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Pond & Sea Water Overhaul

by Voeille Posted 1st Jan 2017 at 3:58 PM - Updated 12th Jan 2017 at 1:29 PM by Voeille
 
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#226 Old 26th Feb 2022 at 6:01 PM
I have the problem that the sea water reflects my own lot, not whatever I am looking at that it should reflect. I even started a default game with just this mod and nothing else in the downloads folder and I still have this problem. The water looks nice though, just the reflection is wrong. Did anyone else have this issue in the past?
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#227 Old 4th Jun 2022 at 1:49 PM
I used huge lot mod from lazyduchess https://lazyduchess.tumblr.com/post..._related_post=1
And the pond reflection does not work anymore. What should I do know ?

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#228 Old 4th Jun 2022 at 2:49 PM
Hehe while waiting, I try to combine the text note from huge lot mod with Voeille together. And it finally works !! But I don't make sure if it cause a conflict. I am going to test it with all of my CC.

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THANKS POST
#229 Old 5th Jun 2022 at 6:03 PM
Amazing!!! It works
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#230 Old 19th Aug 2022 at 3:15 PM
Hi! I really like this mod, game looks way better. It worked perfect for a long time, but recently when I downloaded it again something weird happened. I managed to fix bad egdes in grahpic rules, but the water is still black. Is there a way to fix it?
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THANKS POST
#231 Old 2nd Dec 2022 at 11:13 AM
This is so beautiful. Even when all the water was black at first. I finally got it to work after discovering that the the reflection option (in the F5 menu) has to be set to on.
Test Subject
#232 Old 12th Feb 2023 at 2:11 AM
Has anyone been able to get this to work with apartments? I know pools are unable to be built in apartment lots but... argh, I really want to use it there too, since Belladonna cove is perfect for it.

I've already tried making pools in other lots, and that does work in the neighbourhood, but as soon as I load into a family within an apartment the water's back to black
Test Subject
#233 Old 24th Feb 2023 at 11:50 AM
Hello! I'm a mac user, I have the super collection from aspyr
I downloaded just the pond file and even though I tried putting the pools several different ways around my pond the water still looks black ;; I tried the boolprop cheat too and it sadly didn't work either.
I love the idea of this mod and all the screenshots look beautiful (even the black water looks pretty lol) so I really wonder if anyone has encountered a fix for this issue, tysm !
(added a pic to exemplify)
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#234 Old 6th Mar 2023 at 8:25 PM
Quote: Originally posted by babasims
Hello! I'm a mac user, I have the super collection from aspyr
I downloaded just the pond file and even though I tried putting the pools several different ways around my pond the water still looks black ;; I tried the boolprop cheat too and it sadly didn't work either.
I love the idea of this mod and all the screenshots look beautiful (even the black water looks pretty lol) so I really wonder if anyone has encountered a fix for this issue, tysm !
(added a pic to exemplify)



Hey! I'm not sure if this will work with you - but I believe I found a fix (on a Mac as well with super collection):


1. Add the following lines to your userstartup.cheat file:

Code:
boolProp causticsEnabled true
boolProp useshaders true



Note: Here's a tutorial on the userstartup.cheat file if you need it

2. Re-load the game and make sure that Reflections are turned On in Graphics Settings

3. Place a 1x1 pool on your lot as Voeille directs in the main post

This worked for me, let me know if it works for you!
Test Subject
#235 Old 26th Apr 2023 at 7:48 PM
Default How did you made huge lot work with water reflection?
Quote: Originally posted by zsukala
Hehe while waiting, I try to combine the text note from huge lot mod with Voeille together. And it finally works !! But I don't make sure if it cause a conflict. I am going to test it with all of my CC.



hi. What exactly you did? What are step by step guide would be to make them work?
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#236 Old 27th Apr 2023 at 1:04 AM Last edited by Aredein : 29th Apr 2023 at 5:59 PM.
Default Reflection Differences
Interesting how both Hood/sea/Beach water reflects terrain, but not road and anything else,
while pond water reflects everything, except terrain and roof. Interesting detail is that pond only reflect roof when it's being dragged in build mode, and once roof is placed, it's not rendered.

While in Castaway - everything is rendered on both pond and sea water reflections.
except the floor/ceiling.
I guess that could be compensated by some mod that adds objects which look like upside down tile so it would reflect on water.

P.S. I used cheat to raise floor in curved way to find out if floor tiles are reflective by water shader at all? No they are not reflected.



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#237 Old 25th Jun 2023 at 4:39 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Aredein
hi. What exactly you did? What are step by step guide would be to make them work?



Sorry, it was a long time so I forgot what I have done with the text note. You can download the edited package here and compare it with the one from Lazy Duchess.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/ss5m...22.package/file
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#238 Old 30th Jul 2023 at 5:01 PM
Okay, this may sound crazy, but when I first tried this out, I swear the water was RED. As in, some really big beast was slaughtered and left a moat of blood around the house. It looked really realistic, transparency- and color-wise, but it looked like blood, not water. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a screenshot. When I went to the options menu, it started flashing red - the bright computer red, like when you have things from the wrong EP or whatever. The second time around, it was black like everyone else was complaining, and also flashed red when I was in Options... got a shot of that. I really wish I had a shot of the blood - it was quite cool-looking. As you can see, there is a pool on the lot - it came with the house, as did the moat. This was in an empty hood; I just placed a premade house at random, which happened to have both pond and pool. Placing an additional pool outside changed nothing, but I didn't really think it would. As you can see, the pool itself also has no reflections. I often miss super obvious steps, which may very well be the case here.

I didn't really see any other comments concerning red, so I thought I'd mention it. I'm on a Mac, and I made sure to use the Mac package version. Should I try the Windows one instead? I've often had no problem using Sims 2 downloads that supposedly wouldn't work on a Mac...

I don't have any of the mentioned conflict mods, but I do have a PondWaterTintLayer package installed. It's just a placeable layer, though, so I don't see how it would figure into anything.

Blackwater
Flashing red in the options menu. When it was blood, it was a much darker red than this.
Test Subject
#239 Old 29th Dec 2023 at 12:17 AM
For some reason, this mod causes some glitches in my laptop. The water appears black, and I see it happens to a lot of people too. I wonder if there is a way to still have the mod and fix the issue.
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