wind chimes indoors.

[unseenlarks]

i recently added the wind chimes from the Backyard SP to a Sim's bedroom. i'd never placed them indoors, and i love them there. but it made me wonder, how can they sway at all? we can't open windows or leave doors ajar. the only way would be if the Sim moved them themselves, right? what do you think?

[jpkarlsen]

Thermo dynamics keeps air moving even in closed rooms.

Simply put. You have some kind of heat source (the Sun, Humans) that heats the air, Warm air rises toward the ceiling pressing the cooler air down.

[PugLove888]

@unseenlarks, I always forget to add windchimes in my Sims' houses, so thanks for telling us that they work indoors!    Like @jpkarlsen said, temperature change (heat) makes air move.  This is what makes wind outside.  (My mom has indoor windchimes in real life, but it is usually her fan that makes them chime ).  I used to work in a candle shop where we had a little candle stand that you would light 4 small candles and the heat from these lit candles would turn a windmill set above the candles.  This would make 2 angles spin and as they went around they would hit 2 bells and they would chime!   

Of course, if your Sims' house has any Ghosts in it, then for get what me & jpkarlsen just said ... it is clearly the Ghosts that are making the wind chimes move!  LOL

[unseenlarks]

well, i feel quite stupid now. twice over. :'( :'(

[PugLove888]

@unseenlarks, aww, don't feel stupid!  It was a good question, and I'm glad you asked it since it reminded me to put some windchimes in my Sims' homes!    It does seem strange since a house with closed windows and doors and no AC or heating on seems like a still environment to us.  So I can see why a person would ask this question.  And maybe EA wasn't thinking of thermodynamics and having them work inside was just a mistake!    The only truly stupid question is the one that isn't asked! 

[unseenlarks]

you're right. and... maybe... school was so long ago that i forgot all about thermodynamics.

[PugLove888]

@unseenlarks, I understand ... school was a long time ago for me too, but I'm a geek so I remember stuff like this!   You are probably a lot more normal than I am! 

[unseenlarks]

it's useful to know stuff like that. i was just into literature. -_-

[PugLove888]

@unseenlarks, I love literature also!  I've always been an avid reader!  I just also love science (but I hate math , otherwise I would have been a meteorologist! ) But I'm always reading several books at a time, usually at least a novel and a non-fiction book, but often more.  Right now one of the books  I'm reading "The Jungle". I've always been meaning to read that.    

I also love Sims who are bookworms and nerds! 

[unseenlarks]

oh! me too! i always have a bookworm Sim in my game, it's actually the first Sim i created in TS4 who is still around. and often a geek Sim. <3

(Upton Sinclair? his writing sounds super interesting...)