Hi, I cloned an invisible pool light and this invisible pool light looks good with light on. But When I turn this pool light off in pool and this pool light became visible. How do I fix this pool light to stay in invisible when it is turned off? :confused:

The update is that I found out that this invisible light became visible at daytime. How do I fix this light to stay in invisible when it is turned off or by daytime? :confused:

You could try posting your light here as an attchment and I can take a look, in case I could figure something out.

Here is this invisible pool light. I hope it can be fixed. If this light is successful to be fixed, I would like to know how is it being fixed.

It seems you have removed the material definition for the unlit state of the glass. You probably need to have that in the package, and have it made invisible also. The lit and unlit states have their own material definitions, and if you only change one of them invisible, the other one is still going to stay visible .

That's a problem I've had with any outdoor light. The unlit txmts and txtrs anen't included in the package. They're probably in one of the objects.package files located at C:\Program Files\EA GAMES\The Sims 2 or Ep\TSData\Res\3D.

When I tried cloning that lamp, I got the unlit materials just fine, though .

I did a test using the newest SimPE and selecting the cloning options starting from the top. I didn't get the unlit txmt until I selected the "Pull #STR-Linked Resourses" option so that's probably what you need to do.

That option should be left selected as a default, yes.

I did not remove the material definition for the unlit state of the glass. I selected the "Pull #STR-Linked Resourses" option and this time, unlit glass did not have any texture image to recolor again this time. Rather than explain some more words, I made few pictures here to explain clearly.

The first picture is that did I make right choices on these choices?

The second picture is that there are only two image textures and six definations. Unlit glass did not have any image to recolor. :confused:

The material definitions for the lit and unlit states share the same texture. Have you tried if it stays invisible now that you have the unlit TXMT included? I'm guessing that when it was not included in the package previously, in the unlit state the lamp defaulted back to the Maxis original. I recommend you try making it invisible again and see if it works now.

Thank for helping me with this problem. I updated my SimPE with family fun stuff. I finally made my invisible pool light to stay in invisible when it is turned on. I don't know what did I do to screw my pool light three or four times before. Either I screwed it up before or Updating SimPE did solve this invisible problem. Maybe not. I guess it will be a mystery to invisible problem. I uploaded it today. I am glad I got invisiblem problem fixed up. Thank you, eddief66 and IgrnorantBliss. :D