Friday, March 25, 2011

A Big Red Button Should Have Been Hard to Miss

So it turns out that the only thing you have to do in Edit in Game to get the waterfalls to show up is take the game off of Pause.  *sigh*  I'm such an idiot.  There's a huge red pause button in the corner and a border around the entire screen, but did I notice it?  No.  I had to read it in a forum.  ^.^  Anyway, did a few adjustments to the height of the falls and where the splash areas are.  They're looking pretty good, if I do say so myself.

I started working on filling in some of the details of the world.  Highest priority has been to get the "river" on the plateau to work.  When you dig into land in CAW, you only get water if you dig all the way down to sea level.  So to get water on an elevation you either have to put it in a lot (and use the pond tool) or use one of the river objects which are HUGE compared to the little area I needed to make it from my campground lake to the waterfall.  I decided to make the river on a lot and use water animations and rocks and plants around the edges to fudge the areas in between.  Here's a shot of how the campground is coming, and I'm really happy with the border area.



The rocks and cattails in between the lake and river are actually placed in CAW on space that's in between the lots.  Also, there are fish and seed spawners on the campground as well as a restroom, picnic tables, grills and chess tables.  Not sure how much I want to crowd into it since it's supposed to be a campground in a forest, not some civilized park.  I think I may leave it as is or just add some bushes so that there's still vegetation when zoomed in.  I'll be adding more trees of the same type to create the forest.  I'm seriously considering putting large lots up there as the "reward" area.  Also, all of the spawners are uncommon or rare.  It will be the richest concentration of goodies, I think.  I'm holding off on putting anything from the other countries in, though.  I like to leave those types of spawners out so that there's still a reason to visit the countries now and then.  Not that I would restrict a lot builder from using them, but the neighbors would have to hop the fence to get at them. xD

1 comment:

  1. lol...doh! Don't just hate when something you can't figure out is starring you in the face. That happens to me all the time. Haha! Glad the waterfall and river are working for you! The world is really coming along nicely.

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