7/10/10 – CAW is Finally Fixed, So The Project is Back On!
Status: Work In Progress. The project includes the design of a giant neighborhood, and it got its title because I have decided to include a custom built version of Tony Stark’s house from the Iron Man Movies. It will include components from Sims 3 Ambitions (when it is released) and will most likely not be complete until early-mid July. To give you an idea of how large this is there are 2 videos below comparing the time it takes for 2 different cars to go through one of about a dozen islands (not done terrain sculpting). As you can see, the slow car (Speed 4) takes about 75 Sim minutes to complete the route and the fast car (Speed 10) takes about 20 Sim minutes to complete the same route. Please post comments and suggestions (such as where to place community lots) below. Updates, pics & videos after the jump!
5/28/10 – Due to the size of this neighborhood and my limited amount of time due to finals, I am going to hold a contest that involves the neighborhood. The contest is to create lots that will go into the neighborhood. Lots that are chosen will be put in the final version of the neighborhood and they will be located on a street named by you/based on your user name. Users can submit their lots by email or commenting on this post, Email: SimProgramsmailbag@yahoo.com.
Rules:
- Users can submit as many entries as they like
- Email or comment must include file or link to the file
- No Custom Content/Store Content
- Expansion and Stuff Packs are allowed (includes ambitions)
- Can be any lot type (residential, community, or rabbit hole)
- Include what you would like your street to be named (if it is not included it will be based off of user name)
- If multiple lots from one user are accepted, they will all be located on the same street, not multiple streets
5/22/10 – Added Screens + Videos
P.S. – To give you another idea of how big this world is, there will most likely be at least 2 of all work lots. This is because your Sims would always be late for work (due to having 1 hr. to get to work, and the actual drive being anywhere from 1-3 hours)
Videos:
Pics:
Overview
Road to Tony Stark’s house
this reminds me how beautiful the sims 3 really is….
If only you’d given out a download of the early version so it could be like an open source neighbour where everyone could contribute
u could improve the terrain paints because they look repeated
i would change the blocky terrain. and then zmooth out the mountins, plus it kind of gives a rushed feel. i would connect ALL the islands with bridges andd change the one island that looks like a spider. i dont like the rough look. but its a good start. very good concept. and with ambitions u could make a servo live with tony starkk.
@LovrGTAandSims, not my terrain paints, but I’ll see if i can find better ones
@michael, if I smooth out the mountains, they look like big hills instead, mountains are usually jagged and not smooth. Also, I plan to connect all of the islands, but I have not gotten the chance to yet, due to the fact that I started this 2 days ago, but thank you for pointing that out and for the compliments. I might change the one island, but I kind of like it, i might post a poll at a later date. And the thing about the servo was what I was planning on doing.
P.S. – Some of the roads do need smoothing but this is an extremely early stage of development.
Hi Luke,
As I’m a serial downloader, I’ve seen many flops.. Especially in the worlds section. The problem is laziness.. Please don’t get lazy/bored and not bother going into detail. Anywho.. Looks very good ;D
Good luck..
I think the cliff below Tony’s house look a little blocky. It definitely needs to be fixed!
Can we suggest sims?
sure, suggest a street name w/ your sims and they’ll be put into a prebuilt house/house built by me. If you have a houses that you already built, your sims will go into one of those houses (you can pick, or just let me do it at random)
do we have to upload to the sims 3 website to apply?
@DJD703, no you do not need to upload to the official site, but the file must be included or linked to a download site of some kind
Here are some pics of the Stark mansion, along with some interior photos.
http://philsaunders.blogspot.com/2008/05/tony-starks-house-design.html
Hey, I’d like to contribute. I have a home partially finished, just waiting for my version of “Ambitions” to arrive. I also have a skeleton of another home… I’ll send them to you when they seem finished, he he.
I’m also thinking of a community lot, some sort of cemetery or a coffee shop with a library and a garden with harvestables…
It’s all messy in my mind, he he. I’ll e-mail you later =)
@ Mike, thanks, i won’t be able to get extremely close but I’ll try (due to no rounded walls in the sims 3)
@ J, sounds great!, just be sure to include a street name
come on this is the day before the realease date of the sims there has to be more info! and vids!
Looks… interesting. 🙂
looks site sims-trois.jimdo.com
Looks awesome! If you do a good job, this’ll turn out amazing! 😀
Heres a link to a house i built some time ago youl have to download via my sims 3 page becease i cant atach things to my emails the house is empty but could be one of those empty pre made lots! -http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=1045647
Hey I have a technical problem with the beta of the tool to create world needs to help solve the problem with the beta to create world thanks …
When you open the tool to create your world I get a notice that says
! The beta of the tool, create your world of The Sims 3 is dropped
Judgement Information:
Attempted to read or write protected memory. Often, this indicates that hayotra impaired memory.
solve the problem please and thanks
Urgent
@ fasterling, that is the error that I am getting, currently there is no patch that will make the tool compatible w/ Ambitions, EA needs to release a patch for the issue to be resolved, this is the exact reason why this neighborhood project has been put on hold
I would love to see the Stark house in all its glory. Are you thinking of creating custom objects for the house, like the cars, the servo or the suit display in Iron Man 2? That would be awesome.
What would also be great, but not for Tony’s house, is an actual Arc Reactor, as seen at Stark Industries.
@Richard Joy, sorry for taking so long to post a supply, but I have been extremely busy. I actually have 0 experience with making custom objets/meshes and my idea for the suits was to use SimBots
O, and forgot to mention this, I have found some of the cars that tony stark has on as downloads on ModTheSims and I will provide download links when the neighborhood is done
You should put in something so crazy that only a true simmer would now what it is!
Luke S. – Someone out there should be capable of creating a simbot mesh in the form of the different Iron Man suits, they did it for the Servos on Sims 2.
I am enjoying this post as Iron Man is a great series.
Hi Guys, I have been working in the dark for a while and have a new neighborhood featuring Tony Stark plus a bunch of rich guys check it out at http://gatescove.weebly.com