Placing Portraits on a Community Lot

[Aggie]

Is this possible?

I've already tried the boolprop dormspecifictoolsdisabled false cheat, and although this does enable buy mode so I can place a picture after I've painted one, the portrait disappears as soon as the Sim leaves the lot. I've tried using the InSim (I think) to enable save (clicking on a blank area, choosing 'Other...' then selecting 'Enable Save'), but it doesn't seem to work.

I have not tried rezoning said lot yet, though. Any ideas as to whether or not that cheat would allow changes to the lot to be saved afterwards?

[notovny]

Easiest way? Have Open for Business? Paint the portrait at home, place it in inventory. Buy the lot, place the portrait, then sell the lot back to the community.


If you don't have OFB, the process is a bit more complicated.

You'll need the Buyable Residential Mailbox and Trashcan  collection at Sim a Little, Dream A Lot.

And to reduce the number of useless character files, you'll want to do this in a test neighborhood.

Change the lot zoning to residential.

Place the Residential Mailbox and Trashcan, so you can actually move sims in.

Then all you need to do is place the painting, kill the Sims  who you used to place the painting,  change the lot zoning back,  and remove the residential mailbox and trashcan.

[Strangel]

Easiest way? Have Open for Business? Paint the portrait at home, place it in inventory. Buy the lot, place the portrait, then sell the lot back to the community.
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And it won't sell the portrait when you sell the lot back to the neighborhood?

[Sleepycat]

Easiest way? Have Open for Business? Paint the portrait at home, place it in inventory. Buy the lot, place the portrait, then sell the lot back to the community.
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And it won't sell the portrait when you sell the lot back to the neighborhood?

nope, I just did this a couple nights ago. it worked great! 

I had a sim buy the lot after painting a bunch of custom paintings, went and hung the sign to close the business, put the pictures where I wanted them and had the sim head home. had her sell the business back and I went to it in build mode to remove the unneeded sign and check on the paintings, all of them were there.

I used one of Squinges "paint faster" hacks so I would have the pictures done ASAP (2 hour version)

[Zazazu]

Easiest way? Have Open for Business? Paint the portrait at home, place it in inventory. Buy the lot, place the portrait, then sell the lot back to the community.
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And it won't sell the portrait when you sell the lot back to the neighborhood?

nope, I just did this a couple nights ago. it worked great! 

I had a sim buy the lot after painting a bunch of custom paintings, went and hung the sign to close the business, put the pictures where I wanted them and had the sim head home. had her sell the business back and I went to it in build mode to remove the unneeded sign and check on the paintings, all of them were there.

I used one of Squinges "paint faster" hacks so I would have the pictures done ASAP (2 hour version)

To build on, I have a graveyard with paintings done of every dead resident, before the Oversoul got angry and nuked the neighborhood. One resident owned the lot and others would just gift him the portraits and he would place them. Occasionally I'd get a portrait that wiped back to that sunset default, but otherwise it worked well. I saved the portraits as custom paintings, so if a wipe occurred I'd just have the owner paint it again.

[Aggie]

Easiest way? Have Open for Business? Paint the portrait at home, place it in inventory. Buy the lot, place the portrait, then sell the lot back to the community.
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And it won't sell the portrait when you sell the lot back to the neighborhood?

nope, I just did this a couple nights ago. it worked great! 

Thanks to you all; I'll definitely be trying that now. Yes, I do have OfB.

To build on, I have a graveyard with paintings done of every dead resident, before the Oversoul got angry and nuked the neighborhood. One resident owned the lot and others would just gift him the portraits and he would place them. Occasionally I'd get a portrait that wiped back to that sunset default, but otherwise it worked well. I saved the portraits as custom paintings, so if a wipe occurred I'd just have the owner paint it again.

This is the exact reason I wanted to know about this; thanks!

[Gwill]

And it won't sell the portrait when you sell the lot back to the neighborhood?

I believe it does if the portrait is marked for sale, but not if it's just hanging as decoration.
I had absolute hell trying to build a community lot graveyard with custom paintings before OFB.  It's a lot easier now.