Three-story house with major complications.
SJActress:
I wouldn't have any idea how to BEGIN to search for something this complicated, so let me just tell you what I want to do.
I'm trying to build a three-story house.
In the FRONT of the house, the first story is at ground level.
In the BACK of the house, the THIRD story is at ground level (basically, the house is built into a mountain).
To add to the complication, the Sims must be able to walk out onto the yard (I can compromise a patio) on the third level in the back.
I've tried this tutorial, resigning myself to making the third story the same height as the sidewalk and just digging a pit for the first two stories, but even this doesn't work, because I can't stack two walls in order to reach a two-story foundation (one story, I can). Also, I need a two-story foundation in back because it is the only thing that would allow Sims to walk out the third story (because it hides the huge slope inside).
If the Sims didn't actually have to walk outside in the back, I could use this tutorial, but for obvious reasons, I'm fairly certain it won't work.
I feel like I'm back in C Programming class or something...I know there's an answer to this, but I can't wrap my head around it.
Do you understand what I want? Do you have any ideas/suggestions/links for this? ???
notveryawesome:
Have you tried just building the house and then building up the terrain around the back of it? I don't know if this would actually work, as I've never tried it, but it seems like it should.
witch:
I spent some time on a similar idea some years ago. I wanted a monastery built/backing into a mountain, with tunnels under the ground. I never managed to get different height foundations and their walls to join up, even with the exact 12 clicks for a wall and 4 clicks for a foundation bizo.
You might try MikeInside's building tutorials on MTS2, they host his site, although he no longer plays. If anyone could suss your issue, he probably could.
SJActress:
Quote from: notveryawesome on 2008 June 06, 04:48:47
Have you tried just building the house and then building up the terrain around the back of it? I don't know if this would actually work, as I've never tried it, but it seems like it should.
No, that won't work, because you can't modify the terrain right next to a wall, meaning there's nothing to hide the HUGE slope, meaning I can't get them to walk outside on the third story in the back because there's a floor tile stretched all the way to the first floor and they can't cross it.
Quote from: witch on 2008 June 06, 04:50:11
even with the exact 12 clicks for a wall and 4 clicks for a foundation bizo.
You might try MikeInside's building tutorials on MTS2, they host his site, although he no longer plays. If anyone could suss your issue, he probably could.
Yes, the # of clicks issue sucks, but I don't think that's the problem (I can get ONE wall to match the foundation, but I need to build another foundation on top of the FIRST foundation, somehow, to get the second story all the way underground--or, figure out how to stack TWO walls to a two-story foundation).
The links for tutorials I provided are from MikeInside...I love his tutorials, but even THEY don't seem to do the trick for this (look at the pictures in the links and I think you'll understand why).
Thank you for the suggestions so far... :)
witch:
Sorry, didn't look at your link, just went back in memory to the several weeks I spent trying, on and off, to get the damn thing working.
There's one house in the original Pleasant hood that does something like this, I'll have a look when I boot up the game in the next hour or so. Never did figure out how they did it.
Huh. Photobucket still had a pic of it. I was trying to get MikeInside's help at the time. The picture is hard to see, but in the game it's called 125 Lakeside (Drive?).
The foundation on the right is higher than the one on the left, from memory.
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