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 do, it won’t level out. I tried manip. The terrain, I tried bulldozing the terrain in its entirety, and still it’s doing this. So then I used grass from the flooring options “outdoor” I laid it across the lot and that god rid of this half thing but still the sims can’t seem to use the garbage. Anytime I try to, they put it back on the floor. I tried moving it behind the house and still they wouldn’t use it. It wasn’t until I moved the garbage and put it right beside the outdoor van did they use it. And the indoor garbage doesn’t seem to work either unless I physically put it in myself using the square button. why is the ground doing this and is it why I’m having issues with the garbage? Even though it’s in a part of the lot that isn’t doing this?

@_awkwardlezbean 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 ☹️

@_awkwardlezbean 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.

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.https://youtu.be/x20NEmyABkIif 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

@_awkwardlezbean 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.

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_awkwardlezbean
Rising Veteran
4 years ago
yep that’s the right lot!
see when I sent you the video and went to terrain tools, and it had the lot yellow, it showed those uneven edges. But there was nothing like that in the spot where the ground cuts. It’s totally flat in the area. I don’t understand why it’s doing that. And like I told you before, when I moved it to Vlad’s lot, it still did it. Maybe it has nothing to do with the trash can not working for me. But I’ve never seen the ground do that before. And it was just on the edge of the lot at the front, and only certain spots, and It was within the bounds of it too. I have no idea what’s causing it but it has to be something in the house I built, because the issue followed it to another lot. But then again, you placed the same house and didn’t get it so i don’t know what could be causing it, I mean you saw it in the video 😭 I’m not losing it right? 😂
im on ps5. I don’t know if that makes a difference. So you weren’t getting the ground cutting out like it was in the photo? for me it was only certain spots but happened straight across the front lawn. Damnit 😭
_awkwardlezbean
Rising Veteran
4 years ago
Okay so this is the new lot. Right where the statue is, that’s cut off when the lot isn’t highlighted. So where it’s sitting, the lot is flat, but I see that it’s not right in front of the gate which is out of the bounds so I didn’t think it would be affecting something within the lots parameters. ESP when they ground beneath the statue itself is flat. I’ve never seen this before. I can’t even fix it bc it’s out of bounds, and the issue is straight across the front of the house. I’ll just have to back it up or make sure the ground isn’t cutting off wherever I put it. It must not have anything to do with the garbage not working.
Another theory. When I first built the lot there were plasma trees that i had deleted and a few plasma fruit were floating in the air despite the tree being gone. My sim picked them out of the sky and they are gone now but I wonder if it’s something to do with that. That the tree might’ve been in that spot or something and it’s registering it like it’s still there
_awkwardlezbean
Rising Veteran
4 years ago
I also meant to mention that what’s weird is, if I take the statue down off the stand thing, and then drag the stand it doesn’t cut off. It only does it with the Angel or whatever is on it: so weird.
oh well. Not much I can do. I appreciate all your help and your patience in all this. Truly! Hopefully it’s not the cause of the trash not working and I can figure that out.

Thank you again ❤️
CGrant56
Hero+
4 years ago
@_awkwardlezbean
I have no idea why you are getting the weirdness you are. I'm on PC but that shouldn't make any difference. I've seen the floating fruit thing before and didn't have any issue like what you have from it. Once the floating fruit was gone, no issues afterwards. I have seen similar issues to yours with lots I've tested from time to time but flattening the lot always fixed it except for the sloped tiles on the edge. Those are there because the underlying terrain isn't flat. It's not the only lot that's like that.
Sorry I couldn't help you figure it out.
Hope this helps.

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