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Sideways Garage Tutorial
I was really excited when I sucessfully created a sideways garage. So excited that I wanted to share my success with all the great peeps here. However it does not appear to work on all types of lots. It would appear (I am hoping for some feedback from other players) that for a sideways garage, the lot must be on a corner plot. Can someone confirm?

It seems simple, but I had to play around on several different lots before I found one that worked. It seem the lot adjacent to an L shaped street corner works best? See the pictures for the type of lot I mean.

Sideways garage:

I used the "move_objects on" cheat

How To Build A Sideways Garage
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1. Place Driveway as you would normally.

2. Remove the sidewalk strip on the opposite side of the lot.

3. Select the driveway extension piece. You will notice that it has already rotated – ie. It is now parallel with the street. Place one or two pieces. (I used two)

4. Build you garage around the extension pieces.

5. Insert garage doors.

6. Add cars. I used additional flooring to extend the driveway to the additional garage. This will not be noticeable if you use an invisible driveway like the one by Roddyaleixo here at MTS2.

7. Finish house, and tada!!! A sideways garage!

I have sucessfully managed sideways entrances from both the left and right of the pictured lot. (See image with yellow car). However I am not having any luck with lots not on a corner. Am I missing something? If anyone knows why this happen please feel free to correct me.

Feedback is most welcome.

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Sideways Garage template

I finally figured out out to turn the garage!!!! Took me quite a few tries but I got there in the end!! Yay!

Anyways....I thought going along the same lines as the stairway sampler, I would make a sideways garage template.

It's on a 3x3 lot, so plenty of room for building and it costs $7.600 and is hack and objects recolour free....it's literrally just the garage, garage door, roof and driveway...

I thought people could download this and after installing, build their own lots around the garage...it would definately save time trying to figure out how to do it!!

Anyways...enjoy!

It's packed with Winrar, so you'll need that to unpack! Please don't upload to any paysites and if you use it to build with and upload your building, could you please paste a link to this file in your description, so others can use it too!! Thanks

Edit: Just tested the garage with all the car options - the car is fully functional, as are the garage doors.

The doors still go up and down so you can exit and enter the garage to gain access to the car.

When going to a community lot, for a spin or to install an alarm the car does not exit the garage, it kinda "teleports" - just dissappears from the garage and then either loads the community lot or just reappears after going for a spin or getting an alarm installed



Download - please read all instructions before downloading any files!

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