BrazenLotus

Recipes

 Sorry to bombard everyone with so many posts today lol 

How important is it for the objects you use in your recipe (like the tray you grab from the fridge or the food inside the frying pan) to accurately reflect what you are making?

The recipes we have in game refer to the same sets of objects, like the generic fruit board and the generic apple chopping on the cutting board. I know it irritates me a bit to see that, especially when I'm using specific ingredients for a recipe b...

That Stove We Talked About...

Homesteading

So the only way that makes sense to do a wood burning stove that requires wood is to recreate all the recipes in game to require wood as an ingredient. Then I'd have to go through and edit ALL the menu tuning for each serving under the stove and make it so only THAT stove can use those recipes.

The issue with this is that it's going to need to be updated frequently and under each recipe menu.

I think the only way to make this work without adding a ton of extra...

Personal Update

I just wanted to let you all know that you probably won't hear from me on Thursday and Friday. I have surgery Thursday morning and I'm sure I'll be out of it for a day or two if all goes well. If it turns out to be a difficult procedure I'll likely be down closer to a week. It shouldn't be more than a days hospital stay though so I'll be on bed rest when I get home until I'm healed. The great thing about that is my laptop will work perfectly from the bed lol ;) If I end up on bed rest f...

Display Magazine Rack

So I THOUGHT I was done yesterday but then remembered we had talked about adding these magazine racks too. There are angled slots so you can put any thin books on here and set them for sale. If you don't set them for sale Sims will grab them to read and kind of leave them hanging around so keep that in mind. I'm working on some magazines to clutter this up and give some small skill boosts and/or moodlets.

Books!

Alright I'm 98% sure I got them all. Can you believe there's not a single duplicate here? 

I'm gonna make some deco books and stacks and this is done, phew! 

Herbs

So for the spices and teas originally my plan was to create a recipe that will pour onto the counter and create a bowl with a pile of herbs in it. This would allow you would have the option to sell the bowl of herbs on a retail lot and create a spice stall for your farmers market. 

When you click on the bowl you can choose to 'Separate into Jars' which will put 5 bottles of that herb in your inventory. Each of these can be used as an ingredient in food/drink recipes and will provide a cha...

Bookstore

So last night I swear I had figured out the tuning to get these book variations to work properly as displays. I put the tuning in to all the multi-cover books and loaded it up today only to find none of them working properly. I almost thought for a moment I must have dreamed it or something because I literally spent ALL DAY today trying to get it to work again.

At some point this afternoon while playing around in live mode I realized it was actually working the WHOLE TIME. I guess when you're ...

Insider Perks

To help me know what to focus on, tell me which perk is most important to you! 

VIP Perks

To help me know what to focus on, tell me which perk is most important to you!

Brainstorming - Aspiration & Skill #2 + Aspiration #3

Homesteading

Alright, once I've completed the first Aspiration and Skill for Preserving I'd like to work on one of the following. There'll be a poll at the bottom and you all can vote on it. Keep in mind when you vote, I'll probably only do one of these. I think by the time I finish a second set I'll be burnt out and ready to move on to something else lol.

Pro Survivalist Aspiration & Survivalist Trait

• Forage - I'll add interacti...
  2018-04-18 02:38:45 +0000 UTC View Post

Brainstorming - Aspiration & Skill #1

Homesteading

I think this group will have to be done first as I'm trying to incorporate the preserving skill on a low level into the next two aspirations I'll post. Please note that anything below could change depending on how well it flows together or if I can make them happen tuning-wise.

Self-Sufficient Aspiration #1:

Bonus: Faster Skills or Skill Boost when in certain emotion

Perfect Preserver:

• Milestone I - ...
  2018-04-17 18:27:34 +0000 UTC View Post

Garden Sprinkler 2.0

Well I couldn't get everything I wanted working with these but I'm satisfied with it for now. These sprinklers are cheaper, water about a 3x3 area, and have an interaction for your sims to play in them.

They're automatic, so they run at specific times during the day starting at 4 and coming on about every 5 hours or so. Sims will receive a playful buff if they've played in them long enough, and sims with certain traits or moods won't be able to play in them at all. 

Sims have a chan...

Ugh...

I really need to not get so overzealous next time I'm making a mod. I have to separate the interactions I made for the sprinkler because they do this circular reference thing that I can't figure out how to fix.

You live you learn.

I wanted to have this for you all today which might still happen, just later tonight. 

Wish me luck, I need it!

Final Contenders

Homesteading 

I'm almost done laying out the aspirations, traits, and objects I've put together with all of our ideas, and boy I went kinda crazy with it lol.

So I've come up with like 8 aspirations, 6 skills, 2 traits, and a ton of objects/recipes. I've put them into groups based on what's included in them so each will be like a mini-set. 

I'm doing it this way because although it's great to have a new object/mod in the game I like things to be ...

Sprinklers ALMOST done

I forgot to add some interactions for pets so here they are. You can also see a few of the buffs I added - I may change the icon and descriptions at some point. 

Somewhere along the way I messed up the on/off, auto on/auto off interactions so once I fix those THEN I'll upload it. I went overboard with this a bit but I think it'll add some extras to make being out in the garden a little more interesting ;)

Eat Harvestable Fills More Hunger

I talked with Zylria a bit about this mod to help out with her Grassroots challenge specifically, but really this really can be used for any challenge that requires you to start from almost nothing.

This will fill your hunger bar more when you eat any harvestable, base game or custom. I wanted to make it higher but not too cheaty so it doesn't fill it the same amount as a prepared dish. I figured a salad should have like 3 harvestables in it as ingredients so I took the hunger fill number of t...

Kids Clutter

I'm almost finished separating stuff from the My First Pets pack, there really wasn't a whole lot there. As usual I'm juggling like 5 projects, switching through them as I start to get frustrated or bored with the previous project lol. 

I also started messing around with the new geostate feature in S4Studio and I'm SO excited to use it. You can see above I've started to separate the 'buildem' blocks from the activity table. 

This animation is MUCH better

I learned how to convert the play in puddle animations to todders but it was way too animated. The good thing though is now that I know how to do it, I'd like to try to see if I can make some animations and tuning to allow children to garden.  

Oh, and don't freak out about all the puddles and people playing in them. If you don't want this to happen you can just set the sprinkler to it's auto setting (30 minutes on and 4 hours off - completely shuts off at night and starts up again during...

Omg you guys

I just taught myself how to make and transfer custom animations.

Woot Woot!

:P

Ooookay....

I think I need to fix the animation lol

Preliminary Brainstorm

Homesteading! 

Okay, before I'm off to pickup my brother I wanted to put this out there to see what you all thought of a Homesteading Pack/Set. I'm shifting gears from the Farmers Market set I was working on because I'm confident that EA is either working on something similar, or working on something that's going to make me have to completely rework anything I create.

I'd like to get some ideas from you all on what you'd like to see and maybe some different...

Lookee What I Found!

I know...you guys are probably like "Why does she hop around so much on her projects all the time?" ADD I guess lol.

Anyway I found these half finished in one of my Mods folders. I added some of the hidden colors pbox found, gave them no backsplash, and added a BUTT TON of slots. I also de-cluttered everything and added textures for the islands that match the hidden colors for the cabinets and counters. 

Maybe I'll wrap these up while my brother is visiting... 😊

Some News...

My brother is flying into town tomorrow so you may notice I'm a bit quieter on here for the next week. Not to say I won't be working on stuff, it just may be a couple of days before you all hear from me.

I figured I'll probably continue planning the new set we started brainstorming. This would probably be a good time to work on the more repetitive (less creative) stuff like updating what's left of my older sets and cleaning out my mods folder. 

I just wanted to give you all a heads ...

This is what my lot looks like...

...when I get super inspired from brainstorming a new project lol 😁

I've had a couple of great suggestions from patrons so far and now I'm looking into making this 2 sets instead of one. The first would be the museum set itself with modular displays and labels for the cabinets, walls, and floors. Also I've added a TON of display bases that will function with everything from paintings to mannequins. I need to decide how I'm going to make the display cubes work - I'll be posting a poll about ...

Brainstorming Time!

As I'm making the different display versions from the LaneCo Curators Cabinet I keep thinking of other stuff to add. Here's what I've got so far:

Museum Mini-Set

• Plaques
• Wall stickers - historical stuff like places and culture
• Wall stickers - info sheets
• Full length display - to fit mannequins
• Glass Wall display - for historical wall stickers and flat stuff
• Gem/small stones display
• Pedestal display - for outdoor...
  2018-03-28 01:17:13 +0000 UTC View Post

106 Ancient Artifact Variations...

I'm not sure if all of these are accessible through normal gameplay but holy cow that's a lot of objects!!!

Now I just need to finish those displays so there are plenty of places to put all of these :)

Artifact Unlocks - Masks

Well I finally settled on a way to make these buyable. Unfortunately they take up a ton of space in the catalog because the game won't let me group them together with multiple swatches for some reason. For that reason, I've left them in buydebug under sculptures.

Now on to the rest!

Those Foundations

Make the cutest planters!!!

My First Foundation!

Omg and it matches so well I can't believe I figured it out!!! It has one swatch for every color of the basic stone walls. Now I just have to figure out how to add a thumbnail swatch... 🤔

Placeable Ancient Artifacts

So I figured out how to make these placeable in game from the dirt clumps. I know people wanted these to put in their builds, particularly their museum builds. I even altered the pricing a bit so that the common and uncommon versions aren't worth as much as the rares. 

The only issue I'm having is that the environment score doesn't change for a higher quality item like it should. The score should...