Lowering Roofs and Taller Chimneys

You can try my method if you like. For my chimneys I use a combination of walls, trim and roof, and top it with a chimney that matches. It gives a tapered in look. edit: Didn't find the picture I was thinking of. This is one without chimney topper :blush: but can be made with chimney too
Like this:
https://i.imgur.com/0TC6A5f.png

I'm not sure about the linking rules, but Kate Emerald has a tutorial on youtube on roofs on half walls. It's a bit more advanced than my build, but she explains very well :smiley:

"Eurostar1127;c-17454183" wrote:
Here is a screenshot. The house on the right is where I built the garage. No idea how to show the image on this page, but the link is below.

Looks like you used foundation under the house, and kept the garage detached so it doesn't rise up with the house. Its doable when the walls doesn't meet.

Um. @Takissis ... you don't need MoveObjects to use the "" grow/shrink function. I'm not sure it's actually considered a cheat.

@Eurostar1127 From what I can see in the picture, what's happening is that the wall heights are the same, but the foundation heights are different. Without cheats, this is only possible if the garage is completely separate from the house and therefore treated as a completely separate building.

If you really want different wall heights (ie, different distance from floor to ceiling, not just "one on a higher foundation than the other") then one thing you can do is this: Build your house as normal. Build a box separate from the house, where the garage would be. (NOTE: no part of the garage or the box may touch the house!) Build your garage on top of the box, so it's actually the second storey of this building. Delete the box. Now lower the garage down to ground level. The downside is that because your garage is considered a "second storey", sims can't actually just walk in from the ground level. But if the garage is just for show rather than gameplay use, maybe that's not an issue.

@Xinqun I didn't know they can't walk from the ground to "second story". Thanks for the heads up!

Oh! Another idea. You can build the garage with tall half-walls, then put a hipped roof over it, one square smaller on all sides. Then extend the eaves of the roof so that it covers the garage. You'd have to remove the ceiling if there is one, so that it doesn't cut through the roof. Then adjust the slope of the roof so that the edge of the eaves touches down on the top of the half-wall.

@PitlordMaggie I'm testing this as we speak. It looks like there is a way to get sims to walk in, after all: you'd have to build a kind of porch attached to the "second storey on the ground" garage with a stair down to the ground. If you've placed it right, the stair will have just one step and sims will be able to climb it to get to the garage level.

Or have the garage with normal walls, but make the house taller by making the house 2 floors, normal and half wall. have a 2 floor box with roof on it next to it. Delete the first floor and lower it and stretch the roof, until it touches the half wall. Like in the video I mentioned. But that's more advanced than just playing with the foundation.

There's many ways to pet a cat :wink:

@Xinqun Thank you! I have a test build I'm trying to see if I can find alternative ways to make the same effect aka re-inventing the wheel. I came here to help, but I find I'm learning lots too!

I 'insightful' all your replies lol