Friday, January 31, 2014

Textures.

These can be a pain in the butt, and gathering all the things to make them is time consuming. But whatever. I don't care. I love it.


The texture for the downstairs floor. This one probably took me quite a while to do, figuring out where would be stained and worn down, and then figuring out the pantry floor and bathroom floor, because I had to do a lot of guestimating as to if the walls would cover the where the concrete meets the wood floors and the tile and so on and so forth and Scooby Dooby Dooby. 

The Berber carper makes me cringe, but it's a common enough carpet (especially in the late '80s to early '90s) which makes it work here. Plus Berber (if I'm even spelling that right) carpeting is one of the cheapest options in Sims, so I figured that was universal as well. The concrete flooring is simply narrow slabs of concrete put together as if they had extra from when they first built the house and they had leftover concrete. The tiles are fun! And the rug is probably my favorite part. 




This (top image) is the texture for the living room area, and the wood slats run perpendicular to their outer partners (bottom image) for added stability. The '60s definitely had a fascination with wood on the walls, and that lasted through the '80s and into the early '90s. And if you're lucky, you can still find houses with wide wooden slats on the walls AND a hard wood floor! Yikes...




These three textures are for the now-yellowed upstairs walls, the originally soft yellow and blue for the bedroom and the originally soft pink for the bathroom. The wooden part that you see in the middle image is where the stairs connect to the upper floor, and the wood would have continued on instead of using the bedroom wallpaper. 

MORE TEXTURES TO COME.



Thursday, January 16, 2014

More stuff!

On Monday I started a bathtub. 



And some new stairs. 



Reference for the stairs:


Today I made a toilet.


Toilets are really weird shapes. 


Reference for the bathroom:


Here's the bottom floor with the living area, kitchen, stairs, a half-bathroom, and a walk-in pantry thing.


And the top loft thing with the bathroom and bedroom over there.


Today I also built an entertainment center from January 13, 2000 (at 12:31pm).


And in case you don't believe me:


Here it is with the TV and the couch.


I'm fairly certain I'm done for the day. My head hurts.


Monday, January 13, 2014

Interior design...?

Since research seems to be my kind of thing, look at all the things I did. 







Now the stairs are a little different from the reference photo I found, because I didn't see the point in having the stairs do a U, so I made them do an L, but I still like the wood quality of the reference image stairs. 




This is now Senior Capstone

Anyone who says differently is so wrong - so wrong, in fact, that everything else seems right.