The King is in his Counting-House
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hat_plays_simsSo, what I wanted for this project was simple, sort of; I wanted coins that functioned like coins; they needed to be worth specific amounts and never depreciate, so that I could do things like fill a treasury with real coinage, stuff a dowry (and by dowry, I mean inventory) full of riches, send wealthy kids off to college with more than their scholarships, or send good students HOME from college with a fair share of their grant runoff. I mean, sure, you can always buy random art pieces, but that didn't feel as Medieval to me.
Counting all his money
The Queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
So, coins.
The first thing you should know is that I used somebody else's mesh for this-- Worship4ever's Investment Silver was exactly what I needed in terms of shape, but it didn't work right for me, so with the invaluable guidance of CuriousB, I cloned the suckers and made nine new, recolorable objects.
I know, it seems stupid to make nine new objects when there are three meshes-- I could recolor, right?-- but that wasn't the point. The point was being able to do this:
So, what you get is nine objects; single coins, stacks of twenty-five coins, and sets of one hundred coins, each in copper, silver, and gold. The default texture is based on the Seasons Wishing Well coin (also used in the gigantic Bon Voyage fountain), but you are totally welcome to make recolors with whatever you like on your coins. (I like plumb bobs.) Each individual copper coin is worth ten simoleons; each silver coin is worth a hundred, and each gold coin is worth three hundred. (Originally I wanted each gold coin to be worth a thousand, but that didn't work out with the game's inherent price limits once I got to the stack of a hundred coins.) This means you can save a little money for a rainy day, set aside a shiny college fund, give your taxes to the king in the form of a gift, or put the bulk of a family's wealth on a shelf or into somebody's inventory so they aren't squandering their fortune buying random-ass Servos when they show up at other Sims' owned businesses.
Of course, there's always the risk that, if you leave your hundreds of gold coins out on a shelf somewhere, you'll get a burglar gunning straight for them... but that's a chance you take when you want to live like Scrooge McDuck.
These appear to require at least one expansion pack. I don't know why. If you only have the Basegame, let me know, I'd be thrilled to be wrong. Also, these are compressorized, so be sure you delete your cache files after installing them.
Before I do the download link, I have to credit and thank some people. Once again, the mesh is by Worship4ever over on MTS; these are borderline policy-breaking (I didn't edit his meshes, just used them for a new project), but he hasn't been active on Mod The Sims since May of 2011 and I'm tired of keeping these to myself. I've got to thank CuriousB, for help in figuring out how to clone new objects, Quaxi for SimPE without which nothing would anything, and Lyn, who made sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, which means I'm not desperately trying to create textures in MS Paint.
... Yep, yep, I think that's everything.
DOWNLOAD:
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
Wanna help me feed my cats?
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.
Counting all his money
The Queen was in the parlour,
Eating bread and honey.
So, coins.
The first thing you should know is that I used somebody else's mesh for this-- Worship4ever's Investment Silver was exactly what I needed in terms of shape, but it didn't work right for me, so with the invaluable guidance of CuriousB, I cloned the suckers and made nine new, recolorable objects.
I know, it seems stupid to make nine new objects when there are three meshes-- I could recolor, right?-- but that wasn't the point. The point was being able to do this:
So, what you get is nine objects; single coins, stacks of twenty-five coins, and sets of one hundred coins, each in copper, silver, and gold. The default texture is based on the Seasons Wishing Well coin (also used in the gigantic Bon Voyage fountain), but you are totally welcome to make recolors with whatever you like on your coins. (I like plumb bobs.) Each individual copper coin is worth ten simoleons; each silver coin is worth a hundred, and each gold coin is worth three hundred. (Originally I wanted each gold coin to be worth a thousand, but that didn't work out with the game's inherent price limits once I got to the stack of a hundred coins.) This means you can save a little money for a rainy day, set aside a shiny college fund, give your taxes to the king in the form of a gift, or put the bulk of a family's wealth on a shelf or into somebody's inventory so they aren't squandering their fortune buying random-ass Servos when they show up at other Sims' owned businesses.
Of course, there's always the risk that, if you leave your hundreds of gold coins out on a shelf somewhere, you'll get a burglar gunning straight for them... but that's a chance you take when you want to live like Scrooge McDuck.
These appear to require at least one expansion pack. I don't know why. If you only have the Basegame, let me know, I'd be thrilled to be wrong. Also, these are compressorized, so be sure you delete your cache files after installing them.
Before I do the download link, I have to credit and thank some people. Once again, the mesh is by Worship4ever over on MTS; these are borderline policy-breaking (I didn't edit his meshes, just used them for a new project), but he hasn't been active on Mod The Sims since May of 2011 and I'm tired of keeping these to myself. I've got to thank CuriousB, for help in figuring out how to clone new objects, Quaxi for SimPE without which nothing would anything, and Lyn, who made sure I had a working copy of Photoshop, which means I'm not desperately trying to create textures in MS Paint.
... Yep, yep, I think that's everything.
on Mediafire | on Sims File Share
Wanna help me feed my cats?
In case you feel like dropping me a buck or two, should you have a buck or two to spare. Donors get two things at the moment: a) a link to the Super Secret Cat Gallery, full of pictures of the cats you'll be feeding, updated sporadically when the cats do something photogenic and I'm fast enough on the trigger to catch it, and b) a link to the list of content I have done-but-not-screencapped, nearly done, partly done, or in the planning stages, and the option to suggest what ought to be in the next batch of things I focus on.
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Date: 2012-07-15 01:08 am (UTC)Quick question -- you didn't say otherwise, so I'm assuming these are compatible with Worship4Ever's original coins. Is that a good assumption? Because while these new coins are AWESOME for everyday use, it did occur to me one day that selling Worship4Ever's Investment Coins at a community lot business might be a cool way to simulate a bank. ;)
... Of course, it's a very approximate simulation, but I'll take what I can get.
Thanks again! :D
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Date: 2012-12-16 10:38 pm (UTC)1 Coin (196 Faces)
25 Coins (300 Faces)
100 Coins (1200 Faces)
And I just used his meshes, so that's what I've got, too. Not too bad for rounded items-- the 100 coin stack might be a little high poly for a one-tile object, but you probably wouldn't have too many of them sitting around at ยง30K a pop.
Counting Coins
Date: 2017-02-13 01:43 am (UTC)You rock!
My game already has so much of your content(you have no idea.)
I am considering the G rated religion mod next, but haven't fully got my ducks in a row. And the hiders for the buy catalog. Hopefully, my download folder won't explode. Thank you, Thank you!