Solstice I will download from wherever you chose to put it as long as it meets this forums standards, and I'm sure it will. Thank you very much. I really have not ever seen such a beautiful courtyard before as the one you made. At least not in Sims.
As for the thing I was fooling around with: I'm doing a lot of "renovation/restoration" in Twinbrook. It is really quite depressing. So sad that they had to make an artificial lake and wound up drowning so much of the land and turning them into what looks like bayou or salt flats. Soooo, my "committee", (of one unless you guys want to start fixing up Twinbrook and we can all share our ideas, contest anyone?), is going around, reclaiming land and cleaning up houses, (without adding any extra value/cost to them), and laying down lots on sites that were once things like railroad tracks. When I saw the cup space could be built on I just HAD to fool with it. I started off with the raised foundation idea and can see it would be fairly easy to build something cool on that. When I tried the elevation change I could see I could do a lot with that as well. My next thought was, "I wonder if I could place a downloaded house on this artificial plateau". Well, you can but it sinks down into the ground if it is a small house. Haven't tried a big one. I like fooling around with the terrain tool and I bet the sunken house could actually wind up being rather cool. Just eat away some of the terrain after it's sunk, but leave a good bit raised.
Has anyone tried terracing land? I'd like to know if Sims could climb up and down a terraced, pyramid, without stairs or would they have to have stairs to reach the top? Could be fun. Once I'm done with my daVinci challenge and house contest I'll have to play with that idea.
