The first post says DO NOT use this hack with SmartLights 2. Does that mean they're absolutely incompatible, or is it just a suggestion based on issues with Smart Lights and the pool lights? I've been using Smart Lights for some time with no problems, and I just downloaded this mod yesterday and used it with Smart Lights and it seemed to be working fine...

I believe it's just a warning because of the pool light issue. If you chose to not use poollights then the mods seem to work together fine.

onces again a amazing job!

<scribbles in notepad>

Thanks Max3D. I'll look into it.


..now where did I put that beaker of nitrous acid..

@iona


This is being address in 2.2 However please be aware in a room with no lights and no windows it will be dark. This is intentional.

@Daan1302

Actually 2.2 is looking pretty good now. I have spent the last 2 days on just the outside daylight.
Yes I am an anal nerd

I think I have finally got the problems nailed down. <knocks on simulated non-carbon based plastic wood>

Ok, the thing I saw was when I removed smart lights and tried to enter a lot with pool lights I could not do so. The game would forever load the lot.
After restoring smart lights I was again able to enter a lot.. so I'm not sure either way.

De rien

Hello I am no other mod that affecting auto lights and yes I have right clicked on a light and stuff
Also, I don't know if it's normal but when my sim go in a room without windows, the light don't work (at day)
When I click on autolight all lights, the lights works all at night and not only when a sim is in the room.
Thank you

I just try to help

Wouldn't it be more effective to use the private message system, rather than flooding the thread with french that most people can't understand? (after all the official language on this site is english) Just a thought...

To send someone a private message, all you need to do is click on their name and the option to send a message comes up.

It's exactly what I have

Thank you but I did because I have seen chinese and deutch on this forum so I thought that I could do it.

Strange, I need to try that.

surely a room with no windows or lights would be dark, day or night, in real life, so this mod is just emulating that, which is what i have downloaded it for. i would have thought the more windows the lighter it will be, less and it will be darker. not much light would seep through a closed door.
i have no problem seeing inside the rooms in daylight in the lots i have, but i tend to have plenty of windows in them, as that is what i like. maybe thats why i can't understand why some people are reporting the light being too dark.

as to pool lights. i have found you don't really need any, the pool gives off its own. i can't remember if they did that anyway though

i earlier reported my lots loaded ok (this was true with small lots), but with the Smartlight mod and this one installed i tried it out with one of the few large lots i have with a pool. it wouldn't load. took out the Smartlights, left in the pool lights and it loaded fine again. so this is not the same as you are seeing, GunMod, if i read you correctly

Lights are not supposed to , by maxis default, come on automatically during the day.
I was trying to correct this but it seems that doesn't work as intended and it may not be possible.

With Smart Lights 2 the lights WOULD come on during the day in a dark room when a sim walked into the room. This was the reason I wanted people to use the Smart Lights with this mod. I told people to stop using it when people
started reporting problems with it. I never saw a problem so I wanted to be safe and told everyone not to use them.

Without Smart Lights 2 the lights will not automatically come on when a sim enters a room during the DAY.

As in real life, if you have a room that has no windows, then I suggest you leave a light on in that room even during the day.

The problem is this: Maxis never intended for dark rooms to be "dark"
So not having lights on in a room with no windows was no big deal.

This is a realism mod (its what I do) and that realism has a price.
That price is that a dark room is going to be dark if not lit properly.
The price is also that some stuff might be a little more work to do than before, like having to decide what lights should stay on, what lights should auto functions, etc.

I can either sacirifice the realism for easier gameplay or I can go with the realism and that means if you want to use this you will have to learn to adjust a few minor things because frankly I won't even do this mod if I can't go the realism route.

I'm not trying to be rude and I hope it doesn't come out sounding that way. I just don't coddle or bullsh*t, I just state the plain facts and I hope that doesn't offend you.

I understand, thank a lot

*salutes* More people in the world need this attitude. All this politically correct nonsense can... ah, I'll save my angry ranting for another day. :banghead:

The mod is utterly and completely fantastic, though. We're all pulling for you as you wrangle the dreaded and feared Maxis code!

Totally Awesome Dude!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :clap: :3dcool: :yippee:

I did something wrong you think ?

Hi Gunmod, will 2.2 fix a minor problem with a new window that came with nitelife? It's a small double panel window, (a wooden casement type with glass panels). It does'nt allow daylight to pass through. I noticed this during creation of a house, the room still remained dark after putting this window.

GunMod
keep doing what youre doing. as i stated before it is the realism that i am looking for and admiring in this mod and the reason i have downloaded and tried to test to the best of my abilities. i just can't report most of the same problems other people are having, it is working for me exactly as you say it does

ronaldlc
if you are talking about the OpenMe two-tile wide window, this is a known issue with this window, not this mod. there is a fixed version under the build downloads in this site
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=101157

fwwiw:
i have gone through each and every window i have, in build mode in both daylight and night time, custom and maxis. of the maxis windows only the above mentioned window doesn't work. one of the custom ones doesn't either, but it's a window that has a flaw in it anyway. i'll see if theres a fixed version.
i am going to run through the lights in a minute.
if windows or lights don't work i would suspect it is a flaw in the object not the mod. it might be worth considering just using an alternative object


edit:
there should be no problem with any of the lights either, on a basic level. they all work, but i haven't tested them in all settings i can think of, just a room with no windows and a table and statue in. what i was attempting was just to clarify that this mod does not affect windows or lights, just that if there is a problem it is probably to do with the object itself

Anelca, thanks. I agree with you. I'm all for realism, even up to the smallest of details. I enjoy a little bit of fantasy everynow and then. Anyway, thanks again.

Hi GunMod,
i have used this mod since I saw it here on MTS2, which was somewhere about version 1.
Ever since I installed this mod I have a strange problem with the neighborhood view. It is all red and flashing. Just as the old corrupted items when modding for Sims2 just started, only they flashed blue and not red
And to prevent questions, no I don't use any other hacks that modify the light or anything, except for smartlights2. And I also have no problems with the pool lights, they fixed it.
Maybe it has to do something with my card, although I doubt it. It a Geforce 6600 GT, which should have enough power for Sims2, even with this mod.

And to make me wonder even more, it is only in the neighborhood view, not in the lot itself, although right now the outside light is a little too dark, but I read it is being fixed in the upcoming version.
Maybe you can dig into the flashing problem a little more, since it is quite anoying, and it is kinda difficult placing new lots since you can't see where the roads are.

Ghost, that happens if this mod gets placed in an ep's directory instead of the base game's.