Dissapearing/Invisible walls
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 f...
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@hallieally moved to the bug forum, and per request of Crinrict tagging @BryonyRae
@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?
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.
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.
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.- I entered the Villareal lot in WB last night and found the invisible wall issue in the upstairs master bathroom. Which walls were invisible was dependent on the camera angle. If looking at the room from the door side, the missing walls were the ones to the back of the house. If rotating the lot to those outside walls, it was the interior walls that were invisible. Suggesting, naturally, room corruption for whatever reason.The only thing that worked, and seems to be holding, is to redraw the room as @BryonyRae suggested earlier in the thread. Only addendum to add to her post is that after I redrew the room and added back wall textures I just saved it, with the family still in the home. I didn't have to move them out, fix it, save to library and then replace, which is a time saver.@crinrict, you mentioned in the post below BryonyRaes that you thought it would be interesting to know about graphic cards and their settings, so here is mine: Ultra Settings using an Nvidia GTX970.
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).
