Tutorial for Split level WITHOUT warped walls

[Jonesi]

Figured this out a while back but only thought it might come in useful to other builders, if ya don't already know how to do it, that is! :)

Basically, when you make a split level house the walls get warped right? So ya can't have patterned wallpaper and the windows and doors are on different levels etc...

By using this tutorial you can get rid of the warping, making all the walls even but still having the split level. All wallpapers are even and look normal, windows and doors are all level....what more could ya ask for? lol

Hope this helps anyhow!

Two formats - Word and HTML...you need Winrar to unpack!

[BR_FL]

Thanks!

[Artemis4666]

I've been longing for split level homes so I'll certainly give this a try, thanks.

[babygwaar]

Ive been waiting so long for something like this to turn up. Is there any way i can read this without needing winrar?

[Jonesi]

You need Winrar to unpack it...you should get it, it's free and quite a small program. Infact if you download off this site you're bound to need it at some stage..

I can't upload the .doc or .html file as they're not valid extension types, so I'm afraid you will need Winrar to unpack, sorry :)

[babygwaar]

Well thanks for the tute and your help. I probably will get winrar now. Thanks

[QwinsepiaSquared]

Wow, I can finally make split homes with windows. Thanks!

[greeneyedsims]

Thank you for doing this tutorial! --green

[Numenor]

Jonesi, it seems to me that you have solved one of the oldest and most tedious problems with split-level houses! Thanks!

(P.S.: I've downloaded and unpacked the HTML version, but I can't see the images... They are in the folder, but are not shown in the browser... Just to let you know; I prefer Word format, anyway :))

[Hunni1066]

Wow well done!! I was trying to get my split level right and was away to get some help, but you solved it thanks!! :gjob: :clap: :clap:

[Jonesi]

Jonesi, it seems to me that you have solved one of the oldest and most tedious problems with split-level houses! Thanks!

(P.S.: I've downloaded and unpacked the HTML version, but I can't see the images... They are in the folder, but are not shown in the browser... Just to let you know; I prefer Word format, anyway :))


Hmm, keeps doing that for some reason, maybe I'm packing it wrong or summat, thanks for letting me know :)

[blessedangel]

Many thanks. I really appreciate it. Those warped walls I kept getting were a pain. But, no more. Hahaha! ^_^

[Loverat]

Absolutely and positively sensational. It seems such a simple step (relatively) that its unreal to think that noone had worked it out ages ago! 10x and straight in my collection of tutes thank you :D

[J. M. Pescado]

As far as I can tell, this only creates quarter-height walls, which you still can't mount doors, such as garage doors, without wall-cutout irregularities where the wall is partially fused through the door. I'm not sure what this is supposed to actually do.

[niol]

This strategy is working...

One can place the doors, arches or else with the "moveobjects" cheat. After saving and reloading, they'll show up properly.

Yet, sometimes, one may open up the upper walls when the build object can already cover the area. One can even add an extra level to fill the visivible gap when the build object can't.

Anyway, as long as there is no upper tiles on the first level, sims or whatever can access the build objects like doors, arches or else... In other words, the sims height accessment limit is defined by the horizontal grids of the upper base of a partition rather than the partition itself. Tiles can fixate the horizontal grids. Without them, the horizontal grids are free to readjust.

[Jonesi]

As far as I can tell, this only creates quarter-height walls, which you still can't mount doors, such as garage doors, without wall-cutout irregularities where the wall is partially fused through the door. I'm not sure what this is supposed to actually do.


Well, it unwarps the walls......

Obviously doors will still have to be on the foundation height.....but windows placed on non foundation walls will be level with those placed on foundation and doors also.....the wallpaper won't warp, so any style paper can be used on split level....also you could try doing the opposite to the tutorial and instead of lowering the grid to foundation height all the way round, you can raise it....you'd need numenors unlevel walls to be able to place windows without a gap though.. :)

[Anette]

It is cool download one archive instead forum topic with many graphic files. Thank you!

[fw190a8]

Sorry about this, but all you've achieved here is a 2-storey structure with the lower floor 4 clicks high (foundation height) and the upper floor 16 clicks high (standard wall height). It doesn't eliminate wall texture warping because the walls are all the same height with flat tops, so there isn't any warping to worry about.

[Numenor]

Nevertheless, Jonesi had an original idea that no one has explained before, and it's easy to do. Perhaps some experienced builders already used this tecnique, but no one has ever explained it before to us "amateur" builders :)

Actually, I have a suggestion that makes the building even simpler.
In the tutorial, after placing the foundation, we have to flat the top level, than the lower level (using the floor tiles), and then again the top level; but if we just put the floor tiles on the lower level, we should flatten both levels at the same time...

[Miss Puff]

If you want the pictures to show up in the html document all you need to do is create a new folder inside the one that's already in the zip and call the new folder "NoWarpSplitLevelHTML_files". Put all the image files in there, but not the html file and then they will show properly. :)

[Jonesi]

Sorry about this, but all you've achieved here is a 2-storey structure with the lower floor 4 clicks high (foundation height) and the upper floor 16 clicks high (standard wall height). It doesn't eliminate wall texture warping because the walls are all the same height with flat tops, so there isn't any warping to worry about.


With all respect, I don't think you have read the tutorial correctly, or if you have, you may not have understood it properley.
Have a look at the pictures and you will see what I mean. The wall DOES infact warp on a normal split level house as most builders know. Making it difficult to use patterned wallpapers as anything with pattern or straight lines will, infact, warp!

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2618/joined4nq.th.jpg (http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=joined4nq.jpg)

[Fat D]

actually, when mikeinside thought about split-levels, he first used your method, but as they were issues with windows and doors having to be placed on higher levels, he changed his tutorial to use the technique we all know.

[niol]

One may not deny that this tutorial maker does recognise a need to show the strategy to those who happen not to be aware of, and offer it here...

Besides the shown way, there're some other uses, but the essential strategy has already been stated out. And, that's what this tutorial is for.

Anyway, probably, more instances of how this strategy can be applied are wanted...
Anyone wanna give in yours , please?

[kc15]

thanks jonesi when i build split level it makes my head go :loco:

[sapoman]

This Is Very UseFull and Clear Thx :nyah:

[kidio222]

Thank you very much!

[simwookiee]

Great Tutorial. I always liked split level homes but hated how the walls looked afterwards. You're a Sim's life saver :)

[01----Anne]

Thanks! You helped me a lot!
xx Anne :)

[tastywheat]

If you want the pictures to show up in the html document all you need to do is create a new folder inside the one that's already in the zip and call the new folder "NoWarpSplitLevelHTML_files". Put all the image files in there, but not the html file and then they will show properly. :)
Or if you just moved the html and xml files to a higher directory it would work. I edited the html file and took out the extra folder name so it's just "src=image###.jpg".

[Ummi1]

Ok, Im dl the instructions. Ive been trying so hard to make split level homes and just cant cut.

BTW you make BEAUTIFUL homes!

[Ummi1]

Im having a really hard time with this. my walls still come out warped....on the brighter side...I finally learned how to build a connecting staircase uding a foundation...well...that was learned by mistake--lol

[niol]

The HTML vesion can be viewed with a browser like Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etscape, Opera, etc...
The "doc" can be viewed with word processors like Openoffice, microsoft office and so on as long as they support the required format.

It depends on how much one knows to use a word-processor like Word to make web-pages. One can even use a text-editor like notepad to make a web-page.

Hopefully, ihis's sufficient to end something kinda outside of this tutorial.

[[email protected]]

Pleeese help! I cant build half of the wall. Help me.

[[email protected]]

Pleese help me! i cant build half of the wall.

[losonogo]

great tut it will help alot, thank you

[losonogo]

Pleese help me! i cant build half of the wall.

Have you used the foundations?
Activated the cheat?

[JustTheBast]

I don't get it.

I thought the whole point of the tutorial with the warped walls was to get around the fact that split levels which are built the obvious way, with a flat level at half or quarter height, can't have doors or windows on the lower half.

All this tutorial does is to go back to the flat level, except that it's more complicated than building it that way from the start and that the invisible half of the first level floor is, as a result, pushed up to four clicks beneath the second-level floor, which has no effect whatsoever.

[BluSoSexy330]

i cannot download the tut it keeps opening as just jumbled words and letters can anyone help me

[JustTheBast]

i cannot download the tut it keeps opening as just jumbled words and letters can anyone help me

Um, just to exclude the obvious up front, you do know that both versions of the tutorial are in RAR-Format archives, which have to be saved to disk and then unpacked with a program like WinRar, WinAce, or 7-zip, before viewing the contents - right?

[amberandcarlos33]

I have a question concerning this tutorial. Will this work correctly if I were to create a basement using the foundation?

[Yardbyrd2006]

this is really cool

[Jonesi]

I have a question concerning this tutorial. Will this work correctly if I were to create a basement using the foundation?

Uhuh, exactly the same

[middlemore16]

im making a victorian townhouse that as you come through the front door you go along the hallway then up a mini flight of stairs to get to the kitchen at the back of the house. Then you go up another flight to a split level to access the bathroom, then up a final mini flight of stairs to the bedrooms and a landing. Then of course the attic but i was wondering how could my sims go up the first mini flight of stairs and how you think it would affect the stair behavour??? Any ideas??

[mogbog123]

You need Winrar to unpack it...you should get it, it's free and quite a small program. Infact if you download off this site you're bound to need it at some stage..

I can't upload the .doc or .html file as they're not valid extension types, so I'm afraid you will need Winrar to unpack, sorry :)winrar is not free, it is a mere 40 day trial

i reccomend alzip at:www.altools.com
works same as winrar

[alessiae65]

Thank you !

[Sofie0908]

Thx a bunch

[danieeel971]

The WORLD file dont works to extract, and the HTML file is empty!!!

[Marcella17]

Yes!! I can split-level again!!

[qupa]

in one of the EPs they added split level foundations i think it was seasons or something but i got it when i installed pets and that was before seasons so i'm not sure :anime:

[niol]

EP3 OFB is the first EP that introduced stage/split level foundation/etc...

[Wiccan_priest]

I have followed the instructions to the letter. When i go to place a window or door, i have this open space above it. I am not sure how to get rid of it. any ideas?

[IndycentSimCreations]

how did you get the foundation to touch the walls?????

[rollmodel]

id looove to know how to do this.. too bad im on a mac. :( i cant seem to open it with stuffit