Has anyone experienced objects not allowed to be placed on a wall?

[BlueSoup]

I've been building this house, and when I was furnishing it, it wouldn't let me place the dresser or the bed against the wall.  I have plenty of tile spaces for them to be placed with no problems, and after I turn on moveObjects, they'll place fine and my Sims never have a problem using them. 

It's only happened since I got Nightlife, and it happens both with and without the patch.

[J. M. Pescado]

If it's near a door, particularly a diagonal door, that may be why. Otherwise, perhaps you have a stuck, invisible object in your way!

[BlueSoup]

It wasn't near a door, diagonal or otherwise, (at least not any nearer a door than it would normally be), and the house is brand-new, with no Sim ever stepping foot in it, so I'm not sure how an object could get stuck...

[Inge]

Were these objects in their inventory from their previous home?

[SaraMK]

So the objects in question did not come out of a sim's inventory?

Did you use the floor elevation cheat code when building the house? This sometimes creates unusable tiles because somehow they become very slightly higher or lower than the rest of the floor. This is often seen in the fact that if you go up one storey, the transparent squares that show up around walls will be missing or look dashed instead of solid in the area that is affected.

[BlueSoup]

No, it's been brand new houses, with brand new furniture.    All in all, it's probably happened about 5 times or so; different families and different lots, even different neighbourhoods.


Only in this latest lot have I used constrainfloorelevation; the rest have all been rather vanilla houses.

[IgnorantBliss]

Is it with all beds and dressers, or just some? Does it affect Maxis and custom items the same?

[Shupinola]

I get bad tiles all over my houses - even new ones where there are no cellphones and no one has played kicky bag. JM's advice was to use fire, so I downloaded a buyable fire item from Mod The Sims 2, but you can get the same effect by buying a cheap cooker, have someone place a TV Dinner or a toaster pastry in it and then have them go and do something else and move to cooker close to the affected area before it starts to burn. But be warned - you must fence off the area to prevent Sims getting burned. In a room, remove the door to the room and all objects and then place the fire or cooker close to the area and just let it burn away to it's heart's content. It's also a good idea to not have any objects next to the walls of the room that is burning. They shouldn't set on fire, but it has happened to me once. Once the fire is out, replace the door and have your Sims tidy up the ash. Then see if the bad tiles are now working. If not, try it again. It doesn't always work, but around seven times out of ten it does.

[BlueSoup]

In thinking about this problem more in the past few hours, I think it must be the inventory bugginess after all.

The houses I play most of the time are cheat-free (no motherlode, etc.), so I start them off with as much of a house as they can afford.  After a while, when they can afford some renovations, I usually upgrade them.   Now, I usually have furniture for them by this point, but I can't afford to just replace it all, so I put it into the inventory while I reno the house.  Once the house is finished, the furniture goes back.

This house was built with a money cheat, so it was done all at once.  No inventory, and only one problem with it, which may not have been the same sort of cause as previous times.

[tsrynolds]

Wouldn't it be nice before they put these new features in the game if they would actually play the game.

I as well have had some strange things happen with beds and dressers that haven't been put into inventory like not going against the wall.  I put the item in the middle of the floor and then delete it and buy it again and that usually works but it doesn't answer why it does it in the first place.

I also have problems with the inventory as well causing me not to be able to place them against the wall.  Sofas, bed, dressers, tables, chairs and the like.

Wonder if they are going to address this in the next patch or is there going to be another patch for nightlife?

[IgnorantBliss]

From what I understand, the inventory bug about not being able to place certain items against a wall anymore has something to do with wallshadows on the objects, but I don't know what exactly causes it.