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KAIHOLA by technicallyswagpizza

"Sea and people have made the island what it is today. The island's epic landscapes are the stuff of poetry. Sand, wind, unspoiled archipelago and the beautiful bedrock, worn smooth by glacial ice. Glistening in the afternoon sun, yellow, red and white houses cling to rocky shores and fishing boats bob in the water. The verdant pine forests turn to charming leafy tunnels, framing every view. Time stops, people live a quiet life here."

Kaiho is a word that is a bit more difficult to translate as it has a certain type of melancholic nuance to it that nostalgia or longing for something doesn't cover exactly. Kaihola is my ode to Finland, an undefinable sadness that won't go away. The world is loosely based on two islands off the coast of Finland, Hailuoto and Ahvenanmaa, and my tiny hometown up north.

FEATURES

Medium sized map.

35 lots all in all spread across the island.

Unpopulated.

Includes a base camp enabling you to use Kaihola as a travel destination.

Spanking new distant terrain and matching terrain painting textures.

Wide variety of regular spawners, no World Advenures or ITF

Custom lighting mod included in the world file.

But wait, there is more! I have made two versions for you to choose from!

#1 Empty world // Requirements:

All expansion packs except ITF (No stuff packs!). Yikes! It's a lot for an empty world and boy don't I know it! I'm fairly sure I have used every other expansion except ITF for the landscaping. Some more than the others, however if you are missing an expansion pack, the trees and shrubs I have used will simply be replaced by something else.

CC used: Distant terrain, some of the flowers and trees made by me + Hidden Springs decorative barns + Aurora Skies birch tree are included in the download.

Map is completely empty, has a wide variety of spawners and is ready to be built by you.

Empty diving lot off the coast somewhere.

Two options for world installation, either through the launcher as a sims3pack OR bypass the launcher and drop the world package file in the designated folder.

Optional terrain painting textures made by me available for download if you wish to use them for landscaping your lots in game.

⇩ Download // Mirror ⇩

#2 Built and ready to move in! // Requirements:

All expansion packs except ITF (No stuff packs!)

CC used: Rabbit hole rugs by Jynx (Pet fixed), some EA store items, my distant terrain, flowers, trees, house shells and rabbit hole recolours. All included in the download.

If you don’t have some of the expansion packs or don’t want to install the EA store content provided, the items I have used will simply be replaced by something else from your own game. I cannot promise that nothing will break, but some bits might look a little bare or funky due to the replaced items!

All the lots are built and furnished, I have left 5 empty lots for you to build and fill yourself including an empty diving lot off the coast.

Recoloured and rescripted rabbit holes. That being said, Kaihola comes with basic rabbit hole careers you would get in a vanilla game.

Two options for world installation, either through the launcher as a sims3pack OR bypass the launcher and drop the world package file in the designated folder.

Optional terrain painting textures made by me available for download if you wish to use them for landscaping your lots in game.

The church deco has snow issues. To be fixed at some point in the future, maybe?

⇩  Download // Mirror ⇩

Almost there, just few more bits!

I have created a lighting mod for Kaihola and included it in the world file itself, I would recommend at least trying it out (by taking your own lighting mod out of Mods/Packages folder to see it in action)! If you like Kaihola’s lighting and want to use it in other worlds or as a standalone mod, shoot me a message and I’ll make a package for you.

In the screenshots above I have maxed out settings and Reshade enabled, but my preset is very subtle and it only adds a soft blur effect and strengthens shadows a little bit. I don't edit my screenshots other than crop and resize them with photoshop, so basically what you see above is what you will get :>

I would strongly advise downloading Nraas Go Here and disabling boats. They will cause lag as townies have a habit of looping around with them endlessly. I'd also recommend disabling wild horses and stray pets as they tend to get stuck.

I built all the lots myself except for the following 3: A massive thank you to @silvakristiina for letting me use her de-CCd Ivars house as a base camp, I also edited a junkyard from doublemedion694′s Cladbridge-on-Stowe and the boat is an edited version of this made by @fagersims.

If you post pictures, please let me know and tag them with #Kaihola or simply @ tag me. I’d love to see any and all pictures!

Congratulations, you have reached the end credits!

Special thanks to @silvakristiina and @depistako for playtesting and giving me feedback about the feel of the world! ♡

I know it has been like 2 years now, but thank you @hydrangeachainsaw for teaching me how to make distant terrain and for all the invaluable World Machine & Blender help! And a final thanks to @grandelama for sharing the beautiful road textures and allowing me to tweak them further! (  ˊᵕˋ  )♡.°

//Oopsie daisy fixes!

2.2.2022 - Fixed the blue lot/missing lots with fully build version. Redownload please!

17.2.2022 - Added missing bistro rabbithole .package file in the CC folder. You don't need to redownload everything, just drop this file in your mods folder if you downloaded the world on the first day of release http://www.simfileshare.net/download/2986213/

Yes that’s right! There is a way to make the Sims 3 run faster!

Nitromon over at Mod the Sims has found a program that allows you to ‘unpark’ your drives- allowing your game to take advantage of more of your CPU.

Used in combination with Overwatch, Save Cleaner and a whole bevy of other fixes, you’ll be enjoying faster gameplay from now on!

Quick n’ Easy Tutorial

Download & install ParkControl (Here: https://bitsum.com/parkcontrol/)

Run the program

Under Parking AC & Parking DC, disable both options. Click Apply. Don’t touch anything else.

That’s it! Now enjoy buttery-smooth gameplay and less lag!

When I’m done, I usually turn Parking AC & Parking DC back on until the next time I play.

Original thread here: http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=571180

Read it for more details and if you have any questions. Toss me a message to let me know how it goes!

Special thanks to Nitromon for finding this software.

FYI this program does not alter any Sims game files- it changes whether or not your computer puts aside CPU cores to extend battery life (which doesn’t matter since you’re probably going to be plugged in for the Sims 3).

Windows 7 is programmed to use 4 cores at any time, so don’t worry about any parked cores being used for background tasks. If you’re concerned about your computer, set the percentage under Parking AC/DC to leave one core parked. If you’re using a laptop like I am, I would also suggest using a temperature monitoring software like Speed Fan or Core Temp regardless of whether or not you unpark your drives.

If your drives are already unparked, if you have Windows 8+, or you have a computer that can barely run the Sims 3, then this program likely won’t help. Read the MTS thread for a more thorough explanation and discussion.

I found that:

Loading times were improved

Catalogue items, Create-a-Style & Create-a-Sim loaded up faster

Gameplay was faster & smoother

Instead of 4 cores, I was able to fully use 8 cores. Obviously this will differ depending on your computer CPU.

For anyone with doubts- just back up your Sims 3 Documents folder before trying this!

An additional read on core parking safety:

http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf4/forum/threadview/2979150493814678872/

Bath Water Rug by Tamamaro

Download at Tamamaro’s Blog here

Some shell buildings/boats conversions! {=

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info: 34 objects. All caw enabled. All light up at night. Some you’ll find in the roof decor section or in the buydebug.  Most of them in the first two pics are low poly, except the venice shells in the second pic, they’re 6 and 8k. Also the Couvent des Récollets, which is around 12k TS4 venues are around 5 to 10k. Townhouses are 3 to 5k. TS4 boat is 1k. Sail boat is also around 1k. The highest poly stuff are the Arts Building: 15k Yacht: 24k these meshes and textures aren’t mine, the only thing I did is texturize the yacht^-^

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I’m doing a thing...

How many hours of your life do you think you’ve spent scouring the internet looking for CC / mods for Sims 3? I don’t even want to think about how much time I’ve spent doing that in all years that I’ve been playing…

Tumblr is great, don’t get me wrong… but when you’re looking for a specific type of CC, it can be…. well…. not fun. Tumblr is wonderful for following players and creators, but it’s not a CC search engine by any stretch of the imagination. Sure, you can hop from one “finds” account to another, but even that’s not efficient.

So I started thinking about this problem, and how it might be solved, and I kept thinking, “I wish there was a site where we could catalog and organize links to content all across the web.” Well hot damn… I’ve got an unlimited web hosting plan! When you see a need, fill it. So, I’m starting a Sims 3 CC & Mods link directory website. 

The basic premise is that links to CC & Mods (to the creator’s original post or site, if possible) from every corner of the web can be organized by categories and tags. This enables users to drill down to specific types of content that they’re looking for, or just search for keywords or browse the categories to see what’s out there. 

I think that’s a pretty cool idea and would be tremendously useful! And furthermore, the system I’m using enables users to submit links as well! Huzzah! I don’t have to do all of the work myself! 

Additionally, it would serve to drive traffic to creators’ sites and introduce new players to their content. Hell… I’ve been playing Sims 3 since it came out and there are still “old” creators that I’m just now discovering…

Anyway… apologies for the long-winded post. The idea is only a few days old and I’ve got the basics of the site put together, but I’m still working on refining the concept and putting the pieces in place, and I would WELCOME feedback and suggestions from y’all, and if anyone is interested in helping with the project, please feel free to contact me.

My legacy family celebrating Danish Midsommer/Saint Hans (Left to right: Richard Randall, Bethooven Quomipash (heir gen 3), Nathaniel Wright, Tilly Quoimipash, (obscured) Moe Quomipash (Heir gen 2), Ellenor Quomipash, Harold Assange-Quomipash, Emily Quomipash and Rama Quomipash)

A lot of people are probably wondering what in the world is going on. Basically we celebrate midsummer by staying up late, song, lighting a huge fire with a witch on top… Just to scare off evil spirits, mind you, no actual witches were ever burned on Saint Hans. There’s so much intresting history to this holiday, but i’ll refrain :p

vendelavendelavendela recently posted a Swedish midsummer celebration in Enekjaer, and it was absolutely adorable. Made me want to do my own ;) … It also made me realize how completely different the two are :0

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CAW for Absolute Beginners – a guide

It took me long enough, but I made a guide for CAW for those of you who always wanted to try to build your own worlds for Sims 3 but never knew where to start. And for those of you who tried but got frustrated because information is hard to find, outdated or just doesn’t cover what you were looking for.

For now it’s a PDF for you to download. And maybe sometime in this century it will be turned into a website for better navigation. Stay tuned! And don’t hesitate to ask if you have questions!

Download PDF Guide

This world is a blank medium sized (1024x1024) world with 10 community lots and 21 residential lots. It’s 23.8MB unpopulated. It uses Aurora Skies InI files, no flythrough.

It’s inspired by medieval Scandinavian landscapes, vikings, Norse mythology, and Skyrim. It’s a home neighborhood but created with the notion of using it as a travel destination or for story telling..

REQUIREMENTS

Ambitions

World Adventures

Aurora Skies

Dragon Valley

Midnight Hollow

Visit my World Requirements page for more details.

Please read my tou before downloading. ⇩ DOWNLOAD ⇩ ⇩ SIMS 3 EXCHANGE MIRROR ⇩

This is my first (publicly shared) world so I hope you enjoy it!

Oleifsborg on the Sims forums for updates, feedback, and troubleshooting.

Going for a hike in the mountains around Willapa Valley ⛰️🥾🎒🌲