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City Living apartment creation?
Suceress
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I've been busy with real life stuff & haven't had much time for playing so I only recently discovered that City Living had apartments (I think I got it with a bundle or something during a sale & hadn't had a chance to play much bc downloading the patch took awhile due to my bandwidth restrictions). Anyway, I'm trying to figure out if I can just build my own custom apartment complexes from scratch & use cheats codes or hidden objects to designate the spaces. Is this possible?
I've seen videos of people creating apartment complexes but they don't function as apartments & I really want to build my own.
Anyone know? Are there any mods to help with this?
I'm still behind & don't have the last few expansions yet (real life expenses > games).
As an aside, are glass roofs (like for greenhouses) available if I don't have Seasons & can I grow plants in a basement if I have some sort of light & water for them?
I've seen videos of people creating apartment complexes but they don't function as apartments & I really want to build my own.
Anyone know? Are there any mods to help with this?
I'm still behind & don't have the last few expansions yet (real life expenses > games).
As an aside, are glass roofs (like for greenhouses) available if I don't have Seasons & can I grow plants in a basement if I have some sort of light & water for them?
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The apartments are all separate lots surrounded by a 3D building shell. They don’t use designators like Sims 3 ones did. The rooftop lots allow you to build on the entire lot with only a few build restrictions.
Yes to glass roofs. All of the glass roof designs are base game. Love those. Plants will grow indoors if you plant them in a planter. They don’t need light, and if you have seasons planting them indoors (or in a greenhouse) will allow them to become harvestable year round instead of seasonal.
If I use an apartment shell can I designate the different rooms/apartments?
Can I dig a basement under a shell & make it a separate apartment?
My idea was to make a basement apartment with outside stairs next to the shell & then have some of the parts that jut out from under the shell have glass ceilings/roofs (if that is even possible) & have plants growing.
Part of my inspiration was from something on the Legion of SuperHeroes ship on the Supergirl series. They had what looked sort of like a terrarium/aquarium but instead of creatures or water/fish they had plants growing.
I remember being able to mod apartments for Sims3.
If I can't get a basement apartment to work, I suppose a penthouse would work.
I'm waiting for the price to go down on Seasons before I buy it.
We had that back in Sims2. I had fun creating an apartment building from what had been an ancient castle. (At least that was my own backstory behind the build.) So many things were done 'right' in that iteration, it's a pity more wasn't drawn from it. I would love to have the flexibility, for instance, as a restaurant owner to either cook, serve, or manage.
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Absolutely! The ability to build and play in apartments like what was possible in Sims 2 has been one of my biggest requests and they failed so terribly with the apartments in City Living.
Unfortunately the shells aren’t like Sims 3 either. I should have clarified. They are part of the world terrain, like the grass or pavement areas but it’s shaped like a building. There’s no way currently to use the apartment assets for anything.
You can build out different “apartments” using door locks but they won’t function like apartments. You mentioned this in your original post, but that’s (sadly) the most we can do in this game.