Just build a room where you want the platform, then raise it with the arrows

when will they add flipping round walls... jeez it's a major limit of this game.

For the platform issue there is a workaround which is better than the one you explain in the video and will help you: create the house as you normally do. When you need to create a platform on a certain place of your currently existing build, use any fence and draw a room with the shape you want the platform to have. Then raise the platform to the height you need. After that delete the walls that separate both rooms (the one with the platform and the original one) so that you have only one room again. That's it. Nothing gets deleted from your beautiful house. I discovered this trick yesterday and used it a lot to renovate the lot of my current legacy save. One issue though: the moment you raise the platform on a currently existing room, all the objects attached to the wall won't be moved up automatically => you can end up with windows inside platforms xD

Yeah, I noticed those issues too. There's also problems with stairs jumping heights when you place multiple platform levels close to them. This is especially a problem with sunken rooms. I'm happy to see the SimGurus taking note of the issues though!

I cannot wait to see what you came up with these platforms!!

unlike most other youtubers, you talk really slowly and it's so easy to understand!

There is a way to add platforms to the interior without deleting the exterior walls: if you section off the area you want to have a platform with walls or fences, you can then change the height of that “room” and then delete the walls. Hope this helps a lot of people :)

The platform tool just works like the room tool: When you place it near a wall, the wall gets deleted. But: To build a room you wouldn't usually use the room tool, would you? You would just draw walls! And that's exactly how you can place platforms too. This way, no furniture or wall will be deleted. You just got to try out a bit more, guys. 😉

Finally we can build movie theaters in our houses hahaha

Great video Kate. It seems like it's the usual Sims style update to me. Platforms are most definitely a great and welcome addition, one that can change builds in many ways. Yet, as usual, they are never taken to their full potential and come with a bunch of very obvious bugs/errors and so on, that will require fixing or workarounds. I'm still looking forward to giving them a go, just not as much now.

Hey Kate thank you so much for doing a tutorial on this! I was planning to do something with these platforms but needed a fast guide on how to work with it and this was perfect! Take care and stay safe!

I'm glad you brought up the issues of placing stairs next to/leading up onto platforms, as I've had these problems as well. Sometimes they place fine, sometimes they place but won't allow me to widen them or make a turn, and sometimes they just won't place at all. I get the error message that they "can't intersect other objects" even when nothing else is around. Hoping a patch fixes this issue soon! I always learn SO much from your vids and beautiful builds, Kate! Thanks much!

Thank you so much Kate for all of your amazing videos and especially all of the extra videos this week. Hope you enjoy the rest of your day and week.

hi Kate! ive been waiting on someone to upload and actually explain this new tool( still remember the one video were u explained the how to roof lol, so usefull) i kinda quit playing and building since StarWars pack, was so really upset on EA. But now slowly just by watching ur videos i feel i need to buld a new house, mb a White House lol, anyways luv u, keep on going guuurl!!!

If you build a fence and then rise the platform, the furniture will move with it and nothing will be removed

I can't wait to see your builds with platforms, I feel like they will be next level and they are already amazing! I recently downloaded one for the Bailey-Moon family when they got even richer (sorry I don't remember the name of it) and it was just stunning! I also saw an issue when changing the layout of the walls, all of my items disappeared from the room, they go yellow as if you're taking a wall through them but they weren't anywhere near. It literally took the oven and counters out of the kitchen because it was trying to make it a platform on top of a platform I think

Thank you so much for explaing about foundations and platforms :) I also appreciate your honest way of telling about problems in the game.

I wish we could have floating platforms. It would be so nice to have an underneath area to your lofts.

!! You can use these to create wide grand staircases and not struggle with the bloody railings! Kind of like in Sims 3, but with less Constrainfloorelevations. I'm still downloading the update so I cannot test this idea out sadly.

Thank you for this review! I'm really waiting for your wonderful creations with this update ❤️ I have a fix for the wall that disappeare, you don't need to use the platform tool inside the house, you can close the area with a wall creating a room and then use the arrow to decide the high of the platform and then delete the walls that are inside.

Happy birthday, Kate 💚💙 best wishes !! Enjoy ! Thank you for an awesome tutorial

This is such a thorough and thoughtful guide. Thank you!

It's freaking ridiculous that it's almost 2021 and we still don't have rounded walls in TS4. Seriously, I can't... 😴😴😴 amazing video tho, as always!

I found a lil work around with the walls disappearing when you add a platform.. I found that if I don't complete the wall, leaving one wall tile absent, then I created a singular wall on the same level and move it into the empty wall tile space. This way the wall does not disappear. Anyways, hope that helps. Great work on your vids. Totally appreciate your honesty.

THANKYOU for making it so understandable and a slow video. I have watched others with their speed builds and they are not useful. :)

This was a really helpful guide to platforms. I am really incredibly thankful for platforms as well. My main issues with the platforms are that 1. when I use a foundation in order to not compromise my wall height you can’t add a half wall to the sun Ken space in order to decorate the bottom wall boarder or that the foundation color on the outside doesn’t show in the inside. 2. You can’t tuck the stairs against a platforms arch way, it has to stick out some. 3. Platforms can’t be used in half tile measurements.

Thank you so much you the only one that has explained this properly and I have been able to follow it. thank you again happy swimming :-)

You did a fantastic job explaining everything! Thank you!

What the... this video actually helped me A LOT. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!

Kate, you are awesome! I was so confused by the platforms and you made everything look easy! And, it was! After you showed me where I was going wrong. LOL - JudesSims

Thank you for your explanation. I needed this! You are amazing

That house looks amazing!! I hope we can see it entirely soon

"Everything Wrong With Them" Me, who has been waiting for issues to crop up:

You can create a wall, click the room, and then raise or lower the platform and you stuff wont be deleted

You helped me substantially. Thank you

What about hollowing out the platforms, making them float so you can make a bunk or loft bed?

Yes I do agree with you about the round/curved pieces I was trying to use the piece as a bottom decorative piece at the base of the stairs would not go against the wall every time I try to replace the wall the piece disappeared was not functional , I had the two flat parts against the wall and the round part outside so that it look like the bottom of the stairs in a fancy house I was extremely excited when I saw that there was rounded platforms but you can't even use it inside it doesn't work, you would only be able to use them outside like you said I really hope that they fix this

thank you so much for getting this out so fast platforms are difficult

Thank you for this video. I was experiencing some of these same issues last night and it was pretty frustrating. Still love this update but there are some annoying quirks.

I totally agree withh the rounded platforms. For the walls diapering James turner mensioned to build a instead, use the arrows and then delete the walls you dont want. I haven't played that much with the platforms, but I think there can be issues when you want to save a room to the gallery, because for what I know every platform is considered a room, maybe there is a work around that, but as mensioned I haven't played that much with it yet

I hope they fix them so we can use them with their full potential

With the new update I was a lil confused but I have to admit I am enjoying them with remodeling the mansions

You can avoid exterior walls being deleted. Instead of using the platform tool, use the room tool, raise the platform to the desired level and remove the (interior) walls.

Plus with these platforms is you can create rooms where only kids can go but adults can’t has the sims now sense heights in the game (I think not many people are talking about this feature in videos from most of the big sims KZfaqrs

Iv totally been having the same issue with the walls goings when I add the platforms , really hope they fix this , but thinking about trying my next build by doing all the platforms first if I can 😂

You have some good points Kate. Hopefully there will be some fixes so you can make beautiful houses.

I found that when you add a closed in room where you want to add a platform, then use the arrow key to make your platform , then knock down the inner wall. it wont mess with your exterior walls

Wish I had watched this before I started by first build after the update. I had a foundation and I was trying to lower a platform to make a sunken room (directly beside the foundation wall) and it sort of worked but I couldn't get it to look good. I have a lot more ideas now for how to deal with this.

What I do for the wall removal is to build a room and raise it instead of a platform then the walls stay then all I do is remove the interior wall than there is your raised room :D

Wow! I really have the same issues! So I hope they will fix it!

Still a happy birthday Kate!💚💚💚

Ohhhh noooo! No that simply will not be acceptable if a platform can not attach to a foundation, if the foundation is higher than the platform. There's a home I once lived in I haven't been able to build, STILL, as there's different levels and Sims 4 NEEDS to have a platform attach to a foundation. It surely needs fixing. I am thankful you caught that and brought that to everyones attention. I can understand right away why there was a "floating ceiling" from that platform you raised up. Your work around to remove it is legit, to then add stairs to connect it to another platform height. That's exactly what I was doing (before platforms of course), in how I made my "floating" second level of a lounge (Johnny's Lounge), I did several months ago, while messing around with foundations, making a foundation float. This will just make it soooooo much easier to redo my lounge, cuz the stairs that go down to "basement", developed a slight glitch with how the Sims would get down there, yet they could come up the stairs just fine. Come March next year, I plan on playing again, redoing/fixing builds and making new ones, like a new Easter egg hunt challenge 😉😁. And your builds keep on inspiring all of us! Oh, 😯 just saw the piano screenshot! Ummmm..... well, does it happen if moveobjects is on or not? Did you freely move it or let it click into place? If you hadn't done so, add that build to the gallery, with the glitched piano. I'm having a brain fog at the moment who it is, not just Nick but someone else can then add your lot to her game and take a more in depth look at it. I sadly can't remember her name but she helped fix a glitch with the stairs after they got added, a glitch I encountered only a few just started having. The rounded platform inside.... I wonder if I can open my game and if I still have a specific build I was working on, cuz I had figured out how to have a raised rounded foundation inside a home and not have those gaps. It took so many days to figure out. I was building an indoor stage with rounded foundation... for your sake cuz I love your builds sooooooooooooooooooo much, cuz I know how much you ❤ the rounded looks, I'll see about this weekend getting on my pc & laptop to check which one it's on. Or maybe I did finish and share it, 🤔. I'll check for ya. However I did it, will possibly be helpful to fixing the gap space for the new rounded foundation.

There will be a fix for the round platform, as there usually is when the team misses something big.

I found if I draw a regular wall where I want the platform to be, I can raise it up that way and then delete the wall I used to separate and the other walls won't get deleted

You are definitely not wrong about the round platforms. No need to apologize, nor do you have to affirm that you are usually positive. The game deserves critique, and pointing out things which should have been done prerelease. You are also not salty for wanting a properly functioning feature. Just imagine people paying for a car without wheels, steering locked up, and fogged windows- and then others getting upset if someone points out the obvious ("hey this car needs wheels"), it's a weird thing that people are starting to do in the last couple years (calling critique, and expecting a properly working product, 'bad/toxic/ what-ever-else'). Anyway, love your builds!

So cool!🥰

Regarding the walls disappearing when you put down a platform. I have come to realise that even though they are platforms, inside the game's code they are actually rooms. You can raise and lower any normal room, it doesn't have to be a platform. If you want your platform to touch the walls, draw actual room walls to close off the area into a new room, then use the platform raise/lower on the room, then delete the unwanted walls. You shouldn't lose any of the original outside walls that way. If your platform isn't meant to touch walls, you can just put down a platform as normal.

I built one modern house using platform (it is my last video) and yes, it is very fun and increase a lot our possibility, but it is something not 100% create.

I like how platforms makes medium size walls look much better when you are use small doors.

My biggest issue is that when you make a sunken room you can’t paint the sunk walls. They’re just grey concrete.

There's a third issue btw, but I'm not 100% sure if you can always recreate it. I had an open floor plan with a genkan and two raised platforms next to it (2 up). Behind the genkan, the floor was raised (1 up) and after that the hallways were at the level of the genkan again. When I started to add rooms to this setup, my platforms kept getting messed up. Mostly the 1-up area was raised once and levelled out with the raised platforms and stuff like that. Ways to avoid this were adding platforms where I wanted the rooms, add walls, then lower them or just move in walls as in not close the rooms. But it's also super annoying if you build with multiple platform heigths and want to change the floor plan again.

One thing we can use the round platform pieces for is to create a circular sunken garden or sitting pit outdoors! :D

For the Issue with the round Platform: you can Use some of the Platform trims (?) and they will cover the green pieces. I had the same Issue. And its not a perfect solution but better than Nothing i guess.

Can you pick up the platforms and move them? If so, maybe that would be a way to avoid it deleting wall? Just create the platform outside and then move it to where you want inside.

I just want to be able to use half walls AND fences at the same time on platforms (half wall to cover up the platform side, and fence to create railings).

Plus the round ones are so disappointing was so looking forward to using them

The round platform issue made me so sad. It's the first thing I built. I was making this bar with a dancing stage - put a platform and sunk it down a bit an then wanted to put a round platform as stage... now it's square.

You can also put a wall there and then raise it as a room

You also can't yous doors on a platform, because they stay at the bottom of the wall.

To get rid of the countertop and furniture disappearing, replace the adult basemental mod.

Best way to do indoor platforms is to just make it a room and then delete the extraneous walls that you don't need btw rather than having to plan it in advance!

Je suis déçue par les plateformes on ne peut pas y mettre de fontaine ni piscine, c’est juste un outil de niveau d’étage intérieur et d’escalier extérieur avec un plus pour coller les garages au maison mais c’est un bon début 😊 merci Kate pour cette vidéo 👍

When trying to place a round platform inside, I kept having this issue where if it was enclosed in a room and touching walls, it would disappear. I was willing to work around the holes in the floor but that platform said nope

I have been having huge problems with roofs using these. I had a premade room already and decided to do a little platformed bed. But now every time I do this the roof messes up and clips into everything.

Can you just build the floor plan and then click on the room and move the foundation up and down rather then placing? Even just adding the walls temp?

Another issue i see/have is that cant build/construct underneath the platforms or make this ones cannot be connected to the floor in higher altitude

In SIMS 5 I **really** hope they make stairs that freely rotate on the grid and unlock the platforms and foundations from the grid, so that you can move a single part of the same construction on the bottom without moving/raising/lowering the entire structure. Soo many things on my list of wants and needs. The mod creators are so much faster and more adept than EA/Maxis - instead of forcing people to discontinue their mods (like the amazing transforming 🧚🏻‍♂️ flying faery mod) etc - the game creators should outsource to the creators and embrace their creations, including them in the store and giving a percentage of the sales back to the mod creators!!

I’m trying to make a rooftop deck I used a platform but I sunk it down one for a sitting area but the floor underneath the level disappears so I can see straight down to the last level

Hii do you know if these platforms count as tiles for Tiny Living builds? I haven’t been able to find the answer online (I’m assuming yes they’ll count but I’m wondering about even decorative ones and stuff lol)

Round platform inside? I built a basement room under mine and it worked, there were no more holes in the floor.

I heard that when you build walls around where you want to build a platform it won't deleat your external walls

I’m really hating how it gets rid of my walls and than the platform becomes it’s own room so when I place the walls back the roof clips through!

Jsjk if you make a room in the area you want to raise up then raise the platform in that room, just delete the walls and your outside isn’t affected.

Instead of using the platform tool, cant you just build walls around the area you want to raise, raise it, then delete the walls so that yiu dont have to redecorate. Will that work?

So it seems they updated the Planet Honeypop karaoke place in San Myshuno and added a rounded stage indoors. I wonder how they avoided the glitch there...

I play on Xbox the issue I'm having it the stairs when I put stairs with a platform the floor under the stairs disappears...I was trying to make bunk beds in a furniture store lol

Is there a way around placing columns on platforms? I realized the other day once I set up a room with a raised platform and couldn't add columns. Am I doing something wrong or is it no way to do it? (I don't use mods so can't use TOOL)

I really love them, but it has weird sides too you got to practice with them..doors way too high etc LOL

I have the sims 4 and also updated it, but the platform tools are still missing. Is there anything I can do?

also the one that we get already drop something but the wall one have 2 things to drop them solo line or right away a 4 side one why we dont have the one not in solo to make youre own one i wanted to make something but i cant begus then you need it solo to make it

In my case when I want to have platform inside things is OTHER rooms disapear...so each time I add one I have to go through the entire house to see if everything's in place. And I dont mean Windows and stuff by the watoll, I mean furniture standing in the middle and clutter as well. Annoying as f. Oh and it can also remove wall trimming on the outside (why?), also in weird places that agent even connected to the room with platforma (why, oh why?)

can someone help me please so badically im trying to build using the new platform thingy buutttt when i put it down theres like a wooden skirt thingy how to i get red of it pleeassee

Hi Kate! I wanted my sims bed above a round plataform and15:47 that happend! it was really anoying! yes, it is unusable! Anyway, You missed a major issue! make a room; then make a plataform beside it (it might be tall enogh to be 4 or less steps left to the second floor). Now, try to conect the second floor with the plataform with a stair facing the second floor. You cannot do that! it says that your wall conflicts with the stair, it makes no sense!

Do you have that house from the beginning up in the Gallery? It looks gorgeous!!!

Can you try building a water park or waterfall park

They still havnt made them compatible together and when adding paint/wallpaper the bottom disappears so I can't Pannel with it at bottom which really really bugs me

how will i enable that i downloaded the sims but i don’t have that platform

14:50 you could just draw a wall, raise the section then delete the wall

my sims 4 is up to date, yet I don't have that platform option still... :/

What was that house in the beginning?!