Building BridgesBasic Tools needed for making bridges:
1. Foundation
-suggestion: Love of Lattice Foundation
-height: 2-3
2. Stairs, fences/low-walls, and railings
3. Pool Tool or Fountain Pool
Decorations:
1. Plants
2. Rocks
3. Floor and Wall Patterns for the stairs and foundation
4. Imagination - whatever takes your fancy
Easy-to-do steps
1. Place the foundation on the ground and determine the width, length.
2. Raise the height of the bridge by raising the foundation. 2-3 are good and looks the most natural. You can go higher if it is your fancy.
3. Attach stairs to both ends of the foundation. And add in the railings.
4. Place fences or low walls on the length of the foundation.
5. Check to make sure your staircase, railing, fences, and your floor-foundation are color coordinated by using the wall and floor patterns. You can also use the wall pattern to color the sides of your staircase.
6. Next is to lay down the water under the bridge. (makes me want to sing "bridge over troubled waters...")
You can use either the pool tool or the fountain tool. Depends on whether you want a shallow river or pond/lake or if you want to multi-use as a pool. Also depends on what decoration/effect you want to use.
7. Last part is the most enjoyable. Decorate your bridge. Make use of plants and rocks. Be sure to use MOO if you're like me and want to go deep into decorating.
Ctrl+Shift+C to enter cheatcodes
Enter the following:
testingcheats on
bb.moveobjects on
Turn off the cheats once you are done. Just change type in
bb.moveobjects off
testingcheats off
You can opt out from using MOO and simply use other existing decorations made specifically for pools and fountains.
Some samples of bridges
This was done with MOO. Used fountain tool for the water. Water is knee-deep high and you can place plants on the bottom and shows halfway though. It shows a good depiction of a riverbed.
This was created using the pool tool. I prefer using this one. I want my sims to be able to swim in the water as well as making the water/lake as part of the landscaping.
This one was created without MOO and is a plain walkway over a small canal. Used fountain pool for this as it is an old build of mine before pools were available.
Have fun making bridges!