Sims 3 - The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread

[norenegonc]

@Agneza – I do not quite understand what you mean. Did you want the bird to be a community lot, I am slightly lost lol. In any case though, in order to begin any kind of team effort like this, we would need to start with finding a talented world builder hah. Also, I saw your message, I think it would be easier to describe the technique in a tutorial. I can get started on it momentarily.

[Chuckles_82]

Ooh, I like what you did with the curves on the roof

[samoht04]

Nope it's terrain. I used plants to cover the tops of the wall which I couldn't get rid of and they looked ugly. I was trying to blend in my hobbit hole. There is stairs but you can't see them, wrong angle and they are the same colour as the walls of the burrow.

[norenegonc]

Ah, then it is indeed the same technique. Sorry about that. I thought that you did not use stairs, which I figured were mandatory for the technique. In fact, I just realized I was looking at your house all wrong! I see the stairs now lol. I thought they were the bottom border of your wall hah! That is why I thought it was a normal wall and not a basement. And I also see the side walls now hah, which I for some reason thought were the front wall but curved downward hah. I thought you had just built a straight line wall and curved both ends a bit down to look like a hill hah. Might I suggest coloring the side walls either brighter or darker in color to get a slight differentiation between the two. I know in game of course it would be utterly obvious, but in images it creates this… mirage lol. I know what you mean about the walls though! I utilized 2 techniques to solve this. One was to raise the terrain above the house in a sort of arch. You of course cannot raise it directly above the wall but it sort of makes it look nicer because of technique number 2. Use a small fence along that wall border. If your roof is flat then it stands out, but when you form the arch with the terrain, it works rather well. And if you color it to match your walls, it works even better. It is not ideal since it still shows a bit, but it is an elegant solution I think (courtesy of naver muler84 and his or her blog). I think I might try to create a 2 story hill later hah, it might work if you raise the ground enough initially. What do you think

[samoht04]

Ah, then it is indeed the same technique. Sorry about that. I thought that you did not use stairs, which I figured were mandatory for the technique. In fact, I just realized I was looking at your house all wrong! I see the stairs now lol. I thought they were the bottom border of your wall hah! That is why I thought it was a normal wall and not a basement. And I also see the side walls now hah, which I for some reason thought were the front wall but curved downward hah. I thought you had just built a straight line wall and curved both ends a bit down to look like a hill hah. Might I suggest coloring the side walls either brighter or darker in color to get a slight differentiation between the two. I know in game of course it would be utterly obvious, but in images it creates this… mirage lol. I know what you mean about the walls though! I utilized 2 techniques to solve this. One was to raise the terrain above the house in a sort of arch. You of course cannot raise it directly above the wall but it sort of makes it look nicer because of technique number 2. Use a small fence along that wall border. If your roof is flat then it stands out, but when you form the arch with the terrain, it works rather well. And if you color it to match your walls, it works even better. It is not ideal since it still shows a bit, but it is an elegant solution I think (courtesy of naver muler84 and his or her blog). I think I might try to create a 2 story hill later hah, it might work if you raise the ground enough initially. What do you think

Another idea to try would be to bulldoze one of those empty houses on the cliffs in SV near the beach and see if it's possible to blend it into there somehow, make a cave sort of thing. I have an idea of how it could be made to look like a cave entrance... I really should stop doing this because I end up getting so inspired I almost clicked the Sims icon then, Lol.

[norenegonc]

I was thinking the same thing hah! I thought about it when we were discussing dwarven halls and building our own world earlier. I imagined it might be cool to create mountains with CAW and then go in game and build on lots on the mountainside. I think it can be done as well, just build starting at the height of the mountain that matches normal wall height. You would of course get that weird void on the side, but that kind of makes sense since a mountain cave would sort of go into the mountain a bit. And then inside could be a giant hall where dwarves dwell <.< hah, although you could actually build a giant hall inside since it would all get covered by the mountain. Let me know what you find when you try this technique in Sunset Valley. I imagine it could work well enough. The only limitation I can think of is that any hill or mountain that you do this on would need to start inclining slowly to allow for the house to be built on the side and then could incline dramatically after that. Since we cannot build directly over the entrance it would look strange I think if the sides of the house inclined very dramatically while the area over the house had to incline slower lol. I would be interested to do this myself, but I am still working on the building contest 8 house, along with a few tutorials hah. Cheers

[Agneza]

I finished interior in my Fantasy house. I hope you like it 

[loveSims]

Wow Agnesa that look amazing! I love the colours it is so beautiful

[cndneh]

@Agneza - love the fantasy inside, question about the bed, you have to singles and moveobjects them into a double, do the Sims treat it as a double ie: woohoo?  or do they use it as two singles? 

[Agneza]

They use it as two singles.

[Joria]

Any link for this amazing build, Agneza?

I walked around in a house Agneza built for me today and I bow down in awe at her building skill.  The attention to every tiny detail is phenomenal and her use of color is beyond belief.  It was so beautiful I literally was in tears at the beauty and in gratitude for having it.  I wish my real self could live there and just walk around admiring every little section of it.  Even something as mundane as the trash can was recolored to match and to add even more beauty.  Agneza I think you truly are one of the best builders in the forum, and so open to learning and trying something new that I know you will only be more and more amazing with each build.  I can build pretty nice traditional houses, especially huge ones, but you can build everything. My hats off to you!

[norenegonc]

Quick aside in reference to what Joria mentioned. I am also a fan of recoloring every little thing to match, but I get so frustrated because the game has to load the tiles for each material when you go from one material to the next using create a style. Is there any way to force the game not to do this. It is definitely doubly frustrating when you are only using the R button to recolor, choose from existing saved designs or dragging the design tiles onto another object and you do not want to choose a different material tile. Then it is like, what is the use of loading all the tiles (including the custom tiles you saved for later use lol) and waiting until the loading finishes before getting to move to the next object. I know I could likely delete all the custom design tiles I saved but… that seems like a lame workaround lol. It is this reason that while Maison Chouette isn’t my favorite creation, it definitely took the longest to build since I literally recolored EVERYTHING. And also somewhat the reason why my latest creations are unfurnished <.< How do you stand to do it Agneza hah.

[Chuckles_82]

I was inspired by someone's treehouse I saw somewhere back in this thread, and felt I just had to build one of my own. I made a childish sim thinking she'd be able to use the kid's stove. bum bum. wrong. So I used edit in cas and made her a child, who is now successfully living on her own (I maxed out the childhood slider so I could play it for longer that way).





I keep having this issue however:


That and for some reason, even though she can go up the spiral stairs, she can't go down.

[loveSims]

The treehouse is so cute! When you change the age of a sim with the cheat they can stretch like that. It realy scares me if a sim does that. Lol.

[Agneza]

My new Modern house ,( unfurnished). Lot size 20 x 30. I was inspired with reall house. I hope you like it. Little rest from country, and fantasy houses. I made 14 in last month.