Major Sculpting Accomplished!

I finished putting in all of the required lots.  Turned out I had underestimated how many spaces would be needed for the residential homes.  But each neighborhood should be ready for lots to be placed now!

I've discovered that I'm not really that good at sculpting.  I'd say I just need to spend more time on it, but I just don't tend to see hills and mountains as more than different size bumps in the ground with some trees stuck on them.  ^.^  I've tried to give it a good little mountain range in the background, though.  I guess they're more like hills.  Turns out the distant terrain objects in the CAW tool are only for use with the largest map, so I'll be setting my own map edges using the camera routing.  I spent a fair amount of time redoing the cliff face as well.  It was very harsh before since it literally was straight up and down.  That made the terrain paint look horrible, so I've added some depth to it and redone the paint to be lighter.  I think it looks a lot better now.  I'm sure it could be even better if I had more talent or patience, but it's enough for me to keep going and not flinch whenever I see it, like before. :D

Next step will probably be to start adding trees and decorations (I put in a little simhenge and made sure the path was routable for sims!).  I still need to work on making the river look better, although I think it's been improved slightly by lowering it into the ground some.  I'm not sure if sculpting or objects are needed to smooth the edges.  Perhaps I need to take another look at it in game.  I can also plant some houses (with a separate save, of course, because I want to always have one blank version to fall back on) and see what the neighborhoods are looking like.  Time to make that separate Sims 3 folder in My Documents to keep it all separate from my main game!  I hope I have enough hard dive space. :/