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simsplayer818
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2 years ago
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[XB] Platforms have a gap instead of a ceiling

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:Xbox Series X 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? 1.78 W...
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    simsplayer818
    2 years ago

    @SheriGR I managed to get some images on my tablet of my testing today. They were a bit dark so I highlighted the platform with a shiny floor covering and some spotlights. I tested on flat ground first with a raised central platform, a raised wall side platform and a sunken central platform (the octagonal one as it wasn't a clear image so I made it a distinctive shape). Success! They all got their ceilings where they didn't before. Then I tested it on a raised deck and they still got ceilings. When the wall was removed by the platform, it still had a ceiling but no wall because of the separate room problem. I'll add some of these images on that thread too.

    I tested the shapes I had problems with as well such as the Aqua Villa lot we discussed on the discussion thread where there was a large U shaped platform with huge missing ceiling, that also worked.

    I also noticed that when I deleted the room around the platform, where the platform is classed as a separate room it was left standing and still had a little floating ceiling. So it looks like it's working.

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simsplayer818
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2 years ago
@SheriGR I'll take some images with my tablet tomorrow to compare. I tested with the same type of platforms that were causing the problems before and they were okay. In fact the platform ceiling not only filled in...but wouldn't delete 🤦.
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2 years ago

@simsplayer818 I was just looking at your previous screenshots. Both of those were situations where your platform was against a wall. I redid my test with that in mind (sorry, I was not testing what you were looking for). I found the following:

In my (updated) game:

I found that if I made a room and then placed and resized to one tile a square platform on the lawn by it...

  1. If I make a room big enough to create the platform directly in the room and touching the wall (not making it on the ground and moving it into the room), the ceiling over the platform does not delete. (But the wall next to it deletes).
  2. Also, if I, like in my experiment in the last comment I posted, make a one tile platform on the ground outside the room, then if I pick up the 1-tile platform with the move tool and place it into the small room against a wall, the ceiling is removed over the platform (and the wall next to it deletes). (see screenshots) However...
  3. If copy the 1-tile platform with the move tool and placed the copy into the small room against the wall, the ceiling is not removed over the platform (but the wall next to it deletes).

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    simsplayer818
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    2 years ago
    @SheriGR Yes I always get the wall deleting too it's really annoying, the platform wipes out everything in its path I think that's what's causing our other issues with the platform counting as a separate room as well. I have to put another wall around it again. But I then found I still had those gaps above it after doing so and I don't have gaps now. I never like to accept a solution if anyone else might still be affected though.
    I've hardly touched platforms after this lol, they've frustrated me so much.
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      simsplayer818
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      2 years ago

      @SheriGR I managed to get some images on my tablet of my testing today. They were a bit dark so I highlighted the platform with a shiny floor covering and some spotlights. I tested on flat ground first with a raised central platform, a raised wall side platform and a sunken central platform (the octagonal one as it wasn't a clear image so I made it a distinctive shape). Success! They all got their ceilings where they didn't before. Then I tested it on a raised deck and they still got ceilings. When the wall was removed by the platform, it still had a ceiling but no wall because of the separate room problem. I'll add some of these images on that thread too.

      I tested the shapes I had problems with as well such as the Aqua Villa lot we discussed on the discussion thread where there was a large U shaped platform with huge missing ceiling, that also worked.

      I also noticed that when I deleted the room around the platform, where the platform is classed as a separate room it was left standing and still had a little floating ceiling. So it looks like it's working.

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        simsplayer818
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        2 years ago

        Here's another couple of examples.

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