Tip Of The Day

So, you make objects?

In which case, you generally clone something that BEHAVES roughly in the same way you want your finished object to behave. Therefore, if you wanted to make a decorative, static object, you would pick a decorative, static object to clone from the game. And if you wanted to make an outdoor object, you would probably clone a handy outdoor object with the same set of behaviours...

DO bear this in mind when selecting the humble garden gnome as your base object.

(unless you want one of your pesky, light-fingered Sim neighbours trotting off up the road with your shiny new object!)

Oops! Accident!

Krigshot74 wondered if I could make a prettier version of the basic Maxis car...

As is my style of late, I've made it utterly unusable, ripped off the wheels, smashed the glass, put a few dents in the roof and hood - oh and burnt it a bit.

I don't think I'll be releasing it separately, but if you would like this limousine gracing your palatial lawns, it will come as part of my "Boston's Garage" (residential) lot being released on 13 January.

Rating: 10 stars 5 stars 0 stars

Wow! Thanks again!!!

Lowering the tone

Yep - the junk set is out. Cyclonesue lowers the tone of the Sims community one step further with filthy toilets et al. You'll find it here (oh, and as usual, THAT is an order!).

I expect Maxis is really pleased to see what creative things we will do with their game. Chortle! Rating: 10 stars 5 stars 0 stars Wow! Thanks! :-)

The Cyclonesue Apology Forum

Yes, that is what I'm going to ask TSR to name my blog. Except it wouldn't be a forum because no-one has chance to answer back here. That's the way I like it. I'll make my pathetic excuses and then assure myself that no-one is the slightest bit upset, losing patience etc.

So, ANOTHER apology!

That set, glorified on the TSR front page today. Urban Renewal with EVERYTHING already in it! And you've been trying to download it - except you can't. You see: TSR haven't yet had the time to build the functionality for uber-sets that contain lots, sub sets and all that. And TSR explained this yesterday AFTER I'd already put the set up for release (my fault, because I never even asked about this concept until AFTER I'd put up the set).

So, once again, I am sorry. I must sound like a cracked record (or just cracked) with all these 'sorry' notes. And no, I'm NOT displaying some horrendous antiquity by mentioning 'records' either, but 'cracked CD' doesn't have the same ring to it and, in any case, a cracked CD doesn't have the same repeat-a-few-words affect either; it just jitters through an entire section at incredible speed and is therefore a redundant...[snip]

Back to the point. You know what is the MOST bizarre thing about me putting out that big set? Some of the things inside it are not yet released! The series comes to its natural conclusion on 9th or 10th January - unless I can bleed it dry of any other urban tat I can think of adding, that is.

Some people shouldn't be allowed near a TSR submission form!

Take one SIMPLE process, and what will Cyclonesue do with it?

The TSR submission form. It's not rocket science really. And if any of you have tried the Batch Edit form, you'll know that it's wonderfully easy to edit an entire set at once.

I wanted to upload 6 wallpapers for my 'Elevator Construction Kit. By the way, if you've downloaded this set already, you were no doubt cursing me earlier. You see, there are six submission forms before me - one for each wallpaper. So, the first one I called "Elevator Panelling" (that was the black paper with a border), then I called the next one "Elevator Panelling" (that was a steel paper - no border). And I added all 6 wallpapers industriously, calling each and every one "Elevator Panelling".

I have NO idea why I did that. When all 6 papers are on the same submission form, there is NO excuse for giving each one the SAME NAME!

So, downloaders everywhere are being vexed by being asked if the next wallpaer should overwrite the last. Thanks to Shakeshaft who risked my furious wrath by telling me about this, I have corrected the problem.

Sorry - again.

Oh, my hat!

Cyclonesue has done it again!

In my very first set of Urban Renewal signs and posters (remember that far back? I know, there have been MILLIONS since then), there was a 'hard hat' warning poster.

Unfortunately, there was the tiniest problem with it. It, erm, didn't show up in the game. I borked one of the internal files. You wouldn't think I could do that, given that the internal files did NOT need touching!

Anyway, my apologies if you downloaded and failed to reap the benefits of this, er, majestic poster. You can redownload it from here. That is an ORDER, by the way!

And my last laugh (now Windkeeper's last laugh)...

Check out the junk picture two blog entries ago. See the grass I made?

THAT is unusable too!!! Sims will NOT walk through it. What a hoot! So, I shall include unusable grass with the unusable junk!

Ha ha ha, ha ha HA, HA-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Umph.....

[Enter Windkeeper - with a fix]

Okay, so my grass now works. A BIG, HUGE thanks to Windkeeper (who actually KNOWS how to make things; me, I just guess). Anyway, your Sims can stand pointlessly all day in my bad weed if they so wish...

Trust me when I say Bitzybus and SimAddict99 have made MUCH better grasses - go check their profiles. Simaddict's grass is pictured in the 'board' entry immediately below this. MY grass is the bad stuff in the junk picture in the entry below THAT entry.

Anyway, this veritable weed will still be uploaded with my non-working junk. I do warn you that Windkeeper's magic has NOT been woven on that disgusting toilet. It is too far gone. My wrecking saw to that.

Are you 'board' of urban renewal yet?

Yes, bad joke (but you have to admit I've made bad jokes into an art form), but I expect you ARE already bored with yet more "Urban Renewal" sets... Well, never mind. Can't be helped. You see, I'm NOT bored of it yet, and so I have made some boarded windows for your lots. They're cloned curtains and so can be placed easily over any window (or wall) and work on diagonals too.

Just like the dastardly pile of junk in my last post (and all other Urban Renewal items released so far), they package up perfectly with any lots you upload (at TSR only -sorry, but it's a rule). This means you can happily poison other people's downloads folders with my crud. That makes me very happy indeed!

And it was NO joke!

I wonder if you really did think I was joking about unusable objects? One or two people have written to say they think it's a wonderful idea (thanks - chuffed!), so I'm not the only one with such hair-brained ideas. But no, I wasn't joking. I was deadly serious! I bring you the Unusable Collection Of Junk...

By the way, that curious white knob is a bulb on top of an unusable floor lamp, so there's no need to write with rude comments about it. You can of course write me with notes along the lines of: "That is a very, erm, GOOD unusable lamp...". Anything more offensive, and I assure you I shall start a whole line of unusable lots next! And if I catch ANYONE saying: "But you already do those!", there will be much fury. Oh yes, MUCH fury! I know who's being rude! Oh yes I do.

Prepare to be AMAZED! Again.

I had an idea. Unusable objects! How about that?! There - I'm most proud of it. As far as I can tell, no-one else here is in a huge rush to make unusable objects, so I feel as though I've hit upon an untapped goldmine. My first unusable object is an unusable toilet. I've removed the cistern and seat (the Cyclonesue School of DIY) and dirtied it up a bit - oh, and nudged it into a peculiar unusable angle. [insert applause and admiration here]

*Cyclonesue gives polite cough at the silence* Okay, it's not all that phenomenal, after all, so I added a chair (legs snapped off by me personally). The sink is one of my old recolours, decorated by some of Simaddict's grass. All this DOES have a purpose (yes - honestly). Besides using up valuable bandwidth resource on the TSR servers, the unusable toilet will be centre-piece of my junkyard collection. If it works, that will be ANOTHER "Urban Renewal" release! (Stop groaning - I'll get fed up of this series soon enough, I'm sure.) Today: unusable toilet; tomorrow: rule the world! You'll see.