Fish Hatchery Project

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Date: 4/27/2004 11:10:35 AM

Author: fosterk12345678910

mary, i may be able to bat up some fish bays for you if you want me to. also, can i have a close up pic of the fish on the sign please.

 

thats the only pic I have. I can try to zoom in the shot with help from a freind of mine. I'll see what I can do.

 

I'll get back to you on the bays, I am making up some textures for the bays and other stuff. I think I like the look of them as they are they look nice I only intend to change the brick to cement as they actually are. I will prob release 2 diffrent looks for the lot as we all like the look of pegs textures and so do I. I just want to make some myself as this is my 1st large project.

 

 

This is about as close as I can get. It is the only pic I have and I did not see one at the sight.

 

thanks for asking.

P.Miller

 

[savio 0]

hey! keep it up..its going nicely..

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

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4/27/2004 11:55:26 AM[/quoteDATE]

savio[/quoteAUTHOR]

hey! keep it up..its going nicely.. [/quoteMESSAGE][/bEGINQUOTE]

 

thank you... Its a big project but its fun.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Hello Everyone,

I have once again started working on my Fish Hatchery. Thanks to

 

JOHNB for the Totem Pole

Fosterk for the Sign.

 

I am making my own textures and I will also have my own stream and Bridge Textures as well. This will be all my own work. I allready have the bays about done. I have one or two more textures to make for those and the bays will be done. I Will post a pic of Lot one when it is compleated. When lot one is done Iwill begin work on Lot2 and Lot 3. It will be a plopable lot as this project will be to big for a growable farm.

 

Well thats about it.

 

 this is the color I chose for the pond water. It is not a copy from Peg. Pegs I believe is darker.

 

Below is an example of what the bays will look like.

 

Here is one tile from my stream texture

 

This is my own texture made from scratch. This is just one tile of about 3 or 4 tiles to be made.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

here are two props that I have had made.

 

1st one is a sign for the place made my FOSTERK Thanks go to him for his hard work to make one for me.

 

 

Next is the totem Pole made by JOHNB. Thanks go to him for his hard work in searching for pics and man hours it took him to make this prop for me.

 

 

thanks to both JOHNB and FOSTERK for all your hard work and dedication for these props. Both files can be found on the exchange you will need both files for the Fish Hatchery lots.

 

Thanks again

P.Miller

[JohnB 66]

You are welcome pmiller. I was glad to make it. If you need any more props just ask me. I wish that when the bat renders objects it did not make them so blurry. There is a very cool totem pole texture with faces on the totem pole but,you cannot see it well.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

                                         

 

 

ok here are three tiles to my stream needs a bit of work at the connections again otherwise I am happy with them. What do you all think? I have one more tile to make to make it a compleat set.

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

heres the new textures

[GrampaAl 76]

Sure glad to see someone making new textures from scratch.

Now for my comments regarding those three or four stream textures. I like the banks and the slight blurring near the water.

But as you say, the edges of each texture need to blend more smoothly (line up) so that the edges are not so apparant. Also the colors at both edges need to match so you can't see the line between. You can have the darker portion near the middle if you wish, but both edges need to match. If you want various colors at the edges, it will be a small miracle to get the colors to blend well, but if the color is fairly close to solid at the edges where they join it will be easier. Do you get what I mean?

Also the corner texture needs to have more of a smoother bend to it. It looks too square to appear natural.

Hey, maybe a large rock on the inside corner or a grassy point? That would at least explain the abrupt turn, and we could also plant a prop tree on it.

The total fish hatchery package will be interesting to say the least.

Kind of curious, what menu do you plan to place all this on?

Maybe this should appear on the water menu, there is plenty of room there. That is where I moved PEG's water lots to, to keep my parks menu somewhat less cluttered.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

 

 

 

here are the six tiles The curve tile I am having trouble getting to match up right . I agree with the square looking curve. I will keep working on the tiles and see if I can fix the curve.

 

Thanks for the advise.

[cerulean 15]

So you mean how to get that curve to be more of a curve rather than a rounded corner?

[cerulean 15]

I dunno if this is what you meant???

 

but there is a quick attempt at making the curve more rounded...and the second one just kinda came to me...I can post a couple of tutorial images...its really easy, Do you use Photoshop?

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

I use photomax pro and Paint from microsoft and microsoft photo editor.

 

I do have adobe photoshop I don't use it as I  do not have the pay verison and most of the stuff is not workable.

 

thanks for the ideas. I like the curvy one it looks real good.

 

p.miller

[cerulean 15]

One more...LOL its ok if you dont use these weird ones...

[cerulean 15]

well all I do to make curves is create a new layer in photoshop, I dont know if those programs have layers, but then just fill the background with the base grass area, then just paint in the stream...If you do it on another layer its easiest cuz then you can erase parks of the stream without messing up the grass...

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

No it doesnt have that option. I grabed two of them you did.  thanks. If you don't mind I will use your two and make sure I give you credit for it.

[cerulean 15]

no problem...glad I could help!

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

yeah me to I spent two days on it and I could not get it right. Grampa Al said it looked more like a square the way I had it... LOL

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

ATTENTION-

KCsWaterTextures have been taken offline due to major Technical problems. I will reupload it when I have the problem fixed.

 

The Stream textures are not showing up right I also have 3 more stream textures to add to the file. I will have it back up as soon as I can fix the problem.

 

Sorry for the inconvience Textures are a touchy thing in the game if not done right they will not show right.

Pmiller

 

cerulean

 

I need some help with instance Ids. I seem to have something conflicting and I am not sure how to fix it or what is conflicting. Are you avalabe to help me out with this problem????

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Ok My water textures pack....

 

I am having some major problems with it. I thought all the ids were different but my new stream textures seem to clash with another texture of mine.

 

Here is what they look like in LE

 

In a min I will edit this message and post a pic of what it looks like in the game.

 

***edit**

 

 

 

[DarkMatter 21]

The texture problem is a simple case of conflicting ID's. I think its my import filter, which is probably using the same id range over and over or something. Thats the only reason that textures would conflict.

[cerulean 15]

yeah, I just looked at the dat you sent and it is a problem with the IIDs. Darkmatter, your program actually does a pretty good job, if it is set right, it just took me a while to figure out how to set it right. (I'll bring this part of the discussion to your thread)

 

I think though that it would be really cool if you would use this texture pack to test the wealth levels even further. I will help you as much as I can either way, but especially the streams, if you come up with a couple of different grasses to surround the water with and assign the proper digits in the 5th position via geoffhaws thread, then the textures will change by wealth level! could be really cool!

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

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yeah, I just looked at the dat you sent and it is a problem with the IIDs. Darkmatter, your program actually does a pretty good job, if it is set right, it just took me a while to figure out how to set it right. (I'll bring this part of the discussion to your thread)

 

I think though that it would be really cool if you would use this texture pack to test the wealth levels even further. I will help you as much as I can either way, but especially the streams, if you come up with a couple of different grasses to surround the water with and assign the proper digits in the 5th position via geoffhaws thread, then the textures will change by wealth level! could be really cool!

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Well right now I just want textures that are not affected by wealth level untill I figure this all out.

 

Water Pack Update.

Here are some pics of the new pieces for the water pack ,Many thanks go to cerulean for making them for me. I added bridges to a few of the pieces. Thanks cerulean for your help.

 

 

4 new textures. I asked DM to help me add these to the pack so they do not conflict again with other textures in my two packs.

 

Well thats it for now. I hope to have this pack back on the exchange soon as it is fixed and the new textures are added.

 

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Water Texture pack UPDATE:

 

At last I finally got the Instance Ids Figured out. I have repaired the water pack how ever I now have to repair the Farm textures pack as they now clash. Later today sometime I hope I will have the packs updated.

 

Also My Farm textures will now become Farm_base Textures pack. I have 3 additional textures to add to the pack as well.

 

here is a peak at the water pack finally fixed.

 

White sands beach and the other lots that used these textures will be updated also sometime today. I have made a list of what to do so I can get all these fixed. Thanks to everyone who has helped me understand how IDs work.

 

Well thats it for the update Look for the packs later today.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Allright Folks.

 

I have started some work back on this long awaited project. I decided to let it go for a time Till I could bat my own stuff for this lot.

 

Here is part of the sighn that I have just redone. I had someone do this for me a while back and I decided that I did not want to use it now. It needed more detail so that is what I am giving it.

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//FishHatcherySighn11.JPG align=baseline>

This was missing on the 1st verison of the sign and considering its a Historical site I needed this in the sighn. Look for the rest of the sign later in the next few days.

 

Lynks.

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

here is the finished sighn... It now has the info on the front of the sign and is the right color.

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//hatcherysighn2.jpg align=baseline>

 

Hope you all like it.... Next prop one of the Bays...

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Date: 4/26/2004 1:14:02 AM Author: deadwoods Comparing the photo earlier in the thread and the LE/in-game shots, the scale looks a bit off. In the photo (with the girl fishing) the tanks look to be about 5-6metres wide (Im not sure what that is in feet), whereas in the Lot you've got the tanks a tile wide (16 metres). The same goes for the grassed areas between the tanks. Is this intentional (I know it's easier to work with complete tiles in the LE 'cos of the textures)?

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Comming back to this thread once again. 5-6 meters is about 20 feet. I have made the base for the ponds.

 

Width will be 6 meters wide and 60.8 meters long. This should fit fine on a lot. Thanks for your input from a while back. I appreciate it. Now that I can do my own bats this will be finished soon.

 

I will also make some nets for the ponds so it will seem more real to most of you. I will need help with getting them to appear and disapear when they should. Other than that I am sure I can get this done. It will be a growable farm.

 

Lynks

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//fishbay.JPG align=baseline>

Preview of fish Bay.

suggestions are welcome.

Lynks

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

http://www.graylingfishhatchery.com/images/CONCEPT1.JPG width=2720 align=baseline>

Allright at last a year or two later I have finally got a whole pic of the Fish Hatchery. Now I can try to build this historic site.

 

http://www.graylingfishhatchery.com/images/CONCEPT1.JPG

Here is a direct link to the picture for you all to see much bigger. This is going to be harder than I thought it was going to be.