[ARCHIVED] Problems with Lighting in TS4
by BryonyRaeOriginal Post
With the 64bit mode, and in Ultra settings :
Apparently, it's not an issue everybody have, but when you place a light on an open floor above another one (either the void floor is regarded as a room or not, I tested both), the light is cut in the transition of the two floors, and doesn't light the room below.
Another lighting issue to report: light shines in a line through bottom of a half wall placed above (and joining to) wall below and shows a weird cutoff between them that you wouldn't normally expect to see:
Added another issue to the index: certain lights cause large, blocky shadows on exterior walls at night:
At first, I thought the shadow from this particular light might be caused in part by the planters, but rotating the light had no effect:
Lights with the glitch include Georgina Outdoor Lampost with Double Hanging Planter, Dual Lit Ole Fashioned Lamppost with Planter, Great Attractors Street Lamps, and A Modern Illumination.
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crinrict
Hi there, I've come across a problem that has been bugging me since the game's release. When a room becomes closed in, the room gets the indoor lighting, and this lighting changes the colour of all of my furnishings. I designed my house to make use of the white frames from my windows and they looked really nice against the grey walls of my house, but when I finally closed in the walls, the whites become a dark murky grey instead of the stark white they naturally are. I know the game supposedly has 'real life lighting' but i've never seen lighting turn a white into a dark grey like this before in real life. Is there any work around? I personally prefer the lighting for my house when you leave the room unclosed, but I hate that it is unfinished. (I've been scouring the forums for an answer and haven't found any) Thanks in advance 
@Tayrowntree sorry for the late response. I have also observed this issue but particularly with stairs and not so much with other objects. While some window frames are also subject to graying, the amount of lighting you place near them seems to have a mitigating effect on it, at least in my game. Those same lights do nothing to alter the graying effect on the stairs though. Here are images from my game, and I will add this glitch to the index.
Exterior light on room containing white objects:
Same room with interior light:
Switched some windows to add the one you used in your pic - exterior lighting:
With interior lighting - the window grays a bit, but not as much as in your image. Probably because the ceiling lights I used brighten it more:
As you can see, if anything, the other furniture (tables and counter) are too brightly lit, but they certainly haven't lost their whiteness anyway.
Actually, I have more to add to this report, as I think this thread is another flavor of it. So, additional objects known to go darker would be The Living Vase (from GT), Country Flowers (from GT), Decorative Corbel (base game), and Scrollwork Corbel.
Exterior lighting:
Interior lighting:
