I have just started to build and share on the gallery with my first lot, and I have a few questions that I hope someone could help me out with. I noticed that when I look at my lot details in the gallery, it says "Original by:CSM_Persona". Also my lot was named Sunflower Cottage Starter. Yet when I do a search under "starter" my lot does not come up! Lastly, whenever I pull up the gallery to community uploads, it's always the same lots/sims. Does not matter if I check off recent. or the last seven days etc. It's always the same lots/sims just shuffled around. Don't new lots ever show up?
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I have a feeling the Gallery isn't quite working as it should yet, but maybe someone can enlighten us.
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That is some good info. Does it say the id it was originally modified from? I like that it knows so the original builder doesn't get discredited, but once bulldozed it should remember that too.
It does tag a lot downloaded with the original creator, so if you are making an entirely original creation, it is best to only rebuild on Maxis lots.
As far as the searching for hashtags goes...you have to make sure you are in the community tab and then the ALL catagory and it will give you results. It is a bit confusing...I had a hard time initially and would have sworn it was glitched until I realized I wasnt in the right area...lol.
Thank you so much Ruthless!! I really appreciate you answering and letting me know how to upload and use the gallery!!
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If I bulldoze all the lots at once and save it as a new save (I have a saved game just for builds) can I then overwrite those lots without a new save to get rid of the "Original by CSM persona"?
I would so love a construction neighborhood...one that had blank lots that you could just click on and build.
Sorry, don't get me wrong, but I don't understand this. Maybe I just have to try, but what do you mean by save and overwrite? I just started building on one of the empty lots. Or will I get that options when I save after working on an existing build?
If I remember this correctly (as I have only done it once) this is a option that pops up when you are done with the lot and upload to gallery. Somone please correct me if I am wrong.
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Sorry, I am wrong, that's what I was thinking because she said "when you are building". That screen does come up when you save to library or upload to gallery (I also only did this once so I forgot). Hope I didn't make things more confusing. That probably is what she's talking about. UGH! I'm a mess.
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Thank you simbody for verifying that for us! It gets a little confusin with all the new things we need to learn.
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I think the confusion has been cleared up but to be sure.....
When you save to your library after having bulldozed an EA/Maxis lot, choose save new. Then the creation will show as your own.
When you save to your library after having made changes to someone else's lot, choose overwrite. That gives the original person proper credit but shows you changed it and allows the lot to show on your Gallery page.