Tutorials for Building Houses

 I like to use these Youtube videos as tutorials sometimes... I like to keep them handy because sometimes I just cant remember how to attach a garage or make split level stairs... ;0)... Please use them and enjoy. 
If you want to recommend any videos, please leave them in a comment and I will add them.


      ~*~ These videos help you build outside of the normal 4 walls

                                     

                                        SPLIT LEVELING-- DIFFERENT KINDS

(for split level housing with manually built basement)

(simple split leveling)

(simple split leveling)

(multi-level split leveling)

(split level stairs)

GARAGES & BASEMENTS

(how to build attached garages to foundation houses)

(how to make underground basement garage)

(how to manually build a basement and multi-level basement)

THE BEST LANDSCAPING VIDEO I HAVE FOUND

RANDOM VIDEOS

(how to make arched bridges)

(how to make an nice entrance)

(how to make loft windows)

(how to do different roof slopes)

How to make shark tanks

How to add elevators in homes/apts

http://www.thesims3.com/contentDetail.html?contentId=273858

*~* I learned something new while I was working on the haunted house. It involves elevated terrain and foundation. When you elevate a terrain and add foundation on top of it, there is the nasty looking terrain that you cant change. Well now you can. Click on the leveling elevation tool and lower the terrain to the ground level. This will convert the ugly raised terrain into foundation. So your foundation will replace the raised terrain.. Cool huh *~*

HOW TO BUILD APARTMENTS

(I haven't tried this one yet)

How to build apartments in Late Night

OK, this is a long but very useful tutorial on how to make your own apartment BUILDING, with your own apartment and NCP apartments as well. OK, first of all, enter these three cheats (without the speech marks):

"testingcheatsenabled true"

"buydebug"

"restrictbuildbuyinbuilding off"

OK, now you need to go into bridgeport and click on the lot which is called Floodgate Apartments. You need to delete everything apart from the mailbox and the actual apartment doors, which you must not delete otherwise the apartment will not work.
Now, build your apartment as you would like it, and make sure you make separate, empty apartments which NCP's will live in. Now, this is the trickiest bit.
First, click on the buy catalog and there will be a ? sign. Click on it and go to the miscellaneous button. There will be silver balls on this. Find the "Hidden Room Marker" ball The first one you would like to place would be all of the apartment rooms you don't want to live in. Place just one ball in each room. Next you need to place a "Public Room Marker" ball into the FIRST room of your apartment. Now, to make sure that NCP's can live in your apartment, press Ctrl and Shift then click on each door of the NCP's rooms, and then click "add the ability to add triggers and activated behaviors". (Make sure, that for every single home the doors that you kept are used.
Your apartment should now work, although your sim will probably be able to lock other NCP's rooms.