Creating Stairs, Need help :)

[joelmole100]

Hey,

I am thinking of creating a new staircase for the game completely from scatch. I have the staircase itself in google sketchup but apart from that, I have no idea what to do from there as I have never made a custom mesh in my life.

Any help will be appreciated :)

[HugeLunatic]

Start with the tutorial by jwoods. http://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=104795 I would recommend creating the table as shown to become familiar with the process of creating a custom object and getting it into your game. Standard stairs are no different than any other object creation.

[joelmole100]

Thank you :)
I think maybe the stairs I am creating are a bit more than simple stairs, I'm sure your familiar with this:
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://s3.hubimg.com/u/1956362_f520.jpg&imgrefurl=http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Titanic-Remembered&usg=__aVTWenskcjO3oRHy11JPpes1T90=&h=431&w=520&sz=62&hl=en&start=47&zoom=1&tbnid=LsDNw-d2bRdoYM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=153&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dtitanic%2Bgrand%2Bstaircase%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26biw%3D1366%26bih%3D533%26tbs%3Disch:10%2C998&um=1&itbs=1&iact=rc&dur=381&ei=ZlyNTOGCMpTNjAfnqIiUBg&oei=XlyNTPfPLN2X4ganjPCTCg&esq=3&page=3&ndsp=24&ved=1t:429,r:17,s:47&tx=140&ty=77&biw=1366&bih=533

[HugeLunatic]

Simple as in standard stairs, not spiral and not modular. :) Didn't mean your mesh was necessarily simple.

[IndycentSimCreations]

If you have Mansion and Garden stuff, you could use the stairs from as a base for your mesh

[moune999]

If you have Mansion and Garden stuff, you could use the stairs from as a base for your mesh

I'd advice against that. It would mean that only people who have M&G installed could use the stairs.

For staircases there's really no need to clone from anything but basegame objects, since none of the EP's add any new functions to them. And there's NEVER any reason to clone from a stuff pack, since none of them add any kind of new function to any kind of object.

Of course you could extract the mesh from the M&G staircase and use that for your own staircase. But then why not just make a recolor.