Home Lighting
These have been on my wish list for a long time! Being a medieval/historical player, I've always had a file full of cc candles that I use everywhere in my game; while I definitely have my favorites, I was still looking for the "perfect" ones. After poking around for a while I think I got pretty close to what I was looking for.
This is one of my manor rooms. It's midnight outside (thank the lord for the set hour cheat), and there are only four or five candles lit, yet the room is well lit and cozy. It's a 5x9 room I believe.
Same room and time, but with all the candles lit. It's bright, and probably warm in there at this point.
The best part about these candles in particular, in my opinion, is that they're real candles with a flame. @zoeoe-sims provided me with an amazing override script that allows the sims to recognize that there's light in the room, and removed the "dark" moodlet requiring you to put a real light somewhere in the room.
Additionally, I edited the lighting to have a warm candle color rather than white, and raised the brightness settings considerably.
Per usual, I added in plenty of extra textures for variety, and wound up having some beautiful results. You can apply any pattern you have in the game to the first texture slot, or simply recolor them to your preference.
If you don't want to go around lighting / extinguishing candles everywhere, I made an additional set that acts as a regular light. There won't be a flame, however, unless you have @omedapixel's candle mod (found on the making sims 3 medieval discord) which I highly recommend! I'll also be posting a separate file over there with her script enabled if you're interested.
I think that's about it. I hope you enjoy them as much as I have!
Download here for the flame candles: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5263976/
Download here for the lights disguised as candles: http://www.simfileshare.net/download/5263977/