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I wouldn't use them for houses, as they are not considered roofs. The greenhouse is treated as a roofless building, meaning it rains and snows inside. |
Considering the, like, one thing a green house is made to do is protect plants from the harsh elements, that's disappointing.
Still looks nice though.
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Ok, it seems that both floor and roof pieces need to be corrected with Rigfix.
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Ready to feel ripped off? The flower planter is the same planter from Supernatural. Really, EA? |
I saw that when I went through the set last night. That was the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I didn't get a dinner with this screw. Mofos!
From this point forward, I will rather pick and choose what I get from the store, no more investing in sets. I mainly will buy a PC item if it interest me, if the store doesn't release it then it's more in my pocket. "F" the mofos!
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I need to make a set of invisible floor tiles - would look better wuth the roofs than glass. You probably don't need rigfix unless your sims were planning on walking on the glass. |
That would be wonderful. Placing them a tile away from each other already helps a lot, but with the glass part being invisible would pretty much solve the whole thing.
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Either way, they've left it to the modders in the player community to fix FOR them. AGAIN. Wish the modders could start charging EA to fix their crap; maybe send them a ceremonial bill or something.
Inge, let us know when you make the invisible tiles...
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What gets me is they either had to know this wouldn't work in weather, or they didn't even care to check. Yeah, yeah... we've all heard that the store creates stuff independent of the EP/SP teams. Does anyone believe that? Does anyone believe that these people on the different teams don't talk to one another over lunch or breaks? They're all working in the same facility, after all... |
Console yourself with the thought that if they really don't talk to each other, it must be a miserable place to work.
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I downloaded Inge's glass floor and put a bunch of glass floor tiles under the fake "roof" and so far the glass floor tiles have been keeping out the summer rain.
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Oh, this one is already rigfixed and permits constant rebuying.
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Invisible floor rugs as asked about: http://www.den.simlogical.com/denfo...hp?topic=1468.0 Oh, this one is already rigfixed and permits constant rebuying. |
Thank you! Wonder if the Store will ever come up with a solution to their mis-design.
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It has something to do with Arches breaking up the walls, or something, so that the roof thinks it isn't a full room.
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You would think they've be a bit more careful with gameplay like this, considering it's development either: A) Coincided with Seasons or B) Was built after Seasons. It, really, doesn't take much time type in a few cheats, plop down a test family (which they do to test lots, I hope, anyway) and toggle snow. Maybe 2 minutes, if things are slow. Of course, this is an issue I thought of immediately when I saw screenshots, so EA has no excuse what so ever - there's no way everyone who saw this just didn't think Seasons wouldn't be a problem.
Either most of them are ignorant of the entire games systems and functions, incompetent, don't give a damn, or EA simply doesn't give them enough time at all to make anything really good. I say this because most every venue they put it looks... abysmal.
I really do want to be a fly on the wall, and just see what goes on during,say, a week at EA.
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Edit: I did not buy that set, but I can only assume that those roof pieces act like the glass domes that came with Lunar Lakes and Late Night, and my vampire back then learned very painfully that these do not create an inside space either. But I wonder about the shell buildings. Are they weather proof in themselves when there's no structure inside? So would it be possible to create a green house by making a transparent glass shell?
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Thank you! Wonder if the Store will ever come up with a solution to their mis-design. |
They will. It's called a patch that will try to fix everything that isn't broken.
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They will. It's called a patch that will try to fix everything that isn't broken. |
I think you're overestimating EA a bit there...
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The full list of drawbacks of making the greenhouse count as indoors are:
1) You can't plant seeds indoors
2) The glass roof doesn't act as a window to the room. Leaving the walls open at the top means daylight comes in at the top.
3) When indoors you can't see objects that count as objects on a higher level. Even using my invisible floor tiles you can no longer look up from below and see the pretty glass roof.
I can think of a workaround to #3, unfortunately it means decrypting and cloning the roof pieces, and giving them offset footprints and levsls so technically they are standing on the grass outside. Obviously sharing cloned decrytped store content is not legitimate practice.
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The Climatron reward object that came with Seasons can't go indoors, but was able to accommodate it under the greenhouse roof:
Planning to add some telescopes and other lab stuff to this for my alien.
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Hmm we could also make a covered skating ring and a covered pool using Inge's invisible floor and columns, I bet it would look cool too.
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Does anyone know if there are alternative glass roofs around like the Sims 2 ones?
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Yeah, initially, I though there would be more pieces for the roofs, not just 4. They made a billion cornices - a nice roof set would be nice. Even if just 4 pieces, something versatile, on a grander scale. I mean, if they can get a spiral staircase to cut through the floor, and a fire fighter pole, why not a roof bit. Especially considering it would leave the room intact (and be an interior), so no snow indoors. :D |
Also that style of roof for a greenhouse doesn't really match a cheaper/smaller house. It's more like a roof for a mansion's greenhouse. A common arched roof option would make a lot more sense, instead of or as well as the gaudy roofs in this set.
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BTW, didn't EA get around the indoor/outdoor issue of greenhouses back in TS2 by having your sims buy a plot of plantable land, which could be placed indoors, as long as it was on the ground? It was just a tile of dirt, rather than a planter like we get in TS3, and you had to buy the plot of dirt to plant indoors or outdoors.
Oh, for anybody who'd prefer having planters which look more like standard planting beds, you can download some by Huge Lunatic... It still doesn't fix the indoor/outdoor problem with greenhouses, but at least you're not putting your plants in those dumb planters.
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