The grid lines are useful sometimes, other times they just obscure your view. Hit the 'G' button on your keyboard to turn the grid-lines on and off.The rest of the apartment uses dividers, furnishings or flooring to transition between areas. You can also filter your items by styles and colors if you want help keeping your design consistent.ĭraw Walls to Enclose Rooms: Since I was doing this apartment as a loft, I wanted to use as few walls as possible. On the lower right-hand corner of the build screen, you can select 'filter items' and click on the packs you want to use. Build items found in the same game packs tend to go well together.Rugs, artwork, curtains, and furniture with patterns are especially good for this purpose because if you stick with using the colors in a pattern, you will know that they'll go together. Look through the items and choose an inspirational object. This gives me an idea of how I want to arrange my rooms, how big I want them, and where walls need to go. When trying to redo a floor plan, I lay it out first with different color carpeting.It gives me direction, but I know I can always change direction. That doesn't mean I have to stick to it, but having a plan helps if I should get stuck. You can certainly go into a room and just wing it as you redecorate, but I like to take a minute to get a plan in mind. A new text box should say, 'MoveObjects cheat is ON.' When that message appears, you can close the text box by hitting Ctrl+Shift+C again.Type 'bb.moveobjects on' in the text box and hit Enter.Type 'testingcheats true' in the text box and hit Enter.A small text box will appear in the upper left-hand corner of the screen. How to Enable the MoveObjects Cheat on a PC or Mac: Sims don't gain any advantages from this. Without this cheat, all of your items will look unnaturally spread out in your homes.Īs you can see, this cheat is not really 'cheating' in any game or challenge it merely allows you to move things around more freely when you're building. The cheat eliminates that buffer zone that allows you to group items closely. Without this cheat, all items in build mode have a buffer zone around them so that you can't put things too close together. You will want to enable the MoveObjects (one word) to cheat whenever you build in The Sims 4.

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