Painting doesn't always appear/blank under certain circumstances

Whenever I go to the Romance Festival and try to paint, the canvas comes out completely blank. It doesn’t matter what kind of painting I choose, when they finish it it’s just a white canvas.

I tested it at home and on other community lots and it works fine there, so it seems to only happen at the Romance Festival. I also tried removing all my mods and deleted localthumbcache but it still happens.

I checked my last exception and it keeps throwing errors about “JoinSituationElement”, so maybe it’s tied to the festival situation. Either way, it looks like a bug specific to that festival.

Edit By Crinrict: Added missing pack tag to title.

Could you please provide the following information

• Post the complete LE you're getting. Open the file in a text editor and copy/paste the content
• What scenario are you playing ? Does it happen without one (scenarios are the things you pick on the main menu to play)
• Is your Sim an occult ?
• What happens if you move the empty painting to your inventory and hang it on the wall at home ?
• Are those paintings by ref or normal ones ? Does it matter ?

Unfortunately there's currently lots of issues with paintings/photos

I’ve attached the LastException file as requested.

• I’m not playing with a scenario, just normal gameplay.
• My Sim isn’t an occult.
• I haven’t tried moving the painting home yet – only tested it on the festival lot itself.
• They’re just the standard “normal” paintings, not by reference.

Hope that helps

Thanks.

You need to copy/paste the LE. You can't attach them.

I've been seeing the same issue as simsllama, and I believe it started after patch 1.117.227.1030. Any time any sim, including my own, paints on an easel that is positioned outside of the boundaries of a lot the canvas stays blank. If I queue up the Scrap Painting or Put in Inventory actions the action bubble shows a preview of the painting, if I place the painting in my inventory the inventory preview image looks fine, and the painting looks completely normal when I put it on a wall, but until I take one of those actions the canvases are completely blank. All easels that are within lot boundaries and can be interacted with in Build/Buy mode, both on public and residential lots, work as expected.

So far it's been a problem on the easels at the Romance Festival, the ones in the plaza outside of the San Myshuno Art Center, and the three that are positioned in common areas around Windenburg. I just confirmed that the same thing happens in brand new saves without any mods or cc installed.

Edit: I forgot to mention, I am not seeing any errors of any kind.

Also having this issue - all paintings at the Romance Festival, both by my sims and NPCs, are blank / white.

As others said, it's all easels outside a lot. The one in Tartosa does the same thing.

Thank you. There was an option to attach files – I don’t understand why it’s not showing up. A bug within this forum! Here it is below:

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<report><version>2</version><sessionid>edc2178702b079ab68b3281e</sessionid><type>desync</type><sku>ea.maxis.sims4.15.macarm64</sku><createtime>2025-08-30 17:35:53</createtime><buildsignature>Local.Unknown.Unknown.1.117.227.1230-1.200.000.673.Release</buildsignature><categoryid>interaction_elements.py:192</categoryid><desyncid>edc2178702b079ab68b3281e</desyncid><systemconfig/><screenshot/><desyncdata>Exception in Sim Timeline: Exception running Element (AttributeError: 'JoinSituationElement' object has no attribute 'situation_type')&#13;&#10;Traceback (most recent call last):&#13;&#10;  File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\scheduling.py", line 231, in simulate&#13;&#10;  File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\elements.py", line 335, in _run&#13;&#10;  File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\interactions\utils\interaction_elements.py", line 192, in _behavior_element&#13;&#10;  File "T:\InGame\Gameplay\Scripts\Server\situations\tunable.py", line 558, in _do_behaviorAttributeError: 'JoinSituationElement' object has no attribute 'situation_type'rtim=0&#13;&#10;Client Session Time: 11.86&#13; &#10;Num Save Errors: 0&#13; &#10;Num Load Errors: 0&#13; &#10;Current Game State: 0x96d01090&#13; &#10;LoadingScreenActiveFlag: 1&#13; &#10;Origin Version: 13,539,0,6052&#13; &#10;Modded: False&#13; &#10;SystemInfo: Mac OS X Version 15.6.1 (Build 24G90) GPU: Apple M1 Pro macOS Metal driver 0.0.0.0&#13; &#10;Architecture: arm64&#13; &#10;&#13; &#10;</desyncdata></report>
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