[OPEN] [XB1] Can’t place windows individually. Only allows auto-placement

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@PoptartJuniper wrote:
@ThatGirlJemmaXoI have noticed this also. You can back out of the window selection to the window size menu and then use the rb/lb button to toggle between room and individual there, but yes the toggle doesn't work like it did before. I'm not sure if this is related to the general issue of those buttons not working in build mode and live mode but they are probably all related.

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I've noticed this on the PS4 as well, and I've had to back out to the size menu like you said just to get the proper placement mode. This seems to happen if you've done something like place wall and/or floor patterns, and you had hit RB (R1 on PS4) to use Room Mode for placement. For some reason that placement mode seems to stay active and carries over to window placement, which I don't know why. So for anyone on consoles, when you finish placing your floors and walls just make a note to hit L1 or LB to switch out of that room placement mode otherwise it will stay like that for windows.

Sorry, don’t know if I’m posting right but I’m on an Xbox One playing Sims 4 and I would usually press LB or RB to change from a single window placement to a whole room and vice versa but now it’s stuck on just the whole room. Don’t know what to do. I have tried restarting the game which does fix it for a little while but then it goes back to just doing a whole room. Also usually when I press left trigger it cycles through placement type (grid, half grid or free) but now it also brings up a search bar which hasn’t happened before. Have I done something to change the controls?

I have recently installed the Discover University Expansion and now when placing windows it will not give me the option to place them singularly and not in a group for the whole room. I know it’s not my controller since I when paint the walls it works. I don’t know if the game is just being weird or what. It hasn’t given me the chance to change it since I installed it. 

Someone reported this on the bug forum, and it's apparently a glitch introduced in one of the recent updates. If you go to the part of the menu where you select the window sizes you can still adjust the placement mode there, so you will have to do it there for now. Another thing I've noticed (and I'm not sure if it was always like this or not) is that if you place wall or floor patterns and change the placement mode in either of those, the setting will stay active which means if you select room placement for the floors or walls it will carry over to windows as well. If you keep both of these things in mind it's not quite as annoying, though not being able to swap placement modes while actually placing windows is still annoying. I hope that helps in some way.

@TulipacSimmer @valohim666 I have merged your post with the bug report on this issue. It is a bug with the controls.

You can back out of the window selection to the window size menu and then use the rb/lb button to toggle between room and individual placement.

Please click the "Me Too" button at the bottom of the first post in this thread.

So I play XBox edition for the sims 4, and today I was building and went to place a window. However, when I placed it, it placed for the entire room. I tried to make it so I could only place one, but it didn’t work. I looked at the ctrls on the side that pop up, and there was no longer a control. Is anybody else having this issue?

I know this is very late, but for future players who encounter this issue, the problem is that you cannot just press L1/R1 to switch placement modes with a window type selected, like you can with floors and walls. You have to switch before you even select the window size, as can be seen in the attached images. L1/R1 still works here, so long as you do not have a window selected.