There's a huge...crack...in my basement.

That's... weird. And slightly terrifying. I've never seen that. Wouldn't that be a funny feature tho? Sims houses that settle. lol That architect career would really come in handy then, wouldn't it?

I actually think that is awesome picture and if you figure out how it happened let me know. It would go great in some of my stories. :smiley:

Haha! Thanks! It's a sort of "abandonded school" lot! I had quite fun making it. Sadly the lot is a bit "bugged" in that when I go into map-view, the building wont show for some reason. But it still works, doesnt crash or lag or anything. When I'm in the actual game, it shows up. but zooming in from map view, it looks empty. Oh well! It's still so strange!! I don't even think I have any fog emitter/effects in place. Just a huge amount of stuff cluttered around to make it look closed off. I wonder if there's something about size vs objects. Idk

I have some guesses as to how that might have happened, but they aren't really fact based. My question is, though, can sims route past the apparent breaks as if they aren't there?

To fix the Map View issue, try using testingcheatsenabled and a shift-click to enter Build/Buy without reverting to Edit Town and place or remove something trivial like a floor tile or a rock on the exterior of the lot (not terrain paint, it has to be an actual object). That is usually enough to coax the low resolution/far away view into updating itself.

I've never seen exactly that issue before, but I have had occasional problems with uneven basement floors due to extending a basement without starting from a part of the existing basement. If the ground above isn't exactly level and you start a fresh basement up against an existing basement from uneven ground above the basement can become uneven. But I've never seen that long crack appear. It could be a shadow cast by lighting that lets you see where the floor changes level. So it might be a combination of a section of not quite level floor and the position of the lights to cause a shadow to be cast along the line where it changes level. Otherwise I have no idea. If my guess is correct then sims should be able to walk across it but you will get uneven floor warnings when trying to place an object on any square containing that line.

Interesting! It's been a while since i actually built this, so I don't remember - but normally I make a just a huge portion of the basement. Especially since I knew i was going to need a lot, it would be strange if I expanded after making one portion - but def not impossible of course. I will try moving an objects of there next time I play!

I´ve never seen this, but as you said that you´ve downloaded it somewhere: did the lot come with CC? Perhaps it is a deco item? Can you uplift it?

Ok, so here's an update with pictures. I went back to the lot (ps: it worked to just move around an objects and now the lot shows up in map view!)

So my Sim can walk over it no problem.

https://i.imgur.com/vaFAaRw.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/fF6VJcq.jpg

Doing anything with the tiles, doesn't seem to affect anything.

https://i.imgur.com/ARqJuVa.jpg

I could also place furniture anywhere in the surrounding areas.

(imgur was being fussy so I didn't get any more pics than these two uploaded)

https://i.imgur.com/F5Ude1n.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/k1wsaOq.jpg

But this is when it got interesting.

I realized that I had.... trees being placed randomly in like, limbo?? Like, just floating around between the ground floor and the basement.
What's even weirder was that when I moved the trees/shrubs.....either they came rolling back down OR there were more of them. I dont know!

I know 100% that I never place trees until I'm finished with the lot, so I don't understand how they could have gotten there if I placed trees (on ground level) after finishing the lot. Not impossible that some moveobjects-glitch happened of course, especially since I placed those shrubs there. I want to point out, I never ever use any constrainfloor codes and other building cheats. Only moveobjects.

Anyway, this is what it looked like. I ended up deleting all the trees and placing identical ones, in case it was just bugged out trees.

https://i.imgur.com/jWSNbQE.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/zJMcMzQ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2q5E8aL.jpg

These trees look like they were added in CAW though, tbh. I know when I add trees in CAW, and if they don't touch the ground properly, they get that pointy look at the end of the trunk. Rather than being flat. Ya know? I mean, maybe they were in fact added in caw, and pulled down/got lost and when I started making a basement, they came up? But not sure about the shrubs though. Maybe I just added the shrubs because I saw there were similar in the area (which is what I normally do) but... i really don't know.

The crack was still in the floor after removing and adding new trees.

Now, not sure if it's relevant or not, but I realized upon revisiting, that there are TWO basement levels. There is another basement level under this. And yes, I checked that one for cracks but found nothing. And nothing in the ceiling under the cracks either. Or objects that should cause this.

Another interesting bit is that there are train tracks next to this lot. (Put there in caw by the world creator). I wonder if maybe this has anything do to with the train tracks?

If there is another basement level under that one...perhaps it's the top of a wall in that lower area. I'd try deleting the extra basement if you don't need/want it.