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xHareHarex

You know that re-size key ? I've been trying to use it but can't.
You're supposed to use Shift + ] but it's not working for me and I assume it's because of my keyboard layout.

This is what it looks like.



That is a portuguese keyboard layout.
How do I use it ?
I tried pushing Shift + ALT GR + ] and didn't work.

SPARKY1922

Hi HareHarex,

I was looking for the same info and came across your post, I searched the internet and found the following info but as yet I have not tried it in my game so I will try it and come back and let you know, then we can try work out what the same key may work on your keyboard

Hold down the ‘SHIFT’ key and tap ‘]’ until the object is at the size you want.

xHareHarex

@SPARKY1922 wrote: »

Hi HareHarex,

I was looking for the same info and came across your post, I searched the internet and found the following info but as yet I have not tried it in my game so I will try it and come back and let you know, then we can try work out what the same key may work on your keyboard

Hold down the ‘SHIFT’ key and tap ‘]’ until the object is at the size you want.

Doesn't work for me.

Hallonsaft11

I´ve been wondering about this too. I also have a similar keyboard and haven´t managed to work it out yet.

SPARKY1922

HareHarex

Hallonsaft11 wrote: »

I´ve been wondering about this too. I also have a similar keyboard and haven´t managed to work it out yet.

I think then I would ask EA and see if they have any idea then

Ririka

Just tossing a thought here, not claiming this will work by any means,
I am assuming you use the Portuguese language option on your system by default and have not tried to switch to English or install English on your system since you already have Latin alphabet characters in your language.
Since most language packs for Windows seem to remap the keyboard (If I remember correctly from installing Spanish on my previous laptop), try to either switch to English before playing the game, or try to download and install the English Language pack for Windows and play the game after having switched the language to English (not the Windows language ofc just the temporary language option for typing).
Logically Shift + ] should work just fine after that... Logically...

Edit: If anyone does attempt this to cross-check (and I do advise that you already know how to install language packs before poking around on your pc or attempting to download any shady "supposed language pack files" from the internet) keep in mind that since your keyboard will have been remapped after switching language you'll also need to figure out where ] now is, it's very likely it might not be in the same place for both languages.

SimKyna

On my keyboard shift + [ and shift + ] are { and } respectively (it looks like those might ALT GR + 7 and ALT GR + 0 on your keyboard). At a guess, I'd say try using those? Let us know if this works.

keyb0x

I have a UK layout physical keyboard, which is almost the same as American's, but my keyboard language is set to Swedish. Because of that, the location of ] is different for me also, BUT I noticed that for the sims games it doesn't discriminate what the actual button does for me.

So while on the UK layout it says ] and in Swedish it says ••, the actual button does the same thing.

So, try pressing the button where ] would be for English keyboards. It's the one directly next to return and second up from the right shift key.

Hope that helps.

ceejay402

it is a little tricky, you must be in build mode and what i do is select/hold the object i want to increase in size, i then while holding the object select shift then + and then [ or ]

xHareHarex

Ririka wrote: »

Just tossing a thought here, not claiming this will work by any means,<br />
I am assuming you use the Portuguese language option on your system by default and have not tried to switch to English or install English on your system since you already have Latin alphabet characters in your language.<br />
Since most language packs for Windows seem to remap the keyboard (If I remember correctly from installing Spanish on my previous laptop), try to either switch to English before playing the game, or try to download and install the English Language pack for Windows and play the game after having switched the language to English (not the Windows language ofc just the temporary language option for typing).<br />
Logically Shift + ] should work just fine after that... Logically...<br />
<br />
Edit: If anyone does attempt this to cross-check (and I do advise that you already know how to install language packs before poking around on your pc or attempting to download any shady "supposed language pack files" from the internet) keep in mind that since your keyboard will have been remapped after switching language you'll also need to figure out where ] now is, it's very likely it might not be in the same place for both languages.

Tried before, didn't work.

Fatescruel

You need to pickup the object in Build/Buy Mode and then press Shift + ALT GR + ]. After that you can move the object around and see the size change.

xHareHarex

Fatescruel wrote: »

You need to pickup the object in Build/Buy Mode and then press Shift + ALT GR + ]. After that you can move the object around and see the size change.

Doesn't work.

xHareHarex

Ah, I found the key. It's »

Fatescruel

Excellent!! For your keyboard layout, I would not have guessed that you need to use the "»" key.

Glad to see that you made it work. :D

Magical_Charm

@xHareHarex
By the way, what type of keyboard layout is that, laptop/desktop for win/mac?

Fatescruel

It might be of some use to know in-case other Sims player run into the same situation. I can bet that someone else will encounter the same problem in the near or distant future.

xHareHarex

Magical_Charm wrote: »

@xHareHarex&lt;br />
By the way, what type of keyboard layout is that, laptop/desktop for win/mac?

Both Laptops and desktops have that layout for windows. I don't know about mac, but it should be the same since it's the traditional portuguese keyboard layout.

Fatescruel

Thank you for that info xHareHarex

Carvalho123

> @xHareHarex said:
> Ah, I found the key. It's »
OMG! Obrigado, thank you so much :smiley:

enkeli63

The Sims games (since at least 2) tend to mess up your keyboard settings (if they are anything other than North American keyboard layout) after a few hours of gameplay. I notice this happens and suddenly I cannot find my ? or ' (which I tend to need during a chat or writing a description on an upload I want to send to the Gallery) and even after quitting the game, I cannot make it work right. I must reboot my computer to get my keyboard to work as a European keyboard.

Since I have suffered this problem ever since relocating to Europe, and it has persisted over multiple computers and multiple generations of the Sims, I do suspect it has something to do with the way they set up hotkeys.

I'm pretty sure there's no hope in triggering a response with the ALT GR key. Anything that requires that, you can check some of your other keys that you'd least expect and you'll eventually find it, but it wont always be that one because EA isn't very good at thinking about things that effect users.

filipe231291

> @xHareHarex said:
> Ah, I found the key. It's »
First of all, thanks! :smiley:
And second, if you want to decrease the size, it's SHIFT + '
Or better saying for my fellow Portuguese :3

Increase size: SHIFT + «
Decrease size: SHIFT + '

Jarsie9

I use CTRL plus ] to increase the size. I increase the size of the TVs that way. I've never used shift. No wonder it didn't always work for me.

Skyfri_Himmel

I have danish keyboard and i just found out that if you hold down shift and then press the button that has these signs on it ^¨~ you will enlarge the object. And to make objects smaller you need to hold down shift and press Å. Apparently that is where [ ] these are on the american keyboard.
I also somehow lifted up an object one time by pressing 9 but this doesn't work anymore. It happened one single time! darn it. I miss it already It must have been a glitch for a second.

It just changed for some reason. now it is shift and Å for enlarging and shift and `´ for making them smaller. I really dont know why this is changing

Nik24X7

I don't know whether it holds true for Sims 4, but I do recall in earlier Sims games that one needed to press the left Shift key on the keyboard. It wouldn't work with the one on the right. Give it a try. Wierder stories.

Skyfri_Himmel

Nik24X7 wrote: »

I don't know whether it holds true for Sims 4, but I do recall in earlier Sims games that one needed to press the left Shift key on the keyboard. It wouldn't work with the one on the right. Give it a try. Wierder stories.

I used the right shift key to do it

Clarkie100

This didn't work for me either, it crashed the game when I tried.