You also need to enable shaders to see fish (or use this mod: https://modthesims.info/d/481859/fi...out-shader.html ) - shaders aren't always enabled by default, even if the computer can handle them.

Same! I had no idea they were there before getting a computer with a good graphics card.

I've always been able to see the fish, just not the bottom.

I didn't see fish anywhere ingame on my oldest laptop (but I'm reasonably sure enabling shaders would've made that thing blow up or something...)

I've had shaders enabled ingame on all my newer computers. The game is playable without, but it looks a lot nicer with them (most of the time - a few things can be a bit annoying, like badly adjusted materials and bad bumpmaps).

Is there anything that's responsible for determining where around the DJ booths Sims will dance? My test Sims seem to have an insistence on trying to dance in the narrow and inconvenient space BEHIND the DJ booth, rather than on the huge, brightly-lit, and open dance floor in FRONT of it...

It is probably a global routing slot, which starts in front but can try all around the object. It can happen that if there are unusual walls touching the object or an uneven floor that a person considers the front blocked.

I believe Pescado has something that makes sims dance in specific places called the dance positioner, although I think it's mainly for making sims do the smustle in an orderly grid formation. It's not in the director's cut, I think it was never officially released, so it's in one of his other folders.

I've played around with all sorts of configurations (including leaving plenty of completely empty space on all sides) and so far the best I've been able find to ensure Sims won't go 'backstage' as it were, is to put the AL edging on the spaces behind the DJ booth so there isn't enough space to dance there... Sims will still try, stomp their feet once, and then dance on the ACTUAL DANCE FLOOR like they're SUPPOSED to... the first Sim to dance just insists on standing about a quarter-inch from the front of the DJ booth now, I'm sure just to spite me personally

I don't care where they dance anymore I used to, but am now quite happy to see them just having fun (some of them sometimes need to have a bit of fun)

I use Pescado's dance positioner plus an invisible fence and gate. I tried a mod but they still came around the back.
https://modthesims.info/d/179868/in...te-request.html for the gate and fence.

I can't find the dance positioner, would be on MATY somewhere.

Once in a while when I visit a house I'm playing, the pixel will have the effects of using perfume floating around them. It fades after a while but I wonder why it happens at all?

They don't use perfume at all, nor do they buy any. Just puzzling why this happens.

It's in the test folder:
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/al/test/

It seems to me that Sims start dancing wherever they are when the impulse to dance strikes them! If you have a Sim selected, and click on the DJ booth and then select "Dance solo", then they usually start dancing wherever they happen to be. If you want them to dance near the DJ booth, you have to ask them to "Go here" first.

As for non-selected Sims . . . When I was playing the restaurant that I built for Justpetro's contest (click on "Show/Hide spoiler about Required Pictures" to see the floor-plan.), they seemed to dance as far away from the DJ booth as they could get. Often they danced near the podium, getting in the way of would-be diners waiting for a table. They seemed to especially avoid dancing on the coloured glass dance-floor tiles I had provided, as if they thought they were hot bricks.

On the other hand, this arrangement at PaintBoyz (Downtown Veronaville's club for boys who like boys) seems to work quite well:

Usually a small group of boys will gather and dance in front of, and slightly to the side of the DJ desk. I suppose the position of the small bar behind the DJ, makes it hard to squeeze in to dance behind the booth. If I do spot a boy in that gap, he's more likely trying to attract the bartender's attention than trying to dance.

Cyjon has a hack for this: http://cyjon.net/node/182

(I don't use it because I find sidewalk/bathroom smustles amusing.)

No wonder I couldn't find it, I looked in the AL list and Google couldn't find it either.

I've never much used the 45 degree angle cheat. Can anyone me, will this proposed arrangement for a TV room actually work?

You'll probably need this mod: https://modthesims.info/d/462269/wa...all-chairs.html

Thanks Bulbizarre!

I've had that mod for a few years now, so I should be OK. I see the pictures in Mog's post, not only show Sims sitting on chairs at 45 degrees, but also the TV itself at 45 degrees, so my arrangement (in the house I'm building for the Stewarts in @Justpetro 's contest) should work OK.

One oddity I noticed recently with that mod. One of my Sims claimed he was watching TV, even though he was sitting in a chair that was both behind the TV and facing away from it. I reckon he probably was listening to the TV, even though he couldn't see it. That's something I often used to do myself. Sometimes I was listening in another room. (My family used to keep the TV volume very loud!) I would only actually come through to watch, if I heard something really interesting come on.

Yeah, I have Sims face away from the TV too. Put the higher-comfort chairs in front of TVs and I think Sims will favour them instead of others.