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Menaceman

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:54 am


In first place; elevator
In second place; Madame Royale
In third place; Celestial Fireflies
In fourth place; Kecitich

Congratulations to you all!

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Time for another contest. A building one this time round.

For this contest you are required to build a residential home on the provided foundation in any style you wish.

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RULES
-The contest is open to players of both Sims 2 and Sims 3 on PC (or Mac).
-Sims 3 players must download the provided foundation and place it on a 30x30 lot.
-Any Sims 2 players must recreate the foundation exactly on a 30x30 lot themselves as we don’t have a Sims 2 version premade unfortunately.
-You may NOT alter the foundation in any way other than wall and floor coverings.
-The two separate foundation ‘islands’ at the back of the lot must remain unconnected to the rest of the foundation. What you do with them is up to you.
-The hose may have as many floors as you wish.
- NO custom content is allowed. I want to see what you can come up with using just items available in game. Any default replacements you have may still be used. Store items and official EA content DO NOT count as CC.
-Building cheats may be used.
-The lot MUST be placed so that the two foundation ‘islands’ are towards the back of the lot, furthest from the road. As shown in the picture below.
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REQUIRED IMAGES
To submit your entry you must include a minimum of one (1) external picture taken from the street and one (1) showing the rear of the building. Any additional pictures you wish to show off are welcome. Contest entry pictures should be submitted to THIS thread.

PRIZES
1st place: Any cash item up to the value of 225 Gaia cash and a plumbob for your avatar.
2nd place: 3000 gold
3rd place: 1000 gold
4th place: 500 gold
5th place: 250 gold

DEADLINE
1st of September 2011. So plenty of time to work on your entries and get them in.

JUDGING
Judging will be held by myself and the guild crew members.

FOUNDATION DOWNLOAD
You can download the required lot in .sims3pack format here>
http://www.4shared.com/file/CXXqw7FR/Guild_Contest_Foundation.html
You will need to unzip the file before you can install it into your game.

If you have any questions then please feel free to ask and I will try my best to answer them.
Good luck and lets see those houses!  
PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 12:17 pm


Ooh, this sounds like fun, I would like to give it a shot.

Question:
Can we have multiple floors?

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Uncle Haijin

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:09 pm


Does store/promotion content count as custom content?
PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:16 pm


1. Are building cheats like constrainFloorElevation, moveObjects, and snapObjectsToGrid allowed?
2. Is this for base game only or can stuff from expansion packs be used?

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Kecitich

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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 2011 11:29 pm


Interesting. I wanted to ask the almost same questions as waffle person and uncle Haijin have asked. I may give this a try but I have to say I am not good in building house.
PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:55 pm


September? I'll have something totally awesome made by then mrgreen

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PyroLillyoftheMoon

PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2011 11:40 pm


Where are we submitting our submissions?
PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 1:20 pm


Dang! I knew I would have forgotten some stuff.

Vilified: You can have as many floors as the game will allow, no limits there.
Uncle Haijin: No. Official EA content from the Store or promotions do NOT count as custom content.
waffle person: Building cheatse ARE allowed and content from both official Expansions and Stuff packs can be used.
Kecitich: We'd love to see your entry.
elevator: Excellent! I can't wait to see.
PyroLillyoftheMoon: Submissions are to be posted in this thread. I will then probably copy them into the first post. (If I still have enough characters left)

Menaceman

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Kecitich

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:43 pm


thank you so much for answering those important question. It's gonna be fun if more gaians will join. It's interesting to see how addicted can a gaian be like as a building simmer razz
PostPosted: Fri Jul 15, 2011 10:58 pm


cєℓєsтιαℓ ғιʀєғℓιєs:

You can't connect the floating islands to the foundation, but can you connect them to each other? Just wondering. smile

Edit: I'm also recreating this on the sims 2, and I was wondering if you could give some of the dimensions for the side lengths? I'm going to try it by eye, but I'm not sure if it will be exact. Thank you so much!

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Madame Royale

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 3:09 am


I'd also like the dimensions, please! If it's not too much trouble? ^^;
PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:39 am


Celestial Fireflies, go on then. You can connect the islands to each other, just not to the main foundation.

Here is an image with the grid visible and I've also labelled the number of tiles along each edge. I hope this helps with the lot recreation.
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Menaceman

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Madame Royale

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 7:13 am


That's great, thanks!
PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 12:18 pm


Can we cover over the foundations with floor tile, like making a little patio held by support beams?

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Celestial Fireflies

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 2:13 pm


cєℓєsтιαℓ ғιʀєғℓιєs:

Oh, awesome. :D Thank you so much for posting the dimensions, it helps a lot!
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