Sims storytelling help
buddha pest:
Quote from: jenwarren on 2005 August 12, 18:55:40
You can move babies around with move_objects on, no problem.
i tried to move a baby with moveobjects on one time, and she disappeared into thin air.
good times.
baratron:
Quote from: witch on 2005 August 13, 00:39:53
Baratron, I like your story, sweet and not at all threatening to bbs gayphobes IMHO. ;) Might I suggest a little conflict along the way, maybe Mitch suspects Max of having a relationship with his female study buddy before he knows Max is gay? Mitch's gaydar says Max is gay but Max's behaviour contradicts this. Or Mitch spacks out a bit and drinks too much fruit punch at a party? Gets into a fight?
Or both ;).
I was going to say that now that they've graduated, it would be far too much hassle to send them back to University - but I could go back to a really old backup. Hmmm. Improve current not-very-good chapter vs the amount of hassle required to do so ???. I guess I'm too much of a perfectionist to leave something really crap lying around (she says, completely ignoring the current state of her web site).
Something funny that happened today - I was trying to get a shot of Max walking in on Mitch & a girl friend kissing on the couch, and Max just wandered in, waved, and went off to clean the bathroom. I tried this several times and he just had no interest in throwing a tantrum. Somewhat confused, I removed the Romance mod - I hadn't expected the Romance mod to make a difference because Max is Popularity aspiration, not Romance - but even then he still just waved at them and went off to clean up! Only when I got Mitch to initiate Making Out while Max was standing there watching did he get the dagger above the head omg my partner is having An Affair reaction! And then much slapping occurred, which was funny. Silly sims - they make-a no sense.
baratron:
Le bump, to say I've completely redone Chapter 1 - I've added 36 more photos and a whole load more plot. There is now delicious, chewy angst, thanks to the ideas from witch! I think the plot is a bit teenage girly, but it is a college story, so maybe that's acceptable. But I definitely don't want to post this on the Exchange now!
A sneak preview of Chapter 2 is here. See if you can guess what's going to happen. All the photos are done (I think), I just need to string them into order and write some text to go round them.
Constructive criticism welcome, though you don't need to tell me that all the outside shots are a bit dark. Believe me, I know! I spent ages fiddling with the lighting, trying to adjust it for each shot to light up the sims' faces while keeping the lights themselves out of shot. As it is, I think there are a few continuity errors - but you can probably ignore them? My new rule is "Never have a party outside in the dark". But the house these sims lived in at college wasn't big enough for the party to just be inside, and I didn't want to have to reshoot the entire story in another house. (In retrospect, it would've been easier if I had. Oh well).
The story itself is nowhere near perfect. I've run through that party scene more than 10 times to try to get the best shots (Poor Mitch had to faint 6 times before I'd got a complete set of pictures!). Actually, the photos you see here aren't necessarily the best individual shots, but they're the most coherent set. I could've put in better photos if I didn't care about continuity, but I do :) I'm really annoyed that I missed Max & Peyton's kiss - you can tell this by my comment on photo 17. What happened was that I took a lovely shot of them kissing with Mitch running across ready to slap, then managed to delete it with the stupid trashcan thing in TS2 that doesn't delete the right photos half the time. Argh. Having done it 10 times already, my actors and I were all too frustrated to try that any more.
I also managed to delete a beautiful shot of Mitch playing the guitar behind his back that was just perfect. Nothing to do with the story, but it was a great shot - he was looking at me and pouting so prettily, and I managed to get the camera angle just right and zoom all the way in. All you spiky-haired-boy-lovers would've drooled - I know I did. But then the stupid trashcan deleted it, and I hadn't yet copied all these photos over to my backup Storytelling folder. Gah. Have to try to set that up again, except (I know) it won't be the same...
Seriously, if you notice any continuity errors or if there're any bits that could've been said better, tell me. I have Max speaking in American phrasing because his college jock clothing says that to me - so there's a "gotten" in there! (It just seemed natural for him to be to saying "gotten" rather than "got" the first time, although I managed to suppress it the second time - should I change that?). Mitch I'm unsure about - I don't think he's any nationality in particular. Payton speaks in British slang, hence his use of "snog", which is very English. My sims don't live in the real world, so they don't "come" from a particular country - and even if they did, there's no reason they have to come from the same country?
Hmm, well - bed now.
scoob:
I have to say I love it! I read the original story and the remake and both were good, but the redo is better. I can't wait for chapte
reggikko:
I love the rework of the chapter, Baratron. That Mitch is so cute. He reminds me of a young Pascal Curious.
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