Terrain problem...

[MaxisManiac]

In my neighborhood screen, all the terrain is the natural grassy green that comes with the game, however, when playing a lot and looking at the neighborhood from there, it's a sandy beach terrain, which is...odd. Does anyone have any ideas about how to fix this?

[Li'l Brudder]

Your Avatar is creeping me out.

Is the lot close to water?

[Brynne]

I had that issue before reinstalling and installing Pets.

I have no idea what caused it.

This was of absolutely no help, and I do apologize.

[cwykes]

I had problems in base game only with lots whose terrain I was trying to change.  Never did find out why.  Buying OFB fixed them.

[FrickinIdjit]

I see that all the time when I change the neighborhood's terrain type.  If you move the lot and go back in, it should fix it.

[cwykes]

It never did in my base game, that was the problem.  I think that got fixed in Uni.  Now I have OFB, terrain changes seem to work right.

[Li'l Brudder]

If your lot is near water, the lot "grass" will be sand.

[Avalikia]

I've had a house do that too.  Side effect of having beachfront property, I guess.  Unfortunately it also made the entire neighborhood appear to be sand when viewed from within the lot, and it wasn't pretty.

[Nec]

I recently came across something similar when changing terrains. All i had to do was pick up the lots and put them back in the same place. Then they showed the real terrain. Did you use the change terrain cheat?