Nightlife garage and tutorial

[ilikefishfood]

Yes please, Steve!

[jase439]

Hey, that's really neat, Steve.  I am interested.

[maniac19642003]

For those who wanna try Steve's underground garage tutorial but cant wait, here is the one I found over on MikeInside's side before: http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?&asset_id=4724&asset_type=story&user_id=136631&defTab=blog&showFrames=-1

[steveuk]

Thanks for the link Maniac, unfortunately this technique will not work for a working 'Nightlife' garage. I have some bits to do but will try to post a quickie method  :lol:  sometime later today.



Ok, here is the tutorial.  I tried posting it earlier but there were some resizing issues with the site so hopefully it will upload now.
This tutorial is in word as I completed it on my laptop....sorry but maybe some kind soul could convert to pdf, html etc
Any problems or questions then please reply to this thread or pm me.

UPDATE: I have added an HTML version for those without microsoft word.

[steveuk]

Here are a couple of pictures showing a Georgian style? double fronted house which is not quite finished (in fact there is not many I do completely finish) :lol:  I have placed two garages this time.
If you use a sloping drive for your house, you should place the car/s inside the garage when you buy them. As I explained in my tutorial, there are no animations for vehicles to tranverse slopes so it looks kind of wierd when they turn in and reverse out.

There is also a way to build a garage on an upward slope. I do not see any benefit of doing this though and you cannot ajoin that sort of garage/drive to a house with foundations (at the moment).
I hope this thread helps the more inventive of you house builders out there.

[jase439]

Awesome!  I'm diggin' that!

[Teresa]

Very nice looking house and thanks for the tutorial Steve

[CharleeRose]

Thanks Steve! I can't wait to give this a try... I just hope it will let me put that last bit of foundation between the garage wall and the starting foundation.... it has yet to work for me, but I'll try your way exactly and see. ::crosses fingers::

Thanks again!

[steveuk]

Thanks Steve! I can't wait to give this a try... I just hope it will let me put that last bit of foundation between the garage wall and the starting foundation.... it has yet to work for me, but I'll try your way exactly and see. ::crosses fingers::

Thanks again!

If you try to extend the foundations thereby making them longer than the garage walls you will not be able to place them.  I have not tested the size difference yet as I was away but will do so and post the result here.  If you keep the foundation the same size as the garage wall you should have no problem. Good luck with that.

Thanks everyone for the nice comments.

UPDATE: I have tried some various combinations and it seems that you cannot extend the foundation next to the garage more than one square past the garage door.  This is not really a problem though as the next row of foundations can be extended as much as space allows.

[SimMoon]

SteveUK that house looks fantastic! I love the garage! Thank you so much for the tutorial. I have downloaded it and plan to try this myself.

 :wink: Ever think about offering that lot as a download?

SimMoon

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[steveuk]

[size=14]SteveUK that house looks fantastic! I love the garage! Thank you so much for the tutorial. I have downloaded it and plan to try this myself.

 :wink: Ever think about offering that lot as a download?

SimMoon

Hi SimMoon

I just saw this post  :shock:  Unfortunately the house your referring too was bulldozed by my daughter  :cry: but I have uploaded a couple of houses to this site, one which is similar and also one on TSR.

Thanks for the comments and if you need any help just pm me or post in the thread.

[jinyc]

I read on another board that according to a Maxoid, diveways cannot be placed while the move_objects on cheat is on.

Thats correct  :wink:

Please tell me that the wink is a metaphor for "like for sure you can use the moveobjects cheat" because l'il ole moi has been using it to place driveway extenders all over the Veronaville Horror where I could not place an actual driveway piece and in each instance my Simmies get in and drive their cars. They may not back out onto the street but they teleport to the road and then putter off. I found out that the cheat works when I was trying to see if I could rotate the drivaway to another angle. I saw a thread about doing this but I was Simchallenged and gave up when I saw that I could place the extender without the drive!

Okay, redundancy over!

Steve a bit too late but I have to tell you your houses are brilliant.

[ORU1990]

DOES ANY KNOW HOW TO BUILD A GARAGE IN THE CORNER SO THAT YOU CAN DRIVE IN FROM THE SIDE STREET THAT DOES NOT HAVE YOUR TRASHCAN AND MAILBOX.  NOT ALL HOMES HAVE FRONT DRIVEWAY ENTRANCE,

[pbrock16@yahoo.com]

I think it looks very nice

[andrewtulley]

how do i connect a garage to a house with foundations