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Free Time compatible

This started rather innocently: "What if I put a community shower under the BV waterfall?" ...and I ended up spending 3 weeks on this :lol:

- Waterfall/shower in 3 different rock textures, found under "plumbing/miscellaneous".
The decorative ferns have two colour options, and one invisible recolour.

- 10 different rocks in 3 colours, available in build mode, with the shrubs.
These use the repository method so only the one with "MASTER" in the name is recolourable - the others will automatilly use the new textures.

- Sims can use the waterfall to shower of course, with a little fun and comfort bonus;
- Sims whose temperature is above average will have a "cool down" option available, with different animations. While they shower naked, they'll change to swimwear for this and won't get automatically dressed afterwards.
Much to my surprise, they'll sometimes use this option autonomously if they aren't too far from the waterfall...  Big mystery, since I tried hard to find how to do that and failed (temperature can't be advertised like other motives); the interaction advertises a little comfort, but sims seem  to use it regardless of their comfort level.
- all the clean and maintain interactions were stripped mercilessly, so sims won't attempt stupid things and it doesn't mess with the FT "tinker" stuff.
- all the garden and trimming stuff was also removed from the rocks.

(http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq79/male_order_bride/dixieKitchen/waterfallshower2.jpg)

HOW TO USE:
The waterfall is a big object (5 tiles by 7) but the footprint is only one tile; I didn't make it this way because I was too lazy to register 35 GUIDs, but for convenience.
The water layer is above the ground level - of course - so it will look silly if you put the object on a flat terrain; you need to first dig a hole like shown in the pic below (this is just an example, you can try different ways):
- the blue tile is where the shower's green tile will be placed; I lowered it by 4 clicks in the example, 3 clicks will work too.
- the red tile is where the sim will enter and exit the waterfall, there needs to be a gentle slope to the blue tile so he can walk between both; this tile can still be on a slope.
- then the sides can be smoothed as you want, different heights on the edges will change the pond's shape. Just keep the edges of the water hidden!  (Well, and remove the flooring if you used any >_<)

(http://i435.photobucket.com/albums/qq79/male_order_bride/dixieKitchen/Waterfall-HowTo.jpg)

KNOWN ISSUES:
- if the way out is blocked after the "shower" interaction, the sim will go "oops" and change back to everyday where he is - that is, in the water :lol:
- since the waterfall and rocks all have 1 tile footprints, sims will walk through parts of them if they aren't blocked by other decoration or invisible fences.

Thanks : to Numenor, Echo and Jasana Bugbreeder for their precious tutorials and explanations, to Quaxi and Peter Jones for SimPE and the behaviour editor, to my dear Beosboxboy and Miss Doh for beta-testing :)

Wow! That's a great idea! Thanks for this.

3 weeks? try four and an half, my love, you started before my computer went all 'splodey.

(http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b133/beosboxboy/working_in_FT.jpg)

It works in Free Time without a problem, the rocks work and don't cause any weirdness.

I have to say I was a little surprised how BIG some of the rocks are >_<

It's an unbelievable creation!  You did amazing work!

Oh, and Monshanjik says he will have your babies now... <_<

Oh ok, as long as he keeps them :lol:

I'm speechless now!
And this happens not very often.
This is so amazing!
Eine wunderbare großartige Arbeit, Marvine!
Thank you, thank you, thank you *big hug*

This is wonderful! Thank you - I am at work, but desperate to go home and try this -perhaps I will even play the sims again!

(3 weeks? hehe - don't sell yourself short, you slaved for longer than this, and what a triumph!)

*hugs*

Thank you. :-)

Wow, that's fantastic. A crazy good idea and a wonderful realization.
Thank you very, very much for this creation. Fantastic.

So great i love you:love7:Thanks:love1:

Thank you very much for this great download. It is great.

This is great! Lately I sprung from my shy 1GB downloads to 2.6GB only because of fantastic decors. I see soon I have to get a bigger comp. My smallest one can no more support even BV, cannot say yes for further EPs.
I don't use very big lots, so I have to invent space.
I have installed all those high poly bodies and hairs and sometimes my computer have difficulties to play smooth. I still use Windows XP and I'm not at all impressed with Vista, so I don't know when I'm going to install it (maybe on a newer comp). Not sure but I have the impression that XP cannot manage all the RAM I have installed (4GB) and slow down. My partner have the same problem.

Thanks for the link. BTW, there are many objects that don't have Pie Menues and when you want to nuke a function, you have to do it directly in "Object Function" (zero the bhavs there and there will be no availability in game).
One of the reason that Sims seem to act autonomously is that there are also small calculations in game that adds literal 01 when checking the range and find only zeroes. As you included a shower in your waterfal, the game makes calculations to attract Sims based on proximity. It must have happened here.
Besides, it is being used everytime more LUA bhavs (they are sort of controllers for normal bhavs, still not possible to read by SimPe only).

Well, well, well, thanks for your creations.

Well, a 32 bits XP won't properly manage the whole 4 GB of RAM  (should recognize up to about 3.5 as available, with a little tweaking - there's information about that on the microsoft site) but it should still be better than the 2GB I have on my new computer; now a better graphics card made a huge difference and my game plays very smoothly, even though the game isn't able to use the dual processors - talk about an upgrade :lol:
Oh and I had that one assembled just so I could keep XP :D

You must be right about the autonomous interactions; even if there's nothing left from the shower in the "cool down" option it doesn't change the object's category, so if there's a check on that it would work. I took a look in all the warmth related bhavs I could find and right, there's LUA stuff in there and I ran screaming :lol:

Not sure right now if I nuked the unwanted functions from the "object function" for the rocks - well, I know that I did at some point but then I tried several different base objects, so I'll check that when I'm home.

Thank you for the tips :)

beautiful! Thank you

Nice Job

This is wonderful! Thank you, Marvine!

it simply flabbergasts me,:) thanks!

Thank you!!!!:blob6:

Woah.. It's beautiful. Thank you!

WOW! Another Fantastic Creation from you.
Big thank you for making and sharing all your hard work. You make this game a lot more fun to play.

Ju!  This is spectacular!  I can't even put into words what I think about this, it is truly amazing, but that seems an understatement.

You never cease to amaze me.

~ Syn

i cant wait to see this being used to all its awesomeness for contests cause i know it will be!

thanks very much

Great idea and great work. Thanks

Excellent work, I love it.  Thank you so much for sharing all of the hard work that went into this!!

One of the first things i thought when seeing the waterfall, wouldn't it be nice to use it as a shower.
Fantastic Ju!! Thank you very much for this wonderfull fall :) It Rocks! :D

Its amazing! Thanks so much for sharing!

Now this is a real piece of art! Magnifique travail, Marvine!

aw I'm so excited to try this out :D  Thanks for sharing!!

fantastic work!!!

This is so totally cool, Ju, I love it, I'm thinking this will make some really cool pics.

This will be so perfect for my outdoor fairy sims!!!  Thank you so much for creating this!!!  It looks so beautiful as all of your creations are!!!  You ROCK!!!  Literally :D
Hugs to ya ^_^

bugger me, now THAT's a shower!!
 
excellent stuff Marvine, thanks :thumbup:

This is an amazingly outstanding creation!!!  I lack words to describe how awed I am, that people like you can do such amazing things with computers and graphics.  Thanks so much for sharing with all of us who have no clue how to do these things.  You make playing the sims much more fun!

:worship:

Great job :)
Thank you for sharing with us

THAT is just outstanding!

it's marvelous

All I can say is "wow" this is just awesome !

I thought the same thing as Bloom, that the waterfall would be awesome if the sims could shower in it and here you go making it happen. You are so incredibly imaginative and talented. Thank you so much.

VERY COOL

Is quite fantastic and ingenious! :D

thank you...

Absoloutely gorgeous! It'll be a wonderful affect in storytelling:lol:

This is amazing!  I can't wait to use it.

this is just so beautiful !!! thank you very much :)

Beautiful work, thank you :D

This is amazing, beautiful to say the least.  I almost cried however because I do not yet own BV :rofl:  I seriously and loudly just said "CRAP!! What the hell have I been waiting for??"
 
I'm linking this to my favorites for when I finally decide to get BV.  I have everything up to seasons.  
 
You are truly an amazing creator Marvine.  One of the top artists in this community thats for DAMN sure.  I'm so glad you're you *insert really cheesy music here*
 
THANK YOU!!!

Thanks Marvine, my sweet!  Even though, I do not have a pc at this time, I will really enjoy this whenever I get the pc of my dreams......


LaTasha

That's.  So.  Cool.

Wow.

Fantastic idea..thank you.

OMG that's so awesome! Love it!

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you!:)

Wonderful creation, truly a great addition for our games. Thanks for all your creativity and sharing it with us...

It looks great can't wait to try it. Thank you.

Thank you for all your hard work on this beautiful creation. Simply ingenious!

This is flipping AWESOME!!  WOW!!
Thank you SO much!

Just awesome!   Thanks!

Thank you can't wait to use it in my game

Great work. Amazing !!! Thank you so much

Fantastic!  Thank you!

WOW!Thank you!

Great job on this!

thanks it cool:D

Amazing work! Thank you ever so much.

Wow, This shower is cool. I love it! Thank you for creating this pretty shower for us. :D

This is most gorgeous - makes me wish I was a sim.  Thank you so much - truly exceptional. :D

Awsome work!
Thank you.

//H

A wonderful job ~! :snorting:Thank you so much :worship:

Thank you for crating and sharing this. Eternally grateful.

omg this is fantastic, thank you, thank you.

Thank you .....this looks wonderful :)

This is awesome!  Thanks so much for sharing it.

Thank you for sharing. Its terrific !!

Oh my.

This is just too good to be true. <3

What a brillant idea! Thank you for all the hard work and for sharing!

Wonderful! Amazing! I can't wait to try it tonight!!! Thanks a lot!

Wonderful ! Thank you ;

Gheliane

o my god WOW i was lokkin all over fr this !thanks!;)

WOW! WOW this is incredible and a wonderful masterpiece you did!! I can't thank you enough for making and sharing your work. I only can say I will use it with lots of pleasures in my lots, man you make me soooooo happy you have no idea..:)

ahh this is amazing! now the folks on the forest moon of endor have somewhere to shower!

Marvine, this looks Fantastic. Thank you.

wow, fantastic work!

thanks for sharing .

This is fantastic! Thank you for the four and a half weeks you spent making this! It was worth it.

Wow and Wonderful!
Thank you!

Thank you so much, this is beautifull, i love landscaping & this was just what we were missing, only didn't know it

I already thanked you on this marvelous creation, but I just had the weirdest thought.

Can sims perform the fountain interactions on it? I admit that I was overcome with morbid fascination over the prospect of the water turning to lava while another sim is using it. <_<

What a beautiful creation!, This is a wonderful addition to all of the other terrific things you have made for us, Thank You very much.

Oh, how beautiful! I'm stunned!
I must have this...

Thank you soo much Marvine!

:daisy: Nohan @ http://www.simscrossing.net

This is awesome. My simmies gonna jump with joy but not my downloadsfolder but what the xxx:worship:

http://simscrossing.net/index.php

OMG this is great !!!!!!!!!!!

thank you, fantastic work!

I'll admit that I considered the idea too, so maybe it's not that weird!
But reason prevailed, this was cloned from a shower, and I'm too new at objects modding to attempt combining totally different objects with intricate behaviours.
Also, the lava effect wouldn't look this good in these settings because it ends in a rectangular shape that would look stupid on the water; oh, and also it doesn't emit any light, so I'd have needed to learn about that too...


3!!! I said 3, damn the filthy liars! The "just messing around" part doesn't count! :rofl:

Thank you all for the kind comments :)

Wow! That looks amazing, i can't wait to try it out. Thank you very much!

I just had to try this out as quick as I could, I was so delighted with your creation & it's wonderful possibilities for pics. Needless to say I was not disappointed, it's easy to set up, the combos of animations you used were a nice surprise as were the sounds. I'd have to say this is quite possibly one of the best mods I've ever gotten my grubby lil' hands on, a real joy to use. Thanks so much for sharing all of your hard work with us... :notworth:

All I can say is: BRILLANT!

Thank You Marvin! x0x0:worship:

Great work. Thanx a lot.

I came here after seeing hardwaretoad's photos on the other site. It looks amazing. I cannot wait to have it in my game. Thank you so much for such a fantastic idea!

Very cool!

I’ am still in January on Insimenator D/Ling the updates when
I heard of this colossal work of art'

You can turn a shower into an art form!!
And it’s - Free Time compatible. :toothy7:

Your marvelous imagination combined with your tremendous
 talent has brung so much joy to so many playing of "The Sims 2"
This truly is a most unique and grand Waterfall shower!! (1st)
Thank you so very, very much for sharing this treasure with all of us…

Many*’
(http://i84.photobucket.com/albums/k35/platinum_04/5-26.gif)

:albino:

WOW

This is amazing and will definately get used.

Thankyou for a great creation :)



He He same here, Toad should get some advertising revenue :lol:

What a great addtion for an island adventure. I love it. Thank you.

This is wonderful! Thank you!

Immediately came over to download after seeing hardwaretoad's photos as well.

Thank you very much marvine.

Thank you so much for this fantastic object! and a special thank you for making it FT friendly :)

I love this!  When Hardwaretoad showed a picture of his sim using it on insim adult I was completely awestruck. If this doesn't sound too gushing, you are incredible.

This is wonderful! Thanks for your hard work.

Hardwaretoad,

These pics are absolutely gorgeous! This is exactly what I designed the waterfall for but I'm not this good at pictures, thank you very much for sharing your experience here. You made my day :D

The children are quite cute too when using it, although in a different way - maybe I should have mentioned that in the first post :)

What??? You mean there's kids[/I] in this game??? Gedoudda here... :dontknow:

Ju, I'm glad you stopped over to see my pics on the "dark side", it was a pleasent surprise for me and thanks for the kind words. I thought I'd post a couple "tamer" ones here in this thread to show my appreciation for all of your hard work on what I consider just a God-send mod for snap happy shutterbugs like myself . I'd like to do that for everyone that I d/l things from, but logistics says "no"... :shh:

I left these a little larger, I play on a 24" widescreen so it almost hurts to crop some of them down to 600 pixels. If I zoom in on one of my Sims to put them from head to toe on the screen they're about 13" tall... ;)


Please click the pics to see them larger. They are not "dial-up" friendly...

WOW! This looks awesome! Absolutely beautiful. Thankyou!

This is just too good to be true, can't wait to put it in my game. Your talent and generosity is beyond measure. Thanks heaps for this wonderful creation.

It's more than beautiful. Thank you!!!!

Thank you, this is great.

Have you tried the file compressor from DJS sims? it works really well.

I agree with the rest of the people that have posted here this is amazing thank you for making our game a little mor realistic

Incredible,as usual,thank you!

Thank you.  It's very nice.  I can use this in one of my videos.

Wow!  It's amazing.  Thank you.

nice job.....thank you :-)

Thank you very much!

Awesome!  I love it!

It looks wonderful, can't wait to put in in my game!

Much needed, Thanks. Great work.

truly MAGNIFICENT!!! Thanks Marvine.

Wonderful. You are a great artist! Thanks

I went and got BV today.  Haven't had it installed for a full 3 hours yet and this was the first thing I came back to download. :rofl:
 
Thanks again!

:thumbrig: :clap: Thank you!

Amazing work once again Marvine! Thanks!

How did I miss this masterpiece? It is simply amazing.

Thank you for sharing your talent with us!

Thank You!

I think I missed this marvine...It is so beautiful!!! Thank you for sharing this excellent work!!:)

AMAZING job. I love this one.. absolutely great! :)

This is absolutely astounding!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!

WOW! This is so amazing!!

Too bad I don't have OFB or I would download it right now... :(

Oh, drats!  I don't have OFB...yet!

Beautiful. Thank you.

Very cool item.  Thanks so much!

thank you Marvine, great imagination and execution.

Perfect...thanks

It´s fabullus , thank you

...what a wonderful work!! Thank you very much!! :worship:

Best regards :thumbrig:
Lady Eve

sweet great idea, will enjoy this thanks for sharing.....

U 1rock