Kalphoenix wrote:
KarilynMonroe2 wrote:
Ebonyspirit51 wrote:
I'm not a builder and I'm always amazed at the creativity that everyone has. Is it possible for our Sims to live in an apartment over a restaurant or business without using a mod? If so, has anyone built one for Roaring Heights? Can someone send instructions?
I was only able to do this by setting up the apartment lot (with shops), moving my sims to a different home and then having them purchase the apartment lot set as a "hangout". They can now "live" in the apartments, along with NPC's and the shops downstairs have NPC's working the registers etc. Sometimes they want to go to their main home but generally It works. (example here...http://www.thesims3.com/assetDetail.html?assetId=7715563
I haven't tried, but I imagine you could use the business items from MH to build a store on the "bottom" store run by your sim and the home upstairs or behind the shop.
I was curious about trying this with a late-night styled apartment (possibly using the "public room marker" from buydebug), but I am not that ambitious and it would make editing the room after the fact kind of difficult (you have to turn on and off cheats to edit "public space" in an apartment.
You could probably use the Midnight Hollow stuff to do something like this (I think you can use the special doors to make it accessible to the public), but making anything else would probably not work. In an late-night styled apartment, I am not sure if "public space" means it is accessible to all sims, or just the apartment building dwelling sims...this would be really good to know because you could easily fake stores this way. An arcade, a laundromat, things that don't require special registers or NPCs for sims to use them.
If anyone has experimented with any of this, I would love to hear about it. Otherwise, the quoted suggestion definitely sounds best, although not ideal by any means.
My appologies if this is jumbled, I am having a jumbled week! Great builds, talented creators!
I think i tried all of the ideas mentioned. I did use the room markers. I built and cafe and coffee shop on the bottom floor of one of the late night apartment buidings too. I put in the bistro oven/chef and the coffee bar but no sims ever visited the lot. For some reason the lot I built and shared I get a lot of visitors. It may be because I put in a lot of NPC rooms. The lot has got to be set to a hangout, then people come as well as sims to work the registers. Your sims could own another small lot and just stay in the apartment above the shops. I may make a very simple version to share, so people can see how it is done. The Elysee apartments have a lot of premium items and store items.
