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2-Story House 2x3

Damn word limits.

So basically i settled for around 18-22 ft for a single story and 28-34 ft for a 2 story. Some of two stories were 22-24 ft high...yea, thats far too small. To point out, when plopping houses the game gives roof height in both metric and imperial, so thats how i got those numbers.

before standardization, people were shorter. A 2 story house was oftne built with 6ft doors with 7 ft ceilings. After Sears and unionization, they standardized the industry at 7ft doors and 9-10 ceilings. So the same type of house built maybe a decade or two later, would be taller. So an older 2 story house, if you like, could easily be modeled with one of the 26-29ft versions.

I just chose not to. They just looked scaled down, and not just built to smaller standards. The doors and windows were infinently smaller. Someone else, looking at the same houses, might not see it that way.

I encourage you to check out his collection and decide for yourself.

The principle homes were the four square homes (4 sizes), Greek (3) and the stick houses (7 between Stick and Eastlake).

There is a Gothic Farmhouse that I liked, but it was almost spot on for the SC4 2 story just with a bigger porch, so i went with the 1x2 Gothic. That really wasn't a scaling issue, just simply there was another home that was pretty close and didn't need or want 2 Gothic homes., and really need at least one that was well scaled and fit into a small footprint.

The four square isnt a true 4s, as 4s are generally , well square. 3 of the 5 were scaled far too small (24ft high when the average 2 story in game is 29-34 ft), and the NWP was farily close (27ft) and true 4s...but in that case, i just like the the one I picked (33 ft?) better.

Not all decisions were strictly scale. First was trying to find the original/master version. Then scale, then possible lot sizes, then just which ones I liked best.

i didn't take exact measures, if that what you mean.
I compared them to each other and to several other models in game (vanilla and couple of King Leno models from the University Park DLC) and pretty much eyeballed it. i didn't export to Blender to get exact measures.

They arent horribly scaled. Houses have histrionically within the US had varied floor and door heights. Realistically you can two models of house design being different sizes if built in different eras.

I understand the logic. At the time with so few models available just scale them to fit different lots, but we have far more models to chose from so one can be a bit pickier.

Again, Im most saying those models are bad, or completely unusable, but I was trying to keep things standardized and uniform,

These models are relatively proportioned to each other and to other existing models by other authors.

all the ones you reuploaded are good 1:1 houses? i noticed in the collection you mentioned you only chose some due to scaling issues