Mod stairs (part 3) Two landings (u shaped) against a wall

[Jonesi]

Firstly build a lot as shown with two levels exactly the same





Turn on the cheat boolprop constrainfloorelevation false

Page down and add 1 square of foundation as shown (depending on which way you want your staircase, reverse for opposite effect)





Using the small raise terrain tool, raise the ground (corner of next landing, as shown) by 4 clicks. Please count correctly, it must be 4 clicks for the staircase to place properly.



Using the foundation tool, drag from the raised corner as shown, placing 1 square of foundation.



You should now see below - notice how the first landing has warped?



To fix this warp, place 1 square of floortile as shown (on the grid next to the foundation, not the ground underneath)



The floortile forces the warp to flattern



Now go around the back of the lot. We need to flatten the walls/roof area.

Using the level terrain tool, drag it from the corner (the area over the normal height foundation) diagonally over the rest of the lot, as shown







Now turn the cheat off boolprop constrainfloorelevation true

Using the level terrain tool, level the ground where we raised by 4 clicks





Now we can add stairs



For the final piece of stairs, firstly we need to add a floortile to the second level in order to be able to place the stairs

So level up to the "top floor" and place a floortile as shown - 4 spaces/squares between the walls and floortile - place floortile on the fifth square (directly inline with the raised foundation landing)





Now place the final piece of stairs



And you're done. You can now add the second level of walls to your lot.
Please be aware that the space above the stairs should be open, i.e. don't place floortiles there.

Any questions or help needed, ask below xxx

[sparkiemydog]

Cool i use boolprop alot when building but i never thought to do that.. Thank you!!!!!

[flirtatioustara]

this is what i have been looking for!! thank you!

edit: haha never mind, i get it.

Thanks i will try this tomorrow. i just dont get this bit:

"Please be aware that the space above the stairs should be open, i.e. don't place floortiles there."

do you mean above each stairs, or the last stairs?

[~Dee~]

To me it would seem like 'above each stairs'.
Your sim has to walk up the stairs.
A floor/ceiling prevents them doing that.

[flirtatioustara]

oh okay thanks!

[flirtatioustara]

help! please.

Okay i just about got through most of that lol. And it wont let me add stairs.

You know when you level the floors? are you doing it with with all the floors up? or are you just doing it from the first floor? im confused.
I went up a floor, (til theres no more) then levelled. then took the cheat of, leveled the ground where the 4 clicks were. Then i tried to add stairs, but it wont let me. I can do the first set, but cant do stairs between the two foundations. A message pops up saying "cant place step" and "cant intersect wall"

[Jonesi]

try turning "boolprop constrainfloorelevation false" back on....add the stairs, this might warp the walls though, so you'll have to level again, and then turn the cheat off...

[Ronna1967]

thanks,this helps alot

[redvan22]

I followed the tutorial and created the stairs perfectly except I wanted to make them a bit tighter, so they took up less space. So I followed every step exactly as you outlined except I raised the first foundation square by 2 clicks and then the second square by 6 clicks instead of 4. I also had to adjust the second floor tile to accomodate the short stairs. I placed the first and second set of stairs successfully but when I tried to place the third set, I would get a green footprint but when I clicked, I got a message "Can't place step".

Can what I attempted be done?

[Glitchie]

I'm designing my first house from a floor plan of the House of Seven Gables in Salem, MA I found online with a sketch of the house (when it was a house, not a museum) and its on a foundation with the basement access outside toward the back of the house. How would I build a u-stair while using a foundation or stage? I've tried a couple of things, and they've not worked.

I tried building the first landing up 8 and the second landing up 12 and putting in the foundation for the rest of the house, and it matched the 8 landing, not going down to 4 or ground level for the normal foundation height of 4. And then I tried doing 4 and 8 clicks for the first and second landing respectively, and putting in a stage, which worked except for not being able to add the stairs at the bottom. Is there anyway that this could work?

Glitchie