@ajduckie @Hephaestion02 @Shh-speechless
I ended up replacing the cube map texture with a simple black 128x128 PNG in S4S and it fixed the issue, I'm back to a normal TV again.
I replaced this:
with this:
thanks for the reply! sorry again for that long message. about my settings in-game - i've got everything set to the highest possible settings. Uncompressed sim textures is on, post processing effects are on, laptop mode off, retina display on, vertical sync on, and usually I play in fullscreen mode at the resolution setting that's around 4k (it's the first 4k listed resolution). That said, I've adjusted my graphics settings to all lower options, have adjusted the resolution settings as well, tried in windowed mode, etc.
Also - for a screenshot of the effect on an EA texture - in my first post the window I shared a picture of is an EA window.
As for the 50/50, when I first got the issue on the fridges and the three TV screens, I did a repair, folder refresh, and a full 50/50. When I had nothing in my game besides those five objects, they still appeared with the effect. And at this time, the effect had never before spread to every surface in my game. That didn't occur until later on (only change in those circumstances was progression of time).
After my uninstall/reinstall, I did a sort of backwards 50/50 again, and was pointed to the fridges and those TVs again. At that point (the date of my first post here), having those five objects in my game was causing the effect to spread to all textures in the game, including those EA windows. Once those five objects were out of my game, the effect was only visible on certain objects (the ones I listed later in my last post.
Additionally, I've identified another object that has the exact same visual effect that is seen on the two refrigerators in the image on my first post - the one with a dark and empty apartment. That same effect appeared last night on a CC sink, from that same LittleDica Modern Kitchen Pack. Only the countertop sink displayed the effect - the standalone sink looked totally fine.
About the cube map stuff you shared - that looks EXACTLY like the effect that I see on the TV screens, windows, computer screens, etc. In my game last night I even started to notice that effect, very subtly, on Peacemaker's desktop computer from the Vara Office set.
I read through the post you shared but other than recognizing the look of the cube map, I wasn't really able to understand much of what that means for this issue. If these same objects are not showing the effect in other people's games, then it can't be a matter of messed up CC can it? I've also tried redownloading all the CC in question of course, but no change.
Ugh, I really hope we can figure out what the issue here is. EA, please help!! I want my Peacemaker CC back in my game! And of course LittleDica released another CC set today, and I'm guessing that stuff would show up with glitches in my game as well. I have no clue why. I really don't understand why the effect shows up on certain pieces and not others, and then why it suddenly jumps to all other textures, CC or EA.
Wow, weirdly enough, that tutorial on S4S Forums is actually written by littledica! I wonder if they can help us understand what's going on with this issue.
@ajduckie
I would be 99% definite that the issue is not with Peacy's CC. He is the most responsible creator and always test and updates his stuff, plus I have everything of his and am not experiencing it on my Macs.
It is definitely a CC issue and may be just one piece of CC causing it. When you do the 50/50 method you should also trash the localthumbcache file each time.
You should probably jump into that thread at S4S and ask, they are way better equipped for CC issues and that thread definitely seems to be the right one. Let me know how you get on! 🙂
I agree - I couldn't possibly believe that this was a case of bad CC from Peacemaker. He's arguably my most trusted CC creator. I know his content is good and I know how hard it works to make it work correctly! That's why I'm so confused by the issue! Why are his objects showing the glitch, even without any other CC in my game? It just doesn't make any sense!
I also posted some info in Athena's Mac Help discord server, I think you're in there? Sorry for so many spontaneous updates... Hard to keep everything organized here..
Sorry for another reply here, but I found another interesting thread about cube maps over on S4S forums. http://sims4studio.com/thread/14566/solved-object-specular-different-update
Peacemaker actually weighs in on this one too - looks like the original poster was getting two overlapping cube maps and that caused a version of the effect I'm seeing to appear on their metallic table.
So in my game, the effect looks as if instead of properly rendering the reflective surface, I'm seeing a scaled down version of the cube map repeating itself over and over... I'm not sure. I really don't understand this stuff. But it's definitely related to the cube maps. I just don't understand why it's occurring on certain items, especially ones created by two cc-makers who obviously understand a great deal about cube maps and how they are supposed to work!! And why it spreads...? This is all so confusing..
