Unusual or helpful uses of decoration items in CAW

[DeLouche]

Hi all!

So, I'm building a world. I'm still in the planning stages at the moment (sketching out road plans, working out how many lots I want and how much space I need etc).

Part of my planning has led me to think about how to create a harbour. Thinking of how to do this, I remembered the river in Champ les Sims (WA), and how, when it goes through the town, has a wall on either side, going down all the way to the water. Is this available in CAW, and if so, has anyone used it successfully, and are there any tips/tutorials that might be handy?

I can add a pic of what I mean, if that will be helpful.

[DeLouche]

OK, I've worked out a way, using decoration objects; to be precise, adjusting terrain around a retaining wall. No fishing off the pier, unfortunately, but it does look nice

I'm changing the title of the thread to encourage people to discuss how they use decoration objects to give a unique look to the place, and ways to use or adjust them to look like something else.

[Chuckles_82]

I think there's a water tank in the game anyway, but I didn't find it before. I used a grain silo pushed right down into the ground to look like a water tank. I also rotate and put rocks at diffenent depths into the ground to make new different looking rocks.

Pushing plants down into the ground so only a bit of the leaves show, on a small mound, to make it look like a pile of green-waste just outside/just inside the junkyard.

Before the service station was available in the game, I saw someone make an interesting arrangement of objects using MOO to make a gas pump.

It should be very interesting to see what ideas people come up with!

[DeLouche]

Oh, I remember the gas pump - I think it was Ausette's Gas Station.

I saw this awesome video about creating a shark tank inside a house - it was on one of the other building threads. It's on youtube, so the veideo wills start playing automatically on clicking the links.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LR-upqJwp9k