Fixed - Sims Floating Above Lower Height Beds

[daluved1]

Hi guys!

I've created a bed that's made of a simple mattress and boxspring. The mattresses are intended to rest on the ground, so naturally the bed is lower than any other sim bed.

http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/2/6/0/0/9/8/6/MTS2_daluved1_1164717_floatproblem.jpg

The meshing part was easy, however, the sims float on top of the bed. For a while I thought this was inevitable, but there's a creator who made a Japanese futon (http://mysims3blog.blogspot.com/2010/12/japanese-futon-by-sugichaco.html) with corrected sleeping animations.

So, does anyone know a way to fix the floating?

ETA - FIXED!

[daluved1]

I was just about to email the futon creator to see how they made their beds, when I stumbled upon something they wrote in the download post. In big bold red letters it says "Use the Alt key to lower the bed".

So the light bulb went off in my head! That futon has to be lowered to ground level manually in game using the Late Night vertical shifting features. Meaning, all I had to do is raise the bed back to regular height. Then, tick the "OnWall" flag and allow shifting by ticking the "CanBeMovedUpandDownOnWall" flag. Bam! Fixed!

http://thumbs2.modthesims2.com/img/2/6/0/0/9/8/6/MTS2_daluved1_1164758_BE-Animations.jpg

The sim will get in the bed correctly, however, he'll just sink in the floor a bit.

[simsample]

Aha! That's the same method Inge used in her bunk beds. Thanks for the information, daluved1!

The bed looks great. :)

[Inge Jones]

Yes, I posted the instructions when I first made this discovery, at http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=426285 and http://dino.drealm.info/den/denforum/index.php?topic=335.0

It's great to see what people have done with the technique since! :)