Input wanted...building a Sims 2 neighborhood based on H*R

Jake-A-Roonie · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:05 am **Posts:** 88

IT'S DONE!
appx. 20MB

At the end you'll find the special surprise I've been working on, and the main reason I kept on pushing this back.

And in case you're wondering...yes...that's me...as Strong Bad... >_>

EDIT: And in case it wasn't already painfully obvious...TELL WHAT U THINK!!!

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 8:00 pm

Yeah. You should send that in as Fanstuff. RIGHT NOW.

Oh. So now you still have to do all those other places. Good luck! Happy..... Sim......ing!

Are you SURE you can't make the characters? You could get some help from other people. It would be cool to watch them all interact and do incredibly boring crap.

Jake-A-Roonie · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:05 am **Posts:** 88

It would likely take me several months just to LEARN how to do them...then I'd have to actually DO them.

5000 views on this thread...awesome, LOL.

I'm gonna go outside for a bit. Tonight, I'll fire up more screenshots for the bandwidth-challenged, since they haven't seen screens since my last video! I haven't forgotten you!

Ju Ju Master · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 6245

Augh, I left for a while, hopign it'd be finished loading, but it hadn't done anything. Apparently a "Network error occurred" (I guess it had occurred before I left, 'cause it looked like it wasn't loading. I thought it was ust loading slowly... you know, 'cause of all the awesomeness and stuff. That's gotta take up a lot of bytes, right?)

Loading a lot faster now. So that's good.

EDIT: Wow. That's one of the four most awesome things I've ever seen (Aproximately) I can't wait to see the rest of FCUSA. It's too bad you can't put the actuyal characters in it, that'd be really cool. Still gonna be awesome, though.

Neo · **Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 9:58 pm

That was... the greatest thing ever. For real. Tis' awsome.

Speckeldorf · **Posted:** Sat Aug 05, 2006 11:11 pm

WHEE. That was awesome. I loved the SB shrine.

Occasional JD · **Posted:** Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:24 am

I love his comment on The Cheat's computer...

I thought the same thing, first time I saw it...

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:31 am

I really like the finished product, especially the shrine. I enjoy the attention to detail, since you put Strong Bad's bedroom in the basement. However, if you freeze at 0:12, part of the shrine can be seen for a second. But at that angle, it doesn't look important or anything.

Occasional JD · **Posted:** Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:51 am

You should get started on Coach Z's locker room next. Because it's REALLY easy.

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|      O          O          O          O         O        O          O          O          O          
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|KITCHEN + BATHROOM
|----------------------------------------------------------|       |-----------------
|                         _________                                            __________            
| LIVING ROOM   |________|                                           |________|        
|    |---|             |________|                  |---|                 |________|                
|    |    |             |________|                  |    |                 |________|                      
|    |    |             |________| BEDROOM  |    |                 |________|                
|    |    |             |________|                  |    |                 |________|                               
|    |---|             |________|                  |---|                  |________|                                
|                        |________|                                           |________|                          
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Sorry for my bad drawingness...

EDIT: Oh boy...It got munted...

Jake-A-Roonie · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:05 am **Posts:** 88

Hehe...glad you all liked it! Now...screenshots for the bandwidth-challenged!

Floor Overviews
First Floor, front view
First Floor, back view
Second floor, front view
Second floor, back view

Outside
Front Porch ("I'll leave the key under the at-may!")
Back porch
Balcony - YUP, he's got a balcony! Nothin' too fancy though.

One-pic Rooms
Compy 386, with a view of the "Douglas" tree outside
Entryway
Garage
Laundry Room
Living Room

Strong Bad's Room
Overview
The corner of his room that's visible on SB's main page

Strong Mad's Room
Overview
Strong Mad's Dresser and Bed - "We had to get him a double-wide just so he could FIT in it!"

Strong Sad's Room
Overview
Strong Sad's Desk and TV - Note: this is the TV where he shows you Little Strong Bad's comedy routine in the email "stand-up," and the desk where he was making a card for Anthony in "depressio"

Bathroom
Mirror - "For hundreds of years it has haunted mankind....." (from email "narrator")
Bathtub - "One night in Bangkok and the rough got rougher...!" (from "Homestar Presents: Presents")

Basement
Overview
Sittin' at the couch staring at the TV...and the two exits into Strong Bad's Room

Kitchen
Somehow it makes weird sense for The Cheat to put his computer in the kitchen... and there's a nice '80s toaster oven on the right too.
The blender - "I'm tryin' to make a real fruit smoothie here..." (you're FIRED if you don't know what that's from!)

Special BONUS Area
The door into the special area - what could be inside?
Here's what you see upon stepping through the door - Now THIS is what I call a photo gallery!
A shot of all the photos on the left wall
A shot of all the photos on the right wall
No need for a caption, just click it.

And for the heck of it, check this out too.
The value of Strong Bad's house

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Sun Aug 06, 2006 2:01 am

Occasional JD wrote:

You should get started on Coach Z's locker room next. Because it's REALLY easy.

Code:

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|      O          O          O          O         O        O          O          O          O          
|
|KITCHEN + BATHROOM
|----------------------------------------------------------|       |-----------------
|                         _________                                            __________            
| LIVING ROOM   |________|                                           |________|        
|    |---|             |________|                  |---|                 |________|                
|    |    |             |________|                  |    |                 |________|                      
|    |    |             |________| BEDROOM  |    |                 |________|                
|    |    |             |________|                  |    |                 |________|                               
|    |---|             |________|                  |---|                  |________|                                
|                        |________|                                           |________|                          
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|---------------------------------------------------------|         |----------------

Sorry for my bad drawingness...

EDIT: Oh boy...It got munted...

I actually built the locker room. It's in a 2x2 lot, but Coach Z currently lives in an apartment building (don't ask) with Bubs as his neighbor, because it cost over $20,000. I'll evict him soon, along with Senor Cardgage.

Jake-A-Roonie · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:05 am **Posts:** 88

Hmm, that just gave me some inspiration! I wonder if...

*starts experimenting*

Jake-A-Roonie · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:05 am **Posts:** 88

Ah HA!

He may not have boxing gloves, but other than that, I've done it!

STRONG BAD!

Imitating a pose from his "modeling" cartoon. (This one is full-body, so you can see his feet better.)

This is the result of simple texture recolors, which I CAN do...but no new meshes -- hence, no boxing gloves. That took care of the mask. I used the same method to make a "transparent" tank for him, so he looks like he's going around shirtless. Finally there was a standard pair of black pants that looked just his style. And there he is!

EDIT: Also, like in the cartoons, the mask IS his face. This means it's genetic. This means there will be some ridiculously hilarious moments when he finally gets lucky with a girl and has a child... Because I fitted the mask to be worn by BOTH sexes of ALL age ranges! Which means, you guessed it, depending on whose face the child inherits, he or she may come straight out of the womb with a Strong Bad wrestling mask!

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Sun Aug 06, 2006 8:47 pm

What I want to know is what you did with his personality.

Seriously though. I heard that's a cool new thing in Sims 2.

Jake-A-Roonie · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:05 am **Posts:** 88

When I first made him, it randomly selected a Zodiac sign and a personality to go with it... It picked Libra, and it pretty much pegged him.

Mostly sloppy/messy, mostly lazy (as opposed to active), very outgoing, mostly nice with a little grouchy streak now and then.

Personally I like his boots.

And did anyone notice in the video that one of Strong Sad's walls was unpainted?! I noticed it after posting and have corrected it, but it happened because I had to tear down the wall that was there originally and make the room 1 square smaller so I could do what I wanted with Strong Mad's room. (Strong Sad's always the one to suffer!)

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Sun Aug 06, 2006 9:04 pm

So when you're finished, you could make a lot of this available for download on the Internet, right? Because I'm sure all of us would love to have our own personal FCUSA.......... it'd be fun to see the crazy character interactions that all of the people have, in particular....

ramrod · **Posted:** Mon Aug 07, 2006 1:47 am

ChickenLeg wrote:

I actually built the locker room. It's in a 2x2 lot, but Coach Z currently lives in an apartment building (don't ask) with Bubs as his neighbor, because it cost over $20,000. I'll evict him soon, along with Senor Cardgage.

Actually, according to the first Halloween Commentary, Strong Bad did mention that Coach Z had an apartment. It's a "Sty hole."

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:50 am

But wasn't he evicted or something?

And the apartment IS a styhole. Kinda. Everyone normally lives in Homsar's and Deutschman's apartment (Senor Cardgage lives on the fourth floor along), so therefore their bathrooms are generally used a lot. Bubs just so happens to live there, too. In fact, I moved Coach Z out, made some quick changes to the house, moved Z in, put the stuff I deleted back, and shaved him bald! I would show photos, but not even Picasa seems to be picking them up!

And I really like how you actually managed to get Strong Bad's mask to actually be part of him. The best I could do was give him full face makeup. And it has residual white on the sides.

But I could give you his green eyes to top it all off. That is, if I can find it. All I did was cut 'n paste and really cheat on it, but it's still practically flawless in the program itself. And although it's still a clothing pair, I can give you The Cheat's "fur", though it looks completely rushed. Could use it as a bit of a blueprint IF The Cheat skin is coming. I can also give you a Homestar/Strong Sad-type skin. All i really did was change the brightness to really up. I always get errors whenever I try to really make a different skin. It annoys me.

And one last thing... you forgot to sand off Strong Bad's nipples. :mrgreen:

netzen · **Posted:** Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:50 pm

This looks great!!!!

Jake-A-Roonie · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:05 am **Posts:** 88

A friend of mine came over yesterday and said Strong Bad looked like Spider-Man. Personally I think he looks more like a red version of the guys in Blue Man Group!

Trueno · **Joined:** Fri Apr 21, 2006 2:44 pm **Posts:** 6

If I could make a suggestion, I wouldn't think that The Cheat (who resides in KOT grill) would live so far from The Strong's house. Not a big deal, really...all and all you're doing a good job.

Cybernetic Teenybopper · **Posted:** Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:15 pm

Awesome, AWESOME fancy danish. This is cool. And I like your Strong Bad impression. XD Hmmm... We've never really seen their living room, have we? And will you be adding the pool somewheres?

The Noid · **Posted:** Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:26 pm

That was awesome. My favorite part was probably the hall of Eternal Strong Bad and Brothers.

Ju Ju Master · **Joined:** Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:01 am **Posts:** 6245

Cybernetic Teenybopper wrote:

Awesome, AWESOME fancy danish. This is cool. And I like your Strong Bad impression. XD Hmmm... We've never really seen their living room, have we? And will you be adding the pool somewheres?

We've seen it, it was shown briefly in helium, and maybe one other time.

Cybernetic Teenybopper · **Posted:** Wed Aug 09, 2006 3:32 pm

Ju Ju Master wrote:

Cybernetic Teenybopper wrote:

Awesome, AWESOME fancy danish. This is cool. And I like your Strong Bad impression. XD Hmmm... We've never really seen their living room, have we? And will you be adding the pool somewheres?

We've seen it, it was shown briefly in helium, and maybe one other time.

Ah. I shoulda asked the Wiki.

Einoo T. Spork · **Posted:** Wed Aug 09, 2006 5:12 pm

The "maybe one other time" Ju Ju is referring to is probably in "two emails". NO LADIES SHOWED UP!!!'

Yeah. But what about the pool? Will you be adding the pool? WHERE'S THE POOL??????? ARE YOU LISTENING TO MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE???????????

Jake-A-Roonie · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2004 5:05 am **Posts:** 88

Yup, no ladies showed up! Hence my comment about "I don't know how I thought we were gonna fit a million ladies in here anyways."

The pool, I think, isn't at SB's house. It looked like more of a community pool to me. Maybe near the athletic field.

Sonicfan27 · **Posted:** Fri Aug 11, 2006 11:05 pm

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Sims 2 doesn't let you customize THAT far. =P Not that I'm aware of anyway.

Aah, but it does. At least if you have Sim City 4. Like I do! If no one else will, I'll make it for you...

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Ah HA!

He may not have boxing gloves, but other than that, I've done it!

STRONG BAD!

Oh... man. Can you put those textures up for download? (computer joke.) Please? Like, on the Sims 2 website?

ChickenLeg · **Posted:** Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:00 am

Here's a code that can remove the roads from the neighborhood view. The only problem is that I can't say if it's true and it might screw the entire project up. So, test this on a throwaway neighborhood first. The only reason I'm puttn ghtis up is so that there can be a more realistic Free Country.

boolprop displayNeighborhoodRoads (True/False) Set to false to remove roads from neighborhood

Cybernetic Teenybopper · **Posted:** Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:48 am

Personally, I want to see some of the Badman''s kidlets, if he ever has any. Born with a wrestling mask = hilarious. Seriously. I want to seea crazy neighborhood like that.

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