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My first basement in The Sims 4
This is my first time i tried in The Sims 4, I did it a lot in Sims 3
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was thinking the same thing
It really does grip my tortoise's back legs when I see misaligned windows.
Sims cannot see out of some of them - they are far too high - how are they even supposed to open them?
You can blatantly see this at 02:07.
You're not supposed to open them. They're to remain forever shut. . . Just like the windows to their souls. . .
I personally never have basements; the blackness and black grid everywhere around freaks me out.
I dunno, I just love them to pieces. They are so helpful in creating extra space on a lot.
Go you for starting to play with them! My one tip, for the sake of looks and practicality, try plotting out the space for the stairs from the first floor. Once you pick your spot, drop down and build a small 3X8 basement room to help guide the stair placement, and then just check from above that you have it in the right place. Move it around until you hit your mark.
I generally have mine oriented so that the basement stairs come up beside the staircase on the main floor. If it's a one story house, I place my stairs where I plan to put the kitchen, generally building a little closet around the stair entrance. A lot of houses that I've been in that had basements, that's how the basement entrance was situated and I can attest that it works well with foot traffic having it situated like that in game.
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Haha Same. It creeps me out as much as breaking a game and 'falling through the world'. I don't like looking at it as it feels like I'm not supposed to be seeing it that way and something has gone horribly wrong.
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I think that maybe one time i would try to build the Führerbunker you knew what i mean
Use the basement tool while you're looking at the ground floor layout. That way you draw out the underground rooms from the top down, and it makes placing stairs a whole lot easier. Good luck
Use the basement tool to draw a big square on an empty lot
go down a level and click anywhere in that basement to select it
then go up a level again and hover the pointer over the yellow line until 'remove ceiling' is shown
Going back down into the basement and clicking on the floor will give you the option of removing the floor too, now you've got a real hole in the ground building site
Start building rooms in the basement. I build the entire ground floor layout in the basement first then copy those rooms into position above ground, that way I've got foundations - and some of those rooms I could use as a basement.
TS4 building is basically all about boxes, you can place them anywhere.
When you've finished building the complete above ground house grab the arrows on the sides of the big hole and drag them to the walls of the basement rooms you've built, that's kind of like landscaping after the build is complete.
Seems like a lot of work? not really it's a fun way to do things.
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