I like making rows of lavender with Luna’s beautiful plants, and I hide the University harvestable amongst them. My sims wander down the rows picking the herb. When I am world-building, I prefer to play a CC free game. I am a bit addicted to default overrides for making things look better without adding new content. So, here is a default override of the World Adventures lavender. It makes it a lot fuller and more lush. This is lavender at full bloom, with the buds open.
Naturally I had to go totally overboard, so I’ve made five different colors: deep purple, deep lavender, purple, half pink, and pink, each in a choice of resolution (low 512 or high 1024). They don’t look all that different in the pictures, but in my game I noticed a big difference. Choose one color/resolution only. Preview pictures are included to help you choose the color.
And just for kicks, I retextured the University herb plant to make it less leafy and more herbaceous. It isn’t all that brilliant, but it is nice to have a bit of diversity in our harvestable gardens, so I thought I’d share that, too. It will retexture all of the University herbs (not the beans or basil and cinnamon plants). This is included in the lavender download as a separate package:
The deep purple is probably the best match if you are trying to blend it with Luna’s lavender (picture). You can find all of her lavender at her site, here: Luna’s Lavender
See how the deep purple looks with her lavender:
And if you want to make the lavender even better, you can use it with Pocci’s plant mod to make it placeable on slots: Moar Flowering
TOU: Feel free to alter these textures however you like, to share your improved versions, to use these textures to make other forms of CC, and to include this override as part of a custom world or any creation. Please give credit where it makes sense to. Thanks!
Life is peaceful on the shores of the Simediterranean sea, back in the 30’s Porto Estivo was a charming seaside resort until a violent storm swept away the little town .. Porto Estivo is now an empty land, a white canvas where you can fully express your creativity !
Yeah, I made up a story to justify the emptiness of the world
Details and requirements
This world is based on Sunset Valley, I tweaked a little the original map to add some new areas : it now has a dense downtown area, a large harbour, a brand new rural/wooden neighborhood and some new beaches to explore ! I did my best to bring a mediterranean atmosphere to the world, I’m satisfied with the look of the shores but I went a little wild with the lavender fields and the forest .. Porto Estivo is an odd mix of mediterranean/tuscanian/italian/provencal elements actually
Requirements: World Adventure | Pets | University LIfe | Supernatural | Island Paradise | Monte Vista from the sims 3 store
I also have Late Night | Ambition | Seasons | Town Life stuff installed but I think you’ll be safe with just the ones listed above
Lots :The world has 121 empty lots of various sizes
Spawners :I placed all the spawners shown in Caw (depending on the Ep I have) except the WA ones and the freshwater fishes since the world doesn’t have any pond
Terms of Use and Sharing
TOU : nothing special here, don’t claim this world as your own, don’t try to make money out of it and don’t re-upload it anywhere (unless you did some modifications to the world) ..
Feel free to release a save file or to modify the world in CAW if you want to add/remove things, just give me a little credits when you think it’s appropriate
Also, don’t hesitate to tag you pics with #porto estivo if you use the world, I’d love to see what you’ve done with it !
Hope you’ll have fun playing Porto Estivo ! it’s my very first world and it’s far from being perfect, I also apologize for the glitches that will probably occur..
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