When I loaded up the game today, some of my walls in my largest room seemed to be gone, I could see the outside walls when I had the camera in a certain angle but when I have the walls half down or fully up, there is just a black outline around where the walls should have been. Its really annoying me at the moment so please help.

I haven't yet seen this in my game, and over on the forums, a player had uploaded their bugged build to the Gallery. When I downloaded it, all of the walls were in place in my game. I am using a fresh save that I created after applying the patch, clearing my cache, and repairing the game (steps I always follow for testing after each patch), so I am wondering if people are seeing this in older saves, by any chance. Also, are you building on a lot and then notice the problem, or noticing it right after placing the lot? Edit to add that I have now witnessed the problem in a home I downloaded from the Gallery. It appears as if the room has somehow been corrupted. It seems that drawing a new room in place of the old fixes it, as after I did that, saved the lot to the library, and re-placed it, the walls remained. However, other methods I tried, such as just moving the room to another location, did not work.

@hallieally Try to rebuild the wall with the wall tool. You don't need to remove the invisible wall, just rebuild over it. Is this something similar to what you are seeing?

@hallieally moved to the bug forum, and per request of Crinrict tagging @BryonyRae

Try dragging your mouse and deleting more than just the wall, try half the room, then hit "undo". I managed to fix (most, but not all) of my walls with this, but I haven't reopened my game yet to check if they stayed visible

Very good find @dolldrms1 - Villareal has invisible walls in my game too. Over on the forums, someone posted that they thought this problem is being caused by certain wall patterns. I wasn't able to duplicate it based on what they described, but they didn't provide exact names. When I went into my game and observed the missing walls in Villareal, I moved the affected room and then used the eyedropper to select the wall pattern. It is the Mosaic Mania, 4th color option down on the left side column. To test the wall pattern, I applied it to another room in the home, then saved and exited. When I reloaded the save, sure enough, the other room now also had invisible walls. I do believe then that the problem is tied to certain wall patterns. It would probably be a good idea to list the affected patterns we find in the first post of this thread, if possible (@crinrict).

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Phantomlover1717
Legend
10 years ago
Do you have any mods or CC (custom content)? Try taking that out.
See this for more information: [PLEASE READ] Usage of Mods and Custom Content

Also could you add a screenshot, I think I know what you mean, but I'm not sure.
Phantomlover1717
Legend
10 years ago
@hallieally moved to the bug forum, and per request of Crinrict tagging @BryonyRae
pekesims
Hero (Retired)
10 years ago
@hallieally Try to rebuild the wall with the wall tool. You don't need to remove the invisible wall, just rebuild over it.

Is this something similar to what you are seeing?
BryonyRae
Hero (Retired)
10 years ago
I haven't yet seen this in my game, and over on the forums, a player had uploaded their bugged build to the Gallery. When I downloaded it, all of the walls were in place in my game. I am using a fresh save that I created after applying the patch, clearing my cache, and repairing the game (steps I always follow for testing after each patch), so I am wondering if people are seeing this in older saves, by any chance. Also, are you building on a lot and then notice the problem, or noticing it right after placing the lot?

Edit to add that I have now witnessed the problem in a home I downloaded from the Gallery. It appears as if the room has somehow been corrupted. It seems that drawing a new room in place of the old fixes it, as after I did that, saved the lot to the library, and re-placed it, the walls remained. However, other methods I tried, such as just moving the room to another location, did not work.
crinrict
Hero+
10 years ago
I also tried a build a German user has claimed they have the issue on and it was all fine on my game.

Graphics settings and cards will be interesting although it doesn't seem to make a difference to change them.
neurodoc2
New Rookie
10 years ago
The second after my Sims 4 game updated, I played it and found that my houses - all of them that I have checked - have INVISIBLE WALLS! I was able to fix the problem thanks to YouTube but when I opened the game up again, the invisible walls were back.
This is solely the result of the latest update. My game was fine before then.
What now? I can't play the game like this!
Phantomlover1717
Legend
10 years ago
@neurodoc2 moved to the bug forum, @BryonyRae do you guys have a thread where this can be merged to?
KrazyAngelKat81
New Scout
10 years ago
Thank you @BryonyRae the redrawing of the whole room worked for me in the one house where this occurred for me.
I think the issue may lie in the fact they have patched the settings for the lighting between floors as the only lot I had the issue with has a split level design.
However the fix was quick and easy and seems to stop the problem even after saving and quitting.
kokoro80
Seasoned Veteran
10 years ago
This has just started showing up in my game too. I don't have any mods or cc. If I redraw the walls it fixes the issue temporarily but as soon as I leave the home lot to visit a community lot the walls are invisible again when I return.
crinrict
Hero+
10 years ago
Thank you for your report.

Does it appear on all houses or only existing ones ?

EDIT: ADDED