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I was playing the lot next to this one, after I'd installed the Holiday pack, and yo and behold - I guess the neighbor went all out with the  Xmas lights!  ;D

(http://www.sims2db.com/rainbowlot.jpg)

Oh my, that doesn't look so great...

All I can think of is National Lampoon's Christmas move :D

I've seen this happen with colour lights that were created a specific way, what that 'way' is I haven't the foggiest idea.

Yikes :o

Wow, looks like Rudolph's pad.

What does it look like when you enter that lot?

it looks a tad odd for sure

One of the many reasons why I won't be getting the X-mas pack. D'you think it could be the same sort of thing that happened to me, only worse?

Well...that's always attractive.

Well, you have to admit, it's certainly a ... different look for the house. It IS pretty festive though, for a certain definition of festive.

Just wanted to follow up - the "Christmas Lights" went away after I exited and reentered the lot. So I don't know that it had to do with the Xmas pack, really. No other lots have shown such a brilliant display...

Still, it was so strange I had to post a pic.

Thanks for the Info good to know because I just spent the last 2 hours Decorating and furnishing a Mansion for one of My Couple that lives in My downtown and in one Room I did the whole christmas thing for their teen son and their newborn Son and I thought after I saved and exited what if that house has one area that has such an odd look when I re enter later to play the family :o

actually if someone does figure out what caused/causes it I'd be interested to know, half my hood looks like that on and off and I was starting to get scared for my graphics card lol.

That's the first thing I thought of too.  A good old fashioned Griswold family Christmas.   :D

Little off topic here, but that happens to be one of my favorite pre-made Maxis lots.  I've had a lot of families in that house.  And once I figure out how to put a garage there without it looking butt ugly I'll move another in there.

I'm wondering if any of you having the odd neighborhood view things are using the camera hack from MTS2. I had an old version which did nothing but allow you to zoom out farther and seemed to work beautifully (pre-NL). I forgot it when I installed because it's in cameras, not downloads or somewhere and NL apparently installed over top of it. So I went and got the new one. I've put it in and taken it out 3 times because all 3 versions seem to do weird things for me - mostly it just kinda makes the lot shimmer and... not look right. I'm not *sure* it's the camera, but I really believe it is.

This is the one I mean:

http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=97642&highlight=camera

(I haven't posted to the creator yet. I will when I test a bit more and am sure that's really what it is. Tho corraboration would be good too. Anyways, it's an idea besides getting a new graphics card :)

I have his Camera mod and dont have problem with it

I've got that same mod. No problems with it here, either.

did you also pick up his new  Lighting Mod?

I have both and am not seeing anything like that in my game...

I picked up the camera mods labeled A, B and C - they come with so much, I'm not sure if that includes the lighting mod or not. I put in "A" (which does the most), took it out and put in "C" (which does the least) and I'm going to take that out and put the Maxis defaults back in. It might be that my video card (which automatically comes up with the lowest settings and never gives me the special events stuff) can't handle his mod. My video card sucks. A new one is on my christmas list, but I'm broke so I dunno :) Someone with a better card probably wouldn't have a problem - that's why I wondered if the people who had the problem are using the mod.

It also could be a new problem with terrains as I used them on that lot, but I've never seen it before. It's really kind of weird (not like the christmas one, but all that was there was beach and water so it wouldn't be that bright.)

your only supposed to install one of those mods and no it doesnt come with his correced lighting

I did only install one. I installed "A", decided it wasn't working well for me, took it out and installed "C" to try that.

in his new lighting package he corrected  a lot of odd coloring and shimmer

so the lighting pack corrects problems with the camera mod?

I just wanted to be able to see the neighborhoods further back, but honestly I think my computer isn't really up to it and I'll just stick with the Maxis cameras - but as it's doing weird things in my game, I still think other people with minumum specs might have similar issues (even tho it's working fine for lots of people). Anyway, it's something to try before upgrading their computers because the neighborhood view has gone wacky :)

yep it corrects  some odd coloring and shimmering.my PC has minimum specs
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Operating System  Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)  Windows XP/2000/98/ME
 
System Memory 1016.5 / 256.0
 
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the first numbers are what my system has the second set is the minimum specs  for the game so as you can see I dont have a high end system