I've worked on updating the ORIGINAL water reed mods, so the 'shadows visible through objects' problem is solved and all objects have the 'repeat placement' option as I discovered that only the first swatch of all objects had that option.
As my next projec...
2020-01-28 14:51:47 +0000 UTC View Post
On the images above, all animals that can be activated can be seen.
On the first one, you can see 3 dragonflies hovering above the pond.
The next one shows 3 white ducks swimming around.
The wild ducks sometimes are joined with ducklings, but this doesn't happen everytime when they spawn...
For the people not familiar with the Water Reed Objects, here all recolors available.
The first one is exact the same recolor as the Pampas Grass which I used to create this water reed in the first place. The last 3 recolors all have a lighter color at the base, this makes them more suiteable ...
Hello everyone,
After a few tests, I discovered that the tuning I made to get the VFX option menu requires the Get Famous Expansion Pack. Luckely this will only be my second mod using this tuning, so I can add it to the thumbnail and information video about the upcoming Water Reed + Pond An...
2020-01-23 09:55:36 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Small update on the animals/effects that will be part of my next 'Water Reed + Pond Animals' mod.
There will be 5 different options, 4 of them are for in your pond (Fountain/Pool) and one of them is for on terrain.
The first effect will be one of 3 dragonfl...
2020-01-20 13:56:52 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Already an update on my next project. As I won't have much time the upcoming week and it's a idea that costs more time then the frogs of yesterday, it will probably be released the week after.
While looking at the scenes I made for the frog in my video, you might...
2020-01-19 10:44:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Animated - Placeable Amphibian - Jumping Frog 🐸
It's time for a new animated animal: The jumping and swimming frog!
For more info and tips and tricks, take a look at the video.
Already a sneak peek on the thumbnail for my first mod of 2020!
I choose this one as on this image you can see it comes from land and jumps into the water, which is everything you need to know for deciding if you need or don't need an effect like that in your game. I think it does help that EA...
This time no sneak peek video of the animation, but one in screenshots.
It's the same scene as I used for the former sneak peeks, but this time I made a screenshot of every single frame of the animation. The last screenshots of the frog swimming in the water isn't the end of the effect though ...
Something I didn't saw when testing this effect code the first time, was that the effect seems to be originally placed on sloped terrain. This now can be seen at the way the frog is floating a bit in the air when spawning. While jumping, it lowers with each jump until right before the final jump....
2020-01-08 12:26:25 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
I've been a bit quiet the last few weeks due to the holidays and not really knowing with what kind of CC to start the new year. I've done a few test with the floating islands, but I think it's too much work for my first CC in 2020.
So I've took a quick look at a few effects...
2020-01-07 12:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I want to wish you all the very best for the New Year! Let's hope 2020 will be an awesome year in whatever way you want it to be!
As for my The Sims 4 part of that, I just hope to make some cool new mods again and maybe learn some new ways of modding. There's still a part of me that wan...
2020-01-02 14:13:56 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone,
Not much news rather then that I've finally bought the 'My First Pet' stuff pack, but also the 'new' Discover University Expansion Pack as it's 50% off now.
The reason for buying the My First Pet stuff pack is because I still want to make my own kind of Zoo in The Sims...
2019-12-30 14:57:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Busy month, so not much time to mod or test things.
I did do some testing with the floating rock islands as you can see on the image. Only in this case I didn't make it float. It was more to see how you can use them to be build on.
I even added a swimming pool! Although I don't think I c...
2019-12-23 15:16:06 +0000 UTC View Post
I've recreated the 'invisible pool water', which I've now renamed into Ultra Clear Pool Water.
The name is better as it's still pool water with it's reflections on the pool water walls and ground and the animation effects from our Sims when they swim. I will try though to make them to disappea...
Hello all!
A week has past and the photobook has been finished! So I'm very happy about that. Now the only hope is that it will be send in time to be able to give it to my parent in law for Christmas!
I don't expect to have much time this week either for The Sims due to a birthday tod...
2019-12-16 09:57:28 +0000 UTC View PostChristmas 🎄🎅
Ok, so this week no new mod and video as I need to work on some Christmas presents. One of them being a photobook which has to be printed before christmas. And reading the photobook-service website, it has to be send this week to be ready in time! So I've go...
Volcanic Mod Pack 🌋
With the arrival of Island Living there were also some cool volcano effects.
I've made a few of those into placeable objects, unlocked the lava-rock objects and made some new pool waters and terrain paints to create a mod pack which makes it possible ...
Hello everyone,
I just want to let you know, that I've made a few small changes to my Patreon page.
First of all I made my "About" text a bit shorter. I think it now only describes the most important things about my Patreon page.
I've also removed the "Early Access for testing" tex...
2019-12-05 15:47:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons!
This video is ONLY for people supporting me on Patreon, so please don't share this video link anywhere else. It's something only YOU are allowed to see.
Volcanic Pack
In this sneak peek video, I started with 2 scenes that won't be in the final video ...
While writing my voice over and making scenes for my mod showcase video, I just made this Lava Moat as an example of what can be done with the lava pool waters too besides using it in volcanos.
It's just an idea for if you're wondering if you can actually use this in your game too. ;)
2019-12-03 15:47:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Probably the last objects for the Volcanic Pack: Invisible objects with a lava smoke effect attached to it. Placing these small or large lava smoke objects on top of the burning lava terrain paint not only makes them look hotter, but also prevents your Sims stepping right on top of them as they w...
2019-12-02 15:09:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Another 4 new objects to the pack!
In the images above you'll see a cooled down and burning large lava rock on the first image and on the second one the same but then with the small lava rocks.
The burning ones don't have any interaction, but are only decorative. I did try to add some in...
2019-11-28 16:24:28 +0000 UTC View Post
The third thing I want you to show, is that both former effects can perfectly be used on top of each other. This will make each of them to look even "stronger". The placing of both of them on the same place can be done without using cheats as they won't mind other objects in their way. This is al...
2019-11-27 11:08:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The second bunch of screenshots about the second invisible object + Effect.
This time it's a volcanic smoke effect measured 4x4 tiles, which is placeable on your pool waters too. As can be seen on the screenshots, it's visible from quite some distance.
Also for this one counts that I wan...
2019-11-27 11:01:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are the first bunch of screenshots about one of the finished invisible objects + Visual effects (VFX).
In this case it's a 4x1 tile long invisible object that spawns some sort of splashing lava effect and smoke. As can be seen on the first image, it will also make the Lava Pool Water a...
2019-11-27 10:45:19 +0000 UTC View PostI've worked a bit more on the Volcanic Pack and that resulted in having an additional 2 new invisible objects that are placeable both on terrain as on pool water that will spawn volcanic effects.
The first one spawns some sort of splashing yellow colored lava and smoke. This can be used to ...
2019-11-26 15:49:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello all,
The promised vulcano examples!
When rasing terrain in each world, the texture of the raised ground is different. In this case in Windenburg, there was this white/gray stone texture. At first I though, damn this is ugly. But looking at it again I thought, it could also be the w...
Finally both pool waters visible and also 3 new terrain paints!
Using all of these or a combination of them makes it easier to create something that looks like a volcano. I did work on a new one after the failed one, but I not totally satisfied yet, so I will work on it a bit more tomorrow bef...
I'm sorry, but still working on those lava pool waters as I just wasn't completely sadified with the result. I now changed the scale of the texture to be a bit bigger. Because of that, the repeatment of the texture is less visible and I think it just looks more lava-ish overall.
I've also w...
2019-11-18 16:03:50 +0000 UTC View Post