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Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Mararía on March 07, 2007, 04:15:58 pm
Hi! I installed seasons a few days ago, and now, I can't see the stars, moon sun or clouds. Sometimes, in a community lot, I can see very few stars, but they are very high (as if the camera is completely vertical). I don't think it has anything to do whit my graphics card, because I have every setting in high and there's no  graphic problems (no squared hands, no black mirrors, no red walls... etc). I'd like to know if someone else has noticed this and/or knows the solution.

I'd also like to know if it is normal that my sims change into outer wear every time they go out, and when they get into the house, they change back into day wear. So they spend a lot of time changing clothes. I have even tried to make them change into outer wear and be in those clothes inside, but as soon as they leave the room they have changed in, they change back. Does someone know how to fix this? Thanks.


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Dunner on March 07, 2007, 06:04:24 pm
I'm not sure if the 'boolprop UseShaders true' code would help with making your stars/clouds show up again... I know it helps to make the fish and new pool animations appear, but I don't know about the rest... Maybe someone else knows more about this...

As for the Outerwear, have you placed the new coat rack (which is located under the wardrobes/dressers section) somewhere in the house? That's what makes them automatically change into Outerwear when they go outside, as far as I know.


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Ali on March 08, 2007, 07:48:54 am
The coatrack doesn't automatically make them change. The external temperature is what does it. I have found with my sims that they don't start automatically changing into outerwear until the second, in some cases the 3rd, day of winter and they stop changing automatically about 2 or 3 days into spring
 
If you made them change with the coatrack then they should stay in outerwear even indoors - do you have some sort of clothing hack in your game?


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: billyd1000 on March 08, 2007, 11:56:27 am
One of the maxoids, Maxoid Sam, I think, posted about this in his blog. Clothes changing is part of the game based on out side weather. If it was a cold summer day they would autonomously change into outer ware. It is based soley on the temperature of a given day, not on the season.


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Mararía on March 08, 2007, 06:09:37 pm
Well, my problem isn't that they don't change... it is that they change too much!! Every time they want to go out, they change, and when they get back in, they change into normal clothes if they go out again,  they change again and as soon as they enter, they change yet again... It's boring and I thougth that I would have to decide when to get them into warmer clothes. I'd have liked to send them outside in normal clothes and see them get cold...


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Mararía on March 14, 2007, 06:22:38 pm
Ok, I've managed to make the stars appear (I'm not so lucky with the clouds, not even with the shadow cheat) but it still isn't what it was. I've had to put one option (the only one that has 4 choices... Something about the distance) in very high; Still, the stars don't cover the whole sky, and before, with this option, they did (at least I'd swear they did) and I can only see them with the free camera... But I seem to remember that I could see them with the 'normal' camera too. I wonder... does someone know if it can get better (with a new card) or this is the best I can get?


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Squinge on March 16, 2007, 05:59:02 am
that cheat makes the pool water clearer.


Title: My sky is empty:(
Post by: simskin on March 24, 2007, 04:15:33 am
After playing Seasons for a week I realised that my sky was empty...no sun,no moon no stars no clouds.The game works perfect except this.I have a good PC. 1GB of RAM 256 G of hard disk.and the videocard...no ideea but it was expensive and all the new games work incredibly fine.So it can't be the videocard.I have insimenator[the updated version and it works fine].Please help me.:(It sucks bcs I'm creating a story and I need the clouds and stars...moon and sun.It's so uncool without then.I also tryied the boolprop useshaders cheat but unsuccessful.Thanks in advance.:(


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: BeosBoxBoy on March 24, 2007, 05:06:08 am
simskin - I have seen many complaints about this - and I have to believe it relates to the changes in Seasons for the way layers of images are handled.  It is possibly even a bug related to some video cards that is not documented by EA.  If I find an authorative answer on how to resolve this, I will post a sticky.


Title: Sky problems
Post by: simskin on March 24, 2007, 05:06:23 am
The sun is visible only if I click an option called something like far distance view... and click it on the extra large.But the sun is visible only in the camera mode and only if I go up.Then the sun appears partially.As I go up the sun appears like in the photos below.It's like an invisible wall stands between the camera and sun.The same happens with the moon.But the clouds and stars..it's like they don't exist.


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: BeosBoxBoy on March 24, 2007, 05:08:44 am
yes - that is what I have seen on several forums and I believe it relates to the "shaders" - but not knowing if it is specific to certain video cards, I hesitate to offer a solution.


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Mararía on March 25, 2007, 01:11:29 pm
Well, at least now I'm not the only one with this problem :smt120 ... My case is exactly as Simskin describes (sorry if my post wasn't that clear, but english is not my language); and my card is decent (at least I thought so when I spent my money on it) If it is of any help, it's an ATI RADEON 9550 Xpress with 256 Mb. I thought the clouds would appear with the cheat, but they don't. Well, I've stopped whining :topic cl: ...  for now :laugh:


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: simskin on March 26, 2007, 09:39:09 am
Good......I want clouds,stars,moon and sun!!!!Is there a hack or dunno something that would make them appear again?????What causes that invizible wall?????


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: ancienthighway on March 26, 2007, 07:37:23 pm
With View Distance set to extra large and Fade Distance set to extra large, I'm seeing the sun, moon, and stars just fine.  I haven't tried elevating the camera to see if part of the sky is clipped though.

What may have happened is the installation of Seasons may have determined your video card and RAM, then selected what it decided was the optimal graphic settings for your game.  Go through the Options and make sure you have the settings you want, not what programmers at EA decided you should have.


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: BeosBoxBoy on March 27, 2007, 04:59:51 am
Now that is something I didn't think to consider Ancienthighway.  That too would be a potential source of the problem, I so rarely have to enter that part of the game it didn't immediately occur to me to consider it *doh!*


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Mararía on March 27, 2007, 02:08:13 pm
Well, before season I had 'view distance" and "fade distance" in medium and could see everything. I don't understand why it's needed to change those options, making it harder for my RAM and processon to play the game, to get the same effects... I haven't tried to put "fade distance" into high yet... I'm going to try... See you!


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: ancienthighway on March 27, 2007, 07:59:40 pm
In my case I have them at high.  If you got the same effect at medium, make sure Seasons installation didn't reset those.


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: simskin on March 30, 2007, 02:17:19 pm
Everything in my game is set to high...but still doesn't work


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Mararía on April 09, 2007, 10:31:41 am
Quote from: simskin;656811
Everything in my game is set to high...but still doesn't work


Same here... with everything set to high and 'super high', I still can't see the clouds. The sun is sometimes 'cut' just like the photos above. And the stars still don't cover the whole sky they only cover from where the sun gets cut and upper, but not lower...


And yes, I did update the drivers. I never mentioned it because it's so obvious (to do it when there are graphic problems) that I didn't even think to say it.


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Mado on May 27, 2007, 02:32:17 am
Hmmm...I havent seen anything in the sky for such a long time now, I didnt even realize the stars, moon, sun, etc. were missing!


Title: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Rue on June 05, 2007, 09:22:10 pm
Oooooh so that is why my stars are gone!!!!!
I was not getting sad because I hoped they would be there some nights and gone on other nights, thinking it had to do with the seasons or weather. But now I realize Ive really never seen them since seasons. Crap- but I see clouds!


Title: Re: My stars are gone... and my sims are crazy
Post by: Mararía on March 28, 2009, 10:30:37 pm
Yes, I know it's been two years, but I still can't see my stars well. I've recently gotten a new computer, with a quad-core processor, 4Gb of RAM and a Nvidia geforce 9800gt vga card (with the last drivers installed). I thought this would be powerful enough to make my stars, moon, clouds...etc appear again. No such luck. With everything set to the highest option possible, the sun still rises and sets in the middle of the sky, the clouds aren't there and the stars only cover half the sky. It's been a lot of time since I last went looking for mods. So I'm asking, has someone made a mod or something that fixes this? Thanks.

PS: Sorry form bumping such an old thread, but I thougt it would be easier than writing again. This way, I won't have to explain everything again.


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