Zoo U Course 7: Bits and Bites Building Basics (self-paced tutorial)

23. Save your game because we are about to use CFE.

24. Open the cheat window and type “constrainFloorElevation off” (without quotes).

25. Flatten the first two rows of driveway tile nearest the road to the same level as the road.



26. Go to the terrain tools and CAREFULLY use the tool to smooth out the ground to give a nice, gentle slope for your driveway as shown. You will want to use the smallest brush size and the softest brush available and you will want to aim for the very edges of the driveway on both sides (the spot where the ground meets the driveway tiles).

Once you get the edges nice and smooth with the slope you want for the driveway, you can worry about smoothing the middle. The only thing the CFE cheat is doing for us here is allowing us to work on floor tile as if it were bare ground.





27. Before turning off the cheat, carefully observe your house and make sure that you have no weird dropped areas in your floors and no oddly distorted walls (this can happen if you get a little too close to the walls of your house as you are smoothing the terrain).

28. If you DO have any spots like that, go to the lowest floor and use the terrain tool to level the ground and flatten your floors, one at a time from the lowest to the highest.

29. Turn off the cheat (constrainFloorElevation on).

30. With the cheat off, smooth the ground near the driveway. The point of turning off the cheat first is that if the driveway suits you, then you won’t be able to mess it up when using the terrain smoothing tool on the ground near it.



31. I really didn’t like how squared off everything looked in my driveway, so I used Control F, which lets me have triangular floor tiles, and I made these little areas of the driveway angled.





32. YAY! We now have a nifty basement garage to play with!