CrescentMoonPye's Blog
: July 2009
Helpful Hints from citizens of the Sim Universe
POSTED ON 07/23/09
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 Making Custom Tattoos & Stuff

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~ princessdanford: 

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I used this one, it is pretty easy to follow
http://www.sims2wiki.info/Sims_3:Creating_A_New_Base_Texture

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also:
Mr Morecoffee\u2019s Quick and Easy Guide to Pattern Creating. www.simmingitup.org
D.M. Navarro joins Sim's Addiction
POSTED ON 07/21/09
   I made my 3rd Notorious Sim, D.M. Navarro, after about 40 hours of disastrous struggling with a computer that really likes to eat my create-a-sim efforts. (drag - drag - drag... I need a new video card very badly!

But I got him through finally (woohoo!), and I think he turned out kind of nice. I don\'t think Dave Navarro would be mad at me for TS3ing him. Download if you like him enough:
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=683447
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I assume my simmie\'s tattoos are the temporary lick-on kind, because they washed off when he took a shower. If I was any good at CC Graphics stuff, I would have put them on permanently for you. But I\'m not, so here you are:
http://llnw.thesims3.com/sims3_asset/sims3_asset/m...000/00/screenshot_original.jpg http://llnw.thesims3.com/sims3_asset/sims3_asset/m...000/00/screenshot_original.jpg http://llnw.thesims3.com/sims3_asset/sims3_asset/m...000/00/screenshot_original.jpg
I suggest you move him into Jon Lesson\'s mansion [the House of Rock, as I\'ve renamed it] in Riverview, so they can start a band called Sim\'s Addiction. http://llnw.thesims3.com/sims3_asset/sims3_asset/m...000/00/screenshot_original.jpg Watch out though, there\'s a crazy chick named Jane spreading rumors all over town that D.M. wears leather underwear. Well, it\'s not so much a rumor as it is the truth, really.
Everything he owns [wears] is made of leather, even his underwear. I made him three white guitars to keep in his inventory so he doesn\'t get bored. They\'re not PRSs, but they are here if you want them:
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=667290
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=667288
http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=667287

Here\'s why he is the way he his:
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I spent hours reading the real guy\'s My Space/Official Page, listening to his voice on the videos (& his music playing away in the background while I fought with the sliders- wanted to stay in mode so he would be genuinely \'Dave\'), and going blind staring at all the photographs of him (no hardship there though!).
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    I picked his particular traits because I think they sum up Dave pretty well based on his public image (I don\'t really know the guy, of course, so they could be wrong). *** In an interview I just heard, he revealed that he\'s now a \'use a coaster\' type since his drug rehab. He never wants to live in those apalling drug-induced conditions again so he\'s admittedly become a bit of a neat freak. I switched the Great Kisser to the Neat trait and reuploaded him.
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    The only thing I couldn\'t find is what he likes to eat so I went with Goopy carbonara, given his Mexican heritage. The Indie part should speak for itself.
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    I picked white because he so often plays Paul Reed Smith (PRS) white guitars, which many of his promotional pictures demonstrate. I\'m assuming he liked the color.
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Bemoaning the missing create-a-sim sliders, I did my best.
So have fun playing him, consider my struggle and give me credit if you use him in your creations, then sim your little hearts out with my blessing!

Helpful Hints from citizens of the Sim Universe
POSTED ON 07/17/09

   Relationship Linkage Issue

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~ CrescentMoonPye:

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I have found that if I try to merge my CAS newly-made sim family into an existing household straight out of the Library, all of their relationship links are removed 

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But if I :

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--> place the family into an empty house/lot

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--> then evict them

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--> then place them into other existing houses/lots

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... their family relationship links will stay intact. 

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Hope this helps someone out there so you don\'t have to go through what I did to find out the hard way

Say Hello to my little friend
POSTED ON 07/06/09

      I made the second of my Notorious Sims the other day. 

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I had fun making him even if he\'s not as exact as I would have liked him to be. Oh well. Just a game, right?  He\'s a combination of the actor, the fictional criminal that he made famous, and bits and pieces of some other real life facts about him.

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Meet:  Alfredo Pacino Corleone    

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Here\'s why he is the way that he is:

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  • To Be Inserted when I have time to rewrite it for the 3rd time - hours worth the work just disappeared due to crashing computer, don\'t have the heart to redo it just now. But I will.
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  • He really does like the color Black \r\n
  • I don\'t know what he really likes to eat, never did find out. So I picked spaghetti because it seemed appropriate, don\'t you think? \r\n
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    He really likes classical music. He \"is an avid fan of opera. Once worked as an usher at Carnegie Hall.\"