Creating U-Shaped Stairs in The Sims 3
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Tutorials by mensure added Sep 14, 2009, read 11497 times
I wanted to share with you, my own construction method U-Shaped Stairs. We will create a U-shaped stair on a foundation or straight on the ground.
(I would like to thanks to BlackGarden. for useful tuturial of Creating L-Sahape Stairs. I used it at my first L-Shape stairs and on this U-Shape stair.)
With foundation:
1. At first, create a foundation and a room two floors.. (We need three frames for the U-turn. That's why I've created a room 7x3.)
2. Count to backwards 7 frames from the corner and make three steps. Now, remove the stairs.
3. We have turned down terrain. Place one square of foundation and make two floors on the lowest level of terrain. Then, turn to the side. In here, count to backwards 5 frames from the corner and make two steps. Now, remove the stairs.
4. We have turned down terrain again. Place one square of foundation and make two floors on the lowest level of terrain again. And now we have to column. We need a cheat. constrainfloorelevation false (Hit ctrl+shift+C and type into the box constrainfloorelevation false and press enter.)
5. Go to the second floor and walls are down. Go to the terrain tools, and choose the level terrain tool. Now drag from the top of your first colomun to the corner.
6. Place one tile of floor at the corner of your stair. Place your stair at the corner.
7. Then, turn to the side. Go to the terrain tools and choose the level terrain tool. Drag from the top of your second colomun to the corner.
8. Place one tile of floor at the corner. When you place a tile, there been a mistake. Not very important. We can fix it.
9. Go to back the terrain tools and choose the level terrain tool again. Drag from the top of your first colomun to the corner.
10. Ok! That improved. Place your second stair at the corner.
11. Place a tile at the second floor and then place the third stair. Yes, we made a U-Shaped Stair. But it isn't over.
12. We must fix the top. This is easily fixed with "level terrain tool". Go to the terrain tools and choose the level terrain tool. Drag from the high corner to the lowered corner as shown. It fixed!
Now, turn off the cheat "constrainfloorelevation true" (press ctrl+shift+C, typ constrainfloorelevation true and press enter.)
Remove outside wall and foundation. Yes, it's over.
On the ground:
We will use the same method but we will not do foundation. We will start from the ground.
1. At first, create a room two floors. (We need three frames for the U-turn. That's why I've created a room 7x3.)
2. Count to backwards 7 frames from the corner and make three steps. Now, remove the stairs. We have turned down terrain. Make two floors on the lowest level of terrain. Then, turn to the side. In here, count to backwards 5 frames from the corner and make two steps. Now, remove the stairs.
3. We have turned down terrain again. Make two floors on the lowest level of terrain again. And now we have two column. We need a cheat. "constrainfloorelevation false" (Hit ctrl+shift+C and type into the box constrainfloorelevation false and press enter.)
4. Go to the second floor and walls are down. Go to the terrain tools, and choose the level terrain tool. Now drag from the top of your first colomun to the corner. Place one tile of floor at the corner of your stair. Place your stair at the corner.
5. Then, turn to the side. Go to the terrain tools, and choose the level terrain tool. Drag from the top of your second colomun to the corner. Place your second stair at the corner.
6. Place a tile at the second floor and then place the third stair. Yes, we made a U-Shaped Stair. But it isn't over. We must fix the top. This is easily fixed with "level terrain tool". Go to the terrain tools, and choose the level terrain tool. Drag from the high corner to the lowered corner as shown. It fixed!
7. Now, turn off the cheat "constrainfloorelevation true" (Hit ctrl+shift+C, typ constrainfloorelevation true and press enter.)
8. Remove outside wall and foundation. Yes, it's over.
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On Sep 18, 2009 Flexina wrote:
Thanks for the tutorial
On Sep 18, 2009 Annelizemoller wrote:
Nice Tutorial - Very profesionally done!
On Sep 20, 2009 Jet1 wrote:
Thanx! i'll try it, see what comes out!
On Sep 20, 2009 katetsang wrote:
that is so cool
On Sep 21, 2009 maxi king wrote:
On Sep 22, 2009 PRESARIO2316 wrote:
THAT COOL, I ALWAY WONDER HOW U DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I TRY MAKING A HOUSE LIKE THAT AND GET TOO HARD TO DO IT. NOW I KNOW HOW TO DO THAT.
On Sep 24, 2009 angel76angel wrote:
I Tried this, but than later I got 3 short stairs up in the air, but none toutch the ground. So no-one can go up.
What am I doing wrong.
On Sep 24, 2009 RepulsiveDesire wrote:
Ah, interesting. I might have to try this, thanks so much for making the tutorial
On Sep 25, 2009 Luscious1 wrote:
Very Nice! Thank You For The Tut Much Like Sims2 But just a diff way thanx tho i couldnt figure it out so gave up! ill give this a try thank you again! Great Job!
On Sep 25, 2009 matomibotaki wrote:
On Sep 25, 2009 My_Creed@walla.co.il wrote:
nice and easy turorial thank for sharing
On Sep 26, 2009 krizamark wrote:
Wow! you are vey creatve and smart! Thanks
On Sep 28, 2009 daisylee wrote:
Good tute. Easy to understand. Thanks!
On Sep 28, 2009 jasminengelbart wrote:
Yes is a great tutorial!Thanks!
On Sep 30, 2009 stevihj wrote:
Brilliant and easy to follow! Thank you!
On Oct 3, 2009 the_Gazerock wrote:
On Oct 6, 2009 mauvecrocus wrote:
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Thats great! I'm going away to do it now. Thank you for this.
On Oct 7, 2009 50102 wrote:
like it but cant completely comprehend it...
On Oct 7, 2009 Vanillah_the_girl_next_door wrote:
On Oct 10, 2009 cottoncandy2500 wrote:
great tutorial
On Oct 12, 2009 bud78 wrote:
this is a great tutorial and a great help to meee
On Oct 20, 2009 Pralinesims wrote:
thank you its s helpful
On Oct 26, 2009 rubika wrote:
i always wanted to do this,but i didn't know how.ok,i go try again!txs fot this!
On Nov 2, 2009 moonhunt wrote:
Thank you
On Nov 3, 2009 naluh wrote:
Thank you very very very much! I always wanted to do those stairs. I had an ideia, but you made it easier. Thank you.
On Nov 13, 2009 JandrOcresS wrote:
F L I P A N T E ! !
On Nov 20, 2009 PinkLady007 wrote:
I think I'm ready to try it, thanks for the tutorial!
On Nov 28, 2009 MysticVelvet wrote:
Thanks for this great tut, it's similar to how I did it in Sims 2, but just couldn't remember how to do it...lol
On Dec 29, 2009 Nightmere185 wrote:
thanx i will use this on my next home
On Dec 31, 2009 Ethereal_Edge wrote:
so i did everything right but now my outside paint is all buggered up but the stairs look great at least right
On Jan 1, 2010 miss_morrygan wrote:
cool gonna try that one
On Jan 10, 2010 Tasha95 wrote:
tnx for this...Its gr8..I gonna try that too..
On Jan 22, 2010 Pinklady1 wrote:
thanks, this was a nice tutorial
On Feb 13, 2010 Golden97 wrote:
Thanks for the tutorial!
I had ago my self and it was really messy at first but after a few tries it look really nice 
- Katie
On Feb 23, 2010 nanamuñoz wrote:
thanks, this is nice gonna try
On Mar 21, 2010 federicoemarco wrote:
Thanks
On May 14, 2010 gggggggm wrote:
obrigado esta procurando esse tutoria avarios dias obrigado!
On May 30, 2010 luciaup wrote:
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I LOVE YOU, I've been trying like crazy to 'buy' or something U-shaped stairs, but of course, it was just a trick, thank you SO MUCH
On Jun 4, 2010 Jeimii wrote:
Thanks for the tutorial, however, I have a bit of a problem. When I try to remove the holes in the ground to restore the walls to normal, the flooring I put down for the stairs also in 3 of the corners rises with it, making it look stupid. Is there something I've done wrong?
On Jul 6, 2010 mik0 muffin wrote:
Thank you so much, now I can have more variety to my house designs =)
On Jul 19, 2010 cekwebpage wrote:
I knew how to do the L shape but U shape more awesome. thanks a lot
On Oct 3, 2010 meimei630 wrote:
thank you so much，this tutorial is very useful
On Jan 9, 2011 Cutie Pop wrote:
Thanks for the tutorial. I was wondering if their was a way to make the U-stairs for a basement on a foundation?
On Feb 19, 2011 scarlett121 wrote:
Step 10 doesn't work ... The stairs just wont go onto the that corner :/
On Feb 25, 2011 Paradoxia wrote:
Ok so this is great untill you get to step 12. It raises the corner floor tiles we put in. I see I am not the only person having this issue so please tell us how to fix it.
On Feb 25, 2011 Paradoxia wrote:
Nope! Ha! I worked it out. For all those having the same issue. You go to the floor above your stairs to do step 12.
On Apr 2, 2011 simarchitect86 wrote:
I found that you are able to make a narrower U-Shape staircase if you level the terrain an additional square beyond the corner. You will wind up with something resembling a stairwell. Good for the smaller houses or narrow lots.
On May 13, 2011 oldmember_Peechpie wrote:
I'm with Scarlett. I can't get the third set of stairs to attach correctly. I've placed the last flooring square at each possible place along the outside wall of the second story and have had no luck. Can anyone give me a clue?
On Jun 9, 2011 Rishara wrote:
I'm in the same boat as oldmember_Peechpie. I can get everything but that top stair to place. I was about ready to throw my computer out the window last night. Anyone have any idea what we might be doing wrong?
On Jun 24, 2011 QueenOfWolves wrote:
Thank you
On Aug 4, 2011 Anna1211 wrote:
Hey!
First: Thanks for the Tutorial, it helped me soo much.
But I've got a question: Is it possible to change the third part of the stair with the second?? and how?? cause, I would like to have the 'normal' Stair in the middle and the short ones in the beginning and in the end of the u-form stair.
On Sep 7, 2011 AlysonNoel wrote:
On Oct 5, 2011 Soucii wrote:
Thank you very much!
Is it possible that the room is bigger, so the stair isn't at the wall?
On Jan 25, 2012 greenacidcandy wrote:
Thanks for the tutorial but My sims cant use the stairs
On Feb 5, 2012 s_sunna90 wrote:
thanks so much for the awesome tutorial