Oh, you tease ;) I'm completely blown away by your creating-skills. I'm sorry to say I wont be able to lend you a hand with this (I have never ventured into the world of creating neighbourhood objects before), I just wanted to let you know that everything looks awesome :) I feel completely useless when I say I wont be able to help out with the naming either. Marla and Jenny sounds very cool as boatnames, though. The only thing I can think of is "Hajen" (means "the shark" in Swedish) and that's from a show I used to watch as a kid. Other than that my mind is a complete blank, sorry ):
Thank you. ^^ Neighbourhood objects are the easiest thing besides recolors, surely simpler than hair and clothes. ;) All you need is a mesh and a texture, you don't even have to bother with GUIDs. I think Lina would be a good boat name, too, don't you agree? ;D Maybe for that little sailing boat? I will make it blue and red then. ;)
You don't need GUIDs for neighbourhood objects? I'll have to throw away my belief that everything needs it's own GUID or Instance-numbers to not overwrite anything, then. Do you find neighbourhood objects in the same place than you find regular objects (for cloning purposes, I mean)? If it turns out you're right and it is easy, I'd be happy to help out :) Really?! I'd be happy to have a little blue and red sailing boat named after me. Gosh, that'd be so cool :D
Well, they need GUIDs, too. But they get a new one automatically when you clone hood deco, and there's so much fewer hood deco than regular objects that there's no conflict that I know of. You find them in the Workshop under Other > Neighborhood, but first you have to activate advanced mode (Extra > Preferences > SimPE Settings) and restart SimPE. Though I wouldn't ask for a completely finished deco, the daunting part is the finicky work of simplifying bits and pieces. Maybe there're some easier ways to quickly reduce polycount without messing up the model, but I'm doing it all by hand, one by one. If someone would help me with that that would already be a great help. You already do so much, though, I don't really want to put more on your plate. There's an easier case that I feel comfortable giving to you: That bigger sailing boat in the left corner, its polycount is alright (646) but the mapping is all jumbled. If you could fix that and if you feel like it also make a texture? :)
I'm well late to this party, but if you're still open for naming suggestions, S/S Tornator was a pretty well-known (well, locally), well-nostalgised Finnish transatlantic steam freighter built in Copenhagen in 1916. She was quite a bit like the SS Maudie and other "cookpot iron" freighters of the day; now I'll have to hit up Google Images...
*edit* Crud! I fail at reading comprehension. :D The penultimate boat especially is very cute; somehow it reminds me of The Yellow Submarine album cover. Maybe name them something mildly, ah, nautical, like The Sweet Fannie?
This party is still going on. ;) I can hardly find pictures of SS Tornator or SS Maudie, but I will note the names. I found this Tornator II, though: http://www.kolumbus.fi/olli.torvinen/engindex.html I like the color scheme and will use that for the steamboat (in the middle of the collection).
Meanwhile I had the idea to use Sims names, so I have plenty. I'm currently going through Sims Wiki. Can you believe the biography of Angela Pleasant actually says "She dreams of being a fishing boat captain"? You will get your boat, Angela. :D
There aren't that many pictures of them, I'm afraid - sorry to have sent you on a wild goose chase. The black-and-red colour scheme is iconic in Finnish steamers of that age, and if it was a tugboat or a guide owned by a forestry company, the boat would have a white horizontal strip painted on its chimney, and the company's logo emblazoned in the bit above the white band. (Sorry, bit of a nerd - by gran'da was a steam engineer on the S/S Hurma, which is still operational and maintained in its retrotastic glory.) Maybe you can put your Benevolent Dictatorship's logo there too... I know I need to get off my butt and learn recolouring already, so I can begin to stamp the Overseer's compass rose on various things.
The Unsinkable Angela! I love it. :D I seldom play with premades, but the "lore" of the game series is so wonderful, maybe I ought to send my sims on vacation aboard the Dauntless Goopy...
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I'm completely blown away by your creating-skills. I'm sorry to say I wont be able to lend you a hand with this (I have never ventured into the world of creating neighbourhood objects before), I just wanted to let you know that everything looks awesome :)
I feel completely useless when I say I wont be able to help out with the naming either. Marla and Jenny sounds very cool as boatnames, though. The only thing I can think of is "Hajen" (means "the shark" in Swedish) and that's from a show I used to watch as a kid. Other than that my mind is a complete blank, sorry ):
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I think Lina would be a good boat name, too, don't you agree? ;D Maybe for that little sailing boat? I will make it blue and red then. ;)
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Really?! I'd be happy to have a little blue and red sailing boat named after me. Gosh, that'd be so cool :D
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*edit* Crud! I fail at reading comprehension. :D The penultimate boat especially is very cute; somehow it reminds me of The Yellow Submarine album cover. Maybe name them something mildly, ah, nautical, like The Sweet Fannie?
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Meanwhile I had the idea to use Sims names, so I have plenty. I'm currently going through Sims Wiki. Can you believe the biography of Angela Pleasant actually says "She dreams of being a fishing boat captain"? You will get your boat, Angela. :D
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There aren't that many pictures of them, I'm afraid - sorry to have sent you on a wild goose chase. The black-and-red colour scheme is iconic in Finnish steamers of that age, and if it was a tugboat or a guide owned by a forestry company, the boat would have a white horizontal strip painted on its chimney, and the company's logo emblazoned in the bit above the white band. (Sorry, bit of a nerd - by gran'da was a steam engineer on the S/S Hurma, which is still operational and maintained in its retrotastic glory.) Maybe you can put your Benevolent Dictatorship's logo there too... I know I need to get off my butt and learn recolouring already, so I can begin to stamp the Overseer's compass rose on various things.
The Unsinkable Angela! I love it. :D I seldom play with premades, but the "lore" of the game series is so wonderful, maybe I ought to send my sims on vacation aboard the Dauntless Goopy...
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hm, Goopy. I was only looking at female names, but Goopy doesn't sound bad either.
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