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egingell_1
Rising Traveler
12 months ago

[Console] Roof Clipping

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PlayStation 5
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? 1.97
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? Backyard Stuff, Little Campers Kit, Vampires, Cats and Dogs, My First Pet Stuff, Castle Estate Kit.
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Build a room inside a roof.
What happens when the bug occurs? If any of the walls in said room are not a full wall, the roof cuts through the room.
What do you expect to see? I expect the roof to go around the room no matter the wall type.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? On console - never used.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

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I want to make a balcony in a roof, but I can't because the roof cuts through the room if even one wall isn't full (ie spandrel, fence, half wall). It also happens with interior walls.

I guess PS5 screenshots are too big, so here's an Imgur link.

https://imgur.com/a/gz7tjAJ

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2 Replies

  • CGrant56's avatar
    CGrant56
    Hero+
    12 months ago

    @egingell1 

    It's not a bug.  It is one of the quirks of the build system though.  If a fence is present, roofs will almost always do that as fences and walls are seen by the build system as different in that case and the auto-roof does not see the fence as a barrier. You can't get what you want to do using a single roof piece in the way you are trying to do it because of that.  But you can get close if you use multiple roof segments and avoid having any segments pass through a room.  You should be using half roofs and that you place them over only what needs to be covered. A roof can get complicated sometimes.  The other thing that can help you is using the eave arrows to pull the eaves in and out to help with matching up segments where they meet and to straighten the edges.  And sometimes, you just can't get exactly what you want and will have find a compromise that you can live with that isn't perfect but will come close.  You can do things like changing the rooflines of the build, moving walls and make a room a tile smaller or larger, change the roof slope, etc.  You'll just have to keep trying things until you find what works.

    Hope this helps.

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