can anyone please explain how to stop raining in sims houses?

I will let you know tomorrow which one it is but when you say more serious matter exactly what do you mean by that?

By that I mean, if it happens in totally vanilla too, then most likely your installation is corrupted and you would have to repair or reinstal (I do not know do you use Ultimate Collection or not )

Just when you can, build a small box, with floortiles to cover the whole roof/ceiling and test it :)

@Ellupelluellu

I do use the UC version but i am not patched to the latest patch through origin which means I load up the game via a desktop Exe I thinks it is called so I have probably backed up and saved a clean folder altogether that I can add back to my documents if i have to as I don't want to download that last patch as many players reported a lot of glitches after that. A little like when they stopped the S3 game being able to be played without signing into Origin. Thanks for the heads up about building a small box to check i would never have thought about that :)

Try an auto roof to see if it stops the rain from falling as I can see in the second picture there looks like there could be a hole between the smaller roof on the side and the larger roof covering most of the house. It can be tricky and you have to look at a roof from the top down (use the arrow to look straight down on a roof. You do mean rain falling in the house from a hole correct and not because you aren't scrolled in close enough, correct?

Origin last patch does not fix the game, it removes EA Info tool and Securom (which are both incompatible with Windows 10) from the code. No patch from Origin actually patches TS2.

My best advice, remove the roof, and any tile you placed and use Auto Roof since you can't find the hole. Also if you ever build your own chimney you have to put tile on the top of those or down inside it so it won't rain in the house. Towers, chimney, etc.

Most of Maxis houses/roof will leak and everyone had to go back after Seasons and fill in some holes (no flooring) in most of Maxis houses if you use a premade house later.

You can also pick Flat Roof and tile all of that if you don't like the color of the flat roof.

ETA: If you mean it looks like it's raining inside your Sim house, or leaf falling, in TS2 you have to scroll in pretty close for the camera to stop showing those effects.

Hi @Ellupelluellu

I am still checking some things but got distracted with gameplay as always happens with 2 lol

@Cinebar

Thank you for the roof advice I had added a tiny bathroom space to the lot but thought just placing roof tiles across that space would work enough to keep the water out. Auto roofing it has helped a little but you still have to go way close to your sim indoors for the rain to stop which is still kind of frustrating.

I never build anything because I am so bad at it apart from adding a wall here and there and the occasional fireplace so i will remember what you have said about chimneys as well for the future.

I am currently going in and out of lots changing the weather to see how the rain falling works in each lot to make further observations so when I have finished that i should have more of an understanding of it all and will ask for more advice should I need it.

I see, so it wasn't rain falling in through a hole but how close we have to scroll in to not see the rain animation. Yeah, that was a complaint when Seasons first came out. It's not that bad in TS3 etc. I know I have to zoom in pretty close if it's raining. If there is a hole in the roof, Sims in TS2 will hold up their hands and tell you there is rain in their house.

Hi @Cinebar

No, I think you were correct as the lots I thought were letting in rain just required scrolling more towards the sims (too close for my liking for it to stop-) and the other lot I posted pics from above where I had added a small bathroom to the lot and then added roof tiles but did not do anything with the roof is the lot where sims were holding their hands up indoors the way they do outside when it is raining and that stopped when I did an auto roof on that lot so I think it has been a little of both..

Thank you for your help it is appreciated as always :)

You are welcome. Happy to help if I understand a situation. It annoys me, too, sometimes.

"Cinebar;c-17829347" wrote:
I see, so it wasn't rain falling in through a hole but how close we have to scroll in to not see the rain animation. Yeah, that was a complaint when Seasons first came out. It's not that bad in TS3 etc. I know I have to zoom in pretty close if it's raining. If there is a hole in the roof, Sims in TS2 will hold up their hands and tell you there is rain in their house.

So, I guess that's the reason I have leaves falling in my kitchen when there's an upstairs floor and a roof with no holes. That makes sense. (TS4, not TS2)