Sun

30

Aug

2009

compost & recycling bins

These are converted decor items from Fiddledeedee’s extracted Half-Life 2 collection. I separated the mesh (for the lid), jointed the mesh, so that the lid can be opened, added the trash & the shadows and also, added missing faces, otherwise there would have been no “insides”. Also had to edit a bhav, otherwise they wouldn’t have worked properly. All in all, it was quite a bit of work, which I didn’t really think about upon starting them. Once I had though, I really wanted them finished. Seems I like to torture myself lol… No, not really, I just wanted to see if they would work at all.

Half Life Recycling Bins

There are 2 versions. One is for Seasons which you absolutely need for it to work as it is a compost bin and works as such. The other version should work in any game as the base cloned was a regular trashcan. Depending on the kind of stuff to be disposed (i.e. newspapers or leaves in Seasons), click on “recycle” or on “compost” in the menu of the item you’re getting rid of. Both use the animations of the bases they were cloned from. That means the trashcan lid opens up like a flip-lid and the lid of the compost bin is held by the sim.

As for the recolours: here in Germany the yellow one is used for plastic wrappers and bottles, the brown one is for bio-degradable waste and the light blue one is for paper & cardboard. I don’t know what other countries use. The dark blue one is the texture from the Half-Life mesh.

A few more pics – open & closed states.

Compost Bin - thumbnailCompost Bin Open - thumbnailRecycling Bin  - thumbnail

Seasons Compost Bin


Recycling Bin


Both have unique Guids, so you can use both in your game at the same time.

comments

  1. poisonsilvi says:

    So cool these have a function now ! Yeah !

    Thanx so much hon :)

    Btw – did you get my mail with Timerrones doors ?

  2. fairywitch says:

    Hiya! =) Ya know… I forgot all about them until you mentioned them here again. Me = Airhead. LOL. Really though, I haven’t had time to mess with the sims much the past few weeks and it slipped my mind. However!! I just ran over to my yahoo mail and downloaded them. Thankyou very very much, kissies and a cherry on top. I’m so excited to get them!! :D

  3. poisonsilvi says:

    NO problem sweetie – i was just not sure if you got them, so .. So glad you finally can enjoy them in your game. :)

    Hugs !!

  4. bikerbrat says:

    These are cool! Just like my inlaws trash bins.Thanks bunches!!!!!

  5. Sofya says:

    Thank you very much! perfect!

  6. Lisfyre says:

    OMG this is so cool!!! Thank you very much :)

  7. amythestfenix says:

    How did I miss these? Well, I have them now, and they are excellent! Thanks so much :)

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