More and More Pictures ;-)

My China set of screenshot pictures has just been published today.....

you might recognise some of them from my screenshot gallery, there will be some new ones that haven't been seen, but I've tried to pick the ones that have had the most comments :-) but I've probably renamed them as paintings...I've also submitted my third set, France, today..so if the file is ok, they should be up for download on Tuesday..

So I hope everyone likes these as much as they seem to have liked my Eygpt set :-) .....And a huge thank you to everyone who has downloaded them :-) I wasn't sure if anyone would like them enough to download them, but I guess you did :-)...I only wish I could somehow add screenshots that you could download to use as desktop wallpaper if you wanted

because they make lovely backgrounds ....(anyway, not to everyone's taste ;-) ) I've tried copy and pasting the gallery screenshots and screenshots off of the downloads themselves and the graphic quality is pretty pooh :-( ...so I've kind of given up on that idea ;-) ...

Hope everyone is having a great weekend and may the coming week be filled with happy simming :-D

A Set of Pictures...

Well, I've just submitted my first set :-D and I'm sure I've done something wrong! But it's in pending so we'll see what happens tomorrow ;-)...

so i hope everyone likes them, if they are approved ;-). I'll do a French set and a China set too at some point. :-)

On a slightly different note the chocolate poll is coming along great....Milk Chocolate seems to be a firm favourite at the moment with dark and white chocolate neck and neck :-D (I think that milk will win somehow!)...but nobody 'hates chocolate'..Wow..I thought at least one person would have voted for that..but I guess Chocolate is a universal love :-)

Screenshot Paintings...

I'm not sure how appreciated these will be ;-) but simsjeanie mentioned the other day about having some screenshots as paintings...I've not really been interested in making my own objects, not usually bothered about creating at all :-D, only the odd house here and there..but I guess since I was giving CAW a whirl, and I'd kinda got the hang of that, I thought I would try the workshop tool as well ;-). I've followed Vanilla Sim's tute on how to create paintings, which was wrote perfectly and now I have my first finished project...

It's a clone of the still life painting..but I will probably use one that has a slightly more modern frame in future...I'm going to try to upload it as a submission today..so we'll see if it works ;-)

I will also go through all my screenshots and pick some more out that I think might be nice on sims walls, but since I've got about 6 thousand to go through that might take at least a couple of hours :-D..

Anyway, hope everyone likes it :-)

Have a great weekend :-D

I've got a Problem!!!

I'm stuck (again!), I don't know whether this is a glitch that is being experienced by anyone else, but it's only started since having the new stuff pack installed....

For some reason my sim is catching fire from traps that have been disarmed already!!

She can't get past the already disarmed trap, she can't get past the flaming trap because a)she's too scared b)she's ready to pass out because she's so tired because I've trying this for so long....

I'm going to keep trying until I can think of a solution!! Ahh, I could zeneport over ;-) but that would require a couple of hours she doesn't have..not sure if she can die from a severe lack of sleep (I got an eye twitch once from severe lack of sleep :-D)...

Plus, because she wants to pass out everytime because she's getting burnt so much (i've tried 7/8 times now) she keeps walking onto that trap, because SHE thinks its been disarmed and then gets burnt again...I'm flummoxed!!

Got Rid of the Snow Poll!!!

I'm hoping it's not going to snow anymore for the next few months ;-) so I decided to remove the snow poll and add a new one with a subject that is close to my heart ;-)...

31 - 73.81% of people like snow

14 - 33.33% of people don't like snow

I did actually click both yes and no when i participated..because i do like snow only not quite as much as we've had here in the past few months ;-) ...I'm hoping now that we can move on towards Spring and Summer (and short skirt time!) because I'm pretty sick of wearing a huge coat, scarf, gloves and wooly bobble hat!! Time for those lovely little skirts, shorts, sandals and blouses..I so can't wait :-D ...oh and bluebells, daffodils, foxgloves and ferns..hmm, I do love the beauty of flowers :-) (don't I sound a tad daft :-D!! ) I'm starting a new job in a weeks time and I will be able to wear skirts and heels for the first time since joining the company and I'm really looking forward to it!! I only have to actually find a skirt I like to wear now :-D the only ones in the shops at the moment are horrible bell shaped things that make your backside look huge!! (who decides what is in fashion!!) or tiny little things that I'm sure that I wouldn't bend over in!! (Gosh don't I sound like an old fart!) :-D I just want a nice knee length pencil skirt and can i find one!! After two weeks looking, I really don't know what I'm going to do (wear trousers probably!) :-D Anyway...Over the next couple of weeks I'm hoping to get my new world sorted out for upload, I'll probably put it on a personal site or maybe start my own, not quite sure about that yet..but it will be as a blank world to start with with no lots at all so people can make their own and then sometime after i will probably upload a version with a few lots and the community lots on so that people can use play straight away...I've spent the past week or so playing WA furiously because I had a lot on my mind at the moment and it helps playing the sims, I find I can lose myself in it and don't need to worry about anything apart from what veg are growing in their gardens and whether their shoes match their dresses :-D oh, and 'Gosh, has she just stood on another trap!!' :-D ...I'm quite looking forward to the new expansion pack, it looks pretty good..but June is such a long way away!!

Anyway, a couple of pics..one from the top of the hill where i live first thing in the morning and the second down in the valley by that river you can see in the first one..by which time the sun is just peeking over the hills on the other side of the valley :-)

Hope everyone has a great week :-)  

Sooooo..this is where I'm at :-D

After having to uninstall my entire game yesterday, and reinstalling it last night as I couldn't load my newest world test, I finally managed to test it with a couple of sims today...after taking loads of pics and getting them running all over again I've noticed a few bugs that need to be ironed out...

this is the most major one!! I have no idea what happened :-D!! All I can think of is that since my last blog, I adjusted the world, smoothed stuff out, deleted some lots, added a lot of spawners, so perhaps I've adjusted the road level somehow...I was hoping to just upload this version as a base game without any lots to keep the file small as it's only 18mb at the moment(which is about the same as some of the hair!). I haven't added any waves, well just one to see what it looked like, so I'm not sure if adding more will kick the size up or not...anyway, this is what it looks like so far in CAW...

this is what it looks like in wireframe...

which just looks so pretty!! There is 68 lots altogether, 22 of which are community lots. I've tried to keep everything standard sizes so they can be 'plopable' but I've made some residential at 15x15, 15x10 so are perfect for small starters. I'm going to try to build a few residential lots so that there is a few things on there, but I will probably upload those seperately to keep the file size down. The community lots I will build all of..so that may take some time. But like I said I'm going to upload it with no lots on for those who like to do everything :-D...

I had finished my first lot yesterday but forgot to export it before wiping the sims so I had to restart that today before trying it out in the World(oh, and if anyone is interested I've called it Paradise Isle, because I had a severe lack of originality when I was thinking of a name)...anyway, after completing my first lot today and testing it I've submitted it on here..it fits nicely into Sunset Valley in Sunnyside Blvd, so if all goes well it should be up for download on monday/tuesday....

First some screenshots of the world in test...

So I know that the spawners are working..I've placed about 400 in all, including bugs, butterflys, metals, rocks, fish and gems..hope that's enough :-D..I also took a lot of pics, about 250 today..lots of sunrise and sunset, as you know I love my screenshots and I've tried to build the world with pic taking in mind..I think I need some more palm trees, can't beat palm trees at sunset..and here are the results...

and a few of my first lot in my world :-D.

So I'm going to take a break for a couple of days to play and test..and rest :-D ....And I've now got to put todays dinner of roast chicken on :-D a womans work is never done (I'm sure I've typed that before ;-) )...

take care everyone...

Exported my World to my Launcher...

...finally..after a few hours of frustration wondering why it was telling me I had no description, title or thumbnail :-D ...I uploaded it to my game, added my sim..and spent the next hour laughing my socks off...I haven't bothered painting in non routable areas, I thought I would go with the flow..they can't go in the sea or water, but it seems they can go up some amazingly steep hills! :-D

I tried all the hills out..and it was so funny watching her running up those stupidly steep hills...but I don't think I will change it because it's just too funny!! (doesn't take much to make me laugh! :-D )

and the views are just spectacular from up there :-D ....I still haven't got any spawners down, but she had a fish in the sea, and even though there wasn't a single residential lot, or community/rabbit hole, for some reason the game spawned some townies almost straight away..

this is, apprently Betty(or something) Butcher!! I have no idea where she thought she was going!! Maybe to see those views! :-D I checked out where the sunrise and sunset was, because when you create the world you can't move the sun but you adjust your world to fit where it rises etc and I must have made a boo boo somewhere because it wasn't quite where I thought it was :-D , but it'll do..

This is the sunset (:-D )..and where one of the beach lots will be..I started building it yesterday and this is what the sunset will look like from the living room window....

I'm pretty happy at this, needs something though I think..definately needs some waves crashing :-D....

Everyone take care :-)

Been fiddling around with CAW...

...and Gosh! hasn't it been driving me nuts!! I'm on my second world, because the first one was driving me to distraction..some lots were not lining up no matter how much smoothing I was doing, roads had tears in...oh, and a million othere things that were making me tear my hair out!! I'm finally getting the hang of it though, I think ;-) ...

the pic above is my first effort..maybe one day I will go back to it, but for now I'm consigning it to the 'I've had enough' bin..

this one is my current effort...as you can see the lots I've placed on the right hand beach side I placed first and the sand texture that I mistakenly plopped on after is underneath never to be seen...so after deleting the whole lot and starting again :-o ;-) ...

...so now the lots are over the terrain..you can't actually see where I've placed them because for some reason you can't take a screenshot in edit mode..pah..anyway, there's lots of varying sizes all along the beachfront, I've tried to keep everything standard sort of sizes so that I can plop EA lots in if I can't be bothered to make some of my own, or fab lots off here..I still can't figure out how to place a bridge and have the road useable...but managed to get the trees on and objects..and this is where I'm at now..

  So, I think I'm about half way..I'm itching to play it, but I've got spawners to put on...more trees and all those lots that I ought to be building... :-D

But I'm taking a break, going to make dinner in a moment..I'm making plaice covered with cheesy breadcrumbs, and whatever else is in the fridge :-D ...and boy am I glad to be finishing this for now..it's well and truly worn me out!

Have a great week ahead everyone!

Ok, so I haven't wrote in a while...

...so here I am...

Firstly, I've got that poll on my profile page..the snow, if you like or not! Well I'm not sure how it's supposed to work, I kinda thought that it would be on there for so long and would then be over, and I could post a new one..so I'm guessing now that it runs as long I want it and then I just change it for another one..so, thank you for everyone who participated in it, the general concensus seems to be that most people like snow :-D..at the time of this going to press 31.25% don't like snow and 78.13% do like snow...which I work out to be overall 109.38%!!! Not sure what happened there, though I admit I participated and I clicked both yes and no!! :-D

Secondly, I have been going through my comments on my screenshots today and replying to everyone, and ticking them off as read as I go along, BUT, I still have two showing as Unread :-o...not sure why! I have had one showing as unread for some time, but now have two! Could this be because someone deleted a comment but its still showing on my page as being unread even though it's no longer there? I'm baffled! (which doesn't really take a lot ;-) ) Also, I love getting comments on my screenshots ;-), but I have been a bit busy recently(again!!) so it's taken me a bit longer to reply to everyone and I'm really sorry about that..I do appreciate every comment :-).

Hopefully I'll be starting a new lot soon, but I really have no idea what to do quite yet, but I am leaning towards something modern so I can use the new stuff pack objects ;-)...

But I have been playing a bit and I'm still laughing at all the expressions my Sim comes out with...

Anyway, hope everyone is having a great weekend ;-) and you've all got stacks of Valentines cards :-).

Had a little time..

..to come on my pc and do all those things I've been trying to do for a few weeks now. I've been missing coming on here ever so much, so I'm glad I've had the oppotunity today to snatch some sim time. I've missed everybody on here, missed looking at the blogs, pics and stories so I hope I have enough time today to look at all those things :-). I've submitted a new lot today, it's been finished for a while now, it's only a small cottage with 2 bedrooms, but I think I made it because it looks like the type of quiet little place that I would love to own in the countryside.

We haven't had quite so much snow for a while either, but i started it whilst being snowed in and I was hoping that Spring and Summer would arrive :-D . We had a bit more snow yesterday, but not much to write home about so hopefully (fingers crossed) that will be it for a while. Quite frankly, I've had enough of it now and I hope we don't get anymore until next year now. The past couple of weekends I've been out and about looking at the effect it's had on the area around where I live..

The first one was taken the weekend of the 16th Jan, when it was still cold and the second the weekend of the 23rd Jan when all the snow had melted and flooded a bit of the forest near where i live...

and this last one was taken through the living room window this week.

Anyway, hope everyone is having a great weekend so far :-) and i really hope I will be on a bit more soon.