[AA] Painting activity not working on custom venues

Same here. Been testing this place I made for hours trying to work out what's wrong - glad I'm not alone!

Absolutely no one is painting. I know they can get to the easels no problem because I tested them all with a sim beforehand. Maybe one sim will paint during the scheduled painting time. I tried using the game's creative retreat preset (where it says 'art and music' isn't of just 'paint') and maybe three sims will. The rest will go to the pool :/

Also no mods and I cleared the cache.

To be sure, it's also not working if you don't plan a getaway and just visit the venue (if you've given the venue itself a schedule too) ?

Do they do it on getaway lots that aren't custom venues ?

Jomilej​ Kelza101​ 

Yep, it didn't work when I visited the venue either. 

I should've also said it was 1-3 out of 8 artist sims that actually painted, not the default 4 artists in the preset. Everyone does pottery at the selected time. I wondered if it was the artist studio kit's easels that were the problem (in my case) but no one would if that were the cause.

That I haven't tried and can tomorrow - I watched lilsimsie's get rich video yesterday where they were all painting on her home lot, so I was really confused as to why it wasn't working for me.

It doesn't work at all. I tried visiting the venues and the Sims use the woodworking tables and the flower arrangement tables but not the easels (I placed the base game easels) at the scheduled time.

I didn't place any tablet for painting (so I don't know if painting using tablets works)

I haven't try the getaway on other lots thn custom venues for now but I'll try it tonight and keep you updated.

Do the Sims have any painting skill? I've heard that Sims won't paint autonomously unless they have done it previously.

This is what I could test:

1) When I use the preset roles (the ones by default when selecting roles) AND when I just visit the venue, the sims actually use the easels. However, I tried this same thing while doing a gataway, and they still don't use the easel (just one sim and it's not even the role assigned to paint), they approached the easels but don't paint.

2) When it's my own custom role with painting as a selected activity, just visiting the custom venue doesn't work anymore for the painting activity. No sim approaches the easel at all.

I tried using my preset to have a getaway at my test sim's house, and once again only one painted during that time. 

ilmonegure​  I have no idea tbh. I was trying to let anyone with any ability level come to the getaway. I figure none of them had pottery skill, but they all still did pottery during that activity timeslot :/

I'm so lost because now I also discovered that sims don't use the cauldron (spellcasters), the DJ booths, the Seance table, self care (the taking care of needs activity)...I feel like my report is part of a bigger issue with some gameplay objects (and some activities). I'm really lost, I don't know what is happening