Cities And Housing Archive
Thread: One Decorator's Dream
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Scornd
Sun Jul 03, 2005 7:57 am
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I posted this last week on the Architect board, thought I would share it here as well
As a long time player, close to 2 years, I can still remeber the first house I ever owned in game. I can still remember the furniture, and collecting all the nifty things I could find to make it look perfect and homey. I can remember how excited I was when they implemented the /move up, /move down commands, because it meant that my paintings could acutally hang ON the wall,...and not have to sit on the floor, and I didn't have to drop items on steps of the house to get them on a table. I remeber anxiously waiting for a new painting to be released so I could snatch up as many as I could find. I remeber the first candle and lamps that I bought, and marveled at how, if well placed, could change the entire ambiance of a room.
I eventually went from decorating my own house, to decorating for others. I have done decor in cantinas, merchent tents, guildhalls, small, medium, and large houses of all styles, vendor malls, and recently my own city hall. And as I am there, placing tables and chairs, positioning fish tanks, and fireplaces, I have over time, thought of a whole lot of things that I would love to see be made avaliable.
As much furniture as I have burned through, doing all these structures, I have never been an architect. I have outsourced my furniture needs by custom order, and have probably made many architect's rich in the process. I recently used my token respec to replace tailor with architect as I was tired of having to wait for a furniture order to be started and having to answer to an impaitent client why I have not started on their sturcture.
I know many of these things have probably been dicsussed here before, but these are the things I am hoping for.
VIVE LA ARCHITECT REVAMP:
1.) Furniture customization - I know this is a big issue for alot of people. As it is, nothing works together. The colors just don't make sense together. Not to mention so many incrediable things could be done with furniture that work together to make an awesome look or color coordinated. A few new pieces would be nice as well.
2.) More plants. I sooo badly want the topiary style trees you see in the Theed starport. Or the pink basket of flowers. There are several styles out there, that were just never implemented.
3.) /Rotate Forward, /Rotate Back ablitlies. I would love to be able to get my Polished Krayt Dragon Skull or Master Hunter Trophey on the wall for display as opposed to having to sit on the floor. These among other things would have great possiblities of we could rotate on this axis.
4.)Wallpaper, Paint, Carpet Kits. Wouldn't it be great if we could change the entire look and feel of a structure by changing the colors of the walls and floors? Sure Rugs are great for this. But they are meant to be accent pieces..not wall to wall carpeting.
5.) Item Limits. I was really excited when they raised our item limit on structures. Especially in guild halls, cantinas, and large houses. But why not change that to be a variable, so that the number of items that couldbe heldcould be dependent on the quality of resouces used to make the strucuture.(This is debatable I know, and could be a major pain for the architect. We are lucky to find a decent concentration of ore, let alone one with good stats in the quanity that is needed)
6.) I have always wanted furniture that could placed on our patios and balconies, even a plant on the front porches would be nice and would give us the ablity to customize so that all of them don't look so "generic", and was glad to see the idea posted here. I also really like the idea of the dimmers and swtiches for the the installed building lights.
These are some of the changes that I would love to see, I have a few others but they escape me at the moment. I don't think when the Dev's planned this proffession, they really knew how big the "decor" part of the game could be for some of us. Decorating is where I find my fun. I enjoy it, and my clients enjoy it when I am done.
Cirroco_Una
Sun Jul 03, 2005 10:06 am
#2
/SIGN!!!
I've wanted to be able to paint walls and change carpet colors for ages! And having furniture you could pick the colors on? That'd just be the icing on the cake!
I've wanted to be able to paint walls and change carpet colors for ages! And having furniture you could pick the colors on? That'd just be the icing on the cake!
RikkeAnod
Sun Jul 03, 2005 4:19 pm
#4
great ideas, just u can rotate things! =) i make my furniture on axises all the time! also u can get them off the floor
Scornd
Sun Jul 03, 2005 5:37 pm
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MasterArchitectRikkeAnod wrote:
great ideas, just u can rotate things! =) i make my furniture on axises all the time! also u can get them off the floor
I think a better way to explain what I mean would be to quote another post I saw and having implememtened a /tilt command, /tilt forward /tilt back or right and left as the case needed. This would give angles to items that are not currently avalible such as turning a chair on it's side, or a couch standing on it's end, etc
Curby
Wed Jul 06, 2005 11:53 pm
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Yeah, something I think we've all be wanting for a while. Remember that three axes of rotation would be necessary. Depending on item symmetry, one or more of pitch, roll, or yaw could have no effect.
Scornd wrote:
3.) /Rotate Forward, /Rotate Back ablitlies. I would love to be able to get my Polished Krayt Dragon Skull or Master Hunter Trophey on the wall for display as opposed to having to sit on the floor. These among other things would have great possiblities of we could rotate on this axis.
Scornd wrote:
5.) Item Limits. I was really excited when they raised our item limit on structures. Especially in guild halls, cantinas, and large houses. But why not change that to be a variable, so that the number of items that couldbe heldcould be dependent on the quality of resouces used to make the strucuture.(This is debatable I know, and could be a major pain for the architect. We are lucky to find a decent concentration of ore, let alone one with good stats in the quanity that is needed)
The only way I can see thisgetting implemented is if building owners would have to pay lots for more storage. I would gladly pay 6 lots to fit 400 items in a medium Naboo or Tat house. In fact my primary hope is for such a system to be implemented in space. There's no way to fully decorate a yacht with a paltry 100-item limit. Not the way I decorate, at least. 
EDIT: Skinnable items and walls/floors are the only thing that the Sims 2 decorating engine has over SWG. As we've been saying foryears, the SWG decorating engine will probably be the most powerful in any game for years. Improvement is always welcome though, and skinnable 6-D.o.F. items and selectable item limits would cement SWG's place in the lead. I understand that it would take a huge effort on the part of the artists especially to doitem skins, but probably the biggest barrier is the perception that demand is low.
Message Edited by Curby on 07-07-2005 01:14 AM
Medazza
Thu Jul 07, 2005 5:08 am
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/sign and bump for more plants!!! I mean, come on, they ARE ingame, just make a schematic for Arcs, so we can make them for the masses.. 2 years with the almost same looks, theseadd-ons, they keep people around... You do redecorate in real life too, dont you ?
Salebow
Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:27 pm
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you guys think shes really nice here with this info, try meeting her on our server. Shes an absolutel joy to know there. Very nice gal, and friend.
Message Edited by Salebow on 07-08-2005 12:27 AM
Trajanus02
Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:24 am
#12
SIGN!!!!!!!
I say this same stuff ALL the time on my server. Great ideas. ALL things I have been wanting to see forever. I'm a total deco freak and I totally agree that after 2 years everything gets a bit stale and most things dont match. Would be nice to get some new furniture (as well as be able to customize the old), get new paintings and plants etc. I want to see all the stuff that is used in various buildings around the galaxy get implemented in the game. The tapestries......everything. Would be great.
And I too see stuff hanging on an "axis" as said here in game and am like dang, I wish I could do that with my stuff, that would be so cool. You see this ALL the time in game....if the devs can do it why cant we? Shouldnt be THAT hard to implement in game.
---Still waiting for them to make cauldrons and full skeletons loot/quest rewards. Muahahaha
Skysco
Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:38 am
#13
/sign for 1-4
- On 5: Sure, would be nice, but a fully decorated large house allready take a heck of a lot of time to load now. I'm affraid we reached the max on storage capacity by now..
- On 6: I'd love to have stuff outside. It would take tons of time for a city to load tho, not to mention the lag it'll cause. Again, I love the idea, but I'm affraid it won't work.
Message Edited by Skysco on 07-08-2005 02:39 PM
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