So I've recently purchased Midnight Hallow almost exclusively for the Savy Sellers set which is no longer available alone and hopped in to play the town a bit. I've grown quite fond of the town - the set up, the changes I've made in a few places, the people. The one thing I am having a really hard time with is the gloomy appearance of the whole town (yes I know, what did I expect? Well I'll tell you what, I didn't expect to like the people and set up so darned much! hehe) but I'm having a really hard time with the bleakness and dirt grey everything is. While I could tediously go through every lot and change the grass color, foliage, and brightness of the build objects, this will only address the actual lots. I'd imagine it would end up looking like a grey and green patchwork quilt. I was hoping someone might be able to point me towards perhaps a beautified Midnight Hallow that I could just transplant folks to?
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midnight hollow had trees,flowers,ect that are kinda dreary looking in the world and the lighting mod wouldn't really change that part
I didn't like how dark the town is either, I finally ended up taking all the families I liked with their houses, which are kind of unique and transplanted them into Sunset Valley. I made the new town much brighter but tried to use rabbit holes and other commercial buildings that fit the theme that were from Moonlight Falls or Dragon Valley so the town wasn't so dark when it was finished.
MemoriiValentine, exactly
If you're interested, try Googling those mods. I believe they're both hosted on sites that require registration (free).
I may look into that, and the lighting one(ESPECIALLY the lighting one), myself. Midnight Hollow is a very hard place to build in because it is so dark even at midday that it is hard to see many of the pieces/details you are working with.
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Sure it takes a bit of time but afterwards you can play your fixed version forever.
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That is true . I suppose the right default replacement for the world might help. You could always take them out if you want it dark again
Changing the color of the grass and replacing the trees and plants really makes a difference.
I don't mind spending (a lot of) time on redoing houses, I usually redo them anyway and it can seem pretty daunting but the results are amazing.
Daytime with the two mods I use and removing some of the black trees (no lighting mod)
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I had always played with the windows (Vista/8) fullscreen bug that makes the Sims game darker. I have always had to add buydebug lighting, and turn up my monitor's gamma just to see when building in normally bright EA worlds. Midnight Hollow has never been playable for me as I can't even see mid day, but looking at this picture (with no lighting mod) it appears to be less dark for some users. Are you on a Mac? The problem I had with the world was once I did lighten it up with a lighting mod, and tree replacements the terrain painting without the darkness looked very silly. I wish there was a way to only install a world's objects as a set. I had the same problem with Dragon Valley, it was simply too dark to see anything. At least it looked okay with a lighting mod. I guess I should give MH another look now that I'm on Windows 10.
I haven't had the dark screen bug since upgrading windows, but I thought I would mention it in case others who dismissed the world might want to give it another look. I don't have a good example screenshot of it but I found this one via google. Thanks, it's great that it's that bright on Windows 10, I will definitely have to give it another look soon. That is a great tip about the game profile, I usually let the NVIDIA manage my settings for me but I may set up a profile manually too.
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Lol, have fun with that!
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Do you have much experience with the Savvy Seller collection? I was just coming here to post a question about it lol