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[jjcanbewhoever]

The Huntington Legacy

family tree

Character page: N/A 

DECADES

1890

TW: This legacy contains little adult themes such as:

Death

Pregnancy

Alchohol

Smoking

Class

Illness

If these are triggering to you, you may leave.

i also have a royal family account which you can visit here: https://thedimitridynast.tumblr.com

CC FINDS

decades cc finds

[denerdnr]

Charles Schwab House

The Charles M. Schwab House was a 75-room mansion in New York City. It was built for steel magnate Charles M. Schwab and was considered the classic example of a "white elephant", as it was built on the "wrong" side of Central Park, far from the more fashionable Upper East Side.

The house was designed by Maurice Hébert in an eclectic mix of Gothic Revival and Beaux-Arts, inspired by three French castles: Chenonceau, Blois and Azay-le-Rideau. It took four years to build (1902–1906) at a cost of six million dollars.

Schwab was a self-made man who became president of US Steel and later founded the Bethlehem Steel Company. However, he was a venture capitalist and went bankrupt in the Wall Street Crash of 1929. Charles died penniless ten years later, in 1939, leaving his home to be the official residence of New York's mayors. Unfortunately for the mansion, Fiorello La Guardia, then mayor, turned it down, saying, "what, 'me' in this?" After years of neglect, the house was demolished in 1947, replaced by a large apartment complex called "Casa Schwab".

In this version for The Sim 4, I made French gardens (I found the ones in the original house a little boring :P). The interiors were a big challenge, as I only found reference images for the staircase hall, but I tried to keep the same eclecticism in all the rooms.

[simtleman]

So The Palace Hotel is finally done, people! Took me a bit longer than expected, but I think it turned out pretty good!

Like I mentioned on my previous post, I decided to move the bar and hide it behind the library so it would feel more like a speakeasy, and while I was at it I also changed the deco a little bit:

On the other side of the lobby (where the bar used to be), I created a ballroom and a cabaret/stage area:

Before we move on to the first floor, I gotta show you the areas where the help and the hotel staff lives. If you go through the back of the building, you will access the help back door (remember it's the 1920s, so they're not allowed to go through the front)... which will take you to the basement, where the kitchen and the help dorms (greatly inspired, once again, by @antiquatedplumbobs's work in her historical save file) are located:

Moving on to the first floor, I did four rooms: two small ones and two big ones, having these last two an in-suite living room:

The bathrooms are all pretty tiny, but I always love to have an excuse to use @moon-simmers's Bonaerense vintage bathroom set (I literally had been looking for a set like that for AGES and couldn't believe my luck when he released it!):

Last but not least, the second floor is equipped with an extra four rooms (two small ones, two big ones... same as first floor) and, of course, a green room in your very own @felixandresims's Colonial style:

And finally, here's the floor plan so you can get an idea where everything is located within the building:

Basement -> Kitchen and help common area/dorms/bathrooms:

Ground floor -> Lobby, and to the right: library/smoking room, speakeasy/bar hidden behind; to the left: ballroom & cabaret/stage area.

First floor -> Hallways overlooking the lobby, two small rooms and two suites.

Second floor -> Two more small rooms, two more suites and the green room in the middle.

That's it for me today, I hope you guys like how the save file is developing and don't you worry, I'm already working on the next build... what is it, yoy may ask? A stunning green room inspired by one of my favorite places in the world (Palacio de Cristal del Parque del Retiro, in Madrid), turned into a glamourous restaurant in the hills of Del Sol Valley, overlooking the city!

I'll keep you all posted and, like I said before, I'm always open to your ideas! ❤

Oh, and thank you once again to @antiquatedplumbobs & @greatbritishsimchallenge for bringing The Sims 4 Tray Importer to my knowledge, I might consider sharing my save file with everyone once it's done if that program does the job of listing all CC items for me :)

[gilded-ghosts]

Hey GG! I hope you're doing well! I'm just wondering if you have a tutorial that you use to create those beautiful puffed sleeves in your WIPs and if you'd be able to link? I'm struggling a bit (ok, a lot) meshing my own, I'm not great at Blender but tutorials definitely help! - Asher (jewishsimming)

Hello, hello! I actually don't have a tutorial to refer you to but have whipped up a quasi-tutorial via some blender screenshots of how I achieve those puffed sleeves lol. I don't have a screen recording program on my pc anymore and am not really in the headspace to record a full-on video anyhow but the screenshots should help (I hope)!

Disclaimer: I'm not a blender expert despite having been a creator for some time now, and so what I'm about to show you is probably not the most efficient way of doing things. Throughout the years, I've learned certain tricks by playing around in blender but it does not mean I'm doing anything "correctly." Also, I'm just assuming you know the very basics of blender so I will not go into extreme step-by-step details of frankenmeshing. Here we go?

Once you have exported your base mesh with the sleeves you want to adjust, you'll want to delete one of the arms altogether as shown below.

Then highlight the other arm and hit 'P' on your keyboard to separate this remaining arm from the rest of your mesh.

Click on the newly separated mesh and hide the other mesh while working. Then go into Sculpt Mode as shown in the photo below and select the "Inflate/Deflate" mode.

Then start "inflating" the sleeve as desired by clicking on the sleeve itself. You can adjust the radius, strength, and autosmooth sliders to your preference. I find that by separating the mesh, you are able to have better control and obviously avoid messing around the other parts of the original mesh. You can also play around with the "Grab" mode which also works!

Once you have your desired shape, you will want to go back into edit mode and highlight the entire arm mesh. Then hit Mesh, and scroll to Symmetrize. This will automatically create a mirrored arm for you.

NOW the next few steps are tricky but make sure you do not miss a step or you'll end up with a wonky mesh!

You have to adjust the weight and UV maps. There are two ways you can go about this. You can either manually adjust weights and the UV maps OR you can use CAS Tools (I recommend!). If you choose to use CAS Tools, all you will want to do is join the two meshes back together and join the seams/weld the seams in UV-1 like you would normally do when you are frankenmeshing. Then run the mesh through CAS Tools and have it autocorrect weights and the UV maps.

For the sake of this "tutorial," here is how you can just adjust in blender without having to open a whole new application.

Manually Adjusting the Weights/UV Maps: You will have to do a weight transfer to make sure that the left arm have the correct weights before joining the two meshes back together. I won't go over the weight transfer in this "tutorial" because there are so many tutorials/resources already out there. Once you have completed your weight transfer, join the two meshes back together.

At this point, we will now adjust UV-0. Select your left arm on the UV-0 map and click on Mirror > X-Axis. Then move it onto the correct space on the map.

We will now adjust UV-1. Go into the UV-1 map after selecting the left arm entirely. You will then repeat the steps completed in UV-0. You will click on Mirror > X-Axis and drag the vertices accordingly.

Then finally, merge the seams of the two meshes as you normally would when you frankenmesh. Make sure to weld the seams in UV-1 as well.

NOW, having said all that, CAS Tools will save you a lot of time and hurt. I would definitely use that application first before attempting this manual adjustment.

I hope this helps! Good luck!

[happylifesims]

[Lonelyboy] TS4 1950s AM Fashion Set

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Included contents :

lonelyboy_ts4_1950s Suit Outfit (Outfit, 10 swatches, For male)

lonelyboy_ts4_1950s Fedora Hat (Hat, 10 swatches, Unisex)

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∥Downloads∥

Patreon (Free, No adfly, ※ Do not Reupload my CCs!)

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!※! T.O.U

Recoloring my CC is OKAY. But do not include my mesh. And I’ll appreciate if you tag me on your recolor CC post.

Do not Re-upload. DO NOT STEAL MY CC.

[pointlookout]

my mafia series girls ft. the outfits they’d wear if they actually existed in the game ♡

mimi bernard (mafia: de) / angela cavallaro (mafia ii)

lori roux (mafia iii) / sylvie moreau (mafia iii)

wcif friendly!

[thesimline]

The 1960s is such a fun decade for hair, so much so that I had too many styles for this post alone. I may need to put together a part two soon, so keep an eye out! CC links under the cut.

You can find more of my decades hair collections here:

1920s  |  1930s  |  1940s  |  1950s

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[farfallasims]

No CC Residential Shells Recommendations, pt. 01 ♡

༄ 01 | Tudor Shell 1 by DVRTHMOL

༄ 02 | Florida Beach House Shell by Skitfis

༄ 03 | Family Home Shell by DanielleBuilds

༄ 04 | Shell 22 by BuildsByCamilla

༄ 05 | Modern European Home by SimmerIndi

༄ 06 | Not Furnished BG Home by MadamRedo

༄ simstok | simstagram | simblr | simterest |switter ༄ 

[pinkpxls]

top 5 reshades? thank you!

Vespera / Oatmeal / Money & Milk / Pastoral Haunting / Moonflower / Starry Dust

[seafoan]

victor moved in and instantly bribed the eco inspector 💀

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[nucrests]

Stay Gold High-Waisted Suit Set

To continue on with my previous high-waisted collection, I decide to make some suits for masculine frame sims. This 15 item set gives you several different ways to mix and match! As always, I hope you all enjoy and let me know if you run into any issues! ✨

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[moon-simmers]

Machine a Habiter Set

During the beginning of the century, architecture sought to generate beauty as well as to have an impact on the lives of the inhabitants. Houses had to be efficient, practical and functional as artifices that serve the tasks for which they were invented.

Machine e Habiter is a particular set, which offers a wide variety of residential lots of different sizes and needs. All the plans are taken from real houses for sale during the 1940s in Argentina, which allow for a myriad of different styles with the same basic format.

[More photos, info and download below]

People are determined to build and settle down in a quiet place with their future families, although due to lack of technical knowledge they cannot escape from doubts at the moment of building: "Shouldn't the kitchen be visible from the living room?" "Should the main bedrooms be far from the toilet?" "Do I want a lighted or safe space?"

I decided to publish a set of 22 base houses, built between 1890-1960 published in national property magazines, worker's housing plans, university analysis or inspired by well-known houses.

The houses are empty to allow for a custom design for each person, to help with the tricky part of wanting to design an old house without falling into modern ideas.

Each one has inside a JPG. FILE with how the spaces are distributed inside and photos of the house.

CC:

The lots use windows from @felixandresims, @harrie and @illogicalsims and one (House 19) from @peacemaker-ic, as they are the closest to the originals, but they can be replaced by other ones. The windows and doors are from the following sets:

BERLIN [1] [2]

COLONIAL [3]

FLORENCE [2]

GEORGIAN [1]

GROVE [1] [4]

MOSCHINO WINDOWS [1]

ORJANIC [1]

NARCISSUS [1]

VOGUE [1]

[SIMFILESHARE]

[aashwarr]

my simself in the paparazzi collection by @sentate x @serenity-cc​

[bambigaming]

Meet Justice,Shaun, Judy & Jade Humphrey. They Live in Windenburg with their two pomeranian pups Mango & Mojo (p.s. these two loveeee swimming in the pool!!!! 🥰)

We can already tell who's the star of the show,Jade has my heart😍❤️

[simcloudlogic]

Here are some graphics I made for the Family Dynamics Challenge created by Pastella Pixels and standingsimmer, as requested by @concerned-ace. I used icons from @luniversims​.

Enjoy!

[citylighten]

Let’s share our storytelling tips and tricks when posing a sim with an accessory I make two outfits, one with the accessory, the other without a accessory so I don’t have to go back into CAS.

[tartiish-deactivated20230831]

this also works for conflicting textures!

say you want your sim to use a ring slotted accessory but it messes with their eyelashes, make an outfit with and without, take ur screenies of the posed sims in both outfits from the same angle using ctrl 5,6,7 or 8 and then over lap them in PS, erase what you don’t need and voila!

[literalite]

when shooting indoors in the daytime (in a room with big windows) i turn off all interior lights and try to keep at least once light “source” in frame- it ups the drama and contrast of every shot and lets bloom do its work. inversely when its night time i never use overhead lights i hide sized down lamps in other items of furniture it just looks more dynamic visually 💆‍♂️

[xldkx]

*cracks knuckles* these are mostly technical BUT

if you use reshade or gshade, use the grid or golden mean overlay to help compose your shots. assign a shortcut key to it so you can easily turn it on and off. using this helps make your dialogue shots a bit more dynamic

you can set reshade/gshade to not turn on when you boot up your game. with gshade it’s a setting in the settings tab (have it use off.ini).

for clipped poses, you can take two shots of your sims posed, one with both together, one with the sim that is clipping, sandwich the photos together and erase the bits that are clipping. kinda like what tart mentioned above.

you can make the teleporter statue show up first by assigning it a price of zero HOWEVER that requires all your other clutter to have a price. it’s a tedious process but like, one day s4s will make a bulk price batch fix.

i swear by this method for dialogue

have your character do something (my go to is eating) at the same time as speaking. since sims stories are a bit of a static medium, keeping your character moving (theoretically) makes the scene a bit more interesting.

for huge crowd shots (shout out to @digital-deluxe for this one), shoot multiple pictures from the same angle, photoshop em together. or use a shit ton of deco sims. your choice. lol

get familiar with the TOOL mod.

create a pose library in blender of different expressions. i have a bunch and it helps make posing a bit easier (even though i have not updated my story in like months but THAT’S MY PROBLEM NOT YOURS.)

ORGANIZE your poses so you’re not stuck searching. shout out to @ellemant for this one. it’s very manual but saves time searching. you can change the title to CONVERSATION-2SIMS-posename in the description and it should show up as such. it’s super helpful.

this is obv but learn to make your own poses! it’s tedious as hell but worth it. i’d give up all of mine but i don’t want [REDACTED] to paywall them or put them on her ko-fi store.

MAKE FRIENDS WITH AND TALK TO OTHER STORY SIMBLRS. THIS IS A GIVEN!

to prevent botox face, move that sims eyebrows a bit. it changes an expression from static to dynamic. we say a lot with our eyes and why not use the most expressive part of your face to say something.

this video because i love a visual gag

read your dialogue out loud. if you run out of breath reading it, it’s not natural. break it up into smaller sentences and have another character interject with a question or prompt that does result in some exposition. remember your characters are talking WITH one another and not AT one another.

if you need a bit of exposition, work it into your story where it’s not a wall of text. have a character or characters have a conversation about it. etc.

make use of a story tag and a character tag so people can keep up.

consider hosting your story elsewhere (be it wordpress or blogspot) as tumblr is anightmare with the flagging

if you’re writing a character of a different race/culture/ethnicity than you do some research! these things do factor into personality more than you think!

write for yourself. if you start writing to please others, the story isn’t yours anymore. always remember this.

[zombietrait-deactivated20230321]

ok i thought of a couple

study real cameras and film! knowing about real focal lengths and lenses of cameras can really help you better simulate the look you’re going for with reshade/gshade/editing/etc. like 90% of reshade/gshade shaders come from real film, so if you don’t know what a shader name/setting even is, you should look up what it does in real life before button smashing like we’re all guilty of lol

my personal taste is the more vintage/cinestill look, which might not be yours, but helpful videos to get started regardless: The Difference Between Anamorphic And Spherical Lenses, How to Make Any Location Cinematic, 12 CAMERA ANGLES to Enhance Your Films, 8 Steps to Cinematic Composition, Why THE BATMAN is so beautiful (genuinely helpful video not a zombietrait autism moment i swear)

to further add on, here’s a youtube channel, amazing shots. they post compilations of cinematography in different movies. think of a really gorgeous movie that matches your tone/genre and type into youtube “[movie title] cinematography” or “[movie title] color grading” and there will most likely be some results

never forget your liquify tool. it’s your best friend

listen. listen. this will not apply to every story. but i swear sometimes simblr is so afraid of characters doing anything morally grey or just flat out wrong, even the villains. your character does not need to be a good person. they need to be a good character. (and i know i know i’ve seen the anons with no reading comprehension who want you to hold their hand the whole time but tbh…..just block them)

everyone knows eye highlights are super satisfying on digital work and ts4 sure isn’t gonna do it for you 🙃 sometimes all ya need is a lil white dot on the eye. just a little itty bitty dot makes the whole picture pop

make playlists and link songs on your post. for no reason other than it’s fun :)

[thistleflower-sims]

Barely qualified to contribute here considering I haven’t done a proper story post in *checks archives* over a year but!

Though it isn’t always as convenient as text on the post under the pictures I prefer the look of text on the pictures, and it’s very important to either put bars of a contrasting color behind the text or a black border on the letters for readability! (as well as decent font + size, so on and so forth)

I can’t even tell you guys how important these tips about cinematography are ^^ Something that always helped me through dialogue heavy and otherwise visually boring scenes where you’d end up with a billion similar shots of sims talking: don’t be afraid to break them up with some random other shots while the dialogue keeps going! Closeups (do NOT be shy with the closeups, get way up in there) on props, characters, and set pieces as well as establishing shots and zoomed out pics are your best friends!! Another cool thing to play with is rule of thirds in composition and if you have cursor-focused DOF shader options, to play with focusing on the foreground, background, and middle ground of the same shot.

some tips on photo angling: a mistake I see a LOT of people newer to storytelling (and even some more experienced ones too, though it’s not a big one there’s no shame in it lol) and something I couldn’t put my finger on forever: shooting from a slightly-too-high angle that breaks the immersion just a bit. As a general rule of thumb for most shots I try to be between eye and shoulder level of the person I’m looking at. Also, play with low angles some! they’re fun ;)

Another camera tip: NEVER zoom out after going into tab mode. In fact, your shots will generally look a lot better if you go into tab from farther away than you want to shoot from and then zoom in, I’ve found it helps keep things… proportionately angled? natural looking?

[dissiasims]

Newe Accessory Shorts

20 swatches

Base Game Compatibile

Custom Thumbnail

Tights Category

Get it from TSR: Newe Accessory Shorts

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