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rhiamom
New Traveler
3 months ago

Floating Babies

Yeah, I know I said all my EA issues were fixed, but then I Played for a while. The floating babies thing is still an issue. Whenever a Sim tries to put a baby down on the floor, the baby gets stuck at arm level in front of that Sim. Sadly, they are usually trying to put the baby down someplace inappropriate: inside a counter, in a shower, under their crib. I wonder if this is related to the weirdness in Legacy where you can place objects on other objects. Like a chair overlapping a table, a pile of phone books with a table leg going through it. Similarly, my Sims keep putting the newspaper down on the floor UNDER the sofa. It's like objects are not seen as "solid" by the Sims anymore.

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  • LadyGray01's avatar
    LadyGray01
    Seasoned Ace
    3 months ago

    Weird. I've never seen anything like this except when move objects is on. I have still seen the floating baby thing, but only occasionally, like I always did before. It's been an issue for 20 years. It just got worse for some reason when they released Legacy.

  • rhiamom​ Please repair the game and try testing in a fresh save folder; you can move The Sims 2 Legacy folder from Documents\EA Games to your desktop, and the game will create a new one when you launch it. You can later delete the new save folder and restore your old one once we figure out what is happening.

    • Do you have Mods/CC installed?
    • Does this issue only happen on one specific lot or with specific Sims, or across all neighborhoods?
    • If you enable testing cheats (press CTRL-Shift-C and enter boolProp testingcheatsEnabled true into the cheat console), do any errors pop up when the baby snaps to arm level or when other objects are placed down?
  • rhiamom's avatar
    rhiamom
    New Traveler
    3 months ago

    Spot on! I repaired the game, created a new hood in a new Sims 2 Legacy folder -no floating babies. Put my Sims 2 Legacy folder back, created a new neighborhood, and the problem recurred. I tracked it down to one piece of CC, and have contacted the creator telling them about the issue. No errors popped up using boolProp testingcheatsEnabled when the problem occurred.

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