@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:
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.
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..
