Unfinished Walls/Floors Moodlet

[Tealeaf]

I decided to work on the ice furniture for my Glass House of Water project.  I plopped the house down in my new world, and filled it with 8 sims who are going to get awfully good at sculpting.  Right away I noticed they were getting the negative "Unfinished walls/floor" moodlet.  I should point out that the actual pool portions of the house are outside.    I did test it before I saved it to my library,  and I'm pretty certain my test sim didn't get the moodlet.

   I did some googling, and it seems there might be an issue with using the pool wall/floor inside.  I had been using them make the whole thing look like a giant pool, but I decided to replace the pool tile with paint and carpeting.  This did get rid of the moodlet.  I tried replacing the pool tile, and the moodlet came back.  I went back to the replacements, and everything was fine.

So, now my house is fully carpetted and painted, even the actual pool portions because I wanted everything to match (yep, this house has the super luxurous carpetted pool feature all sims appreciate so much).  But I would rather have the  original pool tile I used.  Has anyone encountered this issue, or have any ideas on how to resolve it and keep the pool tile?

[cathyknits]

Recolor the carpet to use the pool tile pattern? You should be able to do this in Create A Style - either the pattern will be available, or you should be able to build a pool, edit it in Create A Style, and drag the pattern onto your carpet.

[Tealeaf]

Interesting idea.  I'll give that a shot, thanks.

Edit: Ok, I've given this some thought, and I have some reservations.  I don't currently have the create a style tool and haven't ever used it.  Would using it this way, even to create a pattern EA already put in the game, count as a custom pattern?  I'm staying away from them, and going as close to Vanilla (flavored with World Adventures) as I can. 

The house doesn't look too bad the way I have it painted/carpetted now, so it isn't that big of a deal.

[cathyknits]

Not "Create A Pattern" - "Create A Style". You definitely have it - in Build or Buy mode, there's a little button on the controls (near the hand and the sledgehammer) that looks like a paint palette with a brush. That lets you change, say, your sim's shirt from stripes to plaid, or your floor tiles from wood to paisley. There are a lot of preloaded patterns, and it's pretty simple to copy a pattern from one item to another (so your whole dining set can match - or so that the "carpet" in your pool can still look like a pool tile).

Carl just added a tutorial on Create A Style to the guide, here.

[Tealeaf]

Ah, that thing.  Sorry for the confusion, I should have known what you meant, I use it very frequently.  Now that I think of on it, I might have very welll used the eyedropper  tool to pick up the pattern from the pool and used it instead of going to the tile section of create a style.  I'll certainly give you idea a try and report back. 

[Tealeaf]

Reporting back. 

    Putting up the "pool wall" under tiles gave the unfinished moodlet.   I found a wallpaper that I thought when recolored might approximate it , "wall with dado, border, chair rail, and baseboard moulding".  I did the whole house, and then recolored into tile.  The floor I did as "simple floor", recolored to match the walls.  Then, caught up with the whole event, I recolored the wooden furniture and bathroom fixtures to compliment the new decor.  Here's what I came with, when all is said and done:



I like it better now, and the moodlet is gone.  Thanks for the suggestion!

[cathyknits]

That looks really good!

[Tealeaf]

Thank you.  I'll be uploading it to the swap shop as soon as my squad of sculptors learn now to make things like a dining table and barstools for my ice furniture motif.  Might be a while, though.

[cathyknits]

...also, that's kind of odd that the "pool wall" pattern under Tile gave you the "Unfinished" moodlet. I did a whole house using recolors of that pattern without a problem.

[Tealeaf]

I thought it was odd too, perhaps it's a glitch in my game or something.  I've had the problem before when sims in a swimming pool got the moodlet, even though they were outside and it shouldn't have been a problem.  It's not exactly a game breaker or anything, but I didn't want to upload a house that even had a chance of being broken.

[Swirl-Girl]

There's a premade house made up completely of the pool tile wall covering but recolored, in every single room. made me laugh. Didn't have an unfinished moodlet though.