January 2, 2025

WIP#41

Hey everyone!

Happy New Year for all of you! I hope you have a great year ahead of you and that all your wishes come true in 2025! It was a year ago when I first thought about making cc and starting this hobby. It was in January last year when I started working on my first cc set and I was so excited! There were a lot of obstacles I had to face but I've learned a lot through this year and our little community has grown and we've reached many milestones I didn't think I'd reach. We're over 9000 followers on Patreon and I am beyond grateful that you seem to be interested in what I do. We've also reached 300 patrons at the end of the year and I'm so thankful for you as well, who support my work, thank you so much! I appreciate every comment you leave, cannot thank enough!

After my emotional message I'll leave a few thoughts about the current wip photo as well to show you how the set is coming along. First of all, I'm not making bedroom items this month because I won't have enough time because I'm visiting my family in January. So the bedroom will come next month!

 Some of you suggested I should separate the top part of the window (the arch) so it can be used above the doors and the windows can be used by themselves. At first I was gonna make two versions of the windows, one with the top part, one without but I planned another top design so it would have been a lot of objects. I decided to separate them which was a little bit of a hassle because I already designed them in the frame but it works better this way. They can be varied more, for example the small windows can be used by themselves in bathrooms.

These windows are slightly wider then 1 and 2 grids because I found it two small and didn't like their size so I used 1.25 for the single window and 2.25 for the double. This makes them easily snap together without using free placement (ALT) but WITH using half-tile placement (turning on with F5). I think it's a good compromise.

Oh, sorry if this is too long but I have a lot to say. :D I mentioned there is two widths: the single and the double, also there are 3 heights, you can see them on the first picture. All of them come in the 2 width sizes. The small top parts are the arched and the criss-cross designed window. Those come also in these 2 widths.

I think that's all I wanted to say. :D I'm sorry for the long rambling, I promise this isn't as complicated as I've described and once you have them in your game you'll see how you can use them. Let me tell you, this set is making my head ache. :D There could be so many sizes, shapes and I don't want to make excessive amount of windows but enough to offer variations for different scenarios. It's a little overwhelming. I hope you will find these useful though! Despite working on them for so long and getting a little bored of them after the 10th similar looking window I like them in game so I hope you will too! But I'm looking forward to make something cute and cluttery next.

If you read all this, congratulations! You can see how these windows are living in my head right now! But I think I'm finally done with them and I only need to finish the doors!

Comments (6)

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Maria S · January 2, 2025

Happy New Year, thank you for everything, I hope you have a wonderful new year!

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VALIA · January 2, 2025

Thank you, I wish the same to you!

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Sim Siili · January 2, 2025

We do appreciate the rambling. It is part of your charm! Also appreciating the varied sizes of items a lot. Happy 2025!

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VALIA · January 2, 2025

Thank you! Happy New Year to you as well! I'm glad I have charm :D Honestly sometimes I feel like this is my journal and I like giving you some insights how I work on the sets. And not just technical stuff but the struggles and the road to complete a collection. I feel more connected to people this way and I hope you're to me as well.

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Lauren · January 2, 2025

They are looking great! I'm a new sub and I didn't realise you'd only been working on CC for such a short about of time. You have such gorgeous concepts and I'm very much looking forward to what you will bring to my game this year 😊

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VALIA · January 2, 2025

Welcome here! Thank you so much for the nice compliments. One year feels long and short at the same time but no matter how I look at it, I'm really happy I started this.