deer scare

[Attention: These need Snowy Escape installed to work like intended!]

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Those who read my rain chain post already know I really fell in love with japanese gardens and their effect on my mind and stress level. So I chose to make this as my very first animated object, including a custom water vfx.

This is a "shishi-odoshi" (jap. 鹿威し / ししおどし) or a "deer scare" in English. It's a type of water fountain used in Japanese gardens with a bamboo tube constantly filling with water and emptying it, making a typical hitting sound when it strucks down. These were originally intended to startle any herbivores, such as deer or boars, which might be grazing on the plants in the garden. Today they are a part of the visual and aural design and are used primarily for their aesthetic value. And in a figurative meditative sense, their sound is also meant to remind us of the transience of time.

If you like to have those too in your ingame gardens, feel free to add them and enjoy soothing and meditative moments!

...But I know that there are times one likes to indulge in tranquility or because of other situations one would want to keep things silent, there is a "turn off" option to make it stop.

Also it will automatically stops when using game speed 3 to spare our dear nerves. As soothing as it is in normal speed it can get quite unnerving when the hitting occures so much faster.

The mod includes 6 different objects in a variety of colours, close to the original Snowy Escape fountain. I also added some slots to the fountain object for an easier placement :)

You'll find everything in the "fountain decoration" category in BB (or you just search for my name).

Also this mod NEEDS Mizoreyukii's Custom VFX Resource to show the water flowing out of that bamboo tube and to make it compatible with custom vfx of other creators.

If you have any problems with them, please let me know.

Greetings <3

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*Credits go to those outstanding modders who helped me out when I got stuck with the vfx implementation: Khlas, Pandasama and Mercuryfoam! Thanks for your help and your patience!

Also many thanks to the incredible thepancake1 who made the script for stopping the animation at game speed 3 to save our sanity :)

**Tools I used:

TS4 VFX Tool by denton47
TS4 Sound Tool by denton47
Sims4Studio by AOM

***This mod uses this sounds from freesound: "deerchaser" by morgantj (https://freesound.org/people/morgantj/sounds/58569/),

licences under CCBY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). The two bamboo strikes were split into two individual soundfiles for randomness.

TOU: Do as you please! Just credit me and don't make money off of it without letting me know!

You can find me here: Tumblr

Functional Deer Scare (Shishi-Odoshi / 鹿威し / ししおどし)