I think that's illegal due to the Art restrictions. Let me look.

ETA: Yup:

Sure; I can host them on my 4shared. Bomb Shelter, Shotgun Shack, and the Witch's Hut.

Har! Sounds like it's not one of those quiet, non-descript asylums. 

You got it.

Only if anyone actually wants them. They're basically each image from this fanart right here with a colored background for each. If you want them, just let me know and I'll upload.

Thanks for the help Emma and Gwill; after installing the NVidia DDS tools, the paintings came out a little better. Not perfect but a lot more acceptable than before. 

Okay, I'm a little confused here. Which width would I have to divide by 2.5? The original easels? What I did was download the default replacement pictures from that link above, but the dimensions I am given when I look at it is 256x256. How would I go about finding the dimensions of the original easel paintings?

Thanks Gwill. Do I need to redo these paintings to have the graphics improve?

The whatey whaten?

I looked around a bit to find a relevant thread and found this one here, but since it's more than two years old it was suggested I start a new one. So I am.

I am wanting to create my own default easel paintings set, but after following the directions found in this thread to the letter, I still seem to get less-than-stellar-quality results. This can be illustrated here:



Pescado informed me that it was a sizing issue, so I was wondering if anyone could give me some advice on how to make my paintings appear more clear and focused.

Oh, there's another potential bug! Despite the fact that they liley will intend pregnant sims to not be able to be toadified, they will anyways and will give birth to a human baby as the small reptile. This will bugger up the family tree and cause the game to think that a random NPC or remote controlled car is the father of the child.

I suspect you will be unable to turn a townie or NPC into a toad; you will only be able to toadify lot dwellers.

In addition, if you try to mkae a witch a landlord, she will sprout a pencil moustache and goatee and then kick everyone out with a pointed finrger, yelling the simish equivilent of 'OUT! Out in the cold, I say! *cackle*'

The fencing looks a lot more attractive that way, Annan; much better than just a general fence running along the front side to keep out undesirables. I assume the stone flooring will keep animals from digging holes in the front?

It's also really cool that you left a lot of space on level 2; you never know when Sims are going to need to place Rewards objects and whatnot. Are the two cribs sectioned off from each other? It's hard to tell in overhead mode.

I was also toying with the idea of making the pool into some interesting shape, but then couldn't be bothered. We'll see if I tackle that later.

Witch, Amber, I am in awe of your lot-beautifying abilities. I can't believe such a nice home actually was kinda-sorta designed by me. You both have done wonderful things with it. I am so proud!

Of course I don't mind, Emma. You should personally note that it has no less than three bathrooms. 

Right in front of the front door. 

Belatedly i realize that I should have extended the awnings a bit.


There are only a couple shades of green siding, and that one was the less bright and annoying of the two (in my view). When you're limited to only Maxis content, there's not much you can work with. Unless, of course, you were referring to the interior of the houise.


Yes I did; it was my attempt at breaking up the monotony of having a single design for everything (you know, rectangular house with a regular roof type). I've never had any luck placing diagonal roofing so I thought I'd just try using two different types to give it some personality. If it failed, I am sorry.

I have no idea why the roof on the left has that flat space on the top, but I did, in fact, cover it with some flooring later. I think.


Aha! Gates in the house! I didn't think of that. The kitchen is in the corner and surrounded by half walls, but I left two spaces open so as to avoid traffic jams there. Perhaps I should add a couple gates there instead. Thanks for the tip.


Invisigoth gave me some great advice about the stairs; it never actually occurred to me to use double staircases before, but I see the advantage. You may not be able to make it out on the screenshot, but I do actually have the stairways surrounded by walls and a double door so they are sealable from visitors.



I thought I'd give it a try to see if Sim Aggie can have a nice place to live in Awesomeland.


I can do that; the problem with the first roof is that I didn't quite connect them, which I fixed in v2. I can always switch them back and ensure they're connected again.


Meh, i scrapped the awning idea entirely; it was to much of a pain in the ass to make it look proper and lemmiwinks told me it looked like a storefront brothel. 


I was trying to avoid having just a plain rectangular box of a house. Plus I wanted to have an elevated platform to place the expensive telescope on in case I 'need it,' and I didn't want to have the balcony hang over the front of the house to overshadow it. I'm not very happy with the right side of the house having no emphasis or whatnot, but that's something I can easily fix since it won't actually  affect the functionality of the home itself.

In addition, having a front balcony allows me to (theoretically) more easily spy on people as well as stand on it and glower at people passing by, perhaps chuck water balloons at them for good measure. 

I also want to include a driveway, but a). I'm not sure how to deal with the fencing requirement with one, and b). I use public transportation in real life anyway, so not having a car is more realistic.


Heh; my decorative ability is fairly subpar. I'm honestly just going for Awesomespec and not gaudy at this point.

I appreciate it, witch. I can only improve with such pearls of wisdom.   The problem with the mismatched fence and gate was that there were NO matching gates for the fence that weren't drastically taller than the fence itself. Since I'm limited to using only Maxis content, I couldn't use something else. Maybe I'll try looking for a different type of fencing, although I quite like the black one.

I'll add some more roofing, or just try adding a piece to the middle to get it completely covered.

As for the lighting, this I grant you since I included absolutely no lighting whatsoever. It's a bad habit I've gotten into and must remember to add it in the future.

As for the one mismatched canopy, I couldn't get it to delete. I'll have to practice some more with the placement of awnings.

ETA: I have taken your advice to heart and tried to fix it. It was a real bitch moving everything back two spaces, let me tell you. However, I am certain I fixed the roof issue as well as added some shrubs and more lights. Any thoughts on the new one? Original post will be edited very shortly to include the improved lot.

New pics:

Front:



Level 1:



Level 2:

This is my first official attempt at making a lot to Awesomespec standards, so I hope you'll forgive me if it's not QUITE up to par. I would appreciate any and all constructive criticism. Already I think I probably should have placed the house farther back from the front of the lot, but that didn't occur to me until much later. I'll likely rebuild later with that in mind.

Price: $55,017

Any thoughts or comments?

Front of the house:



Level 1:



Level 2:



Note: The stupid in-game camera didn't center properly. >=(

Here in this thread? I think there's a 650K limit here. Either that or I could host it on my 4shared account for you with full credit.

I nominate this mesh from Rose Sims:



As everyday wear it might (and I do stress might) be fine, but since it was also categorized as athletic wear, the flaw in the mesh became painfully apparent:

Were they sent to work sick? Perhaps the hours spent at work would count against them getting better.

To support: I really, really hate it when people use the word 'gay' to describe something they dislike. It's an attempt to remove any responsibility of the complainer to actually identify what their problem is. So I agree rather strongly with Invisigoth: you are a fucking idiot.

Now, had you asked how to simply remove the backpacks on their own without that stupid negative adjective, I may have tried to see if I could hunt any down. As such, you can continue on your merry way doing as you please.

Pescado fixed this very issue. You need to get the updated nopregannoy file from the FT .zip.