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Counter Dummies: Mock kitchen, island and commercial counters.

by Honeywell Posted 5th Aug 2011 at 8:50 PM - Updated 17th Oct 2011 at 8:02 PM by Honeywell
 
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Field Researcher
#26 Old 3rd Jul 2012 at 5:03 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Honeywell
You use them like you would any other counter...I'm not sure how else to explain it. The only thing you have to me mindful of is which direction the arrow is facing when you place them--it should be the same direction as your regular counters. I hope that helps, if not, describe how you're trying to use them and maybe I can give step by step instructions.

Good luck and thank you (and everyone else!) for the feedback.

This seems like such a wonderful idea! However, I too can't make heads or tails of how to use this!

So I bought one counter, namely the "Kampft Industries Value Counter" just to try it out, and I tried to use the green square, to see if I can make my dummy counter, but nothing happens. I tried placing the squares directly on the sides, them behind, and finally in front and nothing changes?

Then I tried it against the wall with a few counters, and it worked in some occasions but not others? Maybe I don't really understand it. But I love the idea! :P
Lab Assistant
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#27 Old 7th Jan 2013 at 12:16 PM
I've been wanting something to do this since forever. Thank You!
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#28 Old 30th Apr 2013 at 11:45 PM
Did you know: that these can be used with custom counters too? I don't know for sure if they can be used with ALL custom counters, but I used the kitchen one with Buggy's Shakerlicious counter.

Now that I know that, this download is even more useful to me.
Test Subject
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#29 Old 11th Jul 2014 at 9:21 PM
Thank you ! :)
Test Subject
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#30 Old 29th Aug 2014 at 2:26 PM
An FYI for my fellow idiots: the rotation of the dummies is very important! You need to ensure they are orientated the same way an actual counter would be. I used these with phoenix_phaerie's Manor House set, and it looks great!
Test Subject
#31 Old 22nd Jan 2022 at 8:02 AM
I really love these dummies and use them very often. Apparently too often, because, unfortunately, I am writing to report an error!
Island Counter Dummy on the lot makes bar on the lot glitch! When someone wants to order a drink, the action resets, the Sim and the bartender reset, and nothing else happens. And if you remove dummy then the bar works fine. I observed this behavior on commercial lots, but just now I thought I didn't try to reproduce this situation on a residential lot. I am attaching the error logs. (I play in Russian, so the names of the characters in the logs are in Russian).
When I was looking through the logs, I found that Commercial Counter Dummy also causes errors in my game, which I saw, but did not have time to figure out the reason yet. Sometimes on commercial lots I noticed cats stuck in the floor. Now I understand that this happened on those lots where there were Commercial Counter Dummies. The logs with this error include random items in addition to the dummy, but I tried deleting the entire contents of the download folder, and this did not prevent the error.
Is it strange that I'm the only one in all this time who stumbled upon these errors? As I said, I tried deleting the downloads folder (except the Dummies) and it didn't help. Please, can you look at these? Cause I don't understand any of it. I want to at least understand if this is something with my files, or am I not the only one?

(I posted it in the wrong thread at first, I'm so sorry. Maybe the first thing to fix is my attention)
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File Type: rar  Errors with Bars.rar (103.8 KB, 1 downloads)
File Type: rar  Errors with cats.rar (123.5 KB, 0 downloads)
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