You may have noticed that despite my last post stating Greystone was finished and ready to go that it is not yet up on the website. This is because I didn\'t, in the end, have time to playtest it this week and I am not uploading an untested house. I did have time to start working on the front cover and picture taking though so all is not completely lost. I\'m hoping to have it done this week, and by 2 weeks from now at the lastest.
\r\nI have also started on a new shell, currently named \"Spider\" as a working title. It\'s inspired by PC\'s latest \"New Shinto\" build though you probably wouldn\'t be able to tell that from looking at it. The original was definitely inspired by it but it\'s had a few alterations and modifcations since then and now bares no resemblance to what I started with. I\'m hoping that this lot won\'t take me as long to complete as Greystone, but I do have some other ideas I want to start working on as well, one of which is a recreation of a large family house set in an orchard that I made in sims 2 and would like to have a go at in sims 3 (just need to fire up the old game and get some layuot screen shots).
\r\nLast of all, the latest news is that my wordpress site is finally finished. All of the walkthroughs now have their pictures and are all connected to their respective builds. I\'ve also updated the front page to make it a bit more professional (or something :D) I\'m still working on bits and pieces here and there but it\'s more tinkering to get it how I want it now, rather than actually getting the structure complete :) Think of it like a finished sim house, all the exterior, landscaping and decor is done but it just needs some clutter added to give it that \"lived in\" look :).
Because there\'s some up in my studio right now... of the Raspberry Ripple variety.
\r\nThat translates to mean - I\'ve uploaded a new lot called Raspberry Ripple. It\'s an old build that I did about six months ago but it was a request on SID and I wasn\'t sure about uploading it. However the builder of the shell (Mo0se69) has given his blessing so I believe it is ok :)
\r\nThose of you interested in pictures can find them here.
OK here\'s the link: http://sparkleuk.wordpress.com/
\r\nIt\'s a work in progress at the moment so all that\'s really there are the front covers of each of the house acting as links to the downloads. And a list of some of my fav builders (which I plan to expand soon). I\'ll be trying to upload the rest of the walkthrough pics in my free time over the next few weeks, add download info like lot size and price and cheats or tricks used that people need to watch out for etc.
Second attempt to write this blog post!
\r\nBreanneStone (check out her page http://breannestone.wordpress.com/... she has cool tuscan houses amongst other COOL stuff!) has recommended an alternative to the create a story feature here. As you can see from the link, it\'s word press. I\'m going to spend the weekend investigating this possible alternative as it\'s going to take forever to sort through, reupload and replace every single picture from the walkthroughs and if this seems like a viable alternative then I might just copy Bree\'s idea (thanks Bree! :-x) and shift my walkthroughs over to Wordpress instead :)
Seems something\'s happened to the site regarding pictures in stories that have been deleted. I don\'t have room in my account to keep all of my walkthrough pictures uploaded so once I\'ve written a story, I delete the pictures. Up until sometime in the last few weeks that was fine but now it seems it isn\'t and all of my walkthrough pics have vanished.
\r\nApologies to anyone who has used one of the links in the house upload to try and view the walkthrough. I am going to see if reuploading and re-slotting in the pics will work this weekend but it may take some time to get ALL of the stories back up again.
