The story so far
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..
I've recently started work on a new world for the Sims 3, the project name is hope Island, thou the name might change.
I've been working on the world since 10th, with work and family stuff going on, I've made some progress, see what you think so far, all feedback welcome:-
You can still see by the pictures I'm still doing the textures, but you can still see by the last pic on how the final world might look.
update 16/07/10
I've got two new picture of the world to show you:-
You can see the world starting to take shape, of course I still need to finish the textures and add trees and objects.
UPDATE 19/07/10
The next step for this world was to try and get the trains running, here are the pictures of the trains in action:-
Update 20/07/10
The texture for the world are completed
, so here is the final look at the shape of the world:
I'm still tweaking the world colors, but this sunset gets my vote, I love the orange glow
Thou the world does contain some reference to weather, like the water changes to a dark blue when the clouds are overcast, I'm still trying to keep a feeling of realism to the world. The color used here might not be in the final version, I'm trying different colors at the end of every night, the final version will contain my favorite weather and sea colors.
Comments
http://builders.forumotion.net/wip-f7/hope-island-15-07-2010-t941.htm
A one of the key features of this world it will contain a edited moon, sun,stars and contain heat waves from world adventures, the next pic I post, I will show you the heat waves so you can see what the world looks like with them in.
The texture are edited EA textures and some I made myself, the world does not need that many textures, 16 in total, but that's for everything water, grass and mountains, what I did was use a base color, which was sand for the mountains then just highlighted the mountains, with some low quality textures. All the textures used in the world are DDS with DXT 5 compression. Which makes them far less in KB than the EA textures.
At some point I will make a texture pack for release, a least when I get 5 minutes to sort out my folder with all my textures in.
I love it at TS3CC, and I love it here!
Makes me think of an alien world in another galaxy. I think it would be cool to inhabit it with sims created with Jmtmoms, Reptile Skins at GoS.
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Auntielynds, I just was looking for you because I remember that you have links to custom textures on your signature I was looking through all posts to find you, and you just posted your comment here Thank you for links! My old PC died last week with all the world files and textures that I had and I lost everything. It's always helpful when somebody has links like that
Wow, your world looks wonderful, even with just the terrain. I'd love to see it, after you have completed some of you lots.
auntielynds - Thanks for posting the link to the alien sims, I like the idea of having a part of the world a little alien in nature, on the north part of the world, I was thinking about building something to do with a dead culture, perhaps that culture was reptile and perhaps a few still live in the world. I will post a link to the sims in the final upload and work them into the final story about the world, sounds like fun.
white_lily_1988 Many thanks I'm pleased you like the world so far
Damienf519 - Many thanks, I've also enjoyed viewing your town recently,"Las Montañas Rojas ", a nice cowboy town
Miniupdate
I will be having a little break this weekend, but I will be back with a new update soon. The next update will include the animated train pictures, that will be fully working soon.
Thanks. I'm glad you liked my town as well. I was trying to give Las Montañas Rojas a cowboy town look. I'll updated my thread on it, when I'm done, and you can done load it, if you'd like. I think I might also download your world when its complete. You might want to also consider including a saved game file, with some of your own sims, so people don't have to wait for the town to populate itself when they first start playing.
That pic is a test shot in trying to get sims working inside CAW, thou my concerns over this was how well they would save and I had few problems getting them to save during testing, but I do plan to continue to research this, in the hope that the world can be populated by using CAW. But even If I'm successful it still might not happen, due to the total size of the world will increase a great deal, in that case a saved game file will be a good option, also something of note, upon request the actual CAW world file will be available for download.
Tutorial: Pre-populating worlds http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=403303
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auntielynds - That's the first time I've read the tutorial, it's different than the method I was trying to get to work, I made the Sims in cas placed them in a blank lot, extracted all the data from the lot, then loaded in CAW and placed in the same lot without the sims. Then exited CAW and then edited the new lot with the original extracted data. I got this working but would crash out, when I saved the game, so unless I perfect this method or use that tutorial I'm sure upon release I will have some sims ready to be used.
That looks interesting and it might be nice if you could get it to work. However, I never feel comfortable downloading anything that uses a mod, since there are enough problems with the game already.
You know you could just upload a saved game file to a third party site and people could download that separately. Than once they have the map file installed, all they'd have to is move the saved game file to their map folder. That way you might still be able to upload the map to the exchange.
MATZ - Thanks, as for turning the water blue, read this tutorial, it should explain what you need:-
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=388840
You might also wish to read my tutorial over on TS3 CREATORS CONSORTIUM, it will show you how to edit some other things, like the sunset times:-
http://builders.forumotion.net/tutorials-tips-guides-tips-and-help-f35/world-specific-params-files-in-testing-t934.htm
SareBear123 - Thanks for your interest in the world
UPDATE
Got no new pics to show you yet, still working on finishing the terrain, I will hold new pics off until I can show you something new. Making good progress, I'm hoping to have a look at how you can animate the train, but unsure where I will use the train on the map, I'm sure I will work something out.
Many thanks for viewing
I've been busy designing the town area this week, I still need to touch up the area and add trees and other things to this part of the world.