DIY Tropical Paradise (aka Morikipo Lite)

Saturday, 23 January 2010 22:12 |

For the person who has CAW but no time or desire to start entirely from scratch, and who wants to create a far more customized neighborhood than a fully finished neighborhood map allows, I present the first of my "DIY Neighborhood Kits"!

These are the CAW files I am using for my Morikipo Island map, now available to you so you can alter roads, change terrain colors, place your own lots, and put all your own trees and CAW landscape objects on. I do not think they require you to have WA, but without WA you won't see all the things I left on the map, and I'd recommend you delete all the plants and check the objects layer for things you're not seeing in render panel or just delete it outright too.

Future DIY kits likely won't have objects and trees placed, or at least not as many, but since I have it all on this map anyhow, and organized it all by layer so it's easy for people to just rip out, I left them in for the uploaded files.

To use these CAW files, you must extract them into the following directory or its equivalent on your machine:

C:/My Documents/Electronic Arts/the Sims 3 Create A World Tool/User Tool Data/Worlds

Do not put them into another folder! The files that have to be gathered into a folder are already in their folder, don't take them out of it, just unpack it as is in the Worlds directory!

I made heavy use of the texture packs from Martine at Mod the Sims when doing terrain painting. If you redo any terrain painting at all you will need to edit the layers and put in the file paths to the textures you wish to use. This means if you want to keep what I used but add any bits or change bits, you will have to get Martine's pack and match the file paths to where you unpack it.

Important License Agreement:

You may alter the everlovin' heck out of this map for your personal use, and may then also share it under the following conditions:

You may NOT upload your altered neighborhood to any pay site or to the Sims 3 Exchange. Any site you upload it to, every single bit of content must be absolutely free, no special prize content for subscribers or donations.
If you upload the altered map anywhere, you MUST plainly credit me as the originator of the terrain map in both your description in the upload site's text areas and in either the thumbnail image and/or the neighborhood description, with a link back here to www.bakasims.com or to my profile on Mod the Sims.
Should you have questions about how to credit, or to let me know you've used it, you can contact me via This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or a PM there at Mod the Sims.
DIY Tropical Paradise (aka Morikipo Lite)

Last Updated (Saturday, 23 January 2010 22:58)

(im in ur internetz uploadin mai stuff)