The nearest I could place the lots is a square appart, I can try to match your platform paint in-between but there is still a 1 tile gap. I can look for some sort of decor to stick between them. What do you have sticking out of the front, is a fence piece?
@Sandraelle , I'm happy that you (and any others) can help answer questions that come up.
So everyone... we haven't yet chatted about what to assign the train cars. Starting with the VSOE... the dining cars will be restaurants. The bar car some kind of hangout I guess? What about the sleepers. Any thoughts?
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The sleepers could be base camps or hangouts, or some type of community lot types that don't have closing hours. Or they could be residential as a vacation home lot? I don't think the dorm lot type is allowed in a non-uni world.
@suzses , your car is looking so beautiful... and surprisingly so very spacious. Great idea of having a base camp for a potential vacation world.
By the way... the car base you're using has the exterior colours for the VSOE. Sandy is working on exterior patterns for the other two cars including the Britsh Pullman which you're designing. Once they are available, you can just copy over the patterns to your car
Excited to see more WIPs. On that note... do folks think we should start a separate linked thread for decor WIPs or stay together in thiss thread?
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@soocoolsim I can do British Pullman Minerva, too.
Looking for pictures of the Royal Scotsman dining cars and can't tell what's what yet (Raven or Swift). I did see that Swift doesn't have a kitchen IRL, but thinking we should have kitchens in both since separate lots? Anyway, I'm thinking I can do one of these, but would like to see what I'm committing to first. I see the pic in your first link of one that appears to have dark green upholstery on dining chairs - that appeals. Little worried about coming up with something for the wall art I see.
Thanks. Added you to the list for Minerva @suzses . Yes, I couldn't tell either re the Royal Scotsman dining cars. I'll just reference the upholstery instead. The second link shows one in brown/gold and the other as red. However I goggled and found a pic of one in green. So... since you like the green, I'll add that one to your name and the other dining room would be a choice between the other two colours.
Yeah, trying to match stuff does require thinking outside the box I've discovered
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@suzses , your car is looking so beautiful... and surprisingly so very spacious. Great idea of having a base camp for a potential vacation world.
By the way... the car base you're using has the exterior colours for the VSOE. Sandy is working on exterior patterns for the other two cars including the Britsh Pullman which you're designing. Once they are available, you can just copy over the patterns to your car
Excited to see more WIPs. On that note... do folks think we should start a separate linked thread for decor WIPs or stay together in thiss thread?
Thanks Yes, I was surprised how roomy it is. I do know I don't have the right base car yet, so I was just "practicing" and saving my recolors to do over, but copying in the patterns might be easier.
I'm happy keeping everything here, unless it becomes too hard for you/others to keep track of things?
Since your dining car will be the front car (and assuming you removed the one door on one end), then the end without the door would be on the right side, which will follow the engine car. (Just chiming in for Paula again ... )
Thanks @Sandraelle. Lucky me, I picked the right direction so probably won't have to redo more than the outside wallpaper.
Since your dining car will be the front car (and assuming you removed the one door on one end), then the end without the door would be on the right side, which will follow the engine car. (Just chiming in for Paula again ... )
Thanks @Sandraelle. Lucky me, I picked the right direction so probably won't have to redo more than the outside wallpaper.
@Jessabeans, the world looks amazing with the trains all lined up.
@soocoolsim, I'm ok with keeping everything in this thread, but I'm also ok with having a separate thread. What help am I? lol
The sleeper car designation sounds like a tricky one: Would the lot have to have a kitchen if it was designated a vacation home (which it won't have)? And if it's a community hangout, wouldn't it have to have a juice bar or food register, or can it still be designated hangout without all the bar stuff? And yeah, dorm is out since that's just for Uni.
@Jessabeans , thanks so much for the screenshots. The train looks so great! Rox used a roof decor object... I can’t remember what’s it’s called but it needs a tile to place so not sure will work in CAW. At both ends of the car should be the Fire Be Gone decor object. Can you place any residential object directly in the world?
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@Jessabeans , thanks so much for the screenshots. The train looks so great! Rox used a roof decor object... I can’t remember what’s it’s called but it needs a tile to place so not sure will work in CAW. At both ends of the car should be the Fire Be Gone decor object. Can you place any residential object directly in the world?
It does, I think the train is going to look so wonderful when it's all done.
Oh it's a shame it's a roof object, she's recolored it then? If I can use a decor object, I'm stuck with it's default coloring. There's a user modified version of CAW, 'superCAW' that has more tools and decor objects unlocked. I can use it but it's far less stable so I use it sparingly, I typically only load the world in SuperCAW to place items and effects I couldn't otherwise, place a pond, or to change the neighbourhood type.
In CAW anything anything but lots, I can move and rotate it around on a XYZ axis but the lots must be placed on the world grid. They don't need to be connected to roads or paths, and the grid can be rotated so they can be lined up at different angles but I'm still pretty limited with how close they can be placed together. I can't place objects onto lots but I can place the objects first, redraw the lot and replace the lot onto it. It takes a little finagling.
I'll look at roof pieces and see if I can find it. Is it one the chinese roof extensions? It will be it's default color, brown I think but I could try it. I tried rotating fence posts but I couldn't find a black one.
Just a suggestion, if we are keeping one thread, it might make it easier to keep track of the thread if we finish the trains first and discuss the lots for the world after. I can update and ask questions about it elsewhere and then we can switch focus to lots for it after the train cars are finished.
@Jessabeans , it’s called The Roof’s End by Roof Akcents but unfortunately the default is wood tone.
If you can lower objects, perhaps the Central Air Cube vent might work? The second default colour is black. ($45 under Misc decor)
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Lol @BreeMiles , you wouldn’t get lost if I do a good enough job.
Ok so far, it seems we’re staying with the one thread to include WIPs and decor chatter. Once everyone has completed their lot for the first train, we can circle back on the best way to showcase them.
Everyone, I forgot to add something in the design notes earlier... When recolouring the sides of the train, please leave the front and back indented section full blue ‘as is’. Thanks
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@Jessabeans , it’s called The Roof’s End by Roof Akcents but unfortunately the default is wood tone.
If you can lower objects, perhaps the Central Air Cube vent might work? The second default colour is black. ($45 under Misc decor)
Sadly no, it only has it's first preset color. I'll keep checking for something when I get back this evening.
The Urban Chainlink Fence Post would likely work the best shape wise but it's rust colored.
I found a couple of streetlamps that are darker silver but I'll have to play around and see what will work.
There's a train track switch, it's possible I could float it between the lots so it looks like a train car connector.
Thanks for participating @BreeMiles . I hope you had fun! Looking forward to seeing your creation. Do feel free to claim any additional lots now or later on. I’ll wait to see if @romagi1 has access to a file sharing site to get your file to @Jessabeans for inclusion in the world.
On that note... I was anticipating folks would upload their lot to the Sims 3 Exchange for others to download and add to their game as well. All the train lots don’t need to be exclusive to the world since final availability could be quite a while away. We could set a target date for completion of the VSOE lots (Jan 30?, earlier?) and if preferred we can wait to upload nearer to the deadline. Thoughts everyone?
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There's a train track switch, it's possible I could float it between the lots so it looks like a train car connector.
The switch looks like a pretty good option once rotated. Can you add back the missing Fire Be Gone at the end of the roof decor on the train to see everything would line up together?
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The nearest I could place the lots is a square appart, I can try to match your platform paint in-between but there is still a 1 tile gap. I can look for some sort of decor to stick between them. What do you have sticking out of the front, is a fence piece?
I tried a bollard
So everyone... we haven't yet chatted about what to assign the train cars. Starting with the VSOE... the dining cars will be restaurants. The bar car some kind of hangout I guess? What about the sleepers. Any thoughts?
Let’s keep in touch on Answers HQ until the new EA forums are launched in July!
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@suzses , your car is looking so beautiful... and surprisingly so very spacious. Great idea of having a base camp for a potential vacation world.
By the way... the car base you're using has the exterior colours for the VSOE. Sandy is working on exterior patterns for the other two cars including the Britsh Pullman which you're designing. Once they are available, you can just copy over the patterns to your car
Excited to see more WIPs. On that note... do folks think we should start a separate linked thread for decor WIPs or stay together in thiss thread?
Let’s keep in touch on Answers HQ until the new EA forums are launched in July!
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Thanks. Added you to the list for Minerva @suzses . Yes, I couldn't tell either re the Royal Scotsman dining cars. I'll just reference the upholstery instead. The second link shows one in brown/gold and the other as red. However I goggled and found a pic of one in green. So... since you like the green, I'll add that one to your name and the other dining room would be a choice between the other two colours.
Yeah, trying to match stuff does require thinking outside the box I've discovered
Let’s keep in touch on Answers HQ until the new EA forums are launched in July!
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Thanks Yes, I was surprised how roomy it is. I do know I don't have the right base car yet, so I was just "practicing" and saving my recolors to do over, but copying in the patterns might be easier.
I'm happy keeping everything here, unless it becomes too hard for you/others to keep track of things?
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Thanks @Sandraelle. Lucky me, I picked the right direction so probably won't have to redo more than the outside wallpaper.
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@soocoolsim, I'm ok with keeping everything in this thread, but I'm also ok with having a separate thread. What help am I? lol
The sleeper car designation sounds like a tricky one: Would the lot have to have a kitchen if it was designated a vacation home (which it won't have)? And if it's a community hangout, wouldn't it have to have a juice bar or food register, or can it still be designated hangout without all the bar stuff? And yeah, dorm is out since that's just for Uni.
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Oh good...so should we mark it hangout then?
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Oh, and separate thread for chit-chat and WIPs and pics could work better.
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Lol it’s a tie... 1 stick with this thread, 1 make a spin-off thread, 1 either way. What would the other designers prefer? Majority vote 😄
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@Jessabeans , thanks so much for the screenshots. The train looks so great! Rox used a roof decor object... I can’t remember what’s it’s called but it needs a tile to place so not sure will work in CAW. At both ends of the car should be the Fire Be Gone decor object. Can you place any residential object directly in the world?
Let’s keep in touch on Answers HQ until the new EA forums are launched in July!
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It does, I think the train is going to look so wonderful when it's all done.
Oh it's a shame it's a roof object, she's recolored it then? If I can use a decor object, I'm stuck with it's default coloring. There's a user modified version of CAW, 'superCAW' that has more tools and decor objects unlocked. I can use it but it's far less stable so I use it sparingly, I typically only load the world in SuperCAW to place items and effects I couldn't otherwise, place a pond, or to change the neighbourhood type.
In CAW anything anything but lots, I can move and rotate it around on a XYZ axis but the lots must be placed on the world grid. They don't need to be connected to roads or paths, and the grid can be rotated so they can be lined up at different angles but I'm still pretty limited with how close they can be placed together. I can't place objects onto lots but I can place the objects first, redraw the lot and replace the lot onto it. It takes a little finagling.
I'll look at roof pieces and see if I can find it. Is it one the chinese roof extensions? It will be it's default color, brown I think but I could try it. I tried rotating fence posts but I couldn't find a black one.
Just a suggestion, if we are keeping one thread, it might make it easier to keep track of the thread if we finish the trains first and discuss the lots for the world after. I can update and ask questions about it elsewhere and then we can switch focus to lots for it after the train cars are finished.
@Jessabeans , it’s called The Roof’s End by Roof Akcents but unfortunately the default is wood tone.
If you can lower objects, perhaps the Central Air Cube vent might work? The second default colour is black. ($45 under Misc decor)
Let’s keep in touch on Answers HQ until the new EA forums are launched in July!
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Lol @BreeMiles , you wouldn’t get lost if I do a good enough job.
Ok so far, it seems we’re staying with the one thread to include WIPs and decor chatter. Once everyone has completed their lot for the first train, we can circle back on the best way to showcase them.
Everyone, I forgot to add something in the design notes earlier... When recolouring the sides of the train, please leave the front and back indented section full blue ‘as is’. Thanks
Let’s keep in touch on Answers HQ until the new EA forums are launched in July!
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Sadly no, it only has it's first preset color. I'll keep checking for something when I get back this evening.
The Urban Chainlink Fence Post would likely work the best shape wise but it's rust colored.
I found a couple of streetlamps that are darker silver but I'll have to play around and see what will work.
There's a train track switch, it's possible I could float it between the lots so it looks like a train car connector.
Thanks for participating @BreeMiles . I hope you had fun! Looking forward to seeing your creation. Do feel free to claim any additional lots now or later on. I’ll wait to see if @romagi1 has access to a file sharing site to get your file to @Jessabeans for inclusion in the world.
On that note... I was anticipating folks would upload their lot to the Sims 3 Exchange for others to download and add to their game as well. All the train lots don’t need to be exclusive to the world since final availability could be quite a while away. We could set a target date for completion of the VSOE lots (Jan 30?, earlier?) and if preferred we can wait to upload nearer to the deadline. Thoughts everyone?
Let’s keep in touch on Answers HQ until the new EA forums are launched in July!
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The switch looks like a pretty good option once rotated. Can you add back the missing Fire Be Gone at the end of the roof decor on the train to see everything would line up together?
Let’s keep in touch on Answers HQ until the new EA forums are launched in July!
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