Create a wonderful Quarter Story Deck by following this tutorial. You can have your own multi-level deck within a few minutes! The level of this tutorial is between basic and intermediate.

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Overview.

In thistutorial, you can create your own Quarter Story Deck.  This deck will have themain floor, then stairs going up a quarter story to create a second floor ofthe deck.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 1.

In order forthis tutorial to work properly, it would be best for you to have a house on afoundation.  Go outside of your house to the side where you want the deck.  Adda medium sized square foundation attached to your house.  This will be thefirst story of the main deck.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 2.

Add a smallsquare to a corner of the foundation you just created.  You shouldn’t have anydiagonal walls in this small square for in the steps later on, the walls couldget messed up.  If you want a hot tub on this smaller square (see firstpicture) I’d recommend the square being around 4x4 tile squares.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 3.

Add wallsaround the small square.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step4.

On your keyboard, hold down Ctrl+Shift+C to bring up theBuilding Prompt.  Once this appears, type in the following command.

boolPropConstrainFloorElevation false

This will let us edit the tile elevation without anyproblems.

Step 5.

Create asingle square foundation about 3 tile squares away from the small square youjust created.  Be sure this foundation is in line with one of the sides of thesmall square.  On this foundation place a diagonal wall.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 6.

Add threeconnecting stairs leading down to the foundation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 7.

This is wherethe command you typed earlier comes in.  Level from the bottom of theconnecting stairs on through the foundation you just built in step 5.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 8.

Level from thetop of the diagonal wall on over to the small square wall you built earlier. The small square should be a quarter story high.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 9.

Add tiles onthe small square so you can then add connecting stairs going down from thequarter story to the first story.

 

 

 

 

 

Step 10.

Add tiles,wallpaper, and railings to the deck.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Step 11.

Feel free toedit the main deck (I extended the deck for my grill) and add any furniture. Don’t forget to add stairs to the deck so your Sims can get off it!

 

 

 

 

 

Step 12.

On your keyboard, hold down Ctrl+Shift+C to bring up theBuilding Prompt.  Once this appears, type in the following command.

boolPropConstrainFloorElevation true

This will make it so the tile elevation can’t be altered.

Step 13.

Be sure to go and delete the foundation, wall, andconnecting stairs you made.  Level the ground after this.

Congratulations!

Congrats oncreating your very own Quarter Story Deck.  I hope you enjoyed it.  Stay postedfor my next tutorials and have fun with the Sims 2!