SimCoug's Lot&Mod Den

[SimCoug 5,973]

Howdy!

With the implosion of our beloved SimPeg, I thought it was time to set up a Lot/Mod thread over here... mostly to give folks a place to point out all of my lotting mistakes and modding bugs 

This will also give me a spot to update everyone on my lot/mod adventures.  
So feel free to comment, criticize, or just shoot the breeze.

Enjoy!

 

Table of Contents:

Completed Projects
-PEG-Civil War Project MMP Pack
-SimCoug Cemetery Props MMP
-SimCoug Lots Vol01 of JMyers Homes Vol01
-SimCoug Maxis R$$ Homes 1.0
-SimCoug's Old R$ Neighborhoods 1.0
-SimCoug's R$$ Diagonal Homes 1.0
-SimCoug's Diagonal W2W Tenements
-SimCoug's PEG Coast Guard Boats
-SimCoug's Stairways
-WMP Dock Freight MMP 1.0
-CP Lodgepole Fence MMP
-SimCoug's Ruins MMP
-Semi Truck Cabs Vol1 MMP
-SimCoug's Indian Prop MMP

Work In Progress
SimCoug's Farmhouse Lots
Hustons Sci-Fi MMPs
 

 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

It's about time you opened a thread and showcased your work in progress!

says the guy who has 50+ STEX uploads, but no thread to showcase his WIP *cough*

[cmdp123789 710]

Yup.. well I mean, simpeg is down, you had to portray your work somewhere or we would all die!!! 

[SimCoug 5,973]

Thanks for the support

I first started my Lot/Mod threads over on SimPeg before I really knew what I was doing in relation to SC4 content, and everyone there was very helpful.  At some point I intended to start a similar thread over here but the effort and energy needed to keep up multiple threads must have been too daunting.  In hindsight, I wish I would have because now all those pages have been zapped to internet oblivion.  

But all is not lost - I managed to find some old pics lying around... combined with new progress, hopefully I'll have something entertaining to look at

Over the past few days I've been trying to go back and find all my old little 'throw away' mods and lots that I had previously just attached to my SimPeg thread.  Most of them are pretty niche files and may not be super polished, but they worked for me and I felt they might be useful to a minority of folks.  Now that they are no longer available, I think it's time to just bite the bullet and write up a semi-useful description and get them on the STEX.  
I've already put up three, with more to follow.  Check my 'completed project' list at the top of the page for a complete list.

And what would a post be without some pictures?  In addition to the summer cleaning and getting the trinket mods up on the STEX, I've made it a goal to finally get my Farmhouse set up on the STEX.
Here are some early concept lots that I started on years and years ago:
(don't you love how SC4 always puts the lamp posts in the most ideal spot)
 

They have since been refined... I've split the set into different wealth levels, with the low wealth finally complete.

A closer view:

Currently I have 15 3x5 and 15 5x5 lots.
Here's an example of a 5x5 in the LE:

Krashspeed was kind enough to create some 'rural' basketball hoop props that I have used on some of the barns.  These will be included in the set.  The idea is that they will seamlessly fit into any rural setting, especially SPAM inspired farmland.  

The odd lot sizes should allow users to grow these without much trouble.  
That's it for today... thanks for stopping by

 

[Seraf 1,238]

Oh my... those are lovely! I've spent over ten minutes looking at those pictures and admiring every little detail. They are incredible.

I have a sudden urge to model a plantation house...good thing I'm not at home right now

[1bbaxter 1]

Hi SimCoug! I've Downloaded a few of your MMP's and was going to ask you if you could do some MMP farm buildings to add some variety to the farms as I've only been able to find 2 MMP barns to make my farms more realistic. So I went to your lot and mod thread and low and behold your working on it! Will be waiting for the completed project! Amazing work on the other MMP.'s!

[vortext 573]

Can't believe I didn't have the Dock Freight MMP yet!  

Lots are looking really good. It's obvious you spend quite some time on them already, don't rush it.  

[T Wrecks 10,209]

I have switched to farms that don't contain any buildings at all, just the fields. Then I plop farm lots containing houses, barns and other stuff in some places. Makes for a more realistic look IMO when not every field has a building on it. Your farm lots would be very useful for that purpose, too!

[cmdp123789 710]

They look amazing.. I've seen some updates from the farms, but I never get tired of them.. I love them, and I love the residential sets you uploaded some time ago.

I have switched to farms that don't contain any buildings at all, just the fields. Then I plop farm lots containing houses, barns and other stuff in some places. Makes for a more realistic look IMO when not every field has a building on it. Your farm lots would be very useful for that purpose, too!

What type of farms? do you have a link for that? I usually go with the spam, but I find it weird when looking from the region view.. and it doesn't allow me to set them the way I want.. so a little help would be great =)

[SUPERMESSI 294]

SimCoug sorry to ask but is there any possibility that you would do some Highway fences?

[Kuewr665 40]

I found a problem with a missing prop on some of the lots in "SimCoug Lots Vol01 of JMyers Homes Vol01" indicated by this colored flag...

This is one of the lots with the problem but not the only one: 1x2 Acorn Yellow. I double checked my dependencies, also checked the dependencies needed for JMyers' homes themselves, and even moved the folders around in the plugins. When that didn't help me find the problem, I also cleared all my plugins and installed everything I needed fresh, in case of conflicts with my other plugins, but still the prop is missing.

When I open the file in Lot Editor, the missing prop is labeled "CP Flower Bed Diagonal 4x2 - semiseasonal" but on the left screen nothing is highlighted. I guess this could be a problem with the prop pack then, but the colored flags showing up on my houses isn't a pretty sight either... :/

  Edited August 10, 2015 by Kuewr665  

[SimCoug 5,973]

I found a problem with a missing prop on some of the lots in "SimCoug Lots Vol01 of JMyers Homes Vol01" indicated by this colored flag...

Since this has come up before, I'm 99.9% sure this is a result of not having the most updated C.P. Prop packs.  I would suggest deleting all of the required C.P. dependencies, and then going over to SC4 devotion and re-downloading each one (they have been updated withing the last year or two).  This should fix your problem. If not, then there is a good chance you have an older C.P. prop pack hiding somewhere in your pluggins and it is loading after the updated file that you recently downloaded.  Hope this helps

[Kuewr665 40]

Downloading and replacing BSC MEGA Props CP Vol01 fixed the problem for me. Thank you for your help!

[SimCoug 5,973]

@Kuewr665 - glad we were able to get that fixed.

So I've slowly been working on a number of MMPs that have been thrown my way.  Here's the first set, which will be on the STEX soon:

More goodies to follow.

[tariely 4,496]

just found this thread (am slumming in the forums...:-) The farms look great ! Any idea of the ETA ?

[SimCoug 5,973]

These will be over at SC4D this weekend as part of the Advent Calendar

It is a set of growable 2x3 and 3x3 lots that fit seamlessly together (about  20 lots total - here is a sampling).

I've also included 5 park lots (and a bus stop lot for good measure)

Enjoy!

[raynev1 1,886]

@SimCoug Those w2w tenements look absolutely superb . Is that a mix of white sidewalk and/or sandstone textures ? 

   Definitely going over to SC4D to get these . Thanks for sharing . Good stuff . 

[SimCoug 5,973]

@raynev1 I used the maxis pavers as the base texture so they will conform to whatever override you have residing in your plugins (Paeng's sandstone, for example).

I forgot about this guy... Indian Prop MMP is now available on the STEX

[raynev1 1,886]

   Awesome , now I'll have to reserve some land for my indigenous sims . They will probably have a celebration , to honor you for helping preserve their cultural heritage . 

[ccy 20]

Hello, I've tried out a little bit of the W2W R$$ Neighborhoods. It seems that the bus stops (both of the 1x3 and 1x1) included in the package have problems on my end.

In game, the bus stop looks like this, a brown box with the pop up of the building when the mouse hovers over it.

 

In the lot editor, it seems like there's no prop missing. The name of the building of the bus stop is "0x205b1079 --- Ut12x4_BusStation_035A --- SimCoug W2W Bus Stop".

I've checked the dependencies listed in the readme file, and I found out that I have all of them installed. Is there a file that I still missing in my plugin folder for the brown box showing up in the game? Or was I accidently deleted any file from the package?

[brick_mortimer 1]

Hello,

I'm sad to say I have the same problem as ccy:

Both busstops actually, 1x1 and 1x3.

 

I have all dependencies, and still getting a brown box on the busstop.

Are we missing a prop, or is something causing a conflict?

[SimCoug 5,973]

Haha... it took me a while to find my own thread... I suppose that says something about my activity here lately.  
Although it's not exactly SC4 related, I'm learning some new skills that may translate to SC4 in the future... 

Watch out @Jasoncw  - your BATing titles are no longer safe 

[Jasoncw 11,840]

I look forward to it!!!  

[SimCoug 5,973]

I found out from Dropbox that they are no longer going to support the 'public folder' service, which means practically every image that I've ever shared on ST will quit working 
Worse yet, even paying members are going to lose this service.  Considering how much work it would save me, I might actually pony up the $8 or $10/month to keep everything up and running, but now that option doesn't even exist.
The thought of going through and fixing all the links depresses the hell out of me.
If I do get up the energy to fix this mess (I'll probably start with New SorGun), so what image hosting sites are folks using these days?  
Just another example of the temperamental state of this thing we call the internets... 

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Aw man, that sucks. I'm sorry to hear about that, particularly since - quite unlike me - have an awesome CJ here with tons of pictures.

It might just be me, but I have the impression many people are using imgur these days, and from my - admittedly VERY limited - experience, that service looks fine. @Haljackey may be able to provide some more qualified input on that as he's using imgur if I'm not mistaken.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Imgur is my go to image host. Its an easier to use version of what photobucket used to be.

[rsc204 21,808]

Yeah that sucks.

I just switched on the recommendation of @Haljackey from Photobucket to FlickR. What a change it has been, once more I can upload high-res images, but moreover, the service is very fast for uploading images by comparison to the former. I've not gone through and updated all my old stuff, thankfully it still works. But I could happily recommend FlickR, of course this problem seems to come in waves as the various hosting firms change their terms. In the case of PB, even paying subscribers had their images borked to a max of 1024x768 on the server after upload. If I had cherished photos there, was paying and they did that, I'd have been furious. It seems to be a continual problem sadly, such services just don't make money, boy is that an internet problem. You just need enough members and you can float a non-profitable site for billions. What a stupid world we live in sometimes.

[MushyMushy 3,617]

I use imgur myself. I think it has a cap on how high res the images can be but I don't think that it is usually a problem. I have several hundred images hosted through the site for free. 

[Haljackey 17,303]

I use Imgur for normal images. It's really fast and easy to use. It does cap images at 5mb, so I wouldn't recommend uploading anything at or beyond that size as they can get compressed.

-Unlimited storage with 5MB cap for images for free accounts.

 

For high-res imagery (5MB or more) Flickr is my site of choice. Uploading is easy but it's a more difficult interface to actually get the direct link to your full size image.

-1TB storage for free accounts.

 

That sucks! But, I hope this info helps!

[CT14 2,486]

Scraping CJs for DB hosted photos seems reasonable at this point. And another vote for imgur. They are owned by Reddit so they aren't going away soon.

edit: too late. Google cache for the page does not have images either.