For Music Simbol... Happy (belated) Birthday!

[strangetomato]

I didn't forget your birthday, music_simbol, but my gift couldn't be created with my game all messed up like it was. So please accept this belated gift: a little "family" portrait of some of your favourite sims. No, I'm sorry, it's not smut. :P The sim men in question are above that sort of thing. Try as I might, I couldn't even get them to take off their shirts.





This is how we take portraits in the Worthington family. :) Pretty classy, don't you think?

Apartment Life is going to be very good to the Worthingtons. They'll even have a butler now. I'm planning to spend some time fixing up their place with all the new snooty content. It's going to be awesome. You'll be seeing more of Frances and his family, and isn't that sort of like a gift in itself?

Happy Birthday, Music Simbol! As others have said, I hope you didn't transition into something embarrassing. :P



 

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

You're very welcome. ^_^ I knew you'd appreciate some eye candy of Tank and Frances.

I could have showed what Frances thinks about sometimes. ;) But perhaps I'm saving that one for later...

You actally used to put them up? o_O Kudos to you for all that effort. I never did. I would lose my mind if I had to go through so much for a photo. I always tried to angle so the roof wasn't showing, but this will make things so much better for photos. I can angle upwards now for dramatic effect! :D

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

I could have showed what Frances thinks about sometimes. ;) But perhaps I'm saving that one for later... Christmas gift, perhaps? :P

In my Assassin story, I always cover the ceilings. You have no idea how many times I've lined up the shot perfectly, only to have to go back and put more ceiling tiles in. Soooo freaking annoying. Now, you can even shoot up a sim's nose if you want to! :P

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

No, I think it's more that I'm very likely to include a scene like that in the actual story. ;)

Yeah, that would be annoying. It's annoying to have to be so carfeul with the angles too, missing good shots.

Oh, I'm all about the up-the-nose shots now. :P It's ant's eye view from here on out.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

For me, the ceiling tile frustration wasn't so much the time and effort of putting them up... or even the times they transformed en masse into hostas. It was hiding them to play and see inside the house, then showing them to take screenshots, then hiding them again to play, then showing them again...

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

or even the times they transformed en masse into hostas

That still makes me laugh whenever I think about it. :D Attack of the Hostas!

So those ceiling tiles blocked your view when playing too?! How did anyone ever tolerate them? I could tell I wouldn't be able to deal with the hassle, but that's... wow.

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

There's a controller, so you can turn them on or off. If I remember right, you can also enable a fade on them.

The problem with the controller is it's tiny. It's shaped like a CD disk and you can only put it on the floor. Tiny is good because you can hardly see it in a screenshot, but bad when you want to find and click on it to make your tiles show up. It's doable but gets to be a bit annoying.

How do they work in AL?

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Well, a controller doesn't sound too bad (annoying if it's hard to find, though). The new ceilings can be toggled on and off too.

In AL, they are just there, unless you turn them off. It's automatic. I think you can switch between different styles, but I haven't figured that out yet. :P

[pixelcurious.livejournal.com]

One way I deal with the controller is to always put one by the front door. The consistency helps me find it. But I still have to get there, and zoom in enough to click it, then move the camera back. *is lazy*

Do the ceilings in AL have fade? Like, if you're close enough you can see through? Or wait... are they even visible from above? If they're invisible from above, I'm so effing sold on AL!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm so lazy like that too. Any simplification is a good thing, in my books.

I'm pretty sure the ceilings are invisible from the top. I'll have to double check but I feel safe saying yes. :D It's pretty great.