Dionne City - A new world by Verbaltee99/Encloped/NoTimeStudios - UPDATE (Important Question)

Verbaltee99

DISCLAIMER – This will be a world that will have CC in it. I will not create a version that has no CC in it. Rather than making you source the CC yourself I will put up a zip folder that contains all the objects that are used.



~~~~~~~ Description ~~~~~~~

Dionne is a city cross suburban town for the Sims 3. The concept behind it was a modern city that was inspired by my own city of Adelaide. It’s not really modern but the colours and certain buildings are all inspired from here. As a result of this there might be some Easter eggs that only those who have been in to Adelaide will understand. There are also going to be lots based on some of my favourite architectural pieces, for example the Glaspaleis in the CBD of Dionne and the Beijing National Aquatics Centre in Olympic Park. I was also inspired by The Sims 2 and thus some lots will make an appearance from that game as well. There will also be some families and lone Sims returning in Dionne. I also wanted to create a world that had an appreciation for the arts. As a result I sort of built areas with that concept in mind. This world will require ALL Expansion Packs and Stuff Packs except Master Suite Stuff.

~~~~~~~ Story ~~~~~~~

*Being revised and finalised*



~~~~~~~ Features ~~~~~~~

A brand new city class world for The Sims 3

A world split into two sections, A bustling city for those Sims who like to stay up way past their bed times and a quiet suburbia for those Sims to then settle down and start a family

Brand new tombs to explore

~~~~~~~ Progress & Downloads ~~~~~~~

Sculpting – 98%

Terrain Paint – 98%

Road Layout – 70%

Lot Layout – 70%

Flora – 75%

Camera routing – 100%

Routing – 60%

Building – 43%

Families – 0%

~~~~~~~ Media ~~~~~~~

*This space will be for videos, links to posts with pictures and desktop wallpapers*

Verbaltee99

~~~~~~~ Picture Set 1 ~~~~~~~

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The City of Dionne and Port Dionne

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The suburbs of Vista Point, Shoreline Trials, Blackgum Park, Bay Side and Beach View

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This is the start of the street that is going to be my main entertainment street

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The typical style of parks downtown

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The statue of Sir Pierce Humphrey the First, founder of Dionne

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My version of the Glaspaleis. The Schank logo is there so I could get a good sense of placement. I might not keep it because it is unnecessary CC but the neon letters could provide useful with other lots, opinions?

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You can sort of see the future skyline here. I’m going to attempt using custom skyscrapers rather than the EA stock ones

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This is the main town area of Bay Side. This area will have the usual small town stuff; grocery store, café, school, library, etc.

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Studio Discotheque, the main club where lots of celebrities can be found

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A screenshot of the bridge at sunset. I also uploaded this picture to my deviantART page, I’m going to upload more progress shots there over time so here is the link http://notimestudios.deviantart.com/

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The overview of Dionne

simsample

Wow, this looks very impressive! Did you make the CC yourself?

I love the sunsets! The whole world has a very busy feel to it, will you be flagging it as a city?

x_mynameisangel

This is super cool!

Verbaltee99

Thanks

@simsample
The CC isn't my own. The bridges are from Moria and the DT is from Nukael. I'm also using Jynx's rabbithole rugs and doors and maybe some small things here and there that add to the ambiance of Dionne. I will be flagging it as a city. I've tried on various test versions and haven't ran into many problems. I had one but I don't think it effected the world at all since it only occurred in one version.

Verbaltee99

Bump.

simsample

Ah yes, I recognise Nukael's DT now, I converted that to be a world object once.

Do you have any more pictures? I'd love to see more!

Damienf519

Verbaltee99,

Looks like Dionne is going to be a very big city. You should have a some empty lots or some lots with empty buildings so people can update it for future expansion packs.

Verbaltee99

~~~~~~~ Picture Set 2 ~~~~~~~

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I just really like the view from the bridge. It’s also a good shot because it shows the slope of the beach


One of the 3 mansions located in the exclusive Vista Point neighbourhood. I haven’t decided on who lives here yet but so far its either going to be a level 7 or 8 athlete or a high level singer


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Just a picture of a construction site, or at least the scaffolding for a new building

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The Louis Kahn Building, part of the university in Dionne. The building is based on Louis Khan’s design for the Salk Institute

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The club from the other day, just from another angle that shows it off better. The club in question is the one with the red sign and is called Rot, the building with the white front is The Garden Club and the blue one is The Blue Cazuela


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My version of the Water Cube from the Beijing Olympics. It’s almost done so I might upload it to somewhere so others can use it in their game


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Sorgente Tower, the tallest structure in Dionne. I haven’t really decided on what to use it as, I’m thinking I might make it a Jack of all trades building and have different versions of it to use for whatever


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Not really showing off much here, just a shot I liked really

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The City Hall for Dionne

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Another shot that I liked and wanted to share

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The exterior of Lei Ping’s Moonlit Courtyard, a fusion club started by Ms Ping in the 80s. The building in black is one of those Easter eggs that I was talking about in the first post



The city at night, it is coming along quite nice. I uploaded a version of this to da where I made it black and white and applied that miniature model kind of look to it. Here is the link http://notimestudios.deviantart.com/#/d4q31bk


To answer you question Damienf519, way ahead of you buddy. Their is a reason as to why there are going to be quite a lot of constuction sites in Dionne, and its not just for story,

Verbaltee99

Bump

Verbaltee99

Guys comments please, even if its as simple as 'It looks good' or 'I don't like it' or as complex as a whole paragraph detailing what you like/dislike so far and want to see. I care and respect what you guys and girls have to say so don't be shy.

estyle36

Hi VT!

I think it looks amazing!!!
I'm not a big fan of cities when i'm looking for worlds to download, but you really got the urban touch here :shock: !

I'm looking forward to more pics.

eStyle

SmileBeHappy7

So Amazing... :shock:

I would love to play in this world :!: Will you upload it oneday?

hugzandpipes1

Wow, really, it's shaping up beautifully.

x_mynameisangel

WOW!
I love what you've come up with so far! Keep working on it!:D

Verbaltee99

Hi,

I've been really busy with life and stuff for the past month so I haven't had much time to do any work on Dionne but I've finally found time now so I'm gonna be doing some updates with pictures soon, thought I would just tell you why I was M.I.A. from my post for a bit.

ALSO

I've hit a little snag involving the use of CC. Originally I was going to use very minimal CC; just some roof recolours, neon letters and the CAW objects I used. However, recently Sandy from ATS3 has made these amazing sets which lets you buy food food. Like you can buy cakes, sandwiches, burgers, etc. and I and really like them. The thing is if I use them I'm going to be more willing to use her other sets that will be really useful for making Dionne a unique experience. I only wanted to use a small amount of CC originally because I figured people would be more willing to download since there isn't really much and I can combine it into one easy file (with permission from the original creators of course). Using Sandy's objects though will increase that amount by a lot because well she has lots of really useful things.

So here is my question, will you feel discouraged to download Dionne if I use her objects on top of the ones that I was originally planning to use?

cadorno12

I like what I see. If you are really flagging it as a "city" I would download it today.

Verbaltee99

cadorno12 wrote:

I like what I see. If you are really flagging it as a "city" I would download it today.

I would have but at the moment I've lost everything cause I had a hard drive file. I've got a really old backup on a usb. I'm going to try and get the file recovered off my broken hard drive but I plan on starting a new world which is more of an updated Dionne that will have more of the things that I wanted to put in the original.

Verbaltee99

For those still following Dionne, I got a call from my computer tech yesterday asking me when he can come over to give me my data back. It's 100% successful recovery and I'm so happy. So the guy is coming around on Monday to give me the data back so expect an actual update to Dionne soon ^^.

korset

i love cities only worlds i download
&&
i seen some of the edible food cc they look good. i for one wouldn't mind

princess0384

This is amazing.

thetideschanging

Wow! This world is so beautiful! I love the look of the custom skyscrapers . It's also beautifully detailed.

aeonfluxx75

I sincerely hope you're still working or planning on uploading Dionne City because it is gorgeous and I am dying to play this world :!: It's exactly what I've been scouring the internet and forums for. Fabulous work

Verbaltee99

aeonfluxx75 wrote:

I sincerely hope you're still working or planning on uploading Dionne City because it is gorgeous and I am dying to play this world :!: It's exactly what I've been scouring the internet and forums for. Fabulous work

Thanks for your support. I'm still working on Dionne, its just being a bit slow cause its so big.

Writin_Reg

Verbaltee - as pretty much one of the people who will not ever download a world with CC I can tell you first hand once you stated there was ANY CC I lost interest as I have been on the side of testing worlds with CC in them and in the midst of it all EA ups and changes some key code that affected the CC. The first time this was only build CC too and it was all based off of EA's content and meshes like window sets that matched, and doors - things like that and it wasn't excessive. No odd things that aren't even in the game like ships and things, but they simply extended build content so things matched nicely. The thing is I knew the content, as this same creator had built content for Sims 2 that I always used without any hassles. So I felt it was based on EA's exact work, and meshes, and colors even - how could it go wrong? The EA changed some code - it was a small change really but there was some space along certain doors and windows where you could see outside, so EA patched it so you no longer saw the space - So here a bunch of us was testing this lovely new world and started getting small errors at first - then outright crashing to desktop next. Several of us figured it was the windows and doors, but when we tried to remove them they would not remove from the world - we got the "this item has dependencies and cannot be removed". So the creator said he would fix it. In the meantime we went to remove the world from our games and wait for the next version to test and found out it would not uninstall. It ended up that the testers had to uninstall all our games, clean our registries and then reinstall everything to finally be rid of that content. I said then and there - never again. So sometimes when code is changed it turns innocent CC into a ragged beast. Oh and it only takes one lousy piece of CC to do it - so even if you said just 1 item, those of us that has been through the downside of CC, will not only not download a world that has CC in it, we won't test that world either. Because we had the same exact thing happen with a world with just 1 window and 1 door in it from a totally different creator who was not even aware there was any CC in his world as he had volunteers who made a lot of his houses and community lots, and had told them no CC. But 1 single house had a door and a window that did the same exact things.

1 item going bad made the blue lot issue and there is no fixing that save ever. It has to be discarded. On top of it, it started spreading to other saves that was on your system.

The evil doll, an innocent childs toy made by a very talented and extremely nice creator at TSR since Sims 2 - it went bad and became like a virus. EA went ballistic when it was getting onto the exchange (it actually broke the exchange several times) and doing all kinds of things and actually went so far as to post a sticky that anyone uploading a house with that doll in it on the exchange would be perma banned. A few were as they had no idea.

So 1 item is all it takes for us that know what CC can turn into no matter how talented the creator is, have already dismissed any thoughts of downloading your world from the first few lines.

But do not let this discourage you at all - I am only telling you because you are worried that telling people there is more than a little CC will keep them from downloading - it won't. Those who have never had those experiences will download the world if they like it - you will have plenty of people who will. It is mainly those of us who know better and have been in those situations that had already decided from the first few line we would not be the least bit interested in ever downloading it. The amount of CC is not the issue - the fact any is there is the issue to us. Just so you understand. There are many world I love the looks of and even wished I could try, but won't because it has some CC. Users cannot remove CC in a world that is good CC. We have to remove the world period, so it is a waste of our time. If it goes bad, sometime we can't even remove the world without a complete uninstall. That's when I get mad. But not at the creator - at myself for downloading it - if I had done it after knowing there was CC. As you never know when EA is going to change code. If siimer made content without using EA meshes - there would be less chance of this happening - but fact is they use EA meshes and just alter it. That is the biggest problem.

But I often do enjoy looking at all creations, especially when as well done as yours is appearing to. I do like to watch it's developement as I do appreciate good art and obviously a good eye, and tons of talent. I just won't down load it as I have learned the lesson. When it goes bad if it was just as simple as removing the world it probably wouldn't be so bad - but unfortunately it is never that easy. In my case it takes me all day and part of another if I have to uninstall/reinstall. I own all the sps, eps and all the store but may 15 outfits and the new Greenhouse. I haven't got that yet. But will. So it is no easy task - especially if EA has recently recoded like they did with EP and the CAS stuff. I see all the pcs crashing and know why. Of course many will blame it on the ep. But I can assure you the game has not ran better once we installed the new ep.