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Late Sunday Replies

And before I call it a day, some inbox replies! Few anon replies and one for @18sims!

Anonymous said:

Hello! Stupid question: are you he? She? An apache helicopter?

Hey Anon! I’m he, yep :Ъ

Anonymous said:

Hi Criquette! I love your CC! I have a question: is it possible to make your Better Nightlife mod compatible with Niol's nhood water shaders? If so, which properties I should edit in the code and which ones I shouldn't? Thanks in advance and have a nice weekend ♥

Hey there! You need to open Moi’s Nhood water shader of choice in SimPE and replace original ‘define NeighborhoodBuildingMaterial()’ paragraph with two paragraphs (‘define NeighborhoodBuildingMaterial()’ and ‘define NeighborhoodGlowMaterial()’) from Better Nightlife shader. That should work!

Anonymous said:

Your very talented in decorating neighborhoods, I have no talent at all in decorating in the Sims game, is there any chance you will provide an entire decorated neighborhood with many of your custom objects for download?   

Oh, thank you so much, Anon! Yes, I really want to release at least one predecorated hood at some point in the future! Something simple and not so customized as Thyme project. I just hope I’ll have time for that >.<

@18sims said:

Hi again Criquette! I wanted to ask a question about a hood glitch.. So, I started to build up Ridgefolk, and I noticed that if I build the house first, then the driveway is flipped the opposite way? Like the driveway wont snap to the road and it facing away from the road? Do you know if that is a glitch, corrupt hood, or anything else? I have deleted the lot and replaced it but the same thing still happens? :( Thanks in advanced!!             

Hello Fisher! Woah, I actually have no idea! Never experienced something like that. Although I always wanted to just plop lots unrelated to roads. I wouldn’t say it’s corrupted hood though.

Anonymous said:

Hi! I've downloaded quite a few things over the last two days. Thank you so much for sharing them so generously - I know you must have put a lot of effort into creating them out of thin air. TS2 is the only game I can play on my computer, and thanks to you my neighborhoods look so, so pretty. Cheers! 

Oh, thank you for the kind words Anon! Really glad to know that. ✨ ✨✨

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Morning Coffee Replies

Hello everyone! Before I reblog amazing @beautifulnerdkitty release of lit-up-at-night embankments and even more awesome street lights, I’d like to answer some messages while I’m enjoying my first cup of coffee.

These go to @impassingoveryou, @18sims and a couple of anon asks.

@impassingoveryou said:

Hi Criquette! Furst of all, thank you for your CC, it‘s absolutely stunning. The amount of people asking you to upload your neighbourhoods must be extremely overwhelming :D I‘ve actually wanted to ask you that myself and I get that you seem to be a perfectionist when it comes to neighbourhoods. But honestly, having just ANY of your neighbourhoods would be absolutely awesome, they always look great!

Oh, thank you! I actually seriously thinking about releasing some random predecorated neighborhood. Maybe something Zagoskin based (or not). I really need to decide on the concept to be able to actually finish it without falling into improvement/adding more features loop.

@18sims said:

Hi, again, Criquette, I was the anon asking about the road overlays not showing up. I am on windows and everything else of yours shows up in my game fine. It’s just the road overlays?

Hey! That’s really weird. Did you try to use any other road overlays before? Because I can’t think of any reason why that could happen. I mean, as a mac user myself, I did have an issue of road overlays not showing up in my game, but that’s because of catalogue listings issue, it’s really easy to fix and now I can easily enable any other lot mode CC to show up in my game. Windows simmers don’t even have this problem until they’re on custom EP collection and some later EP required by the CC item is missing. Do you have Ultimate Collection or you have an unique set up with EPs of choice installed one by one? And another even more silly question: road overlays are lot mode items, you’re looking for them in the Decorative/Miscellaneous while in lot mode, right?

Anonymous said:

Hi Criquette! Thank you so much! I saw you fixed the Maxis problem with the winter snow not covering the road's dead-end and turn corner pieces properly. Is your fix only for Lush NH terrain? If so, could you tell us how to fix it for the other NH terrain types please? I play with all the NH terrain types, and that problem has been upsetting me since Seasons was released.             

Hey there! Basically, the fix itself works for all type of roads in the game. But there’s another thing. I’m not 100% sure that Maxis create proper snow staged lot skirt road textures of all types to cover all the pieces (i.e. corner, dead end, straight, T/X junctions). I do remember that I saw unused temperate road snowy textures in game resources that would work with the fix quite good, but I can’t be so sure about desert/dirt/concrete roads. It may happen that they will need additional snowy textures to work properly with the fix installed.

Anonymous said:

Was wondering if there is a chance you might one day make a default terrain & road for the other terrains we have in the game?            

You mean, to create my versions of those terrains? I don’t think so >.< I’ve created this Rural Charm thing because I use it in my game in the first place and I wanted to share it with the community, but I don’t feel like creating and releasing terrain defaults for fun ^__^’ Unless I get obsessed with some neighborhood concept witch will require desert/concrete terrain, or I suddenly decide to create any other alternative grass based terrain and use dirt/desert terrain as a spare option (as i did with my old dirt terrain DR). But that’s highly unlikely.