The skies of St Claire have had an overhaul! I’ve gotten much better at editing the sky ini & colour ramp files, and I am really happy with the “weather” in St Claire now. It will certainly be interesting to see how it looks with actual weather and seasons!
Here’s a wee snapshot of the skies, from CAW. In game they mix and mingle into a huge variety of skies, but obviously I can’t take a picture of everything!

The skies of St Claire have had an overhaul! I’ve gotten much better at editing the sky ini & colour ramp files, and I am really happy with the “weather” in St Claire now. It will certainly be interesting to see how it looks with actual weather and seasons!

Here’s a wee snapshot of the skies, from CAW. In game they mix and mingle into a huge variety of skies, but obviously I can’t take a picture of everything!

A message from jadesgirl-deactivated20130416


Will you be releasing the save game or whatever of your updated St. Claire? <3

Sure will be! There’ll be a few new families added to the mix too :)

Look at my entire town.
Ok.. well not the entire town.. but a good chunk of it! Fun with photoshop&#8217;s photomerge feature, haha.

*eta, if you want to look at a ginormous version of it for some reason, there&#8217;s one here!

Look at my entire town.

Ok.. well not the entire town.. but a good chunk of it! Fun with photoshop’s photomerge feature, haha.

*eta, if you want to look at a ginormous version of it for some reason, there’s one here!

Random sunrise gif is random… I have the day off work today and no motivation to do anything actually productive :P 

Also worth noting that the skies etc have had a pretty substantial revamp for the St Claire update :) I like it very very much. I’ll try and snap some piccies of the new skies soon.

A message from meghan-chasingclouds


I just updated my game and it deleted the saved St Claire game I had with both yours and my households! Totally gone! I worked so hard on creating more inhabitants and had everything planned out :( it also deleted another game I had in Riverview. Any idea why? Has this happened to you or anyone else?! So upset.

That sounds awful! Unfortunately I have no advice (I haven’t updated yet - waiting for seasons), but maybe someone else has some? Did you make a backup before updating? always a good idea :)

A message from athertonian


I'm so excited for the St. Claire update I can't even akljfajnvaiosad;klfmaksld. Your worlds remain to date, the most nuanced, fully realized worlds I have ever seen. They're a thrill to play in, there's always a wonderful surprise in every nook and cranny. And, as a legacy player, it's a comfort to know that there are houses a plenty to take in spares AND, most of all, you can put the camera ANYWHERE to take a shot, the world is that well made and beautiful. Thoughtyoushouldknow.

LOL! Thank you! that is too sweet! I am super glad you (and others) love St Claire as much as I do, and I hope everyone enjoys the update too :)

I am a busy bee at the moment with work, but most of my spare time is going into making new lots and enriching the detail of the world which hopefully will pay off! Its been fun anyway :)

booboolalaland:

not yet but whatever: Happy Halloween y’all :)

It&#8217;s halloween in NZ!

booboolalaland:

not yet but whatever: Happy Halloween y’all :)

It’s halloween in NZ!

A message from stephenvelez


Hey Sarah! I was wondering what your system specs are, especially your videocard. I've been dying to try and get good graphics, not that my graphics don't look great, I just find yours really awesome. Thanks for St. Claire! And I can't wait for its re-release.

my specs are very underwhelming and nothing special! I play on a laptop, the specs are:

intel core 13 m 350 (2.27ghz)
64bit windows 7
ati mobility radeon hd 5400 (this card sucks, I hate bloody ATI!)
4gb ram 

my lappy is probably a year and a half old now, game still runs pretty well but I generally don’t play with CC so that could be why :)

ccathie:

I wanted to make something as a little thanks for you guys being so awesome lately and so I thought why not convert some of my scenery pictures into in game photos c:

This is my first object recolour so forgive me once again if something doesn’t work, just let me know and I’ll do my best to fix it. The .rar contains .sim3packs and .package files of the pictures so you can pick which you prefer to use.

The images used to create these pictures are as follows

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I’ve made three versions of these with different meshes so you’ve got plenty of choice. If anyone actually has any links to other meshes they’d want this on shoot me and ask and I’ll see what I can do c:

Credits for the meshes go to Living Dead Girl and mutske


+ DOWNLOAD +


Standard TOS apply, don’t claim as your own, don’t reupload etc.

LOVE!!!

Another area in St Claire that’s been given a bit of love is Bradford. I have added a row of shops and a couple of apartments to fill out the gap by the subway. The shop is an apothecary or whatever it’s called in TS3, haha, and it has a little garden out the back. Across the road the two lots that flank the existing playground have been turned into parks - one with an arboretum for the local fairies, and the other has a broomstick arena for witches to let off steam. I have also furnished another of the houses that are adjacent to the park (on main street) and redecorated one of them too. No pics of those though so you’ll just have to wait and see!