How do you place chandelier on second floor?

chidoriaida

See title.
I have a modern house with open floor plan, I would like to place the chandelier on the 2nd floor that is open to below (see picture below), but I can't seem to be able to do it... Just an FYI, there is a ceiling on the 2nd floor as I have a 3rd floor above. Any suggestions?

Piperbird

It's annoying, but you need to put in a floor, add the lamp, then remove the floor again. It's the only way I have found to do it.


Edit: Or, you may be able to use the up and down MOO keys to put it in place. I have not tried that.

chidoriaida

I've tried that. But the moment I delete the floor, the chandelier disappears too...

alejandro15039

Just press the G button, the grid will appear then place it.

Piperbird

That's strange. I know it can be done. I dug through some old pics to find one. I wonder if something has changed?

chidoriaida

@alejandro15039: Thank you! It works with the magic G button!

@Piperbird: That is a very nice house.

UmbralFlower

alejandro15039 wrote: »

Just press the G button, the grid will appear then place it.

Wow! I didn't know this. Thank you. I'll have to remember to put the grid on when doing chandeliers.

Piperbird

chidoriaida wrote: »

@alejandro15039: Thank you! It works with the magic G button!

@Piperbird: That is a very nice house.

Thanks!

Did turning the grid on work? I have not tried that, either.

I know there are problems with the roof when using lofted areas. The game does not seem to recognize a room as a room if you use half walls or fences. I wonder if that is why the lamp disappears when you remove the floor. That's why I had to use the windows in a wall like I did around the staircase in my picture. When I used the fencing like I wanted to, the roof broke and came fully into the room.

chidoriaida

@Piperbird: Yes, turning on the grid will work.

I have a solution to the roof with lofted areas, I found this out by accident when I was playing around with the fence. Below is another house I built with areas open to below, and all surrounded by fences. What I did was to place the fence on the areas you want, and then place a fence in front of the stairs (the top of the stairs). The fence in front of the stairs will disappear and the game will recognize this as a room. Then just use the hammer to delete the unwanted floor to open up the space. My roof remains intact after deleting the floors. Try it and let me know if it works for you.

2nd floor


Close up


3rd floor - roof terrace

PsychoSimXX

alejandro15039 wrote: »

Just press the G button, the grid will appear then place it.

Only way I have been able to do was using the g key.