building stairs should work in all properties. I am not aware of any property that one cannot build stairs on. you could be missing something in the construction but if u have been building stairs for a while and building them the same way each time then there really shouldn't be an issue.

Having said all that are all the collides correctly set? Is it a hard coded floor to a soft coded floor?(i.e. template floor to made second floor) Or are we talking about a soft coded floor to soft coded floor? (made floor to made floor) What are the scales of the made floors? What Props are being used for floors and stairs?

I'll be in world for most of the rest of the day showing offline for most of it. contact me if u are still having issues.

ok so we are talking about a purchased layout which means you are more than likely going made floor to made floor.

Please describe what happens when u try to make a stair. Also from whom did u purchase the property the designer may see this and be able to tell u more directly why it is that u are having trouble making stairs on a particular property. Check you're clearances you may be running into a collide that you were not aware of

There may also be the possibility that there are other, unseen props that are collidable, which are interfering

Basically, as long as you're not propping a ramp inside a trigger it will work off any system floor with no fuss as long as (reference Wraiths' post above) the angle is not too acute and also bear in mind the more acute then generally the slower the avatar moves.

If you were to make a flat platform and from this an angled ramp you could throw the angle in any old how on the lower flat platform and it would just work if it roughly crosses through the flat section end. The trouble is always the 2nd connection ie top of the angled piece. The red collider lines must meet that of the angle and the top flat ramp or have a very slight gap. To do this you need to see both sets of colliders at the same time. Select the properties of the one you don't want to move, first. In this case the ramp, then hover the mouse cursor over the top flat prop, sliding the cursor to the right of "Properties" on the 2nd prop should leave both red colliders showing and leaving you able to move the second prop (the flat top) toward the angled ramp. The two red colliders must be the top most collide lines of each prop and no doubt someone will post an image soon. I am moving mine from PB at the moment.

Once you have this set of 3 props you would add the steps themselves and make this scaffold as I call it invisible. The bottom flat prop may be the system floor instead. Many use Court Floor for the stair props (as they can be textured) but due to the thickness of the prop it occasionally fails but is generally to be relied on. I myself use Flat Plane, as I was taught by the great Peter. One other area that causes or can cause problems is some ramps will not work off a full size floor and need a few size 1.00 x 1.00 pieces at the top/bottom before adding the rest of the floor. I personally would, unless a system generated floor, make all individual props from the same material. ie Floor, ceiling and ramps would be Flat Plane with a textured non collidable floor over the top of the Flat Plane and the Flat Plane made invisible in the State Tab once all testing is complete. Mix props and you are asking for trouble.

Give me a shout any time in world and I will freely take you around my tutorial course I made. It is similar to Peters and I freely give away the info but not on spiral stairs. However Peter has now made this info freely available too so it should no longer be a problem hopefully. Stairs are possible in all properties.... I went to a place where they had not been fixed in 2 years. Many experts tried and as it was in a corner butting up to multiple walls I think they found great problem. Some 20 minutes later I was out of there and the stairs worked perfectly for the first time in 2 years, thanks to Peter, not me as without the knowledge he passed on I would have very little to help people with.

Revisiting this thread.....

I have no problem making stairs. BUT (argh) trying to add a stage to a purchased layout, on top of a court floor which is 19.02 x 1 x 22.44
I tried a variety of collidibles for the ramp, it's like I hit a road block, I have to zig zag to get up the steps. Could it be because of the large court floor?

I'll give that a try, there are four sets of stairs unfortunately, that lead to this oversized court floor, I'm hoping it's a smooth transition.

is the tool a .png file?? if not can we make it one and post it so it could be used in a cube to get multiple views at once. ?? thanks

I am by no means a deco expert, but I was taught to create the absolute bottom of any layout by covering the entire usable area with 3x3, 4x4, or 5x5 court floors. This does create additional props of course, but I have had no problems with ramping from that type of floor. I am not entirely sure if that is necessary, but it works.

I have also noticed that in some cases the difference in gait between the male and female avatars can affect the performance of a ramp. The alignment tool is very useful. The idea as far as I can tell, is to get the top edges of the two planes you wish to join to occupy the same spot in all three meridians.

I have also seen that many people opt. to use a "door" to move to a location on the stage rather than a ramp.