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Hoplass

Hi @MiaSkywalker ! I was your buddy this exchange! That was fun as since your medieval lot contest I got to know the thing you like to build. Now, let's hope I created something new and original that you like! You like fantasy/medieval so I tried to work with that in the gifts I made for you.

I kind of had a difficult start, as you really liked to have some medieval commercial lots. 'Problem': I didn't own savvy seller, so making a 'real' store would be hard. I decided to go community (hoping you wouldn't mind) and thought of a library. 'Problem 2': a library in medieval times? Don't think so!

Then I realized there were places in medieval times where books could be found. Monks would make beautiful copies of books in the old times! I just needed to make a place for them to work:


It has a library with a lot of tables for reading and study:


As I was working, the library seemed so lonely so I added a garden with space for you to fill.

Then I made a nectar-brewery to go with it:

and I decided to add a living area (just in case you don't want it to be a community lot and use it as a big house )

It ended up being quite big (40x40 lot)

The building was so empty and I decided to make a few artists and writers, maybe you will let them live here? They don't have any skillpoints yet:


You can download the building here and the family here.

Hoplass

I will continue my story. When I was working on the monastery, I started thinking about a real commercial lot and I wanted it to be a house too. I thought of a crafter and since I have a glassblowing station, it was going to be a glassblowers workshop. So I started building:


I searched the entire buymode for glass items but did not like the workshop very much at first, because it felt like a museum and not a shop. I got lucky with ads (lots of them, sorry game for not spending time with you) and was able to get the right stuff to make the store work!

On the upper floor I build the living area

And of course you would need a glassblowers family to live and work there.

Download the workshop here and the glassblower here.

Hoplass

The last gift I made! The first one was kind of big (40x40) and the second one small (15x10) so I decided to go inbetween for the last building: 20x20. There was one more shop/house I wanted to make for you as you like woods a lot. You need to be able to get those wooden items somewhere right? So I made a carpenters workshop/house.



Donwnstairs is the shop and in the back a small workplace and storage area


Upstairs a bathroom, 2 bedrooms and living area


I made a small family to go with the build: meet the Woods:







Of course you need the download links:
Workshop: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9013010
Family: http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=9011728

ADWilson

Horizon Library is a fabulous idea for medieval times as are the artist and writer monks! Easy to see this build placed in other worlds too... hidden away in Hidden Springs, for example

tanubanue

This is a neat idea. I have a good place for it up on a hill where I'm sure monks would like to live

MiaSkywalker

Oh, that's so neat! You made a monastery! You did a beautiful job decorating it, too!

A commercial lot doesn't really need the savvy seller set. Fact is, I never use it, there are too many other ways for our Sims to make money, and it just feels out of place to me most of the time. A commercial lot where you just DO things rather than buy things, like the lot you made, is much better.

I love the fact that you put a nectary in it. Lately nectar making has become a favorite thing with me. Which is ironic, since I don't drink.

Now, why is it that I never thought of putting those short hedges around any of my gardens? It looks so natural there, I think I'm going to start doing that with some of my gardens in the future.

I have to ask about the monks - what outfit are you using from the game for them? I've tried to make monks on occasion, but I could never find anything appropriate. Obviously whatever you used, you recolored, but I've never seen anything that I thought would look right. I'm guessing that I just never visualized it properly before, that's why I'm asking.

DolphineQ

This looks absolutely gorgeous! It has such a serene and calm feeling to it and all the little details, like the monks in their monk outfits just makes it perfect. Wonderful job!

ciane

I love the monks and all the areas are perfect for them.

Hoplass

I'm so glad you like it! Yes, their outfit was quite a challenge! I ended up using the outfit from the Japanese set from the store http://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:44616 I recolored it but also used another texture, something from the 'weave' section I believe.
I'll come back on the seller set, shht!

aricarai

Love your monastery and your monks! Very creative @Hoplass - rec-a-roo for you!

Kgaff

Awesome job!! Your use of the medieval items and recolors are spot on! It's amazing how recoloring something makes an entirely new item!

LadyEmillye

Love this! Such a great idea! Looks soo peaceful. I may have to live here during the holiday retail season and Ommmmmmmmmmm.

XxHannelorexX

Fantastic idea! What a great build; love the garden and all the neat things, like the nectar brewery. Rec'd

MiaSkywalker

Hoplass wrote: »

I'm so glad you like it! Yes, their outfit was quite a challenge! I ended up using the outfit from the Japanese set from the store http://store.thesims3.com/productDetail.html?productId=OFB-SIM3:44616 I recolored it but also used another texture, something from the 'weave' section I believe.
I'll come back on the seller set, shht!

I don't think that robe ever occurred to me! Is it available for Seasons as well? If not, I may have to work on figuring out how to mod what outfits a particular piece of clothing can be used for. I should do that anyway. I hate how some of the store clothing is limited to certain outfits a Sim can wear. It makes making Sims - particularly male Sims - a little frustrating at times.

creativemetaphor

Oh my goodness! That is beautiful! Now I'm thinking of revising my Abbey and running it as a household with monks and everything

ciane

I love, love, love your creativity. Very, very nice! Excellent style.

ADWilson

The glassblower's workshop and couple are a wonderful concept to add to the medieval time period that Mia enjoys so much (and others will too!)! In fact, I am mightily tempted to grab your gifts and traipse through her studio then explore Dragon Valley... which I have never done before.

MiaSkywalker

Oh my, the glassblower's house and shop is wonderful! I love the glass blower station. It can smelt metals as well as make stuff for you, and I love making the perfumes. The fact that it's a home and a shop is just PERFECT, because that's how they lived back then, their homes were right above their shops. (Imagine how convenient that was for going to work in the morning. They didn't have to deal with rush hour traffic, eh?)

I love the little details, and the fact that you made it with different touches from what I would have done makes it better, because then I don't have so much sameness. I find I tend to use the SAME deco all the time, and I notice that you used different things. And, of course, those are giving me ideas on different things I can do as well, which is always a good thing.

Beaker is a PERFECT name for a glassblower! I laughed as soon as I saw that.

I just wanted to add: I notice you gave the woman a purple dress. You remembered! It's one of the anachronisms I allow in my game. Purple dye was so rare and so expensive in the middle ages that only the very wealthy could afford it, and at least one king actually outlawed its use for anyone but royalty. But in my worlds, purple clothing is common, because I like looking at it.

aricarai

@Hoplass - Love your glassblower workshop and the Beakers! Rec'd!

Bookworm742

What fun! A monastery library, complete with monks! Looks great! And very much in keeping with the medieval theme! (And it very much suits DV, too!)

Glassblowing shop looks great...that's such a fun piece of premium content! (I adore the jewelry it added to the game!) And a cute couple to live and work there, too! Wonderful!

Hoplass

Of course I rememberd you like purple @MiaSkywalker , I won't forget those conversations about purple and emperors and bath-houses

I'm glad you like the Beakers, that name made me smile because it's a bit obvious but I really wanted to use it.

MiaSkywalker

What a clever and pretty little carpenter's house! I haven't seen you post about it in the main thread, but I came here to check out your last comment, and looked up and saw it. Good thing I did!

I love all the little details I can see in your pictures, and especially love that there's a sculpting station. That seems the most appropriate thing for a furniture maker, since you can make furniture on it. Of course, I would probably force a carpenter to use only wood materials, just because.

Hoplass

The post was ready but I had some launcher trouble... I posted the link just a few minutes ago in the main thread, so you probably received that message by now. I thought you would force him to use wood only .

MiaSkywalker

I have a suggestion for the images, btw. If you look at the images that show when you look at it on the Exchange, all you can see are trees. You probably aren't going to get too many downloads of it because of it, other than people viewing this thread. You might use Sims 3 UIC to change the images in it.

I would recommend making a copy of the pack file first (copying it into another directory is what I generally do), then use something like that program to change the images using screenshots you've made of the lot. It will look much nicer, and show off the lot a whole lot more than the default images ever will.

ADWilson

The Woods family and their carpentry/woodworking shop w/upstairs apartment is wonderful! your creativity and attention to detail

Hoplass

Hmm so I used that program you mentioned @MiaSkywalker and it was really easy! But how do I upload it? Should I delete the original version in my studio and upload the one with the replaced pictures? My launcher tells me the build is already uploaded so I'm not sure what to do.