Show us your Oddities!

[City_Slider 2,716]

Making a Pause? Waiting for his next Job? Who knows ;-)

Two Minutes later... the next Job is calling him :-D

[Oidaas 1,650]

Ok, you wanted an extension but that is a bit extensive

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

Presenting...

A Circle Of Cars

They are all just stopped stationary and not moving anywhere. For some reason the purple car on the left has morphed into another, which might be causing everyone to just sit there honking their horns, completely perplexed about what to do next. Looks like they won't be going anywhere anytime soon that is for sure.

[Terring 6,473]

1 hour ago, Cyclone Boom said:

Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies

Or, as we say in Greece...

Giro, giro oli,
stin mesi o Manolis

[rivit 3,391]

A black hole in disguise? - I love how they're queueing to join in.

[Raymond7cn 6,772]

I wonder If I may ask, @Cyclone Boom, I vaguely remember when Cori helped me with the issue of CAN-AM, It seemed that the car rarely disappeared in a circle or ring intersection (I don't know how to say it in English), It mostly disappeared during driving on a straight road, and I was not sure if those cars were spawned by LUA, so does that represent the time or distances in a circle isn't counted in game? It's probably a stupid question since I'm really lack of playing recently.

Yours,

-- Raymond

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

8 minutes ago, Raymond7cn said:

I was not sure if those cars were spawned by LUA, so does that represent the time or distances in a circle isn't counted in game?

I must admit Raymond how I'm unsure of the answer to that.

Calling @CorinaMarie we need your help!

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

14 minutes ago, Raymond7cn said:

I was not sure if those cars were spawned by LUA, so does that represent the time or distances in a circle isn't counted in game?

Random streets (and roads, et al) vehicle traffic properties are created in Lua. See CA63E2A3-4A5E8F3F-FF71C15F for the main ones, but there are other Lua entries for fine tuning the parameters.

So, that's the first stage of creation is by defining them in Lua. Next, what can appear on the networks randomly (and how long they persist and such) is set in the Automata Tuning Exemplar (6534284a-a998d30b-00000001). And thirdly, they can spawn via any given Building Exemplar having the Occupant Group of the automata controllers created in the Lua code. For instance, there's a group 0x1912 (created in CA63E2A3-4A5E8F3F-FFFA8EF0) which is for farm vehicles (that happens to simply be coded as pickup trucks) which was intended for the Farm Anchor Buildings, but was removed by Maxis prior to shipping the game. (I've re-enabled that for CB and me and will later change it to your Tractors in place of said pickup trucks.)

[Raymond7cn 6,772]

Thank you @CorinaMarie and @Cyclone Boom,  Before more Newbie questions, I think i'd better go look into these LUAs (how long they persist 6534284a-a998d30b-00000001). and I hope I could figure it out enough along with modeling of Tractor.

Yours,

-- Raymond

[Haljackey 17,302]

Train!

...and in reverse too!

[Haljackey 17,302]

umm- what?

[Haljackey 17,302]

...General strike?

[Kloudkicker 4,561]

1 hour ago, Haljackey said:

...General strike?

Covid in town?

[Kloudkicker 4,561]

While testing out a new Planned Parenthood lot by EffTheGrid, some how this mystery box ended up on the road. Not sure if it feel off a truck and was meant for the protestors. Or if it was meant for ME, the mayor. I was to scared to check it out.

It just sat there and vehicles ran it over. No explosions' or gas come out of it. Weird!!!

I think it happened was when I was scrolling, the cargo box visually got stuck in place. IDK

[Raymond7cn 6,772]

2 hours ago, Kloudkicker said:

While testing out a new Planned Parenthood lot by EffTheGrid, some how this mystery box ended up on the road. Not sure if it feel off a truck and was meant for the protestors. Or if it was meant for ME, the mayor. I was to scared to check it out.

It just sat there and vehicles ran it over. No explosions' or gas come out of it. Weird!!!

I think it happened was when I was scrolling, the cargo box visually got stuck in place. IDK

I have seen the Sims was gripping the steering wheel and sitting in the air.

[monkeywater 910]

I always knew there was something odd about the maxis bushes....they are not stuck to the terrain like trees!  they are actually above a bit.  See these floating bushes. 

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

Oh, wow. A Lovely Toxic Waste Dump:

[RobertLM78 1,597]

1 hour ago, CorinaMarie said:

Oh, wow. A Lovely Toxic Waste Dump:

Whoopsie.....

[Terring 6,473]

10 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

Oh, wow. A Lovely Toxic Waste Dump:

I'm getting some serious SimCity Societies vibes here, probably the only game that considers jails as venues. "Daddy, can we go to the Maximum Security Prison to feed some prisoners, and then to the Toxic Waste Dump for a walk?"

[Kloudkicker 4,561]

The extra boxy shadows on SimGoober animals(BSC MEGA Props SG Vol 01) where driving me nuts, sometimes they were there, other times only some extra shadows where visible. I finally noticed that if you zoom out, the more you go, the less boxy shadows appear. Zooming all the way out, then plopping a lot with the animals on it, gets rid of the extra boxy shadows completely. I say extra because there are true shadows underneath the animals already, small ones.

Best thing is, I'm not crazy!

Left lot was plopped close up (zoom level 5)lots of extra boxy shadows. Middle lot was plopped halfway out(3 or 4) and has fewer extra shadows, and the right lot was placed at zoom level 1 where there is no extra shadows. (Some animals are from Maxis)

 

[City_Slider 2,716]

Lets take a bath 

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

Yes officer, it's called a road T-junction. Nothing to see here...

Perhaps the logic is since those Sims are such lousy drivers, the police figure to illuminate the intersection during the day would make it significantly safer.

[City_Slider 2,716]

Hmmm, wondering why there is a Shadow from the Copter. The Light is under it :-D 

[Lucario Boricua 7,028]

     Financial advisor slams the NAM team for resource waste in transportation infrastructure research and development!     

 

[City_Slider 2,716]

Äääähm... turn left? Or better right? Who knows 

[TheMurderousCricket 5,055]

48 minutes ago, City_Slider said:

Äääähm... turn left? Or better right? Who knows 

I looked it up in the Sim traffic sign charts:

"Permission to drive the lane in any direction desired. Avoid head-on collisions when up against incoming traffic".

[Haljackey 17,302]

Clearcut

 

[BartonThinks 3,416]

18 minutes ago, Haljackey said:

Clearcut

 

Was this accidental?

It looks similar to a test I made a couple of months ago where I created a farm lot that was modeled as a logging camp and then a farm field with some stumps and brush. If I zoned a big swath of farm in the middle of a forest, all the trees came down and were replaced with the stumps. It required using a blocker to stop other farms from growing, though, so it wasn't exactly practical.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,055]

Pick the correct answer.

These Sims:

a) Work from home

b) Home from work

c) Shop from home

d) Work from shop

[Max4k 721]

Mafia run business