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    painting houses pains me

    bitterascandybitterascandy Posts: 224 Member
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    why is it when i go to paint my exterior walls i press shift and it doesnt paint the whole house....I have to scroll around and do it piece by piece....it is very annoying when you have a larger house

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      BilmonaghanBilmonaghan Posts: 1,552 Member
      Holding down shift works for me
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      sarahzsmylsarahzsmyl Posts: 1,307 Member
      A fine example is breaking one room into two by adding a wall. The room tool still sees it as one room, so when you shift paint, the whole area changes color. You have to paint each section at a time. I miss being able to set the area I wanted to paint by painting the two end walls then everything in the middle. *sigh*
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      bitterascandybitterascandy Posts: 224 Member
      I use the standard wall tool....so that makes sense it that every stroke of the wall is done individual so the painting will follow that...thanks..i will try the other wall tools and build it in one swoop
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      bitterascandybitterascandy Posts: 224 Member
      mind you the interior paint with shift cover the whole wall in one click....but i will play with it
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      FairyGodMotherFairyGodMother Posts: 7,406 Member
      It happens to me too. I just chalk it up to the fact that I cant place rooms good(although the rooms paint all at once) therefore the outside has to be at every angle just to finish painting it.

      Lets not even discuss roofs, LOL
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      sarahzsmylsarahzsmyl Posts: 1,307 Member
      The roofing in this game is horrible. I hate that I can't combine Gable and Hipped anymore because someone decided to remove the eaves from the hipped roof. Maybe a better idea would have been to make eaves a separate feature. Just sayin'.
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      SimPoseyYumSimPoseyYum Posts: 995 Member
      sarahzsmyl wrote: »
      The roofing in this game is horrible. I hate that I can't combine Gable and Hipped anymore because someone decided to remove the eaves from the hipped roof. Maybe a better idea would have been to make eaves a separate feature. Just sayin'.

      I'm with you 100% on this. Personally, I miss auto-roof because I stink at making roofs with the way it is now. I asked about roofing in Ask a Guru a few weeks ago and it appears they are revisiting how roofing works, so there may be hope.

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      GalacticGalGalacticGal Posts: 29,003 Member
      I have problems with painting the exterior of my houses, too. Used to be you could just hit and hold down the shift key and voila. Not so much anymore. I have to move the cursor, shift and hold, them move around to the next unpainted section. Wash, rinse, repeat. It's a pain in the tookus, quite frankly.
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      elanorbretonelanorbreton Posts: 14,625 Member
      @GalacticGal this is an old thread, no idea why the person before you has revived it with a personal review of their handyman... random advertising?
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      SimmervilleSimmerville Posts: 11,745 Member
      Didn't read the entire thread, but in TS4 holding SHIFT will affect room by room. If you cover only 5 wall tiles, it's because the room inside is 5 tiles long.

      I wish we could paint it all in one click, but it never really bothered me that much, besides there might be the need of paying attention to details, or using several wall designs on the same house etc. :)
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      EA_MakoEA_Mako Posts: 846 EA Community Manager
      Hey folks, thanks for the additional tips here!

      It looks like this was bumped by a spambot that's since been dealt with, so I'm going to lock this thread back down to prevent further necro-posting.
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