[FIXED] [CL] [S] Snow inside premade buildings

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.53.115.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Expansion Packs: Island Living Seasons Cats and Dogs City Living Get together Get to work Gamepacks: Strangerville Jungle Adventure Parenthood Dine Out Spa Day Outdoor Retreat Stuff Packs: Toddler Stuff Fitness Stuff Backyard Stuff Kids Room Stuff Romantic Garden Stuff Movie Hangout Stuff Cool Kitchen Stuff Perfect Patio Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Place an indoor mural on a wall while snow is outside or go to the Art Gallery during the winter in City Living MyShuno, while there is snow outside on the ground, and click on the indoor mural. Also read online the floor murals have the same problem.
What happens when the bug occurs? The spray with graffiti option, used for the Critic career is not available.
What do you expect to see? No message there is snow on an indoor mural while it is indoors. Sim to be able to paint on indoor mural, and spray graffiti, even if it is raining or snowing outside. The outdoor weather not to negatively affect items inside buildings.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure

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crinrict
6 years ago
Fixed an issue where Weather would affect items inside buildings.

Fixed in Patch 1.59.73

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SimzSizzle
6 years ago
Sorry it posted twice, tried to edit it but it wouldn't submit with only one information paragraph
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@SimzSizzle Did you change anything about the gallery ?
helenthehunter
Seasoned Adventurer
6 years ago
I placed a mural in a basement room so a vamp could use it and got the same result.
LadyDarkSorrow
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I'm not sure if this inline with the problem but I notice I have snow inside Planet Honey Pop!!
not sure when this started.
ShinoTypeError
6 years ago
@LadyDarkSorrow I get this too and I can't find any areas on the walls or roof that would be letting snow in.
jaycravn
6 years ago
@LadyDarkSorrow I think this is because the main area ofPlanet Honey Pop is not considered a room by the game - thats how they made the split level, and why you cant pick it up. So I don't think its related to the op.
but i have had the same problem as op, not being able to paint indoor murals due to outdoor snow.
LiELF
Legend
6 years ago
Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)
What is your current game version number? 1.56.52.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Everything except Parenthood and Moschino Stuff
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Go to Planet Honey Pop in the winter, while it's snowing.
What happens when the bug occurs? There is snow inside the venue as if outside.
What do you expect to see? No snow inside the building.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. I started noticing after the Realm of Magic patch.

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So I went to Planet Honey Pop in San Myshuno while it was snowing and the entire floor of the building had snow covering it. There was no option to make snow angels or anything, so the snow wasn't recognized like it is outside, just the visual effects were there.

I don't have any mods or CC in my game. I had a few pieces of CC in the game a while back, just to view them in CAS, but took them out and deleted the cache files. I used a simple mod to unlock pointed ears in CAS one time, made a few Sims, and took the mod out then deleted the cache files. I've played this lot several times and never had this issue. I suspect it's the result of the Realm of Magic patch.
simvasion
Hero
6 years ago
@LiELFI've seen this too, but before Realm of Magic, so I think it's been an issue for a lot longer. Maybe even since Seasons itself.

It happens when there's snow cover outside, but because the interior floor of Planet Honey Pop is sunken (they removed the foundation inside) that area seems to also get covered in snow too.

A similar thing happens at Discotheque Pan Europa in Windenburg, because that also has a similar removed foundation sunken floor. But only half of that is covered in snow because apparently having a proper roof above it and not just a flat flooring roof prevents the snow indoors.
It's definitely a bug because having any kind of roof above, either hipped or flat should stop indoor snow.
crinrict
Hero+
6 years ago
@LiELF Merged this with another thread on the issue
fcc56
Seasoned Novice
6 years ago
@simvasion There are a couple things going on here. First, the issue with being unable to spray graffiti (but not paint a mural) on an indoor mural is a separate issue from interior snow and clearly a bug (or, more likely, careless coding). You can put a mural in a basement that is completely under your building and if there is snow outside you cannot paint graffiti because "There is snow covering the mural!".

Second, many of the EA buildings in the game are not properly winterized. Not just snow on the floor, but sims are cold even with a thermostat in the building. This affects both community and residential lots. Many of the buildings are not built correctly; for example, rooms as defined by the game include both interior and exterior spaces, making it impossible to add ceilings. These buildings can require a lot of rebuilding to winterize. Also, some buildings with "correct" rooms lack ceilings over some rooms, so you need to check for that. The EA builders also seem to like to add a lot of invisible fences to roof areas which also make it difficult or impossible to add ceilings. Some of this is due to the lack of a proper flat roof option (how hard could that be??), but in many cases they serve no discernible purpose and can be deleted. Note that roofs over rooms without ceilings may or may not seal out the cold (depends on the building).

The two buildings mentioned in this thread are both problematic. The gallery in particular needs a lot of work to close in the interior spaces. I ended up rebuilding some walls and putting a glass roof overs the multi-story sections. There is one residential lot I was never able to get right and ended up cheating the iceproof perk for all the residents so that they didn't need to move out. Of course, all the buildings that have open roofs (like the gym and lounge in Uptown) need to be reconfigured to have roofs. The least EA could have done is post winterized versions of their own buildings in the Gallery for download, although I sometimes wonder whether the folks who do the building even know how to fix their own buildings—so many of the buildings that come with the game and DLC are so incompetently designed and built.

There are a lot of issues about the way that weather was not incorporated into the rest of the game very well: Rain at the festivals, invitations to the ruins or the bluffs during blizzards, etc. More careless coding (or lack of interest).