TS3 - Red To Gold Colour Mod for TS3 World Adventures EP’s “FountainAsia2x2″
D E F A U L T R E P L A C E M E N T
I don’t work for Maxis The Sims 3 Studio in San Francisco, I don’t work for EA Shanghai, I’m just correcting Maxis The Sims 3 Studio employee’s job due to incorrectly and horribly wrong of Chinese dragon colour portrayal in Shang Simla’s World Adventures Expansion Pack.
Do not just slap red colour to every Chinese object just because you think red is considered as lucky colour in Chinese culture. Especially this is statue and fountain to spurt water. To designers, please recall University subject of colour theory, culture, and art history.
Chinese dragon is traditionally coloured GOLD. Not red. It’s obvious the employee who colored the Shang Simla’s dragon fountain must be taking stereotype from Mushu, comedic tiny red “dragon” from animated movie Disney’s Mulan (1998), didn’t consult to Chinese person at all.
Chinese dragons are gods who control rain, weather, and seasons.
Chinese dragons are kind, benevolent, powerful, who bring luck and prosperous. In Chinese New Year, there is Dragon Dance (the dragon has gold colour) as symbol for good luck.
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Changes:
Overlay --> Change colour to Gold
Specular --> More shinier to resemble gold dragon statue in real life
Buyable object has automatic gold colour default replacement from catalogue.
Known issues:
There are old thumbnails unchanged on CAS mode, please ignore it. The Dragon color is still gold.
Dragon fountain in Shang Simla doesn’t automatically change to gold colour due to different coding in-game (it has different fountain stone colour too). ❗ You need to install Nraas’ Debug Enabler (Core mod by Twallan) in order to work correctly ❗
Follow these steps to reset the textures:
Click on the fountain > Nraas > Debug Enabler > Options: The Water Breathing Dragon > Objects... > Reset Textures > (Choose one) All Sims3.Gameplay.Objects.Environment.FountainAsia2x2 or This Object
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Made with patch 1.67
TS3 World Adventures EP needed
Do not reupload/make profit/link to adf.ly or donation, no sims3planet, no simsdom.
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For additional information:
The only Chinese dragon fountain colours are gold, jade, greyish stone colour, white, black. Not red. Images:
Hi all, this is my first Sims 3 legacy challenge I've made myself, it is a result of my boredom on a Saturday evening but it was a lot of fun, so I'll throw this at you ☺
This elemental legacy challenge is for The Sims 3 and spans 9 Generations. It is inspired by the Chinese Zodaic Elements and also inspiration from my favourite JRPG's which utlise a lot of elemental themed magic. It has guided ideas and generational requirements with story themes throughout. Feel free to tag me if you have a go at this ✨
Rules:
I have listed the intended requirements for each generation, move on to the next generation once the requirements are complete or the next heir becomes a young adult
I have listed some guidance on careers, lifetime wishes and traits. I recommend taking 2-3 of the traits listed but they aren't mandatory
You can use money cheats if you wish, I've tried to write the generational order to put you in the desired financial spot for storytelling, but please just have fun with it
Please do alter and play this how you wish & how your stories pan out, the guidance is just there for ideas and isn't meant to limit you
Generation 1 - Earth
Child of earth, you are grounded and resillient. Your goal is to provide your family with solid foundations for the generations to come. You are selfless, stubborn and driven. You know what you want and will work your upmost to achieve it. Your ambitious and frugal nature can get on other's nerves and prompts the question: with so much planning for the future, are you really taking time to enjoy your own life?
Begin in a starter house. You should not move lots or houses this Generation and instead add extensions onto your house when needed
Master the cooking and nectar making skills
Fall in love and marry one person in your lifetime
Do not have children until you reach level 8 of your career
Save 20,000 for the next generation
Generation 2 - Water
Child of water, thanks to your parents hardwork, you had a carefree childhood and now plenty of savings behind you. You are a calm free spirit that lets the oceans currents carry you to your next adventure. You are in no rush to settle in one place just yet, why rush when you are having such fun? Your time for settling down will come evetually. Whatever will be will be.
Traits: Adventurous, Loves to swim, Commitment Issues, Easily Impressed, Athletic
Do not get married and settle down until adulthood
Have at least 3 children with 3 different people you meet in your travels
Master the diving skill
Own a boat or live in a houseboat
Generation 3 - Fire
Child of fire, you are passionate and hot-headed, throwing yourself headfirst into your work and relationships with a grandeur flair. You wear your heart on your sleeve, making many flock to you for friendship or more. Your self-awareness around your temper certainly helps your popularity as you channel your temper into your physical fitness. You certainly aren't burning out anytime soon!
Traits: Social Butterfly, Hot-Headed, Artistic, Loves the Heat, Flirty
LTW: Super Popular
Job: Self-employed Painter
Requirements:
Master the painting and martial arts skills
Have at least 20 friends and maintain friendships until you are an elder or the next generation takes over
Have 3 passionate lovers in your lifetime
Throw a party once per week
Woohoo once per week
Generation 4 - Grass
Child of grass, you just can't get enough of babies, especially your own! Your family and their wellbeing are your whole world. You live to nourish, protect and teach your loved ones. However, you have been told on one or more occasions that you can be overbearing...a helicopter parent perhaps? Don't they know you only want what is best for them?
Traits: Nurturing, Perfectionist, Loves the Outdoors, Family Orientated, Green Thumb,
LTW: Surrounded by Family/The Perfect Garden
Job: Daycare
Requirements:
Have a garden and live off the land, using your grown produce for meals
Max the gardening skill
Fall in love and marry your childhood sweetheart
Have 5 children and a bad relationship with at least one
Teach all of your children their toddler skills
Live within your means in a small-medium house - never have more than 10,000 in household funds
Generation 5 - Ice
Child of ice, your parents doting nature only added onto your pressure. You never felt like you fit in with your family, never felt understood. They were all so extroverted and loud whilst you much preferred your quiet isolation. Perhaps that's why you prefer animals over people. You have a lot of love to give, I can only hope you will find someone to share that with (who is not one of your many pets).
Traits: Shy, Animal Lover, Hates the Outdoors, Savvy Sculptor, Loves the cold
LTW: Descendant of Da Vinci
Jobs: Self employed Sculptor/Painter/Inventor
Requirements:
Have a poor relatioship with your parents and siblings, you will leave your childhood family home as soon as you age into a young adult
Have 3 pets at one time
Only leave your house when necessary
Meet your lover through online dating
Master the sculpting and inventing skills
Have a child through the time machine
Generation 6 - Electricity
Child of electricity, you sure are a shocker! You thrive in the spotlight and want all eyes on you, for better or worse. You would never miss an opportunity to make a good story for the headlines. Rumours have been circulating that your appearances are a rouse: you're broke, narcissistic and even miserable! They're just jealous of your fame and fortune...right?
Traits: Inappropriate, Star Quality, Charismatic, Daredevil, Irresistible
LTW: Superstar Actor/Rock Star/Vocal Legend
Job: Actor/Musician/Singer
Requirements:
Reach Celebrity Level 5
Reach Level 10 of your chosen career
Have 3 negative scandals in your lifetime
Act inappropriately once per week
Live beyond your means - live in a large mansion and keep your household funds below 5,000. Spend any additional income on items, spa treatments and activities
Have a fall from grace and leave your children with nothing
Generation 7 - Metal
Child of metal, you know what it's like to be at rock bottom. Due to your parents neglect and carelessness, you taught yourself all you know to get by and find your next meal, even if you aren't proud of it. You are stubborn, self-reliant and one hell of an evil genius. You won't hit rock bottom again. Ever.
Traits: Evil, Kleptomaniac, Genius, Night Owl, Rebellious
LTW: Become a Master Thief
Job: Criminal Career
Requirements:
As a teen: consistently maintain D's at school, skip school, pull pranks and steal from neighbours
Work for tips as a mixologist in your young adulthood
Master the mixologist skill and learn every drink recipe
Have a found family
Steal an item every week
Never fall below 2,000 simoleons when you are independant. If you do or are about to, start doing whatever is necessary. We will never hit rock bottom
Marry a rich sim, have a child with them and kill your partner off
Generation 8 - Air
Child of air, your life so far has been turbulent and chaotic. Your parents death has scarred you and you have floated through life lost. You try to travel on the right path for your late parent, but you can't help but feel there is more to life than what meets the eye. There are sounds at night that wake you, unexplained foresight into future events and a pull to the paranormal. Perhaps it is time to stop fighting this unknown path and instead let the winds carry you to where you are meant to be.
Join a base game job in young adulthood. Quit once you reach level 3
Reach level 10 of your chosen career
Donate money to charity every week to honour your late parent
Marry a supernatural or one of your clients
Do one exceptionally good thing in your lifetime (examples include: cure a supernatural, adopt a child, revive a dead sim)
Have a close relationship with your children
Generation 9 - Space
Child of space, you certainly are special. With your parents holding a unique view on the world and the afterlife, you grew up with an open mind and childlike awe of life's wonders and mysteries. Your parents advocated for you to question the world, and question you did! You excelled in your studies and took a particular interest in space. Is it true you become a star if you die?
This is the very first batch of uploads from my TS3 gameplay inspired by Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed!
EA Books Default Replacement
First up is yet another EA Book Default Replacement, this time using Chinese & Japanese themed book textures. Browse here & here for the swatches/in-game pics. The list of replacements is under the cut.
File Dump Part 1
This file dump includes 18 Buy Mode objects:
EA Chinese Tomb Chest as Toy Chest (basegame)
Silfantasy Chinese Sword as Hoverboard (ITF EP)
Tera Bag as Bag of Understanding (WA EP)
Radish as Edible Morsel (WA EP)
Emperor's Smile as Drinkable UNI EP Alcohol (Arsil Custom Beverages mod + UNI EP REQ)
TS4 to TS3 Jennisims Lotus Seed Pod as Edible Morsel (WA EP)
TS2 to TS3 Jizaikagi Irori Edit as Firepit PLAIN
TeeSangBoy Chinese Couch Redone as Decor Bedframe
TS2 to TS3 Asian Ornate End Table
TeeSangBoy Coffee Table TINY
EA Zen Bath Stool Emptied as Coffee Table
TS2 to TS3 Bamboo Copse
Bamboo Wall Stickers
MTCakestore Chinese Books (Stackable)
ShinoKCR Couch Cushion as Scroll Bundle (Stackable)
Y'all can scroll through most of the replacements/swatches here & here.
File Dump Part 1
EA Chinese Tomb Chest as Toy Chest (basegame)
Silfantasy Chinese Sword as Hoverboard (ITF EP)
Tera Bag as Bag of Understanding (WA EP), recolorable, found under Misc Decor IIRC.
Radish as Edible Morsel (WA EP), recolorable; found under Misc Appliances & Plants.
TS4 to TS3 Jennisims Lotus Seed Pod as Edible Morsel (WA EP), recolorable; found under Misc Appliances & Plants.
Emperor's Smile as Drinkable UNI EP Alcohol (Arsil Custom Beverages mod + UNI EP REQ), recolorable; found under Misc Appliances.
TS2 to TS3 Jizaikagi Irori Edit as Firepit PLAIN is yet another version of my two Jizaikagi Irori (here & here), this time without the hanging rack/shelf.
TeeSangBoy Chinese Couch Redone as Decor Bedframe, to be used with functional mattresses (I used these by Sketchbookpixels).
TS2 to TS3 Asian Ornate End Table, TSB Coffee Table TINY, EA Zen Bath Stool Emptied as Coffee Table all recolorable & self explanatory.
TS2 to TS3 Bamboo Copse recolorable, found under Plants & Lawn Deco. Bamboo Wall Stickers recolorable, under Wall Art.
MTCakestore Chinese Books (Stackable) & ShinoKCR Couch Cushion as Scroll Bundle (Stackable) under Misc Deco, fully recolorable.
TS4 to TS3 Chinese Decor Man 1, 2, 3 non-recolorable, but includes rainbow of color variations. Found under Sculptures.
ATS3 Pinwheels as ACCs
Recolorable, unisex for toddlers, children, and teen-elders. Found under Bracelets.
Hihi, sorry for being away for so long. I've been working my a*s off lately 'cause I'm helping a friend to host an online forum. The event will be live stream on Youtube on March 29, well, in 6 hrs! XD. I just don't have time to write a decent tumblr post.😑😑😑
We have invited several outstanding leaders in the industry to share their insights on digital fashion. As a veteran TS3 player, I personally find this quite interesting. What we put on our sims is now something people have their avatars wear in Metaverse and it could be something duplicating/inspired by the real fashion world or something we can never have in reality. If you find what I wrote interesting, you might wanna join the event.
Check out the official site for further details and register (a simple process to help us screen the audience on the YT steam, and it's completely free of charge!) This event is not limited to industrial professionals. Anyone wants to know more about this emerging trend is welcome to join. See you then! 😉
Speaker overview:
Leslie Holden (Co-Founder The Digital Fashion Group, Brussel/BEL)
KC Man (Founder Virtual Touch Group Limited, Hong Kong/CHI)
Claire Chang (Founder Techmoi.com, Taipei/TW)
Jackaline Tang (Gaming Partnerships Manager Brand New Vision, Hong Kong/CHI)
Event Time:
March 29, 2023 14:00 UTC+8 (Taipei, Hong Kong, Singapore, …)
March 29, 2023 17:00 UTC+11 (Sydney)
March 29, 2023 15:00 UTC+9 (Tokyo)
March 29, 2023 13:00 UTC+7 (Bangkok, Jakarta, …)
March 29, 2023 11:30 UTC+5:30 (New Delhi)
March 29, 2023 07:00 UTC+1 (London)
March 29, 2023 08:00 UTC+2 (Berlin, Paris, …)
March 29, 2023 02:00 UTC-4 (New York)
March 28, 2023 23:00 UTC-7 (Los Angeles)
Because “sculpture_AsianDinnerSet” from Shang Simla, TS3 World Adventures, is very badly made, bad mesh, too big until its “chopsticks” looks similar to Chinese incense for praying to our deity and ancestors, which is inappropriate to put on dining table, moreover, too tacky.
Therefore, I made the proper version of storage for eating utensils on dining table with proper mesh of chopsticks and one stack of ordinary bowls and spoon for soup.
2 presets:
Porcelain with classic white and blue traditional Chinese colour. 1 Recolourable channel >> The chopsticks.
3 Recolourable channels >>The inner, outer storage and chopsticks.
Elmo met Wu Xio* by chance while trying to convince locals to let him demolish a boulder. They had a lot in common and made plans to hang out after Elmo took care of the boulder.
*Rambling time:
Full disclaimer: I'm white, curious, and tried my best, but I could be 100% wrong. Just send me a message and I'll fix whatever it is.
Wu Xio's wiki article says "Xio" is most likely a misspelling of "Xiao," and I'm pretty sure Wu is a surname/family name, not a given name? Most Shang Simla sims seem to have their names as "GivenName Surname," which matches TS3's name format but is the opposite of how real life Chinese names work (Surname GivenName).
So her name should be Wu Xiao in game, or Xiao Wu in real life. Given names are sometimes combined with a generational name like this chart explains, which makes me think Wu can be a given name? She'd have a name like Xiuwu or Yiwu if she had a generational name. I think.
I don't know any Mandarin or enough about naming conventions, so I'm not going to add a generational name. Plus, some people don't have them.
And I learned wuxia is a genre of martial arts fiction, so the game devs could've been trying to nod at that? Who knows.
tl;dr - Wu Xio is now Wu Xiao, fixing the spelling mistake.
“The City of Endless Stars”. A citadel drifting high in the peaks of faraway mountains, cresting the sweeping snow tundras at the edge of the world—where days glimmer briefly and nights are deep and infinite. Tsune Stellae is a city of astronomers, scientists, and philosophers in reverence of the cosmos, gathering during the longest nights of the year to study the movements of the planets, of supernovas and falling stars; to divine the whispered secrets of the sun and moon. Although the passage of stargazers wanes and waxes throughout the seasons, at the heart of the citadel are twelve families who have guarded the most precious instruments and libraries of astronomical knowledge for centuries.
Taiyo was born to one such ancient family, a quiet childhood spent assembling telescopes in courtyards of silver stone, and reading star maps amongst gardens of elven moonflowers. Although he is human, and his family dedicated to the scientific observation of distant galaxies, listening to the stories of mage travelers seeded a curiosity for the arcane, the connection between stars and magic, a desire to explore the sun-drenched worlds beyond his scrolls and charts. Upon catching word of the Selenehelion, a murmur of Celestial wishes, Taiyo is braving his fears of the unknown lands and venturing forth to discover what the sun may bring.