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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3075 on: January 13, 2013, 10:45:11 PM »
Beautiful work Alyse! Anata wa Nihon o suki desu ka?  :P
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3076 on: January 14, 2013, 01:15:39 AM »
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I'm sorry, but I had to edit your post because we only allow English here on the Forum.
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3077 on: January 18, 2013, 02:56:20 PM »
What a wonderful house Majick! (Did I spell that right?) I would definately use that in my game.
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3078 on: January 23, 2013, 05:21:58 AM »
Sorry I've fallen off the face of the earth!  I've been ill for a few weeks and before that, Christmas kept me busy.  Am hoping to do some building soon.   ;)
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3079 on: January 23, 2013, 07:55:43 AM »
Sorry I've fallen off the face of the earth!  I've been ill for a few weeks and before that, Christmas kept me busy.  Am hoping to do some building soon.   ;)
I hope you feel better now. I'm looking forward to your new builds. :)

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3080 on: January 23, 2013, 09:30:36 AM »
Oh my there is some wonderful work here!!  I love the diversity of everyone's imagination!  Good stuff, I'm glad I found this thread!

We have a challenge going on at my place so I have my most recent build.  The challenge is to build a duplex that must share one wall and the roof.  The rest of the challenge is to keep the sims separate on each side.  We had to use the lock door feature and traits like loner, shy and brooding helped out a lot!  Same with lifetime wants like the author and painter helping them stay in their duplex and work.  I was really surprised how well my sims behaved about trying to get to the other side, of course with the locked doors they were unable to but they sure thought about what the other guy had!  ;D  They did share the pool and horse.

Here's the info about the sims:
Vinny Palimer is the fairy and his horse is Pop.  Vinny's traits are:  Shy, Great kisser, bookworm, neat, perfectionist and equestrian.  His LW is Professional Author.
He lives in the single floor side of the duplex.

Dante Morgani is actually the vampire Dante Morganthe from Moonlight Falls but I changed his looks and traits to: Loner, brooding, great kisser, commitment issues, cat person and artistic.  His LW is Turn the Town.
He has the brightly colored side of the duplex and he has 3 floors.  His kitten is Nova and he pays as much attention to Pop as he does his kitty!

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3081 on: February 02, 2013, 10:39:36 PM »
I am building a Steampunk Victorian Manor for Dextra, and I have one more day before my self imposed deadline.  I'd love some advice on what I can do to make it more Steampunk-y.  Right now it just seems dark and empty to me. 

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Screenshot-28 by mandamouse123, on Flickr

Dining Room:

Screenshot-26 by mandamouse123, on Flickr
 
Library:

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The bathroom, my favorite room in the house:

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3082 on: February 03, 2013, 02:10:19 AM »
Mandamouse, that house is looking really good!  I love the shapes you've made with the exterior. 

I haven't done much steampunk in the sims, and it'll depend on which expansions/packs/store content you've got, but gears or wheels on items or as decoration can help make it less Victorian.  Or even items that can be recoloured to look like gears or wheels (I've had some luck with the fire hose decoration, which I think came with Ambitions.  It's nice and round and has more than one colourable area to work with).

If your sims have access to the inventing workbench or sculpting station, you could use the gizmos and sculptures as well.  I think the inventing gadgets might be available in buydebug, but the sculpting objects have to be created in game.  Play around with it, like using move objects to merge the static testers with table legs to create a 'magnetronic' desk, that sort of idea.  Also, there's lists of what can be sculpted in each material - it's random chance what the sim makes at first, but a set of chairs out of wood or clay or metal might look nifty. 

Personally, my idea of steampunk is sort of Wild Wild West-ish; a sparsely populated late Victorian frontier where mad geniuses tame steam to their bidding.  Lots of sun baked woods and dust and cast iron and brass, with faded oriental carpets and tasseled lamps in the background.  The luxuries and fashions have to be imported, which means they're rare, worn out, or a home-made version which isn't quite the same.  So for example, I'd take those great wallpapers, but use a wood or wood panelling instead of the light coloured paint for the trims, to try and scruffy them up a bit.  But that's just my personal interpretation of the genre - yours might be a coal-fog drenched London where everyone dreams of escaping the murk with airships. 

And if you feel like you need more items to work with outside of the Victorian style, and you've got World Adventures, consider if your version of the steampunk world travels.  Maybe they're just beginning to explore some Egyptian ruins, or have opened trade relations with the Far East.  A couple of ancient relics in the library, or a fortune cookie machine in the study/invention laboratory, could be an interesting touch.  Whatever feels right to you, have fun filling up the rooms with rugs, wall art, sculptures, candles, towels, plants, even outdoor rocks brought inside if it works!

Just be sure to post plenty of picture when you're done with the house!   :D

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3083 on: February 03, 2013, 05:33:51 PM »
Whee!  Thanks so much for your advice.  It still may not be very steam punk-y, but your advice gave me the motivation to finish!  Am I allowed to post pictures here as well, or should I just link to the download post?  It's here.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3084 on: February 09, 2013, 10:19:25 PM »
Just furnished some rooms in my Villa, not exactly French looking but I like it.

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That would go well in Monte Vista if you still have that build.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3085 on: February 13, 2013, 06:30:41 AM »
I think I still have it on the official exchange but not furnished, I may finish it off now though, make some changes with all this new content we now have! :)
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3086 on: February 14, 2013, 07:02:26 AM »
For a couple of months I've trying to build better houses. Here are pictures of some of them. Only exterior shots though. Only 2 of them have been furnished and fully finished...

^For this house I kept some of the foundation from the original Sunset Valley lot.


^It's fully furnished but I was playing on a different lot and couldn't be bothered to change household to get a picture. I really like the interior though. If anyone wants to see I'll take a few pictures.   


^This was the first one I built. Testing out CFE for the first time. Lots of fun to make!


^This one is still an empty shell.


^Basic furniture. Exterior not finished.

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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3087 on: February 14, 2013, 08:35:42 AM »
Your houses are awesome! I love to see more. :)
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3088 on: February 14, 2013, 06:00:08 PM »
Eddy, your first home (The beach one) is freaking awesome! Keep it up!
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Re: The Official Building/Remodeling Showboat Thread
« Reply #3089 on: February 14, 2013, 10:33:37 PM »
I would love to see the houses when they're done, Eddy. They're awesome looking on the outside.
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