Commands at Neighbourhood Screen:

Changelotzoning

To make a Residential or Commercial property into Apartments: (needs Apartment Life EP)

Enter the Lot. Make sure there are no Sims living in the Lot.

Open the cheat box and enter changelotzoning apartmentbase

To reverse the process,

Open the cheat box and enter changelotzoning residential

Or to make a Lot into a Hotel (needs Bon Voyage)

Open the cheat box and enter changelotzoning hotel

Or to make a Lot into a Community Lot,

Open the cheat box and enter changelotzoning community

Exit to the Neighbourhood Screen and then back to the Lot. Should be changed now.

DANGER WILL ROBINSON
DO NOT rezone a beach lot into an apartment lot. This will severely corrupt the ocean and Lot terrain and is strongly not recommended!

To Open the cheat box

TerrainType
(Values desert/temperate) At neighbourhood view only (press Ctrl + Alt + C for console), toggles between the two terrain types. Only use this in neighborhood view!
If you have Free Time, you can modify the terrain in Neighbourhood Screen.
deleteAllCharacters
...............DANGER! Deleting Sims is PERMANENT........................
At neighbourhood view only (press Ctrl + Alt + C for console), removes every Sim from the neighbourhood.
- This removes all the Maxis Townies, NPCs, Nannies, Police, etc... including the Secret Society Members in University towns.
- It removes Sims in the Sim Bin as well. To preserve them, zip them up and save to your Desktop.
- This cheat can slow your game while the engine generates new Townies.
- According to Pescado and some others, it is not the best way to dispose of Townies. Check MATY or SunSims for cheats and instructions on how to do it better.
changeNeighborhoodType: [university | primary | downtown] changes the type of the neighborhood. example: changeNeighbourhoodType downtown
createNeighborhood : [neighborhoodName] [path to sc4 terrain file] [university | downtown | primary] creates brand new neighborhood and switches you to it
installNeighborhood : [templateNeighborhoodName] [newNeighborhoodName] installs a dependent, template neighborhood to the current primary neighborhood
deleteNeighborhood : [neighborhoodName] Deletes the specified neighborhood
setHighestAllowedLevel [level] Sets the highest allowed level (default is 6). for example setHighestAllowedLevel 10 - but you probably need to drop right down to basement level and then go back up to be able to build at that level; and you will probably need to use the dormer trick to build upper floors (put a dormer on the top, which can then be removed but leaves the tile-spaces - somehow it fools the game into allowing an extra floor of building). Save your lot. Go back to the Neighbourhood Screen, apply the cheat and then re-enter the Lot, reloading it. That usually works.

I noticed that using this cheat, the upper floor roofs don't show up in Neighbourhood View, so there could be a case for flat roofs for these tall buildings, or (with Apartments) you need a floor to form a ceiling anyway, so make sure you put one in, and it can double as a Neighbourhood roof.

See the whole Neighbourhood

For this you might like to use the Camera Mod made by Snappledude. Get it at Mod the Sims 2 here. It works fine for me with all versions of Sims 2.

Make a Community Lot from your Residential Build

1. Make sure that there are no Sims on your lot. This won't work otherwise.

2. Enter your lot. Press 'Ctrl Shift C' to bring up the cheat box, then type changelotzoning residential OR changelotzoning community OR changelotzoning greek OR changelotzoning dorm

Residential enables the lot for Sims to live in.
Community changes the lot to a Community lot.
Greek changes the lot to a Greek House. (University Needed!)
Dorm changes the lot to a Dorm. (University Needed!)

After this, save, go to Neighbourhood Screen, reload the Lot.

Sita February 12, 2019