Sloped Driveway (down) with basement garage

[Jonesi]

Place driveway and foundation as shown (7x9)



Delete the inside of the foundation (as shown) leaving a 1x1 strip all the way around except for the front



Place extension piece in the foundation edging



Add two foundation size guide walls for later



Turn on the cheat boolprop constrainfloorelevation false

Level down, use the lower terrain tool and dig a 1x1 hole into the extension piece that is 12 clicks deep



Drag from the lowered 1x1 square to fill/level inside the foundation piece and level the first two rows of the driveway (as shown)





You may notice that the top of the foundation has warped. Use the level terrian tool and drag it from one guide foundation piece to the other, diagonally across so that the entire foundation area is covered.



Now it should be level



Now we're going to create our sloped driveway.

Lower the first row (along the red line) on the join (blue dot) by 10 clicks each, the whole way across


Next do the next row, but lower 8 clicks for each dot



Same again, but 6 clicks down for each dot on this row.



Then lower by 4 clicks for the next row



And finally, the last row by 2 clicks on each dot



You should now see something resembling below, notice how the driveway still appears to be straight and "floating" above the sloped terrain?



To fix this use your design tool



Using the design tool, click on the driveway and recolour it, you'll now notice the driveway appears sloped



Add a wall across the beginning of the extension piece (if you've lowered the terrain correctly by 12 clicks the wall should fit fine)



Add a garage door and floortiles on top - remove the guide wall foundations and turn off the cheat boolprop constrainfloorelevation true



You can now build your house attached

Are you a genius or something?

Dan

It wont let me put floor tiles on? please help!

[Jonesi]

If the wall fits properly there should be no reason why the floortiles won't place. Try dragging the level terrain tool across the top of the foundation to level the grid then try the floortiles again. :o)

yay i did it thanks so much!!

[Jonesi]

You're welcome :o)

Oh!, thank!, now a have the right proportion for it, i have recently downloaded the driveaway and garage set (for those who don't have the Nightlife expansion ;) ), and with this tut create one will be an easy task

Adios!

Thank you so much, my places will look so much better now

Why can't I place a foundation adjacent to the driveway. It says, "terrain not level" whenever I try.

Thank you