Another Homebuilding Question Is it possible to do a split level home? I tried to have some part of the house built on a foundation, and the other part flat on the groun, but for some reason it didn't let me. Any ideas?
Yes! It's hard but you can do it. Drag out the foundation where you want it, and then put the walls around it leaving at least two squares un walled where u will put the stairs. FInd some connecting stairs, but em up then put railing on the stairs. (adds a nice homey touch). Drag a wall out from the end of the stairs. (they wont let u drag from the foundation.) Then begin building on the ground. It takes a while so dont get frustrated, and u need a pretty high architecual thinking mind, cuz u have to plan it out like u would live in it. Especially with the roof. SInce you can't connect walls to foundation, you have to drag the roof out manually over that portion of the house, so it looks realistic in the neighborhood, and doesn't look like a meteor landing at your house. Other than that, have fun and be creative. I built a basement once, and it was cool. But don't get frustrated and DONT use the move objects cheat. U can move stuff anywhere and u can intersect walls with stairs. (trust me I did it) And u wont even kno its an "ilegal" position, until u order ur sim upstairs and they do the little "I don't know" routine. Then ur screwed, espicially if u built the whole upstairs around the stairs. You have to destroy it and rebuild, bottom up which takes forever cuz u can't remeber where stuff went and u'll get so frustrated. But keep tryin, u'll get it.
wow YIKES! Just reading that, afro, makes me SOOOO glad there are people out there designing houses. Now Im convinced to download special houses like that. I am pretty mechanically, artistically inclined, but wow, that sounds like actual WORK, and this is a game for FUN. Hmm fun or work you decide
Actually, designing & building houses is what seems to attract a fair number of males to this game (including myself). Interestingly enough, several of the largest SimCity4 websites out there (filled with many hard-core architectural buffs) now have Sims2 sub-forums almost exclusively devoted to the serious house-builders. And Afropower234, that was a good explanation - I understood it. It agrees with what I've read on that topic elsewhere.
