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Old Oak Starter house
« on: 2009 August 30, 18:32:54 »
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This house is very small, but convenient for a starter sim [although it's just a tad over 16k sadly]. It's one bedroom with one bathroom. It has a small kitchen and small dining. The reason this house is over 16k slightly is I tried to pick furniture that would not be harmful to your sims.









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« Reply #1 on: 2009 August 30, 21:41:19 »
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This will be good for homeless families and starters, thanks. One thing I'm curious about is how people are getting the fish eye lens effect in their screenshots?
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« Reply #2 on: 2009 August 30, 21:45:07 »
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If you press tab, you'll go into cameraman mode [I believe that is the correct name], then press Z/X to adjust the zoom. Pressing X a few times will give you that view, I use it a lot. It helps in getting shots of small quarters.
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« Reply #3 on: 2009 August 30, 22:51:33 »
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Cheers, I've not looked through the camera options much yet, I made an assumption they'd be crap because it was EAxis! The fisheye is great for the small spaces, always hard to get shots of those.
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« Reply #4 on: 2009 August 31, 01:39:57 »
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Yep, I always use it. I didn't know the feature was in the game til I looked up the controls on the cardboard thing from the box.
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« Reply #5 on: 2009 August 31, 04:40:47 »
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The fish-eye angle makes me dizzy and nauseous. I'm prone to motion sickness and that does it very badly, especially when all the shots are taken that way.

If I want to get into a small space, I take the hammer to the wall that's blocking my view, snap the picture, then hit the undo button. It works a treat. Sometimes I just grab a quick shot of small rooms from an overhead angle, not completely overhead but not straight on, either.

You might also consider resizing your screenshots because they're absolutely huge and taking a while to load. It looks like you uploaded without doing any editing at all because they're about 3/4's of a meg in size each, the default size for screenshots taken in game. It might be hard to believe, but even 50% of normal game size images are still easy to see (and my eyesight isn't great) and end up being less than 100 kb in size. I usually resize, then export them in Paint Shop Pro at 20% (GIMP is free and will do the same thing). The pictures still are sharp and load in a heartbeat.

It's a very cute house, by the way, and too bad I have more starters than I know what to do with. LOL
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« Reply #6 on: 2009 August 31, 10:36:11 »
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Okay, I will take note of that. They load pretty fast on my end, so I never thought a thing of it. I'm usually more for high quality pictures, so I try to leave them as they were. I will look into it though.
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« Reply #7 on: 2009 August 31, 23:32:16 »
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They're probably in your cache and already loaded from when you uploaded them, so that tends to make it much less noticeable, although you might have a better connection than I do.  I'm on a high-speed connection and it took them a while (albeit, there are times when my connection is slower than others), and if anyone trying to look at them is using dial-up they are really stuck. That's over five megs worth of pictures that need loading.
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« Reply #8 on: 2009 September 01, 00:13:22 »
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Next house I make I will make sure to size the images smaller, I know how dial-up can be. *shudders*
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