anhedonicworm

Strangetown lots

On a more fun note, I would love to turn a couple of the Tudor lots into apartments! Some of them were clearly built with that idea in mind. For the Monty restaurant, I am torn between doing a slightly exaggerated villa-style build with a vineyard or going for a more casual bistro; though I guess two restaurants wouldn’t be too much for the town either. The community lots are a bit of a handful - I’m hoping to avoid the renaissance fair vibe and make them look a tiny bit more realistic. For now, I’ll probably work on houses/apartments for the bin families and start on the community lots from there :)

Hi! Sorry for the wait, that brick is part of the life stories build bundle (it's linked in shastakiss' forum post that I point to when I post my builds). You need to have both the build and the buy bundles in your catalog/bins folder for everything to show up :)

Hi! I've used Cinema Secrets for the longest time, that's the lighting mod you see in all my screenshots. Recently, I also added the Postprocessing Mod (linked here together with dreadpirate's shader fixes; I use the version without depth of field). This is the combination you can see in the screenshots of my most recent lot makeover. I don't use ReShade though, it's always seemed like too much trouble to make it work :')

I’m relatively certain it’s the life stories rug that ultimately causes the problem, so if this doesn’t help, I can remove it from the build and put up the alternative version for download to see if it’ll fix it. Let me know if this helps!

Aw thank you, that is so nice of you to say! <3 This whole makeover project actually started because I wanted to play an uberhood with just the base game hoods, decided to make over the builds first and now here we are :')

Thank you, I'm really happy to hear that!! Up to this point, I was sure it was the original size but apparently I did make it smaller at some point so it's 50x50 while the original is 60x50. You can always add the extra space to the back of the lot with Mootilda's Lot Adjuster if needed :)

It's a medium sized map vaguely inspired by the French Alps with a river fork separating the town center from the residential area. I kept most of it very flat for easy lot placement and building and after many painful attempts managed to fit in a small riverside area where you can place a couple of beach lots. I wanted it to have mountains, a river, and be mostly flat to boot, and decided to share in case anyone was looking for a similar thing :)

Hi, thank you for the sweet comment!! If you follow CatherineTCJD's tutorial on making lot makeovers permanent, you should be able to do it by first placing the new lot somewhere in the neighborhood and replacing the lot file of the house you wish to make over with the one you just placed down. In the case of households like the Specters, make sure to put the graves in the sim's inventory before replacing the lot, otherwise they'll disappear! Though I don't know if it's a lot easier than just doing it in game :')