Building a Raised Driveway

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1 Building a Raised Driveway The following tutorial was made with beginners in mind. Although it does use one cheat, no prior knowledge of this cheat is needed. This tutorial will show you in a few easy steps how to easily build a workable driveway on a hill. Pick the lot you would like to work on and let s begin! Step 1. The first thing that needs to be done is a driveway laid on the lot. If you don t know how to do this, enter build mode and find the icon pictured. Step 2. Pick the driveway that you would like to use. Choose a matching driveway extension piece and lay it at the end of your driveway. If you are building your driveway on the left side of your lot, make sure that it is at least one space away from the edge of the lot. Page - 1 -

2 Step 3. Surround the driveway extension piece with walls. These can be removed later if you do not wish to have a garage on the lot. For now, we will be using them as a guide. Adding a garage door at this point is optional. Step 4. This is where the cheat comes in. Open up your cheat window (ctrl + shift + c) and type in boolprop ConstrainFloorElevation false. (It is not case sensitive). Step 5. The next thing you are going to want to do is go to top-down view. With your raise terrain tool, raise the driveway one click, as shown in the picture. You want to be in one square from the sidewalk. As you raise the floor across this line, the grass will come above the driveway. This will fix itself later. Page - 2 -

3 Step 6. Once you have the first line raised one click, use your level terrain tool to raise the rest of the driveway (including the enclosed portion) up one click. You can go out of top-down mode to make sure that all of the driveway was raised. Step 7. You will want to continue this process of raising and clicking until you reach the square before the enclosed portion. Do not raise any of the ground within the enclosed portion (it must remain level). Step 8. Once you have raised all of the first driveway piece, you can go out of top down view to make sure that the ground has been raised. Page - 3 -

4 Step 9. Now that the ground has been raised to the desired point, it is type to turn off the cheat. Open your cheat window (ctrl + shift + c) and type in boolprop ConstrainFloorElevation true. Step 10. Now you need to save your lot and return to the neighborhood. We aren t quite finished though. In the neighborhood view, you might notice that your garage seems to be floating. This will not be what it looks like when you enter the lot, which you should do. Step 11. Your garage should be situated nicely on a small hill at this point. (The size of the hill can be varied by varying the clicks that you use in the earlier steps.) Page - 4 -

5 Step 12. We now need to level the land around the garage to place our house on the lot. To do this, place your level terrain tool inside of the garage and drag it across the lot. The land that you drag the tool across will raise. Step 13. Now we are going to raise the ground around the driveway. If you do not wish for this ground to be raised, then skip this step. To raise this land, simply place your level terrain tool inside of the garage again and drag across the driveway and surrounding land. This will raise the land, but not the driveway (unless you forgot to turn off the cheat earlier). Step 14. If you do not wish to have a garage on your lot, remove the walls from around the extension piece and add a carport or leave this piece alone. Then, you can build your house on the lot. Page - 5 -

6 Step 15. When the time comes to place a car on your driveway, there is something important to remember for best viewing, the cars should only be placed on the flat portion of your driveway. If you try to park the cars on the hill, they will look like they are in the hill. Conclusion You should now have a driveway that you and your sims can enjoy. Examples of these raised driveways can be seen in my Cozy Cottage and Starter Home Hill. Both of these are available on The Sims Resource. I hope this tutorial has helped you in your building endeavors. Questions and comments are always welcome. Happy Simming! Page - 6 -