Open floors and roof bug

[infoBF1]

hi EA i have one promlem with my game.. when i build open floor in the sims 4 roof have this bug http://ifgazz.wbs.cz/chyba.png ... pls repair this.. thx

[crinrict]

@milliemcintyre Is this still an issue for you ?

[milliemcintyre]

not sure! it's been a while since i last had a complicated house design, i know one of the reasons why it happens is when you have a 2 story room (no floor on the second floor) not too sure about what happened with that other room though. 

When I have time I'll try and recreate it! 

[milliemcintyre]

its fixed! i can finally have pretty vaulted ceilings and indoor balconies :D 

turns out it still happens when you try and add an indoor balcony. 

apologies for all the links but heres the process i went through to try and add an indoor balcony 

the room i want the balcony in

i added another room inside so i can delete that section of the floor

here i deleted the floor in the room, so far so good.

it all went pear-shaped after i deleted one of the walls. the roof appears inside the house.

trying to re-add the wall just contains the roof to that one room. fences do nothing by the way. 

unfortunately i still can't have my fancy lobbies! 

[crinrict]

Thanks for the feedback

Tagging some others to see how it is for them 

@yxkillz @Miss_Eudanil @kaylyred 

[crinrict]

@KyanosLykos

Could we get some feedback if this is still an issue for you ?

[KyanosLykos]

@crinrict

Yes, it still happens exactly as described.

[crinrict]

Thank you for the feedback

[BryonyRae]

@KyanosLykos The issue where roofs intrude into areas that the game does not recognize as a "room" is not a bug but is by design (so that roofs will show in "outdoor" areas, which is what the game thinks such non-rooms are.  It can usually be addressed by re-drawing your room(s), and now that we have the new Custom Room Tool, it is much easier to make an unusual room shape that will be recognized by the game as a room.  The exception here is when you use fences or half walls - unfortunately, the game will not treat such an area as a room.  We have requested that this be improved in our Build Mode Feedback thread.

As far as your problems with deleting flooring goes, there has been a weird development recently with open flooring (we were trying to peg exactly when it changed but never did), and currently, in order to open a space to the room below, you have to follow these steps (see the bug thread here):

1. Wall off room upstairs where you want to delete flooring.
2. Delete floor in room (or use Remove Floor tool).
3. Delete one tile of wall surrounding room - flooring pops back in.
4. Delete floor again (or use Remove Ceiling tool) - this time it won't come back.
5. Continue to delete surrounding walls.

It would definitely be an improvement if we could create open flooring areas in fewer steps (and without having to repeat some of them).

Also, I wanted to have a look at your Gothfortune house, but it doesn't appear to be in the Gallery any longer.  Any possibility that you might share it again?

[KyanosLykos]

@BryonyRae

The issue is that the roofs are intruding into a room where all four walls are actual, full-height walls. The game doesn't recognize it as an enclosed room (I assume, by the nature of the problem) because some segment of that exterior wall is shared with an enclosed fence area. Think of an enclosed room with a fenced-in area perfectly in the center. This is fine. But move the fenced area over slightly such that now only 3 sides are fence and the fourth is shared with the wall. The game now considers that entire room "outside."

Hopefully I will remember to post a new example house to the gallery when I get home from work to demonstrate this problem.