(Seasons) Guide to Seasonal Lot Markers
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I just tried constructing some roofed areas using columns on the festival grounds at Central Park in Sunset Valley. Following are my observations/questions/issues.
Your Build/Buy list on the first page says columns can be used on a rotational basis from season to season, but any columns I placed automatically went into common, not the season I was editing. Just an fyi on that I was editing in Fall and did not switch to common, but when placed they went transparent and were locked into common mode. I now understand why roofs would stay in common mode, but specifically your list says columns can be used seasonally.
The reason I was trying to construct some open shelters was to give Sims a place to get in out of the weather without constructing entire enclosed buildings. Specifically I thought I would place a column-supported roof over the picnic tables and over the food booths because the vendors stand in the weather all the time and it drives me nuts.
Having a common mode year-round shelter over the picnic tables is fine and I don't even care if it is there year-round over the food booths, but it doesn't keep the rain off them. Even though they are standing under a roof, the rain continues to pour on them. I don't understand this. I enclosed the entire picnic area under a ceiling/roof using columns and had a Sim couple there. When I went out of build/buy mode I checked to see if it was working. One Sim had on outerwear and she had no rain running off her. But other sims standing under the shelter, who were not wearing outerwear, were soaked and had rain running off them. This makes no sense.
How can we keep the weather off the food vendors?
And why doesn't a rood (with ceiling tiles) not keep weather off a Sim just because there are no walls? I have put up shelters with roofs only - no walls - before, for the vampires to have a place to go in out of the sun and that worked. If a no-wall roof can keep sun off, then it should be able to protect from rain, hail and snow at least. I don't expect it to protect them from cold and heat. But it shouldn't allow weather elements to still be affecting them.
Your Build/Buy list on the first page says columns can be used on a rotational basis from season to season, but any columns I placed automatically went into common, not the season I was editing. Just an fyi on that I was editing in Fall and did not switch to common, but when placed they went transparent and were locked into common mode. I now understand why roofs would stay in common mode, but specifically your list says columns can be used seasonally.
The reason I was trying to construct some open shelters was to give Sims a place to get in out of the weather without constructing entire enclosed buildings. Specifically I thought I would place a column-supported roof over the picnic tables and over the food booths because the vendors stand in the weather all the time and it drives me nuts.
Having a common mode year-round shelter over the picnic tables is fine and I don't even care if it is there year-round over the food booths, but it doesn't keep the rain off them. Even though they are standing under a roof, the rain continues to pour on them. I don't understand this. I enclosed the entire picnic area under a ceiling/roof using columns and had a Sim couple there. When I went out of build/buy mode I checked to see if it was working. One Sim had on outerwear and she had no rain running off her. But other sims standing under the shelter, who were not wearing outerwear, were soaked and had rain running off them. This makes no sense.
How can we keep the weather off the food vendors?
And why doesn't a rood (with ceiling tiles) not keep weather off a Sim just because there are no walls? I have put up shelters with roofs only - no walls - before, for the vampires to have a place to go in out of the sun and that worked. If a no-wall roof can keep sun off, then it should be able to protect from rain, hail and snow at least. I don't expect it to protect them from cold and heat. But it shouldn't allow weather elements to still be affecting them.
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