My first Sims 2 Neighborhood!

[jonas3333]

Welcome to Sutton Place. I don't know how to have images appear on this page or make it downloadable so here's the link to the site I have. Hope you like it. I may be able to make others for other folks as I really enjoyed making Sutton Place. Feel free to give feedback or tell me how to do the image /upload thing. :)
http://www.freewebs.com/jonas3333/sims2neighborhoods.htm

[jonas3333]

Oh and just so you know I only show the zones to denote where(I plan) the lots go and which kind they are. Green - residential lot - Blue is community and yellow is undefined. The zones won't be in the up/download.

[Flameback777]

Everyone use this picture link. It's much faster. :)

http://img31.exs.cx/img31/9231/SuttonPlace_temp.th.jpg (http://img31.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img31&image=SuttonPlace_temp.jpg)

[KatAnubis]

Welcome to Sutton Place. I don't know how to have images appear on this page or make it downloadable so here's the link to the site I have. Hope you like it. I may be able to make others for other folks as I really enjoyed making Sutton Place. Feel free to give feedback or tell me how to do the image /upload thing. :)
http://www.freewebs.com/jonas3333/sims2neighborhoods.htm
I like it. I just wish that trees would transfer over, because that would save us a lot of work. (However, in Thursdays chat they said no trees. I was hoping based on some of the German guys' pics that we would be able to preplace them. At least we can do so with the prop placement too.)

I liked the way you have the little rim mountains around the island. That's a nice touch.

[jonas3333]

It's dark in there...did you hear something? Probably just the wind..the wind that howls through the hollow every night. Let this creepy neighborhood host your sims, both hunters and victims this Halloween season.
Be afraid...be very.... :eek:

http://www.freewebs.com/jonas3333/sims2neighborhoods.htm



And many thanks to you Flameback777 for making that easier for folks to see. Is there a tutorial?

[Supernova]

I like your neighborhoods. Especially the first one. Think you could out the file up for download? Umm, if you know how that is.

[Trinasis]

Well I like your landscape Jonas and flameback

[ijRoberts]

Jonas, THANK YOU for that "shift+#" shortcut for the God Mode... What a HUGE difference that made! Talk about getting the teensiest details right! =) Thanks again!

[Supernova]

Ya It helped out a lot. I could actually put in the details i wanted! I have a new and improved version of my old nieghborhood Shady Acres, as well as a new one, Crescent Archipelago. I have some screenshots, as well as the neighborhoods for download! But unfortunatly, the Crescent Archipelago screenshot wouldnt upload. Maybe later. You can see the old Shady Acres here (http://forums.worldsims.org/showthread.php?t=2648).

[jonas3333]

I'm really happy my tip helped you out! Shady Acres looks great! It does make all the difference if you ask me! Looking forward to seeing the Archipelago one! And others!
I don't know how to upload them to this site - but i plan to upload mine on the 17th when I get the game to the sims2 site anyway. Don't see a reason not to and that should be easy.
I'm also currently avoiding the regular sims2 forums for a while now to avoid spoilers - I guess that will leave me some extra time to do some more custom work anyway ! :)

[ringleesim]

Can someone help me out on building neighborhoods???:confused:

[Supernova]

what sorta thing do you want? I could make it for you.

[ringleesim]

no but thanks supernova... I was looking for a super detailed tutorial to guide me through.:)

[KatAnubis]

no but thanks supernova... I was looking for a super detailed tutorial to guide me through.:)
I don't know what you mean by "super detailed" but if you've done the SimCity4 tutorial, then the next step is just to use that to make your neighborhood. However, there are a few "restrictions". I did a tutorial which I've been updating as new information comes in. You can find it here:
http://thesims.ea.com/bbs/messages.php?&openItemID=item.341,item.322&threadID=c14d2a45b9d0017de4ef0050c57397c3&directoryID=341&startRow=1#aeb05248391855b7ae0cf14ab29e81b1

There is also the EA support one (which is linked in the message.) It tells about how to move it from SC4 to TS2 but doesn't have many details about how to make the thing.

[Supernova]

I just wish the trees would carry over...

[ijRoberts]

They do. =)

That was one of the changes to the information that we were told. At first nothing but the roads transfered, but on the EA Games site that Kat just mentioned, it states that trees (all except the palm tree) will transfer over.

So, get to planting those forests!

[KatAnubis]

They do. =)

That was one of the changes to the information that we were told. At first nothing but the roads transfered, but on the EA Games site that Kat just mentioned, it states that trees (all except the palm tree) will transfer over.

So, get to planting those forests!
I even updated my tutorial to state it. (And I spent Monday going through all my SC4 "neighborhoods" adding lots of trees. I *like* trees!)

I'm looking forward to getting the game and actually trying out my new neighborhoods. One article I read yesterday said that the game "cut off" portions of the SC4 neighborhood. I'm wondering if that is part of the 16 square deep border or if they just meant that those areas were "cut off" as far as placing lots. I think until we've played with it, we won't really know.

[Supernova]

Yay for forests! I can make my tropical paradise now!

[ringleesim]

But don't palm trees make a tropical paradise??? Your confusing me!

[jonas3333]

I'm afraid palm trees are NOT allowed. They simply won't show up in the sims2 when transferring the neighborhood. However, I've seen many a palm tree in the screenshots which means we will be able to place palm trees once in the sims2!

[ringleesim]

That's what I was saying...

[KatAnubis]

I'm afraid palm trees are NOT allowed. They simply won't show up in the sims2 when transferring the neighborhood. However, I've seen many a palm tree in the screenshots which means we will be able to place palm trees once in the sims2!
The neighborhood decor tool has a large variety of trees you can place, including palm trees. I can't wait to get my hands on the game.

I'm not sure what I want to do first: experiment with importing neighborhoods and decorating them or building a house.

I suspect that I'll start with the neighborhood. It's a natural progression: neighborhood, family (so that we can get a lot), house (with the use of Kaching! of course.) So much to do, so little time!

[ringleesim]

Have you guys seen the new Sims 2 website yet???

[RellioN]

Hey jonas, I don't know if anyone told you, but The Sims 2 doesn't support heights :(
And it is hard to build houses on terrain that is not flat

btw your maps look beautiful.

[jonas3333]

Thanks for the compliment!

Yeah - I've totally reworking all my neighborhoods - although spooky hollow isn't really re-workable - I added some extra roads to it though. I haven't checked out Curlique Mt. in the game yet. Lol - I'm relearning my whole system! I'll get it down though soon I think. I'm about to test the new Sutton Place now.

[jonas3333]

Wow! Actually Curlique Mt is really cool in the game - while it doesn't show the majority of the mountain/pic, it has multiple levels to it on different plateaus and could be an awesome neighborhood to use! While it's not the effect I was originally going for - it's great all it's own. and I hardly have to mess with anything.

[Dawn]

I love everything that everyone is doing with their lots..:) I was wondering though,do you have to have the SC4 game in order to build lots for TS2 or can you download the program to build for TS2? I want to be able to build lots like that but don't want to have to buy the SC4 (again)just for that.And also how do you make the special effects work for the building your neighborhood..All I ever see is the blue box and then the rock when I click off the tool mode.:confused: :confused:

[ijRoberts]

Hey there.

Unfortunately, you do have to have SC4 to build your own custom neighborhoods. There ARE some blank templates in TS2 if you want a new neighborhood, but you'll have to use the ones they created, or ones that you've downloaded. There isn't a stand alone tool (like Body Shop) that you can use the create them (or else no one would buy SC4! haha).

Some of the special effects, I've noticed, don't always show up EXACTLY where they are placed. Things like birds, hot air balloons, hangliders, boats, etc, will "wander" around the area of placement (sometimes pretty far). I think by just putting them down on the neighborhood gives them free reign to go wherever they want. =)

[Dawn]

Well hmmm so if you want tweety bird to stay in your area you couldn't make that happen..lol.but what about the beach? How do you get that turkey to work..

And totally unfair that they do that with the SC4 and TS2.lol..Guess your right have to make their money somehow even though they are already more then rich.lol..I made my first 3 story house last night took me 8 hours to do my game lags so bad because I used the largest lot and made it so grand. I have 70% space left on my computer and the game still lags,any suggestions?
Thanks again for the info on the special effects..:) ;)

[ijRoberts]

The waves were a little confusing to me at first as well. But I finally figured them out.

If you use the "." key to spin the thing around you want the "dark" side of the little strip of sand to be facing the water. It's supposed to look like wet sand. Once you have the dark part on the edge of the land in the water, you'll see the waves start to come onto shore.

I had to go around my entire neighborhood (an island) and put waves down along every inch, LOL... It took forever, but it looks REALLY cool.

Congrats on your first luxury home! I know how you feel about the lag, though. My computer exeeds all the requirements too, but still lags with the larger lots. I can't even play some of the homes I've built, because it lags too much. I hope others aren't having the same problem.

[KatAnubis]

The waves were a little confusing to me at first as well. But I finally figured them out.

If you use the "." key to spin the thing around you want the "dark" side of the little strip of sand to be facing the water. It's supposed to look like wet sand. Once you have the dark part on the edge of the land in the water, you'll see the waves start to come onto shore.

I had to go around my entire neighborhood (an island) and put waves down along every inch, LOL... It took forever, but it looks REALLY cool.

Congrats on your first luxury home! I know how you feel about the lag, though. My computer exeeds all the requirements too, but still lags with the larger lots. I can't even play some of the homes I've built, because it lags too much. I hope others aren't having the same problem.
Congrats on your creations, IJ!

I've been having fun with SC4 and TS2 neighborhoods. However, the bridges are still a bit iffy. It looks like you have to use the small steel arch instead of the level and raised bridges from SC4 vanilla. And the area which is actually visible is just the area with the lots, which means some of my edge detail was weird.

But I think the freakiest thing is how the lovely SC4 trees turn into random trees in TS2. I had a lush fir forest turn into palm trees, joshua trees and century plants. Now this would have been fine if I was doing a desert community, but it looked very strange in the lush mode. (And I really missed those fir trees that had been in SC4.)

So, now I'm generally making the neighborhoods without any trees (and making sure not to let time pass in SC4, since that seems to allow trees to grow from unseen seeds). That way I can just place them wherever I want them in the neighborhood using the TS2 neighborhood tools.

As to the things like birds and ships, they do seem to be able to range far and wide. I just wish I could zoom in close enough to see the swans better and that the swans would swim in pairs or groups, instead of random scatter.

But the hardest thing is trying to figure out whether I'd rather spend my limited time playing the game, making custom content with Body Shop or playing with the neighborhoods. I wish I didn't need to sleep, eat, exercise, take care of the house, give the cat his medicine, etc. Then I'd have *plenty* of time. (But I think those things are actually more important than TS2. Blasphemy, I know, but "real life comes first" at our house. And if something that is being done for fun becomes not fun, then do something else for a while.)

[Dawn]

Tanks for the input about the beach..Guess I will have to make sure I pee pee and get plenty of food around me so that I can focus on making that beach..lmao.That's the one that was driving me the most nuts (me and my husband)lol..And yeah agree hopefully not to many people are lagging as bad when they build their luxary homes..I can only imagine how bad it will get when I build more lol..Anyway have fun with your neighborhoods and please any bit of info or tips that you get let us know..specially with the lags..I know we would all appreciate that..Oh and by the way..that censor patch works..lol..I saw boobies..lmao even though I didn't want to see them *my husband did* he got a kick out of it..And it doesn't mess up your computer either..I know some were skeptic about it..So if you want the full detail go for the censor patch..I'll ask my husband where the link is and add it here soon.Happy sims building all.

peace:D

[packerbacker]

BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the mountains!

[George_Rich]

Welcome to Sutton Place. I don't know how to have images appear on this page or make it downloadable so here's the link to the site I have. Hope you like it. I may be able to make others for other folks as I really enjoyed making Sutton Place. Feel free to give feedback or tell me how to do the image /upload thing. :)
http://www.freewebs.com/jonas3333/sims2neighborhoods.htm

i like it. i just remembered dat u could create neighborhoods using sim city 4 rush hour. 10 bene's 4 u!:D :D :D :D :D :D