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nikkamore
6 years ago

Re: [ARCHIVED] Terrain paint disappears/changes after leaving lot

This is still happening . I went to Brindleton Bay and built  on "its a good house" lot . Saved the game throughout building.  I usually have about 10 different builds on the go, so I went into "Manage Worlds" to go to another build. After awhile I went back into the Brindleton Bay build and from world view the terrain paint looks great. Then I go to play the lot with a Sim  and all the terrain paint is gone. I don't save and exit the game. I go back in through build mode instead of play mode.. and same thing, No terrain. But it's there in map view?  I have built a couple of builds in Windenburg on Von Windenburg Estate & The Summer Home lots , both had terrain paint vanish in the same way ..No mods, No cc, with and without cheats. 

 (1st picture shows terrain paint .. 2nd picture  -terrain paint is missing .)

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  • MDianaSims's avatar
    MDianaSims
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    I'm having the same issue. But with an interesting variation.

    I was working on rebuilding the Von Haunt Estate and yesterday I added terrain paint to the front of the lot. Then I later ent on to work on the back of the lot, added terrain paint there. I'm not sure if I reloaded the game in between, but I might have done so. Then I did something (not sure what it was exactly) and all of a sudden I noticed the terrain paint at the front had vanished - this happened while I was building. I simply repainted it, it wasn't a very complex pattern.

    Just now, I reloaded the lot and all the terrain paint in the back is missing. There is terrain paint in the front, but now that I'm looking more closely at it, it's not the pattern I drew last (there was a slight variation), it's the pattern I drew before. And it uses the paint I used in the back (gravel & grit) as opposed to the paint I actually used (cobbled together stone).

    As it happens, I did save the lot last night, with all the right terrain paint on it and when I place that one, it all sticks. Even after reloading the game (both from the main menu and after a full reboot) the terrain paint remains in place.

    So that could be a work-around? Save the lot to your library before you exit the lot? Then if the terrain paint disappears upon reloading, you can place the library version again.

    Since I can only add three pictures, I added one from the front of the lot last night, before the front terrain paint disappeared the first time. And two from this morning, one of the lot as I found it and one of the lot I placed from my library.

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