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Bagu Popinjay
Registered User
Join date: 28 Dec 2005
Posts: 21
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01-03-2006 22:04
Lets say you wanted to make your basic 4-cornered home, and you wanted to say go for a 2-story model.
Would you build it like a floorplan from an overhead perspective?
- You build the 1rst floor,
- Seperate the individual rooms,
- Alott a section for stairs to the 2nd floor,
- Build the 2nd floor (copy the outside walls of the 1rst floor for the 2nd floor),
- Seperate the individual rooms,
- Put a roof on.
- Add accessories (windows, door, etc)
Our am I looking at building the wrong way?
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Toy LaFollette
I eat paintchips
Join date: 11 Feb 2004
Posts: 2,359
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01-03-2006 22:20
its the way I do it  just remember cause of camera angles make the ceilings high
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Bertha Horton
Fat w/ Ice Cream
Join date: 19 Sep 2005
Posts: 835
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01-03-2006 23:35
Before making a home, first decide on if you want a basement. If so, you must decide to either a) lower the ground, put up grass prims (leave an opening for a stairwell) and then put the house on that, or b)make a foundation for the house and build everything on that instead, but make the foundation hollow to fit the basement inside.
You can also seperate the individual rooms after the floors were put in, but bear in mind if you're stretching wall prims to fit, you have to check on the other side of the floor just in case it poked through.
Also, stairs are a bothersome use of primcount. A good hollowed-out single prim which was also cut properly and offset correctly, makes a good ramp. And spiral ramps are possible as well (though annoying if you have low FPS).
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Lora Morgan
Puts the "eek" in "geek"
Join date: 19 Mar 2004
Posts: 779
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01-04-2006 05:47
That's basically it Bagu. I'll build it with more prims than are needed using a basic floorplan approach, then go back later and remove/combine as many as possible. For example I might us a hollowed out and cut cube in a corner instead of two prims meeting, or I might be able to extend first floor walls to the second floor and delete the others.
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