was horrible. But luckily I found all missed things again and so I was able to continue with building. Now the old town center is there, not finished but there. So I can start to think about how to develop the new quarter near the railway station and also the one in the north.
But today some pictures of the filled town center; and oversight first:
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Here I built something, I really have no clue, how to use. After it was finished, I thought about to make a theater from it, as the front and the small place would give a perfect frame. I need to think over it, but I need to rebuild it and change the size of the lot:
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The quarter behind the church also is built. The tree at the right side of the churchtower - I was and am not sure, a smaller tree may look better here, so I stopped detailing:
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View from east to the old town as it looks now. The foreground later will be developed:
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A shot to the northeast:
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I tried to detail the first part of the riverbank. I have to find a balance between the abilities of a computer and the immense provocation to clutter around with plants and objects (like props in SC4):
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Also there are a lot of objects, you can use to decorate the environment. Not only plants, also stones, fences, signs and whatever you want (like maybe, but her it doesn´t work like MMPs, it remains more to the lot editor, as you place them exactly there, where you want to have them. You also can turn them like you want to avoide stupid iteration:
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Now I will show you a lot itself, the smallest one in the whole town:
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EA uses lot sizes down to 15x15 squares, and here I tried to build on a 7x10 lot. A double bed for a sleeping room uses 2x3 squares, here you can see an easy and fast made bath and sleeping/living room in once (the big room is 6x6):
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The ground floor:
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This was all for today, more shots will come. But for now I am happy to have the old town standing. It looks - okay...

I hope to see you again!

Quote from: carlfatal on June 07, 2014, 06:49:27 PM
...This was all for today, more shots will come. But for now I am happy to have the old town standing. It looks - okay...

I hope to see you again!

Oh I'm definitely back again   ()stsfd()

Love that first shot showing the approach to the town and the bridge embankment, I'm not sure myself if I would have the houses that close to the road, but that's just me   ;D

I must admit its nice to be able to look across the town instead of having to look down on them, and I really like what you have done with the riverbank.

-catty 

Heya!

Thanks Catty for your nice comment.  :) The streets: the most old towns had only a few streets but mostly narrow lanes.  ;) The streets on my pictures are compromizes, here I have one kind of street and the possibility to change textures of it.
In the most parts of the old town streets are built with foot paths. Sims can transport their car in their inventory to the next street, so this solution is acceptable.

But now to the new update:
Luckily I could spend a lot of time into this game in the last weeks, and so I was able to finish the most buildings in the old town and started to develope the area near the train station.

I will start with an overview:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F563f7761e637b71c06cde54c2e857a8d.jpg&hash=728ebd438dea1cbb69a078f948b4868b766e96d7) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

One week later:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fe36eca82a2bfdc66d3ecc1d505081352.jpg&hash=4202544387680511e1e039caffe02fa4d76acfdd) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

And now some pictures of the old town:

A closer view, that shows the most of the center:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F2a4fd796a6107af47f4c7fa176472553.jpg&hash=f33f834daa646d6ca4deb2d804b2914d92422352) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

A view to the west:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F084bad2defc73a3c4514e00f1ac76088.jpg&hash=57c36eb4f0bbebf722a0dd7a03588a4364e5ad10) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The quarter around the church:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F833075dd8d8a734c046cb716cf4f3b08.jpg&hash=1b1f1b8e2d17ad1082d7d5c42e1c1abaaa6ffc4a) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Behind the church:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F0f7dd9cd058461188d2a205fa391bed1.jpg&hash=202e04bded6eab4d57145ad39a58bc3590b3fee0) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

same quarter but view to the south:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Faa8b64cd822fab75538e97974b4f3f05.jpg&hash=83fbabac0b6b744eff83dc2bd94da865e9d7a4ed) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

A shot from the school to the town near the theater:
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This is the old theatre, located at the "Theaterplatz" (after I finished the building as a villa I decided to rebuild it on a bigger lot at the same place as a theatre, on one of the overvies you can see the first building):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F6635a52d9277b139e2e106bc56a1fa1a.jpg&hash=bba7aa4761a32c4cb46a398b86558b86bc212536) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

From the other side to show the (now) big back of the house. Here now is a stage and a two story auditorium:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F8abb6121160d65dc143bd560d72d183e.jpg&hash=c1c43f8b3f6ea73bf09841b6a0b5fbbaf3672218) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

A street (although it looks like a place to me):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Ff16c37e283b4ccc5ddfecb85366dca14.jpg&hash=fb282365e4f2af4db916d3967a6c63e84d3917ac) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Another street view (and I would change it into a narrow lane if would be able to):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F4f67edfaf37dbead9bf37ae1c71490c9.jpg&hash=ddf3fc3af94da42d488fa7296a8b94ec0d915eba) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The "Schlossplatz" to the east:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F0ab91e2980d96eb08c5ae2729e9c2bee.jpg&hash=650237e4ceec90863bfbbe6f5090efcdbf391d83) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

View to the baroque palace (it was built on the place of a former castle):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fcd71596db26c0f2d7966c224b685f3f2.jpg&hash=30f633f0b6005863ef2a76ab76900f6e3704bf35) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

A little bit closer(no detail pictures, as the whole building isn´t finished yet):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fe3b072639377b1a06176f5a67f581507.jpg&hash=24d1534a5b91a11d6db9973e62e15bb2738a3b7b) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

This view leads form the "Schlossplatz" to the marketplace (and yes, this IS a street):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F8cac19968391260964c8e51a9f3949df.jpg&hash=5301a10434436534816d26b1afc49682d81dc4b8) (http://www.ld-host.de/)


But as I did show on the overview, there is more:

The school:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fab2443089b0ec4e34d0b30bba373690e.jpg&hash=4d2ab75ac3af645b28514cfa9ac78754451ce48b) (http://www.ld-host.de/)


An overview to the quarter near the station yesterday:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Ff6330afb0d96b643ac2420c146b4891d.jpg&hash=0576a1d830a9a6cd009f16a2c201b0154ee435f2) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The station:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Feba9590ef8e5ff2aa2e28a5669d993a2.jpg&hash=3ff27db316b4c9b44e77a944c217305dca3e4d8b) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Sadly a train will never come...
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Faff68d3cd285103cdda7e231b1b1dd45.jpg&hash=dd4fe919851ef47b1d9fd13ed3cadbe51ef856f5) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

But I like the building and it will be usable as residential:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Faa6ebe5c6eaf116abcc5f55353dcf5d4.jpg&hash=2b117aa1c68daf26f838135e79e5dc1c26a62a90) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

A corner Building I had to rebuild three times, as the windows - downloads - like to corrupt when placed in specific combinations. Sad, cause I really like the windows and would use them more often without this problem):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F9b53e14813369baaf680fc26ff8bacef.jpg&hash=aa74a17ca581558a0fcae2b038f6c96754405c5e) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The opposite side, the street to the right leads to the bridge and the old town:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F320b9531320674758f9e7dc58a04dcde.jpg&hash=b23f4daf8eddf1fc00a969f1d4d3567951fdbba9) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The backyard with the staircase (in Sims 3 we can build staircases like this using cheats and tricks):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Ffd509136574e672d8fef0b2ab1608d39.jpg&hash=f3e24a38f5b0c588b79deaca12977716ed6d56bc) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Again on the other side of the street. For this lot and house I needed to delete three bushes, that were set in the CAW. Sadly I wasn´t able to put them out of the layer they were integrated. So I had to delete the whole layer. Now all bushes at the river banks are gone and need to be replaced. So you can see the naked wall in background...
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F9daf9fb532efa39bbb9854a357620daf.jpg&hash=451dfb6ea684b4734135a6a7c4304ae6ebc34753) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

But I like the house and its place near the bridge, also I think, it will be a nice home with its small garden area in the backyard:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F36415305298e09af9e5fb9e2ac751d9d.jpg&hash=723eaed1c94ad864b79460e1eb09e537f8c239ef) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Typical upperclass houses of the late 19th century (I love the mansard roofs):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F52677c1cbca7e3e79bbea4bd758c1576.jpg&hash=418e1c4ba8715d144f199493f52e10371f6fadb7) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Another one:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fb023fcf9390e18abe5bb2f4e2ce6b175.jpg&hash=d2220479d2bc5b0b3a5c841fbe8409aad2a2d4e4) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

View to a cinema, the big building to the right is used as office ingame.
Both buildings are so called "rabbitholes". In such buildings Sims will vanish as long as they are inside, a compromize EA made to simulate jobs. I only build the outside of the house here, inside I will only place a custom "rabbithole" object to activate the game functions. (The corner building was another one, that needed some rebuilding cause of the windows):
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Ffe4feda890c18082aaf72209564f1e5e.jpg&hash=3a61e510e7608632d0d7d337a0491e483ad0d4f5) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

A closer look to the cinema. It was built as another theater but changed to a cinema in the 20ties. I like it´s "American" look, and here I had a chance for something different:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fb950fed47d57df643466d445cea08ebe.jpg&hash=88c635d6cbe2035c089f61b0705d8c3bf923b0a4) (http://www.ld-host.de/)


At the end: The cloister, a part I am working on since more than 30 hours...
This building isn´t finished yet, I decided two times to rebuild the whole section here. The first building was nice but I wanted and want a bigger church. Sadly Sims 3 knows five stories, only four, if I use a foundation, so it is not easy to build something, that is higher. I have a set of gothic arches, made by a talented artist - but no matching windows. Also theses arches are only two stories high, so I cannot use them for a big building. So after a second try with these objects I now try to build a romanic basilica, with a flat wooden ceiling, without a tower. This building shows the last picture.

The first attempt:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F24790e5d21cd357645d7f5d00aa04c02.jpg&hash=6707b9214a4893e89b011b4bf32d6c3a5872ff6f) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F3a9499ba023a92bd49d7432acaa8649e.jpg&hash=8bc36b78d0120c36b61201f5a7ff5a352666179f) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F4517d6066af3d7053108099469549225.jpg&hash=2aceda7ced1c959c0b11d3ecdb290fd04d348f71) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fbe8b16d3692f42e98e177d0a49348d78.jpg&hash=7deeeae8a45fd8db160b647520e9596ae7615cda) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F452ca6802c72380a850ccd09ae76f79e.jpg&hash=3ada467b19d7e9a72b5ef2fe1a77d5e789f60467) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The second try in a raw state:
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But here I can show the gothic arches I used for the first two churches:
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This building I finished too before I started another one:
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The currently existing church is this one. It is raw as I am still not happy with it. The windows, the location - everything will be changed here again:
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This town is planned from the general to the detail, exactly the other way round Sims 3 normally works. But this way makes it possible to plan more realistic and build a town as an essemble. And yes, I show work in progress here but I hope this is acceptable, as it explains my way from an idea to a finished product. And the last pictures maybe can help to understand, what I try to do. It is so different to SC4 to build all houses by myself.
I hope you like it!

Wow   :thumbsup:

I think I need to make a cup of tea the next time you do a update as its taken me about half an hour to go thru the pictures, and I still think I need to come back and have another look just to be sure I haven't missed anything.

On picture two its nice to see that sandy beach area at the lake and its a real shame about the trains as picture 20 (I think - its got the train tracks in the foreground going back to the hill and a really nice treelink) which I really like   ()stsfd()   just calls out for a train to be on that line.

Its great seeing how things are developing, I must admit with all those red roofs anything that doesn't have one really gets my attention.

Really great update  &apls

-catty

No words for this (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fe03820ca109c4c698e0ec09bd238a35e.gif&hash=efaf62d8571d582729d35e4b4b2a85754f3e7279)

Love the construction shots of the church! It's like the Lot-Editor and Terraformer mashed into one, with the BAT wrapped around to hold it in place. The level of detail it provides is pretty neat, clear to see how one can easily sink a couple of hours into building only to start over from scratch the next day. ::)

Also, am I correct in thinking these two grey houses (http://www.ld-host.de/uploads/images/52677c1cbca7e3e79bbea4bd758c1576.jpg) haven't been textured yet?

The village center looks about perfect and curious to see how the station area develops!  :thumbsup:

Simply awesome! This is one of the best TS3 worlds in production I have seen. You keep the theme going all the way through, which is really a nice touch. Great work! ;D
When you say a building will be a theatre or school, will they act as the rabbitholes we're accustomed too, or will those be placed elsewhere in the world?

Increible!! I tried to do my own world for the sims, and that was a lot of work!!! I admire your patience to model the terrain, paint and decorate it, and then build all those buildings... I know that placing the railways can be very complicated... And building a realistic historic core too.. BRAVO!!!  &apls  My world started as a little german city too, but then it developed to a Paris-like city (I still don't know how), and that was too much for me!!! Every lampost, every tree, the railways, the streets, gardens, farms... it was too much for me... Believe me when I say: I admire you!!  &apls

Today I will only show two pictures. Did I ever mention, that I hate making pictures?
They are great to find mistakes but I am no good photographer and when building... well, then I am building...

@Catty,
thanks!  :)
This beach area is the only place, where I like my painting. But I learn, especially, when I rebuild and have to repaint areas then.  $%Grinno$%
The railway - I am so sad, that not only there are no working trains - there also exists no model of a common commuter train for a picture only. Till now I´ve found only a few European freight wagons and an ICE.  :thumbsdown:

@Dantes,
This shouldn´t make you speechless. It is only the next step in building my flowerish vintage town-ideal. Better details, more details, working details and I can visit my town in 3D. That´s it...  ;D

@vortext,
thanks for your comment.  :)
Indeed, that is, what makes building in Sims so interesting. Especially, as everything is full 3D here. In the meantime I did rebuild the cloister again two times but without success. But I saved copies of the former lots, so I can use them again, if I want. Nothing I lost here.

These two houses are textured. I only used some greyish-rotten "colour". The church on the last picture is not textured. This you can see, if you look to the "white" stripes, that appear at every floor. Looking to the church you also can see, that not all stories have the same height, cause I used the so called CFE cheat to change story-heights.

The station area will be part of the next update, a lot happened there.

@sim_link,
thanks a lot! I only wanted to play in a neighborhood like I know. I build, what I can see, if I leave my home (idealized though).  ;)
As I mentioned before, this world will be fully functional. I use rabbithole rugs and also I will build in all features of the addons I use. Eventually I will PLAY here too...  $%Grinno$%

@romualdillo,
Thanks a lot too! I have to admit, that I first thought about a project for two or three months - I mean it is still a small map. Now I know, that I will need much more time than expected to finish this town.  &Thk/(

And I know this problem, especially if it comes to SC4: a town likes to become big and bigger. Luckily there are the restrictions in buildmode, that prevent me from thinking of a real town (different from Sims 2, where you are able to build whatever you want). That helps a lot. And eh - patience: Sometimes I like to play GTA, that´s for the adrenaline, sometimes I need a rest, and building with the CAW can be like a meditation. Also I do a lot of investigation to get a matching "background" for my town. I like reading unimportant things... Relaxing...  ()stsfd()

Okay, now the small teaser, only two pictures of the marketplace, not finished - if it ever will be. The fenced areas will be filled with plants.

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F002c0425e96ecccc2a204d19cec25164.jpg&hash=5becf1080fb11ac1b3f19d2afbb0f7b4c7592f52) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

And a first night shot (the yellow line marks the border of the "marketplace" community lot:

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F32aed9b06c97d4579624fab3cdd75597.jpg&hash=b62fe916452ed4b093a981eabcb10bfda03db7e9) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

I will be back soon!

Very nice and you can almost start to see the people in the first shot   &apls

QuoteAs I mentioned before, this world will be fully functional. I use rabbithole rugs and also I will build in all features of the addons I use. Eventually I will PLAY here too...

When I doing the same type of city building in CIM1 I tend to build a bit then start up the city to see how the people use it and then go back to the building ... for instance if I find they are all walking to the same place then when I go back to building I start putting in public transport for that area

Heya Devoties!
A small update today but first answers:

@Catty,
thanks again for your comment.  :)
I need to open this town ingame as soon as possible, Some things need to be checked, like staircases (a special thread in Sims 3, as you only can build them in one direction on a lot. Sadly I am not able to see the orientation of a lot while placing it in the CAW, so I can´t see the direction I have to use). But atm I am only building and hoping, that i will reach a point, when it´s worth to export the town for a first time.


This update isn´t as big as I hoped, some pictures will follow soon. I had problems with the game itself, I needed more custom content, and at the end my game slowed down like nothing. I am playing Sims 3 on a SSD and it needs time for loading though, but I was surprised, when it slowed down to an unplayable point after I´ve added a few new downloads.
One reason was a mess in my download/mods folder. This I could change with a program named Sims3PE, Sims3 package editor. It is the same like the reader for SimCity4, and it works not only for Sims3, it is a modding tool for SC2013 too.
But that wasn´t it at all...
Today I found the second reason. I always play Sims 3 too, and I have to test to new addons to be able to implement the features into my town. A new folder for this was born in My Documents (like in SimCity4) and my SSD was filled up after I put in all downloads I use to play (something around 15 gb). The complete new game folder was bigger than 20gb and free space left on my harddrive (110gb) was - 3 gb... ohoh...  $%Grinno$%

Now I do not wonder about this issue anymore. Today I´ve cleaned my harddrive, and well - a few pictures were done worth to show.

First part of this update is the house, for that I killed all bushes - look to the former pictures of this area. Everything here is rebuilt and the house is finished without funishing. And I apologize fo showing more close views into buildings today...  ;)

First picture is made with the building grid to show the size of the house:
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Without grid it looks much better:
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One level down:
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And the next:
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And the basement:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fc8c5353e5d8d41e05f9aec997f34e0a7.jpg&hash=385d1d8c435ad0b5b718b98b121378efd388f37b) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

View from the bridge:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fcd7b4846ab3822c230ec537350a0b693.jpg&hash=96882ff9aab3421a7a5411116cc882329edbc049) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

From the other side of the "river":
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A closer view to the garden. The footpath/sidewalf you can see here is marking the border between four lots:
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Sadly I can´t place Lots border to border, So i use the place between two lots to simulate a border with the only object I can use for this in Sims 3 - a hedge. The hedge between the lots has an earthy ground texture, on the lots I have to continue this look, but I still had no time. So an unfinished view here (but so you can imagine the borders of the lots:
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And then...
Well, I am planning, constructing, building... I need some place to do my work. In SimCity I would be the mayor. OK... Why not i Sims 3 too? I occupied the historical town hall. I AM the myor here.

Pictures of the finished town hall (finished - whatever this means - can anything be finished?) Now it goes up from the former cellar.

Basement with cantina:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fde6192ff25b44a0fc99dc1b80cc7c537.jpg&hash=7f824331dc91cd18e9f68f6c1f0ad86dce237aa3) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Ground floor with a function room:
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First floor, mayor office and waiting area at the end of the grand stairs, some other offices too:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F5cad632ecc5a10c78cbbf8e65dd722c6.jpg&hash=73e18936820ab34b4c4de8e6521d0d19d3987318) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Second floor, more offices:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F6f32ced69277fb6ce4a0b2dcb2c6697f.jpg&hash=6634f610454d969bba1b9dd1caaba42cd92b7f1e) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Third floor, not used but maybe I can sleep here as long as no other house is finished...  :D
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F2de67a99b11da3e058f7140715a1ff31.jpg&hash=96783dfcc4178fd562709ed4ad05e89d8acbd000) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

My office  ;D:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F1f1b71cf54ce60c8d1538dcfb6071203.jpg&hash=65b126dfb355b8555be95f7b7c5078942665317d) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

View from northwest - nice, isn´t it?:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F114ad765062e926d70e4cd1172cb9b6c.jpg&hash=c5856c203a348eb5eed32e4a9350737a7823e721) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The marketplace, current state - the building with the corner towers has vanished. I changed the complete quarter to fit more into the surrounding buildings:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F6a2cb900673fd74e3e1bad41f8028503.jpg&hash=23c6932a7cb29062fe7399b8e9267792d02240ca) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

View to the main entrance:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F78582225f48e799e9d016cc491ec265b.jpg&hash=44100d5f02bb6f135f94b6c355b39d775cb472ad) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Overview:
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That´s it for today. I have to admit, as Sims 3 includes building eversthing, the outside and the inside I need and want to show both. But the main focus will stay in town building. And like always - nothing here is really finished...  $%Grinno$%

Hope you like it.  :)

The site notifications are playing up, so people may have missed your updates, which is a really shame, that "View from the Bridge" is great and love the way the plants are starting to grow up and around the lamppost on the end, all the flowers look amazing especially the sunflowers, am still getting used to the idea of seeing the inside of people's houses, but do like what you have done with the town hall.

The way the sidewalks and the road blend into each other don't look right to me but otherwise its yet another excellent update and I really enjoyed looking at the pictures.

thanks   &apls

-catty

I lost notifications for a while, too, but I had a mailbox full of them this morning. You mentioned in an update June 7 that Sim City is, after all, a game - it's your game, your own creation and you can do anything with it you want to. I really like the novelty of your MD – it's interesting, different and of all things, I especially like some of your landscaping. ;)

Nice office you made for yourself!  ;)

I remember playing Sims 2 and the original Sims (to build houses of course ::)) as a kid so this brings back alot of memories.

Really nice and original work here, keep it up. :thumbsup:

Heya again!

Like always, answers first:

@Catty,
I have to thank you!
I am happy, that people normally playing SC4 DO look into here, that alone is more, than I have awaited. There also would have been a chance, that members here would be angry about me invading their beloved game with something, they were not interested in.  ;)

And yes, the plants were the first thing, that made me into an addicted. I like, what I can do with them, and things like the weed around this lamppost happened first without any conception, and then - wow, I found another feature to create something, that is not intended by EA. So I can say, I often detect things by doing wrong, and then I can use the mistake as a new feature.
The sidewalks: I am not happy with them too. First thing is: they are flat, there is no border, as you can see. And if I use the cobblestone for them, the missing border let the whole thing look messy and awful. So I decided for now to stay with the concrete tiles till I´ll find something better. Good thing is, I can change the textures on the existing streets without the need to replace the streets themself.

@Jmouse,
thank you too! It is very nice to hear, that you like the way, I am telling my "story" with this "game". I try to give interesting informations about the possibilities here, and also I hope, that I can show pictures, that tell more than my humble words.
And another thanks for your commendation fo my landscaping. In the simforum a few days ago we had a discussion about how 3D works, and for what you need a mesh. And the most people don´t know, that landscaping is kinda 3D design. I feel very proud, that you like my work here.  ()stsfd()

@vortext,
hey, thanks! I mean, I am working there a lot, and I needed a place to rest in between. Till now this is the only building finished from inside.  $%Grinno$%

@sunv123,
thanks and welcome to my blog! I hope to see you again.  :)

Ooohkay - so to the next update, less pictures but much more details. I am still mostly working on the old town center. By now I finished all the inner parts of the most houses (not furnished). This was a damn lot of horrible work, as the most houses are much too small for the requirements of this game. But I don´t want to bore you with lots of empty apartments, and cause I also started the detailing of the outside there, I will show first pictures of backyards today.
The main aspect here is the same I had in SC4: fighting the grid. The grid is the most common and most dangerous enemy we have in Sim games, wether SC4 or CIM or just in Sims 3. I tried to let the borders of the lots disappear, I mean: where would you find absolutely rectangular lots in this world? I gave my best but still I have to look wether this new idea will work ingame as well as on the pictures.

First an oversight of the whole town again, as it looked today in the early evening:
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First view, and like always I find the mistakes at first on the pictures: the small witchy house on the right should have a steeper roof. This will certainly be changed:
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And here - I think I need to learn how to make really good pictures, but hopefully it shows the intention:
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This one is better:
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And from another side:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F2b6da163f2177a9b142181544d8f4cf9.jpg&hash=cb4e55f07570e42f84e7c42582b83c439ff1d91a) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

Another garden, the lane in the foreground leads to the marketplace. The mailbox - I have no clue, why I forgot to put it to the place it should be. It looks a bit lonely here - but again, it´s work in progress and this will change soon:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F2045f64e04ce97bd7f86b58b14dd2314.jpg&hash=3991f33fa3714bb607a2933f464d57b9ef7a13e3) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The next backyard in a row. Luckily I can use the swing here not only on lots, so this one is placed in CAW between two lots. My intention here is to design the whole garden as a part of the left house with the staircase tower.
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Something different: the marketplace is nearly finished now:
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This corner was an eyesore to me before. I really like both houses here, but without the garden everything here looked disconnected. Now it is much better and more realistic:
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The other way round:
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The former indifferent place became a real lane now:
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The other end. Now it looks like I wanted (if I don´t count the point, that nearly no wall or fence is available in CAW, they only work on lots):
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And the last picture, a garden near the river. Unfortunately there is a little glitch above the retaining wall here. Like I said: the mistakes I mostly detect after hours when looking to the pictures:
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That was all for today, I hope, you like it. I am back as soon as possible. But now I need more time for smaller parts, as the details need their time to be created. Thanks You for visiting!

That overview doesn't really give you the sense that things have changed, but I still like seeing it, but your third and fourth picture is where you start to see how much detail you can add to these cities

... I must admit its tempting me to get CIM1 back up and have another go at my work-in-progress city ...

I think I said it in my last post, but if not I really love those sunflowers   ()stsfd()  and I think picture 10 has come out great, the way the hedge is running between the two properties, the only bit that's didn't look right is I would have expected to see a path, stepping stones or something like that outside the door rather than it just opening up onto lawn.

And as for the last picture I don't think I would have noticed the glitch if you hadn't said something.

Great update thanks for sharing   &apls

-catty

I thought I had posted here, but I switched computers recently, so apparently I didn't get anything posted. I pretty much remember what I liked about this update, though. The level of detail you've achieved is amazing, and the second through fifth photos are beautiful. The flowers, lampposts, signs and even the trashcans look great. Realism is all the rage these days, so seeing photos which have a kind of surreal feeling to them is refreshing. After all, these are games, and there's nothing wrong with playing them like games. Thanks for posting this. You've made me want to go out and buy the game. :)

Heya!
At first - like always - answers and a big thank you for looking into here. Around 1300 views - much more than I did expect!  :thumbsup:
And don´t be shy, ask me, what ever you want to know. I am the one, who invaded a foreign land with pictures, that may wonder and confuse the old inhabitants. So this is your damn right to do!  ;)


@catty,
thanks, and yeah, the overview is more for the completeness. Also people may have a better chance to know, where the part is, I am currently working on. I am not sure...  ::)

Details - indeed, Sims, if you count 2 or 3 - both games allow a level of detail, that is only camparable with the Elder Scrolls series. In the end is was the reason, why I started with buying all the addons, as often they brought new stuff for building.  $%Grinno$%

CIM - hey, I would be very curious about pictures of a town, you build with it.  :thumbsup:

Ah - the sunflowers - I really waited for that!  :D
A few months ago - short before starting my world here - I saw pictures in the SimForum, created in the CAW and sunflowers. I was stunned, I love sunflowers and the level of detail was - crazy. I asked, if they were downloads, but I´ve got the answer, that they were part of the basegame.
I have no clue, why I did oversee them for such a long time, but from this moment on nothing could prevent me from cluttering around with these plants.  :D

The missing path: I usually make pictures after I finished a "day´s work". I look to them not only to show them online, meantime this is a very handy tool to look for things I have to change. And here you saw a mistake long before I did. This will be changed, I still have no idea how, as it is a small garden - it will need some concentration and meditiation to get the right decision here. So a big thank you to make me aware of this! I need critics - I want to reach the best I can do.  :)

@Jmouse,
thank you!
Yeah, the level of detail is unbelievable, and cause of this and the very realistic looking faces of the dollies, this game is called an uncanney valley by it´s enemies (mostly players of Sims 2).  $%Grinno$%

Your second point - I must contradict: I do build as realistic as I can. During the second WW the most rural towns were not bombarded, so the historical substance was still there after. And while small towns often only have a small amount of money to work with, the buildings are in a pretty well stand, cause they count as historical monuments.
Recently things change, also in Germany things now only shine, where the light is, and we can see first quarters I would call slums. But this small town here is favored: the nice landscape around makes it into a touristic place too. So people her can have a work (mostly).  ;)

Buying Sims? It is a game without rules, if you don´t create them, and that is what I personally love. And I like playing with dollies from childhood on. I did it with a lot of RPGs (especially Elder Scrolls), and here I do it much more serious with a virtual dollhouse game. But I should say, that I payed much more than 200 euros for the base game and the addons I own. This game is expensive, really expensive. If you really want to get it, the most important site (like simptropolis for SC4 (to be honest, SC4D is much more exclusive ;)) is MTS (http://www.modthesims.info/), then I would recommend to look for MATY (http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/), one of the most important and most hated modding sites, go for simlogical (http://www.den.simlogical.com/denforum/index.php?action=forum), where you will find the most important modding tools, and look for nRaas (http://nraas.wikispaces.com/) to stay with a clean game all time. Like SC4 Sims like to corrupt it´s own saves for example.  ;)

SO - But I am not here only to answer - I am here to show you at least a few pictures. I am currently building the inside of all the historical houses. This is like playing a strategic game to me, as the faccades are finished. And today I was working on the "Schlossplatz" and the small baroque "palace" (what people of the landed gentry in the 18th. century may have called palace) :

The "Schlossplatz", like it looked this evening:
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A view form the back ( I have to admit, I don´t like the four windows risalit here, but the windows themselves only work in this constellation):
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The staircase, I am not really happy with it, and I am sure I will change some parts here again:
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The palace is one of the most expensive buildings here. I was standing in front of the fence - would I ever be able to live in a mansion like this?
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Something different: so the "Wallgasse" looks now: 
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Hope you like it. Seeya soon in Altensimmen!  :)

I'll pop back later to comment on your update in the meantime

QuoteCIM - hey, I would be very curious about pictures of a town, you build with it

I'll add a couple of pictures tonight once I have access to my home computer, in the meantime here's one I have on flickr

Quote from: carlfatal on August 06, 2014, 02:27:23 PM
I do build as realistic as I can.

Oh my goodness, I didn't explain my opinion very well. The primary definition of "surreal" is "artistic style." The structures and props in the game seem to have a kind of artistic style to them, or maybe it's just that they're not what I'm used to seeing. Your last photo is so realistic I feel like I could walk right into it. I think your city building is outstanding – and it's a lot better than mine. It's fascinating that you can take the roofs off of the houses and create the interiors. BTW, what is the purpose of the white circles in the next-to-last photo?

Back again love the details but I'm not sure I would have the patience to do the inside of the houses as well, anyway I promised to be back with some screenshots of my CIM1 building attempts, which proved a bit difficult as with one thing and another I haven't been taking any pictures   :-[

Had a look at my existing cities and they are all completely build up except for the latest one which is still a blank canvas, so went back and had a look at the screenshots I took at the same time as the one I attached in my last post and found these, the graphics isn't great as I have everything turned down or off as I prefer speed to looking spiffy, have uploaded them into an album over at CB

http://city-builders.info/cb-albums/item/85-catty-s-pictures/user/catty

This first shot is putting some houses together to make a residential apartment building

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These next couple of shots were taken at the same time as the picture in the last post

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These next couple of shots were taken in the same location, but in the game as I wanted to see how things were looking in that area

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This last shot was taken in another city and I was building a church and graveyard, CIM1 doesn't have any gravestone props so I had to use milestone markers from the road menu to get the right effect, you wouldn't believe how many I had to delete cos they weren't properly lined up with the others

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I shall now return us to SIMS 3   :thumbsup:

hey, cars!?!  ???

Somehow I expected to see horse drawn carriages but that might've been my own bias at work. .  :D

I like that small shed structure though it seems a bit out of place. Unless the surrounding area is awaiting further integration into the village of course, which isn't unlikely given the amount of detail you have to work on. It's simply mind boggling .  . but fun to watch. Keep at it!  :thumbsup:

btw, I like those CIM pics too, Cathy!

Quote from: vortext on August 07, 2014, 10:26:09 AM
...btw, I like those CIM pics too, Cathy!

I've got a lot better at it since those pictures were taken, as I just starting a new city so I'll try and remember to take some pictures this time round.

:)

Okay, catty, I cannot be quite after seeing these wonderful pictures.  &apls
At the first view I thought, it would be CIM2, cause of the mostly US-American buildings. Seems, there is a big modding scene out there. The only one I know is ArkenbergeJoe (yes, the one, who was one of the starters of what we now know as the NAM-Team).  $%Grinno$%
But I never did expect to see such wonderful 20 to 30th centuries pictures. Only the cabs look a bit odd.  ;)
Very nice the picture with all the people around the fountain, one of the most important assets of CIM, this crowding life, some times a bit too much - like near the bus station. It seem, that you need a tramway here, tramways always are THE solution (i really miss them in Sims 3, and if only as deco like in Sims 2, they would be nice).  $%Grinno$%
Nice idea with the gravestones - I definately love this kind of use. Customizing is king, and you did a good job there.  :thumbsup:

I can only say, make a blog with it. Nobody can play 5 good games at the same time, but looking for pictures is mostly not a problem. I look for modelrailways, all kind of townplanning, architecture, and also into some blogs for games I like to play like RPGs, GTA series, Sims, Sc4, although the most of them are not on my hardrive currently.  :)


So, back to Sims 3:

@catty again, now Sims related,
The inside... Sims players play with dollies, the relation is a very private often, you never would really harm your dollies, would you?
We play different styles, we like to give them challenges, and they have some kind of genetics and personality, that gives them a more "alive" feeling, and so we respect them. Sounds strange in a way, but if they die, they die...  &ops
Seen this way a Sim in my opinion needs a home, that matches his wishes and thoughts. I cannot prefurnish, I only bild the layout, white painted walls, doors, staircases, and the bathrooms are decoreted with flagstones. The players themselves have to create a home for their dollies here later on. Like I will do, when I´ll start to populate this town.  ;D
But I must finish all community lots completely, and that is not only funishing. There are options for seasonal changes also, chairs and desks for the outside only in the spring and summer, in autumn a circus and in the winter you can do some snowboard stuff. I never worked out all the possibilities you´ll have, if you only create one lot.  :o

Also it can be very challenging to build the inside of a house, if you have the facade done and don´t want to change it. It is like a strategic game in a way then.
So building houses here doesn´t need more patience than every other aspect of the game. It is one of the main parts of it.  :)


@Jmouse,
thanks a lot for your comment here. I think, I know, what you mean. I use a lot of custom content, that I choosed, cause it looks as realistic as possible. But the light...
At the moment I use the given light options, I need to change them later, cause they are useful for building and painting, but the atmosphere is unreal though. The adjusting of the light will be done with S3PE and a Hex-editor.  ;)

You did build cities in SC4, and, as I have to say, very nice ones too, but sims 3 is different as the focus lays on lot building. Like I said above, we play with dollies in doll houses, and we like to give them nice homes. And only a few players like to create completely self built neighborhoods for their games.  ;)

The white circle is the painting tool. It is the only way to get rid of the grid in "build mode" on a lot. Working with the CAW gives you the ability to "edit in game", but in build mode only.  :)


@vortext,
hey, nice to read your comment and to see you again. For sure there are cars, and although I hate real cars cause of the cool ones are old and need a lot of dirty work (and new ones are boring and similar, I like to have at least one Sim, who is addicted to dream cars like a 53´ Corvette. One first garage is built, but pictures will come later - not before it is really finished - that is a very serious job here.  $%Grinno$%
Like you did write, this shed and it´s position aren´t final. I thought about some kind of deco building here and placed it until I find a better choice. This part will see some changes soon.

Okay, and although I first thought not to show these pictures here, I think you´ll be interested into - again unfinshed - insides. First a complex of three houses on one residential lot, something, that needs to be modded later as an apartment (a special feature).
The lot from the north side:
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Here seen from the "Schlossgasse":
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The backyard without any details, and only so you can see the strange parts at the staircase. This part of the house is built with a cheat known as "constrainFloorElevation". This cheat allows you to change the height of walls and build half landing stairs for example. But the textures on the wall will look strange, depending on, what kind you use (wood, stone, wallpapers). With framework it is acceptable, and I will only place some plants at the ground to cover this part:
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The attics:
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First floor:
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Ground floor:
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Start of the stairs:
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The staircase from above:
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Two views I love: First floor:
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Ground floor:
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And then I worked on the church, nothing spectacular, as it looks like a typical protestant church. It shall be changed into a catholic one as soon, as I find stuff to decorate it. But for a first impression the pictures work. The surrounding area also is not finished, but buildings like this need a lot attention and passion indeed.
The lamps - there are no cables for high ceilings, so it looks a bit odd to see them unconnected. That´s Sims, it´s still a game though...
Also you will see some minor oddity, where the windows are, they simulate thicker walls. Ingame this looks good but in buildmode or town view it looks a bit strange. And these are the only church windows anyone did till today. So I stay happy with these.  :)

Okay, here the inside from southeast with the organ and the old, gothic tower behind. The church may be built between 1648 and 1700:
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Here a view to the choir:
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The ground floor of the tower with the sacristy:
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View from the "Kirchstrasse" with busstop, parking space and first deco elements like the little fountain:
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From the north side:
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The lines, you can see, mark the lot borders, they are invisible in game view (town view or the close Sim view).

Buildings like the church need lots of hours. It is one of the first buildings and I changed parts so often, I can´t count. But this process is something I really appreciate. To have an idea of a building and then trying to realize it, especially if I know, that I need tricks like the "constrainFloorElevation" cheat, cause these tricks makes it much more interesting to build.

Yeah, again I only hope, you like it, seeya soon!  :)

Those house insides especially the church are stunning, the amount of detail and how close you can get to things is just mindblowing, I found myself counting the nails in the timber floor   :thumbsup:

And I'm   ()stsfd()   with the flowering tree just outside the church its gorgeous    &apls

Quote from: carlfatal on August 07, 2014, 05:06:29 PM
Okay, catty, I cannot be quite after seeing these wonderful pictures.  &apls
At the first view I thought, it would be CIM2, cause of the mostly US-American buildings. Seems, there is a big modding scene out there. The only one I know is ArkenbergeJoe....

I've got CIM2 but my computer really struggles to play it, and there is something about CIM1 that I really like I think it satisfies the model village builder in me, as for ArkenbergeJoe I've got some of his CIM1 Custom Content, the red tree in the bottom right-hand corner of this picture

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and the red tree in the middle of this picture are his

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Quote... tramways always are THE solution (i really miss them in Sims 3, and if only as deco like in Sims 2, they would be nice)...

well as you can see from the above picture you do have trams in CIM1 and they are fully functional, you can run them anywhere including along roads, for me its trains

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QuoteI can only say, make a blog with it. Nobody can play 5 good games at the same time, but looking for pictures is mostly not a problem. I look for modelrailways, all kind of townplanning, architecture, and also into some blogs for games I like to play like RPGs, GTA series, Sims, Sc4, although the most of them are not on my hardrive currently.

We do have blogging software on my website, but I've been using it for SC3K technical documents (... which I should finish doing), I got rid of the traditional forums as we have the same problem of users who don't seem to know what a computer keyboard is for   :(   ... so we are going to replace the MD's etc with either personal pictures albums which is where I'm posting the above pictures or in the Groups over here

http://city-builders.info/cb-groups

Some of the groups can only be seen by the person who set it up and the people they have invited to join it, the last such group was for Italian players.

Anyway enough of the site detour and back to this site and a message for everyone here who is reading this post, if you want to see changes on this site, if you think we can do something better or shouldn't be doing it at all then let me know via a PM, I make no guarantees but if I agree with you I will do some jumping up  &hlp  and down on the admin boards about it.

-catty

You're doing a fine job of interior decorating, Carl. I love the church, and the magnolia tree in front of it is beautiful. And once again, the details are fascinating. Do you create some or all of the custom content for your city? BTW, where does the spiral staircase in the third-from-last photo lead to? Now catty, why did you have to mention those nails? Trying to count them is going to drive me NUTs. :party:

-Joan

Cool pictures! Very nice!

Quote from: catty on August 08, 2014, 03:15:30 AM
I found myself counting the nails in the timber floor   :thumbsup:

Don´t do it. That is, what this game did make to me, counting nails...  $%Grinno$%

Btw, nice pictures again. The crossing looks strange - but like a flower...  :D And I bought this game only, cause I wanted to build tramway lines. I loved it.  ()stsfd()

Quote from: Jmouse on August 08, 2014, 05:10:09 PM
Do you create some or all of the custom content for your city? BTW, where does the spiral staircase in the third-from-last photo lead to?

Hey Joan,
Never, ever I made models by my own! But I should explain.  :-\
The models used in SC4 are into the BAT imported 3D models. The model itself - without textures - is only a mesh. A Sims creator also creates a mesh at first (with blender or milkshape), but the difference here is, that it can be textured differently later. Makes sense, as the model isn´t a completely designed building like in Sc4 for example. It can be a skirt, a hat, a car, a chair, a window - everything.

I am able to create a mesh, I mean, I am able to create a landscape, and that is the same like a house or clothes, but texturing is something, that scares me...
Some months ago I found a nice picture set of typical 50´s pinups as jpgs, and I tried to convert them to use them on a picture frame out of the game.
The pictures work - modding was easy - but they all look odd, cause I was and am not able to work with any program like PS or Gimp. I am able to change the size of a picture in Irfanview, but I cannot cut out a scene for example and other stuff like that.  &ops

So for me it is enough to build houses and create lots or landscapes. The only thing I do, is modding models for other purposes, if I like to have them as models in the CAW for example. Then I do something comparable to making MMP´s in SC4. The tool for this is S3PE, also useful for modding SC2013.

The spiral stairs - lead to the gallery, where the organ is.  ;)

Quote from: Schulmanator on August 10, 2014, 06:33:44 AM
Cool pictures! Very nice!

Thanks a lot! If the cat likes the place, it cannot be that bad...  ;D


Okay, here we go with some pictures, I´ve made today. I worked on the last houses, and I continued detailing the spaces, where I try to fake other lot sizes and forms, than the game uses. This includes the river banks as well, but here the lot borders are open, no reason for fencing at all.

The river seen to the bridge:
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Another part:
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Not a good picture, especially as I would like to see some fog here. But this will come after finishing everything else:
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Although the mass of details vanish in overviews like this, I like them. And so you have to look at them:
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The next two pics show the exactly same. But my computer is not the newest one, and loading the models will need a while sometimes. I hope, that ingame people will not have to face this problem.

First picture, loading not finished:
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Half a minute later:
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Another not rectangular garden (the hedge is the only object I can use for borders like I want):
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View from another ankle:
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Some steps further:
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This garden now is finished, now a terrace is, wher plain green was in front of the door before:
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Another view to show more of the flowering stuff:
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A garden near the river, in the background the church. The terrace is acessible via stairs or from the basement:
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A new attempt for the cloister, only a first shot The objects on the left side are horse boxes I use for comparing sizes:
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The church with two naves, gothic style, only a trial:
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And at least two pictures of the market place:
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And yes, the kids play hopscotch here  ;):
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Yeah, that´s for today. I hope, you like it!  :)

Wow, those are some impressive pictures there!

That first photo looks like a museum-quality painting, and the second and third are almost as good. I like the reflections in the water of the first one a little better, though. I continue to enjoy seeing the flora and foliage in your game and the up-close-and personal look of everything. The last two photos are really nice, too, and there's nothing wrong with using hedges. They fit in quite well with the overall atmosphere of your game.

Having one of those periods that mean I keep turning up in the topic to post and then I have to stick it back to unread so I can try again later, this time I'm determined to post   ;D

Picture 10 garden is   &apls  I like the path addition and the garden seat next to it looks great as does the additional flowers, its the little details that are   ()stsfd()  like the barbeque, seat and umbrella on the patio of picture 12.

-catty

Took me a while to notice any difference between the 'loading' pictures. Apparently windows take a long time to load (pun intended  ;D).

The shore flora looks very nice and the water itself is gorgeous. Such a shame SC4 doesn't have water reflections. .  :(

Everything is shaping up really nice, I'm looking forward to see the cloister get developed!  :thumbsup:

Great work Carl!! &apls

What will the cloister be? Are you planning to do a functional cloister in a residential lot? It will be funny to have some nuns in the city!! Where did you get the vaults and columns?? I made something similar for The Sims 2, the nuns had a little orchard and sold sweets, but now we can't have business in residential lots...  &mmm

BTW:

Quote from: catty on August 07, 2014, 04:15:58 AM

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Does anyone know where can I get similar cars for SC4? I mean atomatas and props... I've searched a lot, but I couldn't find anything similar...

I like your pictures a lot, Catty!!

Hello! :)

Decided to comment now as I've got a clear idea of the work you're doing. :)

I have to say it's impressive. I've always wanted to be able to move freely around the cities I created.
Good work with the different buildings. The mayor office is very nice and I'd see myself live in that one room last floor. :)

Quote from: romualdillo on August 13, 2014, 08:54:11 AM
...Does anyone know where can I get similar cars for SC4? I mean atomatas and props... I've searched a lot, but I couldn't find anything similar...

I like your pictures a lot, Catty!!

Thanks, as for the cars my first reaction was to pop over here

http://www.props.freeservers.com/

and see if there was any old-style vehicles available, looks like the oldest is 1960s, have taken a quick look over at Simtropolis and found these

http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/21206-1926-cadillac-blue-limousine/

http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/21203-1926-cadillac-limousine/

They both reference gizmo's vehicle props over here

http://gizmo.aplaceforwebsite.com/

But apart from a couple of old trucks in it, I can't see anything really old in it.

-catty

Wow! I am just now discovering your work!  Those cars especially the blue caddy will fit WELL in Peyton Place!   my cities are currently in the year 1954! (same RL month and date but year is fictioned)   Cant wait to get my downloads!

Quote from: Sim.Rico on August 13, 2014, 04:29:15 PM
Wow! I am just now discovering your work!  Those cars especially the blue caddy will fit WELL in Peyton Place!...

I'm just a visitor here, its carlfatal you should be thanking as its his SIMs3 MD

:)

Heya Devoties!
only a small teaser today, I hadn´t the time for more. There is Sims 4, where I am sticked into, there is RL and eventually I am playing this Sims 3 game too...  $%Grinno$%
But at first - answers!

@compdude 787,
thank you! I hope to see you again in Altensimmen!  :)

@Jmouse,
It´s the nature, why I am addicted to this game. If water or plants or paints also, it gives a lot of abilities to create wonderful scenes. I even have to stop me from cluttering around... $%Grinno$%

@catty,
yeah, and I forgot something important though.. the hedge has no ground beneath, I forgot the painting here...  ???
The details, - Sims is a wonderful dollhouse...  :thumbsup:

@vortext,
I think, there is some custom content making trouble. Things like this can be so annoying here. There is such a big amount of custom content, different to SC4 the community is splitted into thousends of sites. Conflicts, corrupt files, not updated files - the number of problems can be enormous...
But thanks for the nice comment, and like I said before - nature details are well designed in Sims 3 (at least this feature didn´t fail complete).  ;D

@romualdillo,
thank you! At first I thought It should be a cloister for monks. But now, small like it is, I would say - six or eight nuns would run the place perfectly.  $%Grinno$%
But all thoughts are off the players here, I only do the shell. You can convert it into a library for example or into some kind of community center.
The cars, catty gave the links, thanks to her!  :thumbsup:

@art128,
Thanks a lot Arthur, I love your work and would have written a comment, if I would have seen all the pages I missed in two and a half years! I am still half way through... $%Grinno$%

Quote from: art128 on August 13, 2014, 09:01:17 AMThe mayor office is very nice and I'd see myself live in that one room last floor. :)

Yeah! I really forgot to - at least - place a sleeping bag here. The perfect place above...  :P

But I have not answers only, and although these pictures now do show an unfinished spot, I have to admit, that the complete quarter isn´t final. The corner here seems to be the most difficult part of my town, I am still not happy with it.
Here Sims 3 isn´t as nice as SC4, I have to rebuild the buildings every time I change lot sizes. The cloister - I really do not count the attempts anymore. But I think, these pictures are another example, how I find my way to the "ideal" of a Hessian town.  $%Grinno$%

here the newest one after destroying some parts and starting with the left part:
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From west:
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From southeast:
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No windows, no details, only again a try to find a solution. But I need some time here, I want a solution, that convinces me.

I hope, you liked this "how I develop, and how brainburning this can be" update.

Its nice to see the planning stages, and shows how much work goes into doing this   :thumbsup:

I always like to see some background – some insight into how players get from point A to Point B. There will always be some restrictions with city building games of course, but still, there are as many ways to play the game as there are players. It will be interesting to see what direction you take from here.

Wonderful work on your unique project here  &apls  I had a chance to catch up on the last couple months work today and really enjoy what you've done. The level of detail must be great to work with and you've taken full advantage of it in adding all the beautiful details to your buildings and natural scenes. Keep it up  :thumbsup:

Heya!

Today I show another special series. But like always, answers first:

@catty,
thank you!  :)

@Jmouse,
thanks you too!  :)

Quote from: Jmouse on August 20, 2014, 03:30:37 PM

...but still, there are as many ways to play the game as there are players. It will be interesting to see what direction you take from here.

Indeed, a game starts to get my interest, if there are possibilities to customize it to my likes. If I can make MY game from a bought one.  ;)

@noahclem,
thanks for the kind comment.  :)
A unique project? I am not sure. Here - at SC4D, yes, - and there are not many people, who like to build landscapes in this detail focussed style, but some do. Look out for Nilxis´ creations, a sixteen years old boy, who build sceneries I love to look at.  :o

So, now to the update. Like I said, I was playing also, but after all my sims got sick with a deadly desease (yeah, this can happen, cause they got lost on a small island and no hospital exists there), I returned to my town.  $%Grinno$%

This cloister - I think the hardest step here is done. I changed some parts again, but after building the first "dummies" around (and luckily I could place two of my saved buildings on the new lots too), it now looks okay with this place in front of the cloister.

This was the school at the old place:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F5f3d4ce7afa33eb5747a55def08b8c31.jpg&hash=4a2e7dc581ac5dc82c94ea8b7342c044f606e769) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

And here I started to rebuild it on a bigger lot with modern parts in the back (but the main building at the street is still the old one:

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F083a2e06fdb22d28e8cc117ac0184b4d.jpg&hash=5a7ecc09f86c39999fde14d28554c73d05bc4a2f) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The reason to rebuild everything is the sloped terrain here:

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The cloister and surrounding houses now: 

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another view:

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And from the street:

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fc2fa8b13474141d0e932db894817e249.jpg&hash=39451122fbd3ec04a15ae0d2c25933be8a4635e6) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

The next two pictures were made in the CAW. So you can see the complete layout with lot borders. I had to redo the most streets here, and some of the terrain.
CAW1:

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CAW2:

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AND a small excursion today: I found some older pictures again. These are not related to Altensimmen, they show one lot of the previous project, Simhausen, a small village with - yes - framework houses built in Sims 2. But I was so happy to find them again, and this small car repair shop is a good example, what I like to do with these games.
Sims 2 has much more possibilities to build, and aside from the fact, that I cannot recolor objects here, - with the right custom content it can look nice (or dirty like here).

1 

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2 

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3 

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4 

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5 

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6 

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7 

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8 

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9 

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10 

(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Ffe38577f61dd25670cb7e3c38e40a540.jpg&hash=18a51c6c52cf80d6a1893a06a962e92b95eacd97) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

11 

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12 

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13 

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14 

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15 

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16 

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17 

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19 

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21 

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I hope you like it. Seeya soon.

I'm so glad you shared your Sims2 photos. When I saw the first one, I thought it was a RL scene for a moment until I noticed the game interface. I especially like the cobweb in #9 – what a nice touch! The special effects are quite stunning. I love the textures on everything – they give an overall effect of the kind of dirt and grime one would expect to see around an old auto repair shop.

I'll be coming back to take a closer look at these photos, although I'm not sure things like this can be duplicated in the BAT. I guess they could if a person was fortunate enough to find the right kind of textures, and creative enough with PhotoShop to make it happen. #17 caught my eye, too - the contrast between the grimy interior and the flowers outside is jaw dropping.

You've done an excellent job of creating a certain atmosphere and reinforcing it through every scene. Thanks again for sharing these.

Ditto on everything Jmouse said, in addition really liked seeing some animal life, the birds, the cat   ()stsfd() in picture 6 and the dog in picture 7 it just adds something and gives it less a still-life portrait look but more a snapshot from a camera type thing

-catty

OMG. Thanks Catty for the link. This is one hell of an marvelous project. I am running out of works to describe how awesome this is.

Heya Devoties,

This update seems to be small, but I hadn´t that much time to build, and also the developing process isn´t that easy, cause the most lots here are very small. Another reason is the fact, that I´ve got Sims 4 for free to write some review.
To be honest: I´ll stay with my older games. The new sequel isn´t that bad, not that kind of fail, EA had to face with SC2013, but it can´t really compete with part 2 or 3 in my view.

Like always, I thank for the nice comments.  :)
I am very happy, that these old pictures were to your like. Funny is, that I opened Sims 2 a week ago. The most houses of the village, where this gaz station is situated, are finished or not far away from it.
The animals in these scenes are deco objects only. I have no player characters for this town, no dogs, no cats. But I was able to use these objects instead to create something, that works on pictures. Deco like the cat or the different birds aren´t made for gameplay. But they are useful, if people write graphic novels or create lifelike scenes.

So, but back to topic: this update contains two parts. First I finished the school, these pictures are shown first. With this landmark I had a point, how to begin.
The second series shows pictures, how it looked yesterday evening.

The school:

1:
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2:
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3:
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4:
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9 work in progress:
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I hope, you like it.  :)

I love the school!!!  &apls  It has really a German taste, specially the modern part. (I don't know why, but this is my feeling).  The work on the basements is nearly perfect!!! The cloister looks great too. I want to see how are you going to finish it, specially the courtyard and the church. Keep the good work!!!  :thumbsup:

Love the school and think pictures 3 and 4 really show what you can do in Sim 3, the little touches are great like that broom you have propped up against a wall in picture 7    :thumbsup:

The school looks great, in part because it's a departure from what I've been used to seeing in Altensimmen. I like #4 – having a dumpster among the gorgeous trees and flowers is so realistic. I like the brick textures, too. I also like #13. When I first saw it, I felt like I was looking through the door of a real school over the weekend. I really like the gray house in #7 part 2 as well. I'm going to guess that it isn't quite finished, but I love the shape of it. I really hope you continue to show us your work – the texturing and details are awesome.

Fantastic past few updates! I really like the look of that garage you have in TS2, stunning realism. :) And I love the look of the school, you really capture the old-school school (hehe :P) and the modern addition tie in well, looks like a lot of modern examples of the samething in RL. Look forward to more, everything is shaping up nicely!

Wow,sweet new update Carl.Of course i still remeber that Gas Station/Garage thingy which you made in Sims 2 and i`m still amazed by that natural worn look and of course the cool Gas Station Roof.That`s so Mid Century like.
About your TS 3 School:This one really looks great,remembers of the bigger School across the street from my elementary school.Besides that,it`s a classic german old school like you can find almost everywhere in god ol G.
A large facade,massive Mansard Roofs and of course the modern addition which was often expanted one or two more times.

I always wanted to do something like this in the Sims 3. :O

Excellent work. I like the school building. :)

Only a small update today!

@romualdillo,
thank you! More pictures of the cloister will come soon!

@catty,
thank you too! I never thought, someone would mention the lost broom.  ()stsfd()

@Jmouse,
thanks Joan! I will continue this project until it`ll be finished.
You are right, this grey house isn´t finished yet. It is an example of a fresh renovated building, but the details need to be added sooner or later.  ;)

@sim_link,
thank you!

@deora,
Thank you, Chris! Indeed parts of this school were created from memories of my youth.

@Aaron Graham,
thank You very much! But if you also play Sims, I would be very interested to see pictures of your buildings. I did look into your thread yesterday (after long time, &ops ), and when I saw the stunning picture of this twin house from an angle of view, we never will see in SC4, I really thought, that the difference between these games isn´t as big as some people think. It´s all about town planning and architecture...

@art128
thank you Arthur! I hope You´ll like the soccer field as well.


Sims like all other people need places for sports activities. Here in Gemany most people like to play soccer (not including me), so I had to build this lot for them.
There is a small sports bar and locker rooms, place for kids and the soccer field.
The surrounding poplar trees are made from one model in two sizes. Like in SC4 it is useful to rotate them, also I´ve placed small ones inside some of the bigger ones.
To have more variations of textures here, I painted parts of the ground ingame while building the lot, but all the more transparent textures like on the soccer field or under the playground objects were sprayed using the CAW tool.

But let the pictures speak:

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That was all for today, I hope you like it!

Really nice touches with the playing area for the kids, not quite sure it would be safe for them that close to one of the goals, but still a   :thumbsup:  not to sure about that rubbish bin you have sitting by itself on the first picture

-catty

The terrain painting is almost perfect. You are doing a great job!!!  &apls

Ahhh,a good old fashioned "Bolzplatz" :D
Well,Soccer wasn`t really one of my favorite things either (actually i hated it as a kid) but your soccerfield looks great.Love the combination of different terrainpaints to get that used lawn look.
Nowadays a tall chainlink fence would be mandatory for safety reasons,but the people back in the days neither had tall chainlink fences around their open soccerfields nor Airbags,Internet or Slimfast,and they still survived the "medieval" 50s to 80s :D
After a school and a soccerfield,what`s next?Maybe a large Playground which is visited by the big red "Spielmobil"?

Carl, you are doing a great Job! &apls

Fasan  ;)

Nice football field! Same thought as Catty about the playground. I would have also put a fence to prevent the someone or a ball to get on the train tracks. :)

Very pleasant pictures once again!   &apls

Though as has been noted already, I too have my doubts about the seesaw next to the soccer field. Anyway, I really liked the abandoned farm from the previous update, great textures patterns!

Looking forward to more of the cloister!  :thumbsup:

Very nice work on the last couple updates  &apls  Neat to see you work on different types of areas than before with the school and park. Always a pleasure to visit here  :)

Heya Devoties,

after some time there should come new pictures. I had some issues with the textures, but I´ve got it solved and so...

But first answers:

@catty,
thank you! This rubbish bin always appears on residential lots, together with a mail box. If you see such a thing, then you know, what kind of lot it is.

@romualdillo,
thanks a lot, but to be honest - your work with textures is much better...  $%Grinno$%

@Fasan,
Thank you!  ()stsfd()

@art128,
Thank you, Arthur! This soccer field - I only added the fence at the street side, cause it is a very basic lot. There is no money to invest in needless things, and, as you can see today, the place between the field and the railway is bigger, than one could think after looking to the first pictures.

@vortext,
thanks, - and the same like I mentioned before: we are in a rural small town environment here, no reason to pay for things like fences.

@noahclem,
thank you, and yeah, I am often changing the places, I am working on. Mostly I do this after getting angry about anything, that doesn´t work like I want...  :D


Okay, then pictures. I overworked the most of the railway line, finished the borders of the forest in the background, and I planted some fields. The textures aren´t really good, the plows should follow the height lines to avoid erosion, but - compromizes... Bounderies with bushes - that looks like agriculture in the early 20th century. But I like the look, I like my little paradise.
Sadly I have no better textures for the railway, they should be darker, more like some used granite gravel.

Also I worked a bit on my station, the pictures show the building in an earlier state, when it was in use as a station. Like the most train stations now it is useless. It will be changed into a normal residential lot. The building next to it is the former toilet. Now it is used as a residential too.

Like always nothing here is finished, but it gives some idea, where it will go.

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That is all for today. I hope, you´ll like it.

Seeya, Carl  :)

I want my real life railway line to look like   &hlp  it looks great, its just a crying shame we are never going to see a train on it, nice details with the railway station like those little details of pallets stuffed under the station platform, not sure about the flowers under there as well, its not quite right, really like the derelict line and the way you got it overgrown with plants, but in RL our derelict lines are the ones furthest away from the platform.

but its a great update and the scenery along the tracks looks   ()stsfd()   &apls

It looks incredible!!!! &apls Would you like to finish the world I started some time ago?  $%Grinno$%

I love how the bus stop design is the same we have in Paris. ;D

Nice update, I love railways. An update with railways is always awesome. The space between the football field and the railway is better and more safe now. :)

Would be nice to add some signaling to the railway. Maybe only semaphore signals as they're more common on old unused/ not frequently used rail line.

First of all, my apologies for missing an update, but RL is taking a heavy toll which will increase later this week.

So far, my favorite is #2. There's a slight feeling of disarray like one would expect to find in and around a train station. #3 looks great, too, although I have to agree with catty about the flowers. Some tall (unmowed) grasses like those seen in #1 might be more appropriate. The pallets, like the "organized clutter" in #2 bear close study to keep from missing something.

#7 really showcases the wonderfully-detailed foliage at your fingertips. I often wish for underbrush and tall grass in SC4, but I have nothing like what you have. #10 is a lovely scene, and I especially like the little snippet of track in the lower right corner. Is that the shadow of the train on it? If not, it still gives the impression that it is, and that's a priceless detail. #15 appeals to me because of the wooden sheds, barrels and old pickup truck. I'm a great fan of old, gray wood, and once again, your detailing around the tracks is amazing.

I've enjoyed every photo presented here – some a little bit more than others – mostly because you have such an undeniably-great eye for details.

Oh wow, very pleasant pictures!  &apls

#10 & #14 are my favorites, though #18 is rather excellent, too. Must've been a heck of a lot of work 'plopping' all the flora though (or whatever the sim3 jargon is for 'ploppping'  :D ).

The overgrown tracks are a nice touch btw. In fact all the small little details are nice touches! Keep up the great work!  :thumbsup:

Congratulations, your MD was number one on Ben's Top Ten for the week ending 14 August.

Great update  &apls  I really like the railway and in particular all the flora surrounding it--makes me jealous of all the stuff you can do in this program that can't be done in SC4 :D  My one suggestion is that you make the railroad ties wider, extending further beyond the rails.

EDIT: Congrats on being number one in BTT  :bnn:

Heya Devoties!

Like always the replies first:

@catty,
thanks a lot for your compliment! I´ve placed the dandelion there, cause this flowers like to grow nearly everywhere, the other ones grow on the old track in front of the platforms. And the side, where the truck stands is the south side, so this should be enough light for them.  ;)

@romualdillo,
thank you! But instead of finishing your world I hoped, my work would encourage others to try the same... On the other hand - now I am curious about your work in Sims 3. I wouldn´t wonder, if it were such a detail focused stuff like your BAT set.  ;)

@art128,
thanks a lot, Arthur! Indeed the bus station is right our from a Paris set from Around The Sims, and so is the most street furniture like phone cells, trash cans etc. It is the only existing set in Sims 3. And sadly there are no, absolutely no signals or signs for the railway. And as long as I don´t start doing my own 3D models...  :crytissue:

@Jmouse,
thank you first! There is no reason for any apologies, but it´s good to see you nack i Altensimmen!  :D
An old trainstation indeed should look a little bit used. So you can find pallets, old bricks, dandelions, and some other, particulary scary objects under the old platforms. And yeah, these dandelions are the only plants "under" the platforms, but always placed, where light can reach the ground easily. The other flowers on the tracks - maybe I will remove them again, I am not sure about it.
The pictures with all the grass in the ditch: The point here is, that I really built a dam for the tracks with ditches on both sides. This was one of the most difficult parts of the terraforming, cause I had to care for the tracks, but now this feature is faulty for the "realism".  :D

Picture 10 - yeah, the shadow could come from an engine. Sadly I wasn´t able to make a shot from it. These are the moments I would like to know more about photoshop or gimp. Then I would be able to pretend some activity there.

Thanks again for all the compliments, I try my best here.  :)

@vortext,
thank you too, Eric! After I´ve seen you implementing gif´s into your MD I thought I should try the same (But it doesn´t seem to work...). I´ve made a gif of my boring work with the hedges...  :D  But we don´t plop things in Sims, as nothing grows like in SC4. So you set down a lot or you place it, objects the same. Plants will be planted, but this should be obvious here.  :D

@benedict,
thank you!  :)

@noahclem,
thanks Noah! Indeed the plants were the reason, why I started building in Sims 3, they are incredible realistic, especially as they move with the wind ingame. And you are right with your critics. Sadly I am no BATter, I never tried to create a mesh for a model, and texturing - oh my, here I really would need lot of time and advice before I would be able to create anything worth to be shown. The tracks I use were made by a simmer from switzerland, and still better than the few models EA provides. But although this is a not so nice compromize - it is still better than a town without railway tracks to the world.  :)



Okay, here I am with new stuff.
I needed some house series, one should be built around 1900, one around 1930. Then I planted hedges and street lights like a maniac, and I built some more houses in the quarter I am working on (okay, the most of them are only structures, dummies, but they will give me some advice, what to do and how). Also I changed an EA festival lot to my likes, this was much less work than doing it by myself. You can see two industrial buildings on some pictures: they are older ones and still not finished. Another never really shown building is the fire departement near the train station. Some pictures of the cloister and the quarter behind it keep record of the current state of developing here.

Something I need to show: There is an old signalman or gatekeeper house near the tracks. First of all I can show here, how I pretend not-rectangular lots. But secondly this super small sized house (only three rooms inside) is currently the one I would choose to live in, if I would live in this small town. It is the type of uglified building I love. When the owner needed more place, he put a second floor on the old construction.

The fence is part of the lie here, only the short part beneath the entrance, where the white flowers are, is ingame fence. Everything else is deco outside of the lot. It was a little bit tricky to change the colours of the on-lot part, so that they match with the rest, but at the end it worked.

I know, that a lot of the pictures are focused around the small part, where "my" house is, but I had to choose from more than 60 pictures, and I like to show parts, where I think, I´ve created something like atmosphere, and not only construction sites. I think, I´ve made over 100 buildings in between, and it is still a lot to do to bring the whole town together, to put all the details in.
So I only can hope, that you like my small house as much as I do.


1. Planting hedges:
here should be a gif. On my computer it works, but here and it don´t want. I really would appreciate any advice...  &mmm

2.  a boring job:
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3. Fences and hedges done:
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4. without grid:
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5. and the same view ingame and after finishing the scene:
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More pictures of the same spot:
6.
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7.
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8.
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9.
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10.
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11.
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12.
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13.
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14.
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15.
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16. The fire department:
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17. A garden, if someone likes to play a homeless challenge, this can make life easier...
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18.
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19.
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20.
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21.
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22.
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23.
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24.
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25.
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26.
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27.
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28. The 1930´ houses:
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F01981288f8acd43772afd53c4a58e868.jpg&hash=23423bf7249d274cdcf618ca5e0041a39a9427bf) (http://www.ld-host.de/)

29. A closer view:
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And the last one, the current overview with all lots:
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Like always I hope, you like it! Seeya, Carl

Ok just wow, I'm going to have to come back later and do a proper post as I think I need to go thru the pictures a couple more times before saying anything more

:bye:

Wonderful world builder skills my friend.
The environment doesn`t feel like a small enclave anymore where there are just a few houses under a big glass dome,it seems like you have extended beyond the limits of the game.The overall athmosphere seems like something from a big open world sandbox game.
The idea of dividing the lots with diagonal and ortogonal hedges is great.This gives  the neighborhood a great "off the grid" feeling and the lots look more natural (especially on curvy streets,lots aren`t only rectangle or squared...).
Maybe with clever decorating of outside the lot and inside the lot areas you can even improve this feeling more.

I also love the addition of a 1930s "Neubaugebiet". These small houses remind of similar ones that are scattered all through my neighborhood.Just four walls,a simple pyramid roof and done....
Keep up the good work and your great updates... &apls :bnn:

It's great that you show pictures again of your unique SimCity project. (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fec5f2347c641efcb7e30adfc88c7e5d4.gif&hash=2b64c5b16b75a7325c389d8433be6d51c4770c55) I like the scenes shown very much. But I miss cars, trains and pedestrians. (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fcbeff8c1a9063419bc49be139a2767c8.gif&hash=e4b25fecdf5a7f0d4ef89bed26de6b1d4ce46533)I hope you come to also.
An exciting project in which I wish you much fun!  &apls &apls &apls

Quote from: catty on November 18, 2014, 01:04:58 AM

Ok just wow, I'm going to have to come back later and do a proper post as I think I need to go thru the pictures a couple more times before saying anything more

Good intentions, etc, its been a weird old week what with one thing and another, including resigning from the site staff ... the why's and wherefores aren't important anymore.

So on to your last post ... first of all I agree with Dantes it does take some getting used to not seeing "But I miss cars, trains and pedestrians." but and I think I have said this more than once you have a fine eye for those little details that are easy to miss but make the difference I think from just showing us a painting and what you post which is a series of snapshots from a city.

Case in point the washing line and kids swing you have in pictures 7 and 8, the car parked on an angle in picture 10 and the hand mower in picture 17.

And as for the flowers and trees you have they are in a word stunning.

Thanks for the latest update it was great and I look forward to the next one   &apls

-catty

You keep dazzling us with these lovely details :O   I really like the railroad and the green spaces, as well as the more technical pictures. Keep up the great work  :thumbsup:

Amazing work!

Wow, I didn't know you could create such beautiful landscapes in the Sims. :o

Village is starting to take shape very nicely. Also I was wondering (and sorry if I missed it): what's the village name?

As for the gif trouble: the issue probably lies with the image host. Though the site says it supports .gif, that's no guarantee is supports animated gifs. That's what I found out years ago when I tried my hand at gifs for the first time, I remember it took me a while to find a suitable host. Nowadays I use both imgur and dropbox to embed gifs on site.

Heya!

First replies!

@catty,
thank you! There is no need to run, I mostly can do one update a month...  $%Grinno$%
And yes, working for a forums can become a time consuming job sometimes, and there are lots of reasons for it.
And to the lifeless scenes: Today it will not look very crowded, but I found someone freezing...  ;D
And the plants indeed are stunning. The flora was the reason for me to make the step from Sims 2 to 3.

@deora,
thank you, Chris! Sims 3 indeed is a fantastic sandbox, and I know no other program to realize something like I do here.
The house series with the pyramid roofs: It was a must for me, built from the 30´s to the 50´s, they are so common here around. I wasn´t allowed to ignore them.  :D

@Dantes,
thank you!

@noahclem,
thank you very much!

@Vizoria,
thank you too!

@c.p.,
thank you! The CAW for Sims 3 is not the easiest tool (at least it´s made by Maxis/EA $%Grinno$%), but indeed for me it is the best program to build a realistic looking old town. But like in SC4 I needed a lot of custom content to leave Maxis behind.

@vortext,
thank you, Eric!
The name of the town? I see, the title was too long, as "Altensimmen" seems to hide behind the "and now to...". But yeah, the people here know their village as Altensimmen.  $%Grinno$%
And a second thanks for the help with the gif problem. Seems, that my hoster doesn´t allow gifs. Dropbox is a good idea, as I am registered there, and sooner or later I will try to make another one.  :thumbsup:


I was´nt really active over the last month, but this is reasonable. I am not connected to any conventional power system, all I use is solar power, and during the winter a small netbook is my only computer.

BUT, there is a very good reason for a teaser: wintertime, isn´t it? I was visiting a friend, who owns a normal apartment, and there we played a few days over Anno 1404. In this time I made a first attempt to export my town. This step is always the one I fear. Will it work?.

And yeah, the fear was reasonable. All time I tried to export, the CAW came up with an error message. After two hours searching in the www I eventually found the solution. Luckily everything is fine on my side, only I had to manipulate the memory of the game, as it doesn´t accept an export with custom content. This was an easy step after knowing the problem.
And then I installed the finished file and started the game. First it did not look different, but now I was able to leave the pause mode. And so can show you some nice winterpictures.

Here, where I live, we have not much snow in the winter, mostly rain, Frankfurt is the most northern point on the European continent, where palms can grow outside, and we have one small park with a lot of mediterranean plants here, called "Nizza". But Altensimmen has snow, and although I am no snow fan, here I like it...   ;)

After loading the town I placed a young Maxis-premade couple in "my" house:
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Then I changed game speed and did wait for snow. And when winter started, I made these pictures.

Early winter near the river:
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Heavy snowfall:
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A view over the town:
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View to the town hall:
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I think, someone is freezing here...
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This was all today. I am no Christian, but it´s midwinter, and I wish you all a few happy and peaceful days with your loved ones, lots of cookies or whatever you want!  :)

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Well I don't visit SC4D as much as I used to, but an Altensimmen update will bring me back every-time   ()stsfd()

I want Sims 3, seriously those winter shots are   :bnn:  magic, the lights with just a hint of something happening inside the houses, the snow on the ground and houses, the icicles on the roof eves and the falling snow, most of the tree's and shrubs, etc obviously in winter mode and yes the people.

&apls

Quotebut it´s midwinter, and I wish you all a few happy and peaceful days with your loved ones, lots of cookies or whatever you want!

Hope your midwinter is just as nice   :thumbsup:

Export trouble was well worth it, absolutely gorgeous winter pics!! &apls &apls

Wow,those winter pics are really breathtaking beautiful,the weather effects in Sims 3 are really superb.
I finally want to have snow here in my area,too.
For everyone else (because Carl lives sort of in the same area):Last year there was now snow,even days with temperatures below 0 Degrees Celsius were rare.We only had rain,rain and even more rain.
And it seems that this will again happen this winter.Last friday we had 10 to 12 Degrees Celsius,it feels more like October than December.
Also some weeds like dandelion are sprouting again here and there.
Well,at least our Simswill have a white christmas.
I also wish you all happy holidays and a great new year.

I really looks as the perfect Germa town!!!! At least it's as perfect as the idea we have here in Spain of a German town!!  :P

Sadly we all are having less wintry days. (Or having them out of date)  ()sad() (Sorry for the off-topic comment)

Wow, your work is outstanding!

My favourites are the pictures showing the heavy snowfall (although I would expect a few more trees in the middle, behind the houses) and the view over town. It is too bad that you show us what is still not possible in SimCity: freely cluttering buildings to create an organic looking town. Well made!

Which brings me to a side note: I wonder why still no connection has been made between the two games; planning a small village/neighbourhood, for example on the smallest SC4 city tile and then letting Sims inhabit the place. As well as the other way around: if the Sims in their game can't get to work, mayor Defacto may construct a railway to Simcity or place a bus stop in town (this would tackle your railway frustrations ;)).

Silly thoughts $%Grinno$% Until the game codes become open source I will visit Altensimmen regularly and envy your skills!

EDIT: by freeware I meant open source

Amazing snow pictures! (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fec5f2347c641efcb7e30adfc88c7e5d4.gif&hash=2b64c5b16b75a7325c389d8433be6d51c4770c55) Fantastic work !

Wow, wow, wow :o  Those snowy pictures are fantastic.

On behalf of the SC4Devotion Of Special Interest This Month Committee, congratulations on being selected as the first OSITM MD of 2015!

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Congratulations! :thumbsup:  &apls

Congrats ... Its very well deserved   &apls

Congratulations!!!  &apls

Congratulations, curious to see what you have in store for us!  &apls :thumbsup:

Happy new year!  :)

At the first place I want to thank the site staff for choosing my MD for the OSITM. I lost it one time, I won´t do it again!  $%Grinno$%

Replies, shorter than usually:

@catty, vortext, deora, romualdillo, Earwhyckque, Dantes, c.p., art128, Fasan,
thank you all for your comments! Your enthusiasm in following my MD did bring it into this OSITM.  &apls

@Earwhyckque,
indeed, I can do things here, we currently aren´t able to do in SC4. But I strike a new path here, Sims 3 never was made for something like this.
The most EA worlds are laggy cause the creators didn´t spend enough attention into routing. Fixed versions can be found on some community sites. I found this very interesting and started reading about, what causes routing problems. And now I am playing with exactly these things, cause I am sure, that I can prevent the game from lagging later on. At least I hope so...  :D

Merging Sims and SimCity - this was part of the Sims 2. Here we can create Sims 2 neighborhoods with SC4 terrain and streets on the smallest SC4 tile, - still some of the trees I use in SC4 will appear on a Sims 2 world. The source code is partly identical, thanks to thoughtful programmers like Will Wright.



OKAY, but now to my first OSITM special:

More than ever I will show work in progress. I hope I can finish the three areas I am working on during the OSITM, cause in the meantime I reached a point, where small changes aren´t easy to recognize, although some of them needed a lot of thoughts about, how to realize them. A new texture for a wall - well now it HAS to match all the others, and also it still should be different from the neighboring areas. No easy task sometimes, CC here also can be a dependency.
At the moment I am using 1.2Gb community made CC and 1.3Gb EA-DLCs. All this will be needed to see the town ingame like I did it. And sadly I am always finding new things like gutters and matching downpipes...  $%Grinno$%. Maybe also interesting: To save the file needs 10 minutes now.  :o

First is the cloister. Here I finished the inner parts, walls, doors, floors, and also I did the first steps in the garden.
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There is a heavy slope to the river, but I tried to make as much space usable as I could. The first floor here is the cellar, and still it needs a lot of stairs to reach the shore.


The next part is the main street. I want to fill all the lots there slowly, and some of the former dummies now have a facade. The obviously abandoned building is a perfect example for not really matching textures. I tried a lot but later I looked to that house and thought, that the style of the windows needs other "wallpapers" here. This will be changed, but I am waiting for the right moment and idea.

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And at least there is the supermarket, I am playing with. This building is very special, cause it looks like an alien. In the first place I wanted to create an old building here, but then - hey, it is the perfect place for something really ugly, I thought. It has three floors, and two of them only are used for shaping the roof. Sadly I didn´t found any signs of companies like EDEKA, but I am still searching. The most parts of the interieur come from the same french creator, who´s Paris set I am using for bus stops, phone cells, and other street furniture.
As you can see, they still are cleaning up, freezers and place to store fresh vegetables will come as soon as I find some.

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I hope, you like it!  :)

Great work again!!  &apls

When you start using CC you just can't stop searching and downloading items!!  :P (only aroundthesims has a lot) The new supermarket looks horrible!! It's fantastic!!  :D I have a question, How do you make the floors to look so thin? I thought the minimal height was a fourth of the normal height...

Oh dear!

Das ist wunderbar! Das Landschaft ist großartig, das ist eine andere Dimension des Raumbildung in dem Spiel...

I'm really impressed! It's a brand new level of city creation. The photo showing the river flowing trough the town covered by snow and fog, it's one of the best in-game shots, I've ever seen. Your winter-time atmosphere is stunning, feeling like almost a photo of a real place, that I would like to visit and feel that charm.

All of your work is great. I didn't expect, that this game could give such possibilities to recreate each scale -a scale of the town and, up to a scale of the street and single house.

What is more, I used to build a town in TS2 but I've never thought about building castles... :)

Keep it going!

You know, I actually hoped to see more of the cloister but didn't say anything out of fear of jinxing it. The garden with the walls and stairs is very nice. A pitty sc4 doesn't allow for such intricate handling of small height differences.

And yes the supermarket is an excellent eyesore!  ;D :thumbsup:

Quote from: vortext on January 05, 2015, 10:23:30 AM
....And yes the supermarket is an excellent eyesore!  ;D :thumbsup:

Very much a ditto   ()stsfd()

Everything else looks great as well worth popping in for   :thumbsup:

Congratulations on the OSITM &apls

The interior detail of the supermarket is amazing :thumbsup:

Also, good work on the walkways/steps around the cloister.

Have you ever looked into 3dwarehouse.sketchup.com? (i.e. Sketchup models).  There are building models with complete interiors there, as well as lots of furniture, etc, if you are looking for stuff to fill the "abandoned" houses.  I don't know how difficult it is to convert from Sketchup to Sims format though. ()what()

That supermarket is a perfect example of ugly supermarkets. Nice work! Also, great to see you thought about making the private area of the supermarket. :)

The small supermarket or drugstore looks awesome! It's amazing what you cast out of the game. (https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F4adaa0b0ec00723fbe3814415d744cd5.gif&hash=3a0d68fc73d63134da7e0758aaa88d4e3787c9a5) Great work!(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ld-host.de%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F40f01b7e4ddd8334cc44ff78d241568d.gif&hash=2fdc3e02a342f0773a130c4fb79664c9448adfdb)

Congratulations on being selected for OSITM.

And extra congrats - your MD was number one on BTT for the week ending Nov 27.

Heya,
here comes the next OSITM update.

Like always, replies first:

@romualdillo,
indeed, CC is the salt in the soup here. And ATS is one of my primary resources, I really love her stuff.
To your question: you can change the height of a wall in 16 steps. With shift and klicking on a stair you will get a stair with only one step. (For all not Sims-addicted: you need to dig a hole, place a wall into there and then you can change the height of an exisisting wall on level 0 to the height you want by using a cheat. Important is, that you count the steps you dig in, cause they will be cutted from the wall on level 0. I hope, this is understandable).

@kbieniu7,
thank you Kamil! And I see, you mastered your studies of German language!  :thumbsup:
Sims 3 has great graphics indeed, and using imported textures and models changes it from EA to some more realistic looking thing. But all the honor should be given to the ones, who made the CC I use. Without their work Altensimmen wouldn´t exist.  ;)

@vortext,
thank you! This cloister was a lot, that really scared me. Nothing else needed more time to grow. BUT: today it is finished, and I hope, you like the pictures.

@catty,
thank you too!  :)

@c.p.,
thanks a lot! Today you can see the finished state. And yes, I know Scetchup, but I can´t use models made with it.
One reason is, that every house here is usable ingame later. It needs to have the right routing and all objects you need to let sims live in there.
And the other eason is, that the use of CC in sims 3 is very similar to SC4. You will need the model/mesh file as a dependency to see downloaded objects ingame. Different to SC4 is, that some creators allow to share their CC with built lots or worlds, as long as you give credits. I prefer to give links to the stuff I use here, but nonetheless: most scetchup stuff is copyrighted and not free to use. And also there is an unbelievable amount of things, I can download on all the Sims sites, - so much, that I never will be able to use it all.

@art128,
thank you! And yes, I try to build "realistic" everywhere. So you also will find rooms with waterpipes (like baths or kitchens) mostly on top of each other, although this is not necessary ingame. And to have social rooms for workers, an office for the boss, and some small storage room - well, without it would look odd, wouldn´t it?  :thumbsup:

@Dantes,
thank you! But like I said: I am playing with models made by great artists. I am only bringing them together.

@benedict,
thank you too! And like I said in your thread: it is hard to believe, that there is so much interest for a game, the most here don´t even play.


And now to the update: the cloister is done, and I can´t count all the hours I needed to finish it. It is not only one of the biggest lots in the town, it also is one of the most detailed. And it is one of the most faked lots here, the borders aren´t visible anymore.  $%Grinno$%
To the butresses: I wasn´t able to continue them around the choir of the church, and also I have to deal with the strange texture issue there (the upper part uses the same like the bottom). But I think, it gives the church some kind of realism though, and I will let it be like it is now. It was work enough.  :D


The first two pictures were made during the building process. I am using a lot of brushes for the ground textures. But if I use the terrain paint tool, I don´t have any grid on the ground, so it is not easy to shape. To avoid unwanted results I am working like people, who brush pictures: I use floor tiles to cover the parts, that shouldn´t been painted. After finishing the paint job, I can delete the floor tiles, and everything looks fine then.

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Then (still done while working on the file) the floorplans. I am starting with the upper level, and I have to admit: the cellar and the crypt aren´t yet done.  $%Grinno$%

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The rest of the series are random shots of the lot and the surrounding area after finishing.

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I hope you like it. Seeya Soon!

Of course I do!!!  &apls The cloister looks fantastic!!! And thanks for the tip!!!

The area around cloister turned out great! The interiors are great too. Not to mention the courtyard, wow! The shot through the window onto the courtyard is superb!  &apls  &apls

The contrast between wild vegetation along the riverbanks, the tamed cloister garden and the medieval buildings themselves is absolutely splendid! And picture 34 kind of makes me wish I was a sim, just so I could live in Altensimmen... ()stsfd()

Quote from: Themistokles on January 13, 2015, 11:06:54 PM
....And picture 34 kind of makes me wish I was a sim, just so I could live in Altensimmen... ()stsfd()

I think for me its got to be picture 24   :thumbsup:

Congratulations on being OSITM, and well done - your MD was the Christmas number one on BTT!

Quote from: benedict on January 24, 2015, 06:34:31 AM
Congratulations on being OSITM, and well done - your MD was the Christmas number one on BTT!

Well done it just shows how much interest your Sims 3 MD is getting from people   &apls

Heya and sorry for the delay,

but I wanted to show something finished - more or less - more less...   &ops
But the progress is visible, and some nice scenes and places are grown. I placed around 300 new duct covers, and around 50 street lamps. Silly me put them into the wrong layer. And instead of cutting them out together and pasting them into the right directory, I had to change this manually with every single object. It did took round about three hours...  %wrd

Since the file becomes bigger and bigger, crashs appear more often. The last one was after two hours of gardening, some last details like the small ponds... and luckily this time the CTD happened immedietly after the end of the 15 minutes, that the saving process needs.
If I only count the time, I waited for saving during the last 2 weeks, it´s more than ten hours later now. Crazy...  $%Grinno$%
But - the progress is visible, at least for me...

Replies:

@romualdillo,
thank you again, my friend!

@vortext,
thanks, and I hope, this update is also to your like!

@Themistokles,
thank you! After finishing this Town will be developed. At least then your selfsim can live here...

@catty
also a big thank you! I am absolutly happy, that this project seems to draw very much attention, much more than I hoped in the beginning. But I am pretty sure, that some Sims players also look in here, cause only here people can see my stuff without being logged in.  :thumbsup:

@benedict,
thank you!


And now to the update´s first part:
Although I had to fight some problems, the quarter around the school and along the riverside is nearly finished but sadly with some small parts I need to fix. But I don´t want to wait any longer with snapshots of the parts I´ve worked on.

Today I will show mostly nature, or what can be left from, if we don´t canalize a river. Here is place for fish and other animals, and cause not only Sims like fishing I will start with a picture, a view familiar from the cloister update, but - two small stones added. Only a pity - but such things work to inspire the viewers imagination. On the left side comes a small creek, view to the old town center:

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Stones! I thought, why not, could be remains from the ice age, and slowly wandering downstream. The view is opposite.

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Another angle of the same spot:

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Yeah, I was bathing...

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Also upstream, to the left the old town, to the right the school quarter:

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This view leads downstream from the "Bahnhofsstrasse" bridge:

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Another angle:

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And supermarket - place enough now to deliver goods:

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The house, that you can see here, uses a partially fixed, not really working EA mansardes set, it appears buggy but I love this kind of architecture, and seen from close eerything is okay - so I decided to let it be. Also ist is the only mansard set, that I can use for small 45 degree angles like here on the streetfront:

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The last picture for today - an overview about, what will come. Hope you like, what I´ve shown:

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Seeya very soon!  :)

I can just see myself walking along that river (and if I had a river like that anywhere near home it would be a daily walk) and throwing bread out to the ducks, its lovely   ()stsfd()

And good to see the supermarket filling up

&apls

Oh yes, it definitely is to my liking!  :satisfied:

The river banks are gorgeous!  &apls

New pictures...

I´ve tried to shoot them ingame, but the weather wasn´t with me, it´s raining cats and dogs. But everything here is really ingame, with an exported version of my world file. So more detailed picures will follow as soon as the sun shines again.   ;)

Thank you catty and vortext!  :)

1 This sim I made for testing purposes:
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10 a monument for the very famous Twallan (the most important modder for Sims 3)
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Seeya!  :)

I love the guy on the swing  :D

Great landscaping!!  &apls

Hello again!

This is my last time in OSITM, and first I want to thank you all for visiting my town, and a huge thank to put my MD into this spot goes to the SC4D staff. And least but not last I want to thank catty, vortext, and romualdillo for their nice comments during this time!  &apls

I hope, you all had fun during looking into this (still unfinshed) idealized model of a south Hessian small town.  :)

Today (and through the next updates also) I will show you only real ingame pictures. I exported a new version after working on 8 more lots. Like always I found the missing things and unfinished spots short after making the pictures. But slowly I learn to live with desasters...  $%Grinno$%

I hate to play with EA-premade Sims, they are ugly, and some parts of the Sims community speak about pudding, if it comes to EA faces. The woman you can see here is one of the sims I made for different game settings, her name is yaf 9 ((young adult female). If I make a sim, I always need hours for it, and some time ago I started to save them in a folder, where I easily can pick them out to put them ingame, wether to play them or as a source for the game to create NPC´s from.

The first pictures show a well known house, that I always use for tests. So I thought, it should be nice furnished for a young lady like yaf 9 is.  $%Grinno$% Then i will follow down the left side of the Brückenstrasse (bridge street) that leeds from the market place to the Frankfurter Strasse.

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This is the finished left side of the Brückenstrasse:
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This house has to deal with a problem. EA made these mansards for the store, but they did not work, the windows were fake, and the rooms behind not usable. A modder changed that, but he sadly wasn´t able to rework the functionality of the dormer windows, they stay blind as the were. Luckily it is possible to use converted Sims 2 dormer windows for this reason, but here I wanted the originals. As this house should serve as a so called "rabbithole" in the town, as medic center, it is not important, if it is usable everywhere inside.
Nonetheless I love to build the complete inside, if needed or not, and so you can have a nice view through the skylight into the staircase from above:
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The next house in the row:

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This one will be visited in another update again:
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Sometimes other NPC´s show up, this is the newspaper boy:
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Both last pictures were made in the Frankfurter Strasse, the main street, that leeds from north to south. But this will be part of another update.

I hope, you like the today´s update, seeya!  :)

It nice to see the sims, and as always those trees and flowers are excellent, love the house with the boarded up windows even the shrubs in the garden have got an abandoned look about them   &apls

What a fantastic update to finish what was an awesome OSITM.

This update was really nice. It's great to see what the town looks like from ingame screenshots. You actually make me want to play the game, even though I get bored of it after a little while. :D

Thank you for these awesome pictures, looking forward to the next updates. :)

EDIT - Welcome to your new home, the Best Sellers!  &apls

Heya!
Wow, I am in the bestsellers section!

@catty,
thank you! The flowers, yeah, I love to flowerize everything here...much too much, I think...  And the abandoned house will be part of another update.  ;)

@art128,
thank you, Arthur! Indeed my first love to Sims game started with building in Sims 2. The games aren´t boring, as long as you look to them as a sandbox, where you have the joy to play your own challenges. No other game offers such a bunch of mods to change all parts of the gameplay to your likes. Now Sims 2 and 3 have their own partitions in my gaming computer.  :D

I had some problems with my internet connection, but now it seems working fine again. So I´ve uploaded the next bunch of pictures, following the inner side of the "Frankfurter Strasse".

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9 a better look:
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Like always, I hope you like it. Seeya!  :)

The best sellers list ... well done    &apls   it explains why I couldn't find you the other day, like the update and seeing the different cross layers of the houses makes you appreciate that its not just the outside you have to do but all the insides as well, especially like the look of the yellow tudor style house with the red roof.

-catty

Nice new update.

And congratulations, your MD was number one on BTT for the week ending 8 January!

Heya!
Thankyou both catty and benedict for your comments!  :)

I had some time to revise and upload, and so I can show the next pictures of the quarter I was working on. At the moment I only have a netbook here, and if I play, well then... I play SC4.  $%Grinno$%


Here I first had a roof color and some sandstone idea for the windows. Then I searched for a matching wall pattern, and then just new downloaded stuff did the job like it would have been made for this situation.
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And here some kind of overview:
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And the backyards:
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This house is a typical example of the early 20th century, built between 1910 and 1920 it is less decorated but it still shows a regional design like the roof with mansards.
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The green house, one of my favorites, can´t say why...
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The next hose in the row is the abandoned villa. Once here may have lived a wealthy family, but now the house is in bad condition and the town mayor (me) has to decide, if the building will be destructed, or at least renovated. But who wants to live in a small town in the middle of nowhere?
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The inside:
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Seeya!  :)

Nice pix! I wish I could do that!

Great job mixing CAW elements with the lots!!!  &apls  I think it adds a lot of realism.

Non-square lots and a peaceful walkway, what more could one wish for?  &apls

Heya!

Yes, it´s me again, since some long time, and there is a reason. I lost my gaming computer, it died in May 2015. I am simply not able to repair it, it´s too expensive. So I have to state, that this will be the end of this MD also. Although I sadly never will finish this town, there is a bunch of pictures I´ve made before everthing ended.
If I am able to look at the harddrive in the wrecked machine, I will upload an exported version, that represents the last stadium of development that I will show you.
My long absence - well I was totally frustrated and I had to learn to live with this loss. And it is one, as Sims 3 was not only a building program for me but my most loved role play game. This may sound strange, but a good RPG can be played without weapons and fights.

But first replies:

@Schulmanator,
thanks a lot!  :)

@romualdillo,
thanks and yeah, lotting like in SC4 - always little tricks...  $%Grinno$%

@Themistolkes,
thank you also! Indeed, these little tricks are, what I love(d) while building.  :)

But now to the pictures! Some are done with this last exported version, so you can see one of my own Sims exploring the neighborhood.

I will start, where the last update ended: The next house in the row is just the corner Frankfurter Strasse to Schulstrasse:
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More distance:
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From this house the Schulstrasse leads to the cloister, while the Frankfurter Strasse is continuing to the quarter near the railway station.
Both sides of the corner:
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Different views:
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Detail:
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The first house on the river side of the Schulstrasse is a small one, kinda R$...  :D:
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Detail:
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Then there is a modern one, it´s made to work as a fitness studio:
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It´s next neighbor is again built in the early 19th century. Modernized but not destroyed:
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Views from the backyard:
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The next ones seen from the street:
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and from the back:
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This one is also renovated and can serve as an R$$$. I showed th building before but here everything is finished to led a new owner in. I like the Parisian style roof, it is totally different from all other buildings, and together with the bright facade it gives some "rich" touch to it.  :D
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Again seen from above:
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And then we reach the old part of the twon again:
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The building between the school and the supermarket can be used as a gallery ingame:
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And - parts of these both were seen on the pictures above. They were built between the yellow corner building and the school. May be constructed in the late 20s:
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Detail:
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From behind:
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And here a view that shows a part of, what should have become one of the highlights of this town:
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But here I will continue later. Until then two last pictures of the Schulstrasse:
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I´ll be back soon...  ::)

Wonderful set of pictures. The house with the parisian styled roof is nice, however I'm not sure the roof over the windows should be that large.

Sorry to hear about your computer dying. If you don't mind me asking, what happened? Maybe you can salvage a few things from it to try and save cost of a new one.

Over here they are having sales on the Windows 8 computers even tho you can update them ... nice set of pictures I especially like the way that pond has turned out in one of the gardens

all in all   :thumbsup:   &apls

NOOOOOOOOO!!!! :angrymore: Why did it happen!!!
I have to say it was a wonderful neighbourhood and I hope you can recover your files, because I'm going to download it as soon as I can. I have stopped playing The Sims 3 for a while, but I will start again as soon as I can put my hands on it!!