#I haven't made CC in SO long I forgot I had some of my own too

[technicallyswagpizza]

BARNACLESS BAY CAW FILES by technicallyswagpizza

"A storm swept through the island, it ravaged for what felt like weeks and it was so fierce it completely erased part of the island! Now there is nothing else left but sand! And it's everywhere! Even in my ears!"

I always liked the idea of a remote farm type island where the folks living there still haven't heard about Gangam Style or paywalled CC, but I felt that the original Barnacle Bay is just too dysfunctional to play. It has good bones and I really wanted to make it work, but after chipping away at it on and off for almost a year I have come to a point that now whenever I open it in CAW I just don't know what to do with it and feel like I should go play in the traffic instead. Maybe I will finish it one day, but since I'm just sitting on these files I figured perhaps someone else wants to give it a go and make it your own. Change it completely, keep it as it is, share it, lock it in your basement, you do what you got to do to tame it.

These are the CAW files only, I have not play tested the world as it is very much work in progress thus there is no point releasing it in the state it is.

CHANGELOG

Standalone world, it will not replace Barnacle Bay.

A good chunk of the map is gone, I also ran the coastal parts of the map through World Machine to make it feel more realistic, thus all the sand everywhere.

Deleted a fair few lots completely.

Emptied majority of the lots, however I left some of the original lots in because I had a plan, but I forgot what it was.

Reduced the amount of spawners, there's at least one or two each rather than 3-5.

Added and removed some roads.

Replaced all the palm trees with Red Oaks from Ambitions exp.

Added shrubs around the fields

// There's not THAT much to do, but things you may want to fix:

Bumpy ridiculous roads (-᷅_-᷄๑)

Sort out the mess I made with the town centre layout

Double check routing, I'm fairly sure I started working on that but it's been so long I can't remember if I finished it completely.

None of the lots have addresses.

Waterfall looks ok in CAW but in game uh, idk. It looks like farts.

What you need: Maybe the original Barnacle Bay? I'm not sure, if you don't have it then the random CAW items/remaining lots that got stuff in them will get replaced by something else. I'm not sure if there are any BB items left though... I did swap the bridge and idk beachy barrier thing with something else. I don't remember which expansion they came from though. I'M REALLY GOOD AT THIS I PROMISE (.﹒︣︿﹒︣.)

DOWNLOAD // MIRROR

Let me know if the CAW files do not work, I don't think I have ever shared my raw CAW projects before so yeah. I included all the terrain paint .dds texture files just in case you want to paint stuff.

#Barnacless Bay #TS3 #TS3CC #TS3 World #The Sims 3 Custom World #TS3 DL #Download #Simblr

[poiuy-simblr]

WIP - Bathhouse - 二天 & 天

Yesterday I worked on the upper floors of the Bathhouse from Spirited Away.

When I build, I like to do the interior and exterior side by side. It helps me maintain the flow of the interior and the visual of the exterior, especially in a build like this where the two may not actually. Yesterday I mostly worked on the interior.

Due to the nature of this build, it contains spoilers for the movie Spirited Away and images of emotional moments. Because of this, and how long this post is, I've added the keep reading.

On the way to 天, the elevator that Chihiro and the Radish Spirit take stops at 二天. Translated literally as Heaven and Second Heaven, the subs I watched called them Sky and Second Sky. My folders are named for the subs, but I really enjoy the imagery of these floors being called Heaven.

Either way.

The elevator door opens on 二天 to this long hall of shoji, back-lit to show patrons inside the rooms. I love this scene. It's only a few frames of the movie and is never mentioned again, but it has so much ambiance I needed it for my build.

Obviously a WIP, I was so excited to find a solution for the spandrels I could live with. The in-game options were sending me up a wall. These, and I'm calling them spandrels because I don't have a better word for them, are to me very specific in a few ways: 1) they're a dark wood tone, 2) they have small, vertical slits that allow light though and 3) they come down to the top of the shoji.

I had a couple options for spandrels that weren't solid, but they were either filled in with paper (SE) or were horizontal (CC).

So I made my own. They're not finalized because I have to fight with them a little bit still. The CC beams I'm using are best placed against a wall which I then delete, but this means they're slightly off center from the vertical lines on the wall as seen on the farther set. I can 'center' them by doubling up, as seen on the closer one, but that's not quite right. I could probably manage it with TOOL? For a WIP though, I'm thrilled. I'm also thrilled I could get the 4 shoji per beam right, and being able to paint the ceilings has made this so much better.

Looking at it right now, I can only see the little things I need to change - the floor needs to be rotated, and likely switched completely, and the shoji aren't quite right. There's a lack of shoes of the floor, the lights hang from the ceiling rather than being flush against them, and I haven't added the signage to the spandrels yet.

Still, I'm pleased with it so far. I can't have a never-ending hallway because the lot won't allow for it, but I can have this hall turn onto another and another, so that sims will have a long hall to walk though.

Here's an early iteration of the floor (because I forgot to get a sc yesterday)

I also did some fun stuff in Yubaba's quarters on the 天 floor.

There's this scene in her office with plenty of light, including this shot of the fireplace from behind her desks:

So I worked on this:

The actual furniture is coming together nicely, but what I was really excited about was the fireplace. The scale of the painting and the molding around it are so close. I wish I had a wider fireplace that suited, but this one is marble with a rounded cavity and a green insert, my main feature requirements.

Obviously it needs the rugs, and I can mostly only see the little things that are wrong - the tallest walls are still too short and the room can never be big enough due to lot restrictions. The size and type of vase needs to be changed and the doorways want columns and tweaked curtains. But I am feeling mighty validated in my CC hoarding since I had multiple pink chairs with rolled arms, and even the quickly found placeholder pillows are working well. I always wonder if I really need all those recolors, and the answer is yes I do.

I also did some work in the hallway that leads to this room. We get this shot in the film:

So I've been working on this:

The bright lighting on the walls isn't ideal, but I managed to get the pattern on the floor and the shadows casting from the alcoves onto it. I was also so excited that these columns came in a swatch with a green beam and a brown base.

Listing out all the CC in these WIPs would be impractical, especially since a fair amount of it is serving as a placeholder, but I'm happy to share any details about what I've used and plan on listing it out on more finalized spaces.

Thank you for reading :) and until the next screenshots <3

#ts4 #the sims 4 #spirited away #sen to chihiro no kamikakushi #wip #build mode

[dizzyhslightlyvoided]

The Commons

So I've released my Jenny Everywhere stories Attack of the Rise of the Revenge of the Scheme of Doctor Draconic and This Might Happen Someday into the public domain via Creative Commons 0. Previously, they'd been released as Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution, but I decided that it wasn't open enough.

Both This Might Happen Someday and Attack Etc. of Doctor Draconic were written for Jenny Everywhere. Attack Etc. of Doctor Draconic was a vehicle to introduce Laura's villainous secret identity as the title character, and the latter was a story created for Jenny Everywhere Day. They aren't "stories which happen to include Jenny Everywhere", they are "Jenny Everywhere stories", and I feel like CC-BY-or-CC0 plus The Paragraph is the logical conclusion of Jenny's open-source concept.

But like ... in general, I'm one of those people who wants to be heard. Not, like, in the "celebrity" sense of fame-and-glory; that way lies disaster. I have neither the desire to live nor the ability to withstand that kind of life (and, of course, any trans or non-binary person who gains any level of fame promptly gets harassed off the internet). But I'm the sort of person who'll post the same thing to Tumblr, Cohost, Pillowfort, Twitter, and one or two Mastodon accounts.

And I want to share the joy of creation, not just keep it to myself! I've seen many stories where I wished I could create something in the same setting which wasn't specifically fanfiction, without having to jump through legal hoops -- and conversely, I've seen many stories which were bad, but had kernels of interesting ideas, which made me want to write my own improved version. (I've had the idea of filing the serial numbers off Ranma 1/2 bouncing back and forth in my head for years, but I still haven't 100% figured out a method of changing genders which is as elegant in its simpicity and versatility as "getting splashed with hot or cold water", unless I just used that and had a character say, in-universe, "oh yeah, I got the idea from that one Rumiko Takahashi manga ...")

But basically, people have been telling each other's stories, with or without their own spin, for as long as humans have been humans; "copyright", the idea that a story or character could belong to someone specific, is new. So this is my way of enabling that for other people, in some small way. You want to write a published story about Doctor Draconic and make money off it? Sure, as long as you include the Paragraph for Jenny herself! You want to take the general setting of This Might Happen Someday and write a comic book which makes actual definite decisions about the worldbuilding details, but without the hypothetical real-world Jenny Everywhere and Jenny Nowhere Except Maybe They Aren't? Go right ahead!

I'm not 100% sure whether I'll release non-Jenny Everywhere stories in CC0 or in CC-BY. The difference is that in the latter case, you just have to include a notice to the effect of "so-and-so is remixed from whatever-story by Delila H. Smith and was released under a CC-BY license!" with the link, which is simple and makes it clear to everyone else that it's available for use (in a similar manner to Jenny Everywhere's Paragraph); on the other hand, people have screwed up simpler things, and copyleft trolls are a thing. Plus, it's not like everyone forgot Bram Stoker's name when Dracula entered into the public domain.

But the important thing, ultimately, is that you'll still be able to use it either way.

#philosophy #copyright #my stuff #re: my stuff #public domain #creative commons #jenny everywhere #transphobia mention