#saviorhide

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the stream to say hey and see how to do things. I hope the video was helpful and I had fun so thank you all and thanks for the questions and the comments!

I will now spend a million years in blender posing Neo and H*eiss as a thank you gift to you all. Thanks! <3

OK postponed till tomorrow. My mic IS working, I’ve tested it on Discord, I’m talking right now. My streaming program is NOT picking it up. I’ll try again tomorrow! Sorry peeps!

Poison out!

yvesdot:

oc asks that reveal more than you think

1. Do they sleep with a stuffed animal? If they have multiple, who’s the favorite?
2. Can they take care of a plant? What about a pet? What about a child?
3. Ask them to describe their love interest.
4. Do they look good in red?
5. Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Will they give one, and what about?
6. Who will they take advice from, no matter what it is? Who won’tthey take advice from, no matter what it is?
7. Describe them in three words. Now let them describe themself in three words.
8. Do complex puzzles intrigue or frustrate them?
9. Do they empathize with non-sentient things (dolls, plants, books…)?
10. What age do they most want to be right now?
11. They’ve won the lottery. Spend, or save?
12. Do they like romance in the books they read (or in the book they’re in)?
13. Name one thing their parents taught them.
14. Would they agree with the term ‘guilty pleasure’? Do they have any?
15. What would they consider a waste of time– other than school or work?
16. If money wasn’t a limit, what would they wear?
17. Do they like children?
18. Kissing: tongue or no tongue?
19. Do they study before tests? Practice before job interviews?
20. What do they like that nobody else does?
21. What would it take for them to break up with someone? What would be the last straw?
22. Do they like being called pet names? Do they call other people pet names? What’s their go-to?
23. Stability or novelty?
24. Honesty or charity?
25. Safety or possibility?
26. Talent or effort?
27. Forgiveness or vengeance (or…)?
28. Would they date a fixer-upper?
29. What recurring dreams do they have?
30. What would they do if they knew it would be forgiven?

a visual guide | requested by @izayoichan​

Iza asked me for some tips to get started with fantasy setup and scenery, and I’ve been asked before in the past, so I figured I’d just write up a post to better explain my personal process. This is by no means a tutorial and if you like your builds to be playable and seamless this is not the post for you. But if you’re interested in how I go about things or just have a morbid interest in long rambling posts, enjoy!

decide what you want to see in your pictures

I approach all my pics the same way, because I generally have a specific look I want to achieve, the same way I have a type when I make sims, I like all my pictures to have a consistent aesthetic throughout. I think it’s common that a lot of simblrs have a signature, even if they don’t think they do. I’m just aware of mine and actively work towards it. But I haven’t always had “my thing” and honestly the only way to find what is yours, is to try different things and find what stands out to you as being visually pleasing.

When I make photos I incorporate the same few elements; namely transparent curtains or “flowy draped things”, leaves and florals which I use to frame my pictures to give some semblance of foreground and depth to my photos. Plus a lot of hazy soft white light… and sometimes sparkles.

One way I can recommend to find what your style is without taking heaps of pics, is to go through your favorite kinds of artwork and see what elements pop up repeatedly. What sort of things do you like about those pictures and how can you try to mimic or incorporate them in yours?

building with the final product in mind

A lot of people have asked for my builds over the years not realizing that while some of my sets are expansive, they are only made for the explicit purpose of taking pics, and that I intentionally angle photos to give the impression that there’s more to it than there is. Most of my sets are very small and don’t make much sense in practice:

Think of the sort of picture you want to make, and consider your formatting. For edits I do “pinterest/lock screen” style vertical format, which means I will have a very narrow, very tall lens, so I only need to decorate in a condensed space. For story shots I have to build more extensively because they are wide shots. Building for a specific picture or set of photos can reduce the amount of work you put into setup.

planning your set

Depending on the sort of theme you’re going for, find some pieces of cc that illicit that vibe of the aesthetic you want. Here are a few of my go-to’s when I do anything elven:

Take lot space into account. I almost always build on 64x64 lots unless I am doing a single room. When I build small sets I usually focus on details up front, then get less detailed for the background because I know they will be blurred. This applies to lived in spaces like homes or community lots where you would clutter surfaces, or in wooded areas, use more of your flower and stone clutter in places you know will end up in the photos.

Larger sets are much trickier, because you have to have a sense of scale to make things seem realistic, but since ts4 gives us limited space to work on, it can be very challenging. For my castle and other large scale builds I usually only build one particular area on a lot, then other pieces of it on separate lots. [For example, in this CotS scene, the bridge entrance into the banquet hall was on one lot, while the interiorwas on another]. This is one way I make things seem larger than what they really are. But this is not recommended for someone who wants full builds with all locations seamlessly together.

When I start building, I generally begin at the middle and expand outwards. I’m not one of those smart people that pre-plans where everything will go on a lot, I just go in swinging and hope things fall into place lmao. Please reference this askfor more evidence of my failure and disorganization amazing city-building skills.

Use flowers, rocks and bushes to hide sharp edges or corners, especially to cover the bottom of walls or foundation. A little terrain painting underneath to add naturalness, and some fallen leave clutter to give the appearance of the passage of time. 

Scale is really important in high fantasy. As scenery elements in fantasy concept art, movies or video games are often depicted as massive, and impose themselves on the surrounding setting. Here’s a great video that explains scale in art. How can we achieve this in sims? Easy! We have the power of resize button ;) Add some interesting angles and voila!

Make the lot seem bigger, more “mystical” with the use of fog and light objects for exteriors, or mirrors when doing interior/corridors. 

Downloads: [fog rugs] [light + darkness objects]

As a purely alpha simmer, I also use heavy foliage, cliff rocks, backdrops and fog to obscure the maxis match game world. 

UseTOOLmod and OMSPs like your life depends on it.

If you want more technical and visual guides on how to build in ts4, or do big city builds, I know kateEmeraldandSatiSims both have time lapse and how-to videos on their youtube channels.

When building fantasy sets I don’t usuallyhave reference photos. The fun part is creating my own personal world, so I don’t want to mimic something inch by inch. Instead I try to recreate a feeling for myself. I’ve always loved fantasy, LOTR in my favorite movie, and WoW was my first major MMO. Their settings make me incredibly nostalgic, not only for the feel of the parallel history they represent, but for the time and place in my life in which I discovered them. When I’m building, I am specifically trying to recapture that feeling. Which is why I settle on a handful of sets and use them again and again, because they represent some portion of that memory. 

It’s hard to explain it in writing, but I recommend digging through your own personal experiences with your favorite fantasy game series, novel or maybe a place you visited that gave you a feeling of “magic” and try to weave that into your build. One such place for me is Yehl/Vaia’s bedroom, which reminds me a lot of the room in Rivendell where Frodo wakes up after Arwen’s ride, or the inn from AoA which makes me nostalgic for the renaissance festival in my home state. Focusing on the feeling can be sometimes better than trying to recreate something, because often when using a fantasy concept ref you are going to run into some game limitation, especially if you can’t make your own cc, and that will discourage you from continuing. It may also be better than using other people’s game photos as reference, because then you will likely end up too similar and that style wont feel like your own. But if you’re just starting out, I really recommend using pinterest to collect some images of things you like, photographs or artwork, anything. It’ll give you a starting point if you’re completely lost.

After sitting down and trying to write this up, I realized it’s much more difficult to explain via text how I make any of my sets LMAO. I know you primarily asked for my thought process and such, but I’ll be happy to try and answer any specific questions you might still have. All in all, the only way to improve is to practice. And try not to get discouraged and give up, because that only hinders progress. Find some part of it that you can love, cuz otherwise you’ll never be able to make yourself do it xD Anyways, this was just a long drawn out way of saying “throw things at the wall and hope they stick”, GL!

Pretty sure no one cares about this but oh well. So I have not posted anything since last year and I just wanna say, I’m going to be on indefinite hiatus. My final exams are coming in 2 months and these exams will determine my place in junior college. It’s giving me anxiety and I have never felt this tired and scared before. I also have kind of lost my passion in sims 4 but  I still love this game so I’ll try to return after my exams. I’ll still try to be online but it won’t be regular.

Em

I was tagged by @applezingsims! Thanks dude!

RULES: It’s not just our Brooding Sims who have the option to ‘Talk About Feelings’; we can also talk about our feelings, about them, too!

Look deep into yourself and ponder on the thoughts which motivate you to play the game we all love. Then tag at least 5 people on your friends list to help them explore their feelings too.

I was tagged by @scipisims!

The questions are as follows:

1. The boss of EA is in front of you asking for one statement about The Sims before he goes away and makes TS5. What do you say to him?
   Bring back Bed Cuddling 
   
   
2. Do your Sims know you as their Sim God or are you the invisible deity to them?
   Nortu better know I’m up here making magic happen. If not Imma probably start raining frogs and killing firstborns. 
   
   
3. How do you see yourself connected to your Sims? Do those of you who say you love them, really mean this? How deep is your game?
   To be honest, I’m pretty attached to my sims. One family will last me a year or more of game play because I can’t bare the thought of not looking at their little pudding faces. 
   
   
4. What’s your Sims Secret? Is there something going on in your game that none of your screenshots will ever tell us? WHO IS LOCKED IN YOUR BASEMENT???? What are those secret Sims doing behind closed doors?
   hmmm…..Nortu has a pretty rad bug collection? He’s got a shed in the back yard filled with them and sometimes I’ll catch him just staring at them. What a weirdo.  
   
   
5. Can we learn anything from our Sims to take away for our real lives? And/or can you give us an example of how The Sims has influenced you outside of gaming.
   I feel like after playing the sims I look at skills much differently. Much more like a “work in progress” then expecting to be good at something right away. When I get better at something I feel like I’ve “leveled up” XD
   Also, I’ve met some really talented people through tumblr, that I talk to on a almost daily basis & can’t imagine not having them around 
   
   I tag @deetron-sims@teanmoon@simlaughlove@mlyssimblr@martinessimblr

Being neurodivergent is hard.

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wow okay so depp’s psychologist or whatever said that “bpd is a common factor in women who physically abuse their partners” and none of y'all are blinking an eye at that…… LMFAO

i hope every depp supporter gets their teeth knocked out

wait so lemme get this straight… this bitch was hired BY DEPP to evaluate amber. after TWELVE HOURS she came to the conclusion that amber has borderline personality disorder. and then of course goes on to say that in her professional experience or whatever, women with bpd are basically known to be abusers.

are y'all seeing this shit???

on top of that she also diagnosed her with histrionic personality disorder. so this psychologist (HIRED BY DEPP WHO HAS HAD DINNER AT HIS HOUSE) talks with amber for TWELVE HOURS across TWO DAYS, diagnoses her with bpd (making her an “abuser”) and hpd (making her “attention-seeking”) and no one thinks this is a little weird. a little odd. a little bit of a setup?

but amber’s psychologist who worked with her all the way back in 2019 is a sham apparently. amber is faking ptsd as a bisexual victim of abuse from MULTIPLE different people in her life but this clown hired by her abuser can diagnose her with bpd and hpd in less than a day. i fucking hate y'all.

If this shocks you, it shouldn’t. This goes on every single day to women everywhere. We are seen as the issue, but this has been going on since the beginning of time. Men always win over women, and when they lose, its all the fault of a woman/women. This will never change, I’m afraid.

I’ll have had this simblr for 7 years in August. Crazy how time flies when you’re not looking.

Capitalism is one of the the worst things that was ever invented.

What is happening in this here little community is just mirroring what’s going on in the real world. It’s all about moneymoneymoney. We have stopped caring about “the greater good” and are now all about “me me me”. It makes me super sad because money, notoriety, clout, etc. has become the new norm. Self entitlement has become the new norm. Not caring about others is the new norm.

I liked this world much better when we helped each other rather than kicking people down. It’s sad and it makes my heart hurt. In the grand scheme of things, none of this matters.

deelitefulsimmer:

Sometimes I wish there was a button or a spell or something where your uterus just shrivels up and falls out when we decide we didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Because fuck periods.

Like, we would have celebrations and shit over it. We could give our uteruses (uteri?)going away parties.

Sometimes I wish there was a button or a spell or something where your uterus just shrivels up and falls out when we decide we didn’t want to deal with it anymore. Because fuck periods.

I lowkey want ramen for breakfast. Not the real kind. Like Top Ramen. Roast beef flavor is my favorite, and it seems it’s everyone else’s too because I can never find it and have to purchase it off Amazon like the addict-of-shit-ramen I am.

I struggle so badly with ADHD, but I’m just now being diagnosed and treated at 44. What are your best hacks for getting organized, and actually getting things done?

What’s Up…

Miss you guys! Last day of teaching was last week and I have just been enjoying summer, reading, and working hard on my etsy shop. Our house should be done in 2 months(ish) so Mila can have more room to play. We have been hiking recently - the weather has been so nice.  I won’t really be on but my tumblr will continue to be available for you, keep making awesome things! :) 

Thank you @kerrits@mamabearssims@clubuh@livvsims@rheathesims@peachiepixels@hazelpxls for tagging me! Sorry I am so late to post this!

～(^з^)-♡

Rules: Answer 30 questions and tag 10 people
Nickname(s): Abs, Abagee, Smubuh, Spoda, Baby Abs
Gender:Female
Sign: Virgo
Height:5′2″
Time: 8:08 PM
Birthday: September 4th
Favourite Band(s): Fall Out Boy, Panic! At the Disco, Cobra Starship
Favourite Solo Artist(s): Amos Lee, Jasmine Thompson
Song Stuck In My Head: “Music of the Night” from Phantom of the Opera
Last Movie I Watched: We just watched “LOGAN” last night
Last Show I Watched: Planet Earth II
When Did I Create This Blog: I created it sometime in early 2016, but really started posting in November or December of 2016.
What Do I Post: Mostly tutorials and asks, sometimes edits or builds
What Did I Last Google: Can dogs go potty on synthetic turf? Haha weird I KNOW! :P
Other Blogs: I have my smubuhfinds blog and the editcoffeeshop blog.
Do I Get Asks: Yes, and I feel so bad I am bad at keeping up with them!
Why Did I Choose This Url: Ryan started calling me smubuh during our freshmen year of college and it just stuck?!
Following:493
Followers:12,317
Average Hours of Sleep: Probably about 7ish?!
Lucky Number: 2, it was always my softball number!
Instrument: I wish! I attempted to play the clarinet in middle school but that was a total fail!
What Am I Wearing: Grey sweater, black pants, and fuzzy socks!
Dream Job: I love my job as an art teacher actually and I can’t imagine doing anything else!
Last Book I Read:Probably “Room”??
3 Favourite Fandoms: Avatar the Last Airbender, LOTR/Hobbit, Gravity Falls maybe?

I will tag @simblrbreezycakes@viiavi@caprisims@toastiesims@pxelmango@rootivy@citrusio@acidbulb@taeskii@ayshio@tangandzing, I apologize if you did this already!

Rules: Bold whichever applies to you.

I was tagged by @phoenixfg&@nolan-sims. Thank you!

Autumnor Fall?
Pumpkin Carving or Apple Picking?I’ve never carved a pumpkin in my life!
Halloweenor Thanksgiving?
Cashmere or Flannel?
Cool and Crisp or Warm and Foggy?
Yankee Candles or Roaring Fireplace?
Scarvesor Berets?
Cinnamonor Nutmeg?
Reading a Book or Watching a Movie?
Halloweentown or Nightmare Before Christmas?
Hot Chocolate or Apple Cider?
Wool Socks or Slippers?
Trick or Treat?
Marshmallowsor Whipped Cream?
Jackor Sally?
GoosebumpsorAre You Afraid of the Dark?
PlaidorNeutrals?
Coffeeor Tea?
Studyblror Halloween Blog?
Red or Gold? Both for Gryffindor?
Blanketsor Pillows?
Cabinsor Cottages?
Scaryor Spoopy?
Sweaters or Boots? Both!
Caramel Apples or Candy Apples?
Hay Rides or Leaf Peeping?

I tag everyone who wants to be tagged!