Whenever my game has refused to start it's been the cache files causing the problem.  Delete those-you'll find them in the same folder as your Downloads folder.  There is groups, accessories and cigen, there may be another but I can never remember the name of that one.  You may not have them all but deleting them does no harm and the game will generate new ones the next time it loads, so it may take a little longer than usual to load up.  I always delete them before I play to avoid them getting corrupted as they have a tendency to do.  Hope this helps.

Happy First Mesh Day To You (sorry it's late).  Looks great, I can't get enough plants and trees.  Have snaffled it, thank you.

Should have been this size anyway-I never used it, now I can, thanks very much.

Thanks-the willow is just too big ordinarily, which is a shame because it's a lovely tree.  Hurray for you!

You amaze me with the amount of stuff you upload, thank you for this-I really like it.  All the best and thanks for sharing all your creations.

At long last, please find my attempt at this house, A Tudor manor Fit for a Simple Princess

Yeah, sorry posted it by mistake before I was done-hope it's all sorted now.

Hello,

Finally for you Simple Princess, I hope you like it.

Is it possible for somebody to make this house? is where you'll find the link to the plans for this house.

I've had to learn so much in the process of creating and uploading this house, which is why it has taken so long and not nearly as complete as I had hoped.  This is my first upload ever and I'm a bit of a technophobe so you can imagine how difficult parts of this have been for me.  It would never have gotten this far without the help of members here, so thanks to you all, especially Jenna and Ali for spoon feeding me, ha ha.  The lot is not identical to the one asked for, I'm limited by the game, my own abilities and what's available to use but I think it's a fair representation.  I do very much hope SimplePrincess is happy with this but if anyone else wants to leave constructive criticism, feel free-advice on roofing would be very welcome.

I was in such a hurry writing this yesterday that I forgot to show my appreciation for all those great creators who share their creations, where would us download junkies be without them, eh?  I don't want to mention anyone in particular-there's just too many, but I am very grateful to them all.

I have all EPs, SPs-Christmas Party Pack, H&M Fashion, Teen Stuff, Family Fun and Mansion and Garden.  If you don't have the same as me at the least, you probably shouldn't attempt to use this lot.

Some details about the lot

Residential 4x4 at $183 616

Ground Floor: living room, master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, nursery, wc, study, dining room, 2 fitted wardrobes, kitchen and breakfasting area, laundry room, double garage and storage room.

First floor: 3 bedrooms, 2 with fitted mirrored wardrobes, all with en-suite bathrooms, open area above garage (ideal for a recreation/party/play room) and wc.

It's fully decorated but furnished only on the ground floor, Maxis furniture predominating.  I've used custom objects only where necessary.

Some pictures




























All Custom Content Featured in Lot

Some objects are from paysites or are donation items and I've linked to their home site in the post below.  All these objects are in the booty also here

Buy Objects

Decorative tins, Biscotti jars and antique breadroll basket from Antique Bakery set by mdhttr323 at MTS, MTS homepage
Sooper Dooper Cooker, part of the Basic Kitchen by Buggybooz at MTS, MTS Homepage
ForestGreenzdark carpet by McAlli at MTS, MTS Homepage
Victorian Tied Gothic Drapes, part of the Victorian Gothic Collection Adele MTS, MTS Homepage
Mediterranean fountain, part of Vivid Waters 2 by Jon119 at MTS, MTS Homepage
2 Storey Inglenook Fireplace by Cyclonesue and chimney extentions at TSR, TSR Homepage
Spice rack and jars from Bavaria Kitchen by 37Sims at TSR, TSR Homepage
Berry Basket by from Market Set by Simaddict99 at TSR, TSR Homepage
Floor Edge Skins by Wide Open Eyes at TSR, TSR Homepage
Hanging onions, 2 decorative vegetable baskets and mushroom basket from Cottage Kitchen, cookie jar from Casablanca Kitchen and coffee set from Royale Kitchen, all by Vita Sims here
Imperial Wall Candle by K8 Parsimonious here
Wine bottle 1 from Gara's Boutique Gara's Boutique
Marmelade Pots from Country Kitchen by ATS, recolour by Loverat, basket 1 and jars and book from Authentic Kitchen ATS here
Egg basket from Tarox
Huge Rug, pure silk and Slak Living Shelving from Fairy Forest
Beam of wood, version 2 by Maylin at MTS   MTS Homepage
 
Build Objects

Craftsman Maxis Match Set by TBudgett at MTS, closed kitchen window, bath window closed, 1 tile tall privacy window closed and 1 tile glass door on 2 tiles, MTS Homepage
Extendable French Arch by at TBudgett MTS
County Windows Maxis Match by Plasticbox at MTS, country windows shutterless 1 and 2 and country shutters 2, MTS Homepage recolour by NNNNatali at MTS, here
Clump of Grass, Clump of Shorter Grass part of Low Poly Buyable Grass by Lethe_s at MTS, MTS Homepage
Daisies of our Lives by Targa at MTS, MTS Homepage
Gate garage door by FreshPrince at MTS, MTS Homepage
Mumbo Jumbo Grass, Holy Hosta, Fugly Fern, part of Verdant Velvet Garden Set by Buggybooz at MTS, MTS Homepage
Farmer Thompson's Stone Wall in grey by Nengi65, recolour by Enrosadira at Anno Sims, part of Tuscan Build Objects on this page
John's Really Big Tree, Lisa's Tree, Big Oleander, Huge Oleander, Big Rosebush, Flowering Bush, Flowering Vines, all by Nengi65 at Sims Crossing.
Old Mason 'MacArthur' Double Window Holy Simoly Donation Set 3 at this site
Lady's smock, Lavender, Fern, Flax, part of the Eponymous Garden at Parsimonious here
Wild Flowers low height, wild grass, part of the Resplendant Garden set at Parsimonious
Eiche Klein by Ermelind at Sims 2 Collage here
Grunender Busch (small green bush, no flowers), verstreute Ganseblumchen (clump of daisies) by Bienchen at Sims2me here
Climbing Vines Collection at Sirona Sims
Taller Grass by Angelways1 here

Walls/Floors

Grand Trianon Olive Tone Stripe and Kids Dolls wallpaper by LWoods The Dream Team at MTS, The Grand Trianon Set
Catalan Tile Set by Lethe_s, part of the Medieval Chic Collection by Magick Modders at MTS, A Midsummer's Night Dream
Selected floor and wall tiles from the Victorian Tile Collection by Dimsim78 at MTS, MTS Homepage
Thief Manor Rug 3 Daislia at MTS, can't find the link just now
Sabbia Wall by Jasiek123 at MTS, MTS Homepage
Patina 09 A&B, Masonary Strip 01 A-D, part of The Time factor Set by Pixelhate at MTS, MTS Homepage MTS Homepage
Slate Cool and Warm Floor by HappyMoonBelly at Parsimonious
Kettlestone Floor Parsimonious
White Wash Cross, Single Middle and Edge by Parsimonious
Tudor Floor Corvidophile Sirona Sims
Fawn Stucco enhanced by TBudgett at MTS,
Living room set 1 wall 5, 'Wesola Wiosczka' by Margierytka here
Le Chateau door by Maylin at MTS, MTS Homepage

Terrain Paint

Potting Soil terrain paint, part of Seamless Dirt and Soil Collection by Chrissy 6930 at TS2 Creations here
Pebbles, part of Realistic Terrain Paint set 2 by Ayyuff at TSR, TSR Homepage

Roofing recolour by Corvidophile Sirona Sims

I have included what I know I am allowed to but some items use the repository technique for recolouring so I thought it best for you to just get those yourself.  If you get the whole set no problems, but if you only want the item I am using, please be sure to check you have the master file needed if the item here is a slave file.

YOU NEED TO GET THESE-NOT INCLUDED HERE.

Sooper Dooper Cooker, part of the Basic Kitchen by Buggybooz MTS, on this page
Victorian Tied Gothic Drapes, part of the Gothic Collection Adele MTS on this page
Decorative tins, Biscotti jars and antique breadroll basket from Antique Bakery set by at MTS on this page
Sabbia Wall by Jasiek123 at MTS on this page (sorry I don't know which of these wallpapers I used in the house and CI is giving no info)
Spice rack and jars from Bavaria Kitchen by 37Sims at TSR
2 Storey Inglenook Fireplace  and chimney extentions by Cyclonesque, TSR
Berry Basket by from the Country Market Set by Simaddict99, TSR
Floor Edge Skins by Wide Open Eyes, TSR
Hanging onions, 2 decorative vegetable baskets and mushroom basket from Cottage Kitchen, cookie jar from Casablanca Kitchen and coffee set from Royale Kitchen, all by Vita Sims
Slak Living Shelving on this page
Wine bottle 1 from Gara's Boutique on this page

Not included: credit goes to Gunmod for the lighting and camera mod I used see those here and to Chris for the sky you see in the pics, get it here.

The file is too big for this site so please find it here

I hope this is enjoyed.

I really don't have much of a clue how to properly utilise the Gimp (hurrah for its existance though), but there is a little icon you click on in the tools section to give an airbrush effect, click on them until you find the right one.  Lower down you will then have the option to change the size and stuff.  Go back to the place you downloaded it from and get the manual in PDF.  There are also some links there to tutorials which may help you.

Thank you Engram, I was wondering about the repository technique thing too, making things bit messy.  I'm spending ages writing lists, checking TOUs and finding the links but there's not that much cc, compared to many.  Thank you for the advice, nice to have the confirmation that I'm doing things right.

Phew, thanks.  First upload soon then...as soon as I sort out my monitor problems-my son turned my computer off today, game up and lot loaded, at the socket no less and now the damn thing won't stop cutting out.  If it ain't one thing...

Hello,
I'm preparing my first uploaded lot and packaged it up last night.  I know that things can end up in the package that you don't want to be there, but my lot seems to have loads of objects and recolours I know I didn't put on the lot, such as Numenor's recolourable stairs.  The size of the lot is nearly 80mb but it's only 2 floors on a 4x4 lot, furnished only on the ground floor with maxis furniture with a handful of cc.  I have since gone back into the lot and written down everything I used so I can take out all the unwanted content in the package.  I'm wondering if this is entirely normal or is the lot broken somehow, with so much extra content in there not just a sneaky hack?  This is a requested upload and as I said my first ever, so I do not want to muck this up.  It's also taken me a fair amount of time to get right and I don't want to have to rebuild it.  So, will it be safe enough for me to take out everything that's not meant to be there?  Thank you for your time.

I've tried pming you but you've no room, if you can't delete anything could you pm me with an email address?  Having looked at the plans again, I don't think I can do the sideways garage-the doors will have to open onto the main street but I do have a door that will not look out of place.  Also to replicate it perfectly there would need to be a bit of CFE, something I'm not particularly adept at, so I'd rather not try but I will do my best.  If you've got some time on your hands could you have a look for doors and windows.  I thought I had some that would do but looking at them now, I'm not so sure.  The ones I thought would do, were the ATS Canal Lock Build Set, and the Bourbon Set by someone at TSR, the name of whom escapes me.  Maybe these will have to do.  Anyway, as I say, I'll do my best and be in touch soon.     

Oh I'm glad you have every EP, picking and choosing would have been a nightmare.  I haven't started building it yet as I've had probs of my own and I wanted to wait for your reply but I'll start today.  If there's any set you want included let me know as my stuff is limited to historic cc.

Hi all,

I attempted to enter a residential lot today and instead of getting the bit that tells you who lives in the property, and their aspiration levels and stuff, it just froze at the little label with name and season.  On my second attempt I had cheatstestingenabled on, but still the same and no error so no log.  I'm wondering if it could be a thumbnail problem, but I'm not sure where to locate the pictures for the family in question so that they can be deleted and regenerated.  This has happened to me before and I simply moved the family out but I'm reluctant to do that this time, my RKC hood is the only one I've ever bothered about.  Any suggestions greatly received.  Thanks.

edit: It's not limited to this lot.  The lot I played last is ok, when I played that I had to reset a couple of sims, so there's obviously issues there and there is/are errors report from that.  I'm running HCDU just now, so I'll see how it goes.  I hope I haven't broken this hood, I've put a lot of work into it so far and I'd barely started.  

edit: Ok, I'm a fool.  For some time I must have been playing with either 2 versions of Squinge's wear anything pregnant hack or one of them and the one by dizzy.  I found the extra Squinge one through running the HCDU.  So, that's got to cause problems.  Those were the only conflicts in the report that I thought I didn't recognise but I tried the game again and still no luck.  I'm thinking maybe something to do with beds though, as that was something to do with the reset in my last play.  I have attached my latest error log in the hope that someone may be able to decipher something from it.  Thanks.