Lowering Roofs and Taller Chimneys

@PitlordMaggie Ah, I guess that video explains that second idea I had, and I kind of jumped the gun there. My bad! But yeah, you can get all sorts of cool things with that half wall + extended eaves trick.

I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly, but I'd be happy to help. Roofs will only attach to a full sized wall, so if I am understanding you correctly, the half wall will not meet the roof no matter what you do. Kim Emerald did a video on an easy garage door to make. You can watch it here. Also, you can google Sims 4 noCC garage, and a lot of images will come up that might give you some ideas.

As far as the chimneys, if you are using the models in game, you can make things bigger or smaller by using brackets "" after turning on move objects. If you don't know how to use the cheat codes, again, Google is your friend. Just do a search on "Sims 4 cheat codes" or "Sims 4 move objects code." You should easily find step by step instructions on how to do it. (Honestly, I wouldn't mind just telling you, but I'm not sure off the top of my head if I'd be violating the forums rules.

This might not help you, as it makes the whole thing bigger or smaller, not just in height. I normally just build my chimneys. To do this, just build full sized walls in a square or small rectangle, however large you want it to be on every floor to the roof. On that level, I might use half walls with a trim, depending on how tall I want it, or such. You'll have to play with it a bit to see what you like.

Somehow I managed to lower the roof on a half wall for a garage. This morning I tried the same thing with another lot, but I just can not work out how to do it again? So annoying! If I knew how to put a screenshot on here I would show you the garage. I find the editing function in the building mode so limited and annoying. The Sims 4 game is great, but in my view the building mode is absolute rubbish! And that is a shame, because like the game it could be enjoyable.

I have gone to another lot to try and build another garage. This is a seperate garage not joined to the house, and some distance away. Again built half tall wall block, then clicked on block, top of dialog box, default is medium wall, then select short wall to bring roof level down, then click on each side, select full wall to fill in small gap. That works fine, and I have a garage that is the right height. BUT, when you click on short wall on the garage it alters the wall height of the house, even though the garage is well seperated from the house! What sort of s*** building editor is this? I am going to give up on this stupid build mode! Sorry, getting frustrated by the Coronavirus lockdown not able to see friends or relations, when will it end?

Yes, it can be frustrating trying to do certain things in Sims 4, but I don't know a workaround for it. I'm not quite sure how you want the build, but perhaps if the garage is the most important part, raise the roof of the house to give an illusion of it being taller?

You can use sites like Imgur to upload pictures and find links to share on forums etc.

The height of the walls is the same for all the buildings of the lot. So if your main house uses short walls on first floor, you garage will also use short (or regular, really) walls on first floor. If you add medium or tall walls on the second floor, then the garage will also use tall or medium walls on it's second floor. If you change the walls on the garage to the regular sized walls, then the house will also use the regular sized walls. For the roof, after you place it, you need to stretch it to cover the whole area of the room, you need to use the little pointer arrows. You can alter the height, width, length and curvature of the roof and also the size of the eaves.

I do understand what you are all saying, and thanks for replies. My last attempt failed, but my first attempt worked. Somehow, I fiddled arround and I got the garage roof to fit on the shortened walls, and it did NOT affect the house in any way. So you can achieve two different wall levels in a lot. But I can not remember how I done it, and can't seem to repeat it. Before this, I downloaded a house with a seperate garage and this had different wall levels. So it can be done. But how, is a mystery, that I have lost from my first success. I will try Imgur and see if I can upload a screenshot.

Ok the closest thing I managed to get to a two height house with garage is this. Using foundation and a lil bit magic. Sorry, morning brain here, there is probably other ways too do this, but this is my version :blush:

https://i.imgur.com/4Y1wpmm.png

https://imgur.com/gallery/LEMpYmtHere 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.

https://imgur.com/qdGh9Pk