Change max slope value hack?

[idtaminger]

Anyone successfully using this hack w/ OFB? I did what the instructions said - I copied the file into every expansion's Sys folder, but I still can't seem to place lots on very steep land... Any suggestions?

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?p=1429729#post1429729

[J. M. Pescado]

More Awesome Than You officially discourages the placement of lots on anything other than perfectly flat terrain, due to edge-corruption issues.

[KatEnigma]

I love to build houses into the slope of the mountains in Pleasantview, but I then don't move the lots.  It's a shame, really, because it's much easier to attach a house w/foundation to a garage (with no funky warping of edges) than the other ways.

I'm hoping that the lot-flattening tool in the EP-that-doesn't-exist will really flatten the entire lot, for a change. Probably cause even more problems, if it does.

[Akharra]

I tried that,too, and it doesn't seem to work for me, either.

[idtaminger]

More Awesome Than You officially discourages the placement of lots on anything other than perfectly flat terrain, due to edge-corruption issues.

Well, see, normally I do tend to place lots according to Maxis rules, but I had this one lot which was built into the side of a hill, sort of, and I tried to place it in Veronaville, on flatish land. BIG mistake, b/c when I deleted it, it ended up screwing up the road, to the point where the road bent to a V shape. Now I can't fix the terrain back, and since it's just one spot, I don't want to screw the whole neighborhood just to fix the one spot. Please, Pescado, help me!

[J. M. Pescado]

I told you not to do that. Now you see why.

[idtaminger]

Ahh! Maybe you could look at the package to see why it isn't working w/ OFB? Please? Pretty Please? Pretty, pretty, pretty please?

[J. M. Pescado]

It's not working because it was never SUPPOSED to be done. It is decidedly non-awesome and will FUBAR your game. Exactly like it did. That's what you get for dabbling in the non-awesome. It's not awesome. It's not even awesome-approved! Don't touch that!

[Sagana]

Did you try using littler empty lots to pound the terrain back into shape? I broke one of my roads by putting a non-awesome but really cool 'house on a hill" lot down and fixed it by tediously choosing different lot sizes and pounding them on the raised land - fixing little pieces of it over and over again until it was (more or less) back the way it belonged.

Or am I just misunderstanding the basic problem (probably).

[Kyna]

You could do some neighbourhood terrain surgery.  Look in the war room for how it's done.

[Avalikia]

I have lots with uneven edges all over the place, but I never move or upload them so I've never had any trouble.  I use that hack in a sense - I followed the directions to find the proper file and edited the number myself to suit my own personal perference.  I've got OFB and it's working fine.  I've noticed that sometimes, but not all the time, if you place a lot on a slope, delete it, and place a lot of the same size in the same spot the terrain of the lot itself will end up being flat with the nearby terrain outside of the lot making up for it.