Unlocked Apartment Shells

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ABOUT
I love City Living so much I decided to unlock some shells that can be used to recreate the premade apartments/penthouses! 
This mod just liberates the shells that act as elevator portals. Sort of for aesthetics, unless you intend to make dormitories out of these or something else. With For Rent you can assign units in these builds and they will behave just like previous apartments!

If you place a shell and then place an elevator, the shell will function the same way as the premade City Living apartments do. Just make sure you use the foundation height for the shell to recognize the build. 

If you prefer to do things yourself:
1. Build a 1st floor
2. Use the foundation height tool and drag it upwards for an approximate height of the lower part of the apartment shell you will be using
3. Click on a shell you want to use and line it up on the first floor
4. If the shell is not the correct height, use the foundation height tool again and re-add the shell (this is because the shells do not automatically update their position/rotation themselves for a too-complicated-to-explain reason)
5. Once you've lined up the height of the shell with the first floor, extend your square room until you fill-up the entire space
6. When the room lines up completely with the shell, the upper part of the shell should pop up (if not, just use the walls up/down button to refresh it)
7. Place down an elevator in the room, the shells are the entrance portals, and the elevators you place are the "exit" portals pretty much
8. Now to fix the foundation clipping through the shell, use the bb.showhiddenobjects cheat and go to foundations and you will see there's a City Living and a Base Game foundation that look the same, they're the foundations used for actual apartments to hide them! (I also have made a custom one which does not remove the terrain as it uses stilt foundation functions, which is handy to avoid seeing a void in the ground when you accidentally look inside the shell)
9. You're ready to make what you want out of your custom-built floor! I think this also allows the player options to make these fake apartments as commercial lots due to the fact these can be set to any lot type! With For Rent you're also able to assign apartments as units

OR
There is an optional ApartmentPrebuiltLots file you can download where I have made a build for each shell and put them as Tray files (Tray files make builds/households appear in your library)

The tray builds include all San Myshuno apartments/penthouses (minus the fashion district penthouse), Discover University penthouses, Eco Lifestyle 2 Pinecrest apartment versions, and 2 Lovestruck penthouses.

KNOWN ISSUES
If you place the gallery builds on lots, the shells will sometimes be placed down at an incorrect rotation, so use the TOOL mod by TwistedMexi to move/rotate the shells. Make sure you're on the first floor when moving the shell around. It's annoying, but I could not find a solution to solve this :/

If you have For Rent and assign units, the preview window sadly renders the terrain, and I've modified the lot previews for every single lot in-game to have a top-down view to make it nicer to look at.

NOTES
It's a little bit confusing how to find the elevator, trash chutes, mailboxes, and festival boards, but you should be able to just search for them by just typing in those keywords and the game might bring up the correct categories that way.

The only building not imported is the large penthouse in the Fashion District because it's larger than the largest lot size so it's rather pointless.
 
CREDITS
Sims4Studio
Maxis
Rasmus Massie's for the foundation height trick

REQUIRES CITY LIVING | DISCOVER UNIVERSITY | ECO LIFESTYLE | FOR RENT | LOVESTRUCK