Hi. I've just found your blog and I'm curious how you take photos with all those gorgeous skies/horizons. Are they CC or do you use a graphics program? I'd like such effects, too, in my own pics! :)
PS I forgot to add I mean only for The Sims 2 (forever and ever!).
No worries, I figured you meant Sims 2! ^_^ (it’s the only game I play so I wouldn’t be much help to a TS3 or TS4 player anyway, haha!)
The skies and horizons are cc and I honestly couldn’t imagine my game without them! I’ve gotten wcifs about skydomes before, and they’re all neatly sorted under my WCIF Skydome tag (yes, skydomes are so awesome that they deserve their own tag!), but I’ll list them again (and add a few new ones that cropped up in the meantime and that I hadn’t linked to previously!) :)
(*NOTE: Before you go on a skydome downloading spree, you need to get Simnopke’s Skyfix mod! Without it, your hood skydomes will look like floating sky-colored slabs rather than proper skies!)
Got the Skyfix? Great! Now on to the skydomes:
@lowedeus‘ Great Sky of Totalitarianism (a.k.a THE skydome! Contains both lot and hood versions of the skydomes, both of which I recommend! In case you’re confused about how to download from the post, I wrote a comprehensive guide here)
@dramallamadingdang‘s Great Sky Project (hood skies only, made with real sky photographs and 100% stunning!)
Tulipfera’s Skyrim Neighborhood skies (hood skies only; a more fantasy flavor of the skydomes, but the upload also contains regular-looking skydomes that look very pretty!)
@freezerbunny-sims‘ Aurora Skies (lot skies only; add a gorgeous, animated Aurora Borealis effect to your lot skies!)
(*NOTE: There are also other skybox meshes available, such as Chris997′s (recolors), Psychosim’s (recolors), Ja-viera’s (recolors), Slig’s, Nimi’s... but I prefer to use Lowedeus’ and those based on it as it’s currently the most up-to-date mesh out there. But there’s nothing stopping you from trying out the other skies! They’re all very pretty and worth checking out!)
And now the hood horizons:
Witheredlilies+Criquette’s Neighbourhood Horizon (the original hood horizon that started the whole trend!)
@greatcheesecakepersona‘s 360° Seasonal Skylines (A MUST HAVE! They change with the seasons and they’re absolutely amazing!)
@greatcheesecakepersona‘s 360° Mountain Skyline
@dramallamadingdang‘s Terrain-matching Horizons
@dramallamadingdang‘s Gap-filling horizons
@simsllama‘s Maxis Desert, Dirt and Concrete Flat Horizons
...and after I’ve typed all this I remembered that @simmergetic wrote an extensive list of skies and horizons just recently! xD These two lists should cover (almost) all horizon+skybox cc that’s currently out there. Have fun downloading! :)