DeanXeL's Basegame Builds and building tips/building around glitches :)

These look amazing, very impressive. I of course wonder how you do these features.

@Auroraskies Thank you :) Which feature puzzles you? (Just downloading and checking the build out, might already reveal much of its 'secrets' ;) )

edit: forgot to add the tag woops :D

Each of your builds are so very creatively designed and built! :) The architectural designs, angles, shapes and features look so very great! It is great that they are all base game so all sims can enjoy having your creations in their games.

And here I was looking forward to an essay! But yes, of course, that is a good tip, I will look at them in game.

What I most wondered about and did not understand from the screen shots, was how you did the diagonal pillars, that look like as if built for a sport arena; but I'll update when having downloaded the build.

@Auroraskies, I would write you an essay if you needed it, no problem :dizzy:

As for the "diagonal pillars", you will quickly see from the build download that it is basically a staircase with a concrete side and a roof over it, si it is "hollow". That one is actually still a bit tricky to pull off, even if you know what it is made of.

In the build below, I picked the easy way out and placed the roof behind the staircase, stretching the eaves over it to the front. If you place them directly in front (try to), you get an error, because sims are supposed to like... walk there and stuff... apparently....

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I didn't want to do that with the Gubal Library, since I would lose much of the effect of the 'pillars'. I ended up drawing an 'elevator' room on the ground floor (it is basically a normal freestanding room which you raise and lower to reach the specific height you are looking for). I needed it on the ground floor, since this was the only floor where I didn't have rooms on the location where I needed the roof. If you have rooms, it will say you cannot place the roof inside a building, doesn't matter whether it is lower or higher, still counts as that 'floor'.

if you still have trouble conceiving the 'elevator room', it's also what I use for the drawing of the stuff on the front of my builds and I made a really bad tutorial on this, don't judge me :'( https://youtube.com/watch?v=LwHYSgsLqCg&t=5s

I placed my tiny roof on the 'elevator' room , extended the eaves up as far as they would go and placed the roof diagonally under the staircase (where I built the horizontal beams anyway, so they wouldn't show there in any case) so that the eaves connect directly to the upper part of the staircase railing. I matched the color of the staircase base/railing/eaves as close as possible to get a cohesive look for the beam.

On the upper level of the staircase, I had to build the wall around the natural 'opening' the sims leaves for people like...walking ... on...it, like that ever happens :O so i freeplaced a window in the opening and hid the hole created in the floor with the debug concrete tiles.

A tiny bonus: because the roof is placed on a floor UNDER the staircase, you never actually see the stairs of the staircase, since the roof shows up first when you raise floors :D

Aaaand apparently I did actually write you an essay now, woops :D

I do have another build I would like to showcase, it is one of my more recent builds where I included quite a bit of NoCC customized furniture in all rooms (not always with the entirely desired effect... I will keep working on that). Full showcase: https://imgur.com/a/D2cMXCr]https://imgur.com/a/D2cMXCr

Gallery link and a few pictures
https://ea.com/en-au/games/the-sims/the-sims-4/pc/gallery/029ADB4D49E311EB8C691AE2A2C073C3

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Alright! Made a new house with.... basement windows! Figured I would try something new (have been trying to do this for a while though).

Modern house with basement windows

Link to gallery

Link to slideshow

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How it works:

Modern house with basement windows is a lovely modern home! :) Very nice exterior design, great sloped roofing, and the basement with windows is great! It was great to read how you did the windows and will be helpful for other simmers who also want to do it. The pool, loungers and outdoors dining, bbq areas are very nice! Sims will enjoy cooking meals on the bbq and dining outdoors in the air. Very nice furnishing of the interior! The open plan layout and design of the kitchen, living and dining areas are very nice. The red, black, white colours are very nice. Very nice sofa sitting area to enjoy restfully reading books, listening to music and watching tv. The double computers desk windows area is very nice to enjoy using the computers in the sunlight. Very nice bedrooms designs and colours. The patterned wall art on the bed head wall in bedroom 2 is colourfully great!
It is a very nice home! :)

@rosemow thank you for the lovely comments yet again, I wish you a great day and lots of joy and love!

Currently, I find myself working on the concept of 'negative space', something I find extremely difficult in TS4 :O

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