SUPER Close stacking

[marine]

I wasn't sure where to post this so if it's wrong move it please mod..
anyway, How do you super close stack?
(+rep for anyone who helps :))

[Jordan]

All I know is the CD method, that's as close as I can get :P

[marine]

Thanks for trying anyway :)
+rep'd

[Art]

I heard it involved cabbages... :S lmao.

[scottish]

Any screenshots or something so i can see what you define as "super close" :P

[marine]

I'll try find a room and take a picture, 1 minute. :P

[marine]

I found a video of it.
This is how close i mean..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIovIGBw2tI&feature=related


edit; Sorry for double post

Edited by Nicola (Forum Moderator): Please do not multiple post within the 15 minute edit time.

[Cheryl]

is this close enough?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcW8ORiPtq8&feature=related
or even this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ5vLXcpy2I&NR=1

[LoveToStack]

It's quite difficult to explain as it's probably one of the most technical stacks you could think of.
The basics are that different table items have ever so slightly different heights (this only applies to older pieces of furni as newer pieces seem to invariably match the height of an existing piece of furni). The vital furni you need for it are:
z shelves, two at least.
lodge occasional table, one should do.
mode corner, two should do.
a coin (probably most vital of all), 1-3 is enough.
2 other vital ingredients, area table (the square one), and the Large Mode Coffee table.

Right I've never actually written a tutorial for this but whatever:
Place a coin down (keep this coin in place at all times, it's you're base object, never remove it).
The theory behind it is: place a zshelf ontop of the coin, and a mat ontop of that.
Then remove the zshelf, and place the lodge occasional table ontop of the base coin, and a mat ontop of that.
Following that pattern, remove the individual table object and place the next in the sequence on to the base coin, putting a mat ontop of it.
Once you've repeated this for every individual table object, put another coin on to the base coin and repeat the process again at that height.
Here it gets a bit technical. After a certain height, about 5-6 pixels width, you'll hit a 'limit' where the distance between mats becomes lower than 1 pixel and you don't get a single block of black outline.
There are ways to get around this and make the solid black bit as large as you like but since I've given you so much already, I'll let you figure that out :)
Btw if you don't have a lot of mats, search Bl!nkey on .co.uk. He has rooms which provide all the furni and mats you need to practice superclose stacking. Hope this helps. Also, when you become proficient at stacking mats this way, you can try your hand at superclose stacking something different to mats.

[Stryderman]

My room has close stacks heres screenie.

[Its not .uk btw its .ca :P]

On the doormats and cabbages if this is what you mean

http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/1573/cstack.jpg

[LoveToStack]

I took my lead from Bl!nkey, he was the first to use the term when he first did it. Strictly speaking I'd say superclose is when everything is within 1-pixel of eachother so you see only the outline of the furni. The cds on the left are obv superclose, those on the left are just piled up normally:

http://i45.tinypic.com/257esyw.png

[Verrou]

Hmmm your aforementioned way of doing it fails with solid objects :/ Isn't there another way with marzipan men?

[LoveToStack]

Yes that way doesn't work with solid objects on its own. Aren't marzipan men just like mats? Like you can walk on them, anything you can walk on it works just the same way as mats.