Journaling our sims

[joandsarah]

EEeeeee!! I just made my first recolour (not counting the horrid couch which was my first attempt) I followed two tutorials on recolouring and I hope it worked, it's too late to load up and see. I recoloured this clothing rack here: www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=198247 Just for my mts contest entry. The baby boy section had either pink girl clothes or wall stickers which disappear at certain angles.


Mine is meant to be a baby boys version. They probably look as flat as two day old pancakes but I'm still excited.

I don't know how people can do so much of this, it took me ages painstakingly enlarging, shrinking and hand painting. although I'm probably doing it the hard way. Colour in one, find a tiny picture, hand paint to try and sharpen and neaten the image. The star one was just a standard gimp brush.

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Jo: those are awesome.

[joandsarah]

Thanks Ashley.

Some turned out a bit funny-the pictures went into the arms, but I'm still pleased how it looks overall.

Well yesterday I was LJ hoping and came across the Test Of Time challenge. Much longer than my Creation to future. So of course I had to start one, in my own way. I thought I could add it to the hood I play Og in. I haven't played him for awhile and so I went looking but I can't find him! I don't know if I removed his hood or worse if I somehow deleted it. I loaded up every hood, even the pre-mades that I still have and nothing.

[esmeiolanthe]

Those outfits look great, Jo, and the original is a cute set! Congratulations on your very first recolor!

I don't know how you take on such long challenges! I couldn't do it, that's for sure. Creation to Future will be the longest I've ever attempted, and I get the feeling that you can adjust the length of that by some very focused playing.

I have just four houses left to prepare to package up, and I forget how many to copy down all the personality information on. Sometimes I play a little bit too, but not enough.

I'm a little stuck on my next four Poker Face event cards: I'm having trouble thinking of a Sim who would fit three of the prompts (100 words or less, 1000 words or less, and biography), and while I've thought of the perfect Sim and perfect format for the fourth (blog/facebook), I would have to write it backwards and that's hard!

[joandsarah]

You have to write it backwards?

My entry is here: www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=505488&c=1&ht=&page=17&pp=25#startcomment about 3/4 down, just above the score chart. See if you can spot the recolour on the boy's side of the store.


Well see it's easy to start challenges, the hard part comes trying to finish them. The rules are here: www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=438591
I'm only doing 3 since I wanted Og's family to be the fourth tribe and he's seems to be gone. My own rules of course. Those rules are too much and I don't like all of them. If I keep playing long enough I'll do social class based on money.

I made a sand, field and Mountain tribe. Each look a little different. I won't call any any particular nationality as I fail at that although the field tribe is meant to be kind of 'Asian'. Which means me tweaking the maxis template.

The Sand Tribe are a grouchy lot who live on the beach, sk 3 and 4. They wear little clothes, mostly of leaves and grass. They will be good at art, music and fishing. They have coloured face paint, body paint, jewelry.

Feild sk 3 and sk 2 will live out on the grass lands, they will be good at fitness and agriculture and in time tinkering. They will have more war like face paint men are hairless.

Mt/Rock will live in caves and be the witch Dr's. (witches) men will be very hairy no face paint.

I've only just set up the Sand Tribe so far.
There is a sleeping hut, eating/living hut, bathroom hut and a utilities (read mod stuff) hut. The others will have different type of houses.

Garo 5/8/9/2/1 Knowledge. Music and Dance. LTW 6 grandchildren.
You wouldn't want to meet Garo down a dark alley I don't think.

Katya 8/5/6/3/3 Art and Craft, golden wedding.

I am setting up hobbies and realistic LTW thanks to the sim manipulator. I love that mod!

Still deciding on furniture.

I made all three families on the same day. You can tell my interest in making sims declined. I was really pleased with Garo's face. The Mt people got the lest well made. Not sure why I decided the Sand Tribe would be grouchy as the face paint on the Field Tribe is more war like. At least I got the genetics right this time. No custom skin only my defaults.

[esmeiolanthe]

Yep, there are the baby outfits, right next to the two stacked blue cubes. They look great, and they fit right in!

I would have to write my story backwards because when you look at a blog or Facebook, the most recent entries come first! Then when you scroll down, you find out what they were talking about. Also, it's a challenge.

[amylu1988]

Jo those recolours are adorable and they look great in your shop (thanks for the link)! The shop is wonderful, and I see you found a sign, so that answers my question in the other thread.

Your sand tribe sims look great, I love their faces, really unique. That sounds like an interesting challenge, too.

Esme I can't wait to see the rest of your poker face entries, the facebook idea sounds great!

I've been making a lot more sims for my eco neighbourhood, and amongst other things, my plantsim had twins! That's the first time that's happened for me.




They're also the most different looking plantsims I've seen, typically for twins.

[joandsarah]

Aww they're adorable Amy. Which now proves plantsims can indeed have twins since I was so shocked when Olinda had twins and no one thought they could. I was never too sure if they weren't glitchlets.

Thanks, I do think out of the three tribes they look the best.

Close up the recolours don't look so great lol, but it does for the shop pictures and looks way better then the girls rack would have done. But the the pictures going across go into the arms! The arms are not where I thought they would be at all!

[joandsarah]

I've been playing my mashed up version of The Test Of Time Challenge. Sand Tribe now have a toddler and new born twin boys. Only they have no heads! Well they do, but they are invisible and I don't know why. The parents have default skin and the babies should have that and hair. There is the freckled skin, but babies just show up with no hair if they get that. I'm wondering if they have another skin again and it's clashing. Freaky anyway.

Eee I just had a thought. Those twins were a miraculous conception! That must be it!! >joking< kind of. I sent them for there one try for baby of the season (Hammock whoohoo doesn't count for risky woohoo, so I'm having them try once per season) Before he could do anything the baby chime played. he was still standing beside the hammock. I was like come on what is this, super fertility? You think it and she's pregnant? Sheesh. I'm sure as tribal leader he is pleased as punch, especially with 2 sons, headless or not. They will grow out of that at toddlerhood.

Shell Sand






This is a shot of under the water near the beach. I've downloaded some reef TS3 to TS2 corals. Think I need to add a lot more.

[amylu1988]

All that underwater stuff looks lovely, it's been on Tumblr a lot lately, it really adds variety to neighbourhoods/beaches.

D'aw, Shell is adorable! And hopefully the headless babies will go back to normal soon!

[Dez PhoenixphyreAu]

Hi all, I;m new to this so just wondering as seeing as I've given up writting legacy stories for now can I still share Journal updates to a family I am somewhat legacy playing with out a story being written about it?

It's a continuation of a family from my orignal Base game called "Meet the Acconites" which some of you may have seen over on LiveJournal when it was there and moved over to wordpress.com, (( you can check it out here aussieinallamablazer.wordpress.com/2010/01/12/let-me-introduce-you/ basically the 10th generation of that family was named after the founder and I saved her to my main PC before the game died on the other computer so I brought her across and yeah Bobs your Uncle as they say...new Acconite family, new town.

[esmeiolanthe]

There's a picture limit on this thread, I think, but I'm not sure what it is. If you wanted to show off lots and lots of pictures at once, you could make a thread in either the TS2 or the TS3 section -- you don't have to have a story. If you just wanted to show off a few pictures at a time, it would probably fit here. (Jo and amy, please correct me if I'm wrong.)

[joandsarah]

Hi Dez, long time no see.

The rules of this thread are on the first page.

Welcome to our new journal thread. This is a trial to see if we need a new board or if a sticky in an existing board will do.

In here you may tell us about what is going on in your game. It is not meant to actually post whole story entries; those should be posted on some other hosting site such as Live Journal with a link posted in the relevant Sims 2 or Sims 3 sections.
Sim 2 stories desirablediscourses.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ts2stories
Sim 3 stories desirablediscourses.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=stories3
You may advertise new chapters to your stories here desirablediscourses.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=alertthread

Please keep pictures down to a maximum of five pictures per post if you want to add pictures. Larger photo shoots can go on the photo board
Sims 2 photo shoots desirablediscourses.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=pictures
Sims 3 photo shoots desirablediscourses.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=ts3pics

Have fun and I'm looking forward to seeing what your all up to!

That has links to the different story sections.

If you just want to do 'smallish' photo updates (5-50 photos) those can be done directly on the photo board. Just put them behind a spoiler and nothing too large. BMP photos would need to be changed to jpgs pr pngs.

[joandsarah]

Oh my gosh, what a play through I had at Tree Tribe.

I managed to get Andy (male) and Scout (female) adopted in but was kind of bummed they were identical, white with blue eyes so I adopted in a third grey male who spawned. As dogs go they don't seem any more aggressive then regular dogs although I do have a less fight mod in place. It's supposed to give your pets (especially cats) some sanity so they don't fight with their friends.


But wolves are serious grots. Digging, peeing inside, rolling in pee and knocking over the bin.


Then suddenly they were both really hot. She passed out once. I had nearly zero cash and the wolves were starving. I sold a fish from inventory (not what I really wanted to do) But there would also be a repo man in the morning and that just doesn't fit) The chickens are taking longer then I remember to grow up so I can sell them for cash.


So I'm trying to feed dogs and humans and out goes buy and build, what the?
I had no clue but it had to be put out. I have nothing else but an extinguisher.
Also notice the pig and the 'man'. That is the NPC showing and I've figured out something happens to them if the get too cold or two hot. It seems harmless, but creepy. I might sell the pair as there has been no piglets while the chooks have produced at least 5 chicks.


She was still hungry with no left overs and hot so I sent him to cook... it caught fire. While he tries to put it out one of my wolves runs away.
Then and I didn't take a pic, there is another puzzling fire and I work out it's one of the chicks. These animals can spontaneously combust and my second wolf runs away! At this point I cheated and bought a phone and called for both missing animals. Regular fires I will deal with but I didn't get chickens for them to randomly burst into flames and send my wolves packing. Part of this challenge is all four seasons are set to summer. Dh laughed and said "Roast chicken dinner." haha, no, then it might be worth it. The place is madness.
I was really glad at this point that risky woohoo hasn't kicked in here.

[amylu1988]

Chicks that burst into flames? My goodness that is weird! Good that you worked out what was causing the strange fires though Jo, that looks like one mad play session! Glad you got the wolves back too.

I've made two more sims for my neighbourhood but I'm suddenly feeling too shy to post stuff to my Tumblr at the moment. Blame the hot weather, always gets me unnecessarily worried about things. Anyway, here's Harry (top picture) and Marcus (bottom picture).