game things in progress

[oiran]

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So, I realized that there were a ton of people saying that the pirate versions of the big cages I (vindictively) posed on GoS don't show up, and I don't know why, and it's easier to make my own version instead of trying to fix Thiefperson's version. I've made an open one and a closed one, master/slaved, and it has a slot in the very middle for a posed sim or whatever. All I need to fix is catalog placement - they're in massively different parts of the deco catalog.

The bar is based on a photograph from an antiques site. It turned out really well, except the labels on the bottles are backwards. Now, I could go in and re-map them...or I could just reverse them on the texture map, which is almost positively what I will actually do. But that needs to be done.

Finally, the Moroccan shelf. I added 4 slots to a cloned table, for a total of 5 slots. The entire time I was working on the mesh, all I cared about was the shape and getting the polys under 1000, which I did (962, iirc) and didn't really consider the shelf spacing, so only small things fit, but - I ADDED SLOTS! The only thing this needs is to have the second recolor redone since for some reason it isn't working and it's easier to redo it than to mess with it.

And this is a sort of peek at something I had been planning for quite some time. I made the mistake of suggesting circus for a GoS montlhly theme. It was met with great enthusiasm and was ultimately chosen, much to my horror. I had been confident that we'd have an apocalyptic theme, so confident that I'd already started meshing my apocalyptic ideas, and was embarrassed to be completely unprepared to address my own suggestion with actual downloads.

The tents were actually pretty much done on time, but I got sick and missed the end of the month and I was still dithering with the horse headdress things. There had been a lot more stuff uploaded than I'd expected, so I didn't feel as bad about it as I might have. Since I did blow the deadline, I have been working on more stuff for the set off and on ever since. No particular ETA on this stuff. There's quite a bit more than pictured, but I was too lazy to make an elaborate set.

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I probably shouldn't have been surprised at the massive outflux of players from TS2 to TS3, but I am surprised at how many creators seem to have just stopped creating entirely - and there seem to be a lot  who are still playing TS2, but not making TS2 stuff because supposedly no one wants it. Boredom or disinterest is one thing, but thinking that no one wants it - that's just not true. I want it :P

Oh, and I didn't make the horse. That's dragonslave's horse from MTS2. And, yes, I made 10 headdresses, one for each pose. Because I'm an OCD fool, that's why.

Comments

[garnet812.livejournal.com]

The circus stuff and cage is cool, I'm not sure if I would use it in my game, but it would be awesome for photo shoots.

The shelf would probably be abuse way too much in my game, I love the shape of it, and I really like how the bar is open on the bottom.

I am glad you are still creating for Sims 2, because you always make such useful stuff that makes my houses so much more fun and homey.

[nixypixel.livejournal.com]

Even though I am not and have no plans to be a storyteller in Sims 2, I am a storyteller elsewhere, and I end up making a lot of things that I really think are only useful for photoshoots or movies or whatever. The entire circus/carnival set is going to be one big movie/photoshoot set, but I agree there's not much for a player to do with it. There are a few functional things that I'm going to include, but it will mostly be stuff that just sits still, looking pretty. I'll build a big lot, admire it, take some pictures, and probably never look at it again - though I'll probably upload the lot, since I think it's the kind of thing that will be easier for people to to find a use for by way of deconstructing my lot, rather than building one from scratch.

It took me about 2 minutes to fix all the things that were "wrong" with the stuff from the first pic, and I'll be uploading them tomorrow, I hope. I have to get the game going with enough crap in it to get good pictures, and I'm in the midst of reorganizing. Again.

[goldfished.livejournal.com]

Heh, I recently learned to add slots to objects and have found it oddly addictive. The shelf is lovely, but I like the shape to that bar even more, that's something I could definitely use (I dislike being dissuaded from using actual functional objects because the maxis versions don't fit anywhere. Like that horrible OFB perfume stand).

Anyway, I'm glad you're still creating for TS2 because yeah, I want stuff too. I feel like I've only just started creating stuff (venturing into messy meshing) so that's a bit of a downer, as is the disappearance of some people to TS3. But a lot of my favourite creators are still around, so it's swings and roundabouts.

[nixypixel.livejournal.com]

Adding slots is easier than I expected and I'm looking at old and unreleased surface objects with an eye to adding a ton of slots to those, as well.

I was looking for a sort of cheesy, Vegas rec-room kind of bar to use for inspiration but found this one instead (though I still want to make a cheesy one). It was a pain in the ass to make because each of the Maxis bars is a slightly different kind of mess inside, but it seems to work exactly like it's supposed to. I should be releasing it into the wild later today, barring picture-taking complications.

I realized after I posted that there are people on my list who did indeed leave TS2 for TS3 and this might read like I'm annoyed with them, which isn't the case. I wish they hadn't, of course, but I'd rather they were making things for a game I don't play than sitting around *not* making things for TS2 just because they don't feel there's enough demand, which was seemingly the case with some (ex?) creators on a forum where I lurk.

[esperesa.livejournal.com]

The shelf is lovely; it makes me think of the quirky random things my aunt would put in her house. Can't wait to see it all uploaded, major 'want' at all of it!

It's actually creators like you that make me stick around with TS2 - the unique and pretty objects that keep things interesting and enrich that imaginary game-world. I'm at that point where I'm trying to put it all to good use (started a TS2 comic/story thing-o), so I download more than I create lately. I'm sure TS3 has its charm, but for me that doesn't beat the months and time I invested in my TS2 game.