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bizuktag
Rising Traveler
7 years ago

Stages for Stair Landings Possible?

The new Get Famous livestream showcased some interesting new objects. There are several prop pieces raised from the ground by a short flight of stairs. I assumed these would be inaccessible, but this is not the case:

https://i.imgur.com/FikpkMn.jpg

Of course the stairs are built into the prop pieces, rather than being placed by a player. However, could this technology be used to allow the team to make stages that can act as landings for stairs? Might they be on the way in the near future?
  • "FreezerBunnyCowplant;c-16804318" wrote:
    You would need 3 different versions of stair landings to complement the 3 wall heights


    Six, since you'll need both left and right twists.

    Which might be one of the better reasons for waiting. L-shaped stairs are probably doable now, but once they're out they're out and won't be redone. I wouldn't be surprised if the engineers were working on some way to raise or lower floor segments that could also support a more versatile stair system.
  • Could the tech be used? Probably. Will they ever do it? Who knows. They’ve kept new stair types on the back burner for a long time now. That pic makes me think that if they were to do stair landings or split level stairs, they might come as one big object. Like L-shape stairs would be one object you place on a lot instead of putting down a foundation or stage and connecting the levels with individual stairs. This would really limit the styles of stairs used for each object and the different orientations you would be allowed to use..but since most features in TS4 have compromised functionality and versatility, it doesn’t sound that far fetched that they might do it this way.

    The other problem they could be having is how to make split level and spiral stairs behave with the new terrain tools and height differences. Maybe that’s whats making things take so long.
  • You would need 3 different versions of stair landings to complement the 3 wall heights