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How do you usually use the terrain tools? And how often?
jupkmn
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Since they release the terrain tools in TS4 I tried to use it, but I never figured a good way to. Because of the fact that the worlds are plain and so are the lots, it feels unnecessary or too difficult to find a way to make good use of it. So I wanna know your opinions too, maybe I can discover new ideas to build my houses. Thanks.
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An example of both combined is my latest build:
The area around the pool is slightly sunken, and the stairs towards the temple are raised.
Another example of stairways:
I've been rebuilding Selvadorada, hence all the temple like structures.
And this is an example of smaller, more subtle variations in terrain:
This one's still a WIP, got distracted by other builds.
Obviously, the size of the lot you're building on also is a factor. Small lots don't leave much room for terrain manipulation, whereas on large lots, they can be the perfect way to quickly fill up the lot with unique landscaping.
Wow, I really like the temple and the idea to use the terrain to make this kind of stairs, thank you
I also remade a house from TS2 that was on a small hill and had stairs to the front and back porches. Now my family lives there, and I added a raised pool in the backyard to match the raised terrain.
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Mostly, I use it for driveways to a garage.
I played around with making hills and waterfalls, but nobody seems interested in downloading those from the gallery and it's a problem when the camera bounces around because of the level change in play mode, so I've gone back to using a flat terrain.
Since the update, I noticed that thumbnail images are much smaller, like there is something one level above that we cannot see. A two story house with a default pitch roof on a 30x20 lot in Willow Springs or Newcrest is very small in the thumbnails, I've had to lower or remove the roof to get a normal size image of my build.
Nice try though. Probably will only use it occasionally and for a driveway.
I'd love to see some images of your hills and waterfalls. I might even download a lot or two.
I feel the same way! I'm not much a builder at all; my Sims tend to live in very boxy, basic lots. But I'm glad they added the terrain tools for people who like them and who will build nice lots.
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Yes, this camera bouncing thing is really a problem that bugs me a lot. Can you share your ID so I can see your waterfall buildings? Thanks.
I've experimented with the tool and now have one house with a small lump hill in the front garden
I had a play around with it for the Gnome fairplay challenge. I found it a bit difficult painting the hills and things - it would be super awesome if there was a topographical map type function you could toggle on/off. I'm not super in love with the paints either, I felt like TS3 maybe had better paints (but it's a few years since I played that so I dunno). It would also be good to have a snap-to grid toggle on/off because it can be a bit tricky painting long straight lines of terrain like I'm using in my Build a Village Challenge for roads.
Anyways I'm glad that they're available, and even though I don't use them heaps at the moment I will be hopefully using them more as my creating skills increase
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> It's okay. The default size for the smallest tool is still quite large, needs to scale down a bit. I do not have a scroll wheel mouse for this setting.
> Mostly, I use it for driveways to a garage.
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> I played around with making hills and waterfalls, but nobody seems interested in downloading those from the gallery and it's a problem when the camera bounces around because of the level change in play mode, so I've gone back to using a flat terrain.
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> Since the update, I noticed that thumbnail images are much smaller, like there is something one level above that we cannot see. A two story house with a default pitch roof on a 30x20 lot in Willow Springs or Newcrest is very small in the thumbnails, I've had to lower or remove the roof to get a normal size image of my build.
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> Nice try though. Probably will only use it occasionally and for a driveway.
Waterfalls sounds interesting. How would you go about emulating the water? Made me think of maybe trying somehow incorporating sprinklers. :)
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