Path problems since Nightlife
DrBeast:
The key word, as RabidAngel correctly states, is NOT BEHIND the chair. I've often found out that if they're standing directly behind the chair they get the "path is blocked" bubble (nope, no fits thanks to JM and his hacks - and no NL installed yet!).
dizzy:
Interesting. I never noticed it, but now that I think about it, it makes sense.
If you pay attention between buying the chair and switching into live mode, you'll notice that the chair performs the pushed in animation. Note that it still occupies the tile, but for routing purposes, sims can pass "through" the object.
If you direct a sim positioned "within" a chair to sit there, the interaction has to perform a special check called "Chair - Shoo Sims off Tile" and a sim obviously can't shoo themselves. That will fail and perform the route fail because a sim is blocking me routine.
These routines are all a bit more complex now with Nightlife (because sectionals have to be handled in a special way), so that would take some work to fix.
linolino:
what are sectionals? why is it included with NL? what does it do?
dizzy:
Sectionals are special sofa-type chairs that are used mainly in commercial settings. Getting in and out is a bit more of a pain for the AI considering they handle a wider range of configurations than your garden-variety chairs and sofas.
simmiecal:
Quote from: dizzy-two on 2005 September 28, 14:48:13
Sectionals are special sofa-type chairs that are used mainly in commercial settings. Getting in and out is a bit more of a pain for the AI considering they handle a wider range of configurations than your garden-variety chairs and sofas.
I almost posted my experience with sectionals in the original post as well. So far, my sims don't have any problems with the sectionals that are in the community lots. In my "retirement home" which I have set-up similiar to a dorm, I used sectional seating in the kitchen area - made it look more like a restaurant. Individual sims have no problem sitting down with their meals at the table, but forget trying to clean-up at the table or for one sim to serve all the rest. I tried configuring the seats several different ways and just finally gave up and put in a regular dinig table.
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