That was a fun way to spend the day (in-between shopping, cooking, cleaning, and eating)! I built the house, furnished it, and CASted it already. I have $3 left over. Not enough for a tissue box! Maybe tomorrow I'll play test it and do a little tweaking on the CASting.
I got a start on my build last night! Despite two crashes, I got the shell and landscape/pool finished, at just about half budget, so I should *hopefully* be able to furnish adequately. But my game has been extremely unreliable lately. It took me over a week just to do the screenshots for the last entry so I'm not sure if I'll get this one done and submitted in time or not.
You are supposed to take pics of all the rooms from at least two sides to show everything in the room from the sims height from what I recall so that the judge sees everything. I don't care about judging and I don't want to spend all the time taking pics and uploading them either.
I just enjoy building and I love a challenge. This month's challenge was getting that foundation to just three bricks in height so the stairs wouldn't lower or raise the terrain. Seriously, does any one have a better way to do that? I lower terrain and build foundation and use CFE to drag across from the scaffold to the foundation of the home. I just keep lowering and raising and putting in foundation until I get close enough.
The wall paper that is on the foundation normally is bricks. You need three exact rows of bricks for one step. I'd have two and a half bricks and the ground would sink when I alt'd in the step. Or I'd have a little over three bricks and I'd get two steps sinking the ground or one step raising the ground. That was my guide to help me know when I had the height where I needed it.
@ciane Oooh I get it, you want the foundation to be exactly one step high.
Here's how I've done that in past, though it's always a little fussy: a foundation is normally 4 steps high. So using alt, sink a single step into the ground, level the immediate area, then sink another step, level, then sink another step. Now when you place your foundation, it should sit exactly 1 step above grade without raising/lowering the ground.
This is also how I do my walk-out basements, only with three sets of 4 steps (that is, one full 'square' of steps placed 3 times) to sink exactly the height needed to put a full wall inside the foundation.
@ciane Oooh I get it, you want the foundation to be exactly one step high.
Here's how I've done that in past, though it's always a little fussy: a foundation is normally 4 steps high. So using alt, sink a single step into the ground, level the immediate area, then sink another step, level, then sink another step. Now when you place your foundation, it should sit exactly 1 step above grade without raising/lowering the ground.
This is also how I do my walk-out basements, only with three sets of 4 steps (that is, one full 'square' of steps placed 3 times) to sink exactly the height needed to put a full wall inside the foundation.
One step high - oooh...you should just be able to hold down alt without an other finagling. So hold down alt while using the foundation tool.
You can hold down alt with the foundation? Wow! I only knew it worked with steps. I'll have to test that.
CM, I want to build up on the flat lot, so I didn't play with the terrain. But, I should have built down three stairs and leveled a spot to put in a normal foundation and then CFE level over to the other foundation. See, it's always better to get other ideas. Sometimes you just don't think of all the possible ways to do something. We should have a guide for that!
You can hold down alt with the foundation? Wow! I only knew it worked with steps. I'll have to test that.
CM, I want to build up on the flat lot, so I didn't play with the terrain. But, I should have built down three stairs and leveled a spot to put in a normal foundation and then CFE level over to the other foundation. See, it's always better to get other ideas. Sometimes you just don't think of all the possible ways to do something. We should have a guide for that!
@aricarai I had heard of that trick, but I thought that only made the foundation a full-height wall, I didn't know you could use it for variable heights! Will have to try that
@aricarai I had heard of that trick, but I thought that only made the foundation a full-height wall, I didn't know you could use it for variable heights! Will have to try that
It's just for one stair height when you hold down alt and drag the foundation; I think any other height involves CFE.
This sounds like a fun challenge. I'll give it a go and I might even go an extra mile and build the other 2 houses if I have time after I build the first one, that way the girls aren't staying all in one house...lol
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Thanks!
Links are at the bottom of the challenge post to the previous challenges referenced.
I hope you all are having fun with this one too.
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@ciane Looks lovely!! I like your name, too
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You should make a separate thread for all your BnS Challenges. There aren't any picture requirements are there?
I just enjoy building and I love a challenge. This month's challenge was getting that foundation to just three bricks in height so the stairs wouldn't lower or raise the terrain. Seriously, does any one have a better way to do that? I lower terrain and build foundation and use CFE to drag across from the scaffold to the foundation of the home. I just keep lowering and raising and putting in foundation until I get close enough.
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Here's how I've done that in past, though it's always a little fussy: a foundation is normally 4 steps high. So using alt, sink a single step into the ground, level the immediate area, then sink another step, level, then sink another step. Now when you place your foundation, it should sit exactly 1 step above grade without raising/lowering the ground.
This is also how I do my walk-out basements, only with three sets of 4 steps (that is, one full 'square' of steps placed 3 times) to sink exactly the height needed to put a full wall inside the foundation.
One step high - oooh...you should just be able to hold down alt without an other finagling. So hold down alt while using the foundation tool.
CM, I want to build up on the flat lot, so I didn't play with the terrain. But, I should have built down three stairs and leveled a spot to put in a normal foundation and then CFE level over to the other foundation. See, it's always better to get other ideas. Sometimes you just don't think of all the possible ways to do something. We should have a guide for that!
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Yes, easy peasy
It's just for one stair height when you hold down alt and drag the foundation; I think any other height involves CFE.