De officiële Amerikaanse De Sims 3 site heeft 3 nieuwe community blogs online gezet. Alle drie hebben ze te maken met de nieuwe officiële buurt voor De Sims 3: Lucky Palms.
Deze blogs geven een leuke insiders look op wat er komt kijken bij het maken van een buurt voor De Sims 3.
A large and flashy asset like The Lucky Simoleon Casino Signis something that I had a lot of fun implementing. When building with this asset, you can certainlyplace it on the corner of your lot and be done with it, but I wanted to suggestthat it can be used in other ways as well. I actually used it twice –once on anelevated platform and once anchored into the ground, incorporated into thebuilding itself. This placement started to dictate the size and shape of thebuilding. I typically try to avoid building cavernous spaces, but casinos inreality are huge and often crowded. Iput a lot of thought into the size of the casino floor and made sure to includeenough slot machines and gaming tables so that Sims would have many choices forentertainment.
| The Sims 3 Lucky Simoleon Casino |
Because SpeedTrees come rigged for animation, all trees mustbegin from one of the many library files provided by SpeedTree. We don’t want ourtrees to look exactly like those from the library, so we alter both the modeland the textures to make them more unique and similar to the tree that we arereferencing from the photos we gathered. Some of the trees end up lookingnothing like the library model we began with, such as the fantasy trees andplants made for Lunar Lakes, which were loads of fun to concept and create!
| Lucky Palms Plant Modeling |
The Sims has been one of my favoritegames for, like… forever. Long before I became a designer for The Sims, I was casting spells in Makin’Magic. I opened my first business in TheSims. Many of my college years were spent playing University. Ican remember playing a lot of video games, but nothing quite strikes the cordof nostalgia in the same way that TheSims does. So, you can imagine how exciting (and terrifying) it canbe when we decide to reimagine a classic object like the Wishing Well, as wedid for Lucky Palms!
| Lucky Palms (Lots & Wishing Well) |
