More Awesome Than You!

This should be the final version of my new world, Crescent Cove. It's a small barrier island neighborhood backed by huge sand dunes, complete with houses and rabbitholes. I've done what I could to give the dunes a very natural feel with the succession of the ecology, and I hope you'll agree the effect is very pretty. Special lots by me include the lighthouse keeper's home, the Church of the Golden Gnome, Crescent Cove Historical Society (based on the one I did for  Hatchet Falls), Motel Sleezopolis, Whalemart, and Crescent Cove Community Day (a library for children/toddlers).

(http://ellatorture.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/other/Crescent_Cove/Crescent_Cove.PNG)


Credits:
House Creators From MTS:

Brighten11 (http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=161468)

Calisims (http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=737315)

ung999 (http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=220806)

plasticbox (http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=178282)

L-na (http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=2298676)

athenashavoc (http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=1425799)

Sims3Addicted (http://www.modthesims.info/member.php?u=3294196)


Please note that this world requires RIVERVIEW, or else City Hall will not show up since I used the smaller Riverview object.Some lots (I think 2) also use these textures:

Paint on Paint by guatla
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=353357

I also use all the stuff from the store in my game, so I recommend that you install the sets from the store stuff thread to avoid things like a few missing doors/windows/bookshelves.


Get it HERE (http://ellatorture.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/other/Crescent_Cove/Crescent_Cove_1.rar).

(http://ellatorture.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/other/Crescent_Cove/Screenshot-54.jpg)
(http://ellatorture.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/other/Crescent_Cove/Screenshot-55.jpg)
(http://ellatorture.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/other/Crescent_Cove/Screenshot-57.jpg)


ETA: Someone uploaded the Riverview objects separately in Peasantry, you can get them here if you don't have Riverview but want the Riverview objects and rabbitholes, like the City Hall: http://uploadmirrors.com/download/19QEKVHW/Riverview_objects_only.zip

ETA 5/4/10: Updated the file for the hood to fix some static errors and a disconnected road. Redownload.

I like it!  Reminds me of the North Carolina Outer Banks.  I'm not playing TS3 at the moment, but I'll definitely come back and download this when I start up again. 

I like the church and cemetery. You usually see a cemetery in association with a place of worship unless it's in the country.

I want to check this out cause the I like the textures and decor used in making this world. Does remind me of the eastern coast shores of USistan.

Now to fix my installer issues. Dammit!

Well, I like that sandy surrounding and old-fashion desing of that nice church ( and I like that this cemetery isn't such a spooky place ;) ) although I still search for a little smaller world for a change ;)

It's so beautiful, I really really like it.  I am torn between this and another island now.   :-\

Thank you! That's exactly the look I am trying to achieve with this island.

Here are a couple of extra screenshots I took while playing:

(http://ellatorture.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/other/Crescent_Cove/Screenshot-59.jpg)
(http://ellatorture.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/other/Crescent_Cove/Screenshot-60.jpg)

I like that little sand bar garden next to the lighthouse. Very picturesque.

I really like the quaint, colorful beach houses; exactly what I'd expect to see on the coast.  I just noticed, in the fourth picture of your first post, is that a row of historical houses? If so, that's another thing that accurately portrays this type of setting.  Not that I'm an expert on coastal towns or anything, but it is nice to see something that models this type of community right down to the smaller details that usually get overlooked. 

I did put a couple of Victorians on that street, they just seemed to fit right in that kind of neighborhood, back in the trees at the center of the island.

Thank you for uploading this. It's the most useful custom world I found so far =).

I have no idea whether you're (still) interested in feedback - FWIW here's three little things I noticed this weekend:

- you have tree and grass growing on a road here http://www.modyourpanties.com/images/100315033022-ci-road.jpg -- this is where the pool is in your version (top right corner of the overview pic)
- one road intersection is disconnected: http://www.modyourpanties.com/hosting/17366_100315033427ci-empty.jpg (duh, I marked the wrong corner on that pic -- it's the one to the right of the pink box)
- one road corner is sloped with the terrain which looks a bit funky: http://www.modyourpanties.com/images/100315033516-ci-corner.jpg

I don't know whether any of these lead to routing issues or anything since I haven't started to actually play that nhood yet (the disconnected road might actually come in handy for me, if it turns out that cars won't drive through there, since I placed an object on that road), just figured you might want to know.

Hi,

There is also grass growing on the road by 3 Crescent drive.
And it looks like there is a piece of road beneeth the road on the corner of 5 main street.
I think the road in the turn behind the policestation is also not connected.
This is a very beautiful world, I love playing it.
I didn't notice anything else.
 I hope my feedback helps.


ps: sorry for my bad english  :D

I think its gorgeous and i was loving playing with it, but my game kept crashing (this isn't happening with any other Neighborhood) and I noticed routing problems to the fishing pond on the lot across from the theater. I couldn't get my Sim to fish from the lake, she kept getting the "route fail" thought bubble. I could handle that, but the crashing was getting problematic.

Thank you so much for the beautiful Island.

I am having no problems playing it.

The challenge in the first house I put a sim in,was fantastic

I am still exploring the island at the moment and the detail is amazing!

I've been using this for a while and never had any crashes. It's lagging like hell, but so do Riverview and SunsetWotsit. That said, I bulldozed all lots before I started using it .. so whatever crashing issues others have, they might have to do with something on the *lots* (but not in the neighbourhood per se).

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I can't replicate the crashing problems, but I have updated the neighborhood to fix the disconnected roads and the few stray plants on the sidewalk. The new download should be up for you soon.

ETA: Original post changed to link to the updated Crescent Cove file.

This island looks beautiful I am going to download it right now.

Hey, I'd like to install this one into my game, but it's a sims3pack and I try so hard not to use the download manager. Anyway we could get a .world file, please?

Use s3px or any of the other available sims3pack extractors to rip it out, then.

I thought that neighborhoods/worlds didn't extract completely? I remember reading someone say that around here somewhere. But I'll give it a shot.

Well, if they don't, then there's no other way to install them.

Hmm

I have this world via a world file. I do not know if it is slightly Borkified compared to the normal install method though.
Most of the places, lots ect show up with **name** style.

I guess if that is not too anoying, that a .World file would work then?

(I got mine via a seperate hdd, install of clean sims3 and patched then installed worlds via launcher and copied the .world file onto memorystick and moved to my other version of the game that is for playing...Yes, it is a long way around, but I was going to reinstall that hdd anyway so if the things did not work, I did not loose anything)

have a lovely update: I used Delphy's extractor, had to rename the entire file because it was put out as a .package; so I changed it to .world, installed and it runs fairly well.
Only, my custom content now acts wonky every once in awhile. Other than that, pretty good.

I also seem to get crashing. So far its crashed twice. Im patched up to the latest, im in the little blue barnoid house (can't remember right address but it has a tree on it and is behind the Evans place) . . . It first crashed while my sim was cooking and after I had let it just run its course while i made a cuppa, and then the second time was while she was doing the dishes. . . I installed the sims3pack, and I also added in a heap of families to the hood because there was like no one to visit lol. I also built on a community lot and just covered it in tree's, shrubs, rocks and beetles. 

So, I have no idea why it could be crashing, but apart from that, this is a beautiful island :) . . . I love the little garden near the lighthouse, and the little church beside the cemetery is just picture perfect :) . . . Well done ^^

I just discovered this today and just had to check it out.
It's a gorgeous island - although some of the roads (the ends at the two points, and that corner where you fixed the road dip) are so close to the edge of the beach that they look to be in danger of being swept out to see on the next high tide.  8)
I saw that you fixed that one corner, but now it looks like there's a bump on the beach that isn't supported by anything. Maybe I'm being nitpicky, but it bugged me a little - I think it would look better if that corner and the two road ends weren't quite so close to the water. Or under water, like the one near the lighthouse. (The road near the church has the same 'dip' issue as that one corner used to have, judging from the pictures in a previous post...)

That's my only quibble, though. I love what you did with the plants and the dunes at the back, and how natural the textures look. And the graveyard looks wonderful - almost like a park. It's refreshing to see a graveyard that isn't spooky - I could totally see myself sitting on a bench there reading a book...
I love it that there are so many fishing spots and parks, too. And it's great to have a sandy island that is *not* riddled with palm trees. :8

I did get a few crashes, but this is not the only custom world where I have that issue, so maybe it's something intrinsic to CAW?

ETA: Would you be willing to share your CAW version?

For all those of you having crashes, how exactly is it happening? I've played other worlds in my game without them crashing, and it's only when I use this world, that it crashes. But it's not exactly a crash, it acts as if my computer is over heating - the game freezes and shuts off as if I'd closed it.
Is it doing this for other people to?

And I know for a fact that my computer isn't overheating, it runs other games with no problems & never crashed while using Sunset Valley.

Yes thats what I meant by crashing. Freeze's for about a minute then just closes the game. . .

Okay, I'm gonna try taking out my CC and seeing if it works better that way. Other games on my computer are working just fine so it's either the Sims 3 or or some CC or this island. I plan on narrowing it down & I'll come back with an update on what exactly is doing it to me. Maybe help some others in the process.

Update - I started a new game with Crescent Cove and no CC, no mods. No freezing occured. I have a feeling it's a part of my CC conflicting with the world. Could this be the case for others?

Possibly . . . but which mods. . . I don't really have that much in the way of 3rd party CC . . . I have all the store stuff so it could be something in there. . .

Ellipses do not take the place of periods in a sentence.  Learn to punctuate correctly.  Thanks.

All I've seen so far, is that the world can't handle any kind of CC it seems. Runs fine without it. That's the only real connection I could find, because I took out everything. Then added one piece of CC and it went back to crashing.

I don't know about the CC theory because I tried it to no avail. My game doesn't crash, it freezes (the kind where you can't click, but bushes and trees keep moving in the background, sounds keep going, etc.)

It may be because I have a Mac, which might contribute to the problem, but after taking out all CC it still froze.

I wonder, could any of it be related to the specs of your computers? I know I did use a lot of effects when I made the neighborhood, especially for the waves all around the entire island, and there are an awful lot of plants. It's the only thing I can think of so far, because I haven't had any issues with it in my game, but perhaps with a lower end computer or with different settings it could be more of a problem.

I believe these are all of the necessary CAW files. Hopefully someone here will be able to figure out whether something is corrupted.

http://ellatorture.moreawesomethanyou.com:8080/other/Crescent_Cove/Crescent_Cove_World.rar

You know, I had this problem and discovered that it was my firewall not liking the game at all.  Try to see if you can make an exception for the game via your firewall or tinker with your firewall/virus scanner options. 

On the face of it I wouldn't recommend doing that, as it allows the game to phone home.

This is necromancy in a big way, but I wanted to mention that I fiddled around with this world in CAW and managed to stop the crashing. There's something in the area of the police station that was causing it, because every time I tried to zoom in to that area in CAW, it crashed immediately. I basically nuked everything in that section-- trees, bushes, the police lot, everything. And that stopped the crashing/freezing problems, both in CAW and in game.

So there you go. Necromancy, but possibly useful if somebody else out there (like me) enjoyed this world back in the day and really wants to make it work again.

I was just thinking about this world the other day.  I've been having fun with Island Paradise, but I don't much like the island world that came with it, Isla Paradiso.  Crescent Cove should have plenty of room for beaches, ports, and diving lots.

Depending on how Ellatrue feels about it, I can either upload the fixed version I'm currently playing, or I can upload the CAW files. It's a fun world to play, especially since IP added boats.

Sorry it took so long for me to notice the thread. Sigmund, would you be willing to upload both? I'm glad you've found a way to fix the crashing, I could never figure it out. I would like to have the fixed CAW files personally, because I might like to update it more, but I can't guarantee that will happen anytime soon. So if you could upload your fixed version for people to play with, that would be great.

It's a pretty island, but it's way too small. It feels too isolated to be playable for long periods of time.

I've played it since it was out. It is small, but there's plenty of room to have all the necessary community lots, especially now that you can use combined rabbitholes or rabbithole rugs.
I'm thinking of adding a port or two, just so it feels a bit less cut off from the world.

I did remove some spawners, and there were trees somewhere under water for some reason, but it has run fine ever since. With a ton of cc.