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29th Jun 2016 at 5:08 PM
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I'm not quite sure where to put this. This is a college, but a community lot, main hood community college ... not a Uni college, although these buildings could very easily be put on a Uni campus. They aren't businesses, so I couldn't put them in that thread. They aren't creations in terms of modding and meshes, so I couldn't put them there. If I put these in the wrong place, someone please let me know!
I FINALLY finished this after a week and a half of working on it. There are the two Zarathustra parking lots and four campus lots. I had to think of a county name fast, since most community colleges are named after counties or townships, rather than an entire region, so since my subhood was Owl Beach, the county became Ninox County. (Ninox is a genus of owl.) And this is Ninox County Community College.
I don't think anyone wants picture after picture of the campus lots, and really, most of these buildings are pretty boxy. But then again, most community colleges DO have boxy buildings. While community colleges are generally not plug-ugly, most buildings emphasize form as equally, if not more, over function. So I thought a few pictures might be enough. I wanted to catch the feeling of a sprawling U.S. suburban community college. My kids and my husband both went to community college, and I almost was going to the same college as my husband until the very last minute, when I got a sweet four-year scholarship I couldn't resist to a traditional college. So this is a kind of affectionate nod to an alternative form of post-grad education. I should add that the main building and certain other buildings were inspired by an actual community college and a couple of house plans.
The street view is looking from the campus with the gym on down.
A somewhat closer view of the second campus. To the left is the library. The right is a small auditorium, which is set up for a fashion show. The obscured rear building has a science lab, a hot dog stand, the Fashion and Merchandising room, the admin offices (one which has the Mog job board), and CrispsandKerosene's slushie stand. Even community college students like to grab a quick lunch!
The close-up is of one of my teen's mothers, Janeva, in the small auditorium, modeling one of the fashions made by students in the Fashion Design and Merchandising program for orientation. Unfortunately, the Orientation Committee forgot to get rid of the waypoint markers. This is probably a good thing for Janeva, who has never modeled in her life, but not such a good thing for the photographer of the event, who is somewhat annoyed at the Orientation Committee's oversight. (I did switch out those chairs to more auditorium-like seats. I had packaged the lot with minimal CC and forgot to change those chairs to a favorite CC chair. Oops.)
I got the sprawling part right, anyway!
But all the campus buildings are fully functional. And there are plenty of things for Sims to do on each campus. I made sure of that. There are plenty of opportunities to improve all sorts of skills and interests ... much like a real community college campus.
I'm using the campus with the College Mega Pack that allows YAs to attend Uni from their houses. So this is also a homage to the commuter student as well. Not all students can afford dorms. All my family members were either commuter students or are commuter students, and that includes me.
EDIT... Alas. The Squinge/Chaavik mods mustn't have played nicely with one of my other mods, and lead to pretty much a massive across-the-board hood meltdown. (All my current hoods were affected.) I had to go back before I made these colleges to get my Uni dorms to run properly, and alas, no more community college. But these college buildings were tucked away in
backup folders before the meltdown, and with a little tweaking, they will make fine Uni or even main-hood buildings. I'll just have to form my own community college criteria.
Thanks to ALL free-site creators, admins and mods.
RIP Sunni ... truly a ray of light.