The Diary of World-Builder - Cypress Lakes

[Gogowars329]

Sorry about that sweetest pea. Totally forgot about that rule. Won't happen again. @Chuckles, I was not contradicting you.

If you do make Bananas in Pajamas, the house should have three teddy bears...

[Chuckles_82]

I've been thinking about the teddies - I might just make them people, all with teddies that match their outfits as closely as possible in each of their inventories - so each teddy sim would have their own self teddy dressed the same - if that makes sense. If not, probably because I'm very tired and drove about 5 hours today.
If I can find one - I think there's at least a dragon - I'll put a toy dinosaur in George's inventory too. "Din-soar. Rawr".

[Chuckles_82]

03/10/2012

Here are a couple more shots of the house. Just a couple of basic layout shots, but it's finished now I'm not sure if I liked the idea of it being like a dollhouse, but I'm sure it was meant as a good thing, so I've stuck with it. I hope I haven't overdone the pink  Anyway the dollhouse thing stuck, so it is Maison de Poupées


Second Floor


Third Floor

Today I opted for something a little easier - well - easier to start with. I have done the Hospital/Science facility, and then have made a start on the graveyard - Memory Lane. I'm struggling with the landscaping today for some reason. I have the basic layout, but I'm off to look at all the different EA graveyards for some inspiration.

[Gogowars329]

The graveyard looks really cool. I suggest having a few of the larger headstones and maybe those headstones can have a little extra as if they are richer or something. I love the house. It looks great.

[Chuckles_82]

Oh, good thinking! And I can have some 'poorer' ones with just the headstone on the ground, in a couple of rows. I'm saving the back corner for pets' graves, but I still have to work out the arrangement yet. I was thinking in a kind of circle.

[saltpastillen]

I meant dollhouse in the best possible way. And what are we if not the puppet masters?

[Chuckles_82]

I thought as much and of course - Sims is really only an electronic version of dolls anyway. Well, maybe a bit more than that - adding achievements and such makes it insanely addictive.

Anyway, I've got my muse on again. After checking out some ideas, I've used a bit from here and there, and I've got one side done now




I drove the columns into the ground so I had something to attatch my plaque to - seen as how you can't do epitaphs for empty tombstones. This one is special.



I realised I didn't match anything properly last time. That, and I really didn't like the choice of mausoleum. I had switched to that one because I didn't make the archway steep enough, but even so, the archway was too cluttered. I needed to unclutter it somehow. That was the first thing to go. Once I had done some gardening and built the little watchyacallit (brain. not. working.) I added it back in, but made it much less cluttered, and matched the wood to the door on the mausoleum. I matched to roof on the other thingy, too. I liked my stone fence, but I changed that aswell, so that it also matched.

I don't know if it will stay, because last time I exited and came back it had reverted, but I toggled each of the tombstones to charred state, which made them a nicer colour - they are not recolourable Fingers crossed I can make it stay that way.

Now for side two!

[saltpastillen]

I like your new version of the graveyard. I don't know why, but it feels larger than before.

[Chuckles_82]

Removing the dividing pathways and making the central path narrower would have made it seem larger, I think. Before the archway was 2 squares wider.

Here it is all finished (save a few minor touch ups here and there as I see things I want to adjust slightly)

[Gogowars329]

Wow. The graveyard looks so good! It looks happier than most EA graveyards, which all graveyards should be.

[Chuckles_82]

I think out of all the graveyards I looked at, the one in Appaloosa Plains was the nicest EA one, and Union Cove's was nicer by far than all of them.  Although, I didn't look at France, and from Memory, that was quite nice too. I did my gardens a bit like AP, the thingy (I remembered it after I went to bed last night, but once more my brain refuses to work) like in BP and UC and the arch was all my own. I don't know about happy so much as it should be well kept, and bright, like the enhabitants have moved onto a better place, rather than dark and rundown, like they've been forgotten.

Ooh, that reminds me. If I can slide the plaque up and down I was going to make a small wall of plaques - if I've still got room.

[DeLouche]

The graveyard, and the Victorian house, both look awesome. The house is very pretty, and you've created a lot of interest, with the different levels and roofs etc.

The graveyard in particular looks both realistic and... I dunno, very cheerful for a cemetary! But not inappropriately cheerful just a nice place to sit and remember - kinda like where my granny is buried, actually... I really like it

[Audren]

Very nice graveyard, Chuckles! It's the kind of place I'd like to go eventually.  (emphasis on eventually)

[Chuckles_82]

Thankyou everyone I have one more addition: the memorial wall for sims in the military career. I hope it's not missing anything important.

[Chuckles_82]

04/10/2012

I'm trying to get 1 or 2 lots done per day at the moment. Much more than that and I seem to burn out a bit. There's not much really to choose from for inspiration for dog parks, but I basically wanted to scale down the one in AP, and match it to what I've already got. So, named after my very first dog:

Bowser's Bark Park