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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Making a barn roof

Little tut. ^_^


Start with a ground level.  This room is 8 x 16 room.

Remove the automatic roof and add a second floor.  Since my ground is 8 blocks wide, I went in 2 blocks and made a 4 x 16 room leaving 2 x 16 blocks open on either side.

I then went to the roof section and chose the "gabled roof" (first option).  Depending on the length and width of your 2nd floor room you may need to use the "Tall Gable Roof". After you pick the roof and place it, choose the "Roof selection pitch control" under the roofing section in build (you should already be there) and lower it to your liking (I like to lower it pretty low, and if you have to use the Tall Gable, you will need to lower it a lot).

Go back to the roof selection and pick the half gable roof and add it to the top of the first floor space you left open.  Using the roof pitch control raise the roof up so that it just touches the underside of the gabled roof on the second floor.  Do the same thing on the other side.

 You may have to mess around with it a bit, but in the end you should have a barn roof, like this.

Hope this was helpful. ^_^

Monday, September 24, 2012

Woodside Meadow Apartment

No CC (except for a pattern or two--that I think I got off the exchange--honestly cannot remember where I got them).

First apartment.  Worked fine in my game, I hope it works for you!  The playable apartment is a loft bedroom, but if you wanted to move in a family, there is enough room on the second floor to add walls to make two bedrooms.











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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Oh for crying out loud

So I see this in the GD today.





 So the OP wants to know if people would download this sim and refuses to upload this sim until they know a ton of people would download it thus giving them a ton of downloads. *moment to roll my eyes at that*

Well, my immediate thought was that there is no way to know if it would get a lot of downloads as is, or if the OP made adjustments to the sim.  There are a lot of creations out there that are overlooked and have lower download/rec numbers when they really deserve more than what they got.

At first I thought the sim wasn't that bad, I still don't.  I thought she looked unique. The Op says that they wanted her to have a nice face.  Well, what you might think is nice is obviously going to differ from the next person or the next 1,000 people.   The OP says that if she's not good enough they will have to go back and work on her for another hour.  At this point, I 'm thinking, "Give me a frigging break.  Why the hell should you care if others think it's good enough or not?  Just because you want to have tons of downloads? All that should matter is if you like her or not."

So in came some members giving their two cents.  Some said to go work on her more, some asked what the OP was going for when creating her.

^sort of contradicting yourself aren't you?  Hm...red flag?

                                            
Am I really the only one that caught that?  First the Op asks what they can do to make her pretty (or if she is pretty) then asks with an angry face if no one else thought she was pretty after implying that another called her "ugly" for giving some constructive criticism?

Finally, one of my favorite sim creators came in and posted exactly what I was thinking.



At this point, I started wondering if the OP was serious or not and just under Caturae's post I find this.


Oh for crying out loud...


So... anyone who disagree's that this sim is ugly is wrong, lying, and failed this pathetic "test"?  Again, give me a frigging break!

I finally see this, and couldn't agree more with this memeber's post.



This. 100%

To tell someone, anyone, who said they liked the sim or thought the sim was "pretty" (just because you don't or you want people to not like them) does not make them "fail" or make them a "liar" (which also, I thought was rather lame to "test" people since you really don't have any proof if anyone really liked the sim or not based on what they said).  What they think is "pretty" is not necessarily going to be what you, or anyone else, thinks is pretty.  And to tell someone they are wrong in their opinion of what beauty is, is wrong in itself.

Honestly, I don't think the sim the OP created as a "test" (and I say test with the most sarcastic voice I can think of) was that bad, and is pretty because she isn't the "stereotypical" beauty and has flaws (as real people do...so it made me wonder,  does that mean that if a real person thinks a real person the OP didn't think was stereo-typically pretty, is pretty, they are a liar?  I think that just makes them less shallow than you if you want me to be honest).

So saying that I think this sim is "pretty" makes me a fail your stupid little test, and dishonest because it's not the answer you're fishing for?  Really? Then so be it. You have no proof with your test if someone saying they thought the sim was pretty or not, was being honest or not, to begin with unless they came out and told you they were lying!  And even then, if they said the sim was pretty and then turned around to say they were lying about it, then there is still no way of knowing which was the truth! Even the ones that were saying, "I failed I guess" doesn't necessarily mean that you were right.

 Sounds like the only one that failed this test was you, OP, because there is no right or wrong answer when it involves someone's opinion and, again, to tell someone their opinion is wrong is stupid. So stupid.

I have to agree with   Gigidawn... Not sure what the point of your experiment was other than to prove, there are more nice folks on the forums then there are trolls. 

Although I would change that slightly to, "...there are a lot of different opinionated people on the forums". 




Wednesday, September 5, 2012

My simself is a grandma! And my game is acting up after patching---shocking

So first...my simself and my bf's simself (who are married in my game) are grandparents! ^_^  Their son, Logan, and his fiancee had a baby girl name, Kyla. :)



Now for the patch issue.  Grrrrr.....

I never used to take out my mods/CC when I patched.  About 6 months ago I decided I better start doing so because I have so many, and I don't want to lose my game or my CC/Mods.  Well, ever since doing so...I've had headache after headache when patching.  I never had issues with patching when I left the mods/CC in their folders.

So yesterday, I decided to install the new patch.  I took out my mods and CC, then patched my game to 1.38.  I then went and got the updated mods.  The ones I use are all updated to work with the patch so I was able to get them all. After doing that, I put everything back, and that is when the nightmare began. The game loaded normally.  My saved file loaded normally, but the saved game (my legacy family) is frozen when I go to play them expect for the group icon above their heads (because that is how I left them last time), and the trees moving. I have been pulling my hair out since 2pm yesterday (Sept. 4) trying to find the issue.  Thought it was because I hadn't updated the pose player...nope.  Thought it was some other package files...nope.  Went and re-downloaded my  mods to ensure I had updated all my mods, they were, but I still had the issue.  Finally, I took all my package files out except for my mods.  The game did the same thing.  I took the mods out and started putting them back one at a time, and found that when I put in Error Trap, the game would act up.  Thinking I had found the issue, I put all my package files (minus Error Trap) back in the game.  The game loaded up...and did it again.  So now I have to go through all my package files and find which one is causing this issue!  All I want to do, is play my game dammit!