Small Cabin with a View
Krib:
Quote from: witch on 2009 September 18, 20:40:30
Quote from: smellyarmando on 2009 September 18, 17:15:19
I'm trying a new building technique, recommended on MTS, that involves doing the entire outside of the house first, landscaping and color choices, then making the inside fit that.
I have always built the house first, then made the contents fit. I find I get more realistic houses that way.
I do that too, and agree. Although when I'm putting in the floor plan I sometimes change some outer walls slightly.
Brownlustgirl, nice improptu roof tutorial.
caterpillar:
Even using the Alt button, you will get column overhang if you are placing column over a fence post so as to cover the post with the column.
shadow:
RE: backless shower. I have the one from MTS and it works fine. Although it was cloned from the cheap shower it shows the expensive one in the catalog and has the hygiene boost of the expensive one (9) as opposed to the cheap one (7). I haven't had any negative moodlets from it. The things I don't like about it are you can only enter it from the left and it is hard to click on as you have to have the cursor on the faucet or shower head. I use it only when the other shower would be visually in the way. Normally, I use the combo tub/shower. (I normally play a house from only one direction, the front. Don't like having to turn it to see things.)
Thanks for the roof tutorial, I always hated that half roof line on the side.
I like the cabin. I normally change things a bit to suit me and I like smaller houses. It takes sims too long to walk from one end to another in big houses.
I camouflage the column overhang with a bush if it bothers me but normally it doesn't because you can't see it unless you are really close.
Blech:
@ witch: You're right, it does make the house much more realistic this way. I used to do the landscaping last, just because it's my least favorite part, but I read that for people like me (who suck at it massively), it's best to get out of the way first, so I'm trying that. I was going to try to do the floorplan for the house in the picture, but it doesn't really work for the sims, too much unused space, hallways not wide enough, so the final product will only be loosely based on the original floorplan. Plus the original is a 2-story, and I really want to stick to 1, otherwise I won't even play it. If you have any tips on converting real house plans to the Sims, I'd love to hear them, I'm pretty much a newbie at this, and I'm trying to suck up all the information I can. ;D
@ brownlustgirl: Thanks for the quick tutorial! That'll help a lot on the right side of the house. I just dragged the longer roof all the way to the end.
As for the house, all progress has halted because of an unscheduled computer upgrade. Damn thing finally crapped out on me yesterday, but I'm pretty sure I can salvage my save files, after I re-Arr the game, and if not I sketched it out on graph paper, so re-building won't be too hard.
shadow:
I hate landscaping, too, but I love lots of trees. I may try doing it first. :-\
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