Greetings.I have some few furniture CC, and one day I noticed that some of them (not all) had weird markings on the items that wasn't there before. It looked like the item had bumps and weird thick in depth lines, bottom line is that the item is not suppose to look like that, so yeah. What the cause of the texture going bonkers?

Hi @Zafireria it happened after the patch on May 17. These bumps are bumpmap texture (the one that is showing like bumps under the main texture) which is suppose to be the same size as main texture but some creators made it smaller in the past (this way of creating textures was working before). Probably EA has changed the way game processes (renders? sees?) CC items. I believe all creators have to redo their objects changing the size of bumpmap textures to match the sizes of main textures. Recently there was a discussion regarding this issue on Sims4Studio forum. You can read the explanation why did it happen here.

@Feyona Interesting. I noticed that some items went back to normal after I deleted the localthumbcache and spotlight even tho I always delete those when I add or remove CC of any kind. I had some eyelashes that was really weird but went back to normal after deleting those two, but then some of the items (that suffered from those bumps) got like much worse than before while others were fixed o.O

Fixing bump maps is super easy, but it's a long tedious process if the problem appears on a lot of items. I haven't really checked all my objects lately, but if I were you, I'd pick the ones I absolutely love and give up the rest.

"Zafireria;14868186" wrote:"Amiutza;14868162" wrote:Fixing bump maps is super easy, but it's a long tedious process if the problem appears on a lot of items. I haven't really checked all my objects lately, but if I were you, I'd pick the ones I absolutely love and give up the rest. Yeah that's what I always do. And I have the few items I love, but some of it has that stuff on =/ Its on my fav couch T.TEasily fixable, just get a blanc bump map and import it into sims4studio, done. I'm on mobile, but there's a lot of tutorials on how to do this, you just need to make sure it's the same size as the texture.

@Bananas_45 Oh thanks! Do you by any chance of some links to tutorials about fixing this issue using tray or something else?

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Feyona_t
9 years ago
Hi @Zafireria it happened after the patch on May 17. These bumps are bumpmap texture (the one that is showing like bumps under the main texture) which is suppose to be the same size as main texture but some creators made it smaller in the past (this way of creating textures was working before). Probably EA has changed the way game processes (renders? sees?) CC items. I believe all creators have to redo their objects changing the size of bumpmap textures to match the sizes of main textures. Recently there was a discussion regarding this issue on Sims4Studio forum. You can read the explanation why did it happen here.
Zafireria
9 years ago
@Feyona Interesting. I noticed that some items went back to normal after I deleted the localthumbcache and spotlight even tho I always delete those when I add or remove CC of any kind. I had some eyelashes that was really weird but went back to normal after deleting those two, but then some of the items (that suffered from those bumps) got like much worse than before while others were fixed o.O
Araquial
9 years ago
Fixing bump maps is super easy, but it's a long tedious process if the problem appears on a lot of items. I haven't really checked all my objects lately, but if I were you, I'd pick the ones I absolutely love and give up the rest.
Araquial
9 years ago
"Zafireria;14868186" wrote:
"Amiutza;14868162" wrote:
Fixing bump maps is super easy, but it's a long tedious process if the problem appears on a lot of items. I haven't really checked all my objects lately, but if I were you, I'd pick the ones I absolutely love and give up the rest.

Yeah that's what I always do. And I have the few items I love, but some of it has that stuff on =/ Its on my fav couch T.T

Easily fixable, just get a blanc bump map and import it into sims4studio, done. I'm on mobile, but there's a lot of tutorials on how to do this, you just need to make sure it's the same size as the texture.
Zafireria
9 years ago
@Bananas_45 Oh thanks! Do you by any chance of some links to tutorials about fixing this issue using tray or something else?
SimGuruModSquad
9 years ago
Hey guys took a look at this - specifically on SLIH-Contemporary Comfort Living-Super Comfy Loveseat-S3T4.

The artifacts are present as far back as v1.13 (released last December). The catalog instance for this item is at version 11, which was new for 1.13 so that implies the CC was authored for 1.13 (or later) which means the creator should have seen the issue. So that's a bit odd.

However, the issue does not appear with "Low" lighting quality, so perhaps the author was running with this setting and did not see the problem. Just a theory.

@Zafireria did you recently change your lighting quality setting?

-SGMS
Pahndamonium32
Rising Rookie
9 years ago
@Zafireria you should contact the creator of your items and see if they will be fixing them.
Zafireria
9 years ago
"Bananas_45;14868138" wrote:
@Zafireria you should contact the creator of your items and see if they will be fixing them.

@Bananas_45 You want me to contact about 70 different people? XD
Zafireria
9 years ago
"Amiutza;14868162" wrote:
Fixing bump maps is super easy, but it's a long tedious process if the problem appears on a lot of items. I haven't really checked all my objects lately, but if I were you, I'd pick the ones I absolutely love and give up the rest.

Yeah that's what I always do. And I have the few items I love, but some of it has that stuff on =/ Its on my fav couch T.T
Pahndamonium32
Rising Rookie
9 years ago
Wow, you downloaded new furniture from 70 sites? That is a download-a-palooza!