Sim Picture Challenge of the Century!
I am setting myself up for disaster with pictures for chapter 7. As I’m writing (several scenes now!), I find myself thinking what a bitch this is going to be to capture in the game. Massive editing or major trickery will definitely need to be involved.
I wish I could describe what it is exactly that I want to accomplish, but that would be revealing too much information. But I will leave you with this much:
- I wish sims could sit on beds. I noticed in chapter 6, I was all about the bed-sitting, and was able to accomplish sitting on the edge of the bed quite easily by moving them from a bar-stool. However, I want them to be able to sit cross-legged in the middle of the bed. I’ve never understood that “constrainfloorelevation” cheat to get Sims on objects, and I don’t think I have the patience for it either. So I’m going to have to result to editing for that.
- On a similar note, I wish Sims had blankets. Blankets are such a necessary part of life and it drives me bonkers sometimes that Sims don’t have them unless they’re sleeping on the bed–which is so insanely limited in that you really can’t get any decent shots of Sims in beds at all.
- I wish sims could appear wet. Or perhaps bubbly like after you wash the dogs in the Pets EP. *Snickers*
I suppose I could just alter my setting in these scenes to not including blankets or sitting on beds, and for some circumstances, that might work. But not these! I absolutely will not change what I have planned.
So somehow I’m going to have to figure out how to make blankets of the non-shitty variety in Photoshop. Oh, dear me.
By the way, I very much all the comments everyone has given me in regards to chapter 6—on my forum, on the blog, on my Flickr, at the Hangout and on my simpage. I am often terrible at responding to people’s comments they graciously hand out, but in my quiet and rather anti-sociable nature, I often just don’t have much worthwhile to add. But know that I love your comments more than anything, and probably would have given this up long ago if it wasn’t for them.
I’m not sure if you know this or not but there’s an object on MTS2 that allows you to put sims on it, then it can be placed under beds, chairs, refrigerators and pianos. It comes in different heights and sizes to suit the each object(So you can place sims cross legged in the middle of the bed). I hope that makes sense I’m looking for the link right now.
Here’s the first version:
http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=178963
Here’s the second:
http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=178791
Here are some more:
http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=178791
http://modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=178902
Yes, there is on MTS2, I have it and it’s verryy useful!!
Link :
1.http://www.modthesims2.com/member/showthread.php?t=217234
2.http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=178963
3.http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=178902
4.http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=178791
HystericalParoxysm(or someone else) made a tutorial in which there’s more text on how to use the objects : http://www.sims2wiki.info/wiki.php?title=Tutorials:Taking_Totally_Bitchin_Pics/Posing_on_Surfaces
Hope it helped! : )
Hm, you see, this is why I can’t make a sims 2 story. But, I’m scared this chapter, because it involves a blanket, is Charlotte dying?
And Jaclyn, you can do it! Think positive!
Oooooooooooo YAY!!!! Thank you guys for those links! I had no idea! <3
hi im tia big fan of your story it just idk inspires me a lot just help me sleep after i read a chapter well i hope my words help you wit chp 7 dont give up for me atleast =)
peace
i absolutely love your stories. you are actually one of the people that inspired me to start writing in the first place.
i have an idea on how to get your sims to sit cross legged on a bed and it doesnt sound that hard…raise the ground the same height as the bed and move your sims to make them sit on it. then use moveobjects on and move the bed over the grass clump. i just thought of that while reading the blog and thought it might come in handy if it works like i think it will. and if its not on the main floor try using a square of split level inside the room.
I just wanted to let you know I’m a huge fan of your stories, and I want to cheer you on toward the next chapter, because I’m really looking forward to it!
Thanks for sharing the stories. You have great talent with both words and images. I really loved the last chapter, btw. I’m hooked! 
Helaene has a set of blankets that you can place on top of beds at MTS2. I don’t have a link though…
i’ve read I Woke Up in LA like 5 times already and still i can’t get over it im practically at the edge of my seat all the time I really can’t wait 2 see chapter 7, and ik the pics wil work out fine u have a gift seriously and i’ll know you’ll come up with something to make it work
good luck
Okey doke. Well, I just felt like saying…. I love your stories! And I hope you get out of your fustration so that you can work on 7 a bit better. So good luck
You could always take the outfit you wish to appear wet and clone a new outifit off of it, edit it, and have it in the Wet Version. THen for hair, just get really flat styles, and photoshop the pictures to make them look dripping. If a girl sim is wet, it shouldn’t be too hard to fnd running mascara, etc.
AHAHAHAHA. Yes, I could just do those things, and something similar is probably what will end up happening. But, that’s kind of my point in venting–that it’s a lot of extra work, and I’m quite lazy, and I wish such things were inherit in the game already.