GJ! I'm adding this to our Favorites as well as Part 2. We've also put it in our new "Create a World Tutorial" Playlist. Thanks for sharing this with other SImmers. :) - SimGuruPoptart
You are right. If you move too far away it won't work. If you go into camera settings then lod and turn it all the way up, you can use it further away.
@charlotterose23 First off, I place roads in this, so you should have seen how small it was. Secondly, 3 hours is nothing compared to how long large worlds take. Finally, why not export your height map and resize it? It'll save a lot of time.
@vici30 Try zooming in and make sure the camera is over the land. If that doesn't work go to the 'View' menu and select 'Camera Settings' and turn 'LOD Transition Distance' all the way up.
That won't stop you downloading. I have all of mine on Steam. It does stop you running the program and you have to do some little work around to get it run the program.
Yeh I already knew that, my mountain was pretty horendous in this, but -usually- on larger maps its best to start with a hill, I think it was just because this map was so small, and hence the mountain was small making it harder to get a good one. In this case, if you are making a tiny world, it would be best to use the mountain tool.
This happens for two reasons: 1. Your view is outside the bounds of the map, if you are outside the bounds of the map, no tools work for some reason 2. You are too far away from what you are trying to edit. You can increase the distance by turning up the LOD in the view menu I believe.
Wtf, how come all of a sudden people can't hear the video? I don't understand. It's been around for over 2 years, and now for some reason people are complaining they can't hear it. It works just fine for me :S
Perfectly fine for me. It's odd, you and another person had this issue within a day of each other. This has never been mentioned before. The audio is perfectly fine for me. Honestly thinking it must be some sort of RUclips bug.
Couple things: 1. The mountain tool made a better "base" mountain, it's a good tool to start with, and then add your grooves or bumps as you like. 2. Terrain Painting: Keep in mind that terrain paint stacks, so if you have opacity of 10, and run over the same area, it will in fact double to opacity of 20, so best to do it all in one smooth stroking instead of multiple applications. 3. To answer XxRock: You do all of that in the 'Edit in Game' feature of the editor. Not in CAW itself.
Thank you for this! I was debating on whether or not I wanted to download the create a world tool because I wasn't sure just how involved the process was. I needed to know if it was something I was capable of doing or not. You've helped me out SOOOO much more than I can explain! Thank you LOTS AND LOTS!
Lol, this video is less than 10 minutes. This is a super brief tutorial that quickly brushes over the basics of CAW. If you think this is long, then you my friend have very little patients and will never be able to use this program. This tutorial is as short as it can be whilst still providing the necessary info to getting anyone started. Without patients you will not be able to create a world at all, they take a lot of time, a lot of work and require a lot of attention to detail. Good luck!
@240AG I know what you mean. I had to zoom in almost all the way to the ground on my world for the brush to work. Sometimes being a certain height off of the ground worked (which made it much easier for me because I didn't have to zoom in all of the way) but it was very fickle and didn't always work.
I hate the huge pain in the ass of the Create a World software... but since it's the only way to make a custom town without all of Maxis boring generic characters that they make it so difficult to delete, this video is a complete godsend. Thank you very much!!
@tiffhallisfab: At the left side of the window, there should be a list of "World Layers" consisting of just one world layer, called World Layer, or Sunset Valley, or Riverview (depending on which world you are creating / editing). Right click it and you get several options, including Add a Layer.
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this. I was despairing at the lack of comprehensible info I had found. This is perfect! Thank you so much :)
tyvm this tutorial is rly good it helped me alot :D! the only thing is when I tried to do the thing where you select where sims cant go and where the camera cant go it didn't work:/ I tried so many things and even tried changing a ton of stuff but it wasn't working, does anything know what could be wrong? :D?
I was gonna follow along with your video,which was great!,but when I tried to do the terrain tools I would click to change the edge just as you did,and it gave me a blue box,error,each time I clicked.Even with mountains,every terrain tool,like a blue bleed.I just know it's some kind of problem, I need help please.
@TheMadDuckie You select the "move world object" tool in the upper left corner, click the road you want to delete and press your delete button on your keyboard.
ok how do you put buildings such as the hospital, bookstore, or a place to eat. and how do you make a beach like when your sims go somewhere u can pick where they go but how do you make a beach one of the places. and to make a library, art gallery, or community pool do you have to create it on your own.
@TheSims2MovieGirl1 Told me the same thing, You have to make sure you have downloaded all the updates or patches for the Sims 3 before you are able to use CAW.
Good tutorial! I've been using you're mods for years and I only discovered you're a fellow Aussie 2 days ago ;) Will this make availible original rabbit holes, comminity and house lots, sims and town decor, etc.... that aren't in the catorizer bin, like city hall and Mortimar family that belong to all towns for when I'm playing, then edit town catorizer bin? I don't wan't to switch back and forth if I forgot a few things. Anyway if not, does someone know where to get those items from?
Will using features not available in the base game, such as fountains, work in gameplay if you don't have any expansions? I'm creating my first world now, and I'm hoping that using create a world means I have free access to all of these features.
@rockstar2die4 I agree.So I thought I would start over and create a world 9 parts flat and 1 part mountain waterfall.But when I tried to do the terrain tool,it f***s up bad.When I click to smooth out terrain it gives me blue sections. Need help, and Sims site is useless when trying to get any help.
@JadeTnh I've had the same problem Beta crashed on mine too just uninstall it and download it again and it will be fine, just make sure you have the updates for it.
It keeps saying that the link in the description is a mistake and leads me to nowhere... I really want to create a world but I can't find where to download it!
I can't use those controlls for rotating around my moutain. If I get into the program from the "front" I have to stay at the front. Those arrows doesn't work at all and right click + drag just goes sideways.
After a 2 day search, I found a link to 'sims 3 forum' and I scrolled down to find the Create a World version that's right for my game, then provided the forum link in my 'test video 001' discription as youtube won't let me post links here.
Thanks a lot for uploading these videos, it really did help a lot. However, for some reason I do not seem to be able to actually use the world I have created in the game. Do I do anything wrong perhaps? Looks to me as though the .world file should just be saved in the game folder "InstalledWorlds", but none the less that aint working out for me.
@TheMadDuckie Hm, that's odd. I just tried to see if I could find other ways to delete the roads, but was unable to do so. Only thing I can think of is that you do not select the road properly, but otherwise I suppose it's bugged somehow. Sorry I cannot be of more help.
I have a problem that I'm unable to achieve rotating my camera view around my island (in the way that you use Cntrl+arrow keys when playing the actual game). Very frustrating, cant work it out and cant see enough to edit my island properly! Thanks
nvm I got it. for ppl who dont know click on the road like your gonna move it and press your delete button. ty for the vid Flabaliki it really help a LOT!!!
Is this program normally very glitchy? I'm just now trying to blend the edges of my map in with the water and twice now my terrain tool just stopped working. Had to save and close and open it up again. Very annoying.
@silentcircusfans oh I had that also, you just go to the normal loading board screen thing of your current game, so SIms 3 World Adventures or something, and it will say that you need to patch it. SO you do, and it's done!
@rockstar2die4 it's something to do with being over the land or not i think :P you can zoom in really close and it works, or make sure the camera is somewhere above land and it'll work then from any distance :) i get the same problem a lot D:
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GJ! I'm adding this to our Favorites as well as Part 2. We've also put it in our new "Create a World Tutorial" Playlist. Thanks for sharing this with other SImmers. :) - SimGuruPoptart
Omg hahaha❤️
We Need Create a World in the sims 4 please🙏🙏
This is old
Sorry, missed this, thanks guys, appreciate it!
14 YEARS OLD COMMENT 😂?@@JamesTurnerYT
Read the description before asking silly questions.
The Sim Supply -EIGHT YEARS AGO-
What is a flabliki??? Sorry, new subscriber here.
Am asking silly questions💭❓ *:･ﾟ✧(=✪ ᆺ ✪=)*:･ﾟ✧
Fuck off
Typical
You are right. If you move too far away it won't work. If you go into camera settings then lod and turn it all the way up, you can use it further away.
Omg your voice were soooooo different from what it sounds like now! Your voice now is much darker now :)
Elisabeth Olausson deeper you mean
At this point he was 15...... just, wow
He is now an old man XD
HIS VOICE IS "DARKER" Lol
@@kirinspirit1862 haha, *what about now*
@rbothg What are you talking about? Why do you need to do that? You can't change the resolution in this, all you do is resize the window.
@TaurusMVz I used Camtasia for this video. I use Fraps for any ingame footage, though.
@FAB12UCB All the height maps come with the program.
@Freakenomics This program is PC only, .exe files don't work on Mac, only PCs.
@omegarev Update it. Go to the link in the description and redownloaded it.
@charlotterose23 First off, I place roads in this, so you should have seen how small it was. Secondly, 3 hours is nothing compared to how long large worlds take. Finally, why not export your height map and resize it? It'll save a lot of time.
Volume is perfectly fine for me. And presumably for the other people who have watched, as no one else has mentioned this before.
@Warriorcatluver1 The only way to do it with a Mac is by installed Boot Camp with Windows.
@wolveyboy09 If you downloaded the latest patch, CaW no longer works, we have to wait for EA to release a patch for CaW.
@vici30 Try zooming in and make sure the camera is over the land. If that doesn't work go to the 'View' menu and select 'Camera Settings' and turn 'LOD Transition Distance' all the way up.
That won't stop you downloading. I have all of mine on Steam. It does stop you running the program and you have to do some little work around to get it run the program.
@rbothg No, I say "If you are using a small screen resolution, it makes it hard to see, so if you are, remove the side menus."
@RachJaneRandom Use the scroll wheel to zoom, and hold down the wheel and move the mouse to rotate.
@HorsesNeverForgotten That means you need to update The Sims 3. Open the launcher and install the latest patch.
Yeh I already knew that, my mountain was pretty horendous in this, but -usually- on larger maps its best to start with a hill, I think it was just because this map was so small, and hence the mountain was small making it harder to get a good one. In this case, if you are making a tiny world, it would be best to use the mountain tool.
Also just click the link in the description, takes you right to the page.
@LucysPACMAN It says, withing the first few seconds....
The link is in the description
@Llanbedr24 Use your scroll wheel.
Go to the website, make an account, register your game. It's quite simple really.
@rockstar2die4 Try zooming in, that should, atleast, help.
Yes
@shaibear Link works fine for me, just tested it.
@kuldall You can't name roads. You can name lots without houses on them. That's how it's done in the other neighborhoods :)
@ThePokemonfan1000 I think z and x may work, try that.
This happens for two reasons:
1. Your view is outside the bounds of the map, if you are outside the bounds of the map, no tools work for some reason
2. You are too far away from what you are trying to edit. You can increase the distance by turning up the LOD in the view menu I believe.
@ivory4ever100 Read the description.
@TeddyCarterProds I already answered this exact question when you asked it before on the other video.
Why does no one read the description...
@SimmieJohnson That'd be great! Only problem being it's already going out with me :S
Click the link in the description.
Wtf, how come all of a sudden people can't hear the video? I don't understand. It's been around for over 2 years, and now for some reason people are complaining they can't hear it. It works just fine for me :S
Perfectly fine for me. It's odd, you and another person had this issue within a day of each other. This has never been mentioned before. The audio is perfectly fine for me. Honestly thinking it must be some sort of RUclips bug.
You can get the program from The Sims 3 website check out the link in the description :)
@PurpleMysticDew Australian :) We have the same pronunciation as Brits, just different accents :P
@brickman409 Lol, no, it's the moon :P
Couple things:
1. The mountain tool made a better "base" mountain, it's a good tool to start with, and then add your grooves or bumps as you like.
2. Terrain Painting: Keep in mind that terrain paint stacks, so if you have opacity of 10, and run over the same area, it will in fact double to opacity of 20, so best to do it all in one smooth stroking instead of multiple applications.
3. To answer XxRock: You do all of that in the 'Edit in Game' feature of the editor. Not in CAW itself.
Thank you for this! I was debating on whether or not I wanted to download the create a world tool because I wasn't sure just how involved the process was. I needed to know if it was something I was capable of doing or not. You've helped me out SOOOO much more than I can explain! Thank you LOTS AND LOTS!
Link works fine. You have to be logged into TheSims3.com to use it though.
Lol, this video is less than 10 minutes. This is a super brief tutorial that quickly brushes over the basics of CAW. If you think this is long, then you my friend have very little patients and will never be able to use this program. This tutorial is as short as it can be whilst still providing the necessary info to getting anyone started. Without patients you will not be able to create a world at all, they take a lot of time, a lot of work and require a lot of attention to detail. Good luck!
@Beanmaster5000 I don't :P
I have to admit I feel a little stupid for having so much difficulty with Create-a-World. :(
AngelStardom don’t I have trouble too
Did you watch both parts of the tutorial.
You are such a sweetheart! Saved my mind here. Could not figure out how to place the objects. Have a video for effects?
@DontaySmith1o1 It's Australian.
@240AG I know what you mean. I had to zoom in almost all the way to the ground on my world for the brush to work. Sometimes being a certain height off of the ground worked (which made it much easier for me because I didn't have to zoom in all of the way) but it was very fickle and didn't always work.
I hate the huge pain in the ass of the Create a World software... but since it's the only way to make a custom town without all of Maxis boring generic characters that they make it so difficult to delete, this video is a complete godsend. Thank you very much!!
@tiffhallisfab: At the left side of the window, there should be a list of "World Layers" consisting of just one world layer, called World Layer, or Sunset Valley, or Riverview (depending on which world you are creating / editing). Right click it and you get several options, including Add a Layer.
It's the song i list at the very beginning :)
Is there already a snow texture or do you need to download that? Anyway thank you so much!
Thank you very much for taking the time to do this. I was despairing at the lack of comprehensible info I had found. This is perfect! Thank you so much :)
@Vluppey no, right now Create a World is in beta, and only available for windows -- xp and up, I think.
Stop whistling while u talk your sending chills down my spine
@King000371 You need every expansion pack because every time TS3 updates it adds all the new ep objects and buildings into caw.
@elkor101 Thanks for that update!
Just want to say the tutorial is awesome. Xfx NVidia GTx 9800 video card was on sale at tiger direct. Runs -perfectly- with it.
@XxRockhopperxX You add buildings in the "Edit in Game" feature of the "create a world" tool.
tyvm this tutorial is rly good it helped me alot :D! the only thing is when I tried to do the thing where you select where sims cant go and where the camera cant go it didn't work:/ I tried so many things and even tried changing a ton of stuff but it wasn't working, does anything know what could be wrong? :D?
A good mountain mix results from mixing pine mulch, rock shale and charred dirt. Looks pretty beleivable.
I was gonna follow along with your video,which was great!,but when I tried to do the terrain tools I would click to change the edge just as you did,and it gave me a blue box,error,each time I clicked.Even with mountains,every terrain tool,like a blue bleed.I just know it's some kind of problem, I need help please.
@TheMadDuckie You select the "move world object" tool in the upper left corner, click the road you want to delete and press your delete button on your keyboard.
@RachJaneRandom All you do is scroll.
where will the program show up after you download it
ok how do you put buildings such as the hospital, bookstore, or a place to eat. and how do you make a beach like when your sims go somewhere u can pick where they go but how do you make a beach one of the places. and to make a library, art gallery, or community pool do you have to create it on your own.
What's the remix in the intro called? It's awesome!
@TheSims2MovieGirl1 Told me the same thing, You have to make sure you have downloaded all the updates or patches for the Sims 3 before you are able to use CAW.
His voice has changed
@rosearemylife You can also use the + and - buttons.
That's what I use because I have a laptop too.
How can you scroll so fast over the landscape? Whenever I have to go from left above to bottom right, it praticually take me forever to go there.
@simswithcheese have you updated your game to patch 1.29? Cause if yes you need to download the new version of caw from the official site.
Good tutorial! I've been using you're mods for years and I only discovered you're a fellow Aussie 2 days ago ;)
Will this make availible original rabbit holes, comminity and house lots, sims and town decor, etc.... that aren't in the catorizer bin, like city hall and Mortimar family that belong to all towns for when I'm playing, then edit town catorizer bin?
I don't wan't to switch back and forth if I forgot a few things. Anyway if not, does someone know where to get those items from?
Will using features not available in the base game, such as fountains, work in gameplay if you don't have any expansions? I'm creating my first world now, and I'm hoping that using create a world means I have free access to all of these features.
@rockstar2die4 I agree.So I thought I would start over and create a world 9 parts flat and 1 part mountain waterfall.But when I tried to do the terrain tool,it f***s up bad.When I click to smooth out terrain it gives me blue sections. Need help, and Sims site is useless when trying to get any help.
oh wait!!! slow down! are the terrain paints already in the sims world creator?
@JadeTnh I've had the same problem Beta crashed on mine too just uninstall it and download it again and it will be fine, just make sure you have the updates for it.
It keeps saying that the link in the description is a mistake and leads me to nowhere... I really want to create a world but I can't find where to download it!
@MaybeJamie Hold down your middle mouse wheel and then move mouse right or left and it will allow you to spin the camera.
i love the song at the begining, what's it called?? BTW, awsome vids. I learnt a lot. x
How do you use the create a world tool. What do you do, need, and where do you go to use it?
No, it's United State of Pop 2009 by DJ Earworm
I can't use those controlls for rotating around my moutain. If I get into the program from the "front" I have to stay at the front. Those arrows doesn't work at all and right click + drag just goes sideways.
After a 2 day search, I found a link to 'sims 3 forum' and I scrolled down to find the Create a World version that's right for my game, then provided the forum link in my 'test video 001' discription as youtube won't let me post links here.
How do you name the roads ,because I can't in create a world like sunset valley, twin brook, and riverveiw!
Thanks a lot for uploading these videos, it really did help a lot. However, for some reason I do not seem to be able to actually use the world I have created in the game. Do I do anything wrong perhaps?
Looks to me as though the .world file should just be saved in the game folder "InstalledWorlds", but none the less that aint working out for me.
@TheMadDuckie Hm, that's odd. I just tried to see if I could find other ways to delete the roads, but was unable to do so. Only thing I can think of is that you do not select the road properly, but otherwise I suppose it's bugged somehow.
Sorry I cannot be of more help.
I have a problem that I'm unable to achieve rotating my camera view around my island (in the way that you use Cntrl+arrow keys when playing the actual game). Very frustrating, cant work it out and cant see enough to edit my island properly! Thanks
Can you only build where the gitterthing is? :b Because when i try to do the routing i can only do it in the gitter...
nvm I got it.
for ppl who dont know click on the road like your gonna move it and press your delete button.
ty for the vid Flabaliki it really help a LOT!!!
Is this program normally very glitchy? I'm just now trying to blend the edges of my map in with the water and twice now my terrain tool just stopped working. Had to save and close and open it up again. Very annoying.
Is there a way to just edit the roads, for example i just want to remove a road/path in my riverview town
can you connect the worlds together, like sunset valley to a new world? :3
@silentcircusfans oh I had that also, you just go to the normal loading board screen thing of your current game, so SIms 3 World Adventures or something, and it will say that you need to patch it. SO you do, and it's done!
@rockstar2die4 it's something to do with being over the land or not i think :P you can zoom in really close and it works, or make sure the camera is somewhere above land and it'll work then from any distance :) i get the same problem a lot D:
@emtntny1 When you're finished with this part, creating a world, i think that u do have to put all town things in it. That's creating a town, i think.
Do they have to be islands? And can you change the size so it can be bigger?