As some of you might have guessed, @aondaneedles and I have collaborated over the past few months to merge her Sedona neighborhood with the HBG Sedona. Today, we’re ready to present you the MASHUP version of the two neighborhoods! ^^
Loved the friendly sims in Aonda’s Sedona? But wished that they could also hang out with the HBG Sedona guys? WELL, now they can! Wanna read some of their stories? Let us introduce them here and here! Also, stay tuned for more introduction posts of this kind to come! :)
A small town nestled in the hills near Road to Nowhere, Sedona was once a sprawling mining town. But after a deadly accident happened that forced the mine to close, almost everyone fled the small town. Those who stayed try to keep their hometown afloat, but now little more than a speck of dust on the map, is it even worth saving Sedona? Or should the remaining residents try their luck elsewhere?
No CC/ All EPs/SPs Required - you may skip a few SPs, but you’ll need Mansion & Garden SP for sure!
18 Lots (6 community lots, 11 residential lots, 1 apartment) - Aonda’s Sedona lots can also be separately downloaded here!
19 Playable Sims and 5 Pets (+ 21 ghosts, 5 custom made townies and 7 NPCs) - with customized skills, memories, hobbies and relationships!
Has a Fly-Through Video! - As some of you might know, Sedona was one of EA’s scrapped neighborhoods! Luckily, there’s still some data left which we’ve stolen, ahem.. borrowed for our neighborhood! :D
Extract the file and put the folder ‘SHBA’ into your Documents > EA Games > The Sims 2 > Neighborhoods
Extract the file and put the folder 'SHBS’ into your Program Files > EA GAMES >The Sims 2 Open For Business >TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate
OR: If you have The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection: Program Files > Origin Games > The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection > Best of Business > EP3 > TSData > Res > NeighborhoodTemplate
Alright, here are a few additional gameplay pictures! For more pictures, check out the MTS thread!
Additional Information and Known Issues:
IMPORTANT! You might not be able to fill in the holes on the Campbell lot. Use move_objects on to remove them instead. You will temporarily experience a small terrain glitch. Either save the lot, exit and reload the lot or just cover the affected tiles with flooring (you can undo it immediately after) to remove the glitch. We decided to keep the holes even though they cause this small harmless glitch as they are story-relevant and change the lot’s environment score.
For some unknown reason, a dead male teen (Luis Hernandez) shows up in the “Townie” household on modded objects like SimBlender or Teleporter Shrub/Cat. This is a harmless bug, though. We tried to fix him by adding him back to the Default household, but then, the game made him a “Townie” again. So, it’s kinda unfixable? He is still dead, adding him to the family will do nothing (he will fade away once you press play). The neighborhood should still be safe to play, so don’t worry about it. I’ve seen it happen in EA’s neighborhoods as well (ie Cornelia Goth in Pleasantview)
If you download the subhood version, you’ll find the Gauthiers in the family bin (since it’s very unsafe to create subhoods with apartment residents). Simply move them into the Blue Flamingo again. You can simply use the boolProp cheat and shift-click on the apartment to rent their apartment (the 2 bedroom one) furnished.
Also in the subhood version, the game renames every townie/NPC when you add a subhood to a neighborhood.. which is bad, since we’ve included some Easter Eggs (some townies/NPCs are supposed to represent distant relatives of the Strangetown sims).The only way to fix this is by using mods, such as the Sim Blender or SimPE to rename them correctly. We’ve included a list with pictures, so you can do that easily after adding Sedona as a subhood.
If you experience any missing tombstones, try running Mootilda’s HoodChecker to retrieve the tombstones. This is a known bug in the game which is not related to the neighborhood. It usually happens if you have two neighborhoods with the same ID number installed. We set Sedona’s ID number to be high (251), which should prevent conflicts, hopefully!
If you’re not okay with 2nd cousins once removed potentially hooking up, get a mod that treats extended family like family
We highly recommend you get Always Perfect Plants or any mod that allows you to water inaccessible flowers/ trim inaccessible bushes
We’ve given the townies some custom memories to represent their backstory… so if you want to keep them, we recommend you getting Townie Move In No Memory Loss mod to prevent amnesia.
To prevent unwanted townies from spawning, we recommend you follow this and this tutorial It’s a good idea to do this regardless, as it prevents all of the Maxis townies from spawning in each of your new hood.
If you download the subhood version, you’ll need Fix Suhood Selection mod to be able to add it to your hoods. Also, it’s generally advisable to run the HoodChecker after adding a subhood to a neighborhood!
For further info, check out the original upload threads of the standalone neighborhoods here (HBG) and here (aondaneedles)
Credit goes to the original lot creators which include HBG members:
@catherinetcjd (for Aaron’s house),
@95mmaa (for Tarek’s house),
marka93 (for Phil’s house),
@hugelunatic and litlegothcat13 (for Jared’s house)
And letting us use their lots and sims which we updated/renovated to all EPs/SPs, where also Catherine helped us renovating Tarek’s and Aaron’s house respectively.
These lots have then been placed into Aonda’s version of Sedona, which was then once again slightly edited, to include a few of HBG’s Sedona’s landmarks, such as the windmills.. and secret UFO crash lot! :)
Mootilda for her various tools and tutorials on how to create a custom neighborhood. We cannot thank her enough for making things like creation of custom subhoods possible in the first place!
Anyone also involved in the creation of the original two Sedonas. Thank you very much for your help, we greatly appreciate it! ^^
Let us know, what you did in your Sedona! We’d be more than happy to see what you did and how you continued our stories! Just tag us and/or use the hashtag #mashupsedona to differentiate it from the original versions, lol! And to also save your posts from drowning… since well, Sedona is actually a real place… and a real popular place! So, #sedona wouldn’t make it easy for us to see your posts. Karma Dawn would probably say.. that might be why EA scrapped Sedona in the first place? Lol!
Anyway, we hope you enjoy this neighborhood mashup as much as we enjoyed putting it together! Have fun! <3
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