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I realised a few weeks ago that the terrain paints don't show in the neighborhood view, but they used to show just fine before. I have tried a maxis and a custom created neighborhood template, one lush, one desert.

And no matter how many different terrain paints I use when I'm in build mode, when I save and exit to the neighborhood view, it's like I haven't done anything. So I go back into the lot, and everything seems fine. I tried with both maxis terrain paints and custom ones.
 
Anybody had this? I work a lot on lot-terrains and I really miss them being visible.
Maybe it's a pets bug, as I didn't have this before.

Same here. Its Pets relatet the game no longer draws terrainpainting in the lotlod texture only floortiles are shown.
 It happens to all pre Pets Lots also they lost the terrainpaint in Neighborhoodviev if you change anything on the ground.
 Its a Maxis Bug. >:(

On another forum they told me it might be graphics-card related. But I have nothing else messed up. I hope it's a bug and will be fixed.

I do not have this problem, but I kind of wish I did, since I dislike terrain paints, and tend to remove them immediately upon entering a lot. No offence to those who make and like them, but I prefer my landscapes simple, with the ground showing through. I don't think the terrain-paint not showing is a Maxis bug, and probably is indeed a graphics card issue. I have never had this problem, now or in the past. If it were a Maxis bug, then everyone would have it.

I have this problem, too. I like for every house to have the nice green maxis grass and it sucks that it doesn't show in neighborhood view anymore. I'm not sure that it's graphics card related. I know that my graphics cards are supported on both my laptop and media center pc and neither one shows the terrain paint anymore. Dunno, I just figured Maxis borked something in preperation for seasons.

Those terrain paints have been plagued by bugginess from the word go. It used to make a lot unusable if you deleted any terrain paints from downloads, whether or not they were being used in the lot. Supposedly they were fixed but I still haven't started using them, I lost too many lots with all the original mess.

I'm going to go ahead and try saving the lot when I'm in family mode and see what happens. I'm soo glad I'm not the only one, though I didn't know until today. :)

So how are we supposed to save community lots? And I have dozens of empty houses just for decoration, and their terrains were also carefully planned. Gotta wait till it gets fixed then. :(

I think you would like this default grass replacement
http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=171302

I've been using it for months now and I love it, it makes my whole hood look so much better.


I took it out recently for awhile because I was trying to trim my custom stuff down and figured it wouldn't be needed when Seasons comes out but my hood looks so drab without it that I put it back in this morning *laughs*


I haven't really noticed anything with terrain paints and the neighborhood view. I don't use them all that often but I don't think I have this bug (or graphics issue) ...if I think of it I will double-check when I play again. 

Thanks for the link Sleepycat. This is perfect. The only terrains I use are maxis green grass and the garden soil ones. I just like the look of taken care of, not half-dead grass so this is all I need.

your welcome  :) 

the maxis default grass looks like grass that is growing in very poor soil, more sand or clay then good dirt  :P

I thought terrain paints were bad and caused BFBVFS in your game.