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Posted by Cyclonesue on Nov 19, 2009• Where did Alice go?
Alas, poor Alice!
No dining set. Any downloaders foolish enough to trust anything I make will be the proud owner of the most pointless dining set yet. The Alice dining set can't, erm, be dined at.....
Before you start assuming that I just throw random files at the servers, I do have an excuse. It's feeble, but an excuse IS never-the-less an excuse!
I first made the set with the publicly available Workshop 0.8.7. I tested the chairs both independently of a table, with the Alice table and with other tables, indoors and outdoors. Everything was fine! But then the TSR dream-team came out with a new closed beta version of Workshop that also generates the shadow meshes automatically AND perfectly. Any object creators who have tried lining up shadows won't be reading this because they will already be committed in some local asylum somewhere, but yes, it's true: the dream-team have made sunshadow worries a thing of the past - dead easy. No more MLOD2 and MLOD3 nonsense; no more wailing about disconnected, badly shaped shadows. One click and the shadows are made automatically. Beautiful.
So, I ran the Alice dining chairs through the closed beta version, loaded up my game to admire the perfect shadows (and they are perfect - kudos to the developers), and sat a Sim on each chair just to be sure they still worked. I also placed the chairs at a dining table to ensure they placed correctly, moved when the table was picked up etc. Fine again! So, I uploaded the set.
What I forgot to do in the second round of testing was park a dining table in front of the chairs AND sit a Sim at the table! Sims can indeed sit on those chairs, but not when they're at a table. The latest closed beta of the Workshop also automatically adjusts the green footprint beneath the object (extremely, brilliantly useful) but dining chairs have an odd arrangement (a hidden footprint behind the chair when at a dining table) which the Workshop had not accounted for, meaning the Sim could not pull out the chair in order to sit on it at a table. Fortunately, the beta also allows the footprint to be adjusted manually, so I've made those adjustments and am happy to confirm that the chairs now do work properly.
The set will be back up shortly. And the new beta Workshop will be out shortly too!
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