Here I will show you, how to make a floating building high above the ground.

For a floating building you will need the cheat "constrainfloorelevation false/true" (without "") and the cheat "testingcheatsenabled true" or a teleporting-device like the Llama or, for everyone without Supernatural, the buyable teleporter by VoiceIHear or a similar device (the problem with the buyable teleporter is the fact that every lot, using the buyable teleporter, is broken after exporting into a sims3pack-file).

I also recommend you to switch off the auto-complete-roof. Roofs may cause some problems.


So let us begin:

1. Make a floor on the ground where you want to build the house

2. Build a wall around the floor and then build a floor in the first floor, as seen in the picture below.

3. Delete the walls on the ground floor and delete a 3x3 edge of the floor on the ground-floor.

Now the building should be similar to the building, as seen in the picture below



Now comes the important part and you should be very careful. One mistake and you must start from the beginning.


4. Press ctrl+shift+c to open the cheatconsole and type in "constrainfloorelevation false" (without "") and then raise the terrain on the deleted edge with the raising-tool of the build mode and the middle square pencil up to the maximum terrain-height.



5. Now go to the first floor and use the straightening-tool to straight the whole first floor, starting from the raised part to raise it to the same level



6. Use the cheat "constrainfloorelevation true" (without "") and go back to the ground-floor to straight the raised terrain back to the original level with the straightening-tool.


7. Repeat steps 4 to 6 until you are happy with the floating-height of the building. If there is a bug with the first floor while you are making the steps, just delete one piece of the first floor and press the Return-Button in the game to fix the bug. Don't forget to set "constrainfloorelevation" back to "true", when you have finished raising the building. Now your building is floating in the sky.



8. Now you can build the final house and the interior of the house. You can build up to 3 levels on this raised first floor. Now you can also delete the floor on the ground. When you want to use the cheat “testingcheatsenabled true” to teleport in the house (activate the cheat in the cheatconsole, hold ctrl+shift and left-klick on the location, where you want to teleport and choose “teleport here”), then now your building is ready for your sims.



9. When you doesn't want to cheat to get in the house, you must place two teleporting-devices of the same type (for examples, see on the top of the thread), one inside the building and one on the ground-floor to be able to access and leave the building without cheats. In the Pictures I used Llamas of “The Sims 3 Supernatural” as teleporting devices.



10. Now your floating house is ready for your Sims.




Glitches with floating buildings:

-Since patch 1.5, I think, there is a strange glitch, when you take steps 3 to 5 more then three times. -It's also impossible to build walls under the floating house but fences, terrain and objects should work, when you have set the “constrainfloorelevation” cheat back to “true”.
-In this concept with teleporters or Llamas to access the building, the AI isn't be able to access the house, because AI-Sims can't use the Llama or the teleporter. I am trying to include elevators in the next floating buildings, which should be useable by the AI. When it works, I will make an additional tutorial to show you how to use elevators on floating buildings.

I hope, this tutorial was useful. When you have some questions, ask me.