Help - platform over pool
So I have some sims that are engaged, to be wedded. I decided to build them a pretty venue (well, technically, decorate the garden of a venue I downloaded form the gallery). But anyway, I thought it would be a creative idea if instead of a red carpet or something for the isle, they walk down a platform, over a petal-littered pool in the shape of a cross.
This is how it looks right now:
http://oi64.tinypic.com/2h2h6c9.jpg
Before you say anything I kow the romantic garden thingy-ma-jig doesn't serve as a wedding arch, but I got a modded one that does work the same as an arch. Anyway...Basically, I'm trying to make the platform (the wooden stuff in the middle of the pool) into a slightly smaller cross shape, so the pool almost acts as a border. A few problems though: it won't let me build a platform anywhere but where I've already put it. Plus, I don't want the pool trim around the edges of the platform, bc it's supposed to look like the platform goes OVER the pool, not that there's some pool, some platform, and then some more pool. It would be nice if I could completely get rid of all the trim around the pool too, but I don't think that's a thing.
Also, I saw this thing about building basement rooms in order to create a walkway over the pool (which I don't quite understand), but I did that, except it won't let me draw rooms where the pool is, and I can't delete bits of the pool to make the rooms bc if I try to delete bits of it, it deletes the whole pool. I don't want to build a bridge with stairs and stuff, I just want a platform but I don't understand how to get it (and yes I've seen the thread about bridges over pools but I didn't understand it and didn't want to 'necro' the thread..)
This is how it looks right now:
http://oi64.tinypic.com/2h2h6c9.jpg
Before you say anything I kow the romantic garden thingy-ma-jig doesn't serve as a wedding arch, but I got a modded one that does work the same as an arch. Anyway...Basically, I'm trying to make the platform (the wooden stuff in the middle of the pool) into a slightly smaller cross shape, so the pool almost acts as a border. A few problems though: it won't let me build a platform anywhere but where I've already put it. Plus, I don't want the pool trim around the edges of the platform, bc it's supposed to look like the platform goes OVER the pool, not that there's some pool, some platform, and then some more pool. It would be nice if I could completely get rid of all the trim around the pool too, but I don't think that's a thing.
Also, I saw this thing about building basement rooms in order to create a walkway over the pool (which I don't quite understand), but I did that, except it won't let me draw rooms where the pool is, and I can't delete bits of the pool to make the rooms bc if I try to delete bits of it, it deletes the whole pool. I don't want to build a bridge with stairs and stuff, I just want a platform but I don't understand how to get it (and yes I've seen the thread about bridges over pools but I didn't understand it and didn't want to 'necro' the thread..)
