House of Fallen Trees

[strangetomato]

Has anyone else ever noticed the intense lighting effects that happen inside at night when you play the House of Fallen Trees downtown? I thought it was just because of the lack of lighting or the placement of the lights, but even after I added a bunch of extra lights (yes, to a huge empty room), I was getting these crazy highlights and shadows. And the sims hair is often lit up, as seen below. Is there something about the way this house is built that causes this, or am I just imagining all of it?

This is Ripp's baby from that last post, the adorable Ron Grunt. A nice blend of both fathers, don't you think?

 
 

Update: I just read the wiki entry on the House of Fallen Trees, and it also mentions the dimly lit quality of the house. How was this effect created, I wonder? Does anyone know? I was thinking that maybe the ceilings were created a little higher, but I remember removing a wall in one of the rooms and I didn't notice anything.

Comments

[hat-plays-sims.livejournal.com]

It's got something to do with the setLotLightingFile cheat, but I have no idea what the baseline is or how to really use the cheat.

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... I was not aware of this lighting feature, but it is very neat! I love little details like that. I also wonder if other lots have this trait or not.

I mostly want to comment on Ron Grunt. He's such a cutie pie and that hair suits him very well :)

[pbanda.livejournal.com]

Woah. I never played the House of Fallen Trees, but there's definitely a nightclub downtown with wonky lighting. I sent my sims there a while back and it was lit just like your pic above. My sims also happened to be wearing custom clothes that didn't display right because of that lighting. It baffled me at the time, but it's very interesting to learn that was intentional. Trouble is, it's not just dark - the lighting is -wrong- with those crazy face shadows and lit up hair, and those custom clothes displaying wrong - which makes it very annoying.

[missadiasims.livejournal.com]

I can't say I noticed it when I was making over the house, but I didn't play much when I was building...I'll have to go back and have a look, as that sounds rather nifty.

[rocking-kitty.livejournal.com]

I have noticed with some communtiy lots in downtown have odd lighting. IIRC, LuLu Lounge is one. But this is very interesting indeed

[muslemura.livejournal.com]

Ron is a cutie <3

I've seen the weird lighting effect but never bothered finding out why. Always fun to learn new things :)

[eyexofxnewt.livejournal.com]

I... don't have anything useful to say. However, Ron is incredibly cute and I want to see more of him! Also I'm curious about what's going on, household-wise here.

[hidden-kitten.livejournal.com]

I used the house for the final few gens of my selfsim legacy: the lighting is terrible. http://allsims.livejournal.com/15189.html that's the first post using that lot as home, and you can see the teaser is all sorts of weird. I absolutely regretted moving the family in there.

[wolfieslice.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... you know, I never played that house when I had Sims 2 installed. I got very [understandably] bored with Downtown after awhile, so I didn't really use it for anything besides uber hoods. But that's really interesting, it reminds me of that Radiance lighting system mod from MTS2.