I would like to be able to move a whole house by just marking it and then drag. It has happened so many times now when I build a house that I realize, when it is almost done, that it would fit much better on another place on the lawn and then I have to rebuild the whole thing. I can't imagine that it would be very hard to put this option in the game. Please EA solve this problem for me!
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But if it is a tool that you have to choose to use then you can't do it by accident, and even if you for some reason did it by accident anyway, you just press the "undo-button" like you do with everything else you build.
I want this so badly! It would make building infinitely easier!
I suggested something like this awhile ago:
Build Mode Ideas: Link and Select tools
I would absolutely love to be able to do this with my houses.
Edit: By the way, I was SIMply_Divine. Until this site decided to reject my email and pass. I had to create a new account. Support came through for me, as well as a EAUK Admin I spoke with on the UK sims 3 site. (just in case you all thought "why have you linked someone else's thread??")
Anyway, I've wanted this for a long time, I really hope they implement this at some point.
so, if you already have a build going, but need the lot just a little larger, or even smaller, you could do this.
The only placement option available is rotating the entire lot when first placing a lot from the bin, i.e the direction it faces relative to the road. However, this has no bearing on where the house/building is oriented in the lot itself.
I would think a tool like you all are suggesting would be a VERY popular thing. I hope EA makes it so!
My proposition was that we have a tool that lets us select objects to group together and link them and have the ability to "move as a group" or "move as a whole". We could either select a specific tool (such as a Group Selection Tool) and drag click around things (and we could have an option to deselect certain things individually if we don't want them to be part of it).
Perhaps there could be checkmarks within the tool to select walls (or not select walls), select floors (or not). This way we could select just a group of objects that we want to keep together as a set (like the layout of a bathroom but we don't want to move every piece individually to a new spot (yet don't want to move the floors or walls).
The ability to select and move the entire house while in build mode would be excellent. Often I build and realize I messed up and put something off center bc I counted the grid tiles incorrectly, and I just want to pick it up and move it.
This idea would work well if people wanted the option to save the whole house as a unit and make it so that it could be placed on smaller lots (so long as the lots are large enough to fit all of the objects selected.
I really wish we had the ability to downsize lots when we have a normal sized or small house on a huge lot and don't want to have to rebuild the same house on a small lot. Perhaps we could select parts of the lot that we want to keep as well.
I hope that made sense.