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By Pinecat on Aug 3, 2009 • TS3 FUN WITH CFE - ATTACHED GARAGE (Beginner+)

PREPARING TO BUILD

1. LEVEL THE LOT


I cannot stress enough how incredibly important this step is! The ground in TS3 is not as even as it appears, causing all kinds of problems when building, and this is particularly true when using CFE. Believe me that it's well worth the extra couple of seconds you'll spend on it!

Select any floor covering. Drag the flooring right on the ground to cover the entire area where your house will be built plus a few extra tiles on all sides. If you need to stop and restart, begin over an already placed tile - not on a bare piece of ground. This will level out the minor imperfections in the ground and keep them leveled throughout the building process! Unless you have other plans for your lot it's usually best to start from the sidewalk and work back so your house will be at sidewalk level rather than above or below it. The level tool will NOT even the ground entirely - do not use it instead of flooring!


Keep this flooring in place throughout the building process!
Remove it only when all foundations, floors, walls, stairs and roofs have been completed


2. PLAN YOUR GARAGE

Your garage needs to be a minimum of eight tiles long to accommodate the Parking Space object + a garage door; it needs to be at least four tiles wide to use a garage door; CFE will require an extra tile on the house side of the door. The total garage space must be at least eight tiles long x five tiles wide. It may be larger but it cannot be smaller. Hint: Making the garage six tiles wide will allow the garage door to be centered. It will also add more flexibility to add an outside side door to the garage if you want it to actually be usable.

3. TURN OFF AUTO ROOFS

 

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On Aug 3, 2009 mappam wrote:
Fantastic Tutorial! Very well done - simple and easy to follow - THANKS!
On Aug 3, 2009 DracoR wrote:
It's good tutorial. I hope it helps someone. Thanks!
On Aug 4, 2009 fredbrenny wrote:
Great tutorial! Thanks a lot!
On Aug 4, 2009 srwalker wrote:
This is so much easier than the one I had tried using before!  I may actually be able to DO this one!
On Aug 4, 2009 Stace-Kim wrote:
I've wanted to do this for some time but didn't know how.  Thanks so much for the wonderful tutorial.  I'll let you know how it works out for me!  Bravo!!!
On Aug 4, 2009 MidnightRose wrote:
Thanks Pinecat, this is a very easy tutorial!
On Aug 5, 2009 Micmac53 wrote:
I appreciate the time you took to post this.  I've been trying to learn the building tips, and have been wondering what CFE is.  You answered.  Thank you so much! ~ Sofi
On Aug 7, 2009 Rosaleena wrote:
Thanks so much!! Great for a newbie like me One question.. where do you get the garage door from?  
On Aug 11, 2009 _*sandy*_ wrote:
Wow, thank you so much! I really needed that information, I can't wait to use this in my game.
On Aug 13, 2009 gelfie wrote:
Thank you very much for putting this together
On Aug 14, 2009 Midnight222 wrote:
Great tutorial! Thanks!
On Aug 16, 2009 princesskitty156 wrote:
Help please? I must be doing something wrong here 'cause when I put in my garage door the wall cutting through it is visible, kinda like what can happen if you place windows with "moveobjects" still on. (And no, I don't have it on) Any ideas ppl?  Will be so grateful
On Aug 18, 2009 Isis_Nefe wrote:
I have the same problem as princesskitty where only part of the door is visible with part of the foundation showing through the door. Please can you help solve this problem.
On Aug 19, 2009 raindrops84 wrote:
Great tutorial!  I was wondering, is it possible to add an attached garage to an exsisting house (providing it has a foundation and leveled terrain around it)?
On Aug 23, 2009 Debbiecla wrote:
This was an awesome tutorial, but in TS3 it can't be used as an attached garage simply because of the questions listed in this comment section.  The bottom of the garage is the only thing that shows and you can't overlap the garage to get a full garage.   I searched for a tutorial on split level housing which was a bit more complicated than this one.  This is great for split level or sunken rooms.  You can overlap the windows using the "moveObjects on" code.  If there is some workaround, I would love to know, but for now, as a newbie to building houses, I guess I'll have to stick to adding unattached garages or building them under the house with a sloped driveway. 
On Aug 27, 2009 Pinecat wrote:
princess kitty156 and Isis-Nefe:  The problems you're having are probable due to one (or more) of three things:  1) your garage isn't wide enough - you must have at least one extra tile between the house and garage for the angled wall; 2) you're trying to place your garage door too close to the house, you cannot place it in the one tile space directly adjacent to the house; 3) you didn't remove the foundation clear up to the house so your angled wall isn't in the space directly adjacent to the house.  If you check all of these things but continue to have problems, please pm me and we'll see if we can work through it together.  Jackie
On Sep 7, 2009 eddys wrote:
Very helpful tutorial. thanks
On Sep 10, 2009 NrrrdGrrrl wrote:
pinecat: none of those things you listed have anything to do with the problem with the garage door. my boyfriend just did it and the top wall is overlaping the garage door.
On Sep 10, 2009 NrrrdGrrrl wrote:
I hope that didn't come off as rude. wasn't trying to be.
On Sep 18, 2009 GreenEyeLady wrote:
Oh how wonderful.  Tried to do an attached garage not long ago, and was so so frustrated!  Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!  Can't wait to start building!
On Oct 4, 2009 Nawa wrote:
Brilliant! I've been trying to do attached garages on my own but most of the time I ended up with a nervous breakdown This tutorial made it all clear. Thank you!
On Oct 13, 2009 hustler wrote:
thanks this helped alot
On Oct 26, 2009 fletcherdaniel wrote:
hey guys, so i was so excited to build my garage but when i completed it i came upon the same problem as nrrdgrrrl where the wall is overlapping the garage door or even just a regular door, like in the middle of the door is part of the wall. what can i do to fis that if there is something??? please help. i love this game and am in dyer need of an attatchd garage, and feel i can't play the game unless i have that fixed.  thank you
On Nov 2, 2009 moonhunt wrote:
Thanks a lot. This is a nice tip.
On Nov 28, 2009 MysticVelvet wrote:
Thanks for the great tutorial
On Jan 1, 2010 miss_morrygan wrote:
great!
On Mar 13, 2010 disorderedmind wrote:
This is a great tutorial, thank you for sharing. A great tip too about using the up arrow on cheats, that will be a great timesaver!
On Apr 20, 2010 Jolien_007 wrote:
awesome!
On Apr 22, 2010 suceress wrote:
Thank you very much. I saw a similar tutorial but it did not say which floors you needed to be on and I wasn't able to get the proper results. Your tutorial had all of the information I needed. I combined the info from this one with info from another tutorial (sunlit basement by Gosik) and put an indoor swimming pool in the garage and had windows from the pool to the basement. It looks pretty awesome. Next I think I'll see if I can add an attic to this creation.
On Apr 22, 2010 suceress wrote:
For those having trouble with the partially hidden Garage door, please refer to step 5 and look at the picture. Notice how the green selection tiles start on TOP of the wall? http://images.thesimsresource.com/scaled/1256/w-813h-650-1256770.jpg  If, when you use the level terrain tool, you notice that it is trying to start from a lower floor, place a floor tile on the lower part of the upper level (that is, the level that you are supposed to have the terrain tool on). Even if you click Undo afterward, it seems to let you keep the terrain tool on top of that level. If not, try keeping the floor tile there. Then follow the steps as listed. If you did it wrong, the lowest wall on the garage will be short and squished down. If you did it correctly, the bottom garage wall will be normal size and the floor above it will be squished (as in pinecat's image http://images.thesimsresource.com/scaled/1256/w-813h-650-1256771.jpg). What is happening when the terrain leveling starts from a lower level is that it is squishing the lower level rather than the higher level, thus the door will be intersected by the wall. Another useful tip: I recommend putting doors in before stairs. If you have stairs a tile away from the wall where you want the door it will tell you the door can't intersect the stairs, but it will let you place stairs after you have placed the door.
On Apr 27, 2010 tammyt317 wrote:
Ok I just tried my first attached garage following your tutorial. I did ok, but why does my foundation seem elavated and the entry where my stairs go in the garage leading into the house is way up. Where did I go wrong? I'm going to try it again and will let you know if I got it. Thanks for this tutorial.
On Apr 27, 2010 tammyt317 wrote:
I did it! I figured out what I did wrong. Thanks again.
On Jun 19, 2010 Illandrya wrote:
Thanks! I actually managed to succeed first time. This tutorial made it soooo easy
On Jul 24, 2010 Mystic Doll wrote:
Thank you!
On Nov 15, 2010 roxstuck wrote:
Thanks! Too cool!
On Jan 2, 2011 ShpyPlayer wrote:
Thankyou so much! It has been really useful!
On Feb 2, 2011 sarah122703 wrote:
thank you soo much!!! i have been trying to figure this out for months!!!!
On Feb 7, 2011 Earlie Birdie wrote:
Really great. Thanks a lot! I've tried to do this dozens of times but it never worked. : )
On Feb 18, 2011 AnTh0NY wrote:
Great! Simple but usefull, ya know!
On Mar 13, 2011 twest101 wrote:
Thank you so much!!!  I was going crazy trying to create an attached garage for my homes!  Thanks for saving my sanity (at least as far as this goes - lol)! 
On Apr 18, 2011 jhoath wrote:
Hello, thanks for the tutorial! I'm having a problem though - the wall inside my house is slanted so I can't put a door in so where you've shown the picture of the horrible paint outside the garage, and the problem occurs on the garage wall and completely outside the house section, mine occurs inside my house.. This is the first time I've use CFE so any help would be great! Thanks again
On Apr 18, 2011 jhoath wrote:
Oh nevermind, I figured it out, level the terrrain inside the house as well xD Thanks for the awesome tutorial!!
On Aug 2, 2011 ezraghz wrote:
Cool tutorial! Very useful and I was wondering how do I do this before. Thank you.
On Aug 15, 2011 Ms_Snape wrote:
Great Tutorial! Should final be able to give my sim an attached garage.
On Dec 21, 2011 tily_lass wrote:
wonderful! I can now scrap my current project and re-start... i am trying to make MY house! And this will let me do it properly =D  

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