Ground is acting weird
So I’m including a photo to show what I mean but the terrain is all messed up in this one spot. When I had build open and the grid on, I can literally see the ground in risen up but no matter what I ...
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The reason the garbage can does that is because the lot isn't flat in the area where the can is. To fix it, go to build and use the Flatten Lot tool and that should fix it.
Hope this helps.
That’s what I meant above when I said I tried all the terrain manip. Tools. I tried flattening the entire lot and I tried smoothing, I tried flattening that one spot, and even tried bulldozing the terrain of the whole lot and it’s still doing this. The only thing that fixes it, is to add flooring to the entire lot. So I tried using the floor tiles under “outdoor” so that it looked like grass and while I could no longer see it being half cut, the garbage can still won’t work.
this lot must be bugged ☹️
Ok, on the lots that aren't completely flat, when you try flattening them, usually what happens is that the lot will flatten except for one tile along the perimeter on one or two sides of the lot. The rest usually does go flat. I'm not sure what is going on for you. Is it just that one place on the lot where it isn't flat? Can you place the garbage can anywhere else?
One thing you can try is to save the lot to your library. Bulldoze the lot. Check to see if it is flat. If not, try flattening it again. Then place the lot again from your library. That might work.
Sometimes, the house or other objects on the lot will cause a lot to not flatten correctly. Flattening the empty lot gets around that usually.
If that doesn't work. If you are willing to upload the lot to the Gallery and let us know what the lot name is, I or another helper will download it and take a look to see if we can figure out what is going on and how to fix it.
Hope this helps.
It seems to just be that one spot, that I’ve noticed anyway. I tried putting the bin in the back of the house and they still wouldn’t use it. They would pick it up and then put it back on the ground. It wasn’t until I used the square button to move the trash and put it right beside the bin that they used it. I had the same issue inside with the trash bin there. It’s off and on at times and has been going on for awhile.
I’ll try saving the lot, flattening it again and then place it. If that doesn’t work I’ll add it to the galley for you to check out but I seem to remember this lot wouldn’t save to the library. There’s two or three lots that won’t save to the library, I always get an error saying “there was an error saving this lot to the library” but I’ll try when I get home and let ya know! 🙂
Okay I tried all of that and it still didn’t work.
im noticing that when I open the terrain manipulation, everything looks flat except like you said the edges, but even smoothing will only smooth some parts. The cut off that’s happening is in random spots right across the front. Again if I add flooring it might be fine but I think it’s just hiding the green that shows up under the garbage can. It won’t even let me choose flatten lot, it keeps shooting to a different option or that noise it makes is it flattening but either way it doesn’t work. I have uploaded an unlisted video to YouTube to show you. Here’s the link.if you still can’t figure out what’s up, I have it in the gallery.
my user is lezbegamin25 and it’ll be listed as HOKE LOT ISSUE
Ok, I'll download the lot and check it out in a little when I get to a place I can save and switch to my test save. From the video, it looks like you've got it in Forgotten Hollow so I'll put it there and see if I can figure it out. It shouldn't make any difference but I'm on a PC. Which console are you playing on?
I'll let you know what I find.
