I am sure my problem will probably simple for many of you, but not for me. I downloaded a house from the gallery and placed it. The spot where the sims land when they would go home or visit is not near a gate. I finally was able to use move lot to rotate it but in the process it took out a piece of hedge that cannot be cloned and I think it is in the debug menu. I can only find one hedge like it in regular but it is too dark and this will make me twitch :( I have these three commands I put in...bb.enablefreebuildbb.moveobjects onbb.showhiddenobjectsand then I did a search for debug. And this is where I just get completely lost. Nothing is named when you highlight it and from the items I can see, I do not see what I am looking for. I recently was trying to learn about this debug build/buy for some reason I don't remember right now, so I am still clueless. Sadly, this problem is part one. Part two is there is a pretty fence the builder put in the front of the house along with a gate that stays open. I need to remove the gate and fill in the fence and you guessed it, can't clone the fence and it seems to be a debug thing too. I don't know if it will be possible to explain how to navigate this to me, but if you think you can I would appreciate it. I started moving my family in and only then realized the problem and had to back out. I just wanna play! Lol. Here is the screenshots

If you're okay with mods, Twisted Mexi has a mod called Better Build Buy that has an organized debug. It makes it much easier to find things because they will be named and organized into appropriate categories like everything else. Just make sure you update it regularly.Other than that, picking up the items you want to clone and putting them in a room, then saving that room to your gallery, then placing it down and moving them where you want is probably the other option.

Hi, you are on the right track and since you have entered some cheats I assume you know how to open up the "cheat bar". ( CTRL-SHIFT-C ) The items you are looking for are located in debug but to have them show up you need to enter bb.showliveeditobjects, then type debug and they will show up after all other objects. If you're not familiar with debug items they will not be easy to find.I suggest you place the lot on a larger lot, make a room/platform and add the items to the room. The hedge and fence, fence posts w/e you think you need. It is easy to do if bb.moveobjects is activated and the room doesn't need to be bigger than one square. Then upload your room with the items to your gallery. Now you can go back to your original house, place your room and fix your build how you want it. Good Luck!

Thank you!!! I think I can follow this. I did not know about that command you just told me about. I try not to mess with stuff I don't understand for fear of messing up my save I guess. I really appreciate you responding so quickly. I moved my family in and figured I would just leave it be until I could get help. So hopefully I can fix this and then they are going on vacation!

The debug items are not sorted like the regular build/buy items are, that is why they are more difficult to find. You have to enter bb.showliveeditobjects, type debug in search and they will all show up at the end. You will see all buyable items first and you will have to scroll down to the very end. You will not find them by choosing fences or plants, they are not going to be there. Maybe google bb.showliveeditobjects and you will find a better explanation than mine. Keep trying!

I saw your DM. The fence in the front is indeed debug or live edit. The wooden fence I mean. Those cannot be cloned in Sims itself, I used TOOL for that. But nothing in this build should give you any trouble? I playtested it before I uploaded it to the gallery.As for the hedges, are you asking me what hedges I used?I'm kinda not sure what exactly you mean?

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Ennamora
Seasoned Veteran
6 months ago
I have sent you a DM with what packs the items are from with some extra information. If you run into any more problems with any of my builds, if you wish to download more of them, just DM me and I'm more then happy to help you. <3
Nightgypsy
Seasoned Ace
6 months ago
Thank you! I been busy with family and haven't had a chance to prepare myself to try this again. I probably won't be able to do more until this evening or maybe tomorrow evening. And I will definitely let you know if I need help but I am determined to make sense of this.
I want my mods back so badly and then I could get the ones you all suggested, but stuff has been CRAZY in my game and I had to remove my mods and that didn't work and I have had to completely reinstall my game twice. The problem is not the mods, I have already proven that. But if I put them back in then they want them removed for troubleshooting. So basically what I am really afraid of is I get so mad I quit the game for another 10 years or more. But I suppose that might happen either way because my two main households have very large houses, one is extremely large and my sims cannot function in them without LittleMsSams elevator mod, so that they can get all around the house in seconds. sorry, that was so much extra but it is frustrating and I love some big and well made houses. Your house is not as large as my other ones but, I added a basement to it starting under the garage, and then went down another level so I could have a tall wall garden. The stairs to get there are in the garage and that is not handy. If I had my elevator mod I wouldn't need stairs since the elevators work like portals. But instead my sims have to walk their lazy butts out to the garage and go down one flight of stairs to get to their workout equipment and then down another flight of stairs to get to the garden area. ok I am done. I never used mods until early in this year. I should have never done it bc now I just want to cry without them lol. ok I am out of here for now. I will let you know what happens whether i figure it out the debug items or just bang my head into the wall :)
Simmingal
Hero
6 months ago
All the landscaping type debug stuff is accessible through bb.showliveeditobjects cheat + searching by **debug** thing that shows up as suggestion when you write debug in search bar
the items that show via bb.showhiddenobjects are mainly objects tied to some form of gameplay (things like collectibles or idk magical tree portals, books etc.)
where bb.showliveeditobjects are more like decorations we have around the worlds like that random shell house or fence or whatever
but yeah as I see people have mentioned its rather unorganized in there
it is slightly easier to find items if you can tell what pack the items are from so you can filter by pack reducing the scroll through
From what I can see I would guess these specific items are base game at least the hedge seems likely :)

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