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#1 Old 11th Mar 2005 at 3:10 AM Last edited by car260680 : 11th Mar 2005 at 3:13 AM. Reason: forgot something
"non functional" windows on sloped walls
hi! I'm building a castle, and I have 2 sloped walls. I've used the "moveobjects on" and the "boolprop snapobjectstogrid false" cheats to try to place a window on each wall, and i have 2 problems while trying to do so:
1- if i place the window before "slopping" the wall (if there is such a verb) all i get is the window surrounded by a weird alpha square.
2- i've tried it all to place the window after making the slope but the window just won't be placed. it doesn't even appear when it touches the sloped wall so i can't drag-and-drop-it on the wall
(Edit:i don't care if the window doesn't look transparent, i just want the wall to look like it has a window on it)
i would like to find a solution to this problem, so any comments or ideas will be very well welcomed
my other choice for placing the windows is to make a wallpaper with 2 windows drawn in it, but that's not an option i guess... because you know how the wallpaper gets distorted on sloped walls. i'll give it a try later and I'll let you know how it goes....

thank you all very much! I hope any of you can help me!
Sorry for my terrible English
SimMisha
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#2 Old 11th Mar 2005 at 8:53 AM
Don't think that's possible. Windows & doors are rigid items. They only stand upright and need the full wall height to be placed properly.
Lab Assistant
#3 Old 11th Mar 2005 at 9:06 AM
No chance - I couldn't manage to get anything fixed to a sloped wall.
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#4 Old 11th Mar 2005 at 6:34 PM
oh... too bad! well thank you very much anyway!
I managed to place a straight wall underneath the sloped wall and kinda got the effect i was looking for what i wanted to do... thank you very much again!!!
Forum Resident
#5 Old 12th Mar 2005 at 8:13 AM
the problem is that while the frame is orientated to the flat tile where the mouse is, the cut-out is orientated to the top pf the wall
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#6 Old 15th Mar 2005 at 3:18 AM
The wall paper idea is about the only way to go. Make the wall paper distorted to begin, and then when it goes on, it will look correct. I have found a few wall papers that actually "do It" sort of... murals from (don't everyone hit me now) TSR.
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#7 Old 17th Mar 2005 at 5:40 AM
someone on this site created a house with an entire sloped wall that was transparent like it was a window. Cant remember right offhand where I seen it, but I believe they used an edited floor tile for the transparency. So maybe you can look into that?
Test Subject
#8 Old 17th Mar 2005 at 5:46 AM
Maybe this is the building you were talking about SimLurch?
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthre...?threadid=51475
Or maybe not. Either way, the creator of that building might be able to lend a helping hand.
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#9 Old 17th Mar 2005 at 7:38 PM
Yes, that is one of the houses that uses what I was talking about. Perhaps that along with a collection floor tiles when pieced together resembles the outline of a window (if there isnt one already then perhaps someone can make one) can be used to make the appearance of a window on a sloped wall. Just a suggestion.
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#10 Old 22nd Mar 2005 at 10:21 PM
The "windows" of that house above is a floorelevationboolproped floor. You cannot combine a sloped wall with "windows" made of a floorelevationboolproped floor.
(Hope this information is right. I think so, because I tried skopiepies skylights. She's doing great work with this sort of "windows".)
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#11 Old 10th Jul 2005 at 12:25 PM Last edited by niol : 21st Sep 2005 at 5:05 PM.
Check out the 2 links in this thread, and you'll know how to make it.

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=71936

Just sacrifice the first level of wall as the sloped wall and build the second level of wall as the first floor wall with windows above the twisted sloped walls, and you're there...


Update:

linking related threads together:


holes above windows-doors in modified walls
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=62329
non functional windows on sloped walls
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=50391
Splitlevel = funky windows?
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=90807
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