Domed Home

Cost: 45,053
Lot: 2x2
Bedrooms: 2, with a connecting walk in closet
Baths: 2
Furnished: Fully

Custom Content: None
Cheats used: Moveobjects, Allow45DegreeAngleOfRotation

Expandability:
No practical expansion options.

Notes:
This house is a bit unusual, for a sim home, as it is constructed under a domed roof which is set on the ground. I had the idea to try this when I realized that sims can walk through domed roofs, so I figured I'd play with that a bit. This is the result.

The house features an entry room or airlock. This room exists primarily to minimize the effects of a graphical issue which can be seen in a screenshot below. With just the interior entry door, when watching a sim enter or exit the home in Roof Up mode, the roof is clearly visible just behind the door. While, as the screenshot shows, this issue is not eliminated by adding the airlock, it does obscure it from most angles as well as making it less noticeable. The roof poses no graphical problems when playing inside the home as it doesn't seem possible to get the camera to go inside the dome in Roof Up mode anyway, and is of course invisible in any other mode. Besides, when building a windowless home, one might as well go all out, and an airlock fits with that.

This lot has been extensively playtested, and has no other issues that I am aware of.



This house is uploaded with no landscaping and should look good on any terrain. It will give a very nice effect on a lush terrain with landscaping, but seems to work better in other terrains with none, or depending on what kind of neighborhood you want to use it for. Moon, Mars, or post apocalyptic? No problem!


The floorplan is based on the Oberon III design which can be found at the Monolithic Dome Institute's site, www.monolithic.com

Screenshots: Exterior, Walls Down, Walls Up, Roof visible through doors


Note: REQUIRES OFB EXPANSION