Old Oak Starter house

[Larku]

This house is very small, but convenient for a starter sim [although it's just a tad over 16k sadly]. It's one bedroom with one bathroom. It has a small kitchen and small dining. The reason this house is over 16k slightly is I tried to pick furniture that would not be harmful to your sims.









Download http://www.box.net/shared/ukgsrkm4ap

[witch]

This will be good for homeless families and starters, thanks. One thing I'm curious about is how people are getting the fish eye lens effect in their screenshots?

[Larku]

If you press tab, you'll go into cameraman mode [I believe that is the correct name], then press Z/X to adjust the zoom. Pressing X a few times will give you that view, I use it a lot. It helps in getting shots of small quarters.

[witch]

Cheers, I've not looked through the camera options much yet, I made an assumption they'd be crap because it was EAxis! The fisheye is great for the small spaces, always hard to get shots of those.

[Larku]

Yep, I always use it. I didn't know the feature was in the game til I looked up the controls on the cardboard thing from the box.

[Regina]

The fish-eye angle makes me dizzy and nauseous. I'm prone to motion sickness and that does it very badly, especially when all the shots are taken that way.

If I want to get into a small space, I take the hammer to the wall that's blocking my view, snap the picture, then hit the undo button. It works a treat. Sometimes I just grab a quick shot of small rooms from an overhead angle, not completely overhead but not straight on, either.

You might also consider resizing your screenshots because they're absolutely huge and taking a while to load. It looks like you uploaded without doing any editing at all because they're about 3/4's of a meg in size each, the default size for screenshots taken in game. It might be hard to believe, but even 50% of normal game size images are still easy to see (and my eyesight isn't great) and end up being less than 100 kb in size. I usually resize, then export them in Paint Shop Pro at 20% (GIMP is free and will do the same thing). The pictures still are sharp and load in a heartbeat.

It's a very cute house, by the way, and too bad I have more starters than I know what to do with. LOL

[Larku]

Okay, I will take note of that. They load pretty fast on my end, so I never thought a thing of it. I'm usually more for high quality pictures, so I try to leave them as they were. I will look into it though.

[Regina]

They're probably in your cache and already loaded from when you uploaded them, so that tends to make it much less noticeable, although you might have a better connection than I do.  I'm on a high-speed connection and it took them a while (albeit, there are times when my connection is slower than others), and if anyone trying to look at them is using dial-up they are really stuck. That's over five megs worth of pictures that need loading.

[Larku]

Next house I make I will make sure to size the images smaller, I know how dial-up can be. *shudders*