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hpzgreenblock
Seasoned Adventurer
6 months ago

English splash screen has a visual glitch

The English logo has a glitch not present in any of the other languages. There are two effects applied to it:

• a heavy "drop shadow" that creates a big dark blur in the shape of the logo at a set offset;
• a small "outer shadow" that creates a small blur directly around the red edges.

This outer  shadow effect is glitched. The transparency didn't render, creating second white outline around the red shape:

The outer shadow is present in other languages and was correctly rendered on their respective splash screens:

It's a minor issue, but since it's simply a bmp file it is also really easy to fix :)

3 Replies

  • joaozinho-jpeg's avatar
    joaozinho-jpeg
    Seasoned Scout
    6 months ago

    I think EA could have done much better with the game's interface. I believe the least they could have delivered for us, fans of the franchise, is a 'remastering' of the game's entire UI. It's quite frustrating to play and see an exploded interface with extremely visible and sharp pixel jaggies. I hope (sometimes dreaming is good) they will improve this in future updates.

  • hpzgreenblock's avatar
    hpzgreenblock
    Seasoned Adventurer
    5 months ago

    I've realized EA will keep the glitchy splash screen up, so I went and remade it myself.

    For the ones who want to use it, just download the image below and replace the setup.bmp file inside The Sims Legacy Collection\UIGraphics\Logos

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