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Case Study House #6 Redux (modern base-game no-CC house)

by Mootilda Posted 4th Jun 2010 at 11:14 PM - Updated 6th Jun 2010 at 9:49 PM by Mootilda : Added a weather-proof version
 
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#2 Old 5th Jun 2010 at 12:47 AM
The work and creativity you put into this is incredible!!!!!!! Great, Great job!!!!!!

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#3 Old 5th Jun 2010 at 12:49 AM
Default How to Make the Roof
I've included screenshots of the TS2GridAdjuster parameters, so that you can see how I made the sloping roof. "Windows" are provided using one of the see-through fences, available in the base-game. The rest was trial and error; I tried several different slopes and several different positions for the "windows" before I had something that looked right to me.
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#4 Old 5th Jun 2010 at 6:43 PM
Thank you for doing this, and also for providing the grid adjuster screenshots. Did you run walls, slope them, and then convert them, in that order? Or convert them and then slope them? And the fences -- did you run them as walls, and then covert them to fences (I don't see how you could get them to stack like that otherwise)?

I'm following these houses avidly, and bringing them into the game for study. My goal: an apartment lot of small Eichler-style homes, such as you still see in the Bay Area.
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#5 Old 5th Jun 2010 at 8:22 PM Last edited by Mootilda : 5th Jun 2010 at 8:38 PM.
First, I experimented with this technique with a simple rectangular house, to help me decide which fences made the best "windows", how many "window" levels I needed and what slope I wanted. After some trial and error, I decided on three levels of the blue fences and that I liked a slope of 6 clicks for 8 tiles. This fit well with a 3x3 lot, since three levels of windows would require 24 tiles for the main house, with an additional 2 tiles for the fireplace.

Just FYI: 4 fences stacked looked really nice, but I felt that the resulting roof was no longer the "gentle slope" required for the lot. I've posted some snapshots of my test lots for you.

Then, I built the oddly shaped CSH6 house with walls and floors, up to the top level.

After building all levels, I removed walls on the topmost floor which was to have "windows" and replaced them with fences as appropriate (no need for fences except where I wanted the windows; no need for walls unless I expected the height of the wall to be > 0). Once I had the walls and fences placed appropriately for a level, I removed the floor tiles for that level and then moved down and repeated for the next level.

After all of that, I sloped the upper levels and looked at the result. It wasn't quite what I wanted, since several of the windows seemed "orphaned" by the odd shape of the house; so I used the GridAdjuster to set all of the top levels flat again, put walls one tile from the edge (so that they wouldn't conflict with my fences) and replaced the floor tiles, then fiddled with the placement of the "windows" a bit. It took a couple of tries, but I finally got something that I was happy with.
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Scholar
#6 Old 5th Jun 2010 at 11:02 PM
Thank you for the details!
Test Subject
#7 Old 6th Jun 2010 at 6:16 PM
I am trying to close in my roof but it wont let me, help!?!
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#8 Old 6th Jun 2010 at 9:11 PM Last edited by Mootilda : 6th Jun 2010 at 9:49 PM.
Quote: Originally posted by Deeptho
I am trying to close in my roof but it wont let me, help!?!
Be sure that you are viewing the level just above the main floor. Start with a floor tile in the corner next to the fireplace chimney, then drag the floor across. It's a bit fidgety, and you have to do the ceiling in several sections.

Because it requires several passes, I've uploaded a weather-proof version for you. You'll find it with the other download.
Test Subject
#9 Old 8th Jun 2010 at 1:04 PM
This looks like an architects dream .. a very beautiful house ..thank you for sharing your creation.
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#10 Old 8th Jun 2010 at 1:28 PM
WOW. That's all I can say.
Alchemist
#11 Old 9th Jun 2010 at 7:32 PM
So original and creative, and sooooo hard to build! Thank you so much for all the help understanding how to build it.
Field Researcher
#12 Old 5th Jan 2011 at 4:19 AM
WOW really?! Is this really possible?! Are my eyes deceiving me?! This house is so outstanding! So perfect! So impeccable! Mere words, syllables or phrases cannot express how beautiful this house truly is. It's so lovely I just can't keep my eyes off it! Thank you so much! I have always envisioned a modernistic home like this but could never seem to build one for myself... Thank you so much for gracing the lives of many (including mine) with this glorious lot :lovestruc
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#13 Old 3rd Sep 2011 at 9:47 AM
love this...very creative! Sometimes I wish I was more creative with the houses, but then I am thankful for people like you who do it for me <3
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#14 Old 9th Mar 2014 at 1:41 PM
You are beyond talented, Mootilda.
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#15 Old 27th Feb 2016 at 8:43 PM
Thanks You!