Eerste details over Sims 3 – Create a World – buurt editor

Gisteravond werd op het SIMposium bekend dat EA in December 2009 met een tool komt om zelf buurten te gaan maken. De bezoekers van het SIMposium, waaronder onze eigen Patricia, hebben de tool al kunnen bekijken al is de tool nu nog in de Beta fase.

Gamespot heeft nu een exclusieve preview over de Create a World – buurt editor online gezet: de tool zal in December 2009 GRATIS te krijgen zijn en zal ongeveer 130 MB groot zijn.

Like with the build mode of The Sims 3, users can manipulate terrain by raising it to create mountains or lowering it to create valleys, then “paint” the terrain using either the textures and terrain types available in the editing tools, or, if they’re ambitious enough, by using image-editing tools such as Photoshop to create their own JPEG and PNG textures to map onto their custom neighborhoods. Once built, these areas can be exported from the tool, then either imported into your own game install (you can have as many custom neighborhoods in your game as your computer’s hard drive space allows), or uploaded to the Exchange community site to share with other users. It’s not yet clear what the average filesize of a custom neighborhood will be, but EA community representatives assured GameSpot regardless of how big they are, custom neighborhoods will be subject to the same sort of community-plus-EA-oversight content moderation process used for other custom content.

Bron: Simprograms