Sculpting - Ice scupltures.

[samoht04]

Hmmmm, I will try that, maybe I will get that YA sculpture after all... most likely not but it is worth a shot! Thanks Salty! 

[Saltypaws]

Someone had posted that quite a while back when Ambitions first came out and I have been using it since.  Whoever it was even timed it.  I think it shaved off 2 sim hours, which is actually quite a bit when your on a timeline, lets see, 25 ice sculptures times 2.  Heck, 50 sim hours your saving, lol.  Not too bad.

[samoht04]

That sounds good to me! 

[Pam]

So, it works like the painting exploit used to work?

[samoht04]

I found that with the 20 sculptures challenge it shaved off a top quarter when it was started? Anyone else notice this or am I imagining things?

[Schipperke]

Some time ago, my sculptor made an Immoderate Water Fountain in ice:



It's a working water fountain, and I'd like her to make more of them, but for some reason it doesn't come up as one of the options where I can choose what I want her to make.  I thought once a sim had made a particular object, they could always replicate it.  Do sims forget how to make things?  Is there any way to get this back as a sculpting option?  She hasn't made anything new in a long time, even when I just tell her to "sculpt", without saying what.  It's rather sad if this is the only one she'll ever make.  If she had to forget something, I wish it had been that stupid freezer bunny thing!

[Jonna]

So, it works like the painting exploit used to work?

No, not exactly.  When a sim starts sculpting, she spends a seemingly disproportionate time on the top section.  If you cancel the interaction while she is working on the top, then have her go back, she will automatically finish the top section and move on to the mid-section of the sculpture.  If this were akin to the painting exploit, cancelling her interaction now and then telling her to start again would allow her to immediately finish the mid-section and then continue to the next section.  This, however, does not happen; she merely continues working on the middle.

[Pam]

Thanks, Jonna.

@Schipperke:  I read on the Guide that sculpting in clay opens up the new pieces that haven't been done before.  Carl also says that the Immoderate Water Fountain is random.

[Saltypaws]

I got that one too.  First time I have gotten it and I really like it.  I used moveobjects on cheat and put one of those flat floor lights under it after I changed the color and it is really pretty. Perfect addition to my dynasty's founders collection.