Fred's Friday: Housing Stuff!

This week, Freds main focus has been getting all those housing icon moving. Here are the finished icons he worked on:

We didn't talk about the hand tool much in the previous post on housing, but the hand tool is a very basic tool accessible from the housing menu that allows you to move around your house and select any furniture piece you want (which in turn brings you into the other tools). The hand tool is also connected to your skin color in-game, and matches that of your character.

Here's the new and improved move tool! We changed the arrows quite a bit, both in shape and color, plus it now moves and has an outline. It works a lot better than the old version, to say the least!

There's also this new and improved version of the carpet tool icon (above), and the stack tool which you've already seen, below:

And here's the style tool, a little bit interesting now that the brush is moving about:

Finally, Kim got a slight redesign to better resemble her portrait as well as an additional animation. In her regular one, she's doing some chemistry stuff, mixing a liquid of some sort. While she's outdoors telling you about the housing science, we thought we'd give her a different animation to better suit the theme (as well as one that doesn't make sounds every few seconds):

We currently haven't decided whether she'll pick her chemistry set back up once she returns inside, or if she'll continue using her newfound tablet instead!