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Laura's VSS Interview
I wanted to swipe this from VSS - seeing as how I won't be going there anymore, I wanted to keep it in a place where we all wouldn't mind seeing it! ;)
archives, from VSS
*** Warning, this post is super hella long, and may implode the universe! Read at your own risk! ;) ***
Writing » Story Babble » LH Babble
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LH Babble
Post by laura on Oct 26, 2009, 12:19pm
I want to babble about my story! I don't really have much outlet for just talking about it, complaining about it, being wondered by it, without having to clog up the notes at the end of my updates. Maybe this can be a place for that? Especially since you all know the joys and frustrations of Sim-storytelling so well.
Like last night, I was having such trouble with this huge-ass multi-Sim update I'm working on, that should have been so simple! The problem always seems to stem from me having an image in my head for a scene that I can't quite get the game to do.
First, it was too dark for pictures in the early morning light, so I made it daylight (I'm suddenly envying Sims 3 players for their beautiful and intricate lighting!)
Then it started to rain! Dammit, I didn't want it to rain! I swear, I know it's spring in my hood and all, but there hasn't been a rainless day the entire season! And I'm talking about across several different lots! I'm usually okay with it, you know, just write it into the story, but for this particular scene, I want NO rain.
Anyway, so I grab a Sim and send her to the weather machine (this is after the lot debugger's "less rain" was a huge FAIL!).
And dammit Keri, could you just manage to clear the fracking sky without causing fireballs? Now, of all times? So instead of shooting my update, now fireballs are coming down from the sky, and I'm busy putting out fires (but hey, look, I discovered you can move-objects and delete fires - that's handy!)
But what sucks the most is my HUGE-ASS CAST OF SIMS all start running to see the fire! My HUGE-ASS CAST OF VISITORS all run off the lot and into oblivion. So now I have to teleport them all back in.
Dammit, Keri, you see what you did??? Was it asking too much? You weren't even that low in the green! Sheesh!
And that is the story of how a should-have-been simple one-scene update took me THREE freaking hours to shoot!
(I still love Keri, btw, I'm just a little angry with her right now.)
Writing » Story Babble » LH Babble
http://valleysunsims.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=babble&action=display&thread=88
LH Babble
Post by laura on Oct 26, 2009, 12:19pm
I want to babble about my story! I don't really have much outlet for just talking about it, complaining about it, being wondered by it, without having to clog up the notes at the end of my updates. Maybe this can be a place for that? Especially since you all know the joys and frustrations of Sim-storytelling so well.
Like last night, I was having such trouble with this huge-ass multi-Sim update I'm working on, that should have been so simple! The problem always seems to stem from me having an image in my head for a scene that I can't quite get the game to do.
First, it was too dark for pictures in the early morning light, so I made it daylight (I'm suddenly envying Sims 3 players for their beautiful and intricate lighting!)
Then it started to rain! Dammit, I didn't want it to rain! I swear, I know it's spring in my hood and all, but there hasn't been a rainless day the entire season! And I'm talking about across several different lots! I'm usually okay with it, you know, just write it into the story, but for this particular scene, I want NO rain.
Anyway, so I grab a Sim and send her to the weather machine (this is after the lot debugger's "less rain" was a huge FAIL!).
And dammit Keri, could you just manage to clear the fracking sky without causing fireballs? Now, of all times? So instead of shooting my update, now fireballs are coming down from the sky, and I'm busy putting out fires (but hey, look, I discovered you can move-objects and delete fires - that's handy!)
But what sucks the most is my HUGE-ASS CAST OF SIMS all start running to see the fire! My HUGE-ASS CAST OF VISITORS all run off the lot and into oblivion. So now I have to teleport them all back in.
Dammit, Keri, you see what you did??? Was it asking too much? You weren't even that low in the green! Sheesh!
And that is the story of how a should-have-been simple one-scene update took me THREE freaking hours to shoot!
(I still love Keri, btw, I'm just a little angry with her right now.)
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