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Ideas for expanding my Sims 4 Cyberpunk save, brainstorming

nevermind my game is broken now yes it is, absolutely lovely, thanks EA for making "for rent"

My Stardew Valley project: Lots Layout plan in TS4

(This is not/will not be a save or a download as I use way too much CC for that, just a personal project and plan of lots I found suitable; I don't know how long this will take me or if I'll ever complete it but having a plan helps me so much to not get stuck later)

I'm sharing this in case it is handy to anyone wanting to do a Stardew Valley save in The sims 4 from scratch (lots off gallery are limiting with their sizes and needing specific lots, so I'm starting from zero unless a lot fits) without ugly set dressings or stupid backgrounds that don't make sense, and trying to group together the lots properly like they are laid out in the game so you can see them in the distance, or at least put them on an isolated lot with a clear surroundings if they have to be separated. It isn't perfect and is subjective and pack dependant but I spent a while today just laying out in my blank save (I use the srslysims blank save for this) where I wanna build what and who lives in each lot, so I'm sharing it in case it saves someone time or is useful Some lots are for a few sims living together to do two or more builds on one lot. This could possibly work with For Rent, but I don't dare try it lol. Others are just living alone. Others are just community. The main worlds I'm using are:

- Henford on Bagley:

The finwich area for the main Pelican town area ➡ 1= 1 Willow Lane (Sam Vincent Kent Jodi) + 2 Willow Lane (Hayley and Emily) these are here because of the river and the bridge leading "down to the beach" just everything is perfect for me. 2= Mayor's Manor, 1 River Road (Alex, George, Evelyn), 2 River Road (Pam and Penny trailer) this one is a little cramped and will have to be one next to the other but it can work. That way all these people live in the village centre. 3= Stardrop Saloon, maybe a little square if it fits, but probably not. 4= Harvey's clinic, Pierre's store. 5= Blacksmith and Library (+the little ice cream stand or market stall) 6= Joja Mart and/or Cinema (I'm doing both) 7= Bookseller with cute hot air balloon (this is random I wanted to do it, but it is usually just an empty area) 8= The farm 9= 24 Mountain road (Maru Seb Robin and Demetrius) 10= Quarry (set as generic) 11= Linus's tent 12= Adventurer's Guild and Mines (marlon gil and dwarf)

Willow Creek (Community Center)

It is on the big lot in willow creek, no surroundings or buildings, so It was perfect, and gives enough space to build the community center plus the childrens park and the natural area around it and it's by a river.

- Moonwood Mill as Cindersap Forest

I know it's a bit grungy and has industrial deco but I don't mind these buildings as they fit with the nature imo. It had the perfect amount of lots for what I needed, plus a river. 1= Wizards Tower 2= Travelling Merchant 3= Marnie's Ranch + Leah's Cottage 4= Krobus/Sewer (this is the main reason I chose this world and I know there isn't a beach but the sewer pipe with trash aesthetic and the large lot in the forest was enough for me) 5= Mouse Hat shop /Abandoned house

Granite Falls for Secret Forest:

I'm doing this one (using Zerbu's all worlds are residential) in Granite Falls in the National Park lot, I just liked how big it is, how tall the surrounding trees are, and that it has a little waterfall area.

Glimmerbrook as the rest of "Mountains" area (Railroad and Spa). I choose that lot of the railroad cause i can add a tunnel for the train with tool and it looks like its coming out the cliff

Sulani

Sulani as the Docks (with Elliots shack and Willy's shop) the build i've placed is from the gallery and is a water lot with the Night market (I really liked this and didn't want it separately) so I had to place it here. I do not actually like Sulani for this though, it is far too tropical and its on an island but I am forgiving it for the sake of having the beach lot. I wish Brindleton Bay had a beach lot near the docks would have been much better. You could change this and put it anywhere if you build your own beach as a pool but I hate doing that... In Sulani I'll also build all the Ginger Island stuff, but I still haven't played through that properly so I can't say what is going where yet.

Forgotten Hollow (witch's swamp/hut)

Forgotten Hollow as the witch's swamp /witch's hut area (again this is random but I wanna include it and make the witch for fun)

Oasis Springs as The Calico Desert

This large lot is perfect. It has a road, not too much going on around it except rocks and desert, and I'm gonna put everything here (Sandy's shop, Mr Qi's casino, and the desert trader outside). I will not be building the bus stop anywhere cause it is unnecessary. I forgot to mention but also the skull cavern might fit here or I'll do it on some other lot maybe OTHER INFO

Mods I'm gonna use to help the lots work as intended: I'm gonna play with littlemssams live in business mod to achieve the character being able to live on what should be a community lot and for it to still be functional, as well as chingyu's welcoming lot trait to avoid sims not being able to do what they want on these lots without being "innappropriate". For each of the lots and worlds I selected I spent time entering each and deciding which areas most closely resembled the areas from the game. For example if it had a lake or river nearby, or if the lot was big enough to build each thing. This could change but I think I'm happy with it. I might have to change some of this or make tiny builds to fit the multi build lots. Every single thing is super unfinished and empty, this is just my layout plan.

Conclusion: I hope this helps someone or if not and you even read this far that you like my idea :) If I forgot something or someone or said a name wrong, sorry, though I haven't fully finished the game yet. Basically I tend to get super overwhelmed and annoyed if there are stupid buildings or things that don't match, and am unable to just randomly plop any build anywhere like many players do due to obsessing over it not looking right around the build...maybe I'm a perfectionist or wish it was a blank world, but this is my next best thing. At least this was easier than my Cyberpunk save with way more foresty/countrysidish options 😅

Cyberpunk mods blablabla

Dear me I sold my soul to the devil and downloaded a bunch of mods for cp2077 (before i only had CET and skip radio song mod)

Down side: part of me is regretting it instantly because if there's a patch surely they'll all break and they were a bit of a nightmare to install compared to sims im ngl but finally figured out that some "required mods" are actually just tools, like xml injector or whatever... and a lot of these tools mods are for many others so once you've installed the main ones you don't need to worry so much, but at first this wasn't clear to me at all...you have to install mods in like five billion different paths for them to work properly and if you dont have those tool mods installed the path isn't there, so it seems like you're installing the same mod 5 times but its just the path, anyway, finally i get it

I made myself a little document to log all the mods i have to make things easier cause there's no way ill remember everything i did, plus backed up my folders first in case. Good side: another part of me is super chuffed and happy with them, I installed photomode unlocked, custom pose packs and facial expressions, unlock all outfits, equipment ex (more slots for outfits, didn't really want this but it was required to unlock outfits and it is kind of cool) which took me a while to figure out too (my clothing was clipping until i realised you set your own layers) and finally seeing v pose differently, or be able to change the outfit right in photomode, or be able to have infinite outfit slots, being able to layer the outfits more than usual, etc... it is pretty cool, this part of me kind of regrets not being brave enough to try it before i started my cosplay project or any of my other screenshots now with a bunch of my pics having the same poses and expressions, but i think its also cool i did it with a vanilla game to show that you can be creative without mods all the time. Mods are good when you grow tired of vanilla game i guess. But honestly some of the features i just think why arent they already in the game? There were some other cool photomode mods that I might try later on but for now they intimidate me a bit, i want to get used to what i've installed so far.

sorry im not really doing much for the blog, I needed a break from the last couple of cc sets i made, but recently I've been doing a blender beginners course tutorial with the hopes it will help me understand the basics before attempting any cc meshing tutorials (i've done this in the past and honestly it isn't worth spending ages getting stuff wrong and not even knowing why or how to use the program without copying someone else) messing around with my cp mods, making all the sims for my stardew valley save which is taking a while, I still haven't even built anything in it, but wanted to get at least the characters all ready, and making some naruto tattoo cc for my Sai sim, which im doing on an off, aside from my own personal life and stuff.

I'm recently getting the urge to try to make a stopmotiom build video for sims 🤔 the idea of the camera and all the editing though or making a mistake is pretty daunting as well as how long they take. But the idea of using a build i already made is appealing as i have many that i have finished. All have tons of cc tho and don't know if i want to make cc list that is so long for each or do all the effort of making a video for something someone cant use... Update: I spent all day yesterday making it and thought it was going really well only to find that i started to get the transitions done in the wrong order (since everything is done backwards my mind is struggling to cope with how i need to do it for it to be right when it is inverted) also the screenshots and video i filmed in OBS didn't align at all because you CANNOT make stop motion builds in windowed mode (the screenshots have a black line at the top and bottom in adobe premiere, and the videos have a thick black line at the bottom from the taskbar gap) it can only be done in full screen, really WISH all the tutorials i watched mentioned this... but i guess you learn by doing right? just wish i did the import to premiere to test out my first scene so i guess that is in fact my fault, i didn't do it all luckily just quite a fair bit.

I'm gonna try again but if it goes wrong a second time i don't know if ill have the patience to do this 😂

Stop motion issues I'm finding it super hard to do the stop motion build I was trying to do, i can't properly wrap my head around doing it back to front and i keep losing my camera positions especially in larger rooms with lots of sections... I will keep trying to finish this but there are already mistakes that im gonna have to do a shitty transition for cause i've lost my positions again and already restarted the whole thing and don't want to do that again, frankly ive kind of already lost motivation for it cause its just taking so long to get it right. So my respect to anyone who makes stop motion build videos especially for large lots, it is so hard...

I have twitch now

So i have tested twitch a little. First day lost all my stream (I was building calico desert from my stardew valley save in sims 4) cause i didn't know you had to set that up. Today i've had some technical issues and double audio but i think i know the reason now. I continued the calico build, stream disconnected after 30 minutes so its in two parts cause apprently you can't join them, also played a little stardew.

Main thing that is annoying and I know nobody will have patience for is when i get a Last Exception error while playing, or when i search something in Build Buy it just gets stuck, so there are a lot of moments in my building where i have to just stop for a moment to let the game deal with all my cc. If i pause for a moment during stream especially if i clicked the search bar or if it suddenly doesn't let me place objects or something it is because i need to wait and theres nothing i can do. Also dislike not being able to use my custom music freely or having to filter through every action to make sure im not doing something that will not be allowed.

Other than that my experience is quite positive, i feel like i can mostly play the game how i normally would (aside from removing a few adult mods though I do not recomment minors watch as I still have some in there, as always my content isn't intended for minors regardless of how friendly i try to keep it idk what text will appear from these mods or what objects in buymode. I use basemental and ww with streamer safe mode. I like the fact i can just play without worrying about recording taking up space or editing a video for youtube which takes a long time. I currently am just playing no mic no cam, for slow building or just chill. I occasionally try to look at chat and today missed someones messages, its still so new to me. Not sure if i will keep doing it long term but for now i like it as a way to document my builds without having to take perfect screenshots of everything or edit a video. I do get very nervous on there though in case i fuck up and am still figuring it out.

I stupidly removed my eyes folder to do a disallow for random batch fix, forgot to re add it back, saved my game last night without realising and now all my stardew sims have lost their eyes 😭😭😭😭

Not the worse thing but noooo...

I spent all day today trying to convert a mesh from cp to sims. I have no clue what im doing. I have achieved way more than expected. I extracted the mesh and materials from cyberpunk and got them in blender. The textures are very confusing so i may end up failing... i dont know how to make the materials appear as a texture image but i managed to import the mesh on the sims body and position it so it looks ok.

Im gonna be doing a 3d modelling course in september but im not sure if it will teach me things relevant to what im interested in and in the meantime this is what im doing lol

me being an idiot and deciding to update the sims 4 today (I've tried to avoid it for two patches but it is giving me more and more small bugs despite always playing offline) Backing the whole game up of course. If I get a game breaking bug or anything I'll have to play older sims games for some time I'm currently not even playing sims 4 much just mostly testing cc I'm converting

Yesterday I had a corrupted lot and a bunch of issues in my game, removed my custom radios mod (sadly) and rearranged my custom music into the ea folders. I had a corrupted lot (my cyberpunk H10 megabuilding) caused by For Rent, and I ended up rebuilding an older version today, hopefully it will work from now on. I've relocated V's apartment to there and so far I'm loving it I'm now working on all my cyberpunk gang townies to fill out my worlds and omg the copy past CAS feature is a godsend WHY DIDN'T IT EXIST BEFORE it's soo much quicker to make sims now finally something good I had sooo many unfinished sims in my library cause i just could not be bothered to do all their outfits or move them in to use mccc to do all the copy pasting but this is just amazing, I'm so annoyed at all the hours i've lost in the past cause this feature was added way too late

Cyberpunk suitcase wip + El coyote cojo + fasdfsfsdf

I know it seems I'm doing nothing, but I've been doing a lot of stuff for my cp save + cc converting:

Building V's megabuilding (h10) complete, I redid it all and use it with for rent and so far it isn't corrupted lol

Cloned the megabuilding and now making h03 and el coyote cojo bar, I'm having so much fun with it

Then when it comes to cc I'm converting a bunch of stuff from cp and don't plan on stopping anytime soon, I love the items! plus don't have a clue how to model something yet. It is hard for me but so far I've converted with a lot of help from other creators V's yukata, the "rogue" pants and some heel strap boots. These are almost finished I just keep starting new things instead of finishing 😅 It's also frustrating that the more things I do the more I learn and then the previous stuff seems badly done and I keep redoing it and taking ages, and simultaneously the more things I do the more I realise I don't know and how much nuance there is for each item and it's hard, especially converting meshes that were not intended for this game at all but it is doable. So yeah learning a lot, still clueless about a lot, and trying not to get too perfectionist but make sure things are as good as possible. When I was building my el coyote cojo/ heywood lot I thought it would be neat to put those abandoned loot suitcases around with random junk inside (you know all the crap that somehow ends up in your sims inventory that you don't want cough cough robot parts from chemistry lab and random mysims dolls and stupid clay cough cough) and ended up converting this. So it is finished and functions as a storage backpack (can be put in sims inventory and put as much stuff in as you want), but before I upload i wanna make the same case into a growing together suitcase and once that's done I promise I'll finish all this stuff before doing something else 😭 When it comes to this lot and my megabuilding I may continue the cc list for the upload of it if I have time after these cc uploads (I started before it corrupted with For Rent) and if it's too much I'll just make some pics/videos, but I'm super happy with these builds 💛 RIP Stardew Valley save, wait for me, it's not you it's me I swear I try to force myself to cycle round my different saves otherwise I fear I'll abandon them and I always get re-inspired once I start.