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My first post on this thread:IP Caw Version 1.18.46 Up, Discussion & Troubleshooting Thread
New Lot Available!
I haven't tried it yet, too excited
I had to let everyone know.
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Okay, I can't figure out how to use it!
Once I select a size and click "OK" The screen immediately turns blue, with a red lot outline. I can't seem to move it, or see where it's at.
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ETA: I always thought that the houseboat bases were objects... maybe they are and it won't actually work in CAW yet until you have the EP installed to add the objects?
I'm wondering about the version number though. When I go to install it says I have version 1.19 and this new one is 1.18. That's what it's supposed to be?
They've done this before. Gone down, then back up. So, yes we're going from University Patch # 1.19.4 to Island Paradise Patch # 1.18.46.
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edit: is there any sign that it's possible to place dive lots?
When I was messing around they have EP10 diving listed in the community lot catalog.....along with port and resort....but I havent had a chance to go into game and see what becomes of placing it. I added it to my world but then kids started yelling....I will try to load it up later....I would think you can do something with it or why would they add it to CAW. I know they said no....but maybe they changed thier minds....IDK!
The houseboat lot I placed showed up not only offset from where I drew the lot, but off-world! When I moved it to the water within my world, it showed up underwater:
I think what Callum9432 says about houseboats being world objects that we need the game for is probably right.
I was really excited to see that when I placed a lot partly on land and partly in the water, the color of the water didn't go away:
And then I placed a lot totally in the water and the terrain was automatically raised:
SO, if we are trying to make dive lots, maybe this is how the lots will look in CAW until we get it into edit-in-game and can lower the terrain. I think in one of the blog posts they said that they didn't know if we'd be able to make our own dive lots in CAW but we could maybe figure it out... something about getting the elevation right? Sorry I'm kinda new at this CAW thing and new to this community so maybe you all have already talked about that
EDIT: WAIT! So cool. When I placed a lot totally in the ocean again, I made it a community dive lot and the terrain remained submerged!!!
I am also not sure if I am completely patched..? I don't have University. I don't even know if I am patched for that or even if I should patch for the Uni patch. Would it mess up my CAW if I patch for Uni and don't have it installed? :oops:
Yay =/ Thanks for the info. =]
MrCrumplebottom looks good maybe I will d/l, heck with it lol x.X
All the house boat lots I place get plopped down out of bounds. I thought maybe my water wasn't deep enough, so I made a 300 height world, raised the land and the water level at least 2/3 up, but the lots are still placed out of bounds. And just like Aminovas said, if you move them, they sink.
Then a light bulb went off! What if you need a functioning dock lot, and if you don't have one, the lots get tossed out of bounds?
Now I've tried placing a lot, marking it as Community Dock, placed a pier, but still the house boat lots get tossed out. Has anybody found a new object that would be placed on a pier for embarkation, and debarkation between the two lots?
I can't find anything.
Like on this pic from IP:
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We shall see, I suppose...
For about 5 minutes I was creating a dive lot! And then I got bounced out and floating above the water...
SO, I just jumped into CAW and made a quick world... deep ocean some terrain, place a dive lot in the deep and a house boat which again showed up off world, this time ABOVE the water, but with no hull:
Threw it into the game... found it off world, but with now hull. Where do we get the hulls?
Next up, dive lots: Clicked on my dive lot site, found myself floating above the water. Clicked down a floor (it showed I was on the top floor) and then suddenly I was under water.
I was able to place some objects!
But then I got bounced out and couldn't get back into it... I couldn't replicate getting back to the underwater editing until I exited from editing the lot and loaded it again. At one point it seemed like just zooming into the water got me underneath, but otherwise it pretty certainly is accessed by click to the lowest story/level/floor.
As a side note... I can never get edit-in-game to load. It just goes to the launcher. I was really hoping that installing the latest patch and Island Paradise would fix that... I've been through most of the forums problem solving it to no avail, but now that this hasn't solved my issue I'm going to dig into that literature again and try to get it working.
Here is the edge of the world with the fog off so you can see the ocean floor. You can see there is a distant terrain of islands that circle the world base. I could not find the DT in the metadata. I'll have a better look, but I can make a .package to enable it in caw if we can't find it.
Another view. In the above pic you can see the purple object boxes for the cloud cover.
House Boats
They are all lined up at the edge of the map. I'm going to do some more fiddling with these.
This is what the births of the house boats look like. The hulls are there. Makes me think they automatically plop in place when you export?
Dive Lots
This is what they look like in Caw. The terrain is sculpted, and painted, but no visible objects. However, there are those red lot object boxes all over them.
Here is the xyz coordinates for the dive lot, and the water level so we can work out the depth needed. (I haven't done the math yet. )
Dive lot:
Water Level:
Hidden Islands
There is a purple object marker beside every hidden island.
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The one that's attached to the port.
I tried finding it in EIG in CAW but was unable to figure it out so I loaded up the game and decided to try and use the eyedropper tool to see if it would pull up the location of that connector. That didn't work, it kept showing me all of the Community objects and it's definitely not in there. I opened buydebug and there it is!
It's called Gangway Style. It does have a 22x16 square that extends off of it that is reserved for house boats of all sizes so that will be important when placing the lot for the port.
I'm going to try a real quick island world with docks and boats. See what happens on export.
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