Nothing in my life is pink, or grey. I look terrible in pink, and terrible in grey. Nothing in my house is pink or grey - everything I have is cranberry and dark wood, so I don't know why I've been so obsessed with pink and grey. I don't ever start out wanting stuff to be pink and grey, but I'll start to design something and little by little it ends up pink and grey - something about it I just love. I guess I'm just a girly-girl at heart, or maybe it's because pink and grey is color of brains, and I'm a zombie.
I've been building a house, a cute little 2-story country number, and I've been getting used to the customization tools, I like the build/buy abilities, for the most part, though some of the shadows that are overlaying the textures are a bit much.
Here's something that's handy:
Customizing wood patterns - the patterns where there are visible "planks" are fun because you can customize each individual plank. It took me a while to figure that out, because I didn't like the look of the plank-type woods, so I passed right over them in customizing mode. If you choose the right type of planked wood, the color palette circle shows an array of colors that you can play around with. (pic in link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23606290@N02/3597732246/ ). One of the best uses of these woods so far has been customizing the baseboards and mouldings on wallcoverings. The particular wood that is shown in the pic matches up in such a way so that one color bubble changes the baseboard, another changes the bottom-most part of the moulding, and the other changes the top part of the moulding.
Just got the game today. So far it looks good. Can't wait to see what modding tools come out, I spent a year learning how to mesh and hope I can continue doing so for the sims3.
Now, I'm off to learn how to build something cool. :)






