Insect Spawners Outside of Granite Falls.

Hi @Alistu,

I don't think there's anything special about those spawners, here are the GP01 spawner catalog IDs:

0x00000000000107EB
0x00000000000107EC
0x00000000000107ED
0x00000000000107EE
0x00000000000107EF
0x00000000000107F0
0x00000000000107F1
0x00000000000107F2
0x00000000000107F3
0x00000000000107F4
0x00000000000107F5
0x00000000000107F6

Are these the ones you tried?

-SGMS

I hadn't tried those prior to my original post, no. They appear to have even less functionality than the ones I was using though.

Using the objects you have just provided the IDs for, I end up with large green boxes that are numbered on the side. Once the game is placed back into Live mode the boxes become invisible but no insects ever spawn. Returning to Build/Buy mode doesn't make the spawners reappear but they can be deleted by placing a regular object and then dragging the sledgehammer tool from that object over the area that the spawners were placed on.
With the spawners placed, I left the game running on Ultra Speed for two Sim days and no insects ever appeared.

The objects I was trying with before appear to be the actual insect objects that the spawners are supposed to summon. They have the following IDs

• 000000000001074E
  
• 0000000000010754
  
• 0000000000010756
  
• 0000000000010757
  
• 0000000000010759
  
• 0000000000010BF9
  
• 0000000000011552
  
• 0000000000011553
  
• 0000000000011554
  
• 0000000000011555
  
• 0000000000011556
  
• 0000000000011557
  

They have no image in the catalogue and are not visible when placed.
When placed, the insects appear immediately and stay until either a Sim collects them or they time out. Once they vanish, no more appear as the object seems to get deleted.

I don't know how to continue from here.

Hi @Alistu,

The IDs I provided are the spawners, those are the one that we will need to use in order for the insects to continue to spawn. Just tested and you are right, they are not working. My suspicion is that it's because they are on a lot and not in the world, but will need to do some more digging next week.

-SGMS

Thanks for taking a look. I did wonder if their location in game would affect how they behaved. If there is the possibility of having them function on all Lot types that would be awesome to be able to add a little more natural life to our parks and such like.

Quick update: pretty sure this is happening because the spawner is on the lot. I need to do some more digging as to exactly why it's failing. Stay tuned.

-SGMS

I have a residential lot I'm building that would be so awesome with a butterfly spawner. I'm actually thinking about doing two versions, one nocc and one with. Still keeping my fingers crossed!

Update: Still looking at this. At this point I expect we will need to fix on our end, but will keep you posted.

Thanks so much for continuing to look into this. It is very much appreciated.

I would interested in the outcome of this too. I have an insect mod already but an official one would open up a lot of object design doors. I've made a couple of bee hives and have other ideas concerning the insects. Thanks for giving the request some thought.

Any new news on insect spawners?