I'm designing a house and I want to build a deck and have a pool in the middle. I couldn't find any tutorials on it, any help would be appreciated.
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I don't thnk you can dig a pool into a deck, so you would have to have cut out some of the deck and sink the pool into the ground in the cut out area.

Tried that, and though it looks good the sim can't get in.

Well, you need some ground around the pool and steps down from the foundation.

1. Raise the ground where you want to place the pool up by three clicks.
2. Place your pool on that raised part of the ground.
3. Turn CFE off.
4. Build a foundation on each side of the pool, dragging it from the unraised part of the ground to the edge of the pool.

The pool walls will now be the height of your foundation, Although you'll have a shallower pool because the water level will stay at ground level, the pool should be swimmable.

You can get it at the normal height, as shown thus:




However, it seems to be only a temporary success, as the water-line becomes deeper after you exit and re-enter the lot.

Ah that is what I found too. Glad it's not just me being inept.

Does "water-line becomes deeper" mean that sims can't use it, or is it just a cosmetic issue? (I never tried this, but now I'm curious =)

A cosmetic issue. The water-line starts at the bottom of the foundation instead of the top. I'm sure Sims can still use it; the animation might be wrong, though.

I'm not convinced this has any merit over the two-stage entry where the pool is in the normal ground with a deck surrounding

Infinity pools are the only merit I can discern. Even then they won't look very infinite in The Sims.

It's gorgeous! But I don't think I would have the courage to swim in it.

yeah the terrain and the deck around the pool seems to work. you could add mimicry of having a square space between the pool and deck [ [] ]. you could add stairs for access to the lower elevation.
wow! that overhang pool would be difficult to make. you could raise terrain and build up the pool and add the stairs in the pool with a cheat. maybe after you get the pool set up then you could lower the terrain on the outside area and below to create the overhang.

hmmm so theorectically build up an "attached "second level to the raised terrain pool and then go to the "attached" area and drop to the first floor area.
maybe setup a "false bottom" that you can delete after you shut off the cheats.

HAH another great idea to try out! thanks

That's where Niol's fake pool tiles were so useful.

I built a split level deck with a pool on the second level in this house http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=319338 and I did this using jonesi's pool on the roof tutorial http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=94588

Oops looking at the building pics Im thinking this is sims 3 not 2 you want,

Using "constrainfloorelevation off" you can easily build a pool on a deck.
First place your foundation. Type in the cheat. And just create a pool on it. Only thing: make sure to leave at least two squares of foundation around the pool so that it doesn't mess up the surrounding terrain. The pool looks like a regular pool and you can add ladders and pool lights and everything.

I have now come to patch number 1.50 and suddenly I cant' make a walk-in-basement anymore. Dont' wake up these old threads unless it's actually usefull now 3 years later ... please