Okay so I downloaded a ruthless_kk lot into my game but the front of the house (has a fence as well) is facing the wrong way on the lot. I know how to move a whole house but how can I rotate the entire lot so its facing the correct way?

not sure if you can rotate the lot...great question. You may just have to rotate the whole house.

That'll be annoying to rotate just the house and having to try to replicate the fencing and landscaping so it's facing the correct way ;-; Or I'll just have to use that particular house on a different lot.

The lots cannot be rotated. I think this is on purpose....had you ever noticed in the Sims 3 how sometimes terrain paints are "shifted off" to one side and not where they are supposed to be? It is because the lot was not oriented the exact same way as when it was created. By having all the lots oriented in one direction that doesnt move, that wont happen.We can move the house and rotate it, but....yeah...have to redo the landscaping and such. Which I would rather do than have to rebuild a house from scratch because it ended up being too close to the street. :)

Thanks ruthless! It's the Contempo one you did that looks amazing. I'll just have to try out rotating the house and see if I can replicate the fencing and landscaping as best I can :D It's a shame that we can't just rotate the whole lot but oh well, I can deal with it lol.

Personally I think it's ridiculous that we can't rotate a lot. I downloaded a lovely house but I can't use it because it always faces backwards and the whole point of downloading a house is to save me spending ages building one so I don't want to have to delete all the landscaping so the house on its own will rotate.

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Ash072
11 years ago
not sure if you can rotate the lot...great question. You may just have to rotate the whole house.
Lizziguin
11 years ago
That'll be annoying to rotate just the house and having to try to replicate the fencing and landscaping so it's facing the correct way ;-; Or I'll just have to use that particular house on a different lot.
Ash072
11 years ago
Good luck! If you find out how, be sure to post it here please! :smile:
ruthless_kk
11 years ago
The lots cannot be rotated. I think this is on purpose....had you ever noticed in the Sims 3 how sometimes terrain paints are "shifted off" to one side and not where they are supposed to be? It is because the lot was not oriented the exact same way as when it was created. By having all the lots oriented in one direction that doesnt move, that wont happen.

We can move the house and rotate it, but....yeah...have to redo the landscaping and such. Which I would rather do than have to rebuild a house from scratch because it ended up being too close to the street. :)
Lizziguin
11 years ago
Thanks ruthless! It's the Contempo one you did that looks amazing. I'll just have to try out rotating the house and see if I can replicate the fencing and landscaping as best I can :D It's a shame that we can't just rotate the whole lot but oh well, I can deal with it lol.
hoffenk1968
11 years ago
Personally I think it's ridiculous that we can't rotate a lot. I downloaded a lovely house but I can't use it because it always faces backwards and the whole point of downloading a house is to save me spending ages building one so I don't want to have to delete all the landscaping so the house on its own will rotate.
ruthless_kk
11 years ago
"kampffenhoff;12601147" wrote:
Personally I think it's ridiculous that we can't rotate a lot. I downloaded a lovely house but I can't use it because it always faces backwards and the whole point of downloading a house is to save me spending ages building one so I don't want to have to delete all the landscaping so the house on its own will rotate.

That is really weird that it is backwards. If the lot orientation doesnt change...it should face the direction the person built it on. Unless they built it backwards? Is the picture in the gallery backwards too? I would be very curious about that...can you tell me which lot?
koschevy
11 years ago
I've been having the same problem. I was able to fix it by bulldozing the lot and moving the mailbox on the empty lot so it faced the right way. Then I brought the house back into the lot and it was facing correctly. However, now I have the same problem on another lot and I tried this same fix and it didn't work. So frustrating.
MJSimKat_14
11 years ago
Have you tried moving the house itself? Press "U" and then select the house to move it. Press "U" again to get out of the move house mode
LokiSimsies
11 years ago
About rotating houses....

I made a house and decided to move it somewhere else. It landed backwards. I did the house thing and because it was on a 20x30 lot and it would have been outside the ranges with the first turn? It wouldn't let me. No matter what I did, I could not flip that house around because it rotates 1/4 of a turn at a time. I was so frustrated.

Anybody knows how to make it rotate from front to back?

I noticed the mailbox and moved it to the correct front of the lot, it didn't fix it. The house kept landing backwards.

ETA: I DID move the house from one side of the street to the other. So it landed facing the exact same way as it had originally been built. However, we should be able to rotate it to face correctly. Since it rotates 1/4 of a turn at a time? It would not allow me to make that first turn since it would have gone outside of the boundaries of the lot.