[This post will not contain any useful information. just some contemplations on the Sims 3. Guess I just needed to vent]

So.. It sure is gonna be a blast to play.. Can’t say I’m a very demanding player, so whichever way they expand the gameplay, I think i’m gonna be happy and apart from questions like ‘what kinda machine would you need to have to handle sth like that??’, I don’t have any worries. Sims game really is what you make of it anyways.

Now when it comes to stuff like moviemaking….
The graphics.. yeah kinda disappointing.. they did improve the look of the buildings and added more polys to the sims, the gradual change of the lighting is really cool too (the sunset is awesome!), but I don’t see too much improvement on the way the objects are rendered.. It’s not ‘jawdropping’ enough and at times it does remind sims 2 alot.
And since Sims 3 is gonna be around for like 5 more years.. so just imagine how lame it’s gonna look to us in 2014!

But.. come to think of it.. if you compare sims 2 with no cc at all and sims 2 with cc you can tell theres a big difference. Hope it’s gonna be the same with the Sims3

You know what I’ve been wondering about this screenshot? the woman in red dress. Because if you look at it, the whole screen taken with smooth edges off, and her outlines seem really smooth and even if you look at the shading, it looks waaay better than comparing to the other people on the shot. (click on the image to see the full size version and you’ll see what i’m talking about) Was she one of those 3d prerendered models just edited into the image?..

It’s also been a disappointment to see that they still haven’t fired their clothing designer lol and the faces are somewhat clay looking, but whatever. Thank god at least the members of the community have some talent.
So, seeing that there are no more ugly edges on the faces, lets suppose the sim ppl will look whichever way we want. Amen.

The open neighborhood thing is sure gonna be hella fun for the game play, but I really hope you can just freeze everything and still have the full control, cuz I wouldn’t want to find my actors old and married with 5 kids while I was filming on the other set lol.

And lastly, the animation.. not much can be said about it yet.. but I duno, when you watch that ‘lil movie which came with FreeTime…  It does seem like some of the animations are gonna be recycled. And that is really creepy. Why EA just can’t change the direction in which it’s going from from dorky and funny to serious and realistic, cuz this is what ppl actually are looking for. (compare success of Helena and NANM and you’ll know I’m right )

And this is my Sims 3 wishlist [aka ‘dream on’?]
haha I’m wondering how many of these will actually be in the game.

MUST haves:

- ANIMATION EDITOR!!!

- Scaling and vertical rotation of the objects, ability to raise and lower objects without having to edit the damn meshes outside the game and then wait half an hour till it reloads!

- don’t think that’ll happen, but it would be really cool if you could edit package files without having to quit the game. like you save it, click somewhere in the game ‘reload’ and it just reloads the file you just edited.

- at least 20 preset camera positions. Would be cool to have them show up on the screen and name them too.

- key frame based camera control and easier config

- ability to modify the lighting through USERFRIENDLY interface

- save game ‘lite’ option. tell the game to memorize positions and actions of the Sims. basically the same thing like saving the game, but without having to reload the lot (or w/e that will be in sims3)

- it would be nice to set up multiple cameras and tell the game to record from various angles simultaneously

- ability to change the color of the objects in game (I’m SO glad it’s actually gonna be there)

- at least some basic mesh editor
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Personal wants:

- decent singing and rocking out animations
- Acoustic guitar and I want to be playing guitar in different poses
(sitting, standing.. (damn i just thought of sth!)
 here!
 
well.. it’s better than nothing? :P

Okay back to the list:

- Public transport
- living in apartments
- gradually growing hair? :P
- there will be weather, right?
- Better romantic interactions
- more violence, diseases, wounds, bone fractures, traumas all that fancy stuff
- Skateboards!
- Cars with the option to drive anywhere on the lot
- Wind!
- it would be cool if there was some sims 2 sims importer. you know just stuff like general features like name and family tree.. I’ve been playing my family for years it would be cool to still have some of the sims in sims3.. but I would definitely survive without it.

And lots more I could go on and on. Anyways,  you know, now I have a feeling that the game I was looking forward to all this time was in fact Sims 4… damn.

Hey I made another box, it’s obviously FreeTime this time. It has around 200 interactions and some of them might turn out really useful. Anyways, more details can be found on the download page. Besides that, I’ve made some updates to other boxes, so check em out: 

- Nightlife: I’ve added karaoke and card table interactions to it, so go and redownload it if you need them.

- Pets: I’ve made it, but it turned out that only around 80 interactions actually worked. Perhaps the best would be to just include these interactions into one of another existing boxes, but I’m not gonna do it now. So if you want them separately in another box, feel free to grab it here.

- Photo Poses (Loading screen): If you had a problem with this box showing up, try to redownload it, as I tried to fix this issue.

1. Helena flagged on youtube

Yep, after over a year of being on the site it suddenly had to be flagged as ‘inappropriate for minors’. Now the movie lost its honors and everyone is leaving comments asking why it was flagged and so on, man I’ve no idea myself!

So far I’ve heard alot of stuff about the video, but I never heard anyone complaining about the  ‘nudity’ or violence. Supposedly people under 18 can’t watch this, so it has to be.. R rating!? Man don’t be ridiculous! Because if you look at it, here’s all “mature” content which movie contains:
1 or 1.5 seconds of sims drinking
5 seconds of sim being in the shower, yes she is naked, but no ‘private parts’ are exposed
Also some violence like sims hitting each other
1sec or a glimpse of bloodshed but on youtube the quality is so low you can barely see it..

And not to forget, those are not even real people! It’s just pixels, you gotta be really gotta your mind to give a movie R rating because of that!

Well, I just thought I’d rant about it…There’s not much can be done over this now I guess, as it wasn’t automatic, it was reviewed by some youtube employee. …………….*cough*Really sick in the head I must add.*cough*

2. Link exchange problem

I just recently noticed I had my old email address listed under link exchange requests. (At least now i know why so much spam arrives to this mailbox :\) Well, now I no longer use this address:  jaydee (+) jd-movies.com
So if you asked me to exchange links and I still haven’t added your site to links page, please send me another email to this address:

 linkexchange ((+)) jd-movies.com

3. Fakers/other people with no lives and sick imagination

Well, I don’t think I officially have a faker yet.. well, none that i know of. ( I do have more important things to do then looking up my own self on google), but once in a while I get messages like ‘hiii what’s up it’s meeee!’ and I’d be like ‘ um.. do I know you?’
Or somebody would just ask me if it’s true that their friend actually knows me.. Like this gb entry i got recently is a really typical example:

“hi my name is tony, my friand shaniah D. says that she is your cousin and she helped you make the sk8er boi video. i dont really belive her though because of your popularity. so send me something back saying if it is true.8-)(i am yomi)”

So here’s the truth people:
I have no siblings and no cousins.. well at least none who I actually met.
I could count on fingers my real life friends who care about my internet life or sims movies. But those who do, wouldn’t see the point in boasting about it. So if your ‘friend’ claims hat they know me.. 99.9% they are lying. But next time you see them, do tell them that Jaydee said hi and also tell them she said they are sad pathetic liars without lives. (eh too bad i’m trying to keep this blog curse-free)

And as an additional info.. here’s the list of the sites I use:
- Myspace
- Flickr
- Youtube
- DeviantArt
- sims99

Sites, where I have an account, but dont use:
- bebo [username: Jaydee-]

Forum accounts:
- sims2community [Jaydee]
- sims99 [Jaydee]

Anyone on other sites claiming to be me must be fake. 

4. The moon

WARNING: Alot of people have reported about these objects not showing up properly. Download at your own risk! 

I also remade the moon, because too many people were asking about it..
And of course I couldn’t hold myself from making some recolors :P so here’s a set of some funky lighting effects for nightclubs concert stages, abstract music video sets and so on.

Well this is the new mesh it’s about 2 storeys high and it uses 1024X1024 texture so the detail comes out pretty good. The downside of it is that it will look good only from 1 side.. if you rotate the cam around it, it will become visible that the model is flat.
The moon itself is the base object which contains the mesh, so you must download it in order for the recolors to work.
And I guess you’ll need to have university, as I cloned it from that weird yellow heart sculpture thing. It’ll be found under decorative sculpture and will cost 6 simoleons (sorry i can never spell that right)
Feel free to recolor, but I’d appreciate it if you pointed people here so that they could download the mesh here.

Screenshots:

 More screens and download: here

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The end :)

Here’s another box for those of you, who have University. I’ve tried to include as many interactions as possible, but some of those simply didn’t work with the box.. (like pillowfighting ones) So there’s around 140 interactions, you can see the list of pie menu strings on the download page.
It was tested with Bon Voyage only, and all of those interactions work okay for me. Well, some of those which involve 2 sims, might look a bit more on a funky side, I guess there’s not much to do about it..

Anyways, hope you find it useful :) and the download page is here:

http://www.jd-movies.com/universitybox.html

I’ve made another box! Bon Voyage had tons of new interactions, that’s why it took a while to put together this one. It has around 220 animations (while on the average my other boxes had like 140-160). Anyways, from what I can see, it’d going to be really useful. It doesn’t have as many social interactions, but there’s lots of ones involving the body movements (falling, dancing, jumping, climbing etc). A more detailed description and a download url can be found on this page: http://www.jd-movies.com/bonvoyagebox.html

Have fun!!

I re-encoded my movies into mp4 format, so you could watch them on your ipods:  

Download:

Helena

Skater Boy

Not Another Nightlife Movie

I also added download links on the Movies page. 

Enjoy! [And hope that works!]

Here’s another hack from me. Nightlife animations box this time. There’s lots of dining interactions, also some random gestures, vampire gestures, dance smustle, asking out on a date etc, etc. It has lots of overlay interactions which I’m sure will come in handy. The only thing which is really missing is, perhaps, karaoke machine animations… well I might add those some time later.

I also included ‘body hold overlay’ ya know the one helena was doing in the shower, since people kept asking me about it.

Anyways, hope you find it useful. and the download page is here: http://www.jd-movies.com/nlanimbox.php

I loved some of the interactions from Seasons.. thought those would be real useful for moviemaking, so I made another box :D
There’s a couple of interactions labeled [overlay] so you can apply them on sitting sims, or at the end of interaction where sim’s lower body part has a different position. Here’s a screenshot.

I’ve decided to make this one based on bhav that will loop the interaction, so it will repeat over and over until you cancel it. I know some of the are too short (like snowball fight ones) so perhaps I might change them later to single-play ones to be able to arrange them into sequences..

If you notice any problems, glitches etc be sure to let me know! Anyways, here’s a couple of screenshots and the download page is HERE:

Enjoy!