I have always wanted to make my own neighborhood from scratch as I tend to play Pleasantview but the sort of lots I want to make will make Pleasantview squish. And another factor is majority of pre-made neighborhood are based in America (beside Veronaville as it build as Tudor-style based as the household are based on William Shakespeare' play) which I want to play neighborhood that based around modern Britain as well... I live there.
The only issue I have is:
- How the hell do I make an terrain from SimCity4 where the terrain screams "British suburbia" and not another generic neighborhood. Not wanting to make 1:1 of a real-life town, but just gives off British vibe
- Working out road layout within Sims 2 limitation. Despite you can import
.sc4, you can can only use Roads (not Street road, One-way Road etc) and it can't be diagonal, otherwise the game won't render that road. So I had to use the "staircase" method to get rough curve - For making household, what story would they have as well as their job or if they own a business and which one. For me wanting to open a Salon or anything that sells item beside grocery, it required a Sim to open up a business. It not needed but it makes it more immersive when playing another household and if I feel like they need a haircut, I won't Change Appearance from their mirror and instead take them to salon and pay for haircut.
I might need to try look various places online and use Pinterest which I find alright for planning out the rough aesthetics. I probably should try find other media to get inspiration so feel free to suggest me any which gives me an excuse to take a break from spending HOURS on SimCity4 trying to make both terrain and road layout.
I don't know what editability to terrain exists, but more-generally, lot of places in Britain that look like different things. I'd get a few pictures of a place that you want and then start trying to reproduce that.
This also seems like the kind of thing that someone would be likely to have done.
kagis
https://community.simtropolis.com/profile/658901-bombardiere/content/?type=downloads_file
This user apparently makes British-themed SC4 buildings. There also appears to be a "britain" and an "england" tag on their stuff, which I imagine might also be useful to go investigating with.
Thanks for the reply. Sadly, Sims 2 won't import SimCity4's building but they be good inspiration for exterior of buildings which I can see if I can recreate them in Sims 2.
I will take look of that website more tomorrow. Again, thank you!
Oh, I'm sorry. I just skimmed your post, saw "How the hell do I make an terrain from SimCity4...", and then searched for Sim City 4 stuff.
Don't be at all. I see it as at least I can get more references for when I'm going to do building or even just planning both roads and layout of the row of houses. So still useful I find it