Help me make my game more... ugly

[yaniv297]

So, I thought i'd try some Sims moviemaking... I have a movie I want to film on the sims. But the problem is... well, the story takes place in a slum, most of the characters are really poor, but the sims village is way too pretty!

I want to make everything more gray, replace the fancy pools and stuff with bars, pubs, old stuff, etc... I looked for stuff to download, but it's mostly really pretty stuff... if you can recommend some ugly stuff, it would be great.

Another issue is the violence. Not something too bad, no gunshots or something, but there are a few scenes of people badly punching each other, and a man threats someone else with a knife. Is there a way to film this in Sims without making it look comical and cartoonish?

There's also some drinking & smoking... even a regular juice that looks like beer is okay, it doesn't have to be real, but it has to look real.

And lastly, s3x scenes. There are plenty of nude skins out there, but I share the computer with my younger brothers, so it must be remove-able. So basically I'm looking for a removeable nude skins/mod.

One last question... I don't know whether to shoot this in the Sims 3 or 2. 3 looks better and has the possibility of walking through town (somewhat essential for the story, which takes place mostly in the streets), but Sims 2 has a much larger downloadable stuff database, and the seasons will give the film a great look... what do you think?

[Zan]

Hmmm That's a tough one. i've been trying to re-arrange for a bout a week now and to no avail. this town is not very malleable so that is very tough to do. However if you took certain elements underground then you could work with it better (camera might be terrbile though). If you go to thesimsresource.com there are a few people who make a few underground community lots but you have to start from the beginning

[imdyinginside]

Well I've been creating Sims films for 2 years now and I've had a go at TS3 with filming and everyone who creates the films including my close friends Jaydee, Witchery, Nova, Dark Lord, Warhawke and Rosahege. They all say use TS2 since there isn't much CC for TS3 yet... and not alot of hacks either...

So I'd say use TS2 for movies... wait about a year then start thinking about useing TS3

[phoebe91]

I'd say use that idea for TS2, it is nearly impossible to do that with TS3 at this point.

If you look on ModTheSims, they have wonderful prop hacks that you can use for TS2.