Christmas Tree Glitch?

robyngraves

I just noticed while I was playing last night that the Christmas tree cannot be decorated, rather the decorations don't show up. My sims will go through the motions and "decorate" the tree, but nothing shows up on, under, or around the tree. Prior to the most recent patch, the tree was able to be decorated and had no issues whatsoever.

Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

rosemow

Hello
Try moving the tree into an open space in the room, away from the corner and see if that helps the issue.

floridameerkat

I have the same issue. I moved the tree into the middle of the living room so the family could decorate it together. They went through the motions of decorating it, but none of the decorations actually showed up. I had to replace the tree with the pre-decorated tree instead. I don't know if decorating the tree worked correctly prior to the patch, as I hadn't used it until yesterday.

rosemow

floridameerkat wrote: »

I have the same issue. I moved the tree into the middle of the living room so the family could decorate it together. They went through the motions of decorating it, but none of the decorations actually showed up. I had to replace the tree with the pre-decorated tree instead. I don't know if decorating the tree worked correctly prior to the patch, as I hadn't used it until yesterday.

Hello
Check to see if perhaps the tree is touching an overhead light or there is a hanging light nearby.

If you have cc/mods in your game, move your whole mods folder to the desktop. Then start the game and see if the issues are still there.

If the issue remains, you may like to post feedback on this AHQ EA thread
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-S-Christmas-tree-decorations-only-partially-appearing/m-p/6883182#M64548

robyngraves

floridameerkat wrote: »

I have the same issue. I moved the tree into the middle of the living room so the family could decorate it together. They went through the motions of decorating it, but none of the decorations actually showed up. I had to replace the tree with the pre-decorated tree instead. I don't know if decorating the tree worked correctly prior to the patch, as I hadn't used it until yesterday.

This is exactly what happened in my game!

rosemow wrote: »

Hello
Try moving the tree into an open space in the room, away from the corner and see if that helps the issue.

I had actually moved the tree to an almost completely empty room and it did the same thing.

rosemow

robyngraves wrote: »

floridameerkat wrote: »

I have the same issue. I moved the tree into the middle of the living room so the family could decorate it together. They went through the motions of decorating it, but none of the decorations actually showed up. I had to replace the tree with the pre-decorated tree instead. I don't know if decorating the tree worked correctly prior to the patch, as I hadn't used it until yesterday.

This is exactly what happened in my game!

rosemow wrote: »

Hello
Try moving the tree into an open space in the room, away from the corner and see if that helps the issue.

I had actually moved the tree to an almost completely empty room and it did the same thing.

It may be best to post on the AHQ EA thread that I linked to, so as to give further feedback on the issue to the developers.

floridameerkat

I tried using the tree again last night. I moved it outside where there was room for all 5 family members to decorate it, and it worked. Everyone I selected to help decorate was able to and the decorations actually showed up this time. I had them decorate the whole tree outside in the freezing cold and then moved the tree back inside once they were done. I hope they fix it so that you don't need quite so much room to decorate the tree or open presents, as I had issues with that, too.

rosemow

floridameerkat wrote: »

I tried using the tree again last night. I moved it outside where there was room for all 5 family members to decorate it, and it worked. Everyone I selected to help decorate was able to and the decorations actually showed up this time. I had them decorate the whole tree outside in the freezing cold and then moved the tree back inside once they were done. I hope they fix it so that you don't need quite so much room to decorate the tree or open presents, as I had issues with that, too.

Hello
It is good that your sims family was able to decorate the tree, although it needed to be done outdoors. It was a good workaround to then bring it inside when finished. Happy Wintertime to your sims!