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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SRVelez19
11 years ago
I have this very same problem. I tried the mailbox thing and it didn't work. So far I settled with the Move house and the hold shift thing althekoolkid3 said. But the garden was so elaborate, I'd have to make do getting rid of it.

It'd be really great to have a patch to add this functionality soon. Hi, SimGuruHouts :) *hint*hint*
rosemow
Hero
11 years ago
Thanks for the helpful information @LostDono :)
hoffenk1968
11 years ago
Managed to do it. I used the move house tool to select the entire house and then used < and > to turn it to the correct orientation. The house I was struggling with had a fence surrounding it and I managed to select the entire thing but not the actual lot.
Laciandia
11 years ago
> @LostDono said:
> Ok I tried this twice on 2 separate lots, so I'm pretty sure it works. If anyone is still getting the backwards, first off you go into build mode on the lot and then bulldoze it. Move the post box facing the correct direction and by the street. Do NOT exit build mode, instead press F4 or open the gallery and apply the lot while in build mode. It should fix the backwards facing lot thing.
> Hope it helps any of you still having that problem.

Can confirm this worked fo rme as well :)
KitOnlyHuman
11 years ago
"LostDono;12668919" wrote:
Ok I tried this twice on 2 separate lots, so I'm pretty sure it works. If anyone is still getting the backwards, first off you go into build mode on the lot and then bulldoze it. Move the post box facing the correct direction and by the street. Do NOT exit build mode, instead press F4 or open the gallery and apply the lot while in build mode. It should fix the backwards facing lot thing.

Hope it helps any of you still having that problem.

This didn't work for me at all.
Starwing6
11 years ago
"SimGuruHouts;12634445" wrote:
For now, there is no way to rotate an entire lot. It would certainly be useful functionality to have though. :)

This might be my problem! I built a house on the lot in Oasis Springs called "Affluista Mansion" I bulldozed the house and built my own. I have a lighting problem with it and also when I see it from the map view, the house is facing the wrong way on the map. I built it so the house faces the street but it's backwards on the map. How can I fix this????

P.S. Nevermind. I found an old save with the original lot and it's also backwards on the map, so I guess there's no way I can get mine to orient any different! lol Mine's just broken the same way as theirs is... But really, is that why the sunlight hits my house in a weird way and creates light where there shouldn't be anything but shadow???? Can you devs please take a look at the lighting issues with that there backwards lot of yours???
chorvagee
11 years ago
I'm having problems with this as well. I want an easy way to do this.
ruthless_kk
11 years ago
"KitOnlyHuman;12750064" wrote:
"LostDono;12668919" wrote:
Ok I tried this twice on 2 separate lots, so I'm pretty sure it works. If anyone is still getting the backwards, first off you go into build mode on the lot and then bulldoze it. Move the post box facing the correct direction and by the street. Do NOT exit build mode, instead press F4 or open the gallery and apply the lot while in build mode. It should fix the backwards facing lot thing.

Hope it helps any of you still having that problem.

This didn't work for me at all.

Yeah...me either. A house that I built on the "parkshore" lot always shows up backwards on the "Umbrage Manor" lot and nothing seems to work.
Porcelyn
11 years ago
I keep getting Can't Find Object message when try to place my rotated lot and I can't place it.
GawdSB
11 years ago
Crashes every time I try to rotate using the U then shift method...