Cheats: Alt: rotates freely Ctrl+Shift+C: Opens cheats menu bb.moveobjects: Allows u to merge objects 9: move up objects 0: move down objects Hold down Ctrl: keep the camera angle from moving ]: to scale up [: to scale down + & - (on number pad): cycle through color swatches on objects Hold Shift: move one side of the roof at a time or ,&.: rotate the floor Ctrl + F: turn the floor tile into triangle so u can make it diagonal Just trying to help so u don't have keep rewatching the vid (like me) Like so others can see

I like James' voice. he always sounds like a man with a plan

Bro, this is so helpful. I have an obsession with clutter and I've been trying to add more stuff onto kitchen shelves to make kitchens feel more lively. Although this was uploaded years ago, thank you for this. ;;

When you watch this even though you don’t own sims 4 *now I have it. Black Friday for like $6

I DID NOT KNOW HOLDING SHIFT WHILE BUILDING ROOFS WOULD DO THAT, MY LIFE HAS CHANGED

Can I just just say how beautiful the editing/animations are in this video?

How you make things bigger/smaller if you have a nordic keyboard: Å = bigger ' = smaller

Why do you sound so much like Jazza?

Oh my god that "i" swoosh animation just blew my mind

I've been playing sims for years and I only realised yesterday that sim is short for simulation

He sounds like “Draw with Jazza”

german keyboard: *ß* to scale down and *`* to scale up

Amazing as always. Just wish we could have spiral staircases. These giant ones make my builds off.

I love the subtle never ending rivalry between Sim Supply and Deligracy XD

Just FYI for EUROPEAN AZERTY keyboards to scale UP it’s the ^ command and DOWN it’s the ) command 😉 Thx for the tutorial !!!! 😃

I'm probably super late but on a Spanish keyboard, you use the "?" and "¿" keys to scale things up and down, it took me ages to figure it out, so there you go

Soooo glad I watched this! I learned 1 thing I didn't know! About removing the eaves on ONE side of the roof with the shift key.. so awesome! Thanks!

I love that everyone with different keyboards are helping each other out! Love this community!

me: discovers this video and then looks at whole playlist me: pulls out pen and block of paper like I'm sitting in a lecture hall *frantic scribbling*

James: If you hold the shift key while selecting the roof eave, you can size down one side Me: Surprised Pikachu

Thanks ! Very useful for a Sims 4 noob. I was a Sims 3 die-hard, but just recently picked up 4 + 2 expansions in the sales. Baffled myself... i'm actually loving it ! The game runs so flippin smooth. Still very hard for me to leave Sims 3 completely

James shold do a house for a giant. It doesnt have to be useable xD just for fun.

ctrl shift tab = change between sims 4 and sims 3 camera mode :)

How to Rotate/Size/Raise & Lower Objects on PS4/XB1 Freely Rotate Objects: Select the object you want to rotate then press L1+ R1 (PS4) / LT + RT (XB1) at the same time, then use the right stick to rotate Resize Objects: Select an object you want to resize and press L2 + R2 (PS4) / LB + RB (XB1) at the same time and use your D-pad ( buttons) to scale the objects size. Raising/Lowering Objects: L1+L2+R1+R2 (PS4) / LT+LB+RT+RB (XB1) at the same time to bring up the cheat bar, then type in bb.moveobjects Then select the object you want to raise or lower then press L2+R2 (PS4) / LB+RB (XB1) at the same time and use the D-pad (up and down buttons) to raise or lower objects. I tried all of these and they worked for me so hopefully this helps other console gamers who don't know to do this in build mode. (I'm a PS4 player so sorry if I got the B and T buttons mixed up for the XB1 controls )

last time I was this early this type of comment was original

Anyone else here that knew all these tricks already but just likes watching James videos? or is it just me haha

For Norwegian keyboards scaling is; Alt + Å to increase the size and Alt + ` to decrease the size.

One of the biggest improvements that i went through is that i learnt to not build too big rooms and houses. Its much better to start as small as you can, and then if you feel like you run out of space, just expand your rooms a little bit. Small and well decorated homes look MUCH better than really big and empty homes because no matter how much furniture you put in a really big room, its hard to really fill it so it looks good.

This is the most professional and well put together building tutorial I've ever seen. Bravo James!!! Very handy to have. I'm saving this for later reference :)

FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WITH A DANISH KEYBOARD! You Can scale objects up on Å and scale Them Down on the button above Å

With this one tutorial, I feel like I can really start building my own stuff. Loved it! Can't wait to see more!!

I love the fact that your video gives me a lot of information on different keys and placements. There's things I didn't know how to use and I am all about the shortcuts. Thanks for making this video!

Scaling for German QWERTZ-Users are the ß and ´ keys.

This is something I really love about you James --- you make a really good teacher. You're willing to share your knowledge so your fellow Sims players can get more out of their gameplay. Personally, I know all but one of these tricks, but I watched the whole video because I love your videos in general :D. The one thing I didn't know is the trick about holding shift to change the eaves if you don't want both sides to match. That's really cool. Thanks, James!

Getting back into the sims after a long while, and as far as an "advertisement" goes, this video is amazing. I learned some new things with this and will be sure to check out your other videos! Thank you.

Oh my goshh thankyouuu!! I've been looking sooo long for a video like this, just to explain how everyone is doing that. And you're finally the one to do it!! Thankyouuu

this has to be the most helpful sims video ive ever seen

i didnt know they would jump up into the beds like that. im so excited now.

I can't believe that this tutorial is 3 years old and still told me a few things I didn't know so far. Thank you so much for this! And I'll check out your other videos immediately

This is the best video ever. I watched it when it first came out and I've been coming back to refresh my memory ever since. This really is so good and useful thank you so much for making it

*has had sims 4 for two years and already knows all these things* and I still watch the video anyway 😂

Thank you Building Jesus for the knowledge

OMG James you are the BEST!! I never ever saw how you can change the color on objects without having to remove it and place it again in another color. U MADE MY DAY! 🤗

Your videos are so great. I love building houses in Sims 4 and I always struggle with the exterior so this helps give me ideas. Thanks for building such beautiful homes 😁

the rotating floor thing was there since sims 2 :D It surprises me, that so many people did not know about it. I just thought "Hey, can I rotate these too? Yepp"

OMMMGGG I ALWAYS WONDERED WHY THE 9 KEY MADE MY CAMERA JUMP. Also 7 million simoleons haha. You make a little box and it looks amazing wth. Don't throw shade on my girl Deli! :D

This was amazingly helpful. I've been struggling with a few moving things and house building since I got the game a week ago so thanks a bunch!!!

I have been playing the sims for many years, and when watching this.. I can't believe this .. thanks for sharing all this! 💕

NOW I FINALLY KNOW HOW TO PLACE DIAGONAL TILES OMG THANK YOU😂😂😭

!!On swedish keybords you use the Å key to scale up!!

A little late but this was SO helpful. I had many questions on how to move object a certain way and I’m so glad I came across this. Thanks James👍

I didn't realize how much I needed this video. Thank you!!!

I can watch your videos for hours! ilysm❤️😊

Can you do a housebuild where all the walls/ceilings/floors are glass ? (using the get together dancefloors and full length windows) I think it will look extremely modern and cool ! 😀😀

Omg!! Thank you this was soooo helpful because I only knew a few cheats and I was wondering how you did the others. I just subbed to you!! Thanks!! 💖💖💖

To make objects bigger and smaller on the Croatian keyboard you need to use the buttons Š and Đ.

On German keyboards you can use ß and ´ for scaling objects

To do the Alt rotate you need sims 3 cam.

Useful stuff! The 9 and 0 trick came in very hand when making a natural pond using stones around the rim, piling them up so they overlap without gaps. Found the Ctrl+F thing on another video but OH MY GOODNESS it was killing me trying to figure out how to place diagonal floor tiles up to then. OOH and I didn't realise shift let you move one side's overhang at a time! This changes everything! These little shortcuts and commands are going to let me have a lot more freedom in my builds now, thanks so much!

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS OMG TYSM! I was looking how to make the furniture move freely!

lol I am at my mom's work today and I've been watching your videos the entire time :D They're really entertaining

On scandinavian keyboards it's the Å key that scales up items.

This was so helpful, thank you! I’ve been playing sims since sims 2 and never learned anything for building, I just got into building recently

This helped me SO much! I watched for the roofing, and I’ll watch your roofing video too. Thank you!!!

James build a house in the secret area where willow creek is and by building on it do the free build cheat hope you see this 😄😄

Scaling on Turkish keyboard is Shift + Ü and Shift + Ğ

Thanks so much the roofing part really helped because i was having a lot of trouble in roofing. The diagonal tiles also really helped, so again thanks 😊

Me: wow that looks better than anything I’ve spent hours trying to build James: so this doesn’t look great Me: oh ok

Been watching your vids for ages but still learned a new trick from this vid. Didn't know you could change the eaves on only one side of the roof at a time.

This is amazing! It seems like your editing skills has flourished!

This video helps a lot! I was getting confused moving from sims 3 to sims 4 as theres so much more that you can do

Most helpful cheat and build video I've seen! 👍👍👍 Thanks so much!!!

For Danish users, if you want to scale an object up, use the Å key :)

On my swedish keyboard it's the Å and ´ key to scale items :)

Excellent video! Completely refreshed my mind AND taught me some things. Thank you so much!

ive been so frustrated lately after getting the sims 4 game after watching so many lps to try and figure out how to do that thing that you did with the alt key you literally just helped me with my biggest question ive had for the sims 4 since I got it. thank you

On Portuguese keyboards it's the the "?" and ">>" keys after the 0, above the letters and to the left of Backspace. Para teclados portugueses, são as teclas "?" e ">>" que estão depois do 0, acima das letras e à esquerda do botão de Apagar :)

This is an amazing tutorial! I definitely didn't know about rotating floors!

I've been playing Sims 4 for about 2 years now and I didn't even know you could do this Tnx so much you really helped me a lot with this keep it up

Yasssss thank you, was looking for this so longggg, btw ALT on Mac is option for the Mac users

on norwegian keyboards its ctrl + å to scale items up

This video was very nicely done! Great job!

Thank you so much for posting this - literally sooo helpful lol and love your sims 2 videos too

I recently got the sims 4 game and this was very helpful 👍🏼

thanks for showing me the roof in the thumbnail, i couldn't find it

OMG I can do bunk beds now that I know about the floating thing!

Hi you all swedish, german, or whatever forgein country you are from. If you are one of a forgein country and cannot do the bracket thing, i can say that most keyboards from other countries have ( buttons. You just simply press alt and the chosen ( button and it should work.this worked whit my swedish keyboard, so i don’t know about yours.. anyway it should probably work. 😊

Such a great discovery for me! I love all your cheats and tricks. Thank you !!!!!

*All cheats for Mac:* Object placement off the grid: Hold option Cheat window: command + shift + c (in general, ctrl = command) Everything else is the same

On my GERMAN keyboard, you can use Strg & ´ to make objects bigger :)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! For providing captions! Really appreciate it.

For ps4 scaling objects, press L2 & R2 and press the right arrow key for it to be bigger and left for smaller. To rise objects, it's L2 & R2 and press the up arrow key to rise up and down arrow key to put down

On the swedish keyboard it's Shift and Å to scale up and down / på svenskt tangentbord är det Shift och Å för att förstora och förminska.

Just if you don't know it, but you can chance the camera from sims 4 to sims 3 on the camera button which is the 3 one from the right... :-) There is also a button where you can also look directly down...

that shift key and the roof just made me so happy omg i didn't know that existed and it's so cool thank you

Thank you!!! Been looking for so long for these cheats! 🙏❤️

This is very helpful! I know, I sound cheesy, but it actually really is!

Do you think you can do a tutorial on interior design?

Thank you sooo much! I struggle with roofs so much so this was amazing help!

i'm only halfway through this video and it's already helped me so much!! ty