This is me, being productive

Well, okay, not THAT productive... but even though I usually don't get much Sims stuff done on the weekends (and in fact am about to go play Guild Wars) I did manage to do a couple things. The object recolours were mostly things I did before but the livingroom stuff was done today, and yesterday I collectionized some of the flooring. Today I put together the first building in the backstory neighborhood and put the relevant people in it:



Tomorrow I'll get back to collectionizing (building even one building makes me want to finish it that much more), and maybe put together some more buildings, depending on how long that takes me.

object recolours uploaded

Object recolours (requiring CEP) have been aded to the custom content post. Right now it's just a link to the top folder, which has subfolders, to help save some space. There are pictures (matching the rar file names) to give you an idea of what's available in any given file.

I may make some separate links to the subfolders later if it becomes an issue; I've been thinking of reorganizing by adding contents lists there rather than here anyhow. But for now I'm leaving things as they are.

The README just asks people to not redistribute (and credits CEP), don't fear it. :D

Note: While I'm mostly reasonably happy with these, there's some skins in that have a few flaws... nothing I feel makes them bad, exactly, or I wouldn't have uploaded them, but a few things where I wish I could've done better. In particular I'm not happy with the expensive toilet recolours, though I'm not sure I could've really done much better, either. Some of these might be remade later if I can figure out how to improve them.

Project: Tasogare Yume (Twilight Dreams)

Tasogare Yume (Twilight Dreams) is an episodic Sims story, influenced by anime. The setting is sorta-Japan... things in the setting are based at least loosely on places and character types I've seen in both anime and Japanese drama shows. It's a filtered-through-Westerner-eyes Japan, though, and I make no claims that it's accurate. The character style is also based on anime.

Progress & Stuff

First: Recolours

My custom content post has been updated and slightly reorganized. This link is also always available in the side bar.

Twilight Dreams Teaser

One thing I should say...

The game runs really well on the new computer. Load times are incredible, and while I got the pause when the game generated a paper girl and a garden club member in my test neighborhood (yeah, I got my blank templates in, for everything but the three basic vacation destinations*) it wasn't very bad. Also it runs just fine in windowed mode, no slowdown at all, which was not really the case on the old box. Sims itself might not take advantage of the extra processors (I haven't really checked that, but considering my video-recording performance I'd bet it doesn't) but the OS itself seems to do it quite nicely. I do get some odd redraw lag if I open a menu when the game is running, but it goes away if I minimize the game, so whatever.

Also, my clipboard-capture program of choice has a way to assign a hotkey to do captures. I'm still probably going to play windowed for other reasons (most notably for the ability to easily look stuff up/take notes/whatever) but it's nice to be able to do it with one key combo rather than doing a key combo, switching windows, doing another key combo, etc. I can only make it take about one picture a second but I'll live. :D

(*ETA forgotten footnote: I did leave the three regular destinations as is, so that I can throw them on a neighborhood if I don't want to do the work of setting up a custom version, but I tell you, if I put in the Eastern one, I'm renaming it to the Far East Theme Park or something, because having all those alleged Asians with red hair and Euro features drives me nuts. At least if I pretend it's just a themed area and not supposed to be the "real" far East, I won't be as annoyed.)

widescreen vs the Sims

Well, I can run the Sims in widescreen, but not at my native resolution. Unfortunately, running in a non-widescreen resolution does NOT do the black bar thing; I think this particular monitor might not know how to respond to that instruction or something? I don't know.

*sneezes*

My allergies are just out of control today. It's very distracting.

pizza time

Well, still moving a little slow (I had a very sleepy day) but I now have BV, simPE and CEP installed and all my downloads (including updated versions of AwesomeWare and a couple new things) in place, and I got a small bit of clothing done. I still haven't actually loaded the game and fiddled with settings yet, though.

It's pizza time. Actually, french bread pizza from Stouffer's time. More tomorrow, I think.

No, um, really, still planning on playing

Okay, see, I got Zoo Tycoon 2 for Christmas, so I spent a few days playing that, and then we got Guild Wars, which is highly addictive, which is most of what I've been doing since the beginning of the month.