Fishbowl Footprint

Cyclelegs

It appears to me that a recent patch has increased the footprint of the fishbowl. Those placed before the patch now clash with adjacent objects, don't work properly and generate LE errors when you move fish to or from them. I have tried my save without Mods/CC and I still get the problem. I can't test on a new save because, obviously, I can't place the fishbowl too close to another object to simulate the footprint change.

Has anyone else noticed this issue?



The fishbowls at the top of the image predate the footprint change. Those at the bottom of the image were placed as close as possible after the footprint change. The red fishbowls show the clashing case post the bigger footprint.

rosemow

Hello
I haven’t got any placed fishbowls from before the patch to test, but when placing the fishbowls now, the same footprint that I can see in your photo is the same as in my game.

Cyclelegs

rosemow wrote: »

Hello
I haven’t got any placed fishbowls from before the patch to test, but when placing the fishbowls now, the same footprint that I can see in your photo is the same as in my game.

Any chance you could add a fish and see if the 'tooltip' works to tell you what is in there. Also, I get the LE error if I move the fish from the fishbowl inventory to the sim's inventory.

rosemow

Hello
I tested it and it doesn’t say what is in the fishbowl. I do get the option to move the fish to the inventory. It doesn’t cause an error message in my game,

Cyclelegs

Thank you for your help. I think it is a bug but I am not sure.

rosemow

You’re welcome

BryonyRae

I just did some testing in my game. Definitely something odd going on. If you place a fish bowl to the right of another fish bowl, it goes red and won't snap into place, but if you do the same thing on the left of the fish bowl, it's fine. Also, if you position the fish bowl using ALT, you can essentially get it into the same location as if you had snapped it there, without it going red. Finally, once you have the three lined up together, if you pick up the bowl in the middle, it will now turn red and can't be replaced in that middle position. Also, when hovering the cursor over the fish bowl in live mode, the tooltip is blank in my game too. I had no trouble moving fish to and from inventory though. I will create a thread for this over on AHQ and update my post with the link as soon as I can.

rosemow

It does seem quite odd what is occurring with the fish bowl Bryony. It is good that you are creating an AHQ EA thread about it.

SimQARobo

Hello @Cyclelegs @BryonyRae

How were the fishbowls placed previously? Using MOO or Alt? In the screenshot above, the fish bowls in the top two rows don't seem to be aligned across.

We looked at previous versions of game and we don't see any difference in behavior.

Cyclelegs

In my game and in the photo, I placed the fishbowls without MOO or Alt. I just stuck them down from build/buy mode. I never, ever, under pain of death, use MOO so I know I would never have placed the fishbowls using that devil cheat.

I always get an LE Error when I put in or take out a fish. It doesn't matter what method I use to move the fish. I think the LE Error is generated by the absence of the tooltip which is supposed to appear to describe the fish. I am not sure why others are not seeing the LE Error even in the absence of the tooltip.

AttributeError: 'FishBowlTooltipComponent' object has no attribute 'tooltip_tests'

SimQARobo

Cyclelegs wrote: »

In my game and in the photo, I placed the fishbowls without MOO or Alt. I just stuck them down from build/buy mode. I never, ever, under pain of death, use MOO so I know I would never have placed the fishbowls using that devil cheat.

I always get an LE Error when I put in or take out a fish. It doesn't matter what method I use to move the fish. I think the LE Error is generated by the absence of the tooltip which is supposed to appear to describe the fish. I am not sure why others are not seeing the LE Error even in the absence of the tooltip.

AttributeError: 'FishBowlTooltipComponent' object has no attribute 'tooltip_tests'

Thank you for the info . We're aware of the tooltip error (not sure yet if it's related to the footprint issue).

Nectere

Have we always been able to pick up the fishbowls in live mode? I cant do anything but sell it so I am curious why I can pick it up. Was this added to the fishing table?

I didnt have any placement issues in build using alt, but do have a blank tooltip as well even after naming the fish in live. I also didnt get any errors on transferring the fish in and out of inventory that I can see.

SimQARobo

@Cyclelegs

Would you be willing to share that room or lot on the Gallery, so my team can take a look at it?

Cyclelegs

@sim

SimQARobo wrote: »

@Cyclelegs

Would you be willing to share that room or lot on the Gallery, so my team can take a look at it?

The room/lot is uploaded to my gallery under the username #cyclelegs . It is entitled 'Fishbowl Footprint Invest'. I rolled a new game and loaded the room onto an empty lot. From live mode, I entered build/buy mode and purchased a new fishbowl. Back in Live Mode, I clicked on the new fishbowl and purchased a fish. The fish was added to the bowl but generated an LE Error file in my sims 4 directory.

I hope it is of some use to you.

SimQARobo

Cyclelegs wrote: »

@sim

SimQARobo wrote: »

@Cyclelegs

Would you be willing to share that room or lot on the Gallery, so my team can take a look at it?

The room/lot is uploaded to my gallery under the username #cyclelegs . It is entitled 'Fishbowl Footprint Invest'. I rolled a new game and loaded the room onto an empty lot. From live mode, I entered build/buy mode and purchased a new fishbowl. Back in Live Mode, I clicked on the new fishbowl and purchased a fish. The fish was added to the bowl but generated an LE Error file in my sims 4 directory.

I hope it is of some use to you.

Thank you!

BryonyRae

And here's the link to the AHQ thread for the fishbowl issue(s).

rosemow

Hello
The issue with the missing tool tip has been fixed in today’s patch. It would be good to update your game

In case you forgot your fish’s name, the fish bowl tooltip will now remind you.

Cyclelegs

I guess today's emergency patch was mostly about fixing the disappearing furniture in San Myshuno. That was a bit serious really. So, I am absolutely delighted they managed to sneak-in a fix for the tooltip on fishbowls. Well done EA!