Thanks to
@catloverplayer for finding out that we
CAN NOT share apartments as lots on the gallery. Here is the tweet:
I put together a short tutorial on how to share an entire apartment as a single room so you builders out there can still share them. There are a couple caveats but it does work.
First, here is the empty apartment, a single room.
First, you want to start dividing the apartment into rooms. We do not want the rooms to become separated because then we can only share each individual room to the gallery. Start by drawing the wall all the way up until 1 square away from forming a complete room as so:
Now this part is important, you have to click on the newly drawn wall, click the arrow and drag it to complete the room. The game wont recognize the newly formed room this way.
Good, now the wall is complete but the apartment is still considered one room!
Lets follow the same steps as above and make a new room.
Drag the final segment by using the arrow, don't forget!
I went and decorated the apartment, you can do the same now!
Now that its finished, select the apartment by clicking a free spot on the floor or wall and you will see arrows appear at the wall edges. You can see the entire apartment is one room.
Now we can click the save to my library button then save as room to save the apartment and share it! As you can see in the image the whole apartment is present in the room including the walls and doors.
A couple things to be aware of:
Since the apartment counts as a single room, you can't have different moodlet decor items active at once. They also share the same decor bonuses. You can manually rebuild the final segment of walls once the apartment is placed so the game forms it into a room.
You will have to let players know which specific apartment this is meant to fit in since they are all unique shapes.
The gallery image isn't great, its hard to tell exactly how it looks.
I hope this helps you all look forward to City Life apartment building!
Comments
Thankyou very much for your very helpful guide to sharing apartments on the gallery! It will be very helpful for when City Living is released! Thankyou for your kindness and thoughtfulness in posting pictures and writing about the method
http://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/817478/hello-come-and-introduce-yourself
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@StSciurus I know we can find the dimensions of some judging by videos, but a full list will be good to have when its possible.
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Oh, okay. I just thought they would gave us the option so doing it like in tutorial is a major help. Thanks!
This is what I don't like at all if EA provides new lots - regardless if it's only one world related, or a hidden lot or any other exuses regardless we should have matching categories. Why? Guess, yeah it's easier to find, right! I don't like it at all that we don't have a matching category...Now you have to search your way all through hastags between million of rooms to find what suits you for San Myshuno?
Neep, I invest rather the time to create it and leave it without sharing so I guess I will create but won't upload it doesn't make any sense to me, searching adding an appartment as a room & yet you still have to adjust the "apartment" afterwards so that it fits. It's sad I wish we would have an appartment venue. Those restrictions just limit our maniac creativity.... am not a fan of this strategy at all, seriously...
For a better organisation & easier to find there should be for every new venue type matching categories, even the ones we don't have like "thebluffs, hospital, sciencelab, policestation, gardenchalet,theanciantruins, glades etc. I simply don't understand the logic - if it's provided it will be used doesn't matter if locked or not we want to make the game our own therefore there will be always creators like us who will create something and in my opinion EA should provide matching categories for all provided venue types as I said hidden, specific or not - I don't care I want categories for all existing venues, period! Simple as that shouldn't be a big deal actually for the programmer of EA to do so...
Will hang out and live in San Myshuno just as a builder beside the Penthouse, Gallery & probably a bar for Karaoke" I guess I will be unemployed and sell my "junk" eeehm stuff on the flea market may I should be a politican & write a petition for "We want Categories for every VENUE you provide us" ^-^
Yeah this could be might a great idea or I retire as Simarchitect & move to an apartment with cockroaches & let me live my life, jeez if I cannot be creative why should I work? LOL Neep, will continue but I just daydreamed how life will be in San Myshuno without being a true builder
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I have read in an another thread "by BryonRae" that build mode is something which should be provided to all (including basegame) but I wonder when this upgrade will happen & which suggested changes will be considered, no clue. Thats what one of the Simgurus said, so we will see how they will improve the buildmode it's for sure time for a build upgrade
With all that new content we also need as you said modern new roof colors, roof trims, friezes and wall trims, you are right, totally agree.
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Thank you for the tutorial! I'll try this later. If I understood correctly, the walls have to be built again after downloading to prevent those privacy problems etc.?
And yes, You will have to rebuild one tile of each wall after placing to form them into proper rooms.
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A great tutorial @SpecterCody !
Thanks for sharing, dear! Hugs xxx
I just take/delete 1 piece of the room where I want the door, then I put 1 piece of wall either outside or in the middle of the room, wall cover each side to match then put in the door, lift the piece of wall with door into where you deleted the piece. I do this with all rooms and it works fine. You can of course use double doors and arches, just do as above with 1/2 wall pieces needed.
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