Frustrations in Digging
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Teonnyn Ornitz
Registered User
Join date: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 4
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11-23-2005 08:43
I just became a Premium member and bought one of the "First Land" parcels, 512. I've been trying to dig a basement in the ground, however the ground is never as flat as I want. Could anyone recommend a good technique for building a basement?
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Noel Marlowe
Victim of Occam's Razor
Join date: 18 Apr 2005
Posts: 275
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11-23-2005 08:53
Sink the land a little deeper than your basement floor. The place your basement floor prim over the ground and then build up from there.
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Teonnyn Ornitz
Registered User
Join date: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 4
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11-23-2005 09:04
What about getting it completly smooth? My major problem so far... one side is always a lot deeper then the other. Should the entire parcel be smoothed out first?
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Noel Marlowe
Victim of Occam's Razor
Join date: 18 Apr 2005
Posts: 275
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11-23-2005 09:29
A picture is worth a thousand words. So, let me sketch some things, scan them and then upload them here and see if we are on the same page. Might be a few hours before I get home though.
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Teonnyn Ornitz
Registered User
Join date: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 4
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11-23-2005 09:40
No problem here, heh. I could use a lot of advice on building... still trying to get the basics down. *chuckle*
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Teonnyn Ornitz
Registered User
Join date: 24 Aug 2005
Posts: 4
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11-23-2005 09:58
Actually.. *baps self* Heh, I think I just discovered one of the most helpful tools there is for land modification.. "Select Land". It's helping a lot with the basement problem.
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Lora Morgan
Puts the "eek" in "geek"
Join date: 19 Mar 2004
Posts: 779
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11-23-2005 10:44
Yep. Select land, select the lower option, apply to selection. Then judicious flattening.
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Bertha Horton
Fat w/ Ice Cream
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 835
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11-23-2005 15:19
Sometimes flattening still won't work for the whole basement because of one little area whose lowest possible depth is higher than the rest. The sim is made that way, and you'd have to be the owner of the sim to change the land variation defaults so to have perfectly flat floors.
Of course, if the difference is small, primming over the basement will hide any surface imperfections.
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Krazzora Zaftig
Do you have my marbles?
Join date: 20 Aug 2005
Posts: 649
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11-23-2005 15:32
Teonnyn Ornitz
IM me in game I can't promise flat land but i havea script that will flatten the land for you. It helps in making land flat unless you go beyond the +/- limits which I think is 5%? I can send you the script tonight.
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Upshaw Underhill
Techno-Hobbit
Join date: 13 Mar 2003
Posts: 293
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11-23-2005 16:57
To expand on what Bertha said...
Most sims are limited to + or - 4M total from the original map.
If you're on what was originally a hillside then the deepest part of the hill will never go down more than 4M. Plus you may run into issues on the edges depending on how high or low your neighbors parcels are.
To make the most of it you might be better off doing a 'Revert' so that it's back to its original shape then building up on the low side and down on the high side to get the most even result.
L8r,
UU
P.S. There are a relatively low number of sims in which full terraforming (- to 0, + to 100M) is still possible, these are sims that were grandfathered in when the limits were imposed. There is never 'First Land' and very rarely *any* land available in those sims, unless you've got a pretty hefty chunk of change to lay on it.
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