#katatty main

[episims]

@katatty

its so cute!!! and I am very curious to know how you are handling the "fake" university

@eulaliasims

It looks so good! All the details. *_* I think the library might be my favorite, but it's hard to choose! And I'm also interested in how you plan to handle the university thing.

Thank you both! This fake uni system really isn't that interesting haha, but here's how it's supposed to work.

The lot for one is uh more or less literally hidden:

This corner of the world needed a gas station anyway.

It's a residential lot where I'll move any sims that go to the university. They'll live here for one whole season, during which they'll be absent from the main hood.

(It'll actually be a little more than one season as I'll move them right at the end of playing their household, so from the other household's perspective they'll be away for the remaining season too, and then the next one in full – dunno if this explanation makes sense.)

While they're on this lot, I'll give them a trait or a token that stops them from showing up as walkbys or on community lots. I think there's a mod for the loner trait already that works like that.

And then I just play this lot normally as a part of the rotation, only not documenting it and focusing on skill building. So they get some benefit out of it, in addition to being able to choose careers that need a degree in the future.

[phoebe-twiddle]

Last round, the Edons lived near the main family. They've relocated to Jackalope Bend - specifically to @katatty's makeover of the Seaspray Apartments but the apartment was a little heavy for my game, so I did what any sane person would do and rebuilt the apartment on 4 separate lots, that I then used lot adjuster to make butt up to each other. It's not a one-to-one rebuild, but fairly close. (12 pictures below the cut)

There's these shells in the bathroom that apparently have Thomas' interest. He dragged his mum in to tell her about them. I have a soft spot for Thomas.

Saint is a good kid. He and his brother get along pretty well, but he's a Fortune/Romance sim with having 20 simultaneous lovers as his LTW.

Thomas, despite doing his homework every night, can't seem to raise his grade from a D. Catherine is quick to lecture him, which I find unfair. He's trying his best!

At least she's willing to put her money where her mouth is and help the poor boy out. Even with her guidance, though, his grades don't improve. :/

The whole family gathers to watch a cooking program. Except Jess isn't really paying attention as her interest in food is lower than the others'.

Remember Ernie? Ernie is still around, looking dapper.

Afternoon activities: Saint invites the Linwood kid around while Thomas indulges his Music & Dance OTH. That was his default gymwear. How fitting!

[nekojima-neighborhood]

Hi, I have a question about Torakku Sutsugai. His bio states that he is the local fireman/gardener/handyman, is it just for the story or was he actually supposed to function as all these NPCs? Do I have to have a specific mod that allows that? Would be super cool if he actually worked like these. I also noticed that when you view the NPC/townie "families", he doesn't belong to the main Townies family, but to his own.

It's just for the story, sadly! We wanted to avoid having too many NPCs and didn't actually generate any firemen/gardeners/handymen.

I wish it were possible with mods, too! That would be so cool. I've always dreamt of a mod that let you assign playables/regular townies to work as NPCs (since with regular NPCs they lose thier NPC jobs if you ever make them playable). I know about @midgethetree & @lazyduchess making mods along these lines in the past - hopefully there are more like them some day!

Until that day, I guess you could always generate the NPCs & and just use sim surgury to make them look like Torakku?? XD I admit I always shy away from doing this in my games though.

Another option is to teleport him to a lot, make him selectable (or use influence) to get him to garden/fix things/clean/put out fires. Then pay him manually using a mod like moneyorder? A little convoluted, though :(

I could be misremembering, but I think him being in his own family rather than a "townies" family is because we made him a "jock" (as in the social class townie type from apartment life) and they have their own family?

¬Katatty

[lasudio]

StrangeSpot, Round Twenty: Curious

2 Cover Up Road gets a major renovation! The Curious family now live in @katatty’s makeover, here, with an additional bedroom and some other tweaks to fit everyone. The home really shines (or rather, glows) at night!

Cliff is supposed to be Tycho’s boyfriend but when the latter goes to work, the former jumps into bed for woohoo with Edge. Tycho is a romance main so his definition of boyfriend is a bit loose - but sharing Cliff with his cousin isn’t ideal. Can Tycho compete with the triple bolt chemistry of two grilled cheese mains?

Henry is an old dog but he’s still up for a game of fetch! Leela also celebrates a birthday and becomes a teen (pictured in her childhood bedroom pre reno).

[deedee-sims]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to 10 simblrs whose sims you adore ♥♥♥

Oh, more of these! Thank you! You get Dan 😊

He has an older sister, Rachel

He's worked on reality tv as a cameraman, and he likes to muse about how staged the whole thing is

He appeared in a series once, because the person who had the "role" got sick. He had to walk on the street. He thinks it's the best performance ever

His eyesight is quite bad and his eyes are sensitive, so he can't wear contacts

He was the first one to declare his undying love to Lainey

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

halloween-y is definitely your sim style!! spooky but in a bright, cute & cartoony way

YUS! just bc its hallyweenz (my niece thinks its better this way and i wont fight her, shes 6 and likes to shriek) doesnt mean it has to be dark and dreary - even dark and dreary is also 100% acceptable here on GCA@tumblr dot com

[rockethorse]

katatty-main replied to your post: Does anyone know if there’s a way to break objects...

you might still be able to share the lots if you clean it of sim references im simPE first, altho i dunno much about how to do this

I just found this tutorial, which looks promising. I might try it and then check with SimPE after if any lingering sim references remain.

[vixsims]

WCIF those tudor-y hood deco buildings in your pretty new Elmspire hood? they look like some TS4 conversions I have in my own game, but the textures are different!

Hi! I’m pretty sure those are from this set here. If those aren’t the ones you were referring to just let me know and I’ll try to find the right ones! 

[dreadpirate]

prompt 84 with bianca/regan?

Regan was always the kind of person who needed space at the end of a long day, and loads of it. This bit Bianca knew, but this long stretch of radio silence from her seemed a little too long for her comfort.

Bianca: Ree? What’s on your mind lately? Is anything wrong?Regan: Huh? What are you talking about?Bianca: You’ve been even more quiet than usual, which says a lot.

No matter how much she tries to not show it, Bianca just knew something was up.

Regan: I’m just worried, Bee.Bianca: What about?Regan: I’ve worked hard to get this far, but what if it all just crumbles down?Bianca: If you’re talking about work again then you’re gonna do excellent.Regan: I wish I was talking about work.

Bianca scooted closer and laid her head on her shoulder. She has always been one of the most self-assured people Bianca’s known in her entire life, but even someone like her has her moments.

Next thing Bianca knew, Regan’s dozing off.

[dramallamadingdang]

Crazy idea replies. :)

drstrangejuice replied to your post: So I’m seriously considering getting rid of 99% of...

oh my, that’s a big decision! sounds like it could be a lot of work. I imagine you’d back up what you’ve got atm??? If it went straight to recycle bin I might wince/cry a little bit…

Oh, yeah. I hardly ever really delete anything. Mostly I just dump stuff on the massive networked external hard drive(s) we have. So, if I want it back, I can get it. Of course, the trouble would be finding the stuff I want to restore without restoring the whole broken mess because then I’m back to figuring out what’s broken and what isn’t and...uh, yeah, that would be a project. :)

And, actually, I don’t think the DR’ing I’m thinking of doing would be a terribly big project for me. I’ve already defaulted a lot of the career/NPC outfits, for instance. And when I think about it, I’m perfectly OK with a lot of the Maxis clothes in terms of style. (Like I said, I’m really not that picky. :) ) I’m pickier about texture quality than style, and the stuff from later EPs/SPs has pretty nice textures in terms of not pixellating and things like that. So I’d really only have to focus on stuff from the basegame and the earlier EPs/SPs. Like, maybe Open For Business and older. So it wouldn’t be too bad. I’d just need to psych up and get ‘er done.

katatty-main replied to your post: So I’m seriously considering getting rid of 99% of...

there are some cool mix-and-match options stop every pregnant woman wearing the same dress, too.

katatty-main replied to your post: So I’m seriously considering getting rid of 99% of...

i got sick of dealing with pregmorphs a while back and decided to just default-replace the maxis maternity wear instead. it means you can’t really control what they wear, but it’s so much less hassle that to me it’s worth it!

I’m kind of getting sick of obsessing over pregmorphs, too. :/ Which is another reason for considering doing this because maybe half of the stuff I have has preg morphs and half doesn’t, and the idea of going through all the meshes and checking for morphs is just....Yeah, it makes me kind of queasy just thinking about it. :) 

For adults, I think I would be OK with just defaulting the Maxis maternity wear and removing the “preggos wear anything” mod. I mean, when you get down to it, whatever they wear, even if it’s the terrible Maxis outfits, it’s only for two days, for heaven’s sake. :) The bigger issue for me is teens, since I use Inteen. Inteen comes with outfits for pregnant female teens/YAs -- and those will do well enough for those two days -- but not for males, and my teen/YA males do occasionally get knocked up by aliens, so...I dunno. That being said, I do have the capability of adding preg morphs to meshes, at least for full-body outfits, so there’s that...if I can figure out how to replace the meshes.

tamtam-go92 replied to your post: So I’m seriously considering getting rid of 99% of...

For my new game I decided to go for the default replacement option. I really like it and it’s so great to finally see townies with style xD

Oh, I townified all the custom stuff I have, so townies already wear that stuff. Sometimes in...er, interesting...combinations, but... yeah. This would be simpler in that regard, too. Although they can still make “interesting” combinations with the Maxis separates, even when DR’ed, of course. :)

[aondaneedles]

List 5 facts about a favorite sim of yours, and send this to 10 simblrs whose sims you adore ♥♥♥

Last one for today, Tanner Jackson!

(Big ol' goof, you.)

He has naturally pointed ears. It seems to be hereditary, as his father remembers his grandfather having the same. Tanner thinks they make him look like a freak and hides them under his hat.

Tanner can be a bit of a goof but is surprisingly mature for his age.

Out of all three Jacksons, he gets along with his cousin Christine the best. He knows that she is a deeply troubled woman and tries to ease her worries whenever she comes over for a visit.

He isn't sure yet if he wants to go to college. He's a pretty good athlete and thinks about skipping college to start playing professionally. Just don't tell his parents, they wouldn't understand.

He's secretly a bit jealous of Scott, his friend and tutor from school. Schoolwork just looks so easy when Scott explains it to him and then he tries it himself and everything is so much harder and the letters and numbers blur together before his eyes...

Thank you!

[yakumtsaki]

~last update reaction collage~

[phoebe-twiddle]

Hey! How's it going? Been doing interesting or fun things? I hope all is well with everyone reading this.

Long sims ramble below the cut. :)

I've been remaking my hodgepodge sims calculator with inspiration drawn from executables-sims' post seen here, and to test it out, I started a 'hood that has been brewing in my mind for a little while now. I've taken some of the elder sims (plus some that have already passed on but I wanted) from the premade hoods and remade them as university students. :D

I've been playing but not really documenting much screenshot-wise because I was fussing with reshade settings and organizing downloads... This is a whole other topic, but I always wanted to use skell's repository stuff but the way they had things organized put me off. With picknmix's outfit organizer though, it's so simple to change clothing categories and merge packages, it's great! Still time consuming, but less than it would be if I had to use SimPE for it all.

Anyway. This new neighborhood. I started with the chosen sims in university - I'm using katatty's Academie Le Tour makeover because I've never used it before - and once they graduate, I'm going to move them into her makeover of Downtown, until they start having kids, then I'll move them into the 'main' hood, as yet undecorated because I think it will be a little while before I get there.

The sims are currently in the second half of freshman year. Everyone is in dorms, and after each term, I'm randomizing who is living with who so everyone has a chance to meet and make friends or enemies. I'm playing pretty hands off rn, fulfilling the odd want and making sure they go to bed because I'm not up for figuring out why, a lot of the time, they won't autonomously use their beds (they do sometimes, but not consistently, I reckon it's probably a mod issue). Today, someone rolled the first "flirt with a specific sim" want, and that's exciting stuff!

[simnationlifebefore]

I caught up on your Caliente story the other day! Something I like & find interesting it is how you approach storytelling more like a film than a novel with lots of cuts between scenes, etc. in parts (especially without dialogue) you have to pay attention and read bewtween the lines because there isn't always going to be explained explicitly... I think this works great with Dina especially, I am always wondering what exactly is going though her head

Aw this was lovely! Originally the stories were going to be a youtube series (Still have some of the clips) but once I realised tumblr was the more sensible option I attempted the novel style.

But it didn't feel like it worked that well for me? Like I had all these protentional and almost unlimited camera angles and I wanted just more pictures like a comic book? (My fav comics are the ones with less narration and just let the pictures show you everything).

And I think you're right, the method works best on Dina more than anyone because she's in a situation where she can't always explain what's going on in her depressed head.

Thank you, your comment was sweet!

[arielovessims]

6, 16, 21?

6. Favourite family from Veronaville and why?

Goneril’s branch of the Capp family because of how chaotic it can be and there’s plenty of drama just within their nuclear family. Also, the kids hold a special place in my heart.

16. Who amidst the premades and within the original plot deserved better according to you?

Answered here!

21. Your favourite ’premade’ community lot from the entire game?

Rapid Racers Roller Rink because I love to see the sims skating. This is also where I usually send teens to go on a date!

[grilledcheese-aspiration]

katatty-main replied to your photo:

that little corner is so gorgeous!

it is easily my favorite part of the lot ANNND it only had 1 route fail bc the chair was too close to the door but it was an easy fix!