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PipMenace's avatar
5 years ago
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Building with Platforms (multiple rooms)

I've been experimenting with the platform builds, and overall they're a lot of fun! But I have one issue - and I'm curious if this is just a limitation of the game or if anyone's found a way to do this I haven't:

How do you build a wall on any level other than the top one and have both sides of the wall and the door between them still be the same level?

It looks to me like if you divide a lower level into rooms, even if your wall doesn't touch the raised platform, its bottom will automatically have the platform edge. And because the bottom of your "wall" is actually "platform" you can't put a door there. So you'd have to go upstairs to the door and then back down into the room?

  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    5 years ago

    @Trismagistos

    They're not separate buildings. Just a single building with platforms. @PipMenace is trying to build a room inside a sunken platform, which doesn't work. It always ends up raised up. Just trying to provide alternatives.

    I was thinking something like this:

    This way you get the impression the main area is "sunken" without it actually being. And the room off to the side is at the same level.

    This gives me an idea... gonna make a new post... wrapping stairs....

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  • @PipMenace

    Well, in your image, it's impossible for the door to be on the "ground" of the larger room because if it was, it would be blocked by the raised part of the smaller room.

    Although I think I see what you're saying. The larger room is sunken, and the smaller room is the normal height?

    You can color the side of the platform using platform trims, but it won't look the same. There aren't as many options.

    You can put wallpaper on half-walls and you can put half-walls on raised platforms but not sunken platforms.

    That does sound like something that needs to be changed. Add the ability to put all the new half-walls on the sides of sunken platforms same as raised platforms. Or at least be able to use normal wallpapers and such on the sides of sunken platforms.

    (Thinking...)

    I suppose the only way around it would be to create platforms all around the house, like on the porch, and the interior flat on the ground. That way it would "appear" to be sunken. But not. Then, when you create the smaller room, you'd use a "raised" platform and you could use normal walls around the outside of the room and wallpaper it normally.

    You'd still have to use a set of stairs to get into the small room though...

  • PipMenace's avatar
    PipMenace
    Hero
    5 years ago

    My problem was that I didn’t actually want the room in the image raised - I wanted them both the same height. But because there’s another space off to the right that’s raised, I seem to have the platform edging all the way around - so the wall included the platform edging, forcing me to add stairs up to the door and then back down...though there really wasn’t enough room for that so eventually I did just raise the room’s floor up to meet the door.

    Now I’m wondering if maybe I did these two rooms first, then raised the room next to them, I’d have better luck - I’ll have to experiment tonight.

  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    @PipMenace Well, my original solution would work fine then. Raise up the porch on a platform so the sims have to step DOWN to get into the house. Maybe even place a narrow platform inside the house by the front door so they walk down the steps to get into the living room. Then, everything else will be on the ground floor.
  • Trismagistos's avatar
    Trismagistos
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @PipMenace and @Psychotps You will not be able to attach two buildings of a different height. I.E. it means that when you want to have a flow between the buildings they have to be at the same ground level.
    When you want to build a house with a basement you will first have to build the ground floor, build one or more platforms before building a basement or cellar.
    Have fun playing. 😉
  • Psychotps's avatar
    Psychotps
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago

    @Trismagistos

    They're not separate buildings. Just a single building with platforms. @PipMenace is trying to build a room inside a sunken platform, which doesn't work. It always ends up raised up. Just trying to provide alternatives.

    I was thinking something like this:

    This way you get the impression the main area is "sunken" without it actually being. And the room off to the side is at the same level.

    This gives me an idea... gonna make a new post... wrapping stairs....

  • PipMenace's avatar
    PipMenace
    Hero
    5 years ago
    @Psychotps Okay yes, I see what you're saying! I've been experimenting a bit and this does seem the best solution.
  • I can't actually get any door to go in, even if the whole house/yard is on the same platform.. help