Mod The Sims - Maxis "Lost & Found" #7: Radiotelescope *UPD 17APR: now in 4 versions*

JucIEJ1991

Field Researcher

#2

14th Apr 2005 at 10:58 PM

hey im the first post. anyways great stuff numerator

lilfaye

Field Researcher

#3

14th Apr 2005 at 11:37 PM

This is truly really cool. Thanks so much for this!

Guest

#4

14th Apr 2005 at 11:42 PM

Wow that's cool Numenor!

Thanks for sharing! I've already dlded it, will write back if something is wrong!
Anyway, from watching at the pic u posted, I think it would be cool to make it bigger.

Unless it affects the fps of the game...
Great work!

Tony.

nickmillard

Lab Assistant

#5

15th Apr 2005 at 1:18 AM

:wow: Wow! Thanks a lot for this! Now my sims can get Sky!

Numenor

The ModFather

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Original Poster

#6

15th Apr 2005 at 1:30 AM

Quote: Originally posted by JucIEJ1991

hey im the first post. anyways great stuff numerator

Mispell my name once more and this will be your last post, too!

I'm only jocking, of course... Thank you for your appreciation!

Quote: Originally posted by Glottis

Wow that's cool Numenor!

Thanks for sharing! I've already dlded it, will write back if something is wrong!
Anyway, from watching at the pic u posted, I think it would be cool to make it bigger.

Unless it affects the fps of the game...
Great work!

Tony.

No, actually the poly count is quite low, for such a huge object, and anyway reducing its size haven't reduced the number of polygons. Should I make a bigger version, let's say, double as this one?

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GlitterDaemon

Test Subject

#7

15th Apr 2005 at 2:49 AM

I like it! Actually, the size is quite nice for a normal lot (for a "normal" mad scientist

), but I would love to have something like this as an alternative:
http://www.eiscat.se/kiruna.html
Pleeease..?

Sylvon

Forum Resident

#8

15th Apr 2005 at 4:05 AM

You are truly amazing Numenor, looks great, dloading now, shall test it this afternoon, I really want to see this in the game...Thank You.

Romer99

Lab Assistant

#9

15th Apr 2005 at 4:43 AM

Cool!

Lerf1950

Field Researcher

#10

15th Apr 2005 at 5:43 AM

Looks just like the ones in our backyard.

feline25

Test Subject

#11

15th Apr 2005 at 7:42 AM

Wow! That's great! Maybe my sims will finally be abducted by aliens now :clap:

Guest

#12

15th Apr 2005 at 11:03 AM

unzipping .rar files

For those who wonder about .rar files, there is a freeware program called cacodemone (created by a wonderful Itallian gent who is one of the heroes of the web not profitting from his creations.) so download it and tell him he is fantastic.
neutronstar.altervista.org/index_en.html
best wishes,
And I love the telescope, too.
Geoff,

Numenor

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Original Poster

#13

15th Apr 2005 at 1:44 PM

Added the "Medium size" and the "Big size" versions, as per request. They are downloadable from Post #1.

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I *DON'T* accept requests, sorry.

JoKBrasil

Field Researcher

#14

15th Apr 2005 at 3:32 PM

that's so great! it will look so cool in my university science center lot! <o/

GlitterDaemon

Test Subject

#15

15th Apr 2005 at 3:36 PM

Thanks Numenor! The big one looks wonderful in my garden! :D

hestas5023

Lab Assistant

#16

15th Apr 2005 at 3:40 PM

Numenor, Team Rainbow thanks you for your contributions.

Seriously, awsome.

Crmelsimlover

Field Researcher

#17

15th Apr 2005 at 6:22 PM

Very nice, Numenor!

Hunterkiller13

Lab Assistant

#18

15th Apr 2005 at 7:49 PM

Ah..good!! Very nice indeed!! May the Valar guide you to greater Heights. Heehee

hewujing

Lab Assistant

#19

16th Apr 2005 at 3:52 AM

Cool,thanks

hestas5023

Lab Assistant

#20

17th Apr 2005 at 5:30 AM

Numenor, for the slighty brain dead folks, well, mainly me :D, who haven't completely figured out how to do the recolors, can you please do a quick summery of how to use the template? Basically, is it a plugin to SimPE? Or have you covered this in some other topic and just point the way. Thanks.

Numenor

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#21

17th Apr 2005 at 9:08 AM

The template is nothing but a recolour of the main object: it contains a special coloured texture (with the various areas in different colours) that can be extracted with SimPE like any other texture. If you install the template package in the downloads folder, you can place the "template" in the lot, and you'll be able to see which parts of the template texture correspond to which part of the object: in this way, if you want to recolour e.g. only the back of the dish you'll know which part of the texture you have to edit.

Fat D

Forum Resident

#22

17th Apr 2005 at 1:19 PM

could you make a version that is a big as the original?

from your information i get that the big version is 70% of the original.

Numenor

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#23

17th Apr 2005 at 4:11 PM

That's easy! I've attached the "Huge" version on post #1.
But mind that:
1) Though it's a very big, it's still a 1-tile object, so the sims are likely to pass through it; I suggest to place it on the corner of the lot.
2) It's really *huge*! In the following picture, it is compared to a 4-storey house (well... not much of a house, but there are 4 floors, anyway).

Screenshots