#simcat81

Very good looking, boy!

Yeah, I think he’s a good combination of his parents. His dad got all of the extremes of Goopy and Sandy’s faces and so was very extreme himself. Andrew got some of that but softened by his mother’s smaller, more delicate features. I think of their three kids they had together, he’s the one that’s the most “blended” in terms of combining the parents’ facial features.

simcat81 replied to your photoset “This is something that I wanted. Not sure how wide of an appeal it’ll...”

What is that sc4 terrain in your preview pics? It looks pretty!

Well, there are several different ones there. :) My testing neighborhood is the Desiderata Valley terrain. GilsCarburg is on Phaenoh’s “Sand Simoleon Point.” The Air Force Base (the most heavily-decorated one) is on this one. And the other one is this one. I tend to fiddle with terrains using the modifyneighborhoodterrain cheat, though. I did a lot of “custom sculpting” in the AFB neighborhood, especially.

lady-silverwolf replied to your photoset “This is something that I wanted. Not sure how wide of an appeal it’ll...”

Looks Fabulous! I love CuriousB's set as well, but I think I like this one much better for a modern hood. Almost looks like a true lush green.

Yeah, it’s kind of like “suburbia green,” the kind you get when you have a group of neighbors who are all obsessive about landscaping and mowing their lawns and stuff like that, all in order to keep up with and/or out-landscape the neighbors. Or, it’s like “sod farm green.” I confess that I looked at some images of sod farms online when I was fiddling with the color. It’s still a little blue-r than that, but that’s kind of what I wanted. I was tired of the yellow-green of CuriousB’s textures -- and Maxis is even worse in that regard -- so I erred more on the blue side of green. Maybe it’s all Kentucky bluegrass! :)

kayleigh-83 replied to your photo “While his mother was…somewhere…Owen teened up. He’s Fortune/Pleasure,...”

If all your Sims want to become Criminal Masterminds, I think it's clear the universe is telling you that their family is forming into some kind of mafia! How excellent!

Yeah, it’s pretty awesome. But also kind of ridiculous. “Let’s be crime lords of this tiny town of, like, five houses! So big time!” *laugh*

eulaliasims replied to your photo “Ghost-of-Steven makes himself useful. I think we’ll keep him.”

Cleaning ghosts are the best ghosts! Much better than the whiny ones. :P

Generally, I have a policy of packing ghosts off to a cemetery after a few hauntings, but I confess that I’ll let cleaning ghosts stay right where they are. :)

fuzzyspork replied to your audio post “So here’s something completely different! A friend of mine, a luthier,...”

So pretty! The Enya song that always gets stuck in my head is Sail Away. And somehow this got it stuck in my head. D: I'm not even an Enya fan! Fun Fact: the last apartment we lived in before we bought this house had an elderly woman and her middle aged daughter living next door. They played Enya constantly. And I know this because they played it at TOP FREAKIN VOLUME. I kept imagining them over there languidly head banging.

LOL! I dunno, I tend to think that if someone’s blasting Enya, they’re probably not head-banging. They’re probably attempting to float ethereally around their house in flowing white dresses with big bell sleeves. :) (All that reverb and overdubbing, oy!) Sorry for sticking Enya in your head, though. It very well might have been that “Sail Away” song that got stuck in mine. It was just, like, 10 years ago, so I don’t really remember anymore.

cindysimblr replied to your photo “Ghost-of-Steven makes himself useful. I think we’ll keep him.”

What? I've never seen them do something like this!

They’ll do it if they had a lot of Cleaning points in life. And I think they need to be happy, too, not grumpy. So, like, their bed still has to exist. (I dunno why that’s so important to ghosts, but...Well, it is.) Steven not only mops up cat pee that didn’t make it into a litterbox, but he cleans all the toilets in the house, too.

blackswan-sims replied to your post “Music Shuffle Meme”

Yaasss, Within Temptation! *high fives* Symphonic metal's a major weakness of mine too.

Yeah, it’s very operatic. And since A) I like opera and B) Opera was the heavy metal of its time, that’s only fitting. :) I’d kind of like it if there were some bands with male singers, though. I mean, I know the whole “thing” (if it’s not instrumental like a Trans-Siberian Orchestra sort of thing) is “operatic” soprano + metal band, but it’d be nice if there were, say, “operatic” tenor + metal band versions. :) If such exists, I don’t know about it...

celebkiriedhel replied to your audio post “So here’s something completely different! A friend of mine, a luthier,...”

I love harp music. When I was young (a child) it was the instrument that I wanted to learn.

I learned it a bit later in life, actually. I was never really interested before, but I was doing some teaching at a folk music camp for a couple summers in the early 90s, and at the beginning of the first session, the faculty got together for a meet-and-greet/jam. At some point, we ended up exchanging instruments, and I found myself with a lever harp and kind of fell in love with it. I rented a harp and took the classes at the camp, and when it was done, I bought a harp, found a teacher, and took some lessons and...Yeah, here we are. :) It’s fairly easy to learn if you already have a piano background, but even if you don’t it’s not bad. You just need strong fingers. The hard part is actually finding a teacher. Well, that and harps are pretty expensive. :\ Here in the US, a decent-quality one of a decent size (36+ strings) will run you about ~$3000, used. (That’s for a lever harp; pedal harps are more.) But I like lever harps a lot better, myself. I prefer their more folky/Celtic sound.

nimitwinklesims replied to your photoset “Can you see the edges of the terrain? Can you tell what’s actually...”

Ooh, nice! Although lot view does look a bit silly. But hey, I guess with that default I linked to it would look better, as it uses the same texture there!

Yeah, it probably would look nice with @an-elegant-simblr‘s Realistic Grass. I haven’t put that in my testing game yet to check it out, but I probably will at some point.

ddeathflower replied to your photo “Tryin’ to put some mountains more in the distance. Not sure how...”

One small criticism would be that the horizen should be lighter. Otherwise it looks great!

acquiresimoleons replied to your photo “TOE BEANS!”

:D *reaches for them*

crystaldollhouse replied to your photo “TOE BEANS!”

Ahhhh! Beans! ��

THEY’RE SO CUTE! Honestly, I think they’re the cutest part of cats, pixel ones or otherwise. :)

criquette-was-here replied to your post “Reply time!”

No time to explain, but you should try these. Might work for the light posts on hood deco pier kinda look: http://modthesims.info/download.php?t=317716

Y’know, I didn’t think of OMSPs... I don’t think those can be placed off-lot. BUT! @julsfels made some that you place on a lot but that extend into the surrounding areas off-lot. I’m not sure how far they’ll extend, but perhaps the OMSPs can be stacked to make them extend farther... Worth a shot, anyway! Thanks for the idea! :)

beautifulnerdkitty replied to your post “Sooooooo....”

Chris Hatch made a mod for YA to rent apartments at University here: http://www.backalleysims.com/adultsite/showthread.php?15751-Apartments-at-University

*sigh* I can never get onto Backalley Sims. I register to look at/download one thing and then don’t go there for a long time and in the interim my login gets banned for disuse. Usually, I don’t feel like re-registering. And in this case, I get student neighbors due to the “Townie Neighbors” mod since dormies are the only non-social-townies I have in this particular neighborhood, but I thought maybe that mod might be useful to @fuzzyspork and others.

simcat81 replied to your photo “GilsCarburg is having a very white…spring. Yep, this was the morning...”

That's exactly how the spring looks here in Finland at the moment.

*sigh* I kind of envy you, actually. I’m in Southern California right now and although the weather’s been nice lately -- sunny, in the low 20s (Celsius, of course), low humidity -- soon it’s going to be hot and humid and yucky. And Colorado is my home, where we have cold/snowy springs, and I like them that way...

lauratje86 replied to your photo “WIP: Undeveloped community beach. Sculpting dunes one click at a time...”

That looks amazing! Do you still use unseasonal plants in your game or did you make the switch to only using seasonal ones?