In the neighborhood, though, it only shows four slots for playable sims' apartments, so you likely can only have 4 playable families in a single apartment lot and the rest will be inhabited by townies. Obviously they're too small to be at all functional, but townies moved into 51 of them, with one left for my playable sims. See the picture to the right, with a lot with 52 (!) apartments. but as for a practical limit, there doesn't seem to be one.
There probably is a hard limit somewhere. Is there a limit to the number of apartments you can have on a single lot? Please see The Game Problem FAQ to fix it. If the mailbox does NOT change, this is generally due to hack conflicts or other conflicting/problem custom content or user files. NOTE: The residential mailbox will change to the apartment mailbox after you have zoned the apartment and exited to the neighborhood and returned. You can move them to another area of the lot - just make sure they're in a common area and accessible by your sims! They will be needed when the lot is an apartment. Your playable sims can rent them furnished (using a cheat - see below) and if the other units are inhabited by townies/non-playable sims, they will need to have furnishings!ĭo not delete the mailbox or trash can. You should always fully furnish your apartments. To prevent this issue, use only Maxis, non-custom arches in your apartment interiors. Some users report issues changing zoning if using pre-Apartment Life custom arches in apartments. You may have issues placing new items in these areas. However, as long as these areas are inaccessible to other sims, this doesn't appear to be a major problem. Stairs created using the interior foundation or stage tool may cause areas upstairs to be considered common area similar to the edging fence (items will not disappear when you move sims in). You MAY use any fencing on common areas outside of apartments safely.
NOTE: Any other low step-over fence used in an apartment will cause the same issue (you're just less likely to use them). These fences will make any area enclosed by them considered "common area" and not part of your apartment! The back yard will be considered part of the apartment, not common area, so any furnishings you place there will disappear when you move in a family unless you choose to Rent Furnished.ĭo NOT use the tiny stepover edge fencing from Pets, meant to divide a carpeted area from a tile area (called "The Great Divide by Divisive Divicrats"). Use the moveObjects on cheat to place the stairs. You will see a shadow on the ground from the invisible fence.ĥ. In the example pics, a bright red fence is used so you can see where to place it, but you'd use the invisible fence instead.Ĥ.
#Sims 3 apartment building download
Recommended is Niol's Invisible Fence (first download on that thread). Around the edges of the foundation, put an invisible fence. Put foundation where you would like your stairs to go.ģ. You must still fully enclose the back yard - no gates leading out.Ģ. Build your apartments on the foundation, and get everything ready except the stairs leading into the back yard. However, there IS a trick for this that requires a little bit of cheating and a custom item. You can always use the terrain sculpting tools to make them look unlevel once you're there - just make sure all of the edges are flat.ĬHEAT: If you want to do your apartments completely vanilla, no cheating, no custom content, then the above is true. You should, as a builder, get in the habit of using flat lots. Not only can non-flat lots cause issues even when they're not apartments (like cause holes in the terrain and make it impossible to place other lots where those un-level lots were before), but they apparently cause a similar corruption to beach lots for some users. This doesn't mean that you should level a lumpy lot with the level terrain tool or use the "level to road" tool - it means you should start with a regular flat lot. Beach lots become hopelessly corrupted when changed to apartments. Enter the lot in build mode to begin building. This tutorial will show you the basic concepts of building an apartment in the Apartment Life expansion.