Proper stairs?
Claeric:
Friezes can be stacked but they are not foundations, they are unsuitable for stairs placement due to their height.
Incorrect.
Placefriezes does essentially make stages, but you can't build walls too close to them. They are also floors. Meaning There will be a gap on the floor above where the floor would go, because it's too high for you to place a ceiling.
But, if you're willing to sacrifice one floor, you can make stairs with a landing. Maybe I should make a tutorial for it. This is not hte kind of landing discussed in this thread, but it's still a very common type of stairway. So I figure it's nice info.
For now, here's a quick one:
-Place foundation
-Turn on frieze cheat
-Place a frieze the length of a stair+1 (5 tiles)
-Place a stair to the floor
-Add walls
-At this point, if you want your main stairway to have the triangle walls, place a square of friezes on the top of the walls, a fully enclosed area. This is because the stairs ON TOP OF THE FRIEZE are technically ON THE SECOND FLOOR. So they aren't "enclosed" unless the second floor is enclosed- meaning you need to place the SECOND FLOOR, the friezes on top of the first floor, NOW to make them count as enclosed. If you DON'T want the triangle walls, you STILL need friezes, for the stairs to be placed.
-Add the main stairs
-If you didn't already, enclose with friezes.
-Continue building the house as usual.
There will be a gap between the first and "second" floors, because of the frieze. You can get creative with decks and roofs to make it less noticable.
When you do this, the stairs are raised up by one frieze height, so you have to compensate with another frieze on top of the wall. Since a frieze counts as a floor of it's own, you're basically lining up stairs on top of the first floor (the frieze) with the floor of the third floor (also a frieze).
runesong:
Wow! Thank you Claeric! I always wondered how that partial wall was created. I think you made it all look very simple and I can't wait to try it... ;D
dragonic:
I was experimenting with stairs yesterday and found out that I can't create angled stairs. I can make angled walls and foundations but not angled stairs.
friendlyquark:
I suspect that has to do with animations. I know it took them forever to make spiral stairs because they had to animate people walking in a circle. They hate making new animations for anything so making diagonal stairs will be out until someone mods this somehow.
dragonic:
Quote from: friendlyquark on 2010 July 29, 15:23:10
I suspect that has to do with animations. I know it took them forever to make spiral stairs because they had to animate people walking in a circle. They hate making new animations for anything so making diagonal stairs will be out until someone mods this somehow.
I suspect making the animations for diagonal stairs is much easier than making spiral stairs. You would only need to rotate the walking animation 45 degrees, right?
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