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Psychotps
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
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[FIXED] Fences disappear when hovering with gate

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? 1.60.54.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Turn on bb.moveobjects. Draw a fence with dynamic posts that move around as fence gets longer. (glitch works more often if fence has an angle joining a straight) Pick up any fence gate and hover over the fence.
What happens when the bug occurs? Fence will glitch out and disappear. This breaks fences on ALL lots, even if bb.moveobjects is OFF afterwords. Glitch is permanent until game's cache is deleted.
What do you expect to see? Fences not glitch out.
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? Neutral/Not Sure 

Example: https://youtu.be/OeH01ZtuXt4

If bb.moveobjects is turned on, fences will glitch out as seen in the video. However, change is PERMANENT on that world across ALL lots. If you then turn OFF bb.moveobjects, and go to another lot, or save/exit the game and re-load and do the same thing, the fences will STILL glitch out with moveobjects off.

Once the glitch occurs, it breaks areas on lots that never had fences. Fences can no longer be drawn at all in some areas. You draw a straight line of fence, it will have open spots.

The only way to fix it is to wipe the game's cache. Bulldozing the lot, wiping the lot, placing a new lot from the library or gallery, all fail to fix the problem.

Edit By Crinrict: Adjusted Tag

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    4 years ago

    Fences should no longer disappear when hovering a gate over them after using the bb.moveobjects cheat.

    Fixed in Patch 1.84.171/1.52

    If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

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  • merrysimmaker's avatar
    merrysimmaker
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 years ago

     I just had this issue come up in the new cottage world.  When placing a gate, parts of the fence disappeared and won't come back.  I had MOO on.  I exited without saving and will try again.  This is a discouraging error.  Aug 14, 2021.

    Edited to add I went back in and the fence was back (I did not save so it reverted to before the error) and all seems fine.  I have not attempted MOO again yet.

  • Guess which bug is still kicking around. All the way since 2016, where it was first reported. Imagine that - 5 years.

  • Happened to me today as well, cleared my cache, going to check my game tomorrow and hope that fixed it.

    I haven't done todays game update yet but noticed the only bug fix mentioned is sims teleporting instead of using stairs (which seemed to be a more recent bug).

    Maybe they don't know how to fix the fence/gate bug?

    Don't want this to become a regular thing as I always build with MOO

  • LokisMinx's avatar
    LokisMinx
    Seasoned Veteran
    4 years ago

    PS4 - All Packs

    I have this bug since country living came out.

  • I've been having the same problem sadly. I've found a way around it by loading and playing a previously saved version from the save menu, luckily from just before I tried placing a gate.

  • This just happened to me today, never before. I just started a Legacy Challenge and have the perfect house... and now I can't have my toddler play area fenced in with the tiny gate and picket fence. ☹️

    So does the gate break the fences again AFTER you clear the cache??

  • @Psychotps It is permanent on the tile you hovered the gate over, I ended up moving my entire house lot onto a bigger lot. and was able to place fence gates normally, I was able to finish my build without the glitch happening again.
  • Same here. Actually I've only had it happen when using Country Living fences/gates.

    Unfortunately, the visual glitch doesn't go away. Had to place the fence elsewhere. Changing fence type, deleting, etc doesn't help. That entire grid place is nixed

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 years ago

    Fences should no longer disappear when hovering a gate over them after using the bb.moveobjects cheat.

    Fixed in Patch 1.84.171/1.52

    If you're still experiencing this issue, please create a new thread.

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