Anyone know how dormer windows work?
I have watched a few tutorials but they all involve a full gable and a giant 2 story roof to make dormer windows. My question is if there is any way to get the window to work with the top floor of my ...
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Clarify what you mean by “work”? You mean, attics?
The thing with attics is that below a certain height it’s inaccessible to sims. I do believe it’s slightly lower than wall height tho, you’ll have to check on that. These don’t actually need walls to work. You can actually walk right into a roof if there’s a door, or a staircase for that matter. Only problem is that it’ll have outdoor lighting, which I’ll mention later why.
Or, delete the ceiling of the floor below. No idea the term, but basically making it an extra tall room with ^ shape ceiling. Yes, the windows will show properly of everything inside. You can also remove partial ceilings by creating a room above and removing the floor of that instead. There’s a number of neat tricks you can play with these, such as using fences to create beams.
A few things to keep in mind is that roofs are hollow in TS4. In other words, everything but the wall sides of a roof are not solid, including the bottom. So if you peak through a window placed on a roof that has another intersecting it... or peak up from below, you’ll see that it can bug out and look real weird. Outdoor lighting is also due to this, as mentioned the roof isn’t solid and thus considered outdoors with missing walls. Easy ways to fix this is to split the roof up into two pieces, utilizing the wall side of the roof that’s solid to divide and hide the parts that bug out. As for the bottom of roof, add a room there, and get rid of the walls, it’ll add a floor and thus a solid bottom. Bonus is that now you can add floor trims to top floors.
The thing with attics is that below a certain height it’s inaccessible to sims. I do believe it’s slightly lower than wall height tho, you’ll have to check on that. These don’t actually need walls to work. You can actually walk right into a roof if there’s a door, or a staircase for that matter. Only problem is that it’ll have outdoor lighting, which I’ll mention later why.
Or, delete the ceiling of the floor below. No idea the term, but basically making it an extra tall room with ^ shape ceiling. Yes, the windows will show properly of everything inside. You can also remove partial ceilings by creating a room above and removing the floor of that instead. There’s a number of neat tricks you can play with these, such as using fences to create beams.
A few things to keep in mind is that roofs are hollow in TS4. In other words, everything but the wall sides of a roof are not solid, including the bottom. So if you peak through a window placed on a roof that has another intersecting it... or peak up from below, you’ll see that it can bug out and look real weird. Outdoor lighting is also due to this, as mentioned the roof isn’t solid and thus considered outdoors with missing walls. Easy ways to fix this is to split the roof up into two pieces, utilizing the wall side of the roof that’s solid to divide and hide the parts that bug out. As for the bottom of roof, add a room there, and get rid of the walls, it’ll add a floor and thus a solid bottom. Bonus is that now you can add floor trims to top floors.
