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enchantress6274
New Traveler
4 years ago

The Sims 3 late night, cant toggle floors in high-rise

Hello. How do you do? The elevator works. It is the toggling between floors that isn't working for me. I restarted my game, but I still have the problem. It's only in the high-rise at Veranda Villas - Loft, 1ba. It was working fine until I had a long session. I got it to work one more time after going to Build Mode. It was just for a couple of toggles. My Sim can go upstairs, but I cannot. I have to use the Moodlets to Use the Toilet, and Sleep Until Fully Rested.

I hope there isn't another one with the same problem because I looked, but found people only had trouble with the elevators.

I appreciate everything and everyone on here. I hope you have a good day.

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  • @enchantress6274  If you double-click one of your sims when they're on a floor you can't reach, which would normally center the camera on the sim, does the camera move at all?  If so, what do you see?  One possibility that comes to mind is that you added a hidden room marker to part of the apartment, or else you removed a wall and therefore merged part of the active living area with a room that had such a marker.  But that's just idle speculation without more info.

  • enchantress6274's avatar
    enchantress6274
    New Traveler
    4 years ago

    I can center the camera on my Sim, and then I can access the upstairs. I didn't build anything or tear anything down. I rearranged furniture and added some more items. I moved the book shelf to the bottom of the stairs, and placed a treadmill at the top of the stairs.

    My Sim was sleeping when I entered this. She has a morning routine before I send her to the main living area. There, I will test again, maybe my computer needed to reboot.

    Thanks for helping me. I really was at a loss of what to do! I wanted to move my 4-person household to this apartment, trying out city living, and having parties at other places.

  • enchantress6274's avatar
    enchantress6274
    New Traveler
    4 years ago

    My Sim is downstairs in the main living area, and I cannot toggle up to the loft again.

  • enchantress6274's avatar
    enchantress6274
    New Traveler
    4 years ago

    I just noticed the Go Up a Floor - Page Up button is gray, the Go Down a Floor - Page Down is blue.

  • puzzlezaddict's avatar
    puzzlezaddict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    @enchantress6274  It would be odd for a few new items to bork the game's sense of how floors work.  But just as an experiment, try deleting everything inside the apartment, including the stairs.  Use "save as" to rename the save, so your original (from before you deleted the items) remains intact, quit, delete the five cache files in Documents\Electronic Arts\The Sims 3, and reload.  For reference, these are the cache files:

    CASPartCache.package

    compositorCache.package

    scriptCache.package

    simCompositorCache.package

    socialCache.package

    If this doesn't help, you can get rid of the save where you deleted all the furniture and go back to testing on your now-current version.  This time, evict your sims in Edit Town, save the apartment to the in-game bin, bulldoze the lot, place its bin copy, and move your sims back in.  They'll keep their jobs and relationships but lose their promised wishes and opportunities.  There are ways to work around that, if you don't want that result, but the first thing to do is see whether this fixes the apartment itself.

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