Jungle Walkway tutorial

And if you feel like something completely different, here's the link to preview my Jungle Walkway tutorial.

Like the Japanese Bridges one, its standard of difficulty is Easy!

You may have seen these walkways in my Treetops treehouse - the original idea came (embarassed hush) from "I'm A Celebrity - Get Me Out Of Here"!

Japanese bridges tutorial

Until TSR launch a new tutorial system, I've put some newer tutorials online to give a preview.

My Japanese Bridges tutorial shows how to design your own bridges of any size, introducing the Additive method!. Just click here: Japanese bridges tutorial

Surprise holiday!

Ruth surprised me with a surprise holiday for our Valentine's Day anniversary, so I was unexpectedly away for a few days!!!!

Now I'm back on taking millions of pictures of roofs for tutorials!

Happy Valentine's Day

Just wanted to wish everyone a really happy day on the 14th - Ruth and I got married on Valentine's Day, and we'll be spending the day away having a great time, as I hope you do! :wub:

Tutorials, not Romance!

Despite some requests for romantic churches, I'm really sorry but I'm going to pass over this month's theme and spend the time working on tutorials on interesting roofs as promised - Domes, Thatch, Sino-Japanese, etc. :)

Oriental building tutorials?

I've been asked, "Are there any helpful tutorials around on making Japanese and Chinese traditional buildings?" [And thank you to everyone who's asked me, and everyone who's been so great about my Japanese series. :D ]

Well, the guy who first made oriental roof buildings for Sims2 is en7en. He made a really great little tutorial on building a 1-level home, which he's since replaced with a much more complicated and very long tutorial at the official Maxis site. You can go to it by clicking HERE - en7en's Ultimate tutorial.

The scaffolding method he outlines there is one I worked out on my own to build spaceships, but it's great to see him developing it too - we all owe much to the inspiration of daihtnaoz7.

en7en's tutorial is very detailed, and also starts with a wall.txt file edit that I don't recommend for builders who want lots of other people to enjoy downloading their work. If you want to start with the easier tutorial, PM me and I'll email it to you. I will be making my own tutorial soon, as part of a series called "Interesting Roofs", covering domes, thatch and pagodas, and my earlier tutorials on sheds and chicken coops.

[By the way, properly speaking a 'pagoda' is actually a multi-level tower, sort of an asian church spire!!! Homes etc just have curved-eave roofs.]

Japanese Starter Homes

Although I'd intended to call a close to my traditional Japanese series, because of some requests I'll be adding one or two 'genuine' Starter Homes (i.e. under $20K furnished) to the series.

Isn't eastern architecture great? !!!

At TSR we take it for granted that we can re-color clothing and objects. Well, as an experiment, I've tried re-coloring buildings - particularly the roofs on some Japanese villas (not as easy when using the Sims2 Basic Game as with Uni & Nightlife, I've been learning!!).

I've also been adding some eleven-level high pagodas, with different uses, which of course have to be played with Uni and Nightlife or your game will crash.

Aaahhhh, 'Crash' - what a wonderful movie ....

Nightclubs for Nightlife

I had a Nightlife-ready version of the 'Black Hawk' a month ago, but illness buried it until now. Some downloaders have enthusiastically converted the original Basic Game version anyway - I'd love to see any pics you may have! :D

Japanese bronchitis

Not another version of bird 'flu! The 'flu has led to bronchitis for me, so I'm coughing all over the screens at the mo' - oh well!

I've enjoyed starting to work on the Orient Express theme, and have added a small set of Japanese villas with pagodas - more to follow. They're all for the base version of the game - so you won't need EPs to use them.

I'll also aim to add a community lot for the theme.