In The Sims 3, you may have noticed that light falls on everything except stairs, plants and fences. That is, from any light source that emits light, objects and the fence will not be illuminated. Is there any solution to the problem, or at least a mod? (I will send screenshots a little later)

The issue is that the Sims 3 lighting engine relies largely on shaders to determine how objects interact with lighting. As such, I believe that the stairs, plants and fences all have their own specific shaders that likely don't work properly now.

You can see how @simsi45 fixed this for some of the other objects by changing their shaders: https://modthesims.info/d/655529/ti...shader-fix.html

However, this may possibly be done for stairs and fences, since they use their own specific shaders (Stairs & Fence), but it can't be done for trees since they are Speedtree objects that are not easily editable in normal Sims 3 modding programs.

So this is something that has been bothering me for a while!

Before I made THIS mod, I attempted to make the fences light up. When changing their shaders they create issues (the most common is that when drawing with the fence tool the fence just glitches out and spreads out all over the place)

Now let's say that switching their shaders DID work, the fences would indeed light up when placed outside BUT they would look broken as smooth lighting isn't enabled in outdoor spaces. It's the same thing as placing counters outside, even though indoors the light flows smoothly outside it doesn't.

My only conclusion is that the only way to POSSIBLY fix these issues is to crack the shaders of the game. If that happens there is a possibility to edit how light travels outside, or even better edit the "Fence" and "Stair" shader itself to enable illumination outdoors. For plants I'm not so sure as they are quite tricky.

Wait, seriously? I didn't even know there were specific street lamps that cross the boundary.

I have an AMD video card

Is there a way to enable AO on an AMD video card?

How to recode?