Issue 4 -D Dec 2020 Editors Letter
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Issue 4 -D Dec 2020 Editors Letter SulSul Simmers, Welcome to issue 7 of SimmedUp Magazine. This month we come together to celebrate Mothers Day but here at SimmedUp we dedicate this issue to all families, so whether you be a blended, foster, adoptive or one of the many other types of family units out there, this month is for you. Featuring LittleMsSams Baby Scan Mod review by Grace, The Breastfeeding Pose Pack is reviewed by maria with some stunning imagery. We also have ‘How to create CC Floors’ to help decorate the family home your way By A.Muller from ExtraTimeMedia and Grannys Comfort Soup in Cooking Sims style. This month we also bring you the all new Simtography with Minraed and #MachinimaLife for the budding director out there by our very own TheMomCave. Not forgetting our Interviewees this month we have the fabulous Kamila Interviewed by Sue and The enchanting Alexis Creator of SIMS VIP. So whatever your doing this month, if you manage to see your families in person or not, make sure to let your family know you care and pick up the phone, send a text message or email. So from one family to another Happy Mother’s/Family Day to you all, no matter where you are. Benzi chibna looble bazebni gweb SimSimmerly On The Sims Resource 60INTERVIEW: KAMILA 68 YOUR SIMS: SHOWCASING YOUR SIMS 72 LOVE TO SHOP: EXCLUSIVE MERCH & CC 76 BUILD A BETTER LIFE: WITH THE MOM CAVE 82 SIMSPIRATION: WITH K8SIMSLEY 90 SIMTOGRAPHY: PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS WITH MINRAED 96 MAKING A SIMMER: KAWAII FOXITA 102SIMSCOPES: WHAT DO THE SIMS STARS 36 CUSTOM CONTENT: HOLD IN STORE FOR YOU? HOW TO MAKE CC FLOORS 42 TITAN ARCHITECTS: #SHOWUSYOURBUILDS. WITH GAMECHANGER LAIREEN 106 LITTLEMSSAM: BABY SCAN & FOSTERING 48FANART: BY GRACE BY KICKKASS 110 SIMMERIKA POSE 54RETROCORNER: PACK: THE SIMS 2 FAMILIES BREASTFEEDING BY MARIA 76 BUILD A BETTER LIFE: 96 MAKING A SIMMER: 116 WHATS ON:FB GROUP WINNER & CHALLENGES COMING UP OR RUNNING. PRACTICE Just SIMLISH FOR Fun A MOTHER HAS 6 GIRLS AND EACH OF THEM HAS A 1 BROTHER. HOW MANY CHILDREN ARE THERE? ? JIMMY’S MOTHER HAD FOUR CHILDREN. SHE NAMED THE FIRST MONDAY. SHE NAMED THE SECOND TUESDAY, AND SHE NAMED THE THIRD WEDNESDAY. 2 WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FOURTH CHILD? ? ?3 WHO IS BIGGER: MR. BIGGER, MRS. BIGGER, OR THEIR BABY? ? ? Benzi chibna looble bazebni gweb/ Nothing is impossible if you believe PRACTICE Turkey nurbler?/Does that feel better? SIMLISH Fleny Fleny/Get out, I really gotta tinkle! Send Your Answers to: [email protected] & You could See your NAME/Social GUESS media HERE! ? THE ? ? CAS LAST MONTHS ANSWERS: DID YOU KNOW THE ANSWER? 1. THEY GO ON DIFFERENT DAYS 2. LOVE 3. HEART ? GUESS THE CAS! ANSWER: YVETTE FIELDING FROM ? MOST HAUNTED The answer to the above question is now However, before quickly isolating a whole always – YES! group of people from having a go at our challenges or giveaways we must ask The sims world seems very divided between ourselves one question… How do people PC players and console players. Many on a different platform to me get sims giveaways or challenges on Instagram have packs? Something so obvious is very often the words “for Origin players only”. But it not taken into consideration. does not have to be that way! Yes, it is true that EA has made it somewhat difficult for So, there are a few answers to the above players on different platforms to seamlessly and some of these answers make it seem interact, whether that is releasing updates like it’s impossible for one platform to later for console players or PC players not interact with another. For example, being able to gift packs to console players PlayStation players buy their packs through origin etc”. through the PlayStation store and they have an option to buy packs in-game, there is no Origin that acts as a game library so one can assume the only way to buy a pack for a PlayStation player is to log into their PlayStation account… which is a BIG No-No, hence– isolation. Xbox players have something similar to Origin, but it is called EA Play, which I think also does not allow for cross-platform game purchases. So, what’s the solution? Well, there are two… the most straight forward one is to remember how you bought your first sims game. As a CD in store! Well now there are online CD stores! Where you can get any pack for any platform and you will be emailed a key which can then be sent to the person who you want to gift it to, and they can redeem it. It is worth noting, however, that you should always research and verify that any website you purchase redeemable keys from is verified and trusted. One way of doing this is looking up reviews about the site or just trying to find a website with the best reviews from the sims community who have used it in the past. Better safe than sorry! Even a more straightforward and completely safe way is EA! Yes, they did not make it easy to collaborate cross- platform, but you can just go to EA website – games– choose a platform– purchase as a gift. Ta Daa! you have a redeemable key again which can be given to someone else to be redeemed. And it is completely safe since if anything is not working you can always call up EA customer services and they will sort any issues out for you. Written By Maria from LaarStudio Now everyone can participate in anything! Insta - @laar.studio Happy simming! YouTube – Laar Studio A Special Section for Machinimators by Machinimators Machinima 101 I started my channel because I wanted to share builds. I filmed and edited one speed build. Then I thought, “How about a Let’s Play?” I wrote a challenge, filmed and edited one episode and hated it. I just hadn’t found my niche yet. As I was bingeing my favorite larger YouTuber at the time, they posted a “story,” which I had never seen before, because I’m relatively new to all of this. But I was so In addition to this, each month I will be engaged and it really spoke to my highlighting a different Director of Pixels, creative soul deeply. So, I looked for which is my way of referring to another person who enjoys spending hours and more, and more, and more and then I hours fighting with Sims yeeting out of poses finally realized I had to try one. This was and randomly getting pregnant in closets, right around the time that I was playing townies ruining countless shots and that one my 100 Baby Challenge on my own and Sim who wants to burn down their house with wanted to tell the story to the grilled cheese, which is arant post for Facebook group I was in. So I wrote the another day. story, and then I filmed the first episode. I was hooked. I’ve not looked As our Simmed Up team brainstormed our back. This is why I am excited for this content for this month I was reminded that I monthly section. Welcome to need to start this month with the “what” #machinimalife. before I start with the “how.” Here are some basic answers to the most common There are so many different ways to questions: express our love for The Sims. I would argue, however, that making What is a machinima? There are so many machinimas is a uniquely challenging different types of Sims content. “LP’s” or experience. And so, my hope for these Let’s Plays, speed and stop-motion builds monthly posts is to help those who are (my hat’s off to you who do those - yikes), intrigued by them, and even better pack and content reviews, CAS or Create-a- want to start making them, by providing Sim, reactions and machinimas. I’m sure there tips and information from my own is more, but this is the type of Sims content experience to get them started. that fills my feed. A machinima is just a fancy word for an animated story, and Sims story- tellers use, yep you #MachinimaLife guessed it, The Sims. The MomCave Some creators mix 3b 506 machinima with Let’s- 35 Play. Some simply tell 01.03.2021 stories using The Sims. I personally fall into the latter category. Although, my first machinima series The Curse is based off of my actual game play. How long does a machinima take? Well, that all depends on how technical and creative you’re getting. There’s more to a machinima than simply recording and editing. There’s writing, posing, set-building, CAS setup, finding the right music, the right poses, the right animations and the right camera angles. Then you shoot, re-shoot and shoot again until you get what you need, edit and repeat. Some machinima creators use mainly in-game animations and interactions. This will save a lot of time, but can be limiting. Many use custom animations and poses, and some even use mods for their animations. I’ll be doing a whole article on this in another issue. I personally use more of the custom animations, and in-game sparingly. I’m a control freak ok? My machinimas take about 6-10 hours per scene, on average, sometimes more. This does not include the setup. The moral of this part of the story is that they can take a long time and are a lot of work.