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This seems like a really hard first project to do from scratch... and there IS already an ant farm in Pets... you sure?
It's much easier to start with something similar to something that has already been done in the mod community, because then you have an example and you know where to go for help
To start with, you'll need to learn to mesh; tutorials are here
http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php...reation#Meshing . I'd start with Orangemittens's tutorial.
Then there's the issue of animating your ants, which is where it gets hard. I haven't looked at EA's closely enough to see whether those are actual meshed objects or just a particle effect. Assuming it's the former and they are really animated objects, I would say that cmomoney is the person most likely to have enough expertise to help you with this. If it's the latter, done by programming vertex shaders or something like that, I have no clue... can't think of anybody who's created new particle effects for TS3 (as opposed to displaying existing ones). But maybe the expertise is really out there and somebody here can help
If you really want the ants to be RANDOM, you probably need a script, which gets you into programming... tutorials here:
http://www.modthesims.info/wiki.php...ing#Script_Mods .
Edit: there's another possibility: that it works basically like a TV, with an animated image playing. There are threads about how to mod TV channels and video games, so that's what you'd need to search for if that's the approach you want to take.