Winter, ade? - Various Sims 3to2 Conversions
Meteorologists say that this winter in Germany was particularly hard to bear because it has been the darkest one in more than four decades. Less than an average of 100 hours of sunshine had been recorded over the course of the meteorological winter, which runs from December through February, making it the gloomiest winter in at least 43 years.
Light deprivation can have a serious effect on the human body, leading to what is known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or the "winter blues", and I am feeling the blues big time this year.
On another note, I've (more or less) finished the conversion of the Sims 3 'Late Night' bar cabinet that I fiddled around with for a much too long time. I'm not too satisfied with the result of my fiddling, but as the sight of this piece of furniture is meanwhile giving me a nervous twitch, it will have to stay like this.
Backstory: I'd already given up on the cabinet since I couldn't work out the right mirror reflection, when celebkiriedhel suggested to cut off the back of the cabinet and use an in-game mirror as background, which gave me, for the lack of an in-game mirror that I thought to be fitting, the idea to remodel one by adapting its size to that of the middle back wall of the cabinet and then shift the cabinet so far to the wall that it connects with it. There are tiny gaps between cabinet and mirror that you can see from certain angles, particularly when you look at the cabinet from below and/or without a ceiling cover, but as mirrors are insubordinate nuisances it's the best I could do. You can try reducing the gaps with moving either the cabinet or the mirror, or both, with the "moveObjects on" and "snapObjectsToGrid false" cheats. Or you can pass on the mirror version altogether.
For a second version that doesn't have a mirror. delonariel proposed to make a tiled wall for the back of the cabinet as its texture was already tiled, however, I couldn't find textures that looked good enough in combination with the cabinet. Therefore, I remapped the wall, added it as a recolorable subset, and did a handful of recolors in either the color of the cabinet or with a stained glass pattern, giving you the option to choose the background you like.
Top Shelf Bar Shelving - Decorative - Miscellaneous - 245 Simoleons
Top Shelf Bar Shelving Mirror - Decorative - Mirrors - 0 Simoleons
Lest the bar cabinet doesn't feel so lonely in the download folder, I whipped up another cabinet from the 'Supernatural' EP which is very similar to the one I uploaded on Valentine's Day, i.e. antique-looking and with ten decorative slots. In order to decorate the slots, I diminished five stage props from the 'Showtime' EP that I had wanted to convert in their big form for my second part of 'The Big Dump', yet didn't as they've already been converted.
## Aleister's Alchemy Cabinet - Surfaces - Miscellaneous - 415 Simoleons
## Artificial Cannon Co.'s Non-Projectile-Launching Cannon - Decorative - Statues - 120 Simoleons
## Elephant Terrorized by Mice - Decorative - Statues - 160 Simoleons
## Senor Hugglesworth - Decorative - Statues - 145 Simoleons
## Snare Thee Well Drum - Decorative - Statues - 35 Simoleons
## Social Bunny Statue - Decorative - Statues - 85 Simoleons
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?dkdul1n4nbnb7b5
Credits and thanks: EA for the meshes, SimPE, MilkShape, GIMP, TSR Workshop, Huge Lunatic for the tutorial on how to add decorative slots, everyone who downloads my conversions, encouraging me to soldier on
Light deprivation can have a serious effect on the human body, leading to what is known as seasonal affective disorder (SAD) or the "winter blues", and I am feeling the blues big time this year.
Click to viewOn another note, I've (more or less) finished the conversion of the Sims 3 'Late Night' bar cabinet that I fiddled around with for a much too long time. I'm not too satisfied with the result of my fiddling, but as the sight of this piece of furniture is meanwhile giving me a nervous twitch, it will have to stay like this.
Backstory: I'd already given up on the cabinet since I couldn't work out the right mirror reflection, when celebkiriedhel suggested to cut off the back of the cabinet and use an in-game mirror as background, which gave me, for the lack of an in-game mirror that I thought to be fitting, the idea to remodel one by adapting its size to that of the middle back wall of the cabinet and then shift the cabinet so far to the wall that it connects with it. There are tiny gaps between cabinet and mirror that you can see from certain angles, particularly when you look at the cabinet from below and/or without a ceiling cover, but as mirrors are insubordinate nuisances it's the best I could do. You can try reducing the gaps with moving either the cabinet or the mirror, or both, with the "moveObjects on" and "snapObjectsToGrid false" cheats. Or you can pass on the mirror version altogether.
For a second version that doesn't have a mirror. delonariel proposed to make a tiled wall for the back of the cabinet as its texture was already tiled, however, I couldn't find textures that looked good enough in combination with the cabinet. Therefore, I remapped the wall, added it as a recolorable subset, and did a handful of recolors in either the color of the cabinet or with a stained glass pattern, giving you the option to choose the background you like.
Top Shelf Bar Shelving - Decorative - Miscellaneous - 245 Simoleons
Top Shelf Bar Shelving Mirror - Decorative - Mirrors - 0 Simoleons
Lest the bar cabinet doesn't feel so lonely in the download folder, I whipped up another cabinet from the 'Supernatural' EP which is very similar to the one I uploaded on Valentine's Day, i.e. antique-looking and with ten decorative slots. In order to decorate the slots, I diminished five stage props from the 'Showtime' EP that I had wanted to convert in their big form for my second part of 'The Big Dump', yet didn't as they've already been converted.
## Aleister's Alchemy Cabinet - Surfaces - Miscellaneous - 415 Simoleons
## Artificial Cannon Co.'s Non-Projectile-Launching Cannon - Decorative - Statues - 120 Simoleons
## Elephant Terrorized by Mice - Decorative - Statues - 160 Simoleons
## Senor Hugglesworth - Decorative - Statues - 145 Simoleons
## Snare Thee Well Drum - Decorative - Statues - 35 Simoleons
## Social Bunny Statue - Decorative - Statues - 85 Simoleons
Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?dkdul1n4nbnb7b5
Credits and thanks: EA for the meshes, SimPE, MilkShape, GIMP, TSR Workshop, Huge Lunatic for the tutorial on how to add decorative slots, everyone who downloads my conversions, encouraging me to soldier on