I. am. losing. my. mind

Hello my friends!

(lots of cursing and swearing goes here) 

I'm so done with my world. Yesterday I made six lovely little brick houses on a block. Today I started making lots to the next block. I made one lot to start with, and then copied it so every lot would be the same size. But when placing the copies, my roads disappeared! 

First I thought that my lots were too close to the road and moved them a little. But the problem still occurred, as you can see from the selected lot, which is nowhere near where the road should be. 

Also I tried to edit my world in game. And there were no roads on that area. I tried to smooth the road with the road tool and also with sculpting, but no. Roads are still missing. Now I'm gonna delete all those lots and redo them and see what happens...

But in the meanwhile, here's some photos of the houses I made yesterday. 

I am so in love with this house! (those two upper photos) It's very small, one bedroom and one bathroom and kitchen upstairs. Made for a single lady or perhaps for an older couple. And I crave so much for pets-ep, but I have no money for it and no-one is willing to buy it for me :D I really could imagine this house for a sweet senior citizen with four cats!

Oh and before I forget. I promised I wouldn't use much cc, but I can't help myself. Big thanks to Sandy from Around The Sims 3. I love your work!

It's beginning to look like something!

Hello my friends!

I have been so busy with studying for finals so I haven't got the time to keep up with you guys. I have somehow managed to make time for my world and I have had lots of progress! 

At the moment I have finished the roads, set up about a quarter of all the street lights, added some coastline and a small mountain, changed the custom road texture million times and created few community lots! 

There's a nice small library, which I'm very proud of. It's interior reminds me a bit of my local library. I will introduce every community lot in their own post when I get that far. Also I have custom-made town hall, gym and school. 

Town hall still needs a rabbit hole installed. I'm going to use rabbit hole rugs if I can find them somewhere. I'm not so proud of this town hall. I tried to imitate the Civic Center from Isla Paradiso but it didn't turn out so well. I might remake it if I bother to do that. 

Gym is intentionally made a bit clumsy. It's a bit ragged-looking from the outside and from the inside it's drab and looking cheap. 

The school is trying to look like elementary school with a playground and a football court. I used Community School for the gifted from Sunset Valley. I have also Riverwiev installed but I can't find it's rabbit holes?! I would have rather used the Truelong Community School. It would've fitted my world's theme better. 

Library in the left, part of Town Hall in the right and in the back is that cheap gym.

Oh and also I wondered if I could have the same rabbit hole twice? I would love to have two schools in my world. One is that elementary school in the city center which I already built and the second one would be a tiny custom-made suburban school . If anyone knows please let me know :) I tried to google but didn't find anything helpful. 

PS. Sorry I don't have any more pictures. To the next post I try to get more!

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Hello my friends!

Yesterday I started working on an awesome idea. I saw one British village on the TV and I loved those little townhouses right next to each other. They were all looking a bit the same and they had the most cutest little backyards. I didn't catch the name of that village or neighborhood so I couldn't search for more information about it :(

Yesterday I started working on a completely new world. I chose medium flat map with max height 200. I have already made an island and a relatively large mountain with brownstone and a river, which begins from front of the island and ends to a lake in root of the mountain. I have used terrain paints made by Martine in Mod The Sims. 

I know that 90% of worlds made by simmers come with mountains and some kind of coast. But it's just so nice concept! There's a variety of terrains and ocean is amazing playground with Island Paradise. Hidden caves, surfing and mermaids. I wish I could make a mermaid cave in there, but I have no idea how. If anyone knows, please please please link me the instructions! I could also ask Google but it's so frustrating with my slow internet connection 

Right now I am working on roads. I made a custom road with light driveway and grey pavement. I used EA's textures (I think) but I also have some CC textures. I will put up a list in the future where I mention all of the wonderful artist whose CC I have ever used making this world. In this world I try to use as little CC as possible if I decide to give it for download. But I only share it if it's wonderful and I'm completely happy with it :D

Look, I made the most realistic island with a mountain! There will be a lot of collectibles and a community lot on the mountain which is going to be a tiny romantic park where couples can go to watch the sunset and cuddle. And maybe some.. woohoo. 

Right now I'm working with roads. I have a very unorganized method to do this. I'd like to say unique, because I haven't seen anyone to do so but I don't know. First I make the intersections in a small area. Then I make the roads between them and place intersections in a next area and make roads between them. And move on to another area. And then it all looks like mess:

When I'm done the previous steps in the whole world, I snap the roads in to intersections and bridges. The reason I do roads in this order is because I hate that "clicking" process. It's slow and obnoxious and the roads won't set to the grid the way I want them to. Also they make idiotic curves sometimes when you are trying to make a circle, and I've noticed that it's way more easier to correct them afterwards. Also in the clicking-phase it's easy to re-position them and make them perfectly straight and lined up. 

Now I think I'm done for today. It took me an hour to make those bridges! And hey if you have a name that would suit to this world, please tell me! I suck at naming worlds.