#mooseabides

mooseabides said: Haha! The Bitville architecture is… interesting, but I’ve become fond of the style :)

It’s not... bad, it’s just very repetitive and base-gamey. Just think of what they could have done with all expansion packs!

didilysims said: It’s so modern! So hip! Look at all the cool things you can do with roofs, Sims fans!!!

THE ROOFS!!! (I actually kept most of them, just made them a little less...steep.)

kayleigh-83 replied to your photoset: The other half of my new Downtown festival...                

   What about a ROOT beer keg? 😁   

Hey now, everyone knows that there’s the devil’s drink.

General appreciation under the cut. Thank you, @littleblondesim, @mooseabides, @squeezleprime, @kayleigh-83, @shannonsimsfan, @taylors-simblr, and @princess-arystal21

Hey there! Hope you don’t mind if I answer this publicly; I’ve received a few similar inquiries since I’ve done high-res terrains and always answered them privately, so if I do this publicly I can just point to it, if needed, in the future. :)

So! There is no tutorial that I know of. I could make one, though. Maybe I’ll make a tutorial while I make a terrain. 

Just to say, though, the Maxis terrains are kind of problematic to make high-res, as I discovered when I tried to make a color-edited desert one. The reason is that the original texture images are only 128x128 pixels in size, just a little bigger than a Tumblr avatar. To make the high-res textures, you have to stick together a bunch of those original textures to make larger ones, at least 1024x1024 in size to qualify, IMO, as high-res. So, you need at least 64 copies of the 128x128 original texture. The problem with the Maxis textures is that the neighborhood-view images, especially, also have a lot of pattern to them and when you do that sticking together, the pattern forms stripes, which just look bad on the terrain. You can attempt to overcome this with enough hand-painting...but then you’re not exactly using the Maxis terrain anymore. :) So...Yeah, problematic. The solution would be to re-paint (by hand, because simply enlarging the original will make it blurry) a larger version of the Maxis terrain first, and then you could stick together fewer copies of that larger version, which would reduce the “striping.” Unfortunately, that sort of painting is quite beyond my artistic capabilities. :)

But the CuriousB ones are all definitely doable because her original texture images are at their smallest 512x512 in size, so they are already fairly high-res, certainly in comparison to the Maxis textures, which is why they look a lot better than Maxis’s in the first place. To make them even more high-res, you only need to stick together four copies of them, 16 if you wanna go really high-res...but at that point you’re eating a lot of texture memory in a game that has known texture memory processing issues, and that will slow down the game and/or cause pink flashing more quickly. So, you reach a point of diminishing returns. Super-high-res might look really pretty for just picture-taking, if your machine/video card can handle it, but for actual playing where you add in high-poly objects and especially hugely-high-poly hairs and stuff, it’s probably not worth it.

I just went through this same thing �� https://www.google.com/amp/s/yuka-sims.tumblr.com/post/161284937942/heres-a-neighborhood-ive-been-working-on-for-a/amp

I love his makeover! :D

Even when a bit shaggy, he looks good! And thank you for the top. :D 

​@penig​ replied to your photo “Ethan: Specs, we’re going to have to be extra cautious. Armand’s found...”

Yeah, that'll work. You just gotta do the transgression thing, don't you? You couldn't say to Armand: Gotta have my cat.

Oh no, Armand can’t know about the cat. Only criminal masterminds are allowed to have cats, you know, and Ethan isn’t there yet. Armand, on the other hand...well he has cats to spare. Might just snatch Specs up to add to his collection! 

@mooseabides​ replied to your photo “Later… “I’m just about finished setting up your new life. Any...”

"I don’t give a failed aspiration" - I will probably be laughing about this all day!

@simper-fi​  "I don't give a failed aspiration" XD

Come on you two! It’s supposed to be a serious moment! :P 

@vimpse​ replied to your post “Is anyone else having this problem with tumblr not giving...”

Well, I feel incredibly dumb, but you've just taught me that I can use the activity page to see replies and reblogs, rofl. I literally *never* look at the activity page, ever... *headdesk* Maybe I'll get better at replies now!

Oh no way! Well, I’m very glad I complained about it then, ha ha! 

penig replied to your photo “Later… “I’m just about finished setting up your new life. Any...”

This is exactly the wrong way to handle Ethan, Armand.

It might also be the wrong way for Ethan to handle Armand...

@siminaiwen​ Same here didily! I have to look at the post to see ALL responses :/ I don't even have any extensions whatsoever.

They look great! I’ve wanted to try something similar, but it seems like a daunting task… o.O

It was actually much easier than I thought it would be, which is really not saying much because I thought it would be super hard... But I followed this tutorial (and this post when I got stuck) and it wasn't too bad at all, considering I had no idea what most of it meant. All in all it took me about an hour and a half, which is including the time to actually put together the new picture and try it out a whole bunch of different times in game, so most people could probably do it in way less time. I don't think it's anything I'll take up full-time, that's for sure, but it's nice to know I can do it after all. Anyway, rambling, sorry. Thank you, and you can do it too! :D 

zoragraves answered your question:Okay, I know it doesn’t look like much, but I am...

You could use DXT3 instead of 1 or build with a bigger image size (if the default you exported is 256x256 you can use 512x512). It also depends on the mesh you’re recolouring so this is not a guarantee. Congrats :) 

Laynewich is turning out so adorably :)

Secondly...super late replies, woo! Well, after some not-so-late replies...

dramallamadingdang replied to your photo “I’m back! And I had a fabulous time too! My campsite didn’t look quite...”

Welcome back! Glad the bears didn't get ya. ;)

Ha! Thanks, that makes two of us! 

justsimaround replied to your photo “I’m back! And I had a fabulous time too! My campsite didn’t look quite...”

Welcome back sweetie <3 So happy to hear you had a nice time :D

Aw thanks. :) It was almost as nice as coming back home again! 

mooseabides replied to your photoset “Kiera: Oh come on, it’s written all over you. So who’s the girl? ...”

"Ferdinand: Why are you giving me romantic advice? I don’t like the awkward turn this conversation has taken. " - hahaha! Ferdy is so cute :)

He seems to be turning into a favourite. :) 

aondaneedles replied to your photoset “Ferdinand: Hey.  Kiera: Hey.  *Awkward pause*  Kiera: I’m sorry I...”

I am soo exited to find out what will happen with Ferdi's crush and what will happen when Ethan will come back.

Me too! :D 

penig replied to your photoset “After dinner, Kiera offers her guests a tour of the garden, where...”

This makes me cry for Ethan more.

It's sad that he missed out on this kind of fun family time as a kid, but if he hadn't have been so estranged, Ferdy and Kiera especially probably wouldn't have been so receptive to Frank. The guilt factor has them trying to make up for past mistakes, which still sucks for Ethan, but it's good for little Frankie. 

nimitwinklesims replied to your photoset “Eowyn and Frank come over for dinner that evening.  Frank: I’m so...”

I just love how you tied that adorable conversation to his speech bubble of puzzle pieces (the three of them!). It fits so well. Great storytelling :D

Thank you! I really like trying to incorporate the speech bubbles to imagine what they're talking about. :) 

annegirl13 replied to your photoset “Eowyn and Frank come over for dinner that evening.  Frank: I’m so...”

Frank is so cute!

No arguments here! 

penig replied to your photoset “Ferdinand: Well hello there, handsome! Who’s a studly stud this...”

I love sim teens!

They are always entertaining. :) 

holleyberry replied to your photo “Missing the bus means Ferdy has to walk to school, making him late,...”

Wow, Keira sure does now how to make her brothers feel loved :P

The trouble with Kiera is that she means well, but is easily distracted by all the other things she has to do. She also isn't the most empathetic Sim (only 2 nice points!) but she's learning, slowly. 

nimitwinklesims replied to your post “How easy is a BACC? The one your doing looks like a ton of fun...

Please tell us more! :D I love reading about storytelling gameplay and realistic-like BACC rule things!