MerryWiddow wrote:
XOX1 wrote:
MerryWiddow-
My sister and I built our first house back on the ranch when we were still teenagers, just to get away from the main house. I have built a few houses in real life from the ground up since then. I draw scaled diagrams all of the time.
A double bed mattress is 54in. x 75in.
Add a few more inches on the side to allow for the bedframe, and navigation, it will come out to be very close to six feet wide. Do the same for length, and take into consideration that the game demands the extra square at the foot of the bed for placement due to navigation, and you have very close to nine feet.
The furniture in the game can be out of scale. One only has to look at some of the dressers, and end tables to see that.
You can use a freeware measuring device called "JRuler" to get an accurate, onscreen calculation of scale and size.
My goodness XOX1 you can be a stickler for detail. LOL. I know a double bed it 54" by 75" inches. I sleep on one. What I am trying to do here is keep it simple for the novice builder. I'm hoping they won't need a math degree to do a simple house.
Therefore, for my purposes of the Homework Assignment One, a sim tile is 2' x 2'.
Love your posts. Keep me thinking.
MerryWiddow
I will bite... I will throw my opinion in... Lol.
Think a sim tile = 3' x 3' is more accurate. Sure this will mean sofas are longish in the sims. Sim beds would be more in the nature of king sized than doubles.
But what mainly sways my thinking is the sims themselves. They stand easily in a sim tile with room to spare. Not many people could stand in a 2' x 2' square and have room to spare. Also doorways, the average single wall section doorway in the game takes up about 2/3 of the wall section in total. If a wall section is only 2' long (as would match a 2' x 2' tile) that means all the single tile doors in the game are only about 16" wide if converted to real life. That is a skinny doorway. It would also mean a single tile hallway is only 2' wide. Ever try to walk down a 2 foot passageway? Humans need more in the neighborhood of 3' to feel comfortable, and not knock pictures off the walls. I would rather think sim couches are generally longer than ours, than I would sim doors and hallways are way too skinny. I have been on 8' couches before too. They are nice! Great for naps for tall people. Lol.
And figuring square footage, dividing by 3 instead of 2, etc. really isn't math degree stuff. It is more, "where is the Windows calculator," stuff, or "I'm done with the 6th grade now Mrs. Robinson," kinda of stuff. If it isn't in the school system where you or your kids go to school, it is time to look into moving, private schools, or taking control of education. Calling a sims game tile 3' square or 2' square, isn't making the math any harder or easier.
There. Two cents left once again.... :wink:
