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Aviary Baby News!

Hi everybody,

This morning when checking the nest of my Black-cheek zebra finches in my aviary, I found 2 baby birds! I did know they had 4 eggs, but didn't expected them to hatch already. As these two did though, I expect the two others to hatch today or tomorrow too.

It's a bit late in the season, but as the weather is still quite good and they will leave the nest after two weeks already, I decided to not remove the eggs when I first discovered them.

I don't have photos ri...

Common Cold/Covid-19 and waterfall mods

Hello all,

I'm back from a few days away from home, but as always I had to become ill 😒
Luckely most of the time I did enjoy my break, but this morning I had to get a Corona-test as it became worse instead of better. I will get the test-results probably by saturday.

Though I do not believe I'll have covid-19, but more of a common cold, it's always better to know for sure. Also as it's important to know for my girlfriend and the remaining two weeks of her holiday. If I do ha...

Sneak Peek Image - Batuu Waterfall - Shower + Play Solo Interactions

Another example of mixing interactions can be seen in the screenshot above where one is taking a shower, while the other one plays underneath the waterfall. You can also mix both interactions with a Sim gathering water for example. :)

Sneak Peek Images - Batuur Waterfall Wide - Shower Interactions

In today's sneak peeks, a look at the shower interactions. In both images two Sims are visible, but each Sim is doing it's own interaction. Meaning, also only one Sim can shower underneath the waterfall.

In the first image, both Sims are doing the shower interaction wearing their swimwear.
In the second image one is doing the "shower nude" interaction, while the other one is taking a shower in swimwear interaction. So also in this case counts, you can mix interactions.

Sneak Peek Images - Batuu Waterfall Wide - Solo Play/Play with... Interactions

I didn't had enough time for making a sneak peek video, so I've devided multiple screenshots in different sneak peek image posts. Today's post is about the "Play Solo" interaction.

On the images, you see both a female as male Sim play underneath the waterfall. The fourth image shows both the male as female playing solo undernath thewaterfall. This means 2 Sims can do the play solo interaction at the same time without having to wait for each other or standing in each others way. The last...

Good and bad news about the waterfall..

Hello all,

I've got some good and bad news about the waterfall and it's interactions.

Bad News
Let's start with the bad news. After spending hours yesterday on making all kind of custom things, like interaction texts, interaction icons, interaction queue icons and buff texts and icons... the problem came when linking these new custom interactions to the object.
Because after I did, the interactions (and animations) would play on the spot the Sims were stand...

Two waterfall object versions

I've just decided to make two object versions of the waterfall, one for placement on terrain with additional interactions as the gather water interaction and one without any interactions, placeable both on terrain as on the water surface.

The reason for it, is that you can't use the interactions anyway when placed on the water surface. So making a version without those interactions is better in my opinion. It then also can be used for making wider waterfalls with the interactions only p...

Sneak Peek Image - Near waterfall buff

A sneak peek of the "Relaxing waterfall sounds" buff which Sims get when being near the waterfall. It also gives them a focused boost. The icon has recieved a small change as I've added a relaxed looking emoticon to the waterfall icon.

I've also took a look at some other interactions and as some of them have buffs too, I wanted to add something to the waterfall icon as I also want to make the others to look quite the same with a waterfall and smaller icon in the lower left corner.

Sneak Peek Images - Gather Water Interaction

To make all more clear, here're some sneak peek images from the interaction text + custom bucket icon as well as the custom interaction queue icon. But also the interaction itself, where your Sim will gather water with the help of a bucket wearing his or her swimsuit.
Right now the Sim will walk to the spot, changes to swimwear, performs the interaction and changes back to the previous clothing.

The water terrain paint is made by Snowhaze and can be downloaded on Modthesims 2020-09-22 11:36:14 +0000 UTC View Post

Gather Water outfit-change works!

Hello everybody,

I've finally made the outfit-change to work when a Sim gathers water from the waterfall.
I did asked icemunmun for help but she couldn't really find the reason it didn't work either. But now I've had weekend (yesterday too) and had a fresh look at the tuning, I saw what made it to not work.

I've also changed an uncomfortable mood into a happy mood that could appear after gathering water as I don't see a reason it would make my Sim uncomfortable.
And of cours...

Small Update on the waterfall interactions

I haven't tried adding a shower interaction yet, but I did add a 'gather water' interaction with success. I'm trying to make it so that Sims will switch outfit to swimwear, but can't make it to work yet. I've asked Icemunmun for help now. :)

In the meantime I will add custom text and icons to this interaction. Important to know is that this interaction will only work on OffGrid lots.

Blue-ish object + Moods / Interactions

Blue-ish Object failed
I've tried a couple of things with the object that would turn the waterfall into the blue-ish looking waterfall of Batuu, but I can't get it to work. Everytime I change something on the mesh, the entire object disappears in game. So the waterfall will keep looking as the one in the sneak peek video, which is totally fine too by the way.

Moods / Interactions
As there's now nothing more I can do about the effect or the look of...

Sneak Peek Video - Animated - Batuu Waterfall - Main

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Animated - Batuu Waterfall - Main
This sneak peek video, shows how the Main Batuu Waterfall looks so far.
Especially the height compared to Sims and other in-game objects can be seen really nice.
Of course I also needed to decorate the surroundings a bit, so I've added a blue iguana and tou...

Sneak Peek Image - Batuu Waterfall - World map 😅

An update on the Batuu Waterfall mod. So far it doesn't seem possible to make the entire waterfall, so all 3 waterfalls to be placeable at once. The object that can also be found in the debug section and takes care of the blue-ish color is sunken into the ground as it's incredibly big. I also can't add the needed vfx to this object.

So I've now decided to split it up in several parts only using the VFX of the falling water and splashes. I've started with adding the vfx of the waterfall ...

Next Project...

Hello all,

Weekend is over and I need to think about something new to make.
Now I thought I already found something, adding the vfx to the debug Cantina Fountain as I couldn't find it in the tuning. Testing it out in game it turned out it already had the vfx just like in the Cantina in Batuu. It's only not in the tuning but in another part of the file where I didn't thought to watch in the beginning. So I can put a line through that idea.  😅 

I've also took a look...

Sneak Peek Images - Birdhouse 2

I've made a first version of a second birdhouse to hang against your walls. Right now it only has one swatch, but I planning to make more, just as with the other one.

It also has 1 small deco slot on the roof of the birdhouse and a view interaction. This view interaction is also available on the first birdhouse by the way, but I forgot to mentioned that.

Next week I will probably focus on a Star Wars mod first before making the other birdhouse recolors. 

Next possible Project + Aviary pack

Hello all,

About my next project
I've done some searching and testing  on the new Star Wars GP Effect Codes and already found a few interesting ones. So my next project will probably be something like an animated animal from that pack or maybe another cool visual effect to make our gardens to feel more special..

It's also a bit of a bummer Studio hasn't been updated yet, but I suppose it will if Andrew and/or Orangemittens figure out how to make a batch fi...

Just bought Star Wars GP!

I've just bought the Star Wars GP, so now I have another pack to discover as I didn't looked through the other recently 9 stuff packs I bought either yet.

But I will start with the world of Batuu and see if I can find some cool new modding ideas besides the snake and bird. Maybe I will use today to discover the other items from those stuff packs too. 

Yesterday I didn't had any change to mod as I didn't had internet for the entire day due to a malfunction in the entire neighb...

Star Wars VFX from gameplay trailer

Hello all,

I've taken a closer look at the Star Wars gameplay trailer and saw the snake and vulture that can be seen on the images too. Those are definitley two visual effects I want to make into placeable objects. I've also seen some flying vultures and some nice smoke effects coming out of some sort of ventilation shaft.

Right now the tool for exporting the vfx list is broken unfortunately, so I can't look for the vfx codes already as I think they're already added to the game wi...

New Mod / Video!

Eco Lifestyle - Roof Pattern - Solar Panels
As the Solar Tile roof pattern that came with the Eco Lifestyle expansion pack isn't looking that great in my opinion, I've decided to make a new Solar Panels roof pattern. Just like the solar tile it produces power and counts towards a Green Eco footprint.

For more info and tips and tricks, take a look at the video.

--CLICK HERE FOR THE VIDEO-- &nbs...

Sneak Peek Image - Solar panel roof pattern - Example scene

An example scene which will also be showed as outro video in the final video tomorrow.
In this scene you see a few examples on how to use the roof only on a part of the roof instead of using it on the entire roof. I do have to say that if you would place them on only one half of the main roof, it's still looking quite nice. But I would recommend not using it on the entire main roof, so on the front as well as the back side.
All the way at the right, I've placed it on the roof of a shed ...

Sneak Peek Image - Solar Panel Roof Pattern - Recolors

I forgot to share the recolors I made for the Solar Panel roof pattern, so here they are!
The first one is the default color and the four others the recolors available. I used all kinds of blue (and one a bit green-ish) as that looks the most realistic.

Most solar panels nowadays are black, but I tried a black recolor and it looked awful in-game  😅 .

In a few minutes, I will also share an example of how these can be used on your roof without making the entire roof fille...

Sneak Peek Image - New Description lay-out (Solar roof pattern)

Hello!

While trying to make some recolors, I've also tried something new with the in-game description. I noticed that some in-game objects had Italic or Bold texts in their object's description, so I wondered if I could do that too. And guess what, I can!
I can even make the text have a different color. So what I did and probably will do in the future too, is not only making the object's title in the description to become bold, but also making the text part ...

Sneak Peek Image - Solar Panel Roof Pattern

Hello!

I've had a lot of problems with the solar panel roof pattern this morning, so that's why I only upload a sneak peek now. There were some strange black horizontal lines when zoomed all the way out which I couldn't get rid of. I've tried a lot of things, even repairing the game and starting all over again. I don't know which of those things exactly made it to work eventually.

The only thing I can't get to work is making it kind of reflecting. For some reason the reflective si...

New Solar roof in the making

Hello all,

As the aviary pack is far from finished, I've decided to work on some other mods too, so it doesn't look I've abandoned my Social Networks and YouTube.

Yesterday I've looked once again to the Eco Lifestyle pack and noticed that the solar roof pattern doesn't look like solar panels at all! So now I'm going to try to make another solar roof pattern but with a bit more the looks of an actual solar pattern...

Don't confuse the solar pattern roofs with the solar panels...

Updated Small Birds Pack

Some time ago I mentioned that I had a problem with the shadows on the rope objects and a new object I was working on back then, which were the birdhouses.

I've also told you I've fixed the problem, which wasn't on those objects, but the Small Birds Pack. I forgot to change some bump and specular images which gave strange shadows on other objects when placed onto them.

The updated mods for all bird species inside of this pack, can now be downloaded here.
If you haven't seen the...

New birds in my aviary: Long-tailed finches

Update about my own aviary! Today I bought a pair of long-tailed finches.
These birds are the final birds I bought. Now 6 birds are housing in my aviary and with the idea of baby birds next year, I think this is more then enough.

They also have enough space,  so they don't have to be in each others way.
The only downside for my black-cheek zebra finches though, is that the nest they've built the last few days, has now been taken by the new long-tailed finches  😅.&nbs...

Sneak Peek Images - Aviary - Open Window Netting

As promised, something new I've been playing around with: The possibility to give aviaries / animal cages a more decorative look as well as making it more playful.

The aviary on the first image looked already quite nice with the big viewing area on the front side, but to give it a more playful look, I've added an open window to the side and placed a 'new' netting object at the same place. Without the netting, birds theoretically would escape.

On the second and third image I made s...

Sneak Peek Images - Aviary - Birdhouse - Colored houses

The last set of birdhouse recolors. I thought, maybe some colored houses with simple black roofs might look great too for in your aviary or on the outside of your houses. ;)

I've did some more testing with the idea I spoke about before the weekend and worked a bit on a new item to help that idea to come to life. It should make building aviaries to become more fun end to look more decorative in your gardens.

I will share more info after I made some example images in-game. 🙃 ...

Sneak Peek Images - Aviary - Birdhouse - White+Colored Roof

Next set of color swatches for the birdhouses are white with a colored roof.
Can also look great just by placing all four of them on a wall  😋  

I will make another set of 4 color swatches so the total will become 12 or maybe 13 as there's one recolor from the original object which I thought looked really nice too.
Will probably share those after the weekend. :)

There's something else I've discovered what makes the outside of an aviary to look a bit more speci...