#modular stairs

[badchriss]

Weird trouble with modular stairs

Yay, after abandoning TS2 for so long i thought i might give it a whirl again....looks like everything is still well and in order......except for my modular stairs.

Crap, i must have forgotten to back up my modular stairs file. They mightn still be on my old HDD from my old rig, but i must find it first. Is there an easier way to track down which modular stairs i have? Like maybe with SimPe or something (or shooting into the dark and look for everything in the CC folder that has "stair" in it, hoping i can track down the creator and know where to look for the DL link)

Otherwise the game still looks fabulous and works....

[tvickiesims]

Holy Smoke Stairs Default Replacement

We already have clear glass replacement for windows and doors and it’s super cool. But some glass objects appear blue/green in game and I couldn’t stand it any longer. Everything should be matchy matchy ;)

So here’s a default replacement for one of the coolest modular stairs in game - Holy Smoke Stairs. There are two versions: the 1st one has only the glass part changed while the 2nd has an entire new texture created by @shastakiss (all credit goes to Shasta of course, I just copy-pasted their texture). There’s a very slight glass color difference between the two versions. If you’d rather have Shasta’s texture as a recolor, it’s available here (you’ll also find a matching replacement or recolor for metal fence/gate there).

BE SURE TO CHOOSE ONLY ONE VERSION!

Both versions have their neighborhood view model adjusted to better fit the new colors:

Compressed, clearly labelled, picture included.

Download at SFS

[buddydolly]

GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE!

MY STUPID ASS JUST GOT OPEN MODULAR STAIRS TO WORK THANKS TO THIS VIDEO BY PLEASANT SIMS. GIVE IT A CLICK IF YA HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO GET OPEN MODULAR STAIRS TO WORK. o: 

[badchriss]

Question about Stair Railings

Maybe i`m just hallucinating here but i`m almost sure i saw somewhere that it is possible to change th Handrails of Modular Stairs.

For example,i really would love to use those Concrete Stairs on the left (forgot the Name) but with the Maxis Wrought Iron Railings.

Is there a Way to switch them without much Trouble and poking around in SimPE or was it just a Dream?

[leandra-kinard]

Sims 2 Tutorial: u-shaped modular stairs on foundation

Okay, this is extremely off topic for me, but since I started playing the Sims again last night I've been playing around with modular stairs and individual staircase types. (yes, I'm going to build Xavier Mansion ^^)

So here's a little tutorial because I couldn't find a proper one anywhere and had to figure this out by myself.

1. Build a 6x5 foundation and on top a 2-storey room. Place a modular foundation in the right corner of the ground floor as shown in the pic. Create two 2x2 rooms in the two left corners (only 1 storey) as shown in the pic. Place floor tiles of your liking.

2. Outside, build a stair into the ground. This is to determine the exact depth. Remove the stair again.

3. Bring up the cheat box and enter "boolprop constrainfloorelevation false". Level the ground as shown in the pic (this is beneath the corner/room of the middle landing). Now that room has sunken by 4 units.

4. Now set the cheat to "true" again and place your stairs.

5. Now go to the other side of your staircase and build a foundation all around. You will notice that you cannot build a foundation up to 1 square next to the middle landing where the walls and foundations look all messed up. No worries, we'll fix this.

6. Enter the cheat again and level as shown. Important: do NOT level further towards the stairs than shown or you'll mess up your reference point on the middle landing. Do this on both sides of the staircase.

7. Now level the middle landing as shown. TUrn the cheat to "true" again.

8. Now you can cover up the gap with floor tiles.

9. Go to the front again and remove some of the walls, so you get a better look into your staircase. Still something messy there. We'll fix it by entering the cheat again, setting it to "false". Then it's basically the same as steps 6-8.

10. It's just ever so slightly tricky because when you level the middle platform you have to drag it across the upper platform as well, so be careful just to level one row of tiles there and then level the upper platform back.

11. As a final step go to the upper floor and level the walls as show.

12. Et voilà. Now you can decorate and build around your staircase as you please. Furthermore, you'll also be able to build a basement beneath it. Just the one wall around the middle platform is not good for using wallpapers with patterns or placing windows, but aside from that you can build just whatever you like.