Re: Ground is acting weird

That’s what I meant above when I said I tried all the terrain manip. Tools. I tried flattening the entire lot and I tried smoothing, I tried flattening that one spot, and even tried bulldozing the terrain of the whole lot and it’s still doing this. The only thing that fixes it, is to add flooring to the entire lot. So I tried using the floor tiles under “outdoor” so that it looked like grass and while I could no longer see it being half cut, the garbage can still won’t work.

this lot must be bugged ☹️ 

@_awkwardlezbean 

Ok, on the lots that aren't completely flat, when you try flattening them, usually what happens is that the lot will flatten except for one tile along the perimeter on one or two sides of the lot.  The rest usually does go flat.  I'm not sure what is going on for you.  Is it just that one place on the lot where it isn't flat?  Can you place the garbage can anywhere else?  

One thing you can try is to save the lot to your library.  Bulldoze the lot.  Check to see if it is flat.  If not, try flattening it again.  Then place the lot again from your library.  That might work.

Sometimes, the house or other objects on the lot will cause a lot to not flatten correctly.  Flattening the empty lot gets around that usually.

If that doesn't work.  If you are willing to upload the lot to the Gallery and let us know what the lot name is, I or another helper will download it and take a look to see if we can figure out what is going on and how to fix it.  

Hope this helps.

It seems to just be that one spot, that I’ve noticed anyway. I tried putting the bin in the back of the house and they still wouldn’t use it. They would pick it up and then put it back on the ground. It wasn’t until I used the square button to move the trash and put it right beside the bin that they used it. I had the same issue inside with the trash bin there. It’s off and on at times and has been going on for awhile.

I’ll try saving the lot, flattening it again and then place it. If that doesn’t work I’ll add it to the galley for you to check out but I seem to remember this lot wouldn’t save to the library. There’s two or three lots that won’t save to the library, I always get an error saying “there was an error saving this lot to the library” but I’ll try when I get home and let ya know! 🙂

Okay I tried all of that and it still didn’t work. 
im noticing that when I open the terrain manipulation, everything looks flat except like you said the edges, but even smoothing will only smooth some parts. The cut off that’s happening is in random spots right across the front. Again if I add flooring it might be fine but I think it’s just hiding the green that shows up under the garbage can. It won’t even let me choose flatten lot, it keeps shooting to a different option or that noise it makes is it flattening but either way it doesn’t work. I have uploaded an unlisted video to YouTube to show you. Here’s the link.

https://youtu.be/x20NEmyABkI

if you still can’t figure out what’s up, I have it in the gallery.

my user is lezbegamin25 and it’ll be listed as HOKE LOT ISSUE

@_awkwardlezbean 

Ok, I'll download the lot and check it out in a little when I get to a place I can save and switch to my test save.  From the video, it looks like you've got it in Forgotten Hollow so I'll put it there and see if I can figure it out.  It shouldn't make any difference but I'm on a PC.  Which console are you playing on?  

I'll let you know what I find.

So since I posted that, I tried moving the entire house to a different lot. I took out Vlad’s mansion and placed it there. Same thing. But this time it seems to only be the statue that’s showing it’s cut off in the same random spot. I’m at a loss for what it is I have that’s making it do this. I tried removing the fence and whatnot and nothing. But when I hovered the garbage or the mailbox over the same spot it didn’t happen. It’s so strange. It has to be something I built with move objects or something. When I placed the lot a bunch of objects weren’t there so I’m currently replacing everything and then I’m gonna try and use the garbage. But if you can figure out what’s causing this spot to do this, that would be great haha I have no idea at this point except that this game hates me 😂

@_awkwardlezbean 

I just tried to find the lot in the Gallery.  When I search for either the lezbegamin25 user name or the hoke lot issue lot name, I'm coming up with nothing. Just a blank screen like no uploads at all for either.  I also tried searching with emilyjane19 as the user name and did find some downloads but nothing by that name.  I also tried some spelling variations but nada.  So, can you see the lot in the Gallery when you look?

And yeah, there are times when I'm sure the game just wants to give me anything but what I want too.  😃

Hmm try Modern Vampire Family Home. It shows that the “by” is lezbegamin25 so it’s weird that it’s not coming up. Try that title though and see if it come up for you! It was a residential lot on forgotten hollow. I have it saved to my library and the gallery but I do not have it placed in a lot anymore: I decided to move it and made changes to it so the new one is on a lot but the issue is the same with that one too. I just edited it, the one I originally posted about is in gallery but isn’t placed on a lot, does it need to be placed for you to find it?

@_awkwardlezbean 

Ok.  Downloaded the lot by that name under your user name.  Placed the lot on the vacant 30x30 in Forgotten Hollow.  The vacant lot is not flat.  I see sloped tiles on both sides, the back and both front corners.  It's the same after I place the build.  I'm not getting what you are.  As long as I stay away from the sloped tiles, everything places fine and no weirdness.  I put a sim on the lot and she can go everywhere I send her.  So, idk what is going on with it.  I didn't have any trash so I couldn't try the trash can.  My test save is vanilla so I couldn't cheat any. 

When I searched for Modern Vampire Family Home, I came up with 17 lots by that name, none of which were by lezbegamin25.  I get nothing for that user name.

Here's a pic of the lot I downloaded.  Is it the right lot?

yep that’s the right lot!

see when I sent you the video and went to terrain tools, and it had the lot yellow, it showed those uneven edges. But there was nothing like that in the spot where the ground cuts. It’s totally flat in the area. I don’t understand why it’s doing that. And like I told you before, when I moved it to Vlad’s lot, it still did it. Maybe it has nothing to do with the trash can not working for me. But I’ve never seen the ground do that before. And it was just on the edge of the lot at the front, and only certain spots, and It was within the bounds of it too. I have no idea what’s causing it but it has to be something in the house I built, because the issue followed it to another lot. But then again, you placed the same house and didn’t get it so i don’t know what could be causing it, I mean you saw it in the video 😭 I’m not losing it right? 😂

im on ps5. I don’t know if that makes a difference. So you weren’t getting the ground cutting out like it was in the photo? for me it was only certain spots but happened straight across the front lawn. Damnit 😭 

Okay so this is the new lot. Right where the statue is, that’s cut off when the lot isn’t highlighted. So where it’s sitting, the lot is flat, but I see that it’s not right in front of the gate which is out of the bounds so I didn’t think it would be affecting something within the lots parameters. ESP when they ground beneath the statue itself is flat. I’ve never seen this before. I can’t even fix it bc it’s out of bounds, and the issue is straight across the front of the house. I’ll just have to back it up or make sure the ground isn’t cutting off wherever I put it. It must not have anything to do with the garbage not working.

Another theory. When I first built the lot there were plasma trees that i had deleted and a few plasma fruit were floating in the air despite the tree being gone. My sim picked them out of the sky and they are gone now but I wonder if it’s something  to do with that. That the tree might’ve been in that spot or something and it’s registering it like it’s still there  

I also meant to mention that what’s weird is, if I take the statue down off the stand thing, and then drag the stand it doesn’t cut off. It only does it with the Angel or whatever is on it: so weird.

oh well. Not much I can do. I appreciate all your help and your patience in all this. Truly! Hopefully it’s not the cause of the trash not working and I can figure that out. 

Thank you again ❤️

@_awkwardlezbean 

I have no idea why you are getting the weirdness you are.  I'm on PC but that shouldn't make any difference.  I've seen the floating fruit thing before and didn't have any issue like what you have from it. Once the floating fruit was gone, no issues afterwards.  I have seen similar issues to yours with lots I've tested from time to time but flattening the lot always fixed it except for the sloped tiles on the edge.  Those are there because the underlying terrain isn't flat.  It's not the only lot that's like that.

Sorry I couldn't help you figure it out.

Hope this helps.