Garden Plots Can Have Terrains Underneath their Plots. (Seasons Required)

[fway]

What is this download for
- It simply makes the bases of the garden plots (fertilized/non-fertilized) from Seasons invisible.
- It's a default replacement.

Why am I uploading it?
- Why to share with you all of course.


Why should it be used?
- Well you can grow vegetables without having ugly ground cover.
- You can also add groundcover underneath it, as shown below in the thumbnails.
- Because it's silly not to have it.

Extra Special thanks to:
HP @ MTS2 for sending me the textures, and she knows I wouldn't know where to find it XD.
- She also inspired me with her "Liberated Plastic Flowers."
Fanseelamb @ MTS2 for linking me to Numenor's helpful tutorial on recoloring.
Canoodle @MTS2 for the moral support.
Keely (or Linuslover30) for her Phinnius who makes a cameo in this upload.
Anyone that I have missed over @ the IRC @ MTS2.
And last but not least: The SimPE Team.

A Note For House Uploaders or anyone for that matter:
- My ReadMe File (located in the zip) has important info regarding this download, considering it's a default replacement, seeing if you put the garden plots in with a offset terrain, it'd look different to the user who would download your house.

- Also I forgot to mention that you should put the terrain first, before laying down plots, the same goes for flooring XD.
- Actually I think you can put terrain down regardless, I think it's the flooring.
- Feel free to manipulate the textures to your liking seeing it's Maxis', but you should thank HP for grabbing the textures.

Thanks for reading/downloading/using, and happy simming :wave:

[BeosBoxBoy]

very cool idea!  Thank you for this Fway!  I will move it to the game-mods section so it will be with similar objects and default replacements

[alkaloid]

NICE! I can't wait to pop this into my game!

[Ghen]

So awesome,my sim gardeners can still have pretty gardens. Thanks so much for sharing!

[lucentgem]

Great idea, thank you. :*)

[amc462000]

this sounds like a great idea - can't wait to try it to see how it looks - thanks!

[fway]

You're all welcome! I really disliked the textures underneath the garden plots, and I was trying to figure out what to do. HP told me what I should do, but after she sent me the file so I wouldn't have to look for what I need to extract. It took me a few hours as to why the garden plots weren't becoming invisible. Fanseelamb linked me to Numenors tutorial on recoloring, it looks as if I forgot to build DXT. And there you all have it, some invisible bases, and any terrain is usuable. I also figured out that it's only floors that won't show underneath after you placed the garden plot. Which means that placing terrains after will take out the guess work of where you need to put your terrain. XD

[verenaheu]

This looks much better! Thanks for sharing,:)

[Cleo999]

Wonderful!!! Thanks for sharing!

[blondecrystal]

Nice idea! Thanks for making and sharing it.

[tophatdan]

now this is handy, very handy..... thanx

[Mimi52861]

Thanks for this nice mod!  I will enjoy looking at my gardens a bit more using this!:clap:

[fway]

I'm expiriencing a problem with this mod. Now that my plots are invisible, even when I click where they are, the No Actions Available thing appears, and I can't plant anything. Or is there something incredibly obvious that I missed?

What do you mean? You hover over the plots and get nothing? I have these in my game and they work fine. Make sure you remember where you put your plots, as a suggestion, put a line of flooring, then put your plots about two tiles away, place the desired terrain and it should work. Otherwise I'd like to see what's happening, or I won't know what is that's happening. Unless you're using the design tool.

[fway]

No, when I hover over, there's nothing. If I were simply forgetting where they were, I'd get the "Go Here" and "Run Here" options, and I get nothing. It simply says "No Options Available" like when you try to click on a toddler's toy or something else that has no available actions.

Hmm, what do you mean by using the design tool? I wasn't aware that there was more than one way to place garden plots. However, I've tested this also on winter's custom growable cowplant (based on seasons plot) as well as on a buyable plot after I had no luck with only maxis content. They showed up as invisible plots, and no actions were available for them either.

I'll load up the garden plot in simpe and take a look at the BHAVs and see why this might be happening. I'll post back if I figure out something.

The garden plots aren't editable with the design tool, and the garden plots don't have any BHAVs, it's a default replacement, it simply overrides the textures (TXMT, whatever it is), nothing more, nothing less; And I don't think default replacements interfere with anything unless you have more than one, (however the BHAVs don't change if you have more than one default). Try removing all of your hacks too, simply because it could be a hack conflict you have. Once again, this is simply a texture override and won't harm the game or cause hack conflicts. The plots ARE SUPPOSED to show up as invisible though because once again, it's a default replacement and won't have any issues with the game, unless you have more than one, the texture will look all wonky. You also have to remember where you put the plots otherwise you'd have to go looking for them with the cursor.

And when you get "no actions available" with the toddler toys are you sure you're playing a toddler, because adults simply can't play with toddler toys, although it'd be fun to see them use them. :lol:

[fway]

Well the plots are supposed to show up as invisible. The weird thing is how you're saying they aren't giving you any options... I don't understand how a texture override would do that. I'm unsure as to why it wouldn't work for you. Well, if you must take the default replacement out because it's giving you problems, by all means remove it. However, I didn't think hacks would conflict with default replacements. I also have FreeTime and BV, but I don't think that poses a risk either.