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Sneak Peek Image - Skirt Rock + Deco Slots

Next object for the unlocked rock pack, the skirt rock.
I didn't named it myself this way, it was already named this way in the debug section. Probably because the shape of a skirt can be seen in it I guess..

Anyway, this rock comes with 6 small deco slots. I haven't changed the pathing around it, as it takes a lot of time and I don't even know if it really works. Adding plants around it, will make the pathing around it to look more logical and takes away the 'sharp edges' of the obj...

Sneak Peek Image - Unlocked Cluster Rock

In the image above you see the cluster rock that came with the Horse Ranch EP in the middle, and the other two which for some reason didn't made it into build mode on the left and the right.

These two don't have any deco slots as that are no flat surfaces to be found which are large enough for animals to be placed on.

Sneak Peek Images - Horse Head Rock - Walk Under & Swim Under

Finally I did some building again! It was already too long ago and man I still love to make natural looking environments!

I started with a creative way to make the entrance of a horse ranch. Because, be honest, using the horse head rock as an entrance looks very cool!

Another way of using it, can be seen in the second image, where I built a natural looking swimming pool underneath it.

More Rocks
I'm still not totally done adding all the rocks to this unl...

Sneak Peek Image - Horse Head Rock - Walkthrough solution

I've succeeded (I think) in making another walk-path around the tall rock from the former post, which makes the Sim to walk a bit closer near the rock itself when walking around it.

But when trying to make two different paths for the horse head rock (So Sims can still walk underneath), I stumbled on all kind of problems. So for this one you need to be a bit creative.
To help with that, I made a few examples.

So the part that Sims will walk straight through, is at the mouth of t...

Possible discovery: Pathing around objects

I already wondered for a long time why for some objects Sims walk around the entire footprint and for other objects Sims walk around the edges of the object itself.

The same thing is now happening with my unlocked rocks and it made me want to go on a search for the answer. And I think I've found it in "Pointlists".  As far as I've discovered right now, these points are the invisible barriers around an object, a Sim will not walk over. For some rocks this invisible barrier is on the...

Sneak Peek Images - Horse Rock - Deco Slots

Small update on the Horse Rock. There're not many good spots to place deco slots on this rock as there're very few flat spots and placing slots on an edge of a rock doesn't always work either. In this case I've found one flat spot and two edges which are usable for both smaller as larger birds.
For iguanas or something you can only use the flat spot in the middle.

Sneak Peek Image - Horse Rock - Shrunk down

I had some problems with this new Horse Rock mesh, so that's one of the reasons it took a bit longer for this sneak peek to arrive. But now those things have been fixed, I wanted to share the difference in size. I wanted to make this a more usable object for on our lots, but still keep it a reasonable rock formation.

On the left side you see my Sim compared to the huge Horse Rock which can be found in Chestnut Ridge. On the right my new shrunken down Horse Rock on a lot. 

The...

Rock Pack WIP

Hi all,

I finally had some time to work on Sims related stuff again, so I continued working on the Unlocked Rock Pack.

Raised or not to be raised
Sorry in advance for keep changing my mind about stuff related to the raised or not raised rocks. My hopefully final choice is to make the rocks to be not raisable at all.
Last year I already mentioned that when giving them the possibility to be raised, the downside was that you needed to use the "moveobjects on" ...

Happy New year!

It has been a busy end of the year for me, so I'm a bit "late", but still

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🎉Happy New Year everybody🎉
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Let's hope on another good Sims 4 year for all of us!
Besides that, I also hope your life outside of The Sims will be good and full of joy.

Thank you all
I would like to thank everybody that supported me or is still supporting me for the things I make for The Sims 4. I'm very happ...

🎉New Mod: Animated Wallpaper - Snowy Winters🎉

❄️Animated Wallpaper - Snowy Winters❄️
First time since many years that I've stopped working on a pack, so I could make a Christmas/Winter themed mod. And it came out pretty well if I may say so myself.
This Animated Snowy Winter Wallpaper contains 16 recolors ranging from blue backgrounds, to green, red, orange, yellow, white-ish and even purple and pink backgrounds. All light colored backgrounds have white-ish colored snow flakes the other more darker colored ...

Just so you know!

Hi all,

Just wanted to let you know that I've already uploaded the Animated Snowy Winters wallpaper to CurseForge, as I hope it's in time for it to be available before it's Christmas. It's now waiting for approval.

I hope I have time to release it here on Patreon today too, otherwise it will be tomorrow!

Sneak Peek Image - Animated Wallpaper - Snowy Winters - Fake Window

Something 'new' I've made with this wallpaper, is a fake window with my animated wallpaper placed behind it, to make it look like it's snowing outside. Probably not very useful in game, it was a fun little experiment. :)

Sneak Peek Image GIF - Animated Wallpaper - Snowy Winter

I've made a GIF of all recolors while animated in live mode during the day and in a room without lights. At night they will look more or less the same as in the room without lights.

Of course the quality in game will be far better then what's visible on the GIF.
I'm also working on the thumbnail that I will be using on CurseForge what will also be a GIF possibly.

Here on Patreon I will probably try to add a video-thumbnail for better quality.

Sneak Peek Image - Animated Wallpaper - Snowy Winter - Recolors

You may not like all recolors I've made, but maybe others do! I like the first 5 and the last one the most myself. :)

I'm going to make a new gif, so you can see them a bit better. I also still need to make a few small changes to for example the catalog thumbnails and the in-game description.

Hopefully everything will be ready in time!

Sneak Peek Image - Animated Wallpaper - Snowy Winter

Mod's name
I'm sorry for keep changing the mod's name, but I think this is the last time.. So from now on, the mod will probably be named "Animated Wallpaper - Snowy Winter".

Glow in the dark
Anyway, I've made a few new recolors which look far better then the first one which was a bit too dark (Though I still keep that one as a recolor too). Because of that first one, I forgot that besides animated, this wallpaper also glows. This glowing can best...

Sneak Peek Image GIF - Animated Wallpaper - Winter Snow

Successfully made my first GIF with CANVA . Now you can finally see how this snow will be falling when adding this Animated Wallpaper to your game.

Still, not quite happy with the colors yet, but I think seeing the snow falling down as if there's a gentle wind coming from the left, looks quite nice!

Sneak Peek Image - Animated Wallpaper - (Christmas) Winter Snow

I've already mentioned I wanted to make something Christmas/Winter related, but I wasn't sure if I could actually make my ideas to work.

One of the ideas I've started to work on is an animated wallpaper on which it snows. It's still far from finished as I'm not happy with for example the colors right now, but the animated part is working at least.

The most difficult part is that the colors used on the textures , won't be the same in game. This is because the falling snow is made...

News: Lack of updates + more!

Hello all,

First of all, sorry for the lack of updates!
I simply was too busy with work, family birthdays, my own birthday and being ill.

Rock Pack
About the rock pack, I stumpled upon the problem that my rocks weren't placeable without using the moveobjects on cheat as the raisable rocks have first been lowered into the ground.
I was able to fix this problem, but with it came the other problem of Sims walking straight through the objects, if the...

Sneak Peek Image - HR - Raisable Rock 2 - Slots

For this rock, I've only added deco slots to the top of it. The places where the steelpeckers have been placed, can also be used for other animals that fit small deco slots. In my case, those are all placeable animals I've released as far as I know.

Sneak Peek Image - HR - Raisable Rock 2 - Size

When unlocking the second debug rock I wanted to make a raisable rock of, I was quite shocked by it's default size (Image 1). I had to shrink it down by approximately 90% to get a decent size.

I then lowered it into the ground, so by default only the top would be visible. When fully raised, it will have a nice height to work with.

Sneak Peek Image - HR - Raisable Rock 1 - Size

Also wanted to let you see how this rock looks when shrinked down to the smallest size possible.
Be aware that slots don't move with the object, so these will float some where around this object. There fore, only place objects on the default size.

Raising or lowering the default sized object with for example the steelpeckers placed on top of it, will just move up and down with the object.

Sneak Peek Image - HR -Raisable Rock 1 - Slots

I've added 6 deco slots to the rock, so things can be placed on top of it. In the image above I've placed my Animated Steelpeckers on top of the rocks as they also look really good in this kind of landscape.

Sneak Peek Image - HR - Raisable Rock 1 - Height difference

In the image above you see the outcome of the first raisable rock height differents.
On the left side the rock after placing it onto your lot, the right side shows the entire rock after raising it with the number 9-key (MOO cheat activated).

Having the ability to raise the rock, makes it's very easy to create unique looking rock formations as you can mix and match the same rock on different heights, sizes and with different rotations next to and on top of each other.

I'm also l...

Next: Another Unlocked pack

I was thinking about what to do next and while playing a bit with the unlocked trees and plants packs on my (thumbnail) lot, I still missed one important landscape item.

Rocks! So my next mod pack will again be an unlocked pack, but this time with all rocks/cliffs that can be seen in Chestnut Ridge.

I've already started with unlocking one single rock, but I'm still not entirely sure what size it's going to be. The debug rocks are quite big and will fill your entire lot when placed...

🎉New Mod: Horse Ranch - Tall Grass (Dry) - Walkthroughable🎉

Horse Ranch - Tall Grass (Dry) - Walkthroughable
By downloading the zip down below, you will get two package files.
One of them contains a walkthrough version of the green tall grass that came with the Horse Ranch EP and the other one will contain a walkthrough version of the dry tall grass that came with the Horse Ranch EP.

These mods will make it possible for both your Sims as well as your pets to walk straight through  (or swim over) these tall grasses. T...

🚨 Small changes on the walkthrough grasses + Updated Files

Hi all,

I've added a few extra things to the walkthrough grasses.
First of all, I've added "Repeat Placement", as most of the time you will use not one but multiple of these grasses, especially if you want to make a large area full of grass.

Another thing I've added, is the ability to place these objects underneath water surfaces.
Sims will also be able to swim over these grasses when placed in the ocean or in a custom aquarium made out of a pool for example.

The upda...

👁‍🗨 Early Access - Horse Ranch - Tall Grass (Dry) - Files

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🚨🚨🚨 The Public release of this pack will probably be at the end of this week. If you find anything you think isn't how it's suppose to be both in how it works as well as textual mistakes, please let me know. 🚨🚨🚨
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Horse Ranch - Tall Grass (Dry)
By downloading the zip down below, you will get two package files.
One of them contains a walkthrough version of the green tall grass that came w...

Sneak Peek Images - HR Tall Grass (Dry) - Walkthroughable

Like mentioned last week, my next project will be releasing this Horse Ranch Tall Grass (Dry) walkthroughable version.

Making it walkthroughable makes it more realistic, as normally you would see horses or other pets as well as people, walking right through grass too instead of around it.
To be clear, these are extra objects, so they won't override the tall grass already in game. This also makes it possible to creates certain paths through grass without seeing the actual path. You ju...

🎉Two New CurseForge Mods: Multiple Tiles floors🎉

Hello everyone,

I've added two more mods from the past which I've updated, to my CurseForge profile!
This time it's about two multiple tiles floors which were first released on the 21st of june 2015.

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About the Multiple tiles Stone + Mozaïk floor tiles
The Stone floor tile is made out of a 2x2 tiles pattern. It also has a second swatch containing a circular stone pattern. By mixing these two different stone floor tiles, yo...

CurseForge - Multiple Tiles Floors - Stone + Mozaïk Files

I've already uploaded these two multiple tiles floors to my CurseForge Profile and at least one of them is already approved. But here is the PatronOnly download. ;)

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About the Multiple tiles Stone + Mozaïk floor tiles
The Stone floor tile is made out of a 2x2 tiles pattern. It also has a second swatch containing a circular stone pattern. By mixing these two different stone floor tiles, you can create unique looking floors. Also don't...