Organizing hood layout
cwykes:
Quote from: maxon on 2007 February 23, 05:48:56
Cwykes - I use Inge Jones's (SimLogical) apartment system - you can set it up to allow any given number of sims in certain areas. I use it in my apartment blocks and rows of terraces. She also has some nice English terrace doors and windows.
The apartment system works fine with Pets and I'm praying it's going to work with Seasons too.
PS Meadow Lawns looks good.
Thanks and thanks :) I'll try the apartment system out with Jubilee Gardens. I didn't want to use CC in the hood, because it gets out of hand too easily and the thing is already big enough. Maybe I'll experiment later changing the doors and windows on Jubilee gardens. I wish I'd finished Meadow Lawns already. Now Seasons is out, I want to install it and play with it not finish Meadow Lawns! And I have 2 concerts this weekend to get in the way as well.
angelyne:
Hey Maxon, would you consider making some of your terrains available for download? I want to create a downtown area based on plasticbox BackDoor lane series.
http://www.modthesims2.com/member.php?u=178282
All the terrains I have seen are not suitable for a densely populated downtown.
cwykes:
Quote from: angelyne on 2007 March 02, 11:39:41
I want to create a downtown area based on plasticbox BackDoor lane series.
If you make it as a normal hood, you can turn it into a subhood afterwards and then you have the choice of which hood(s) to add it to in your own game. If you do it that way, you could also put it up for download so other people can add it to their existing hoods as well. It would be nice to have another Downtown available for download...
It's not hard to convert the hood to a sub-hood if you don't mind a little SimPE work and some file renaming. The basic "how to" is here http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php/topic,3996.0.html Unfortunately Pets broke the counter, so unless The Seasons has fixed it again, you can't add extra default hoods any more. You have to replace the maxis default with your own sub-hood. I've proved that the method works with a complete OFB subhood and tested that it works for Uni & NL sub-hoods as well. Sedona is here if you want to take a peek http://static.moreawesomethanyou.com/cwykes/ and the Sedona pages give some info on how to install the subhood so you can see how it works.
I'd be happy to help you with the conversion. :)
Quote from: witch on 2007 February 23, 00:48:28
You might like these terrace variations...
http://laverwinklesims.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=cbb03639854b7d1dedc842fc19d239ba&board=33.0
ETA: No gardens though, sorry.
I'd love to have a peek, but I don't have Nightlife so chances are they're going to crash the game! They are very pretty with the foundations, railings and interesting roof line - much prettier than mine. :) I was kind of curious to see what the minimum, playable house width was, so I squeezed 3 terraced houses onto a 2x3 lot - the narrow house and long back garden is pretty much what I remember seeing as a kid. Anyway I ended up with two houses 5 squares wide with one 6 tile house in the middle. 5 tiles wide is pretty narrow given that the stairs take up most of 1 tile width, but it was playable. It would be annoying long term though, but then sims are supposed to move out when they earn some money! Looking at the pics of your terrace, that extra plot width gave you two 6 and two 7 tile houses which must be how you squeezed an extra bedroom in. Maybe I should have put the toilet at the bottom of the garden on some of them and had a second bedroom instead! That would have been realistic when some of this terraced housing was built.
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