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Showing Off Different Fences + Our Fence Placement Tool!

🕑 Added 2024-03-08 13:59:10 +0000 UTC

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Vari_Ares

I like this !!! <3

Kieran

I love how they bounce when drawn that's a cute detail I really like

Anatasia

I think the stair railing post and the fence post need to be merged into one when placing. Anyone feel the same?

Cel Riegle

Hey there Paralives team! I’ve got a suggestion for the cas buttons! Maybe you could put in a prescription glasses button so glasses aren’t accessories only, like in the game that shall not be named. And maybe you could make buttons for sexuality and gender too! Let me know if you like my idea!

Elli_TheWhalien3791

I am loving the progress so far ❤️ Circle fences isn’t an immediate must, knowing that there is a possibility of them arriving in the future is enough 😊

dcknx

I wondered about this too, as I really like that iron and brick fence actually. From looking at the picture, my guess would be that it's a style of a fence that automatically alternates pillars and fence segments, given how it meets the other solid brick fence type

Lucie Baha

Maryathesecond. But it's a good thing and they're doing their best.

Lucie Baha

They plan to improve shading in the future - it's mentioned on the roadmap.

merrick

A question, How will the placement of pillars work? As in, in the example for brick fences, the example on the left has wrought iron bars followed by a solid brick pillar and it repeats in a pattern. Is this a style of fence where the pillar placement is predetermined, or is it by using a combination of different fences?

Panthro Samah

I believe it's because they didn't developed the roof tool yet.

andrea agnoletto

HI, I have a little "criticism"to make, that is, when you show the interiors, the furniture and parafolk emit shadows that follow the sunlight, as if there were never a roof. Is it something done on purpose or is it something you've never noticed? because in my opinion it's not beautiful, it would be nice to have softer lights, or even when there is no light and no window to see the room totally dark, or it would be beautiful to see a room without lights and with only windows that let the sun's rays enter the room from the windows

Madison Deitch

A living fence!!!! Like the vines that are grown and woven into a fence

Raina Amorim

great fences!!

Maxx

Agreed! Auto-placement is nice but there should be an option to choose it, maybe by holding down ctrl whilst dragging the fence section?

Maryathesecond

I dont think that something as basic as matching swatches should be be counted as spoiling us, it should be bareminimum 😑 Not that I can blame anyone on feeling so atm 😥

Kelcie Voelkl

Matching swatches for stair railing and fences? 😭😭😭 Wow we're going to be spoiled

Panthro Samah

Hi, Chloe! Very cool designs! But I was thinking... Will fences have the same user interface as objects so you can change their height?

Sehrys

i frickin love the lil animation when you place the fence down, it does a lil wiggly bounce, hehe :3

Renikee

Only thing I don't want is the pillars changing places when making the fences longer. It's super annoying in the Sims 4 when they randomly change places and ruining its looks. I want complete control over those pillars.

Nathalie Carluccio

Awesome

Melina W

i would love a fence option that looked a little weathered, maybe an old stone wall with moss growing in between the rocks etc and maybe one that's all glass for more modern builds. privacy screens that have vines or something similar growing on them could be pretty too i really like the fences shown in this post, a lot of different styles so there's something for any house!

r m

Amazing! I love that :)

r m

That's true it's possible it could be limited to use on the standard wall type but hopefully not! I love ivy

Alex Massé

Right now it snaps to 0, 45, 90, 135 and 180. Could be nice to have a setting that changes that!

theo

That looks amazing! So smooth.

TnT_Terry

Great job thus far, and love that we will have matching ones to stair rails. How about something like this: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8WQ8AAlcBas53/MIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Or this: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8WQ8AAlcBas53/MIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= or this: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8WQ8AAlcBas53/MIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= or this: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8WQ8AAlcBas53/MIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= or this: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8WQ8AAlcBas53/MIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= or this: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8WQ8AAlcBas53/MIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= or this: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8WQ8AAlcBas53/MIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= or this: data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8WQ8AAlcBas53/MIAAAAASUVORK5CYII= Would love to see these and any other's you can come up with :)

Megan Santucci

I love that the fence tool shows the angle; would it be possible to have an angle snap feature? Maybe one we can customize so we have options for 90°, 45°, etc.

Kiiiwiii

I completely understand! Thank you for the answer to my question :) The fences look incredible and you are all doing such a wonderful job with this game!

ladyteruki

@Alex Massé Oh that's pretty cool, that allows for nice variations in the way you draw your fences ! Including in a straight line ! Ah well, it was worth asking XD I suppose this kind of Frankenstein mod would not be as hard as coming up with an entirely unique new fence. I certainly don't have the skills for that, but you know XD @r m Oh you're right, now that you mention it I seem to remember ivy indeed ! I don't know if we'll be able to place it freely and/or on fences yet, but it's certainly something to keep in mind.

FinFan 83

Oh, fences with possibility to connect them at the angle ! Will be so useful for sure ! Really nice of forms even now too, we have rural, neutral, noble and urban ones ! To each their own !

Alex Massé

Thank you! The grass will not be placable and will automatically appear like that on the terrain

Alex Massé

Correct, the pillar from point B would remain in place! It's not possible to mix and match pillars and fences unfortunately but it's true that the modding tools would allow you to do that somewhat easily!

Alex Massé

Fences with decorations would be cute! It's possible that we add some in the future About the corner poll, they are automatically placed at the ends and connection points between fences We won't have gates for fences at launch but it would be great to add them later on!

Alex Massé

We plan on adding spiral staircases in the future! It's true that a curved balcony won't be able to have fences, for now

Alex Massé

Thank you! We might fix this in the future but we will keep it like that for now because it's a technical challenge and we prefer to make progress on other features before the release

Alex Massé

This is a bit tricky to fix but hopefully we can work on that in the future!

Alex Massé

Thanks for the feedback! It's a bit tricky on the technical side to make them connect but maybe we can improve that in the future!

Alex Massé

Thanks a lot for the feedback and good suggestions! 1 - Privacy screens are a variety of fence 2 - Yes, fences are recolorable 3 - It is one variety 4 - It is possible at the moment but we are still looking into to see if it causes issues in the build mode or if it works well! 5 - If the previous point works, it will be possible yet! 6 - That would be really cute! Not planned for now though but maybe in the future! 7 - Holes in the fence are not planned but maybe we can consider them in the future because that would be fun!

Alex Massé

That would be great!

r m

I love the grass in the close ups. Are those going to be placable items? Or will the grass always have some dimensionality like that? It's such a nice detail that adds a lot of realism.

r m

I think they showed ivy before on a house exterior! I agree that it will look great layered over the privacy screens.

r m

Yes! A smaller hedge that works as a fence, or an overgrown fence with plants woven around the bars would look great!

ladyteruki

That's pretty cool. The privacy screens look nice and not bulky, it could look very nice if we have ivy and other similar plants like that. It's even possible that for some build I could use the privacy screen inside, in fact ! Quick question. Is it right to conclude that if I draw a fence from point A to point B, stop, then draw a fence from point B to point C, the pillar at point B will remain in place ? Also, are pillars always connected to the same fence, or can you select them independently ? Say, I like the brick pillar from the zigzag gif, but I want a more moddern fence like the last one : can I use those ingame, or will I need a mod that combines them ?

Michelle Koleva

Oh, My! Everything is SOOOOOO beautiful! And these chairs... not sure how you call them in English...the white beach-like ones... You are warming my heart with a nostalgic memory. We had one in my husband's yard in our home country! I loved to rest on it! Thank you! (we call them шезлонг...is it a deck chair or sunbed in ENG?) ❤️

Jean321x .

I was wondering if you guys plan on having fencing with some decorations. Such as flowers on the fences os so on. I also noticed in the last picture, there is a 'corner' poll forming in the middle of the fence. How are the fences set to generate these polls? Is it at the end of each 'drag of fence' or is there a way we can control how these generate? I noticed you have not shown any gates for the fences, any particular reason?

mintyKHat

Looks like great progress!

k i a r a 🫧

loving the fences😊 i hope you guys can add some fences with lanterns or maybe string lights in the future 👍🏾 anywho looking forward to next week post!

BonaparteBardithion .

Stair railings look like they're on a slightly different system. So, they may not be subject to the same challenges. I'm more concerned it means we can't put a rail (as opposed to half wall) on a curved balcony. Though I suppose that's not a super common feature in most houses.

BJ Harris

Does no curved fencing confirm no spiral stairs? 🥲

Sammy Clark

Yes I cannot wait to make a playground with the chain link fence!

Melissa van Wieringen

Ohhhh I'd love to see some fences to use on a farm/cottagecore. Google says it's called chestnut fence in English!

Angela

High fences make great neighbours! Loving the fence tool so far! Chain lihk fences are the most common ones I see around here Looking forward to seeing it!

Kiiiwiii

Looks absolutely amazing! A question though. Could we have the fence connect to the railing? So it's not 2 seperate posts? :)

BreakingGaia

One thing. The fence and the stairs rail don't meet. Is that something that will be changed? It looks weird to have two posts at the top.

BreakingGaia

Wow. I baffles me how I get excited just to see something that looks very normal. Thanks for making fences that look like real things I would see walking around.

Selma Elise Sortland

I also commented this earlier, so fun that we both thought of this 😍

Anna

I think wrought iron fences would be neat too! I love the wooden panels they've shown too :)

Fran Smith

I love that most of the stuff you guys do is everyday stuff that people actually see and use in their every day lives, rather than weird stuff that is just not that common. We can build houses that actually look like our own houses, instead of making do with all the weird stuff in that other game. These look so versatile and great!! With the chain wire fences, could we have both the diamond shape (very popular in Australia) and the square shape, also chicken wire fence (smaller hexagon shape). :-)

Azure Alden

The fences look great! One little nitpicky thing I’d like to suggest is having the stair railings and the fence connect, so there isn’t two separate ends - I’m sure that’s something you’ve already looked at but just in case! Doing a great job tho, I loveee these updates :)

Tereza Restrepo García

I like so much that there's a good variety in the ones you created. Great work. Keep going👍.

Dominique Kurtz

I love the white farm looking fences. It would be cool to have some barbed wire fencing for an alternative option if your trying to make the area look more grunge or used and not so dream cottage core farm. Or the like hand stone built walls that are are used in Scotland and Ireland a lot. I'm not sure what those are called. I also agree with the others of having a variance with a dilapidated look.

Zedef

Fences are generally used to mark borders and borders are rarely curved, so I'm good with no curved fences! Really like the look of these fences, plenty of variety and they look like fences I could spot in RL and/or wouldn't mind in my yard. Looking forward to seeing more fence and door/gate options in the future! The placing the fence animation is really cute, by the way. A few questions: - Are privacy screens (as shown in this post) decor items or a variety of fences? - Are fences recolorable? - Is the brick and metal 'fence' as shown in this post 1 variety or two combined? - Is it possible to add decorations to fences, like hang paintings or flower pots etc on them? - Is it possible to add light fixtures to fences to illuminate the yard? - Can we add a cat/dog door or flap to a fence or gate? Possibly with a locking/chip mechanish so it only works for your pets or a cheaper version and then random pets can show up. - Can we have the option to make holes in the fence (either as decoration or functional) for nosy neighbors and/or dogs to look through? Suggestions for future varieties: - Galvanized steel fences - Concrete post with wooden panels in between per 1 piece of fence, not just concrete posts at the end/beginning (these are very popular in my country) - Wooden fences with the panels either horizontally or vertically - Different heights of wood-paneled fences, like 1 m, 1,5m and 2 m - Thin metal wire 'boxes' with rocks/pebbles inside of them (either with pre-made wire 'box' or to draw them yourself and have your para fill them with rocks/pebbles) - Cat-proof fences and/or cat-proof add-ons to fences like the rolling mechanisms or the rubber/metal pointy things (that are rarely effective)?

Pernille Hjerpseth

Im loving these so far! A fence type id really like to see in game one day is what we call "skigard" in norwegian, or i think roundpole fence is the translation for it. Theyre so great for cottage vibes! And for farms like their vegetable gardens and such!

Vera Ohlsen

A log fence?!?! That is so cool! You Norwegians are so fancy, I've never seen anything with diagonal logs before.

Vera Ohlsen

A "living fence" would be cute, although that one might be under plants. ... Also, sorry if I post too much, I don't usually use the mobile site and I got confused about the enter button.

Vera Ohlsen

I am hoping we get "broken" variants for those run-down places. Rusty metal, crooked boards, bent bars.

Court12413

I hope we can have a dingy version that's bent with holes and stuff as well as a nice version

Vera Ohlsen

Chain link would be good for grungy city builds.

Tee W

These look amazing. I can't wait to play with the fences.

Mia

Curved fences is the least of my concerns, didn’t even pop in my mind. This looks great! Keep up the work and happy Friday to you all 🥰

Selma Elise Sortland

I don't know the proper english name for them, but I would love a "skigard" as it's called in norwegian. If you search it up you will see a very cute homemade fence, perfect for cottages and rural areas.

Megan Runels

The fences are looking great! I love that you can click a wall and change it to a fence! I am so excited for this game!

Court12413

I'm excited for chain link oddly enough. No one ever has them and it would fit perfectly if I built my childhood home

Alex Massé

Thank you! That's true, good point!

GazerGuy

Loving that fences can match stairs! Coordination makes building all the more satisfying.

SimMattically

Not being able to create a curved fence is not a big deal to me because we are free from the grid and can place fences at any angle. 😆 All of it looks really good, guys!