While I understand that the various wall heights introduces a problem, I'm sure you can find a solution, guys. Come on, we need spiral stairs. At the very least, give us lift-tubes of various heights, so we have one for each wall height.You could just stretch the stairs and add two additional climbing animations, one for each height. The difference would be minimal. Not all stairs in real-life have exactly the same incline either.

I would love a spiral staircase too

Spiral stairs are still missing in Sims 4 and they‘re something I often need in my builds. I always loved using spiral stairs in Sims 1 Sims 2 and Sims 3. Sims could even slide down the railings, my favorite feature!https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IVArl9wmprA/maxresdefault.jpg

"LeGardePourpre;c-18100701" wrote:@ChadSims2I don't think because Maxis grew from Redwood Shores only to Austin, Canada and Europe.A lot of new people joined the studio since 2019.So you assume all these people work on the Sims 4? And how many of these people spreading the globe create animations for the Sims 4 because besides kits the last year we got slow dancing and some farm animal interactions and a lot of reused content. Seriously they should put this global team of Sims 4 employees you speak of to work they could not even animate a dishwasher or a elevator and so much more.

I just want you all to know - regardless of the topic I bring up spiral stairs for you all in every single meeting I'm in. It's part of my Email signature as well.

"EA_Cade;c-18101077" wrote:I just want you all to know - regardless of the topic I bring up spiral stairs for you all in every single meeting I'm in. It's part of my Email signature as well. Hey, thanks! If you don't mind then, I'd like to make a few suggestions for future discussions. - If possible, I'd like them to be stackable, with each "landing" occuring in the same location for each floor. In the example below, the red and green dots in the bottom floor need to end at the same colored dots on the second. For a normal wall, 12 steps will be required to match the animation, for a medium, height wall, 16, and for a full height wall, 20. However, added heights should not push the landing further clockwise. The footprint should remain the same for all heights.https://i.imgur.com/9JIREWF.png- They should be configurable such that someone can adjust their circumference and whether to leave a hole in the middle, rather than a simple pole. For example...- 2x2 with a pole- 3x3 with a one tile space in the middle (pole is then copied in the four cardinal directions)- 4x4 with a two tile space in the middle (pole is then copied in the four cardinal directions)- etc- They should be configurable such that clockwise and counterclockwise can be selected.https://i.imgur.com/oJTBL9Q.png** The problem is step count. While 12 (steps) / 3 (quadrants) = 4, the other heights aren't evenly divisible by 3. So, what's you'll have to do is use 4,5, and 6 (steps per quadrant), and make new animations to suit, for every life stage that can ascend/descend. This is because squeezing another step into a quadrant raises the slope of the entire stairwell.Good luck!

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16 Replies

SailorCeti
3 years ago
Nice, but it needs to be stackable and in a 2x2 area. For my builds anyway. I tried with ladders, but they can't be stacked, and the stairs end up 3x3.
SailorCeti
3 years ago
Is it stackable? I have four floors and two basements to connect within a 2x2 space?
SailorCeti
3 years ago
"BoergeAarg61;c-18085027" wrote:
No, but it can be made higher with an arrow at the top.

Will they get off on the rights floors?
elliandre
3 years ago
I would love a spiral staircase too
Zenionith
3 years ago
Spiral stairs are still missing in Sims 4 and they‘re something I often need in my builds. I always loved using spiral stairs in Sims 1 Sims 2 and Sims 3. Sims could even slide down the railings, my favorite feature!
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/IVArl9wmprA/maxresdefault.jpg
crocobaura
Legend
3 years ago
"LeGardePourpre;c-18100530" wrote:
In theory the custom height isn't a big problem, there are 2 options

The spiral staircase could be 3 fixed sizes with additional straight steps to adjust the height.
Or it could end with 1 tile where we would put a straight staircase in order to link it to the floor.

https://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/15/54/71/55/blog-i11.jpghttps://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/15/54/71/55/15907511.jpg

Wouldn't spiral stairs be same height as regular stairs but arranged in a spiral pattern? Why would we need those additional contraptions you mention?
crocobaura
Legend
3 years ago
"LeGardePourpre;c-18100652" wrote:
"@crocobaura;c-18100629" wrote:
"LeGardePourpre;c-18100530" wrote:
In theory the custom height isn't a big problem, there are 2 options

The spiral staircase could be 3 fixed sizes with additional straight steps to adjust the height.
Or it could end with 1 tile where we would put a straight staircase in order to link it to the floor.

https://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/15/54/71/55/blog-i11.jpghttps://i22.servimg.com/u/f22/15/54/71/55/15907511.jpg

Wouldn't spiral stairs be same height as regular stairs but arranged in a spiral pattern? Why would we need those additional contraptions you mention?

By default there are 3 wall heights but there is also a platform tool which can add more steps and lower the ground.

This is in case it's too difficult to make a dynamic animation that can handle custom heights.

I see no reason why they couldn't behave like regular stairs and shrink or grow a number of steps if there is platform below. It's a uniform animation, in that a sim goes up or down a fixed distance with every step, just like with regular stairs.
ChadSims2
Rising Rookie
3 years ago
I'm sure the reason why we don't have spiral stairs 8 years later is the same reason we don't have many basics their budget is trash and they can't be bothered to hire a decent sized team of animators to animate new features for this game. It's why we get endless kits and reused slightly altered content sold to us as "new"
ChadSims2
Rising Rookie
3 years ago
"LeGardePourpre;c-18100701" wrote:
@ChadSims2

I don't think because Maxis grew from Redwood Shores only to Austin, Canada and Europe.

A lot of new people joined the studio since 2019.

So you assume all these people work on the Sims 4? And how many of these people spreading the globe create animations for the Sims 4 because besides kits the last year we got slow dancing and some farm animal interactions and a lot of reused content. Seriously they should put this global team of Sims 4 employees you speak of to work they could not even animate a dishwasher or a elevator and so much more.
Zenionith
3 years ago
Yeah it‘s so annoying that they can‘t manage to add spiral stairs to Sims 4... we had them in every mainline series Sims game.
I often build houses in Sims 4 and just think.... this is where a spiral stair would perfectly fit in. But we don‘t have them in Sims 4 yet.