After Starting New Game with Latest Update (SOLVED)

Steven I'm sad to see you go and it's unfortunate what's been happening with your objects and the game. Is this something just happening in your game or are your objects being effected like this in others as well? I'm just curious to see if we can help you with a solution to this problem. :(

Hi stevenssimsstuff, this should definitely not be happening because the latest patches are all backwards compatible...meaning that things you made before should still show up correctly in a patched game. Can you post a couple example items that illustrate the problem you've discovered?

Hi stevenssimstuff, I cannot hear the audio on the vid for some reason, but I'm assuming all these changes are changes which occurred after the most recent patch. I've taken a look at the FoosBall table and in my game, it's doing the same thing. I took a look at the .package, and the problem is explained by the fact that the bump does not match the item's map. Here is the diffuse image in Studio, it is 1024 x 512:



Here is the bump in Studio, it is 1024 x 256:



You have the item mapped to fit a 1024 x 512 image but in the game, this map is also being applied to the 1024 x 256 bump causing the bump to become distorted and to show on parts of the item where it doesn't fit.  Because Studio does not composite the images in the model viewer, you will not see the problem in Studio...you can see it if you apply the bump to the mesh in Blender, however.  Here is your map applied to this bump in Blender:



I've put a white rectangle around the area that shows up on those circle-shaped things inside the foosball table on EA's  mesh, but that are showing up on the sides of your table in the game.  Your item has the side of the foosball table mapped there so in Blender, and in the game, these circles show up, elongated and on the exterior surface of the side of the table:



I cannot explain why this bump/map mismatch did not show up previous to the latest patch...all I can say is that it *is* showing up now.  The way to fix it would be to take the existing bump and paste it at the top of a blank 1024 x 512 image and import that into the .package to overwrite the existing bump that doesn't match your map.  I would have to take a look at the other items that are showing changes to see what the issue is with them.  I'd be happy to take a look at any you want to send.

My guess is EA made some global change to the game that altered how things are being rendered and that this change has increased sensitivity to the rendering of the bump.  In the past, it was noted by several people, myself included, that the game was not very sensitive to the bump on some objects and, indeed, some objects didn't seem to show the bump at all.  It's possible that EA is fixing this and that this fix is manifested as bumps that didn't show up before all the sudden showing up. 

They have said they plan to fix the in-game indoor lighting so that the rug shader, which currently does not show a bump at all indoors, will show a bump properly.  When that fix goes in, there are going to be rugs all over the community that have the same issue as this FoosBall table does.  

That is Exactly what i did...never even gave the Bump a second thought...Ha!  God, i feel Horrible about these files in anyone's Game now! 

Remember when all we had to worry about was the RLES?  i miss those times, really miss them now...hahaha!

You can see the difference in Clothing now too - i just noticed that this am....with someone elses' Creations from way back. 


i always thought of the Bump as something that controlled the shiny-ness of an object, an extra Layer of BLAH....never gave it much thought, the Scary part is how many others did the same? 

The bump is an image that adds to the illusion that a 2D texture is three dimensional. It uses a grey-scale image to do this. Shininess in Sims 4, both for objects and for CAS comes from the specular image. In CAS the specular is a somewhat unique image type cooked up by EA - the .rles. This image is different than others in the game in that it is a 5 channel image. Objects don't use .rles for their specular which is kind of a shame...the .rles is a very powerful and cool image type.

Oh great so then all my stuffs broken then because I care not for bump and spec sizes : P