STEX Lots Service

[Nerd_Guy 4]

Hi mrbisonm!  I often make my own lots that are inspired by yours.  Lately I have been trying to get a City Journal going for the first time, and I need to make some custom lots.  I have several made, but my Lot Editor has been acting difficult.  Is it possible for you to make some high-wealth rural lots for me?  

I only have a few specifics:

-- I like using the base texture that is used on the Maxis pasture farm

-- I prefer to have just one building on the lot for the style I'm going for. i.e. Not the smashed-together buildings. I have a few of those already

-- modular is good! lol

I already have several low wealth and middle wealth lots, as well as the barns, silos, and fields, so this is all I need. 

Just PM me if you decide to help w/ this!

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Nerd_Guy,

Sounds good and easy, but I need to know a few things. 

1. How many lots

2. What R$$$ buildings (names) do you prefer?

3. Lotsizes and it what category you want them (LM's , Parks, Power etc)?

4. I need to know the Maxis code for the pasture grass texture, 'cause I have no idea which one that is.

5. You want just some High wealth homes or combination-propped (smashed together as you call them)  villa's / Mansions as on the pics below?

mrbisonm

All my lots have names since three years, a way to find them easier in my Giant Plugins folder. The names are attached to the lots.All these above Mansion lots are independant from electricity, since they can be found in the Powermenu, being built on a windmill lot. They can be build anywhere without electricity, but need road contact.

[Nerd_Guy 4]

Alright, let me see.  

1. I am not sure on the number of lots. Is 5 or 6 good with you?

2. Pretty much anything low density that isn't European. I am going for a Midwestern American look.  Simgoober's RLS houses are good. Like the Highgrove and Cheriton and such.

3. The park menu is fine.  I don't care what size for the lots though.  I was planning to make them all different sizes when my LE stopped working.

4. I have no idea what the code is.  In fact, I had no idea they have codes...

  I can provide a picture though! 

It is the green texture in most all of the picture. 

5.  It's really up to you as long as they aren't extremly large, like the Governor's Mansion in your picture.  As they say, "Variety is the spice of life!" 

Thank you for taking on this project. I hope to have my LE up and running again soon.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

While I was waiting for your approval Schulmanator, I tweaked a little the sign again and came up with this final model. It is a little bigger, but with a combination of size, colour and lettering, I was able to make the words readable in view 5. Check the pics below and give me your ok and pm me your e-mail please. Both lots are ready. I cannot turn on the lights though.......lol. Haven't figured out yet how to make nitelites.

Nerd_Guy, 
Ok, I will have a look at what you said, but I need the link to Simgoobers homes you want. (What I hate most in life is searching......) . I will make three lots and if you're lucky that I have some free time, maybe 5. I still have two jobs to finish before I start yours, ok?
How do 2x2, 2x3 and 3x3 lots sound ? Do you want these homes to look like some medium rich sims live there, not quite Mansions?
Btw, when you open the texture menu, just beside the texture is a number, which is the code.

mrbisonm

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Thank you! I appreciate your hard work. I think we'll need to lose the lettering and just use the banner. In your last example, the banner just about covers up the three windows in the middle section. Perhaps we could stretch the color bands just a bit to completely fill that section with the logo.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

You mean that I spent 2 hours to figure out the best way to show the letters for nothing ?.......omg.....lol. ah...that is ok though, I had fun. ...Ok I will stretch the sign so it will fit over the whole three windows on the Ananas House. Pm me with your e-mail, they will be ready tomorrow.

Now I will take a break from gmax.....lol

mrb

[Nerd_Guy 4]

Here are a few of the links:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?p=results

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?p=results

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?p=results

I get home from school tomorrow at about 5 pm Central Time, and I will get that code for you then. I can get the LE to open, but it is the saving that won't work...

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Originally posted by: Nerd_Guy Here are a few of the links:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?p=results

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?p=results

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?p=results

I get home from school tomorrow at about 5 pm Central Time, and I will get that code for you then. I can get the LE to open, but it is the saving that won't work... quote>

 

Those links don't seem to work.........

Just give me the exact names and I will find them. The search thing on ST is not what's best on the net......

mrb

[Nerd_Guy 4]

Lol, the STEX amazes me with it's brilliance sometimes....

Anyway, the names are the Highgrove, the Cheriton, and the Colonial.

And I finally got that code:

0x25d60000

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Perfect Nerd_Guy, I will get on it later this weekend, thanks. You didn't answer my questions earlier:

[Nerd_Guy 4]

Oh yeah, sorry about that, I was in a hurry

Those sizes sound good. I have enough filler lots to make things of any size, I just don't have the homes lol.  And yes, just medium rich sims. Not like movie stars and stuff, just upper middle class.  If possible I would like them in ploppables.  The park menu is fine.  Thanks!

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Oops! Sorry Mr B... for some reason your last post with the clearer lettering did not show up when I read the thread, so all I saw was the first one and not the second. The new, clearer lettering is fine. And the size of the banner is perfect!

Thank you! These will be perfect in game! I will PM my email to you.

A little something for you next time you come to Chicken King...

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Here are the final lots that I just have sent you per e-mail. I made four lots with different choices. Good luck and have fun.

One more job done......next!

BTW, where are the Chicken Kings anyways?

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Thanks! These are awesome and I will use this in Schulmania for sure! And, CK is found in across Schulmania... it's the first franchise in the nation. But, more are sure to follow!

[Schulmanator 5,787]

When you get the opportunity, I have a few other things I would love to see if you could do for me. There are some lots which sit on concrete bases. I am hoping you can swap the base of the following with the sandstone brown brick texture like the NAM pedmall tile:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=17761

And perhaps the following with a base like those used in Mickebear's buildings (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=415 has a sample of the lot texture )

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=3169 and https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=11523 (without the buses - just the buildings)

Thanks for your great service to the ST community

[tgcela 0]

hello i was told to come here and ask if you could make these houses ploppable

-thanks

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Originally posted by: tgcela hello i was told to come here and ask if you could make these houses ploppable

-thanksquote>

 

No problem, do you want them in the Park or Landmark menu? I will make three different lots, so you can plop them without too much repetition, all on a 2x2 or 2x3 lot.

You have to wait until I finish the two jobs above, maybe a week at the most.

mrbisonm `)

[tgcela 0]

i would prefer landmark menu and on a 2x2 lot - take as long as you need no hurry

thanks a bunch

[mrbisonm 1,620]

800721,

Sorry for being late but I am busy as always. Anyway, I think and hope to have finished your demand. All you have to do is tell me whether or not you like the Freedom Tower this way. 

This freaking BAT wasn't easy at all to lot. It has LOD's which are completely out of their limits, even a part of the building is below the surface......lol......Geeeeez, that is one amateurish rendering I have never seen before. And that is not easy to lot since you cannot approach the BAT with the props too much because they get swallowed up quickly.

Well, this below is the best I could do and I hope you like it. I also couldn't make it smaller because of the faulty rendering. That Bat could have settled on a 4x4 if properly LODded. Anyway, that's not my problem.

Growing from high view compared to other Landmark's sizes......

.....finished from high view.............

.......this is the right side of the lot...........

.......and the left side.

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And here is something I found during my Pluginsfolder's *Great Clean-up*. It is a set of 2x2 Founder's Parks which I used in my CJ NoG (Nexis of Genesis), which I cannot open anymore because of some faulty files. 

I was going to upload it some 3 or 4 years ago, but must have forgotten about it....lol. I will upload it later tonight. I probably find more of these old, but still quite nice-looking lots which use only Maxis props during my spring-cleaning..

mrb

[Acadi 0]

How do I edit a growable lot's capacity satisfied?

For some reason, I can't find it in any growable lot files! Yet ploppable lots do have it!

What is needed to edit a downloaded growable lot capacity??

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Originally posted by: Acadi How do I edit a growable lot's capacity satisfied?

For some reason, I can't find it in any growable lot files! Yet ploppable lots do have it!

What is needed to edit a downloaded growable lot capacity??quote>

 

Acadi, sorry but you are NOT in the right thread to ask this. Go here and ask:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/categories.cfm?catid=121&forumid=1

This is a Lotmaking service thread.

Ok  Nerd_Guy,  sorry for being late, I almost forgot you....lol. 

Here are five (well maybe six) Simgoober homes that I made ploppable for eyecandy only. The sizes are on the pictures and you can find them in the Parkmenue near the Grasslot. The first and the last are the same lot, but with different coloured BATs only.

If you like them,(hope so)  just tell me so and I will send them to you. If not, tell me what to change.

Personally I like them, and I will keep them for myself also.... They look great in the game.

mrb

Schulmanator,

When you get the opportunity, I have a few other things I would love to see if you could do for me. There are some lots which sit on concrete bases. I am hoping you can swap the base of the following with the sandstone brown brick texture like the NAM pedmall tile:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=17761

And perhaps the following with a base like those used in Mickebear's buildings (https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=415 has a sample of the lot texture )

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=3169 and https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=11523 (without the buses - just the buildings) .quote>

Do you mean the brown bricktextures (Maxis) like on the third park from the left in my statuepark picture further above? I will have to do some research to find the Mickebear's texture because I do not even one lot from him. I will see what I can do with your demand.

tgcela, 

I have had a good look at the picture you linked to your post and I realized that these were made with several props on a bigger lot than 2x2's.

So I did some 2x4's and put three different buildings on it with different props. I made 3 lots like this, so you have a certain variety like in the pictures below. You can either plop them in a row like this........................

.......or make little squares of 2 lots, meaning it makes a 4x4, like this.........

.......or even bigger rectangles etc. Below I have added two 2x2's (not finished though) just to show how spred appart these homes will be if I build them on 2x2's......

..........and a last look from a higher view of all this.

So it's up to you, if you want them like above on 4x2's with 3 homes on it, or if you want them individual on 2x2's each. Let me know. It was fun making them.....lol

mrbisonm

[Nerd_Guy 4]

Thank you!  Those are perfect!  Go ahead and send them, and hopefully you will see them in my upcoming cityjournal.

[patfirefghtr 160]

Mr B wow you have been doing some fantastic lotting here!!!! BTW could I have that truck stop you made back on page one? Ive been looking at it and I love it!!! Also have you thought about releasing the Ford Garage that you did from Heblem's Ford dealership?

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Nerd_Guy, I will send them tomorrow night.

patfirefghtr, pm me your e-mail address and I'll send it to you as soon as I will find it in my clean-ups. The Ford Garage has some minor problems right now, the building is not perfect in every view. I will have to work on it again and then I will upload it to the STEX.

Going to bed now....ZZzzzzz........   Had enough of LOTting for one day.

mrb

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Yes, the brown brick texture is the perfect one. Thanks!

[tgcela 0]

im fine with just the 2x2 individual, thanks a bunch - you really can make amazing BATs

you can send em whenever ur ready

[mrbisonm 1,620]

tgcela, you want the 2x2's, that fine. I will make them this weekend, because I only did the 4x2's sofar. I will make three different ones. Pm me your e-mail address.

mrb

[patfirefghtr 160]

PM sent... Thanks again Mr B......

[mrbisonm 1,620]

Here are the finished *Granola* Homes on 2x2 lots to plop in the Parkmenu near the grasspark. Files have been sent to you tgcela.

[tiemanj 5]

I was just pointed to your thread when I wrote a request for exactly the service you provide here.  A few years ago I stopped batting...now I'm starting again and I have several models finished and near finished with no lots.  I feel that the lots I come up with never do justice to the bat I put so much work into.  If you're still providing lotting services, I'll ask if you could gin me up a few lots so I can release these BATs.  

Following is a link to my thread (containing a few pictures):

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=37&threadid=99311&enterthread=y

If you're intrested, let me know.