“Once was Midnight Hollow, now it’s Ravinehood. The town, known in the past for its gloomy and dark atmosphere, is now a vibrant community which hasn’t forgotten its roots, still noticeable in the abundance of Victorian and historical buildings. And its inhabitants aren’t exactly ordinary either: rumour has it that some of them returned from the dead…”
I don't remember exactly how (my love of Victorian architecture must have played a part, though), but at some point last year I decided that I needed to remake Midnight Hollow without the dark atmosphere and dead trees, and to update the lots beyond the base game. So here you have Ravinehood.
Credits to Cawster for the CAW files. I used 9 textures (one by Nilxis, the others by EA – from World Adventures, Dragon Valley, and Sunlit Tides), while the custom lighting is from the University world.
Details
Size: Large (2048x2048)
EPs: World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Supernatural, Seasons, University Life (See the Requirements paragraph for more info)
SPs: none
Store content: none
Custom content: none
Lots: 91 (See the Lots paragraph for more info)
Populated: Yes (See the Population paragraph for more info)
DOWNLOAD: SFS
(No Exchange link because I made a test upload earlier, and now it won't let me reupload it even though I deleted the previous file. Just normal Exchange things.)
Requirements
This world requires the following expansion packs: World Adventures, Ambitions, Late Night, Generations, Pets, Supernatural, Seasons, University Life (so all but Showtime, Island Paradise and Into the Future). Supernatural is particularly important as it's the expansion that contains most of the Victorian-esque items that match this world; also, the world is home to a few occults which were introduced in that pack.
Ravinehood does not require Stuff Packs, there is no custom content or store content. You don't need Midnight Hollow to make it work. This also means, tangentially, that the world does not have a distant terrain – which, for those who don't know, is a special object which usually surrounds all worlds that are not islands to hide that the worlds are essentially a square-shaped area with an ocean around them. No worries, though: the mountains around Ravinehood are so tall that during regular gameplay you won't even notice its absence.
Lots
This world has 91 lots: 37 commercial, 41 residential, and 13 empty ones. (Midnight Hollow originally had 92 lots: I replaced two adjacent lots with a single bigger one to fit the combined school/stadium rabbit hole. The deleted lots contained the theater and the police station/military base combo, which were moved elsewhere.) Because of the mountains, you can only place additional lots on the shoreline.
All lots are the ones originally designed by EA for Midnight Hollow, renovated by me. Community lots have seen the most changes to add content from the aforementioned expansions, while for residential lots I've taken a more conservative approach, mostly adding color and removing store content. The lots around the city center that were intended for using the Savvy Seller set have become clubs and an apartment.
The world features a library, a graveyard, a junkyard, a consignment store with a dry cleaner, a nectary, a gym, a public pool, a beauty salon, a fire department, a nerd shop (paired with an elixir shop), a dog park, a cat jungle, a horse ranch, two art galleries (one of which includes a relic shop), two beaches, two fishing spots, two parks (including a festival lot), and five hangout spots of different types. All rabbit holes from the base game, Late Night, Pets and Supernatural are included. There are two bistros. The film studio from Late Night is in the basement of the university building shell (which also includes a bowling alley, a cafeteria, and a fake movie theater).
Ravinehood also includes four extra lots posted by EA on The Sims 3 Store: the Gothique Library, the Golden Ticket Toy Shop, the Now and Then Century Manor, and the Grim Ghastly Manor. The store contents have been removed and the lots have been reimagined as the nectary, the consignment store, and two houses, respectively. The fire station, salon, and horse ranch are modified versions of the ones that came with the Pets EP.
Population
There are 40 Sims and 8 pets living in Ravinehood, divided into 23 households each with its own story. Their ages cover all life stages from toddler to elder, although most are young adults and adults; 13 of them are occults. There are also 2 pregnancies in their early stages. Most Sims know at least one skill, have a job, and have relationships and friendships outside their household.
Most of the Sims were created by EA as ghosts for their worlds, but they appear in Ravinehood resurrected and with new stories (so you'll find Lolita Goth raising a fairy in what was once the Specter house, and the Remingtons from Riverview striving to catch a unicorn). My thanks go to the simmer community who kindly shared them on the Exchange. The other Sims were created by me, sometimes drawing inspiration from my reading, particularly Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series and Herbie Brennan's "Faerie Wars Chronicles".
NPC Sims will be randomly generated by the game, so I recommend installing the Random Sim Fixes 2.0 mod by LazyDuchess to avoid them all looking the same.
(All screenshots were not edited, but the snow might look a little different because I use the Snow but better! Mod by Liralei. Other than that, that is exactly how the world looks in-game, with its own custom lighting.)
Kitchen Corner Set Conversion KP X KP Collab (TS3)
this is a set me and @kreativeplumbob converted from sims 4 to sims 3! thank you @ts4aliaska for allowing us to convert this set! :)
Info:
- everything is low poly!
- there are multiple swatches for each. (5 max.)
- everything is compressed.
- original post by @ts4aliaska
- sink does act a little funny with certain counters, but it IS FUNCTIONAL thanks to @kreativeplumbob!
special thanks: to @ts4aliaska for allowing me to convert their meshes to sims 3. Thank you to @kreativeplumbob for collaborating on this set with me (with many more to come *wink wink*) and making everything smooth during the process!
DL:
all in one: SFS | MF | DB
separate: SFS | MF | DB
It will be updated whenever I add new CC to my game
Outdoor CC List Here
Thanks to all the creators and converters! ArtVitalex, @blamseastore, DOT, @hydrangeachainsaw, @martassimsbookcc, @millascreativecornerblog, Onyx, pyszny, Shino, SIMcredible, @suteflower, & TheNumbersWoman
It will be updated whenever I add new CC to my game
Dining CC List Here
Thanks to all the creators and converters! ArtVitalex, @blamseastore, DOT, enable_llamas, @hydrangeachainsaw, @martassimsbookcc, Murano, SIMcredible, the77sims, TheNumbersWoman, Ung999 & wondymoon
this is a set I converted from sims 4 to sims 3! thank you @biplusco for allowing me to convert this set! :)
Info:
- everything is low poly! the highest size is 6921kb.
- there are multiple swatches for each. (3 max.)
- original post by @biplusco
special thanks: to my bestie for showing me da way, the support (always!) and the mini crash outs on stream lmao. @kreativeplumbob
DL:
all in one: SFS | MF | DB
seperate: SFS | MF | DB
this is a set I converted from sims 4 to sims 3! thank you @biplusco for allowing me to convert this set! :)
Info:
- everything is low poly! the highest size is 7032kb.
- there are multiple swatches for each. (4 max.)
- original post by @biplusco
special thanks: to @biplusco for allowing me to convert their meshes to sims 3, and to @kreativeplumbob for being there for "those" moments... LOL
DL:
all in one: SFS | MF | DB
separate: SFS | MF | DB
“RALPH LAUREN PILLOWS” by Demure | 4TO3 CONVERTING + 500 FOLLOWERS GIFT
First of all, I want to say a huge thank you to everyone who follows me, leaves comments, and supports my content. This truly means the world to me! Your support motivates me to share my work and keep growing. Thank you all once again! You are the best! 🤍
To grow my blog, I decided to try something new: converting objects from Sims 4 to Sims 3. Right now, I am working on converting a big set. I ran into some temporary issues with how the objects function, but I hope to fix everything soon and share the set with you!
In the meantime, I have a little gift for you! In this post, I am sharing a conversion of a decorative pillow by Classypixels with 13 presets. I hope you find them charming and enjoy adding this beautiful detail to your sims' homes!
Created for Sims 4 by @classypixels
Original post: LINK
Located in "Miscellaneous decor"
§359 per piece
Non-recolorable / 13 presets
148 vertices, 238 faces
DOWNLOAD [ Patreon | Free ]
Special thanks to those who reblog! @pis3update @katsujiiccfinds @thatbelgianwaffle @florydaccfinds @kpccfinds @eternalccfinds @simphoraa @wanderingsimsfinds @patrys3ccfinds
Simbook Air and SimBook Pro | 4t3 conversions, with functionality
Modern laptops for your sims to tackle work and fun without breaking their backs!
These are 4t3 conversions, originally from Pierisim here. I have added some details to mine, more info + download below!
As a techie, I have been absolutely in need of a more modernized laptop for my sims. Since TS3 was released in 2009, laptops in-game were modeled after the laptops of that era, which were about as thick as a flipping dictionary and just in general very out of date for the type of laptops many of us carry around these days. I found myself exclusively only ever using the PeachySoft laptop from TS3 University Life, which is still one of my favorites, but I wanted something different. I see this adorable little laptop in so many TS4 posts as deco, and I took on the painful totally fun challenge of bringing it to TS3 as a new laptop for our sims.
List of Changes/Notes
The original I converted from Pierisim was the decorative version of the object (there was also a TV variant, but the deco one worked better for this project). Unfortunately, TS4 does not have functional, portable laptops like TS3 (as far as I know). This meant it was an extremely annoying process to get this to work and it's a miracle it did! It just took...millions of hours. I essentially had to split the model into multiple parts, scale them into size a million times until I got it just right, then "glue" them back together, and then assign bones (which was interesting, when I accidentally assigned the screen to the mouse bone early in testing).
These are fully foldable, functional, portable working laptops just like any other laptop in TS3 that your sims can carry around, open and close, and use on tables, desks, islands, and the ground.
For now, these are not recolorable. My priority was to get them functional and to add details to them to make them look cute, so that was not something I added, though they come in several different colors. In the future, I hope to make them CAST-able and add even more fun details.
I took immense care to clean up the textures these do have. The originals, like many TS4 textures in general for some reason, just had severe color banding and DDS artifacts in-game. So I carefully re-handpainted the gradient textures and added noise to reduce this as much as possible. The speaker grill textures are not perfect, but I tried my best.
The original texture didn't include keys (many EA laptops don't either), so I have added a fully Simlish keyboard! :D Complete with icons and little details. There's also little symbols on the underside of the laptop now like in real life, that tell you not to throw it away etc. I have always loved these little details and when I tell you this was the absolute most fun part of this project, I mean it.
There are two versions.
The SimBook Air and the SimBook Pro.
The SimBook Air...
is a smaller, more compact laptop than the default TS3 laptop size, more in line with most laptop sizes these days. It is also much, much thinner than the default EA laptop, as I was trying to make it as thin as possible. This is accomplished by a tiny gap between the screen and body, which is visible only from certain angles when the laptop is open. This cannot be fixed/mitigated - the thinner you get the laptop, the worse it is. This is due to EA's bone placement for the animation of the laptop, which was designed for a much thicker model. This really is as good as I could get it without it looking too bad.
- It costs less than the SimBook Pro.
- It provides +7 Fun and +2 Environment score.
The Simbook Pro...
is roughly the same size as EA's default laptop size. It's wider and a little bit thicker, so there is no gap between the body and screen on this one.
- It costs more than the SimBook Air
- It provides +9 Fun and +3 Environment score.
Product Boxes 📦
I have also had Simgo's Apple Store set for TS2 on my mind for years. It was one of the very first ever conversions I did for myself back in 2020. I decided to recolor the boxes to match these in case you want to make a store display or if you just want your sims to also hoard their aesthetic tech product boxes for no good reason lmao. There are multiple variants for both the Air and Pro models, such as different specs and colors. All in Simlish.
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💾 Download: SFS
This is hands down the best custom world of the year so far! I've seen some amazing Brynmar makeovers by other players before, but they were for personal gameplay and never shared publicly. This version by EliOrni is incredibly impressive. Every lot she built matches the style of this world flawlessly. The warm lighting from Dragon Valley also adds the finishing touch, creating a cozy town vibe. My favorite part is the woodlands. With lakes and various lots scattered throughout, it holds an endless beauty and serenity, making it the ideal area to enjoy a relaxing day. I'll definitely pick this world for my future legacy challenges. Thanks again to @floweringash for bringing us such an amazing world!
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