Downtown Lighting
notveryawesome:
Does the house have covered porches or patios? This can affect lighting, just like in real life.
nocomment:
Orikes - I'm 99% sure Kochanski is right. I've seen several threads on this problem, and the cheat fixed it.
Enter "setLotLightingFile clear" in the cheat box. This will return you to normal lighting.
Kochanski's quote said this, but I can see how you missed it.
Orikes:
That did it!
Or at least, I'm pretty sure it did it. I haven't played the lot extensively, but after the cheat, the lighting seemed to be back to normal. I thought Kochanski was suggesting I use the version of the cheat where I set the file to something, which is what confused me. After doing the clear, it seemed to fix the problem.
As a side note, notveryawesome, there is a small covered porch on the house, but the lighting problem was actually throughout the entire thing, including rooms on the second floor.
Anyway, thanks folks.
Hook:
I've been playing around with the setLotLightingFile cheat (thanks, Kochanski!!) and have discovered a few things. I hate like hell that my houses in the neighborhood all are sunny in front, but when you go to the lot the front of the house is always in shade. Ten lines of change in the Lights.txt file (swapping around minus signs various ways on "light sun" and "light sky") fixed it just fine. Now I can have light coming from any direction I chose, at least when I'm on the lot. Shadows and amount of light coming in windows is correct. So now I have four custom lighting files.
Now, the problem with the downtown_lot.txt lighting file. I'm not sure if it's completely or correctly implemented, but it's apparently intended for nighttime "mood lighting" that you might encounter downtown. Overhead lights did not seem to affect the Sims, but wall lights and some table mounted lights did. Overhead lights affected the furniture, etc, but not the Sims themselves. The effect with the correct lighting is quite charming, actually.
Whether you use a custom lighting file, or downtown_lot.txt or "setLotLightingFile clear" it appears to be saved when you save the lot.
Hook
twistingsims:
I would love to see what that cheat can do, if its not too much trouble Hook, could you post exactly what you did in the Lights.txt file with the minus signs?
Thanks
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