“Omygowd, look at that painting!! I-is it a Monet?!?” “…What?? Oh no, it’s just a picture I took of the pond beyond my house..”
Make your pond beautiful as a piece of art with “Beautiful Pond set”! 😉 A set of 4 plants (under ‘Shrub’, 1§), floating on water, re-colourable, CAW enabled. Look great on pools and fountains also.
A Random Selection of Default Recolors: Subtley Shifted Flowers
*NEW* Sept 29 2014: Defaults Part 2 is here and Non-Defaults are here!
As I labor along trying to finish all the various elaborate plant-creations I was silly enough to start, I often (almost always) forget to keep it simple. It doesn’t take much to change the look of this game. My eyes burn with the original plant colors. Intolerable. So, I fixed some of them. I could wait until I’d recolored ALL the base game and EP plants before I shared it, but, darn it, that might never happen.
Here is a small selection of Base Game and EP flowers DEFAULT replacements. These are just gently recolored to be a bit softer and slightly muted and a bit more vintage-ish looking. For those of you who like that kind of thing (I do). The colors are all similar to their original colors, and so they will not clash with any of your existing color schemes.
More to come, soon, I promise! I believe the only one here that isn’t base game is the white hydrangea (ambitions), but, honestly, it doesn’t really matter because if you don’t have the EP it won’t do anything for you. They are all in one package. Feel free to open it up in S3PE and delete what you don’t want!
Please use these however you like! No TOU (but credits do help us keep our content straight).
Plants included: Agapanthus, Sunflower, White Daisies, Dandelion, Marigolds, Wild Roses, Red Wild Roses, White Hydrangea, Purple Hydrangea, Dianthus
Part 1 is here! Toned down, muted, slightly sweetened or de-saccharined flowering plants. *NEW* Sept 29 2014: Non-defaults are here!
What is included? Purple and yellow heather, Rhododendrons, yellow daisies, chinese lantern plants, lilac, azaleas, pansies, and lantana. Oh, and a coleus, inverted. Don’t worry if you don’t have all the EPs that these are from. This is a simple default override (texture files only). These are all in one package, so if you really want something removed or changed and you don’t use S3PE, send me an ask and I’ll see what I can do! What else? I don’t know. Put it in mods/packages.
TOU? don’t be mean! (do whatever you like with these! just don’t reupload unchanged and claim as your own, because that is mean)
These are dedicated to everyone who requested it and encouraged me with lovely comments! Thanks! Enjoy!
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!
Greco Roman Sims 3 Poetry 