I have mostly similar problem. I'll see the vampire take out the umbrella. But it won't actually be blocking the sun until you walk briefly or initiate another action.
It should be simple, umbrella out, blocks sun everytime.
Another problem, if a vampire gets home from work. They will just stand outside in the sun and die instead of going inside, or at least taking out umbrella. Now if you take control of them and walk an inch, they will take out umbrella. But if they get home from work, they just stand there.
I have autonomy set so if you don't have control of a character they take control of themselves, yet for vampires in this instance they just stand there after work. Seems like autonomy is locked until u take control of them briefly, then they finally start doing things themselves.
@celiar58 If you have Seasons, then you can buy an umbrella rack and then click on it while your vampire is the active sim and tell them to take an umbrella. Then you will get to choose which colour umbrella you want them to have. Your sim should then automatically use the umbrella when going outside.
Yes, it's still an issue. It has always been an issue for me since I've had vampires and seasons together, but I have never reported on it thinking that many people must be having this issue and should get fixed at some point. Vampires SHOULD burn in the sun, so I just took it as the added difficulty of being a vampire, even though holding an umbrella is supposed to prevent this.
What prompted me to finally look this one up, was I just now had a vampire in university step outside and open his umbrella manually so that when he goes to class he won't die, but even though I queued it up like others have said to avoid the debuff "sticking" he was still burning! I can usually avoid this by manually opening my sims umbrella for them, but this is the very first time it did not work. I don't know if something in university made it different or what.
