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Last Villandry update for today is just a mix of screenshots. I’ve changed the windows of the top floor rear of Villandry and I’ve also been working on some of Sabine’s outfits again. I’m rather pleased with how everything is progressing so far... so now I shall bid you all adieu until next time <3 xxx
Now for the surprise part of these updates! I have sneakily been working on another one of Villandry’s lots over the last few weeks. This lot will be right before the entrance to the Chateau. It consists of 4 apartments and on one side will lead to the stables and equestrian lot and on the other will lead to the chapel and opera house. Since taking these screenshots a week or so ago I’ve now completed the exterior and laid out the room’s floor plans. I still need to install the bathing chambers and do basic room decoration, but I hope to release it for download in the next week or two so simmers can furnish and decorate them how they see fit.
The idea of releasing this lot for download early is so I know exactly what I’m doing for when I release the main chateau for download as I’ve never uploaded a lot before outside the exchange and I need a dry run before releasing the palace.
The gallery of antiquity/smoking room and general 18th century mancave is now complete! I would not have been able to do it without the likes of @murfeelee, @ladesirecreativecorner and a number of others who’s CC I’ve used. I’m so pleased with how this set of rooms turned out and it is exactly how I wanted them to look when I started on the 18th Century Mancave idea for the palace.
Cant remember if I’ve shown the courtyards yet, but this is one of the twin courtyards of the palace. These will make excellent areas for a spot of quite reading when a sims wants to a little fresh air, but doesn’t want to stray too far from home.
I also had to do a little tweaking of the banqueting chamber, thankfully not much though, just curtain and chair patterns and I’ve also added these buffet tables too. I will have to double check who the MTS creator was who edited these, but I thought adding some buffet tables for banquets would help make it a little easier on Agnes Grante.s household chores :o)
A room I’ve not shared before is the breakfast room/informal dining chamber. This room was originally part of the kitchen, but I felt it wasn’t really working so I changed it to the breakfast room. I was determined to have that wonderful chocolate fountain somewhere in this palace and those that know me well in real life will know of my love of chocolate so this is a bit of my real personality coming out in Villandry :o)
The kitchen took rather a hit with the transfer over to my new laptop. I lost a few patterns and also a lot of the kitchen clutter too. I’m thinking it’s a little bare above the kitchen sink now, so I’m still looking at what I can put there, but on the whole I think the loss of a lot of the kitchen clutter maybe a blessing in disguise as I’ve now added grandma’s store cupboard from the TS3 store and I think the kitchen on the whole looks a little more streamlined.
The only issue I now have is for some reason the scales and rolling pin and pastry board won’t sit on the long table in the centre, but keep sitting under it so if anyone can help me with that issue I’d be really grateful!
I know I’ve uploaded screenshots of the ballroom and adjacent gaming room before too, but the update of the lighting really has helped improve the games room considerably. The ballroom is definitely now complete, but I’m thinking the games room walls are still a little bare so I may add a few more paintings to complete it fully and make it a little less masculine by adding a few female portraits or landscape paintings.
I have also nearly completed Sabine’s private music room too. Again, just the ceiling to complete and then the room is done. I’ve been having rather a lot of fun placing all the paintings in each of the rooms too. I’m trying really hard not to repeat using the same paintings. I’ve also only just figured out how to move objects up and down walls (feel a bit thick and slow that I hadn’t figured out how to do it before now). Cannot thank @regal-sims and the wonderful TheJim07 enough for all these glorious 18th century paintings they’ve created between them.
Sabine’s private study/library is now almost complete. The only thing I have to do now in this room is the ceiling.
I know I’ve already shown Sabine’s bedchamber before, but I’ve been tweaking the lighting thanks to some invisible lights for all the 2 story rooms on the “2nd floor” and Sabine’s bedchamber now looks the way I really wanted it to. I’ve loved creating the 2 story floors of Villandry, but the dodgy lighting between the 2 floor layers have always annoyed me. I’ve now fixed it somewhat. They’re still not perfect, but they are an improvement of what they were before. I think Sabine’s bedchamber is probably one of my favourite rooms in the palace now.
I’ve now completed Sabine’s dressing chamber. I know in the 18th century bathrooms weren’t really around the way they are today. However, I’ve tried to add bathing areas that would be in keeping with the style of the time and also make the palace as functional as possible for a sims game.
As you may know I had awful trouble with the patterns when I transferred over to my new laptop and have had to re-create a lot of the patterns I originally had in the palace. It also gave me the opportunity to create some new ones and this is one of the ones I’ve found as a result and I absolutely love it! I really wanted Sabine’s private apartment rooms to not only be grand on an epic scale, but to also reflect the fact she is a young and fashionable sim of her time and I really hope I’ve been able to pull it off.
Updates are coming!!!!...
I know, I know, I disappeared off again, but I have been rather busy with real world stuff of late so haven’t had as much time to devote to Villandry or the sims as I would have liked. I had to plan and organise our office move and that took more out of me than I had anticipated. I have though been able to do some work to Villandry and I have a little surprise in store amongst the updates for today. I have also been playing around in other sims games too as a bit of a break, because Villandry kept crashing and I couldn’t get as much work done as I really wanted to so got rather disheartened. However, this weekend I opened up Villandry again and have done a little more work and taken a few more screenshots.
The first thing you may notice from the screenshot above is I’ve gotten rid of the stables. The reason being I never really wanted a stable as part of the main palace lot and had always wanted to do a separate stables and equestrian lot. I also discovered an excellent MOD that has aloud me to be able to make this happen, so I can now board the horses on a more appropriate stable lot once it is built. I now only have the fancy horse troughs on the lot and it means now Sabine has the view from her bed chamber I always wanted her to have and is more in keeping with the Chateau of Versailles style of the full open courtyard the palace really should have had from the start.
So I’m now back fully in game! It’s been quite the ride to get back up and running, but I’m now able to finally do some work to complete Chateau de Villandry. In the process of moving all my sims 3 files over to my new laptop it muck up a lot of the patterns and CC for the palace. However, luckily I still had a lot of the patterns saved elsewhere on. I’m now having to update and redo a number of the rooms, but for the most part the Chateau is still very much intact.
Here are some screenshots of what I’ve been working on so far this weekend. My new version of Sabine has been added to the game and her clothes are very much a work in progress. I’ve had to update the wall patterns for her pretty much all of her private rooms. I absolutely love the new wallpaper I’ve created for her updated bed chamber. I will of course release the pattern at some point.
I have also found the pattern of the Cour de Marbre of Versailles and have updated the courtyard with it, again I will release that pattern at some point in the near future too.
I’m now hoping that now I’m back up and running properly with a much faster and better laptop I will finally be able to complete the palace for general download, but in the meantime I hope you enjoy these screenshots.
A few in game test shots of my new base Sabine and her mother Hedwig and also Sabine’s new horse Artemis. Hermia, Sabine’s original dappled grey horse will become Hedwig’s horse.
Despite Hedwig having the ‘Proper’ trait I have a feeling from the last screenshot once I get her in game she is going to be a bit of a character! :o)
This sadly is all I have for now, but fingers crossed I’ll be able to post a proper Villandry build update in the next day or so once I’ve fixed my CAS and pattern issues <3
Sabine’s mother, Hedwig du Pruche, Douairiere Duchess de Villandry (Dowager Duchess of Villandry). I should add I don’t speak French so I’m really hoping I’ve gotten her title correct in French!
Hedwig’s traits are: Family-Oriented, Irresistible, Nurturing, Proper and Supernatural Fan. She is a human sim. I will post a more detailed description of her history at a later date.
I have been very absent I know, I do have valid reasons some personal and others TS3 game related. I won’t share the personal issues here, but on the game related front I’ve been having major issues with my laptop. My old one was on it’s last legs and seriously overheating, but luckily I was able to save Villandry and my other saves before it died on me. I’ve now bought a lovely new proper gaming laptop so I should be able to play TS3 without the lag or hours waiting for it to load and finally finish building the palace so I can share it with the simming community. However, I have had major issues setting up my TS3 games and transferring my Chateau and other saves over. On a plus note, thankfully I have not lost the palace. The downside is I’m still not fully up and running yet. I’ve had a lot of corrupt files to deal with along with other set up issues, but I can now finally start the sims 3 without it crashing on launch! Sadly I can’t get CAS to work properly yet though. I’ve been googling fixes and think I’ve finally got a few solutions that I will test out tomorrow evening that should fix the issues once and for all, fingers crossed!
I have though at least been able to tinker a bit with CAS and have seriously changed my Sabine sim. As much as I love my current Sabine I don’t think her facial features look very 18th Century and that’s something that’s really bugged me. I’ve spent the last few days in between googling fixes for all my current TS3 game issues looking at 18th century portraits and editing Sabine (God I’ve missed not being able to play sims 3!!!). I have also finally created Sabine’s mother Hedwig too. This is my new base Sabine! I still need to edit her outfits though and install her in her permanent residence of Chateau Villandry. The issue I’m now having is the game keeps ‘materialising materials’ and just hangs there whenever I try to customise clothes or even objects or walls or floors :o/ and none of my patterns I’ve created are showing in game anymore even though they show up as installed in the launcher. I’ll try my fixes tomorrow evening and will hopefully be fully up and running again in the next day or so.
But in the mean here is my new Sabine! <3