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FeistyMcFeisty
6 years ago

sims 4 tiny living...the floor is reflecting the sky? / floors not showing up

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:Mac
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? 1.60.54.1220
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? all of them
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Go into build mode and try and build something --- or simply put floortiles strait onto the terrain.
What happens when the bug occurs? It happens in buildmode when i'm either making a room or placing tiles where flooring would normally appear. If the area is closed off and a full 'room' sometimes the floors show up but not always.
What do you expect to see? I try and put floor times down (CC or maxis) and it shows up as a reflective thing
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. I installed Tiny Living

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Buildmode seems a little...broken or wonky? A screenshot has been provided here (as i couldn't make it any smaller at this time)...the original screenshot was taken while I believe mods were present and i just tried to go in game to re-create the issue and my game crashed?...the only mods that I have in game right now are:

  1. Tmex-allcheats
  2. Tmex-BetterExceptions
  3. Weerbesu - more CAS Columns 

I have checked if this occurs without mods as well and for me it does.

I removed the others as a way to check if they were causing issues.

I have realized that the floor in some rooms is reflecting the sky...like the ceiling of the great hall in harry potter but also not. attempt to re-create it worked  -- house featured is from the gallery faux 64 it is a microhome under the #microhome tag in the gallery.

mac

11 Replies

  • Sid1701d9's avatar
    Sid1701d9
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    @FeistyMcFeisty That is a graphical artifact if the home was from the gallery did you install tiny living with mods in game, remove mods from game by dragging out the folder and go into origin and hit repair game. and run game without mods to see if its back to normal, make sure patch is up to date. It does look like the sky but its actually the bottom of the simulated world. Game can't find floor tile textures because they changed name or not present.
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @FeistyMcFeisty Does this happen on every house you build ?

    How did you remove your mods ? Move folder to desktop or disable them ?

    Did you delete the localthumbcache ?

    Can't currently test that build you mention as the gallery isn't connecting for me.

  • FeistyMcFeisty's avatar
    FeistyMcFeisty
    6 years ago

    @crinrictyes, it happens when I build and when I download something from the gallery.

    @Sid1701d9the floortiles were all basegame or from the packs themselves - this is why i showed the screenshot of how it was also happening in Oasis Springs on EA/maxis lots....the only mod that I currently had when installing was Tmex-BetterExceptions.

    I've repaired the game numerous times and had it free of mods when repairing. It also occurs when I build...i'm just not wanted to check if it happened when the gallery was involved as well.

  • FeistyMcFeisty's avatar
    FeistyMcFeisty
    6 years ago
    @crinrict Of course!

    I'm running on macOS Catalina vers 10.15.3 (figured that could also come in handy)...

    Display
     Retina display
     16 inch (diagonal) LED backlit display with IPS technology; 3072 by 1920 native resolution at 226 pixels per inch with support for millions of colors
     Supported scaled resolutions:
    o 1920 by 1200
    o 1680 by 1050
    o 1280 by 800
    o 1024 by 640
     500 nits brightness
     Wide color (P3)
     True Tone technology
     Refresh rates: 47.95Hz, 48.00Hz, 50.00Hz, 59.94Hz, 60.00Hz
    Processor
     2.6GHz
    2.6GHz 6 core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 4.5GHz, with 12MB shared L3 cache
    Configurable to 2.4GHz 8 core Intel Core i9, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz, with 16MB shared L3 cache
     2.3GHz
    2.3GHz 8 core Intel Core i9, Turbo Boost up to 4.8GHz, with 16MB shared L3 cache
    Configurable to 2.4GHz 8 core Intel Core i9, Turbo Boost up to 5.0GHz, with 16MB shared L3 cache
    Storage1
     2.6GHz
    512GB SSD
    Configurable to 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, or 8TB SSD
     2.3GHz
    1TB SSD
    Configurable to 2TB, 4TB, or 8TB SSD
    Memory
     16GB of 2666MHz DDR4 onboard memory
    Configurable to 32GB or 64GB of memory
    Graphics
     2.6GHz
    AMD Radeon Pro 5300M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory and automatic graphics switching
    Intel UHD Graphics 630
    Configurable to AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory or AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of GDDR6 memory
     2.3GHz
    AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 4GB of GDDR6 memory and automatic graphics switching
    Intel UHD Graphics 630
    Configurable to AMD Radeon Pro 5500M with 8GB of GDDR6 memory

  • FeistyMcFeisty's avatar
    FeistyMcFeisty
    6 years ago

    @Bluebellfloralol i feel like a dork...anyhow i meant to delete the parts that weren't a part of mine but yeah posting when you're exhausted isn't a great idea.

    anyhow.

    Processor -- 2.4 GHz 8-Core Intel Cor i9
    Memory - 64 GB 2667 MHz DDr4
    Graphics AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB Intel UHD Graphics 630 1536MB

    -- its a 16in 2019

    edit:

    resent screenshots -- according to these the floors work (so far) when only at Ultra graphics mode and with laptop-mode not activated. I just really want to help other people that may have had these issues.

  • Bluebellflora's avatar
    Bluebellflora
    Hero+
    6 years ago

    @FeistyMcFeisty 

    Ewwww, that looks horrible! We could try and add your GPU to the GraphicsCards file and see if that helps. Could you open the Config.log file in your Sims 4 folder and c/p the following section here:

    === Graphics device info ===
Number:          0
Name (driver):   Radeon Pro 560
Name (database): AMD Radeon R9 450 and 460 [Found: 1, Supported: 1]
Vendor:          ATI
Chipset:         Vendor: 1002, Device: 67ef, Board: 00000179, Chipset: 00c0
Driver:          macOS Metal driver, Version: 0.0.0.0
Driver version:  0
Monitor:         00000000
Texture memory:  4096MB
  • FeistyMcFeisty's avatar
    FeistyMcFeisty
    6 years ago

    I did this -- glitch is still present...((.also unrelated I noticed that the use a pre-made-style section in CAS doesn't show up for spellcasters after the recent update it works for every other occult and for generic sim males and sim females)).

    so here are even more screenshots -- they are occurring with laptop mode mostly i believe and the coloring on the "floor" tile is a reflection of the walls?...so basically the floor is acting like a giant mirror? the flashing rave thing that happened on low-settings didn't happen again luckily.

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