Lookies I made something
I've been messing around with a terrain, the 'hood skies and a road default. Before I lost my files, I was working on all of these, but I'm glad I started over.
It's supposed to be a hilly countryside neighbourhood with a little stream running through it, and by the bridge a little settlement. A medieval hamlet. I think I'm going to go for that (at least at first) because it'll be much easier finding all the themed CC. There's just not that much. (Unfortunately...) And much of it I'll find in my backup from last year. I'll just dump in all the delightful medieval stuff Almighty Hat's made (
hat_plays_sims), find hairs and defaults and I'll be all set :)
Everything is still a huge WIP (like the horizon, ugh) but I had a lot of fun taking pictures and I thought I'd share :)
(Apologies for my English in advance. I really should go to bed after posting this.)
Those little specks in the water at the bottom of the picture, that's the reflection of the sky.
A glorious day, wouldn't you say? :D
I found magnificent, FREE sky textures, made for domes like these; they go all the way round and look natural, unlike regular photos.
From those 360 degree textures I've only tried this one out yet, but I'm loving the effect already :)
As for the horizon, I'm not really sure on how to do it. This is an older version of both the river and the horizon, with a very crunchy texture, sorry about that. The point is that it has its horizon made out of a photo of a tree line. I like how it's not just a horizontal line here, and I think I'm going to put this horizon on a 360 sky texture next.
I've been looking at Criquette's pictures of his horizon for reference, his textures are really ideal and so good looking. It actually looks like the land is stretching out for miles in front of you. I have no idea how he managed that, I'm crap at texturing, but I would really like to have that kind of appearance!
The stream turned out to be a GIGANTIC RIVER - just look at the little tree - so I tried to make it smaller in the version after this. Resulted in the terrain of the first couple pictures.
So at some point I put in a couple of neighbourhood decorations, to get a feel of the scale. All modern, of course, but I liked the way it looked.
Especially this one, no neighbourhood would feel right without it any more <3 It fits right in between the two biggest hills across from the river too.
I think I might build this neighbourhood in different eras... it would be fun to figure out how things would change over time.
But for now, it'll be my own, delightfully inaccurate medieval world. :)