Sarahs Sims 3 Chronicles

21 - Buffalo NY - TS3 Only!

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Tutorial: Converting functional cars into decoration for CAW

I made my very first tutorial video on youtube, this took me a while to figure out but with enough elbow grease and patience. I figured it out the right way without it being deleted by NRaas errortrap!

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A RIP to one of my first "real" CAW projects

I was trying out new things at the time and was VERY heavily inspired by this: https://mons0on.tumblr.com/tagged/sims+3+los+angeles so I tried to recreate it in early to mid 2023 (He hasnt been active in 11-12 years) At the time I was so amazed by his work that I tried to take a few lessons for my own, I still have the Sims3Pack file but I lost the file during a computer upgrade.

These photos came from my old reddit account before I got into tumblr

[sarahssimschronicles]

I found your page randomly. I'm really impressed with your progress!

Thanks a million! Its been a long process :D

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Heres a quick pic of a areal view on my town, id like to post more. (dont mind spotify in the corner lol I was jamming to hard to pause it lol)

Some parts of the town im redoing because I just wasnt a fan of the layout.

I will be releasing my first version pretty soon I got to patch up some texture and routing issues and double check that everything is working properly.

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Houses are going in! 42 of them in this sector so far. They are all empty for the moment as I think of household/family/sim ideas and decorate for them accordingly!

Also on the bottom right corner by the bridge is a supermarket inspired by Aldi's, a convenience store just didnt fit for that spot a grocery store was more suitable

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We all need that one nasty house in our saves lol

[grandelama]

ICOLOPOLIS

ICOLOPOLIS was at its beginning a vast orange grove on the right bank of Llama River, surrounded by a few peasant houses. Ico Lopoli, its owner, was so skilled, ambitious and enterprising that in a few years those few houses became a prosperous, populated, modern and lively city. Despite the fame of Icolopolis, nobody knows what happened to Ico Lopoli: he mysteriously disappeared, after an incredible long and surprisingly prosperous life. Who knows, maybe he is still alive, hiding himself in disguise somewhere in the city…

Is Icolopolis worth a coffee?

Icolopolis is available for free. However, if you appreciate all the love and efforts I put in building it, every small DONATION will be very appreciated. I’ll be very happy to create even more beautiful stuff for your game.

So, please, DONATE.

Thank you. :-)

Features

Medium Size World (1024 x 1024)

Urban City scenery

26 residential lots

80 community lots

non populated world (play the given Icolopolis_POPULATED save file if you want to run a fully populated city).

More than 350 objects and more than 70 patterns specifically designed for Icolopolis.

What is required:

- all expansion packs:      - World Adventures      - Ambitions      - Late Night      - Generations      - Pets      - Showtime      - Supernatural      - Seasons      - University Life      - Island Paradise      - Into the Future - the following stuff packs:      - High-End Loft      - Fast Lane      - Outdoor Living      - Town Life      - Master Suite      - 70’s, 80’s & 90’s - all the store worlds (except for Midnight Hollow):      - Riverview      - Barnacle Bay      - Hidden Springs      - Lunar Lakes      - Lucky Palms      - Sunlit Tides      - Montevista      - Aurora Skies      - Dragon Valley      - Roaring Heghts

Known issues:

The Owner’s door of the big show venue from Showtime is bugged (the owner walks inside instead of came out), so - just in case you will start a new game WITHOUT using my “Icolopolis POPULATED” save file - I suggest you to delete that door (using Moveobjects on), and replace it with the cloned one you’ll find in the Doors section.

I’ve cloned the basketball hoop from the Store (named cloned_basketball_hoop.package).It works fine, with its proper animations and sounds, and the original file from the Store is non required, but your Sims will play with an invisible basket ball. If you own the original basketball hoop from the Store, replace mine with your (you can eventually delete it from the Icolopolis CC folder).

Download:

Here you can find all the necessary files:

Icolopolis : the whole scenery (install it via Launcher)

Icolopolis_POPULATED save file (requires game patched 1.69): - alternative download HERE - Mediafire  a fully populated save file. Unzip it in your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Saves folder, then load it as a normal save file once in game. If you experience lags using this file, delete some of the largest families, or alternatively use the following save file:

Icolopolis_NPC_only save file (requires game patched 1.69): - alternative download HERE - Mediafire a save file with no families, just all the NPCs (non-player characters) requested to fulfill all the available services in the city.  Unzip it in your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Saves folder, then load it as a normal save file once in game.

CC_Icolopolis_Overrides (10,6 mb): - alternative download HERE - Mediafire this file contains some override packages files requested for the game. Unzip it in your Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3/Mods/Overrides folder.

CC_Icolopolis_Merged (375 mb): - alternative download HERE - Mediafire it contains ALL the necessary CC, merged into few packages files. Unzip in your Documents / Electronic Arts / The Sims 3 / Mods / Packages folder. The zip file includes also a list of all the merged files, so you can eventually replace any single packages file you already own with the corresponding merged file containing it. The use of the merged files instead of single packages is highly recommended in order not to lower your PC’s performance while gaming.

CC_Icolopolis_SINGLE_FILES (378 mb): - alternative download HERE - Mediafire the same content as the file above, just not merged. Download it at your choice.Use alternatively to the merged files.

Credits:

Special thanks to @nornities and @simsmidgen for all their precious suggestions and help (without they Icolopolis would be heavier and laggy!), as well to @dylan-walsh-sim, @applekissims and @mllwio for testing.

[sarahssimschronicles]

I aspire to create something as amazing as this! Makes my world look so bland, but im also learning the process more!

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Okay, so I need your help! Where that big pond is id like to create a park since theres no big parks other than a small playground and small park in front of a art museum. Im using inspiration from the MacArthur Park in Los Angeles CA feel free to leave a comment or ask me privately! im open to all suggestions.

Im thinking of this being used as a place to use those paddleboats from IP and as a makeshift fishing spot along having a festival lot and some actual outdoor things to do other than a big shopping mall

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For the size of this world and just how many (empty) residential places there are It would be reasonable to add in some buisnesses and other ammenedies making it into a smaller city.

(I promise not all the buildings will be this band and ugly they are just placeholders to map out the better looking lots!)

The more bland buildings will be rabbit holes and the nicer ones I am making functional/playable for better quality of life experience

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Its always the biggest and the most deatailed building where my computer takes a poo (I will end up just rebuilding this)

Oh a happy 5 hours wasted

(yes this is the only picture I was able to capture)

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Important World/Blog/Life Update

Desert World Update: Ive been getting burnt out with the world, its been a year since I first started and I have been overly strict on myself about having no cc other than EA Store trees and I realized that its just not fun and my world is looking really bland for it being a realistic world. so I will be adding custom content to some parts of it but I will have a cc free option for those tho prefer no cc there will just be some things missing but it will not be world or game breaking.

Blog Update: Im sure some of you remember my post saying I was going to create my home city of Buffalo NY, im starting the brainstorming process for that world and I am also in the process of learning how to make deco buildings, deco objects, and turning said deco buildings into rabbitholes, it wont be for a while but its most certainly at the front of my brain.

Life Update: An addition to me working on the Buffalo world pretty soon, im moving away to the other side of the country pretty soon, that is not going to change my world process but I may be on a short hiatus coming late July into August.

I would like to mention that creating these worlds is my number one hobby and is what gets me up and going everyday and I would like to thank everyone for the attention my blog is getting and all of the amazing comments and likes and follows this has been getting I cannot thank you all enough!

[nornities]

CAW for Absolute Beginners – a guide

It took me long enough, but I made a guide for CAW for those of you who always wanted to try to build your own worlds for Sims 3 but never knew where to start. And for those of you who tried but got frustrated because information is hard to find, outdated or just doesn’t cover what you were looking for.

For now it’s a PDF for you to download. And maybe sometime in this century it will be turned into a website for better navigation. Stay tuned! And don’t hesitate to ask if you have questions!

Download PDF Guide

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Took a break from CAW and made one of my favorite artists Seka Aleksić in TS3

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A quick note

Ive seen a post on reddit containing another world creator who is charging real currency for their worlds. I want to make a note that any Custom Content is not allowed to be paywalled by EA. I make worlds as my hobby and being able to share my creations on here and being in this community is truly the best. To make a long story short I will never put any of my worlds or creations behind a paywall, I do not even have a patreon account or any of those pages. I use Tumblr, reddit and discord the most. I apologize for the long tangent but I wanted to make my stance known.

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Its been some time since I did a last areal view of the world, It doesnt seem like too too much has been done but even the little things take a long time! But im pleased with the way its going.

I havent been able to make a lot of progress lately considering I just had a baby a few weeks ago. But ive been trying my best to kick back into gear and get going on getting this world done!

[rstarsims3]

The Sims 3 - CAW items (Barrage Dam, Bridges and Retaining Walls)

I was asked to share the barrage I made for my unpublished (yet) world Port Valentine so I decided to put the whole set up for download.

Details:

I've meshed everything in Blender;

Mostly low poly items, ranging from 12 faces (post), to 96 (curved walls), to 202 (traffic tunnel) to a little under 500 faces (barrage). The canal bridge's poly is higher with 892 faces; both bridges are under 3k.

All LODS present (so they won't change shape when zooming out or going in Map Mode).

Non-recolorable;

Only present in CAW, they don't appear anywhere in the game's catalogue (as they should because they're gigantic).

Bridges are functional and connect with roads properly;

Package files only;

Speaking of dimensions, they're double in width compared to the retaining walls from WA-France.

Search word in CAW - "barrage" (it will show you all the items included in this set, except for the tunnel. Search for the latter separately).

NOTES:

Along with the TOU mentioned at the end of this post, I'd like to add some further directions for use:

You can include these items in your CC folder when sharing the worlds you're creating, but -for The Love of God- give credit and a link to the original post (meaning this one).

You can recolor them however you want and share those recolors, but give credit and a link to the original post;

You cannot modify the meshes.

Also let me know so I can see how they look in your worlds or with your recolors.

DOWNLOAD on Patreon (FREE)

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TOU 🔊 Do not re-upload, or claim as your own. Do not put it anywhere up for download and don’t add adfly to my links.

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[sarahssimschronicles]

18 houses built in 12 hours is not a bad record! All of the houses are not furnished but the outsides are decorated!

(Plus a sneak peek at the other buildings that ive been working on in the background, the buildings are to scattered to be able to show them yet withought having to spam a million pictures)