It's been a while since I've built one. Does anyone remember how to make them?
I remember lowering terrain and leveling it out - vaguely, but if there's a tutorial still up somewhere, I wouldn't mind a link to it. Thanks.
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Yes- Flatten the land, Put down the foundation and remove the middle leaving a nice brick shape.
Now- use the stairs to go to the right depth (3 small sections); which will be 3 from the ground down (not from the foundation. You'll know it's the right height if a wall segment will go from the foundation.
If you are going to want to hang items on the basement walls without the moveobjects code- Remove a section of the foundation, put the wall along the line of the inside area and then put the foundation back along the wall to the wall's outside.
I'll put up some pictures in a moment.
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To get the right height just open up an area in the house small enough for the 3 steps and then dig it down to the level you need.
*Removing the foundation will remove the flooring on any open space. If a floor tile has an object then it will remove the foundation but save your floor tile. If my Sims don't have the money I just move things around to cover the areas and then remove the foundation of a prebuilt house - with Foundation..
Does that help?
P.S. I have loved your builds for many years. You rock @Rflong7.
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Thank you! This thread is seriously invaluable! I tried a VERY long time ago to try my hand at making a basement and failed utterly because I didn't understand what, exactly I needed to do. Following your pictures tonight, though, I've successfully made my first basement! I think I made the house to big though, lol. I barely have room to make the kind of backyards I'm used to doing. On the other hand, though. I'm seriously considering putting a pool in the basement and an entertainment room, so I guess I don't need as much of a yard as I'm used to.
Thank you again!
That's a great idea for the pool in the basement. I'm sure they'll love it. XD
I start with the flatten lot tool in build mode.
I moved on to marking the boundries of the basement.
I put in a section of drywall and raised the ground near the wall.
I added floor tiles to the top of this wall and it adjusted the level of the ground for a foundation.
I flattened the ground to this new elevation.
I've got the raised ground surrounding the house boundries here.
I started building the liners for the foundation sections.
Here's the finished foundation liners.
I closed the raised ground into the walls.
I started adding the foundation sections here.
Here's what it looks like with the foundations added in.
I've started flattening the ground to the street level again.
Here's what you're left with and it's a raised foundation.
Here's the walls being built to close it in.
Here's the finished portion of the basement.
This tutorial is now inspiring me to build my own basement!