Vice City Neighborhood in The Sims 3

The Sims 3 has been out for nearly a year now and I must say I am a bit disappointed by the lack of incredible custom content. I had over 40000 downloads in my Sims 2 game and I probably would have had more and more… I don’t want to do a comparison between Sims 2 and Sims 3 but you have to admit, from day one Sims 2 had some fantastic content! Or maybe it was just the fact the improvements from the original Sims to Sims 2 were just so amazing and so new that now we have greater expectations with Sims 3 that are not being met?

Anyway, today I came across some very interesting custom content… Fresh-Prince has been creating Vice City for The Sims 3 using the Create-A-World tool. One of the most striking features of this city is the new custom water Fresh-Prince has created.  It is a very long thread so I took the important bits…

Fresh-Prince: “I am currently working on a neighborhood that is based off of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City’s replica of Miami. The map I created is based off of GTA, but this was the largest i could make it, so it’s more of a mini version. I started this yesterday and love it so far, and I want to make it perfect. It is no where complete, but I figured I’d post it here to get feedback of it right now, how I can improve anything, and for future updates. So here are some pics of the mini Vice City with some Miami incorporated. Thanks for any feedback!”

Fresh-Prince: I think I fixed the islands in the middle, I had one of the roads/bridges wrong. And as for the skyscrapers, I know they don’t look wonderful, but thats all I could do to make it look like tall buildings, I need them for this City

As for the roads, do you suggest that I add an intersection everywhere the roads meet? I just think it would look weird with a intersection everywhere with white lines. The roads do work without intersections though. I’m not sure what to do. And here’s the top view again. I’m obviously more focused on the right side of the city for now.

I added all new beach and water with some techniques, and it looks great! Well, I think it does,lol. I love the color of the water.



I replaced and added buildings. Made some new “rivers’ in the city. I also did the water change for the whole neighborhood. That was extremely annoying, and I was actually going to give up. It took me about 7 hours to fix all the water. But I am very happy because it looks stunning in the game. I tried recreating that grass I’mSimalicious!, but I just couldn’t get it. And I lowered the water tower kiwi_tea. So I tested it actually in game with my sim, and just have some fun/pretty screens for you guys!
New decor lighthouse:

Sunset overview of City:

My sim overlooking the ocean:

My simmie sleeping at the “hotel’s” beach:

For the bridges, I decided to have that rock texture around it. Here’s a pic of the idea of it. And I’m not able to remove the land underneath it.

I think I finished everything that I did with the other Vice City, so I moved on to some new things. Right now I’m working on Leaf Links, which is a series of islands as a golf course. Here’s a golfing range that is in Vice City, where I believe it’s there so you can hit golf balls into the ocean.

Here’s an overview to the Leaf Links islands.

Here’s an random picture that I thought was cool, it’s a display at a furniture store.

And here’s a random house near the edge of the water:

There is no estimated release date at this stage. You can follow the whole thread here.

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