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OK, it's a few hours later now, and I still don't hate this texture, yay! I did lighten it a bit, though, which I think it needed. Now I'm happy. It's much higher-res -- The original image is 64x256, and this one is 768x1024 -- and much less dull than the original texture.
Now to muck around with the rainbow shower tree. It needs at least toning down a bit to fit better in this world, and then we'll see about textures...
I want to retexture the bark of the eucalyptus tree from Pets because it's the tree I'm mostly going to use in the interior parts of this world. I just don't like how low-res and dull the bark texture is, but I also don't want to use the rainbow eucalyptus from Island Paradise.
This was my first stab, to see if I'd like the texture before going to effort of making it tile. It's a bit stretched, but I do like the texture, so we'll see if I can fix the stretching and get the texture to tile properly. If that fails I'll see if I can edit the texture of the rainbow version's bark to make it not-rainbow and use that for this version of the tree.
Mission accomplished.
The texture's still a little stretchier than I'd like, and I may have darkened it a bit too much, but I was able to make it tile well enough, and I like it.
....I think. In a few hours I'll probably hate it, but for now I like it.
I want to retexture the bark of the eucalyptus tree from Pets because it's the tree I'm mostly going to use in the interior parts of this world. I just don't like how low-res and dull the bark texture is, but I also don't want to use the rainbow eucalyptus from Island Paradise.
This was my first stab, to see if I'd like the texture before going to effort of making it tile. It's a bit stretched, but I do like the texture, so we'll see if I can fix the stretching and get the texture to tile properly. If that fails I'll see if I can edit the texture of the rainbow version's bark to make it not-rainbow and use that for this version of the tree.
A day at the hot spring/spa lot, including a totally-not-anachronistic mud bath.
(Note to self: Add some fog emitters to the "springs." They need some steam.)
The world you're working on will be a download link?
No, I'm afraid not. I can't share the save file because: 1) It won't be "done" for a long time, if ever. I'm decorating while I play, concentrating on the area around the (currently) only household's lot and the community lots I've put down. I'll decorate more as more households move into the world, but that will happen very slowly.
2) The save uses the Kinky World mod because I need a few of its mechanics for the scenario's gameplay. So, unless a downloader also uses that mod, the save file would likely corrupt very quickly. And Kinky World isn't a mod that should be installed without giving it a lot of thought first. Once it's introduced into a user folder, it's a permanent commitment for every save in that folder. And even if a downloader uses that mod, I'm still not sure if a copy of the save file would work reliably. Kinky World is...sensitive and prone to corrupting saves if you aren't careful and sometimes even if you are careful. So, I would not feel at all comfortable sharing the save file for that reason.
I did share the "base" world here, which is an edit I did of a world made by someone else. You could download that, but then you'd have to do all the decoration yourself because that edit only has the world's original and very simple decoration. I have been thinking about putting together a list of the CC I'm using for this, since you're not the first person who's asked about this. Once you have the CC, it's really not hard to do what I'm doing. It's just time-consuming. It's not too bad because the grass and flower patches that make up the majority of the decorating I'm doing are large so they cover a space pretty quickly, but to do a whole world at once would still take a long time.
Planet-moon goes up, planet-moon goes down.
I've "finished" this area of the world. (In quotes because I'll probably still poke at it here and there. Nothing I do is ever really finished.) The areas that you can see in the last pic that aren't covered with rocks and flora are empty lots. There are three of them, one of them overlapping the water on the left side and two across the footpath from it. Those will get filled in with stuff if/when those lots get built.
I'm pretty happy with it. I like the grassy hill, though the back of it is...um...interesting! I'm not sure if I'll cover any of the other hills with grass. There are approximately 1,458,387 grass patches covering that thing so that none of them appear to be hanging in the air, and I'm guessing if I do that a lot, it's going to affect performance. But we'll see.
The clan's first-born, a girl.
"Mom" is the guy in the first pic. "Dad" is the woman in the bottom pic. Because, since I'm me, I'm doing funky things with sexes*, as usual. Since this is clan-based play, whether or not a clan-member is a genetic contributor to a kid doesn't matter when it comes to taking care of the kid, except that only the kid's "mom" can feed it until it's weaned. (And I wouldn't even have that limitation, except that the breastfeeding mod doesn't allow a sim who isn't a kid's parent to breastfeed it.) Other than that, in this scenario, it really does take a village to raise a child.
*Basically, some females can impregnate people and some males can gestate kids. So, this species has four sexes: Females who can impregnate, males who can impregnate, females who can gestate, and males who can gestate, with no individuals able to do both functions. How each sex behaves is controlled by NRaas Story Progression castes. A born-in-game individual's sex is determined at their child age-up by a combination of traits and, when that fails (if they don't have characteristic traits for any of the sexes by the time of their child age-up), by random number generation.
Every clan is headed up by an individual who can impregnate, and they can acquire (in various ways) up to three mates with whom they procreate. (EA romance as well as marriage is disabled in the save, and only Kinky World "romantic" interactions are used, so while the mates are all romantic interests of the head of the clan, there is no jealousy.) However, mates can be "stolen" under certain conditions, which is one way a new clan can be generated and a new linked world can be started. The mates have a social hierarchy within the clan based on order of acquisition and when one is stolen that hierarchy shifts and...Well, it gets complicated. LOL I love my overly-complicated rule sets. :)
I'm making some draft posts of pics from my current gameplay so I can post them when I feel like it, and every other post is getting flagged for (non-existing) "mature content." So, I guess if you want to see them all, make sure your "scary 'mature' content" filter is turned off? So stupid.
I mean, the save uses Kinky World. I could stage/take/post some really raunchy pics if I wanted to. But that's not what this save is about -- I just need some of the mod's mechanics to make the gameplay work -- and there is absolutely nothing "mature" about any of the pics I'm posting and...Ugh. AI algorithms make me mad, especially since you can't even get "content" labels removed anymore. :P Because I guess the site has no human @staff anymore.
A library lot for this pre-tech world. Thanks to the NRaas GoHere mod, access to the building is restricted to residents with at least one of a handful of characteristics that allow them to be considered literate. Right now, only two qualify.
There's a science station and a chemistry table, both "medieval" versions. There's piles of books, a couple of desks where writing can be done, and a book register so that literate sims can purchase and sell back books to keep in their inventory. In the basement, accessed by the "secret passage" bookcase from Supernatural, there's a Vault of Antiquity.
Decided to see if I could cover a hill with 3D grass. I'm not sure it's a good idea to do it, in terms of game performance, but I think it looks pretty good.
Also desaturated/yellowed/darkened the World Adventures bamboo so it blends in better with the other flora I've used:
It needs a bit of tweaking because I think I made it a bit too dark, but I like it better than the original bright/saturated green texture. I'll share the default when I get it where I want it to be, in case anyone else would want it.
Butterflies.
I've been going around the world looking for spawned butterflies so I can put flower patches under them. :)
I wanted to have a little bamboo forest or two, since I've been using wall coverings that look like they're made of bamboo.
Working on some more world decorating.
Here's another "sharing weirdness that I made for my own playing in case someone else might want it" thing.
I tend to play a lot of scenarios where, in my head, the setting is not Earth. So, I tend to use/make default moon replacements that don't look like Earth's moon. This is one of them. In a couple of scenarios I'm playing, I'm imagining that the setting is a habitable moon of another planet, and in this case I wanted a colorful gas giant planet. I couldn't find any usable images of such a thing online, so I decided to make one myself. So I and a gazillion Photoshop filters and layer blends did just that. :) So, if you want this freaky "moon," you can download it here.
Here's a few more pics of various phases with various cloudiness:
Please note that the "moon" is huge in the pictures because I've set it to be huge -- a radius of 600 -- in the lighting mod I use. If you don't use a lighting mod or if you do use one but haven't made your moon bigger in it, your "gas giant" planet will be the itty-bitty normal size of the moon in the game. If you are using a lighting mod and want a bigger moon but don't know how to make it so, feel free to ask. Doing so requires s3pe, but it's really easy to do.
(Also, for those who don't get it...The "title" pic is a reference to the 1930s-era song "It's Only a Paper Moon." Get some Ella Fitzgerald in your life, y'all.)
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Slices of life. (Including totally-not-anachronistic spray painting! LOL)
This save will (eventually, hopefully) have multiple "cultures" in it, living in different worlds in the same save and using the Traveler mod to circulate between them. Each world will have slightly different rules, and they'll range from pre-technological up to medieval(ish) levels of technology, plus one that's kind of post-technological. This one, obviously, is the pre-technological one. The idea is that there'll be a variety of ways to play in the same save, since I'll be rotating amongst the cultures. The biggest reason why I stop playing a save is that I just get tired of doing the same things over and over all the time. It's why I'm never able to get through something like a legacy. I need variety, and this is something I came up with to add that.
Stormy night.
(This lightning mod is very cool.)