Apartment Life - A question about Buy Mode and apartments

[strangetomato]

I'm back with another issue and question. It's about the buy mode with apartments. I know you can't normally place items in the common areas of an apartment complex, but is there a way to access this area so you can select and delete items? I looked up cheat codes, but I don't think any of the ones I found enable this (I thought boolProp AptBaseLotSpecificToolsDisabled true/false would do it, but I still couldn't delete anything in the common areas).






As you ACR fans will notice right away, my problem is the adjuster. Not thinking, I spawned it from a sim that was standing there by the garbage can, and now I can't select it to delete it. Is there anything I can do? I really don't want this stack of phonebooks in my shot, even though it could probably just pass for recycling (but people will KNOW it's the ACR adjuster - it's the principle of the thing).

I switched out the old plasticbox apartment complex I was using in Strangetown for this new seedy one that comes in the apartment bin. I think it works pretty well for Strangetown - having it up on supports like that fits in with all the other unusual architectural details in the town. It's a continuity error, but I'm not overly worried. At least I didn't switch out the sim actor who plays Ripp and not even mention it. :P Wouldn't it be funny if it was suddenly just some face template one guy with the same colouring. Man, that would have been a funny gag if I didn't just blow it.

The spoiler here is minimal... or is it? You can pick up a lot of info in this pic if you approach it like a Where's Waldo page.




 

Comments

[zepheera.livejournal.com]

It's the following:

changelotzoning [residential | community | apartmentbase]

What you have to do is change the lot zoning to residential,

changelotzoning residential

Leave the lot and re-enter, then delete/build anything you want built, and then enter the cheat again as:

changelotzoning apartmentbase

Exit the lot and reenter again.

[orikes13.livejournal.com]

I think there is a cheat to be able to mess around in the communal area on an apartment lot, but I haven't had a chance to play and need it yet. Snooty Sims has an apartment building tutorial that might include it. They're pretty good about posting all the major cheats pretty quickly.

[music-simbol.livejournal.com]

With the ACR adjuster, I think you can just click it again, go thru the menu and delete it that way. I've never had to delete it by actually selecting it in buy mode. I think it's under the "Adjuster" menu. :)

[cindyanne1.livejournal.com]

If all you're needing to do is delete one item, you can enable boolprop testincheats, shift-click on it, select "force error" and then "delete." This will work for any object (I got rid of a lot of annoying shrubs in the Maxis apartments this way!)

But the adjuster has an option on it to delete it if you just click on it, I think, like music_simbol already said. :P

[showercapfrog.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... why would Patrick be visiting Bella Goth? I wonder...

*scans picture for more spoilers*

[simgarooop.livejournal.com]

I've barely begun playing with apartments, so I still don't know how they work. Though I wish it'd be possible to delete stuff in the common area with moveobjects on.

*Scans picture* Hmmm... the only spoiler I could see there is the garden on the left. Is Ophelia moving to the apartment complex in the near future? Other than that there's Bella, but she's been Pascal's patient for a long time.

[abbycat900.livejournal.com]

WALDO IS ON THE LEFT, IN A SKUNK COSTUME.

[lovelysims.livejournal.com]

I like the stack of phonebooks there. It feels like when I was younger and they used to just drop a stack of phonebooks on my front porch all the time.