Hello all,
I've decided to spread this week's updated mods a bit, starting with all frog mods today.
I've updated my Animated Frogs - All 25 species, Animated - Placeable Amphibian - Jumping Frog and my Animated - Lily Pad + Swimming Frogs mods.
Below you will find all changed for each updated mod.
Animated Frogs - All 25 species
Catalog:
- It can be found in the new Pond VFX section in ...
As I already mentioned, I will be spreading my updated files for this week.
Starting with all my frog mods today. At the bottom of this post you will find the updated files. Later today I will make the public post which only has the video links.
To see all changes for each mod, take a look right here:
Animated Frogs - All 25 species
Catalog:
- It can be found in the new Pond VFX section in build mode.
- Object's title has been update...
New week, so new updates I'm planning to do.
For this week I'm planning to update more mods that will look good in the new ponds, so think about all frog mods I made. To give some examples, the jumping frog (which disappears either in the ground or in a swimming pool depending on where you place it), the swimming frogs (Lily pads with a swimming frogs vfx attached to it) but also the 25 frog species that can normally be caught to be placed...
Hello everyone,
My second post for today as I've also updated my Animated - Placeable Birds -
Wild Ducks mods
Updates Placeable Wild Duck mods:
- They can be found in the new Pond vfx section in build mode.
- Object's title has been updated with 'Bakie' in front of the title.
- Object's description has been updated to new format.
- Object Thumbnail has been updated with Animated text adjustment.
- Object Thumbn...
Hello everyone,
I've updated my Water Reed + Pond Animals and my Water Reed + Dragonflies &Catch interaction mods
For if you're wondering why you should have these while there're also duck and dragonfly spawners in game now. First of all, my water reed doesn't has those annoying dirt piles around it, which makes them look weird in the middle of the water.
My dragonflies compared to the EA spawner fly higher, further and won't disappear all ...
Hello all,
I've updated my Wild Duck (+Ducklings) mod as well as a small update on the Fish mods (Background colors). I will wait with the frog mod as I first need to know if I'm gonna use one color for all terrain animals or separate colors for different biomes. At the bottom of this post you will find the updated files.
These updates and the water reed objects will be made public probably tomorrow a...
Yesterday when working on updating mods, Icemunmun asked if I could update and send her some animals for the terrarium mod, as she wanted to work on it again. So I've updated the poison dart frogs and tree toad to appear in the Pond vfx section.
When looking at it, I wondered if I could make it more clear whenever a vfx mod was made for ponds/water pools or for terrain. So as the original EA pond vfx items already have a blue-ish water background, I thought maybe I can add something sim...
2021-08-20 10:22:33 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
I've updated both my Water Reed + Pond Animals as well as my Water Reed + Dragonflies vfx + Catch Interaction mods.
At the bottom of this post you will find the updated files.
Updates Water Reed + Pond Animals as well as Water Reed + Dragonflies:
Catalog:
- They can be found in the new Pond items as well as in the Pond vfx section in build mode.
- Objec...
Hello everyone,
I've been really busy with trying to update mods yesterday and today.
Right now both my Water Reed + Pond Animals as well as the Water Reed + Dragonflies + Catch Interaction have been almost fully updated. I need to give them a final check tomorrow and then they will be ready to download here on Patreon for the $3 tier people already.
Besides these two mods, I've also started looking at my placeable frogs mod. And then I'm talki...
2021-08-17 15:03:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
Here my second updated file for this week. This one took a bit more time as there were 12 package files to update.
Updates Animated - Fish Pack 1
- They can be found in the new pond vfx section in build mode.
- Placeable in ponds.
- Object's title has been updated with 'Bakie' in front of the title.
- Object's description has been updated to new format.
- Object Thumbnail has been updated with Animated text adju...
Hello everyone,
I've updated my Water Lilies + Fish vfx (+additonal recolors).
Updates Animated - Waterlilies + Fish vfx
- They can be found in the new pond items + pond fountain + pond vfx sections in build mode, just like all other lilly objects.
- Object's title has been updated with 'Bakie' in front of the title.
- Object's description has been updated to new format.
- Object Thumbnail has been updated with fish under the water lilies and Anim...
Hi all,
Something else today as I wanted to do something different then working on updates all the time and there fore bring back the fun a bit. ;) I decided to play a bit with the new pond tool and ended up with these cool looking multi-level ponds. I made both a more natural looking multi-level pond as well as a more modern one. The modern one also looks great as koi fish pond. I even added a glass fence so our Sims toddlers can't fall in the water.
There is far more...
2021-08-12 13:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
I've updated my entire Animated - Fish Pack 1 and my Waterlilies + Fish vfx.
At the bottom of this post you will find the updated files.
Updates Animated - Fish Pack 1
- They can be found in the new pond vfx section in build mode.
- Object's title has been updated with 'Bakie' in front of the title.
- Object's description has been updated to new format.
- Object Thumbnail has been updated...
Hello all,
I just wanted to give an update on the updating process. It's not going very well..😅
First of all the pond VFX items can't be recreated. There's probably a problem with the in-game code which makes it not possible for modders to create their own visible in build mode and invisible in live mode vfx spawners.
This means that my invisible objects won't be updated to work as the pond vfx spawners, mine will stay invisible in both modes for now. Another problem t...
Hello all,
Just wanted to let you all know that I've updated all my pool waters so they appear in the new pool water section in build mode.
If you're not familiar with any of these pool waters, please watch their info-videos on YouTube, by clicking the links down below. For download links, take a look at the video description on YouTube.
Hello all,
Today I've worked on a few different things. Most of the time I was trying to make the visible in build mode and invisible in live mode object to work. And then the part where it spawns a certain vfx as that's the only (and most important) part that doesn't work at the moment.
So no news about that as I didn't succeed yet unfortunately.
I've also searched through my entire mods folder and moved mods into a separate folder when they need an update, so I have a better ...
2021-08-03 14:54:45 +0000 UTC View PostMy 2 weeks of holidays have just been ended and I'm already getting stressed seeing the amount of mods that needs updating.
Now it's clear that I need to update all my pond-related mods (Pool waters, fountains, waterfalls, vfx spawners etc.) to make them at least findable in game again, but what about my Non-Pond-related objects? Should I make them all more easy to find by adding them all into one category in Build Mode?
Invisible Objects
Think about invi...
I just wanted to let you know that my holiday is almost over. I will be gone for the weekend, but after that I will be working on updating mods and figuring out how to make the visible in live mode and invisible in build mode items.
So I think new mods have to wait as I think it's more important my older ones work how they should and will be once again findable in build mode (as a lot of them aren't at the moment because of the new categories).
For the people wondering, I wo...
2021-07-30 19:17:38 +0000 UTC View PostHello all,
An update of what I've been up to the last couple days.
First of all, I haven't checked any of the Cottage Living's objects yet, neither did I check it's new world. The reason for that, is because I was too busy taking a look at the new pond tool and finding out how the 'visible in Build mode but invisible in Live mode objects have been made.
New VFX Codes
But first the new vfx codes added with the pond tool update and Cottage Living EP. ...
Hello all,
I've just returned from my holiday to Amsterdam with my girlfriend and though our holiday together isn't entirely over yet, at least I'm at home to take a look at what the patch did with my mods and to take a look at Cottage Living which I just bought!
As for my mods, does any of you have problems with (some of) them at the moment? If so, please let me know which one. As far as I've tested, I haven't found many yet. Right now I know that the catch interactions for both ...
2021-07-22 19:11:46 +0000 UTC View PostHi all,
Just wanted to let you know that there won't be a Patreon post until thursday as I will be a few days away from home (Short holiday). I also didn't had plans to start something new before Cottage Living will get released, so I would not have much to share anyway.
One Thing I'm still not sure about, is what mods I will be updating to be visible in the new 'Outdoor pond decoration' category, so I will probably make a public poll about that after I come back and have taken a ...
2021-07-17 21:48:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Animated - Placeable Reptiles - Desert Snake + Lizard
To help make your desert lots to feel more realistic, I give you the desert snake and lizard from Strangerville.
For more info and tips and tricks, take a look at the video.
Perfect for all desert world lots!
2021-07-16 19:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
And here it is, the thumbnail for the desert snake and lizard that will be released tomorrow.
Also one thing I didn't mention about the reason for me to some sort of merge the desert snake and desert lizard together (though they're both separate package files), is because I wanted to make these placeable already for a longer time and I probably will get tons of new ideas when Cottage Living gets released next week. So I wanted them to be done and released before that happens. :) Also as th...
As the former images were quite dark and a bit further away, here a more closer look at the snake and lizard.
As for the effects themselfs, the snake will crawl in a straight line with small clouds of dust behind it, before disappearing at a certain distance. So it looks more realistic when using a bush on the place where it disappears.
The lizard effect has two possible routs to run before disappearing. Also in this case placing something like a bush there looks better.
... 2021-07-13 13:02:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had some time to think about what I wanted besides an invisible floor decal to spawn the deserst snake and lizard, and this is the outcome of that.
The first swatch will give you an invisible floor decal, like a lot of my other mods.
The second will give you an image of the animal it spawns. So more or less an animal droven over by a car as it's totally flat...
The other three will give you 3 base game terrain paints turned into a floor decal. All three of them fit perfec...
Hello all,
I've just watched the Sims 4 Cottage Living live stream and I think I'm going to need to update a lot of my pond related mods as there's will be a new 'Outdoor water decorations' category in build mode.
As I probably will be away from home though during the time it will be released, it might take some time before I've updated them.
As for what I've seen in the stream, it looks like they might saw my 2021-07-08 19:20:43 +0000 UTC View Post
At the above screenshots you see the desert snake and desert lizard. Both are attached to an invisibel object and will crawl in the direction of the footprint's arrow.
The snake effect will be repeated for an infinite time approximately every in-game hour and the lizard approximately every in-game 20 minutes.
As a lot of people don't like to have an entirely invisible object, as it's difficult to find it back, I'm trying if I can think of some kind of floor decal to spawn them fro...
2021-07-08 15:34:36 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone,
I wanted to give you a heads up about a small change to required tax on pledges. Patreon already adds sales tax/VAT/GST to pledges from patrons in most US states and several other countries—anywhere that’s required by law. They’re now required to start adding tax in a few new places: Canada (other than Quebec where Patreon already charges QST), Thailand, Florida, and Kansas. If you live in one of those places, you should see a small amount of tax added to your ...
Hello all,
A small change of plans for my next project. A week or so ago, I mentioned that my next project will again be something animated and that it will probably be about the snake, rat or insect that came with Star Wars game pack (Just as the Steelpecker).
But as those animals look a bit non-realistic and both my last two mods were desert related, I think it's better to draw that line a bit further.
Just like the milksnake that can be seen in the outro of the cowplant skul...
Animated - Placeable Birds - Steelpecker
Always wanted to have a Steelpecker (Bird from Star Wars) on your lot? This is your chance! For more info and tips and tricks, take a look at the video.
Perfect to be combined with my Cowplant Skull.
2021-07-02 16:18:53 +0000 UTC View Post