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feetinstockings
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I was thinking about the gallery, we have a lot of great lots on there and I often download houses and venues, it's so much quicker. But yesterday I was filling up Newcrest so I was downloading a lot. it took me hours because I had to tweak every one of them.
Do you tweak your downloads??
I thought it would be a great idea to post pics of before and after. remembering to give a thank you to the original designer. I don't have any before or after pics but I will later this evening as I plan to download a few more.
so if you have them lets see you're before and after pics.
Do you tweak your downloads??
I thought it would be a great idea to post pics of before and after. remembering to give a thank you to the original designer. I don't have any before or after pics but I will later this evening as I plan to download a few more.
so if you have them lets see you're before and after pics.
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Sadly I'm on vacation so I can't share any pictures
first I had to delete the basement, my game doesn't work well with basements, the lot keeps jumping with any basement, I basically left the front as it was, I just moved a few plants and pulled some walls out at the side.
front
back I left alone its so pretty
ground floor
top floor
please lets see your renovations or tweaks.
thank you, that's my renovation of the original. I like my sims homes simple and easy to play without too much clutter.
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You could just save them to your computer and not upload to the gallery.
I don't usually download anything, I mostly build my own. But I often wonder about the life and the story that unfolds with my builds and what changes are made. I'd love to see what people do with my builds.
A couple of examples of me tweaking and renovating my Sims' houses over time are these:
This is the first house that my Sims ever lived in, in the save that I made back when GT was released; 16.5k Garden Tudor, created by TheOakSpade.
I imagined that it burned down, so the brother and sister that lived there went elsewhere. But "years" down the road, the brother, Austin Fowler, returned with his fiancé, and they rebuilt the house together. This is it now, and they live there with their two growing children. I redid the entire interior and added a basement.
This next one, I unfortunately couldn't track down the original creator of. (They're not even in the tag upon trying to save the lot anymore.) I also had never originally downloaded this build, but rather just placed it. But thanks to memory and screenshots, I was able to rebuild the house the best I could from when I first started using it.
I placed this house when I found a randomly generated townie that I really liked and wanted to play; his name was Tory Frost and he was a Mixologist. I moved him in here, because it was perfect for a single Sim who didn't have a whole lot of Simoleons.
Now after getting married (to the sister of Austin Fowler, Addison
I can't say the same for the house I upload though. I hope people change the interiors since I mostly use the premade designs. I get so into building, I'm too pooped to really decorate.
Sometimes I tweak them quite heavily, other times it's minor.
I suck at interesting building shapes and layouts, so I mainly download for that, and redecorate how I want.
funny how we have different views of someone else's designs. if I really like the download after I have tweaked it I'll upload it to my gallery, just for me. as I wouldn't want someone saying that I stole it. how can I steal something that was put up to be used.
@DevilNDisguise they are brilliant and so pretty. The first one reminds me of a real house in Ipswich England called Christ church mansion. go look at it http://www.cimuseums.org.uk/Christchurch-Mansion
my hubby and I used to visit it regularly. it was and is open to the public.
love your second house to.
why should someone get mad if we upload a re designed house or lot that they originally made. surely once its been changed the new updated version is ours and we should be able to share it without someone saying we stole it.
This is exactly what I mean. I have seen some posts that claim that it is stealing to put things in your gallery that are not made exclusively by you. I want to be able to put things that I changed there to keep them for future use. I guess I can put them on my computer somewhere else to use them, but really my gallery is sort of my saving place, as my library goes away if I have to re-do. I always give credit to the original poster and explain what I changed. I feel as you do, once you put them on the gallery you are giving them away to someone else to use. I really like to go into the gallery get the sims I like and take off all the cc and put in the stuff that is in game. I have nothing against cc and I do use it, but I do like to have either my own cc that I have collected or the game stuff on my sims. We are not charging for the stuff in the gallery it is free for the taking. If it were copyrighted then that is different. It is not copyrighted and it belongs to EA once it goes on the gallery, and EA does not seem to care if we change it and redo it. As you feel I am using it, I am not claiming to have made it, it is not copyrighted, so I feel I am good. I may just go ahead and put my favorite ones on the gallery and let the chips fall where they may!
I also agree, why I NEVER share my Sims on the gallery because my Sims are all special to me.
Good idea not to share them if you feel that they are not "yours" once you share them. (I respect that and you help me to not feel like a leper for redoing them, thanks for that ) Do you feel it would be stealing to give credit to the original creator when you change the sim? I make quilts and I sometimes use the traditional patterns that were passed down from generations, but the way I put the patterns together are my creation, and in that vain I say they are mine. Just like the stuff on the gallery, most of the sims have the same facial features for the different shapes of the face and the options that we have, changing them around to your "pattern" seems the same to me.
No, I don't feel it is stealing if you change a sim. Once it's on the gallery you give people a right to do what they'd like with the Sim. That's how I view it anyways. If I did post a Sim on the gallery, I would be cool with people doing whatever they want with that Sim.
If simmers feel an attachment to their sims or their builds then they shouldn't upload them.