uki stonewalls & Funaya Docks : funny LODs

[evarburg]

i fellin love with uki stone walls Funaya docks http://uki-sim.seesaa.net/category/7892400-1.html - the texture is just amazing, and they go both with game and plop water ! What's not to love ? But when when plopped, a funnya thing happens : the shadows are all over the place -- which plays havoc with any MMP :



(thankfully it's OK with other fillers, but.) :



I am no lotbatter, so I don't know : it this fixable ? All those lots are what I call --perhaps mistakenly -- "datpacked" i.e. "file.dat" ; I assume they would have to be de-datpacked in order to be changed.  And if they can be, being no batlotter, bis, I would have to rely on the Kindness of Strangers...

[Mero90]

I think this is one of the most beautiful Uki's creations, however I don't like x2 and x3 Funayas, so I used ilives reader to cutoff those exemplar files from the .dat file. I gave also 5 CS$ jobs each. I can't share my modified file, but you can use the reader to modify them at your pleasure. 

What about shadows, seems that they are designed to lay on the shore and not on the plopable water, but I don't know much how shadows rendering works. 

[FrankU]

I know about the shadow issue.
This is of those strange bugs in the game. A model that is under ground throws its shadow into the opposite direction.....
When they are props you can edit the "is ground model" property to 0x00 = off. Then there will be no shadow at all. If it's a building I don't know for sure... Buildings don't (always) have a ground model property. Probably because they (probably) are always a gound model. I did not check extensively, so I might be wrong, but it sounds plausible.

[evarburg]

Thanks both !:-) As I said, I am no batlotter, I don't tinker with lots (although perhaps I should, but it's a can of worms I am not ready to open, timesink-wise -- just playing, or preparing a region, map and choice of lots, is eating up so much of my life !:-))) I am going to try and plop those on game water, first, not on dry land. And for plop water, if I use them on it, well, it'll be Photoshop Time !!!:-)

[Mero90]

I use this for a perfect dock height 

http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/4527-peg-cdk-leveler-v205/

[evarburg]

yes, I know.But thanks for the thought !:-)