Double story house on Split level ground !
Gwill:
Quote from: akatonbo on 2007 June 29, 20:04:32
I got it from Gwill's sig. ;)
Oh, god. I'd almost managed to supress that image of the freaky blond grinning baby clawing his way out of his mother while the father and doctor stands there smiling.
Signatures are a bit like quit messages; you never notice your own.
Hegelian:
Quote from: Dbnguy on 2007 June 29, 19:26:11
Ahh Ive also just seen you have a double wall, that is obviously is what you use to conceal the slant. Ay, too clever huh :-)
Also could I ask if you could please provide a straight down shot of your 2nd pic? Want to see the layout.
If you mean me, the double wall is actually what happens when you use constrainFloorElevation false and flatten the floor above the basement to cause the foundation to stretch to wall height at the back of your house. They are the inner and outer "walls" of the foundation tiles. I just use wall coverings on the inner surfaces so they look better in the game. And yes, this is where you want the slanted ground tiles to be when you level the basement floor.
Once you have everything leveled and the terrain as you like it, turn constrainFloorElevation back on and take out the foundation tiles where they are exposed and replace them with walls. This lets you install windows and doors (You can see this in the lower left of picture 4). You can only do this a limited number of tiles into the slope of the hill because at a certain point you won't be able to place windows, and if you force them with the move objects cheat, you won't be able to see out anyway (again, see picture 4 for an example).
I am afraid I don't have any more pictures. The neighborhood was the first custom one I made, back in August 2005, and I nuked it a couple weeks ago. I happened to have the pictures I took in the neighborhood stashed in an archive, so I was able to post them.
Here is another house built on similar principles. I chose the other one as an example because the back yard is relatively flat, whereas this lot continues to slope away from the street. This house has been through several versions, so some pics are from a Maxis-only version, and some are from the in-game version.
ElfPuddle:
There's a fantastic tutorial that I learned this from. It was actually for how to add a garage to a house with a foundation, but apply the knowledge, and it's a piece of cake.
Let me see if I can find it.
Here we go. That took forever. I hate searching the Exchange.
'Scuse me while I go shower with Lysol now.
msalwaysright:
Another way to gauge ground level is to place the foundation, wallpaper a section of it, click until you hit the bottom of the wallpaper, then level your basement area from that point.
re: Gwill's sig,
That was so awesomely awful! ;D My phobia of pregnancy is newly affirmed.
Dbnguy:
Guys you have all been incredibly helpfull. Thank you.
Will keep you posted. Will start on it today.
Wish me luck but above all - PATIENCE !!!!!
Lee
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