Mapleton- The Unpopulated Version
bestofsmall:
I've installed your world and been building a bit on it . So far I have one block complete and a couple of houses in my China Town area . It has been a bit hard for me to maneuver the camera while building but thats me and nothing to do with the world , so far it seems to work great I have one sim and I keep moving him from house to house to try them out . I hope to get around to actually playing him some soon . Sharing the small lots we build is a great idea !
Here are some pics of the houses I've done so far some of the shots were taken while building so things may have changed a bit in the final version .
http://s616.photobucket.com/albums/tt246/bestofsmall/S3%20Small%20Lots/?action=view¤t=a02fc4ea.pbw
and the houses are all in one folder here
http://www.box.net/shared/124i8xduvf
gotchan:
Screenshots!
Finished the core area. I had the resolutions set low so i could move around quickly and build without the engine trying to render the adjacent lots. I set it back higher to take some overview shots. In the meantime, here are individual portraits. For the purpose of keeping things straight, i will call anything built in my instance of the neighbourhood West Mapleton. There is a lot of custom content in these lots. The screenshots show extensive use of:
HugeLunatic's "Ye Olde Windows": http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=371508
Einfach Simlisch's City and Town door and window sets: http://einfachsimlisch.ei.funpic.de/Sims3/build.html
plasticbox's "Simple Kitchen": http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=393576
There is more which i will list if and when i share the lots with anyone.
Address: 11 Cherry Avenue
Purpose: Breeder Box
2 bdrm, 1 bath
Lot Size: 18 x 16
Furnished: 20,680
Unfurnished: 18,000
Basement
Address: 13 Cherry Avenue
Purpose: Hero Starter
1 bdrm, 1 bath
Lot Size: 15 x 16
Furnished: 14,248
Unfurnished: 10,711
Address: 1 Park Street
Purpose: Breeder Box
2 bdrm, 1.5 bath
Lot Size: 10 x 10
Furnished: 17,291
Unfurnished: 14,451
Can be expanded to basement.
Address: 3 Park Street
Purpose: Breeder Box
2 bdrm, 1.5 bath
Lot Size: 10 x 10
Furnished: 17,223
Unfurnished: 14,149
Can be expanded to basement.
Address: 5 Park Street
Purpose: Breeder Box
2 bdrm, 1.5 bath
Lot Size: 10 x 12
Furnished: 18,575
Unfurnished: 15,413
Can be expanded to basement.
Address: 7 Park Street
Purpose: Breeder Box
2 bdrm, 1.5 bath
Lot Size: 10 x 10
Furnished: 18,319
Unfurnished: 15,067
Can be expanded to basement.
Address: 2 Miner Street
Purpose: Breeder Box
2 bdrm, 1 bath
Lot Size: 10 x 10
Furnished: 16,953
Unfurnished: 15,253
Basement.
Address: 4 Miner Street
Purpose: Hero Starter
1 bdrm, 1 bath
Lot Size: 10 x 10
Furnished: 15,755
Unfurnished: 13,253
Address: 6 Miner Street
Purpose: Breeder Box
2 bdrm, 2 bath
Lot Size: 10 x 12
Furnished: 20,399
Unfurnished: 17,839
Can be expanded to basement.
Address: 8 Miner Street
Purpose: Holding Tank
4 bdrm, 2 bath
Lot Size: 10 x 10
Furnished: 28,065
Unfurnished: 23,493
Basement.
Address: 10 Miner Street
Purpose: Holding Tank
4 bdrm, 2 bath
Lot Size: 22 x 10
Furnished: 26,138
Unfurnished: 21,178
Can be expanded to basement.
Address: 12 Miner Street
Purpose: Breeder Box
1 bdrm, 1 bath
Lot Size: 22 x 10
Furnished: 18,895
Unfurnished: 17,610
Can be expanded to basement.
Address: 14 Miner Street
Purpose: Holding Tank
3 bdrm, 2 bath
Lot Size: 22 x 10
Furnished: 24,392
Unfurnished: 18,867
Can be expanded to basement.
Address: 16 Miner Street
Purpose: Breeder Box
2 bdrm, 1 bath
Lot Size: 22 x 10
Furnished: 25,136
Unfurnished: 22,316
Can be expanded to basement.
bestofsmall:
@ gotchan excellent! They all have such character . Please post a download link it would be so cool to have them in my hood , also thanks for the idea about turning down settings I hadn't thought of that I'll try it today , my camera jumps up or down and the surrounding buildings are always in the way I even have to "shoot" through some of them . I can hardly wait to see everyone's houses .
ediblebodyparts:
@ gotchan Wow, those are really cool! Admittedly, not the style I generally go with, but really awesome nonetheless. I got back to building last night and I have most of the block with 10x10's done. There I am doing traditional brick houses. I am glad I put up this version so that I can see the all the different styles people use!
@bestofsmall I really like what you are doing too! I hope everyone keeps posting pics, I will try to get some up myself later tonight.
csquared:
Wow all the houses you guys have designed look great, I haven't had time to get much farther than a few standard (read: cloned) smaller lots and one slightly larger starter and those aren't even fully furnished yet. I'm moving this weekend and then I'll have a bunch of time once I get set up in my new place. I'll try to post some screenshots and such after then.
Quote from: gotchan on 2010 March 22, 00:03:58
For example: basements start at ground level, not the level of the bottom floor, so the first basement in a building with a foundation is 5 modular stairs levels deep, not 4. This meant i could not fit the basement stairs in one house, but the game happily allowed me to connect a 4 section modular stair at right angles to the top 1 section modular stair landing. I tested it and sims use the stairs and end up in the basement even though it would require crawling through a 1/4 height area under the fireplace to get to the second flight of stairs.
I ran into the basement/foundation issue as well, I couldn't fit the stairs in the house I was building and instead placed them outside partially under a porch. It would have caused my sims to have to bend over backward to use them but they seem to have no problem with it. I'll be accounting for that from now on and I might try your solution in that house if I can fit it.
Quote from: ediblebodyparts on 2010 March 22, 02:42:48
I'm glad you guys like the layout so far. I have only structurally completed a couple of the 10x10 lots. The are 2 bed 1.5 bath houses with no basement. I might add that in. I would love to see your screenshots, and as soon as my schedule gives me a chance, I will finish one of the houses and upload it. I am planning on making all of the 10x10 lots similar, like in a neighborhood.
I made some of the 10X10 lots into city-style 3 story lofts. The second and third floors are the house with the first floor being an art gallery, adventure display, library, etc. Non-resident sims don't use them or anything but I found it interesting and if there's an expansion like Open For Business it would work really well.
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