This build isn't going to be very useful for people since it requires so much space but I thought it would at least be worth showing here.
I'm currently working on a new version of Sunset Valley for myself and I wanted to make an apartment complex that looked much like the apartment complexes I've seen around the area where I grew up. The typical red brick two story apartment building.
While thinking about that and the fact that I don't really like how you only get one playable unit in an apartment building in Sims 3 I came up with an interesting idea.
I'll be commenting on each screenshot below it instead of above so you don't have scroll back up to read about what you just saw. lol
As you can see, what I have here is an L shaped apartment building. Looks very much like many of the apartments around here. This is intended to be kind of low income housing. Well, not really low income but just not ritzy like the one I have on the swap shop. The landscaping kind of looks a little too pretty for the price range of this place but I had to fill the space with something and the gazebo filled quite a bit of space nicely.
You'll notice on the left some Cherry Blossom trees. The plan was this...
Take that lot and name it something like Apartment Building North and save a copy to the library.
Then change which unit is the playable unit and rename it Apartment Building South and save that to the library.
Now here's the hard part. Manually flip all the landscaping and by flip I mean move the cherry blossom trees so that they would be on the right side of the screenshot above and move everything that was on the right over to the left.
Once that was done I could switch the playable apartment again and rename Apartment Building West and save a copy to the library. then just switch the playable apartment one more time and rename Apartment Building East and save that to the library.
The idea with the cherry blossom trees lining one side is that when the two mirror landscaped lots are placed next to each other it forms a kind of Cherry Blossom lane like so...
Now caw doesn't let you put lots so close together that they're touching each other. Smaller lots have to be at least one square apart and the larger lots, two squares so what I did was tried to get the color of the sidewalk tiles on the lot to match as closely as possible the city sidewalks and then just ran a city sidewalk right down the middle between the two lots.
There's an over head view of Cherry Blossom Row. That's what I'm calling it for now.
You can see there's a little seating area half way down. Basically just to connect the two lots visually.
And here's the end result. A huge apartment complex with 4 different playable units the most expensive of which is just over 10k.
Obviously it wouldn't do much good to put this on the swap shop. Who has 4 adjacent 64x64 lots lying around. lol
