![]() you need to create the whole structure in a way each room or place is covered and put together in the right way with accurate measurement. This will give you room to experiment, decide where to place driveways, garages, pools, ponds and other important things.Īfterwards, when you do your 2nd (or 3rd or 4th?) rebuild, you can always use a smaller lot and position the house perfectly on it.The flooring is a fully technical job and you need expertise in the development of floor plans. One of the first pieces of advice I'd give to someone contemplating making a sizeable or complicated house, is to start of with an oversized lot, one that you know is bigger than you really need. One of the reasons why I keep working on a house after I've realized that I will rebuild it is because it lets me see more clearly what the end product will be like, before I rebuilt it for good. I use one of the third party programs to easily activate and deactivate the various building cheats, which really speeds things up. It's often actually more fun than the first time. ![]() It doesn't take long to rebuild a house from scratch, typically about a half-hour, even for bigger houses. Long story short, if there is any way for me to avoid using LotAdjuster in the final build, I will do so. Yes, but then I'd have to make a note of it in my upload description and even though I've never experienced any problems after using the LotAdjuster, you never know. Or, you could just use the LotAdjuster to move it over one tile. I don't like seeing bare walls for too long so sometimes I might just slap on some paint and come back to it later. I don't normally build the whole thing and then decorate unless it's a small house. I often decorate as I go, so if a house is two stories I’ll probably start decorating the ground level and may or may not finish that before going upstairs. Sometimes I start with a floor plan but end up with something quite different. Sometimes I'll have an idea in my head and I design my own. Other times due to the amount of time I have to play I might take 2-3 days or longer. Sometimes it might be a simple starter which I would build in one go. With walk in closet space I might keep it or other times closets or laundries might become another bathroom or I will simply enlarge the room it was off. If it has a built on garage on a foundation I start with that and get that area right first. I don't build the whole thing and then go oops I should be over by 5 tiles. Then if I need more room to one side I will restart the wall over by a tile or two. So if the lounge room has what looks like 3 one tile windows I'll most likely make it 5 tiles wide and set down the wall for that, then add on where the hall or next room will be and so on until I can see how wide the house will be. I've never used graph paper, I just use the games graph squares. I just look at the windows, doors and things such as the oven and count how many game squares I will need, adding an extra tile for areas such as hallways if I think it needs it. ![]() Problem is, in order for me to rebuild it, I first have to create a new neighborhood in SimCity 4, since my current one doesn't have any beach lots that have the sun coming from the correct angle. A beach is supposed to be a sunny place, not a shady place. It's a two-storey beach house and currently it's shadow lies across the beach - ughh. I've been known to rebuild a sizeable house from scratch just to move it over 1 square.Įxample: One of my more successful houses will eventually get a complete rebuild because the current version has the sun hitting it from the wrong angle. Even my smallest starter houses typically require 2-3 builds from scratch. This is the first notion that people need to get out of their heads, that they can build a house in one go of it. ![]() I suspect that the people who use graph paper tend to do so because they think once they start the game they can build the house in one try, after planning it on graph paper first. ![]() I just tend to think about spacing - ie, how much space is required to make the room of similar dimensions, how much space is there between windows, etc.Īlso, I don't see much of a point in drawing stuff out on graph paper beforehand, since the game itself already has the square grid layout. ![]()
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