using fence as a railing

[obludka]

So. I am trying to buld another house with main acces from first floor so I need a nice stairs with a railing leading up there. I would like to do this http://simsurbania.com/topic/2055226/1/
but havent been able to figure HOW exactly to do it.
So if anyone here has an idea or if there is a tutorial for it somewhere please be so kind and help me :help:
Thanks :)

[motheranne]

By the looks of the pics, the main enterance in these houses are on the second floor. I think you could use any stairs and it would work.
Just build the house normally. Where you want the second floor door to be, add some more floor tiles out from where you want the front door (you can use the colums if you need to extend it more than 2 tiles out) and add the stairs.
If you are looking for specific stairs you do not have, check out the wcif forum here: http://www.modthesims.info/forumdisplay.php?f=557.

[obludka]

[QUOTE=motheranne]By the looks of the pics, the main enterance in these houses are on the second floor. I think you could use any stairs and it would work.

No what I meant was to have a regular fence acting as a railing on a maxis stairs -the thing I want is having probably compressed wall under the stairs and on the top of the wall a fence giong all the way down with the stairs therefore it looks as it is a normal railing added on the stairs - as shown on the pics .....
Hopefully I explained it more clearly ...

[HugeLunatic]

For that pic they used normal walls for the one level, then a fence on top. Then using the cfe cheat placed the stairs, warping the walls down creating the stairs sides. Been a really long time since I've done a wall like that and I'm not sure if there is a specific tutorial for that. I will see if I can scrounge up something specific. But I'm pretty sure you just need to place your walls with a fence on top, put a tile on the top stoop, then turn on cfe and place the stairs down. This makes the top stoop sixteen clicks high and the very end one four clicks. It might help getting the bottom four clicks high by using the foundation at the bottom to pull it down.

[obludka]

Thanks, thats what I thought but even with the cfe cheat on, the wall still stays untouched after placing the stairs .....

[motheranne]

Ah I see now:)
It might work if you turn cfe on, place a foundation right against the wall under the front door however wide you want the stairs to be. Pull it up to the right level (so you have a big tall foundation at the right level to the front door), delete the middle parts (where the stairs will go but leaving two sides of foundation). Then add a fence to the foundation, then slope it all down and add the stairs?
Not sure, I'll go play around with it for awhile:) I did manage this once in a house I did, just can't remember how I did it. lol.

[HugeLunatic]

Yep I noticed that, I just had to go play around with it. :) I was able to do it the long way. Build the walls with fence on top and place stairs. Then to lower the walls you will need to use cfe and control columns outside of this, as shown: http://mikeinside.modthesims2.com/building/dummystairs/index.html

[obludka]

Ah I see now:)
It might work if you turn cfe on, place a foundation right against the wall under the front door however wide you want the stairs to be. Pull it up to the right level (so you have a big tall foundation at the right level to the front door), delete the middle parts (where the stairs will go but leaving two sides of foundation). Then add a fence to the foundation, then slope it all down and add the stairs?
Not sure, I'll go play around with it for awhile:) I did manage this once in a house I did, just can't remember how I did it. lol.

YES!!!I did it :rofl: finally after about an hour playing I managed to make it look as close to reality as possible.Thanks for the help ...virtual cookies to both of you :)

[ekrubynaffit]

just to elaborate heres a great tutorial http://www.thesimsresource.com/tutorials/view/category/sims2-houses/id/2632/creating-stair-rails-with-fencing helps to branch out and make some great staircases