Of course!

At the very least, I tell what "fun" can be had on the lot, so sims will know what to expect when they visit.
(...and so I don't forget what I put in there.)

Most of the time, I will write a very short description, but I try harder when it comes to naming some of them.

Having a lot of bars and coffee spots, I find it easier

Examples

The Bohemian Cafe has a lot of paintings and some statues in the garden for sims to view (Bohemians are into arts and crafts) and decorated with the extracted pottery.
The Gardener's Cafe sells, apart from coffee, the seeds for Lamare's mod (and has a nice garden)
The Reading Cafe has books for Sims who like films and literature
The Pool Champs is the bar with 4 pool tables, and it is the only activity apart from eating or drinking.
Any bar with a BBQ gets a Grill at the end.
The Sport Bar is called The World Cup.

Of course, some days, I just don't get inspired, so lots may be named Restaurant 1, Restaurant 2, Bar 5 or Coffee 9.
Until I (hopefully) think of a name or remember to rename it

What's the easiest way to fix this aside from turning off shadows in-game?

Assuming it's a mirrored CC item - Export shadow texture, mirror image, import with DXT5, change to "ExtRaw8bit", commit, save --> solved?

Alternatively mirror the shadow mesh (if the mirrored item borrows shadow textures form the original, this is probably the best way around). It's possible some slight adjustments are needed for the mesh in relation to the item.

I think this has fixed the shadows. I know I did, but unsure where I had shared it.

But the simplest way to fix would be mirror the southwallshadow part of the mesh. No reason to mess with the texture or mapping as mirroring retains all mapping.

thank you both!

Another question: How do you force a family portrait to refresh? Two household members moved, but they're still in the portrait after loading the lot and saving again.

Is that okay if CAS screen has super duper hug bug?
For example I can seal a family in those CAS lot and if it is safe they woud have hug each other on the background and provide very friendly vibes

It certainly sounds like a glitch . I'd try playing the family for a few Sim minutes. If that doesn't work I'd try taking one of them to the mirror and changing their appearance. You can always change it back again if you don't want their appearance changed. I can't think what else to try if neither of those work, though quitting the game and restarting it shouldn’t do any harm.

I believe you can remove the Super Duper Hug bug by downloading and installing Black_Spirit's LBFRemovesocial.zip, which available as the first downloadable file on the download page of Black_Spirit's Deadly Neck Bite. You don't have to download the Deadly Neck Bite itself. If you know my playstyle at all, you'll know it's about the last thing I'd want in my game. (I love my Sims and want them all to stay alive!)

I don't think I understand the second part of your post. Do you have a mod that lets your Sims visit (or even live in) the CAS lot? Or do you just want your Sims to hug each other while they're still in CAS? I don't think the latter will be possible.

You just have not ever met such a stupid person like me for years. But actual CAS is a game lot and yeah it has all its abilities. Not you gonna see most of those like daylight or weather, but it supports most abilities.

I watched one youtube video where a player decided to explore the cas lot limits - made sims to live there, put cas spot on fire or place into water... that was pushed myself to those absolutely stupid question

Chris Hatch made a fix for the SDHB ages ago, see this thread:

https://modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=646976

And it works too, so the hug bug should not be a problem any longer.

Well... it is thread for stupid questions, right? so my question came up even too stupid so you all rushed to help me.
I know about those tool thank you. I recently posted CAS and YACAS which both were cured with those.

I asked adout to have advantage of those bug at least in CAS room. But I see no one will torture their game that much to make sims to happen is CAS background.

Nevermind. I won't do this too anyways. And I don't know why I even asked this.

If you do have the super hug bug in your game, I'm pretty sure you'll still have it in a CAS-lot-made-playable. But really, it is a bug, and I'm sure we're better off without it. What I think you really want is a super hug mod, which can easily be turned on and off. I think that would be fairly easy for a competent modder to make.

@Victor_tor You have SDH in one of your custom CAS? Definitely fix it if it's one of your uploads, if it's someone else's then tell them.

I managed to get right portrait by loading the household a few more times (thankfully it not crash anymore, i love memory uncapper)

Fixed myself and shared already. I can't wait and disturb someone in cases I can fix myself.

I only want to hug myself.

I have now posted pictures of the Hair Stylists that spawned in my Bluewater Baths and Salon in the Male Sims picture thread here.

We do not speak of the Super Duper Hug Bug. I got that once from God-knows-what, and spent some time trying to figure out how to get rid of it.

Yes, we do!
I have the bug in my main game - I never see it because it has been squashed, but I know it is there, because new-built lots get the big warning when I put them into my testing save.

New neighbourhoods in that main save folder have the bug too, but a whole newly-generated save-file does not.

So I wonder: if I move an established hood to a new save, and spend the time (probably hours) waiting for Chris's fix to repair each lot, can I then have a hugbug-free neighbourhood? Or is it a case of turning a bug-free TS2 folder into my main game, and starting brand new hoods? Can Chris's fix repair infected lots that are occupied?

So far, I just keep playing my infected-but-squashed game, and put up with the cleaning process when I want to save a lot for potential sharing. But I keep wondering whether it would be worth eliminating the bug properly.

I have never experienced this fabled bug because I rarely download modded objects. Does one have several objects of GUID 0x6DB7E00F (*Social Download Test) on the lot that can be deleted, or are they still named as the original thing that they were before reverting?

I don't know about occupied lots, @aelfleid - I only downloaded 3 lots which had the bug. I always put lots I download in a test hood first, and the message popped up immediately - I did wait quite a number of minutes before it was repaired!

I am not sure it can clean occupied lots - perhaps somebody who knows a lot more than I can answer that.

However, I think that long process of cleaning empty lots in a new hood could work - I can't see why it shouldl not?

If I remember correctly, NoSimLoaded also suppresses the bug, so that it does not pop up all that much. So if one just wants to play, that should be adequate, but if you want to share anything, then it probably isn't.

1) Download and install the SDH bug fix. https://simfileshare.net/download/1797692/
2) Play the game.
3) Each time you enter an infected lot- community or residential, occupied or unoccupied, owned or otherwise, the SDH fix will pop up a message telling you it's removed the bug. Click OK. If you have more than one pop-up, it just means that there was more than one instance of the SDH object on the lot.
4) When the pop-ups stop, SAVE THE LOT. And the bug is gone.
5) If you encounter the lot when your sim visits a community lot, send the sim home and enter that lot in build mode, click ok on the messages and then save that lot. Otherwise the bug will show up each time you take a sim there since you can't save community lots (unless you are the owner).

Yes, it works on occupied lots. It affects the lots, not the sim or the neighbourhood.