Hi all,
Just a quick overview of what I want to work on this week.
'New' CurseForge mods
One of my plans is to make 2 of my older mods available on CurseForge.
This time it's about 2 floor tiles. One of them contains 2 different 2x2 stone patterns to combine and the other one is quite a detailed 4x4 mozaïk floor tile.
Whenever I've uploaded them to CurseForge, I will place an "Early access" here on Patreon so you don't have to wait for the CurseForge app...
Unlocked - Horse Ranch Plants Pack
This pack adds 14 additional plants (See images) from the Horse Ranch EP to the outdoor build category. Only the Grapevine No Support couldn't be found in game before, as I've removed the wooden support myself. For a few of these I've added additional recolors and/or fixed their footprints.
Plants/Flowers
No additional new recolors:
🌿Alo...
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🚨🚨🚨 The Public release of this pack will probably be at the end of this week or maybe next week. If you find anything you think isn't how it's suppose to be both in how it works as textual mistakes, please let me know. 🚨🚨🚨
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Unlocked - Horse Ranch Plants Pack
This pack adds 14 additional plants (See images) from the Horse Ranch EP to the outdoor build category. Only the Grapevine No Sup...
My Halloween mod for this year is the same one I made for Halloween in 2015.
This time though it is updated and made available for download on CurseForge.
Dynamic Light Clothing - Pumpkin Hoodie
A bit of info about this clothing, I've added an animated pumpkin to 3 base game hoodies for both male as female for children to elders.
Animated in this case, means that's I've added dynamic light to the clothing, meaning the carved out face of the pumpkin will glow...
2023-10-30 16:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This ivy wall chunk can mainly be seen hanging over the rocks near the waterfalls in Chestnut Ridge. As I like to make waterfalls myself too and it just looks good hanging over rocks, I've decided to include it in this pack too.
To make the best use of it, you should enable the MoveObjectOn cheat, so you can raise it to the desired height (Or use TwistedMexi's TOOL mod). Also changing it's size makes the entire scene to look even more natural.
2023-10-30 13:07:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I nice looking ivy groundcover which suits perfectly underneath other plants or near rocks, like can be seen on the second example image.
2023-10-28 14:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
First I wasn't sure if I should include this shrub to the pack as I didn't liked it at first because of the low detail of the leafs. After looking at where it got placed in Chestnut Ridge, I thought maybe it's usable after all.
As can be seen on the second image, this plant looks at it's best if it's not in the foreground. Maybe another way to use it, is by planting smaller plants around it which are a bit smaller, so the focus isn't on the shrub alone.
2023-10-28 13:52:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Actually it isn't really a fail with this kind of outcome for Halloween, but it was not how I intended it to be...
I'm working on editing an older Halloween clothing mod (first released in october 2015!) for CurseForge and I wanted to try if it would also work for the toddlers and infants, but it isn't as you can see. 🙃
I'm not going to make new versions for toddlers and infants, so there will only be versions for childs to elder for this particular clothing mod. Whenever it's ...
2023-10-28 10:14:08 +0000 UTC View Post
These field flowers which can be seen in Chestnut Ridge, can now also be found in build mode!
Of course Sims will be able to walk straight over these. :)
New additions to the unlocked Horse Ranch Plant pack: Grasses!
4 New grasses will be added to build mode, 2 small and 2 large fields of grasses.
When looking at the images above, the first image shows what it looks like when adding 1 large field of (dry) grasses. The same can be done with fresh green grass.
The second and third image shows the small fields of grass, both for dry as fresh grass.
To be clear, it's about the small clumps of grass on the images.
Where the lar...
I've finally found the canyon daisies which I couldn't find before. Turned out they were part of a group of 12 other daisies. As those other daisies are already available in the base game, I've only packed these three new ones together.
When comparing these to the ones in Chestnut Ridge, you will see these are slightly different in size, maybe this is also because I've lowered the mesh a bit as it was hovering above the terrain a bit. Enlarging or shrinking these flowers looks great too...
2023-10-22 13:54:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Another addition to the pack is this unlocked canyon wildflower. As I thought some more recolors would be come in handy too, I've added 7 new recolors for which I've recolored the tall flowers only.
2023-10-22 13:45:50 +0000 UTC View Post
PC
Luckily everything is back upped now and even better, each time I save something on my computer, it get's back-upped immediately too. Still no new HDD, but I haven't had the problem with the BIOS date and time anymore, since I haven't disconnected my pc from the power.
Grapevine - no support
I've also worked on my next mod pack and the grapevine without any wooden support is now finished. As can be seen on the images, the grapevine looks much b...
Hello all,
Since yesterday, my computer doesn't start like it should. It seems to forget it's time and date every time as I need to go to the BIOS settings and set the correct date and time, before I'm able to do anything else on my pc.
Partly because of that reason, but mainly as my hard drive starts to make really loud ticks/clicks, I'm making a back-up of my entire D-drive (hopefully before the D drive crashes).
As there're quite some files, this might take a while ...
2023-10-17 13:59:25 +0000 UTC View Post
At the same time as I was working on the Unlocked Trees pack, I've also worked a bit on an Unlocked Plants pack. And today I bring you some new sneak peeks at the next plant, the grapevine!
Besides the original grapevine visible on the first image, I've also added 2 new recolors from which I thought would look good in game too. :)
The object can also be placed through other objects, walls and fences, making it possible to place it really near to or even through a wall or fence. Es...
2023-10-12 16:05:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
You can find two "new" mods on my CurseForge profile now!
These two Underwater World - Combine Sets (1 wallpaper + 1 floor tile), were made for the first time back in 2014, so they were among the first things I made for The Sims 4.
Finding Nemo Removed
Back then it was called the Finding Nemo Combine Set, but as CurseForge is very strict about copyrights, I've removed the Finding Nemo stuff from it.
Both sets contain multiple different...
2023-10-09 16:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I already could have done this earlier, but didn't thought about it...
Right now the two mods have been approved by CurseForge and can be downloaded there.
But as you're my Patrons and deserve an easier way to download these two "new" mods, you can find a zip containing both package files down below. :)
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About the Underwater World Wallpaper:
This wallpaper is called a 'Combine Set' as you can mix and match 8 different wallp...
Just to let you all now, the Underwater World Combine Set Wallpaper and Floor tiles are uploaded to Curse Forge yesterday and are waiting for approval.
Whenever I see they're approved, I will let you all know with a link to the download page too.
For now, enjoy your weekend!
Last weekend and right now, I'm working on adding two of my older mods to Curse Forge.
This time it's about a wallpaper and flooring which were back then called the Finding Nemo Sand & Finding Nemo Coral Combine sets.
This time though, as Curse Forge is much stricter with copyright rules (as they should of course), I've removed the Finding Nemo characters from the wallpapers.
Underwater World Combine Set
The new names for both the wallpaper as the floori...
Hello everybody,
Something I haven't made for quite a while; a pack containing mainly unlocked debug items!
For this pack it's all about the Horse Ranch EP trees that can't be found in build mode for some reason..
This pack adds the following 8 additional trees to the buy/build menu:
🌳Birch
Besides unlocking the birch, I've also added an additional recolor where the bark of the tree is more white. Like most birches here in The Netherlands ...
Hello everybody,
I'm back from my vacation which was quite a good one with nice weather and beautiful places we visited and an incredible amount of photos made (1093) which I still need to go through..
Family Circumstances
But there's still this family circumstances thingy I posted about before my holiday.
The thing with that is, that my mother is severely depressed at the moment. This started right before out holiday, which even made us wonder IF we would g...
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🚨🚨🚨 The Public release of this pack will probably be after my holiday in about two weeks. If you find anything you think isn't how it's suppose to be both in how it works as textual mistakes, please let me know. 🚨🚨🚨
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Unlocked - Horse Ranch Tree Pack
This pack adds the following 8 additional trees from the Horse Ranch EP to the buy/build menu:
(I forgot the Birch on the image🙃, will f...
Early Access
I'm planning to upload an Early Access version of the Unlocked Horse Ranch Tree Pack this friday. This pack will add 8 additional trees to the build/buy menu.
With some of them containing additional recolors too.
Holiday
I will be on a holiday for the upcoming two weeks. So there will be no new posts during this time. After my holiday I will release the Unlocked Tree Pack and will continu working on the Unlocked Plants pack (and ma...
I've worked a few hours today on making recolors for this tree trunk, but each time I got the same kind of problems with strange black lines around parts of the plants and flowers and I can't get rid of them.
That's why I've decided to just scrap the recolors, so you only get the simple unlocked tree trunk. I'm sorry😅.
2023-09-05 20:30:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I've already shared a sneak peek of the Blue Gum, but that was before I've fixed the problem with the shadows acting weird after adding additional recolors. Now that is fixed, I could finally add a bit of variation to this tree too.
When looking at the first and second image, the first tree is the original unlocked Blue Gum.
As I didn't liked the colors that were used, I've decided to try to add a bit of color variation in the tree bark. This is what you see when looking at the seco...
First of all, I haven't fixed the shadow problem as it should probably, but at least it's working again and I can't really find the disadvantages (yet) because of the way I fixed it.
Unlocked Oak
On the images above you see the oak I've unlocked from the Horse Ranch EP + two additional recolors. Comparing the original unlocked oak with the second tree, you won't see that much of a difference when only looking at the first image.
That's why I've added th...
Blue Gum
Another unlocked tree on the first image, the Blue Gum (Eucalyptus).
I worked on additional recolors, but found a problem with not only this tree, but also the other trees and plants I was working on and made additional recolors for.
Flowering Shrub
I didn't noticed it before, but on my image of the unlocked Flowering Shrub, you can see that the shadows of the plant don't look the way they should. You can't see a shadow for each indiv...
The tree itself standing in the middle is another new tree added to the game by EA, the driftwood though can only be found in Chestnut Ridge.
The driftwood on the right is the unlocked version, the left one I shrinked down.
I've also tried rotating this driftwood to make it into a dead tree, but this didn't looked that nice, so it won't be part of the tree pack probably.
The flowers around the tree are the Oopsie Daisies from the Base Game from which I thought were the same as ...
2023-08-24 19:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Another tree which is part of the Chestnut Ridge world, but can't be found in Build mode; The Dead Wild Ebony Tree.
I've placed my Sim in between these two trees, so you can better see it's size.
The left tree is my unlocked version, the right one is enlarged one single time and now has the same size as the tree in the background outside of the lot.
I think both sizes are usable, but if you want the bigger tree on the right, you have to enlarge it yourself using the closed brac...
2023-08-24 19:28:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The wild Mesquite on the left was one of the few trees which actually IS added to the game as a new tree with the Horse Ranch pack, the right one though is an unlocked version of the same tree with a bit more leaves and a more fresh leaf color too.
2023-08-24 19:24:48 +0000 UTC View Post