Sims 2 Quarter Tile Placement
Meinard Hartmann
Are there half tiles in this game?? i made a octaginal room and the tiles on the edge are sticking out of the room to the outside. same goes for my other rooms. just becasue I "free-handed" a room it says thats its not considered a room.. like what the hell? a room is a room. an enclosed area thats a part of my house is not considered a room i guess. I just want to know how to put half tiles. Sims have really downgraded their building system. And pretty much this whole game seems halfed **bleep** and a definate step down.
Ctrl+F only gives quarter tiles in Sims 4, and in a triangle formation; if you were to place two quarter tiles to get a half tile, it would be diagonal. Anyone know how to get a horizontal/vertical half tiles? Thanks!
This cheat is useful for things like placing columns closer to (or in) fences and walls. It will not interfere with your game, and objects that have once been shifted off the grid will not slip back to their old positions if you experiment with this cheat.
setQuarterTilePlacement on turn it off with setQuarterTilePlacementoff
After entering this cheat you can turn quarter tile placement on and off using Ctrl + F anytime you are in Build or Buy Mode.
The tile border needs a little extra attention to be used as a perfectly mitred half border as I have shown above. To achieve this you will need to rotate the tile using the < & > keys and then change to the quarter tile placement option by pressing ctrl+f.
I never shared something throughout the month, but I procrastinated on this idea and didn't manage to create it for either Soho Part 3 or the book lounge. And believe me, it will not fit into next month's content either, so I decided to work on a little Shopfront set and would like to share it with you now.
The Prada Store in Soho across from Mercer Hotel inspired the windows, doors, and friese. This set has 24 items, six doors, nine modular trim pieces, and nine modular Shop Windows. There are items for all three wall heights, and they come in my usual color palette. I recommend using the move objects cheat and quarter tile placement for the most flexibility.
Time is flying so quickly. It's already February. After a month of Shop the Look, it's time to return to the Soho Set. With part four, I want to pick up on something I wanted to create for the Fayun Set, a modular seating island situation. After further developing the idea, I called it a book lounge, which reminds me of Soho with all its book shops. This Set is also my contemporary answer to the library I created for the Chateau Set :) Spoiler alert: you can mix and match the books from both collections!
The lounge consists of a long Table you can use as a dining table or desk. You can combine it with a seating platform (PSST is a loveseat) and a Ficus planter that slots into the table. The platform has lots of slots perfect for your decoration purposes.
I approached shelves differently this time. For versatility, I separated the poles from the shelves; there are three different height options and two different shelf lengths. They come in metal and wooden swatches. I had quite some fun trying out all the various combinations :) Of course, I filled them with slots until the brim!
This month I focused on creating the Klean Home Office. I focused my attention on what a designer's home office would look like/contain. I have wanted to make shelving like this for quite some time & was excited to try out Sims 4 Studio to angle the slots, unfortunately many painful hours later after trying to troubleshoot why exactly the rotation didn't work in game, I managed to come up with a workaround, so that you can still snap flat books and deco items onto the slanted shelves at the correct angle. For some peculiar reason the rotated slots would not work unless I locked their orientation. As a result once an item snap into one of these slots it will stay at the 45 degree angle even when you snap it to a regular slot. If I did this for all the slots to work it would end up being very difficult for you to effectively clutter all the other shelves as all your items would snap to these angled slots instead. So I've created only 3 of these slots on each shelf to help you to orientate your deco items to the correct angle. They are located in the middle and either end of the the shelf, so you should be able to avoid them while decorating the regular slots on the other shelves. I think this issue is down to EA changing the slotting information in the game as it a very simple process to rotate these slots and both programmes I used to do so ended with the same result. Fingers crossed this is changed in the future so I don't have to irritate myself and you all with such a workaround and they just work how they are supposed to!
This month I concentrated on the interior and created objects that I thought were quite typical for the lofts that I saw in Soho. To divide up your space you will not only get several types of patinated metal doors but also a system of room dividers for all three wall heights. Cast iron buildings structurally include columns, therefore I created a Corinthian one for this collection. To add more charm to your New York City loft, you can decorate it with pipes, sprinklers, light switches a socket, a radiator, and exit signs for further security :D. I added a couple of windows already this month but will expand the set of windows next month when I work on the Exterior Part.
All items are Base Game compatible and the majority can be found by searching with the keyword Apt Copenhagen in the b/b catalogue. However the walls and floors have to be found manually in their respective categories.
?Pro Tip: Ceilings can appear very dark in game, but using pendant lighting or uplighters on the wall can reduce this as they cast light upwards. However those gorgeous tiny spot lights we all like to use do not do that job so well.
To be able to place windows and doors entirely off grid, you will need to hold down the Alt Key whilst a window or door is selected. Holding down Alt will stop windows and doors from snapping to set positions. Free window and door placement is available as soon as you open Build Mode and does not require you to enter any cheats.
Free horizontal window and door placement works in conjunction with the ability to place windows and doors at whatever height a player chooses. The vertical position of a window or door can be changed by either holding down the Alt Key, or by pressing the 9 and 0 Keys (9 lifts, 0 lowers).
Enabling MoveObjects does allow you to place more than one window or door in a single segment. Placing two or more windows/doors in a single segment will, however, cause visual glitching, and may, in the case of doors, prevent your Sims from being able to pass through. Click Here for more information on using the MoveObjects cheat in your Game.
As windows and doors are no longer restricted by the grid, centring all windows and doors properly against a wall is now possible. One-tile doors and windows can be centred on two-tile walls, two-tile doors and windows can be centred on three-tile walls, and so on.
Using this update whilst MoveObjects is enabled allows players to place windows and doors right up against the edge of a wall. This means that it is now possible to create a (near) seamless corner window.
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I have been separating my windows from their frames, giving more options and colour combinations. This month, I created a separate Palladian window frame. You place two of the small windows next to the arched window, you place the Stone Frame on top, and voila, you have a Venetian Window :D.
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