SimFeetUnder

In the beginning of 2011 my sister and I took my mom to the hospital. She was there for about 20 days and didn’t leave while alive. We lost our mom, and my sister had already lost her dad, which… is besides the point.

My mom _loved_ Kauai. Like… more than anything. While she was in the hospital we took one of her printed pictures from there and pinned it in her room. The last thing she said to us was “I want to go home” and we thought she meant her house but she shook her head and pointed, weakly, at the picture.

A couple years before this she paid for us to fly out to Kauai and spend the weekend with her.

It was beautiful. And she made her back yard as close to that place as she could. A lot of her plants live here with me, mostly plumeria.

In the sims one of my favorite things is landscaping, and one of the things I’m most excited about (aside from the views, I mean… holy bleep) are all the new plants I can make use of.

Sorry about all the rambling but this is hitting me weirdly hard this weekend and I felt like sharing.

and your desktop died… and you were told by loads of people it was either your power supply or motherboard and you took your power supply in to get tested and it supposedly works fine (but they wouldn’t know if it spikes or anything)…  Would you…  A) Get a used replacement old motherboard and hope it works ok B) Get a new power supply and hope it really was the power supply after all (which… if it was wouldn’t it have toasted the mb anyway? or… I dunno) C) Try to get funds together to get a new mb/processor/ram and kinda start fresh

It is monsoon season in the desert, Thundercrack Carnivale on FR, and word on the wing is that we’re about to audience an epic Wind vs. Water battle. So the most natural conclusion is to have a storm raffle!

Alas, Sim doesn’t have enough space to shelter all her G1s from the weather and I need an excuse to anal-retentively organize things, so you’re being bribed to give those poor soggy dragons a new storm-safe home.

Storm Watch

The raffle will run until August 10th at 23:59 FR.

You will have 24 hours to check your tickets, and we will start drawing prizes on August 12th.

You can only win once, and all winners will be selected using random.org.

Be respectful to us and your fellow participants! We’re all actual people on the other side of the screen.

Main prizes include a battle dragon stone pack (elim included!), unlockable events including a nature sprite and tonsss more prize choices!

City Living has some interesting build mode items. Interesting-good by the way, not bad by any means. However, the modern windows were only limited to the medium and tall wall heights, and only in 3 tile versions. That will just not do. That size is far from versatile so I had to go about making some addons for the items so they were more usable then in their current state. After much troubleshooting, they are done and ready to enjoy.

I was also asked if I would consider fixing the blue glass, which I have also done, so if the blue tint was stopping you from using these windows, fear no more! This was done by creating a default replacement for those textures. If you like the blue glass, feel free to delete the package file called “PC-TS4-CLBlueGlassDR” which will keep all windows like the way Maxis designed them.

Do note: all textures are linked to the original game files. This keeps file size down as there is no point duplicating the same textures.

Details:

Requires City Living

10 original colour options for windows and 9 for doors

All items have correct diagonal wall meshes

cost and polycount for “Scattered Panes” windows: - 1 Tile short/medium/all: $195/$207/$217, 116/116/116 polys - 2 Tile short/medium/tall: $200/$210/$220, 116/116/152 polys - 3 Tile short: $205, 112 polys

cost and polycount for “Frost You House” doors: - 2 Tile short/medium/tall: $440/$465/$490, 396/396/496 polys - 3 Tile short: $445, 396 polys

custom thumbnails

found in respective wall height door and window sections of build mode

The archive contains the package file and style images inside a folder. Extract the archive using winRAR or winZIP and drop the package file in your mods folder and look for it in-game.

Updated 21/01/2017: With the toddler patch breaking a few things, I have taken the opportunity and gone through and updated my sets to fix issues and generally improve on some things. Here, I have updated all seating with new tags and toddler rigs, redid floor lamp, as well as redo surface slots. Items placed on objects that have slots redone will need to be placed again from the family inventory.

Update 17/07/2016: I have updated this set to work with the latest July patch where changes were made to the lighting tuning. You can find the new downloads below, as well as a link to the individual items.

I know it may seem that I hold back these sets as followers gifts, but it seems to take me that long to finish one of these projects. This set is a bit different from my previous ones. It was designed to take a bit of the tedium out of creating “object sets” with multiple matching items and designed to go together. This set is something that can be mixed and matched with other sets, hence the name “eclectic”. The randomness of the items, but how they all come together is what I aimed for, and I think I succeeded. It is also a smaller size (both file and item count) which was nice after completing Atwood living. That set was HUGE! I have also included some retro inspired wallpapers to accompany this set. We really do need more wallpapers, so go fourth and decorate with these new pretties.

Updated 21/01/2017: With the toddler patch breaking a few things, I have taken the opportunity and gone through and updated my sets to fix issues and generally improve on some things. Here, I have updated all seating with new tags and toddler rigs, redid Floor lamp, as well as redo surface slots. Items placed on objects that have slots redone will need to be placed again from the family inventory.

Update: 17/07/2016: I spotted a small mesh issue this morning and my perfectionist self couldn’t unsee it, so i updated the files again. Its just a seam on the tea light candles but its fixed now.

Update 16/07/2016: Updated The cantilever floor lamp, and tealight candles for the July patch. They can now be adjusted per room. I also tweaked Ferntastic potted fern, Gloss Side Table, Wood Geometric Table so the shadow group doesn’t glitch with the floor, and changed out a missed thumbnail with the three seat sofa i missed last update.

Update 7/03/2016: just a small update for this set, nothing relating to cc fixes, just gave the items easier-to-find thumbnails. I know that was one thing a lot of people commented on so here it is. So if you want the content easier to find, please re-download. 

Another milestone, another set of furniture to share. I think a big area that needed my style touch is the living room. Most of the sofas are either blah or ew to me, so I decided to make some for myself. It was supposed to be small, but again I failed miserably at that. 26 items is my biggest set yet, it is also the largest too. Please note this set is over 90MB. The reason for this is the items with the largest texture maps (the sofas, ottoman, and armchairs) have 28-48 textures, which in turn make the file size extra large. There is nothing I can do about that though.

Welcome to the FRCA (Flight Rising Community Association)! We’re an organization of FR users of all ages, that come together to provide more fun and excitement to the wonderful world in Sornieth. We’re just getting started, but we already have many events and games we plan to introduce to the community. Movie nights, RP events, holiday packages, flash giveaways to name a few of the many!

Each event we make is highly organized and carefully crafted with the members of our team to make it easy and fun for those who participate. 

To keep updated with the FRCA’s recent events, giveaways and news, follow us here at our official blog! We’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have, or any ideas you’d like to bring aboard!

We’re dedicated to making sure the Flight Rising experience is exciting and fun for everyone! 

To join in our very first giveaway for your chance to win 1,000gems, follow the steps below:

1. Follow our blog. 2. Reblog with your FR username and ID number!  3. Only reblogs count. Feel free to like the post, but reblogs will count as your entry! 4. One entry per person.

Mel’s Bedroom Meshes by SaudadeSims

This set is inspired by my lovely melbrewer367’s real life bedroom set. The first white one pictured is hers! When I was recoloring Maxis meshes for her birthday present, I decided I’d make her the real thing when I could :) So really, these are for her birthday too! 

These are my first ever meshes and let me tell you, meshing has a steep learning curve. I must have redone each of these at least 4 or 5 times. I am thrilled with the end result, though! 

I shamelessly stole veranka-s4cc’s idea about separating the bed frame mesh from the mattress/bed mesh so you can combine which ever mattress/bed you want with whichever bed frame you want. Yay for choices!!! These frames will also work with her mattress mesh here: veranka’s mattresses for bed frames and the mattresses will work with her ikea bed frame meshes. Choices abound! Also, she’s a GENIUS!

*edited* my bed mesh had the wrong bones assigned and I couldn’t get milkshape to cooperate (darn crashing) to fix it, so I retextured the lovely Orange Mittens’ Sofia Bed Mattress (you can download the original here) with the textures you see in this post. The links have been updated. Thank goodness for those wonderful people over at Sims 4 Studio.

In the set:

Bed Frame with 11 recolors (one isn’t pictured, it’s white with beadboard paneling as the headboard)

Mattress with 10 recolors

10 recolors of OM’s Sofia mattress mesh

End table with 10 recolors

Dresser with 10 recolors 

The last two pics are to show up close detail :)

I made all these meshes by hand (or you know, by mouse?). The only things I borrowed were the knobs. I used knobs from Veranka’s conversion of the TS2 Ikea Hemnes meshes. 

TOU: Please don’t reupload these or claim them as your own. I have spent so much time and effort and endured extreme frustration with meshing and TSRW to the point that I’ve had to just go to bed because I couldn’t even stand to be around myself, lol. You can recolor them, just give me a link back!

Please let me know if anyone has any issues whatsoever with these. I’ve play tested them a lot, but you never know how other peoples’ games and mods will react with new stuff. 

Oh! And these have custom thumbnails so you can find them more easily in the catalog :) I tried to make the move the picture in this post to be beside each other so the post wouldn’t be so long but every time I tried my browser would crash. Sorry bout that.

Please excuse all my exclamation marks ;) 

Download:

Bed Frame

Mattress

End Table

Dresser