Building Tips & Tricks!

GalaxySimsGirl

I know it can be super easy to get stuck building the same sort of house again and again, or wanting to try something new and not being sure how to do it.

Or maybe you discovered something super cool that you love to put in all your builds and want to share it with other simmers.

So... what are your best building tips and tricks?

SailorCeti

If you build your second floor one size taller than normal, you can raise the floor four increments and be left with the same space inside as the original height, but allows more room for porch roof pitching without obscuring windows.

GalaxySimsGirl

If you enable free placement and bb.moveobjects on cheat, then you can place (and size down if you want) the basic round plant pot inside or on a deck. Then, size down and place larger outdoor trees and/or plants in the plant pot to have a wider range of plants and decorations in your builds!

permanentrose

Using the MOO cheat and resizing cheats, you can make some cool photo collages to add some personalized decor to your sims home.

If building a tiny home, you have to be creative if you're not trying to raise the tile count, so I like using creative objects, like windows, to build a "fence" for a porch.

Also if you use the bb.showhiddenobjects and bb.showliveeditobjects cheats, you can find a ton of cool free items!

Hanging garden made out of debug items


A handful of outdoor live edit objects I stumbled upon

GalaxySimsGirl

permanentrose wrote: »

Also if you use the bb.showhiddenobjects and bb.showliveeditobjects cheats, you can find a ton of cool free items!

Another thing I’ve found in debug mode is free invisible ceiling lights that come in loads of different shapes and sizes - they are great to use in bigger builds so you don’t end up spending lots of money on lighting or waste time having to size every single light down to fit well.