Something is rotten in the state of Pleasantview.


And no, it's not Dina's vajayjay.


Okay, wrong play, but you get the idea. The Capps and Monties have transferred their aeon-long feud to Pleasantview, along with everybody from Riverblossom Hills and Desiderata Valley. Oh, and the Summerdreams. When I go all out, I go all out.


Pleasantview's filling out quite well. Oh, what's that? Lotsa water?


Oh, oh my. It's so... islandy. There's going to be 5 main islands - Bluewater; Pleasantview, Veronaville, Riverblossom Hills and Desiderata Valley; Downtown; Belladonna and a Strangetown thrown in for good measure. The smaller ones will be mainly to make the world purdy, though there will probably be some small tombs on a couple of them that will play some part in the whole "Quest to find Bella" thing I have planned. At the moment the world looks quite swamp-ish, but as soon as I throw down the sand it should look more beachy keen.


View from Downtown, which I lowered a little so you could actually see it from Pleasantview and not a big old ugly cliff face. The lowering process was hell, Create a World crashed so many times it was really starting to make me hate it. But, I got it in the end.


Back to Bluewater Island, there's a beach front! Or the start of one, at least.


It still needs a lot of beautifying and editing, but it's coming along nicely.


And oh, just look at that road. Doesn't it just scream "quaint little village"?


The future site of Strangetown Island, which I actually made 3 times before, but the result of each a horrifying crash when trying to save. Is it an omen? No, Create a World just does that randomly without warning when I've done a lot of terrain editing.


Work started on the vampire/goth club. Y'know, the one with the dead tree in the middle of the building? I had some fun playing with the fog emitter here.


And whatever this place is called, I can't remember at the moment. It has hot tubs on the roof, which made building it a wee bit difficult, seeing as TS2 hot tubs had some magic parallax where the bottom just wasn't there when you went down a floor. I managed to fix it though, with the help of some trickery.


Downtown now has its own road, with a footpath that matches the red brick pattern I've been using everywhere while I should have been using discrete concrete.


Since I had to rip the texture directly from the game, and thanks to the fact that CAW does something weird with the sidewalks by brightening them up, it's not an entirely seamless transition from lot to sidewalk. I'm working on it, though.


The Not So Spanish Stairs got some fauna added, and I swapped the Bridgeport city hall for the Sunset Valley one.


A glimpse at what was lost, I took this picture while I was working on LuLu Lounge before it got destroyed in the crash. I had a lot of fun playing with the fountains though.


Swooping back to Belladonna Cove, I've laid the groundwork for the other two park sections. I keep putting finishing them off, I should really just jump in and do them all in one go. I'm also going to somehow try to pull the Bella statue mesh from TS2 and convert the top of it for TS3. Somehow.


Work started on the library, which, despite EA's claiming it so, will not be a new exclusive venue for Town Life Stuff. It's been available foh-evah.


I finished the alleyways, took me ages though. Now I just have to plonk down some dumpsters, flower gardens and the like and they're good to go.


Crates and old cars, oh my!


The rich snobby sections of the town are looking quite nice.


OH MY GAWD IT'S A CHICKEN HOUSE. Watervista Palace in all its glory, thanks to Generations for the return of those damned spiral staircases.


I leave you with a random picture of a random object I found while I was trolling through the buydebug menu looking for trash to decorate the Capp boys' rooms with (Sadly, I could not find any. ). It's labelled as coming from Ambitions, so I'm guessing it had something to do with the architectural designer profession, but look! It's a miniature Goth house! With its own little graveyard and square willow trees!

OH MAH GAWD SHE'S DISAPPEARED. AGAIN.