Yeah, I used the Chinese bridge. Someone said the Riverview bridges are not real ones, just roads with some special meshed sidepiece, not yet found in game. I will have a look at those walls, thanks for the tip

I even made a special DC Cache with the necessities for building, which I put in when creating worlds (=all the time now, lol) so I can have my special things to play with. I am even thinking of making two different: one with medieval stuff and one with modern. It means a little more time to load, but still acceptable, no need to leave it on over night..
A good thing at least is that hairs (my weakness..) are not at all used for building. This means the CC-folder with packages can be very slim

A trick to make Edit-In-Game load fast, is to temporarily move out the DC Cache folder from Documents/EA/Sims3. Mine loads very fast now. Of course without the CC, but that can always be added in a later stage. It is handy to be able to check some stuff out and do some basic building or lot plopping. (Inge found this )

Edit-in-game DOES work, it just loads for a really long time. I left it on overnight, and this morning it was there. It works, but it has one flaw: it seems to load the caches (like all installed windows for example) really slow, and CAST is superlaggy. All custom content seems to have the same laggy effect. At the moment I have only sims3packs in, and all this is on a Windows7 machine. FPS numbers are high. An FPS limiter for CAW and Edit-In-Game, is that possible?

The squares must NOT be dark blue. Yeah, it was tricky, but I finally got it to work,

Ah, thats very useful info Zazazu. The hood looks amazing.
I also found out how to get more options for terrain paint: "add layer" in the window for paint options means that you can pick more options from the textures for roads ect. They are dds-files. You can also browse to any location on your computer to get other textures - saved in the right format (obviously .tga ord .dds) and they must be max 1024x1024 pixels.

They look connected. Need to test though.

It is a little tricky at start, but it is growing on me. Here is a pic on what I am working on:


That is an island which, with time, will be my new Old Town in Windle.

Now, if I could figure out how to get custom paints and other textures in there, preferrably stuff I already have in game.

I can use all my sims3packs stuff, both store and tsr. Right now I took out the framework and have only the stuff installed through launcher, and both objects (build/buy) and clothing show up fine. Hair is another story, the TSR-hairs are not showing.

There are certainly other methods to fix gender preferences. Check out Twalllans Super Computer. And his Story Progression is in a way an updated Indie. I assure you they work fine. Do update and get fresh mods, that's the most sensible way. If you don't all kinds of trouble will await you, I am sure.

I noticed it too, lion - I have some other wishes for improvements. Like, why did they not make the top bits as fences? And the cover bits with windows, as far as I can see, dont work as windows. The deco bits with the smallest windows, those windows should be real windows too..
And WHEN will we get the medieval clothing and proper armor? /end rant

I am very suspicious of the custom hairs. I will do some testing, taking them out - some of them also look really weird after installing the expansion. They did something to the heads of the sims, me thinks.

There is a good and short explanation of these things (where to put stuff after WA) here:
http://www.the-isz.com/theisz/index.php?showtopic=3567

Did you take out the files in the Sims 3 folder: the 3 booter, the resource.cfg and the others? There should be no files in a clean Sims3 folder (only subfolders). Just move them out. You can probably put them back later.

Check if you properly removed the resources.cfg file. And if you changed the sims3.ini file, and/or the videocamera file, replace them with original.

I updated with some more of the lots in my medieval version of Riverview, Older Windle (made with just the base game):

More pictures, descriptions and the downloads can be found here:
http://simverses.net/blog/default.aspx

I did place the science lab on another lot, close to the village - mostly because I use the Gardener career (Part Time) in Twallan's Career Mod as a Farmer Career.  I may fix the lot up a bit and put it up for downlad later this weekend, to "finish" the medieval lots for Riverview/Windle for the base game, before the Expansion Hurricane hits us. I also have an updated monastery with a hospital, a bookstore and a grocery store, the "home" editions of those rabbit holes. I can post that too. Will take some pics for it and do some adjustments. Check for it on Sunday!

You can add Beautiful Vista buff to any lot, using this tool:
http://www.modthesims.info/d/366436

Very handy when using downloaded lots.

The thread is back now. Maybe she fixed something?

Looks great, Dragon Slave!

Is it a neighborhood based on Riverview? Then you need the original Riverview-file, to make it work.

The original site closed their downloads, but these are now uploaded at MTS, with pics:
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=376414

Haifen, the thing missing now is more clothing options. Other than that, I find it even easier than in Sims2 to make a period hood. And, when we get the CAW-tool and can make our own hoods, it will be even easier.

She just got them up at MTS
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=376414

Oh, and its totally possible to use this like an "historical" part of a more modern hood. You don't HAVE to make it all medieval.

I built a Castle, made of 7 lots + a Square and a Tournament Field.







More pics and downloads here:
http://simverses.net/blog/default.aspx