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JohnL Feb 3, 2018 @ 11:21pm
Holiday House Lights BE GONE!
Anyone have a suggestion on how to remove your holiday house lights if no option will appear? I have tried removing the roof's and putting them back and that didn't help either! Regardles of roof style the darn lights appear! I even tried different style roofs, I tried no roof for a day then adding roofs again. Nothing works and I can click every door and there's no option for them, just lock or unlock.

This only seems to be an issue in one of my save games, in Appaloosa Plains. Not sure what the glich is, but I've tried everything I can think of to get them gone. (sigh)
Last edited by JohnL; Feb 5, 2018 @ 8:01am
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cruinne Feb 4, 2018 @ 7:47am 
Do you have NRaas ErrorTrap installed? It might be able to catch and correct the problem that's making them inaccessible.
susannag Feb 4, 2018 @ 8:59am 
Did you click on the door? (I think that's where an option to remove them appears on my game.)
JohnL Feb 4, 2018 @ 12:42pm 
Originally posted by susannag:
Did you click on the door? (I think that's where an option to remove them appears on my game.)
Yes, I sort of stated that in my post. Nothing appears when I click the door other than lock or unlock. Thank you though.
JohnL Feb 4, 2018 @ 12:46pm 
Originally posted by cruinne:
Do you have NRaas ErrorTrap installed? It might be able to catch and correct the problem that's making them inaccessible.

No, I tired setting all that up and IDK what I'm doing wrong but nothing works so I just gave up trying to install mods and stuff like that. I do great with Cities Skylines mods and such, but I'm not tech savvy enough for all that's required to do that for Sims here I suppose.
I just have the base game and a few of the expansion packs from Steam. I will just deal I suppose. No more holiday lights for me in any city. It's not like you see them very often anyway. 99% of the time I have walls down & focusing on the sims anyway. Thank you though. You've been very helpful in other posts and it's appreciated.
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susannag Feb 4, 2018 @ 1:29pm 
I just let Error Trap run in the background.
ZaggRukk Feb 4, 2018 @ 1:54pm 
Can you select them using LShift after using the "testingcheatenabled" code? Don't know if that would do anything. But it's worth a shot.
cruinne Feb 4, 2018 @ 2:20pm 
Originally posted by JohnL:
No, I tired setting all that up and IDK what I'm doing wrong but nothing works so I just gave up trying to install mods and stuff like that.
Well, if you're curious, I just gave someone detailed, step-by-step instructions in post #8 of another thread here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/47890/discussions/0/1699415798768959833/#c1699415798773053704
Last edited by cruinne; Feb 4, 2018 @ 2:20pm
marstinson Feb 4, 2018 @ 2:30pm 
Originally posted by JohnL:
Yes, I sort of stated that in my post. Nothing appears when I click the door other than lock or unlock. Thank you though.

A couple of other quick and simple things. First, I assume you have Seasons installed, otherwise nothing about holiday lights is going to appear. You probably do since your aim is to remove them rather than add them, but I'm just trying to be clear for anyone who is following after and stating the obvious is sometimes necessary.

This problem came up shortly after Seasons released, but I recall someone complaining that you couldn't do anything with holiday lights if the game was paused. Not sure if that got fixed or patched when later EPs were released, but it's simple to try.

If the holiday lights options are not appearing when you click on the front door, does the option appear when you click on the back door? You might need to set the back door as the front door in order to check. If you click on the back door and are not getting the option to set as the front door, you probably need to reset the lot. I can do it with a mod, but no idea how to do it through the command console.

If no to either one, have you tried deleting and replacing the exterior doors and then redesignating the front door as such?
Trainfan2015 Feb 4, 2018 @ 2:42pm 
click on the door of your house and an option to remove them will appear
ZaggRukk Feb 4, 2018 @ 2:44pm 
Originally posted by Trainfan2015:
click on the door of your house and an option to remove them will appear
Welcome to the post. . . I see you haven't read any of it yet.
JohnL Feb 4, 2018 @ 5:45pm 
Originally posted by ZaggRukk:
Originally posted by Trainfan2015:
click on the door of your house and an option to remove them will appear
Welcome to the post. . . I see you haven't read any of it yet.
LOL...right?
JohnL Feb 4, 2018 @ 5:55pm 
Originally posted by cruinne:
Originally posted by JohnL:
No, I tired setting all that up and IDK what I'm doing wrong but nothing works so I just gave up trying to install mods and stuff like that.
Well, if you're curious, I just gave someone detailed, step-by-step instructions in post #8 of another thread here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/47890/discussions/0/1699415798768959833/#c1699415798773053704

I will try it again using your instructions. I will let you know later. Thank you. This was much more clear than what I'd looked at before to install this.
JohnL Feb 4, 2018 @ 7:52pm 
Originally posted by cruinne:
Well, if you're curious, I just gave someone detailed, step-by-step instructions in post #8 of another thread here:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/47890/discussions/0/1699415798768959833/#c1699415798773053704

When I loaded the game I got the pop-up window message that it was in my mod folder and I clicked the checkmark/ok button. I played a game for a couple of hours and quit. Is there supposed to be any other messages if it's working? I got none.
susannag Feb 4, 2018 @ 8:27pm 
Error Trap and Overwatch mostly just run in the background. There might be a message log from Error Trap in your Sims 3 folder. (I always check for that, at the same time that I'm deleting my cache files, because they're in the same place.)
marstinson Feb 4, 2018 @ 10:24pm 
Originally posted by JohnL:
When I loaded the game I got the pop-up window message that it was in my mod folder and I clicked the checkmark/ok button. I played a game for a couple of hours and quit. Is there supposed to be any other messages if it's working? I got none.

You're fine. If you had installed anything wrong, you would not have the pop-up notice at the main menu. Neither ErrorTrap nor Overwatch do interactions. If they catch something, you'll get a notice about it, but this most commonly happens about 3am when cars are removed from inventories and stereos get shut off. Other than that, they'll generate log files when they hit something and you will get an in-game notice if you want to follow up on it. "Error Trap Recorded: 1" tends to pop up once or twice per week in my game, for example, and that tells me that there is a log file to go check.
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