haringwood

sims 3 - cc creator - world builder 26 - london - he/him

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Hello all! I've moved to @londonsimblr and will delete this blog at the end of the week. Explanation pinned on that blog :)

Thank you for the lovely comments, I've been unable to respond here but I'll respond to everything on my new blog. Please do reach out to me there!

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something smaller scale today. Wanted to recreate the kind of flyposted walls you see around Hackney or Camden Town. Just one variation done at the moment (with sim Charli and Dua Lipa posters) but i'm gonna create a whole bunch to avoid repetition

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trying something a little more big/detailed this week!

the real archway bridge, which lends its name to the neighbourhood and tube station of Archway in north london, has been rebuilt a bunch of times but its current red iron iteration frames the london skyline beautifully and is a great spot to catch the new year fireworks. - neither pictured in this reference from google maps, sorry!

i'm planning to use my model as a railway viaduct marking the edge of the playable area with my (growing) skyline off in the distance

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monolith based on the legible london specifications

(i will do real screenshots when i upload everything. my windows pc that i use for meshing can't connect to the internet lol)

street names:

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the pickle, the spelk, and a lil pedestrian sign. quickly becoming addicted to meshing

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baby steps!

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the pickle, the spelk, and a lil pedestrian sign. quickly becoming addicted to meshing

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'The Pickle'! Textures need work but I'm heading in a direction I'm happy with. Gonna make a bunch of these stylised versions of London skyscrapers.

Basically I'm creating simplified meshes from scratch and franken-texturing using textures from EA buildings (these windows and concrete are from Late Night shells), so that when I push these all into the distance I can have a London skyline in my world that is hopefully consistent with the game's art style.

Thank you @hydrangeachainsaw for the shiny buildings tutorial!

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well i've certainly messed up something...

It looks fine in Blender...

Edit: I fixed it! And I learned what normals are. Great fun

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i'm finally getting the hang of meshing and it is an exciting new world for me!

Planning to make a load of stuff for my two favourite cities: a bunch of London stuff (street decor, windows, doors, skyscrapers in Maxis Match style) and Taipei stuff (street decor, signs... mostly excited to do a bunch of 鐵窗花 because it's just the most quintessentially Taiwanese thing I'm missing in all my builds). Ah!

I'm also building a theme park world rn with central Florida climate/urbanism as a side project which is fun but a much longer term thing. Will share pics.

Also! As a result of my meshing journey I finally got to using TSRW which means I can make non-default trees! I have loads to upload and more to make. I'm perfecting a tall fan leaf palm like a Washingtonia atm for my theme park world and can understand why EA didn't bother and made those weird non-fan ones for Starlight Shores. Speedtree fronds are a nightmare

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idk if i'll ever finish a world but really enjoying seeing that there are still so many simblrs going strong! haringwood (WIPs pictured) is my take on the highgate/archway/tufnell park kinda areas of London. Making loads of stuff to get the details (at street level) right

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keep clear

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welcome to london

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Anyone know if there's a sims 3 conversion of this pylon? I found it for sims 2 but not 3 🙏 Would make my British world complete

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building a subtropical east asian megacity. drawing from taipei and tokyo