Hi everybody,
This morning when checking the nest of my Black-cheek zebra finches in my aviary, I found 2 baby birds! I did know they had 4 eggs, but didn't expected them to hatch already. As these two did though, I expect the two others to hatch today or tomorrow too.
It's a bit late in the season, but as the weather is still quite ...
2020-10-02 09:15:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
I'm back from a few days away from home, but as always I had to become ill 😒
Luckely most of the time I did enjoy my break, but this morning I had to get a Corona-test as it became worse instead of better. I will get the test-results probably by saturday.
Though I do not believe I'll have covid-19, but more of a com...
2020-10-01 15:11:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Another example of mixing interactions can be seen in the screenshot above where one is taking a shower, while the other one plays underneath the waterfall. You can also mix both interactions with a Sim gathering water for example. :)
2020-09-30 13:00:18 +0000 UTC View Post
In today's sneak peeks, a look at the shower interactions. In both images two Sims are visible, but each Sim is doing it's own interaction. Meaning, also only one Sim can shower underneath the waterfall.
In the first image, both Sims are doing the shower interaction wearing their swimwear.
In the second image one is doing the "shower nu...
I didn't had enough time for making a sneak peek video, so I've devided multiple screenshots in different sneak peek image posts. Today's post is about the "Play Solo" interaction.
On the images, you see both a female as male Sim play underneath the waterfall. The fourth image shows both the male as female playing solo undernath thewaterfa...
2020-09-26 13:01:30 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
I've got some good and bad news about the waterfall and it's interactions.
Bad News
Let's start with the bad news. After spending hours yesterday on making all kind of custom things, like interaction texts, interaction icons, interaction queue icons and buff texts and icons... the problem came when lin...
I've just decided to make two object versions of the waterfall, one for placement on terrain with additional interactions as the gather water interaction and one without any interactions, placeable both on terrain as on the water surface.
The reason for it, is that you can't use the interactions anyway when placed on the water surface. So ...
2020-09-24 09:59:52 +0000 UTC View Post
A sneak peek of the "Relaxing waterfall sounds" buff which Sims get when being near the waterfall. It also gives them a focused boost. The icon has recieved a small change as I've added a relaxed looking emoticon to the waterfall icon.
I've also took a look at some other interactions and as some of them have buffs too, I wanted to add some...
2020-09-23 14:57:45 +0000 UTC View Post
To make all more clear, here're some sneak peek images from the interaction text + custom bucket icon as well as the custom interaction queue icon. But also the interaction itself, where your Sim will gather water with the help of a bucket wearing his or her swimsuit.
Right now the Sim will walk to the spot, changes to swimwear, performs the ...
Hello everybody,
I've finally made the outfit-change to work when a Sim gathers water from the waterfall.
I did asked icemunmun for help but she couldn't really find the reason it didn't work either. But now I've had weekend (yesterday too) and had a fresh look at the tuning, I saw what made it to not work.
I've also changed an un...
2020-09-22 09:20:40 +0000 UTC View PostI haven't tried adding a shower interaction yet, but I did add a 'gather water' interaction with success. I'm trying to make it so that Sims will switch outfit to swimwear, but can't make it to work yet. I've asked Icemunmun for help now. :)
In the meantime I will add custom text and icons to this interaction. Important to know is that thi...
2020-09-18 09:55:14 +0000 UTC View PostBlue-ish Object failed
I've tried a couple of things with the object that would turn the waterfall into the blue-ish looking waterfall of Batuu, but I can't get it to work. Everytime I change something on the mesh, the entire object disappears in game. So the waterfall will keep looking as the one in the sneak peek video, whi...
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Animated - Batuu Waterfall - Main
This sneak peek video, shows how the Main Batuu Waterfall looks so far.
Especially the height compared to Sims...
An update on the Batuu Waterfall mod. So far it doesn't seem possible to make the entire waterfall, so all 3 waterfalls to be placeable at once. The object that can also be found in the debug section and takes care of the blue-ish color is sunken into the ground as it's incredibly big. I also can't add the needed vfx to this object.
So I'v...
2020-09-15 13:34:45 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
Weekend is over and I need to think about something new to make.
Now I thought I already found something, adding the vfx to the debug Cantina Fountain as I couldn't find it in the tuning. Testing it out in game it turned out it already had the vfx just like in the Cantina in Batuu. It's only not in the tuning but in another ...
I've made a first version of a second birdhouse to hang against your walls. Right now it only has one swatch, but I planning to make more, just as with the other one.
It also has 1 small deco slot on the roof of the birdhouse and a view interaction. This view interaction is also available on the first birdhouse by the way, but I forgot to ...
2020-09-10 14:41:42 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
About my next project
I've done some searching and testing on the new Star Wars GP Effect Codes and already found a few interesting ones. So my next project will probably be something like an animated animal from that pack or maybe another cool visual effect to make our gardens to feel more special..
2020-09-10 12:51:45 +0000 UTC
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I've just bought the Star Wars GP, so now I have another pack to discover as I didn't looked through the other recently 9 stuff packs I bought either yet.
But I will start with the world of Batuu and see if I can find some cool new modding ideas besides the snake and bird. Maybe I will use today to discover the other items from those stuff...
2020-09-08 08:15:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
I've taken a closer look at the Star Wars gameplay trailer and saw the snake and vulture that can be seen on the images too. Those are definitley two visual effects I want to make into placeable objects. I've also seen some flying vultures and some nice smoke effects coming out of some sort of ventilation shaft.
Right now ...
2020-09-06 12:22:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Eco Lifestyle - Roof Pattern - Solar Panels
As the Solar Tile roof pattern that came with the Eco Lifestyle expansion pack isn't looking that great in my opinion, I've decided to make a new Solar Panels roof pattern. Just like the solar tile it produces power and counts towards a Green Eco footprint.
For more info and t...
2020-09-04 15:08:40 +0000 UTC View Post
An example scene which will also be showed as outro video in the final video tomorrow.
In this scene you see a few examples on how to use the roof only on a part of the roof instead of using it on the entire roof. I do have to say that if you would place them on only one half of the main roof, it's still looking quite nice. But I would recomm...
I forgot to share the recolors I made for the Solar Panel roof pattern, so here they are!
The first one is the default color and the four others the recolors available. I used all kinds of blue (and one a bit green-ish) as that looks the most realistic.
Most solar panels nowadays are black, but I tried a black recolor and it looked awfu...
2020-09-03 17:57:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello!
While trying to make some recolors, I've also tried something new with the in-game description. I noticed that some in-game objects had Italic or Bold texts in their object's description, so I wondered if I could do that too. And guess what, I can!
I can even make the text have a different color. So what...
Hello!
I've had a lot of problems with the solar panel roof pattern this morning, so that's why I only upload a sneak peek now. There were some strange black horizontal lines when zoomed all the way out which I couldn't get rid of. I've tried a lot of things, even repairing the game and starting all over again. I don't know which of those ...
2020-09-01 18:32:25 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
As the aviary pack is far from finished, I've decided to work on some other mods too, so it doesn't look I've abandoned my Social Networks and YouTube.
Yesterday I've looked once again to the Eco Lifestyle pack and noticed that the solar roof pattern doesn't look like solar panels at all! So now I'm going to try to make an...
2020-09-01 09:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostSome time ago I mentioned that I had a problem with the shadows on the rope objects and a new object I was working on back then, which were the birdhouses.
I've also told you I've fixed the problem, which wasn't on those objects, but the Small Birds Pack. I forgot to change some bump and specular images which gave strange shadows on other ...
2020-08-31 12:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Update about my own aviary! Today I bought a pair of long-tailed finches.
These birds are the final birds I bought. Now 6 birds are housing in my aviary and with the idea of baby birds next year, I think this is more then enough.
They also have enough space, so they don't have to be in each others way.
The only downside for my...
As promised, something new I've been playing around with: The possibility to give aviaries / animal cages a more decorative look as well as making it more playful.
The aviary on the first image looked already quite nice with the big viewing area on the front side, but to give it a more playful look, I've added an open window to the side an...
2020-08-26 15:58:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The last set of birdhouse recolors. I thought, maybe some colored houses with simple black roofs might look great too for in your aviary or on the outside of your houses. ;)
I've did some more testing with the idea I spoke about before the weekend and worked a bit on a new item to help that idea to come to life. It should make building avi...
2020-08-25 09:16:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Next set of color swatches for the birdhouses are white with a colored roof.
Can also look great just by placing all four of them on a wall 😋
I will make another set of 4 color swatches so the total will become 12 or maybe 13 as there's one recolor from the original object which I thought looked really nice too.
Will...