"Finger grooves" glitch in male Dine Out vest fixed (by my husband)
The "ym Top_GP03Vest" from the Dine Out game pack has been glitched since the pack first came out. It causes the appearance of weird grooves on the front and back of both hands. My husband recently figured out what the problem was and fixed it.
The fixed vest is available for download on my simlit story website here: https://glaciersnowsimlit.weebly.com/mods-and-custom-content.html
Just scroll down until you see "Therillion's fix for glitched Dine Out vest" and open the drop down box for the link to download.
If you'd like to fix it yourself, here's the info:
Images - The glitch
Images - What was wrong and how he fixed it.
Images - After the fix
This glitch was reported on the EA Answers bug report forum here a while ago. I'll post this explanation of how to fix it there as soon as I figure out how to upload pictures to that forum to show the problem and the fix.
The fixed vest is available for download on my simlit story website here: https://glaciersnowsimlit.weebly.com/mods-and-custom-content.html
Just scroll down until you see "Therillion's fix for glitched Dine Out vest" and open the drop down box for the link to download.
If you'd like to fix it yourself, here's the info:
Images - The glitch
Spoiler
This is the vest with the glitch. "ym Top_GP03Vest" from the Dine Out pack.
https://i.postimg.cc/wMhxBkzx/001-The-vest.jpg
The glitch affects both hands.
https://i.postimg.cc/T322Rm4G/002-Glitches.jpg
Front and back.
https://i.postimg.cc/9QxmzM69/003-Glitches.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/MGvWBwwF/005-Glitches.jpg
This is the vest with the glitch. "ym Top_GP03Vest" from the Dine Out pack.
https://i.postimg.cc/wMhxBkzx/001-The-vest.jpg
The glitch affects both hands.
https://i.postimg.cc/T322Rm4G/002-Glitches.jpg
Front and back.
https://i.postimg.cc/9QxmzM69/003-Glitches.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/MGvWBwwF/005-Glitches.jpg
Images - What was wrong and how he fixed it.
Spoiler
The normal map was not aligned with the UV map. As you can see in this screenshot where he overlayed them both in Blender 3D, the UV map is at the top of the square and the normal map is at the bottom of the square. The cuffs of the sleeves in the normal map just happens to overlap the hands in the UV map, causing the grooves on the sim.
https://i.postimg.cc/B6F4hCX5/01-Original-Normals.jpg
To fix it, he simply moved the normal map up to the top of the square so that it aligns properly with the UV map.
https://i.postimg.cc/qqd0WC3P/02-Fixed-Normals.jpg
There were also a couple places on the vest itself where the same issue was causing misaligned shadows in the cloth, but these were a lot harder to notice. The grooves on the hands were much more obvious. But this fix fixes all the misalignment issues.
The normal map was not aligned with the UV map. As you can see in this screenshot where he overlayed them both in Blender 3D, the UV map is at the top of the square and the normal map is at the bottom of the square. The cuffs of the sleeves in the normal map just happens to overlap the hands in the UV map, causing the grooves on the sim.
https://i.postimg.cc/B6F4hCX5/01-Original-Normals.jpg
To fix it, he simply moved the normal map up to the top of the square so that it aligns properly with the UV map.
https://i.postimg.cc/qqd0WC3P/02-Fixed-Normals.jpg
There were also a couple places on the vest itself where the same issue was causing misaligned shadows in the cloth, but these were a lot harder to notice. The grooves on the hands were much more obvious. But this fix fixes all the misalignment issues.
Images - After the fix
Spoiler
With the two maps properly aligned, all the grooves go away.
https://i.postimg.cc/4NPZFyN0/006-Fixed.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/0yNxgvzy/007-Fixed.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/L80S2WPB/008-Fixed.jpg
With the two maps properly aligned, all the grooves go away.
https://i.postimg.cc/4NPZFyN0/006-Fixed.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/0yNxgvzy/007-Fixed.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/L80S2WPB/008-Fixed.jpg
This glitch was reported on the EA Answers bug report forum here a while ago. I'll post this explanation of how to fix it there as soon as I figure out how to upload pictures to that forum to show the problem and the fix.
