5 Simple Building Tips & Tricks for The Sims 3

I'm always scared to use Constrainfloorelevation, my builds always end up with a lot of visual glitches. But your video kinda makes me want to try it again... and in all my years of The Sims 3 your video is literally the most straightfoward and easy to understand (other youtubers make it looks scary). Keep up with the great content!

I've logged hundreds of hours in the sims 3, a good third of that is building. You have taught me not to be afraid.

This what so great! Thank you for helping us! I'm and old lady (31) and recently returning to TS3, and as a kid I didn't even think about building a house. Your "Top 10 Mods" video was how I found out about you, so thank you for that as well! Personally, I will take tutorials you feel like making.

Also the friezes are 5 stairs tall, so I shorten them the same exact way as the foundation. constrainfloorelevation+stairs+alt. It helps a lot. Thank you!

Omg I love this video! I've been playing TS3 for 13 years and I never knew most of the things you did in this video! I'll definitely watch this video every time I build a house

building in the sims 3 is really what holds me back 😭😭 i’ve gotten the hang of create a sim and the gameplay is soooooo fun compared to sims 4 but the building is so complicated

The amount of tears I've shed trying to lower the terrain to make the stairs shorter and I could have just used ALT???

Wow The Sims 3 IS a monster! Thank you for the video. I've been too timid to build in the game but with your help it actually gets better! Would really appreciate a tutorial on roofs ❤

This is great stuff. i knew most of it but the alt stairs trick was a new one for me. Maybe do a video on good roofing. I hate roofs.

Cool video! Make more tutorials about houses, please!!!

Thankyou so much for explaining this so simply! This is the first vid Iv watched where it actually made sense in my brain. Other sim YouTubers explain too quickly & I can’t follow 😅

I thought I knew every trick for building in sims 3. This is cool! You are really going to inspire alot of people to come back to the best sims game. Who knows? What if it got so big again that EA pulled some cool, unreleased sims 3 stuff out of their archives!?!?

Oh dear, one minute into the video and I am already stunned at the single step foundation lol..awesome video! Thank you so much 🙏

So excited to see how to do the living room omg! For the sunken living room if you're scared of constraintflooreval (this is how i did it before knowing about it lol): It won't be exactly the same but you can just remove the foundation from the center of the room. I used the one stair foundation (alt key) to let them step down and used the wrap around just to hold decor, and you can color the inside of the foundation with the wall options. I haven't had any issues with sims not recognizing the objects in it (one of my sims actually cleaned up the book clutter i did for decor lmao) Definitely excited to have this option! I remember removing the foundation all the way against the wall and realizing the walls were floating haha

This was great! TS3 is mostly what I play these days and I'm just starting to try to be more advanced at building and using constrainfloorelevation more. Didn't know you could do that with foundation, too. Thanks for the tips!

Thank You so much, I needed this tutorial video 🥰

I learned about the alt foundation trick from one of your other videos last year. I've been playing TS3 almost since it came out, and I couldn't believe I'd never heard that tip before! I'd seen SO MANY build videos. But even with the tips I'd used before, it's nice to have a reminder occasionally. I do think it's funny that sims still need stairs to use the single step foundations, though.😛

Thanks for this! I am always a bit afraid of using constrainfloorelevation, but I probably should try again. I would definitely be interested in knowing how to make apartment buildings :)

Yes. This was needed. Thank you!

I knew how to get friezes and deal with stairs through them, but the “constrainfloorelevation” cheat + level terrain was completely new to me - it would never have occurred to me to try using “level terrain” on anything but the ground! 😅 Great video!