Sim with CC turns black while zooming

[SimsLewds]

I'm testing out a cc top with a custom shadow texture.  When I zoom out the Sim turns black, zoom out far enough and it turns solid black.  I've tested the package with the shadow texture removed and it works fine.  It also worked normally before I made further edits to it.

[procian]

You broke it then....change it back to what it was.....

 

[SimsLewds]

29 minutes ago, procian said:

You broke it then....change it back to what it was.....

 

That doesn't really help solve why it happened.

[Vthena]

Can I see your shadow map ?
(It's tricky to use them correctly, I didn't quite figure it out yet, but I can always try)

[SimsLewds]

This is strange, I can't find the shadow file.  I had to export it from the package.

shad2.dds

[SimsLewds]

Any  ideas on this?  It's happened on 3 different tops now.  On the latest all I did was move a section of the shadow a few pixels and the same thing is happening.

[Vthena]

I'm not sure about the issue. I was thinking, maybe the shadow map is overlapping with another shadow map ?

[SimsLewds]

9 hours ago, LittleDoxy said:

I'm not sure about the issue. I was thinking, maybe the shadow map is overlapping with another shadow map ?

What's really weird is that it covers the entire Sim, not just the top.

[deathbywesker]

I'm having the same issues you have but they don't appear in CAS only in game. I'm still looking into what other sims I have that are affected by this and what's causing it.

 

 

[procian]

7 hours ago, deathbywesker said:

I'm having the same issues you have but they don't appear in CAS only in game. I'm still looking into what other sims I have that are affected by this and what's causing it.

 

 

The necklace is probably broken.....remove it and see if the problem goes..

[SimsLewds]

Still having this issue anytime I try to edit a shadow texture.  To test something, I exported a shadow, opened it in GIMP, did nothing to it, saved it and imported back and it was broken.  Something with importing, exporting, or saving is messing it up.

[Oops19]

I hope that export (no modification) import works without issues and should be easy to test.

Is the source format DDS or PNG?

 

I haven't seen this issue for a while - maybe the affected sims have left the sim world by now.

[SimsLewds]

1 hour ago, Oops19 said:

I hope that export (no modification) import works without issues and should be easy to test.

Is the source format DDS or PNG?

 

I haven't seen this issue for a while - maybe the affected sims have left the sim world by now.

DDS

[DarkAudit]

Do any of these wonky sims have a custom skintone? Does changing it have any effect?

[SimsLewds]

20 hours ago, DarkAudit said:

Do any of these wonky sims have a custom skintone? Does changing it have any effect?

No

[deathbywesker]

On 6/20/2020 at 9:36 PM, SimsLewds said:

No

I found out out the issue, for me at least. It was a texture issue for my tattoo (but this can happen for any cc item.) I forgot to check the generate mip maps tag when I saved the image as a .dds image. I thought it was an old or broken body preset that I had for the longest time, but I noticed if that was the case then the sim's skin tone would turn black as if the cc skin tone was removed from the game.

 

 

Here's a dated recolor tutorial that I still found very helpful on S4Studio: https://sims4studio.com/thread/12/tutorial-standalone-recolor-custom-thumbnails

[SimsLewds]

On 8/3/2020 at 3:34 PM, deathbywesker said:

I found out out the issue, for me at least. It was a texture issue for my tattoo (but this can happen for any cc item.) I forgot to check the generate mip maps tag when I saved the image as a .dds image. I thought it was an old or broken body preset that I had for the longest time, but I noticed if that was the case then the sim's skin tone would turn black as if the cc skin tone was removed from the game.

 

 

Here's a dated recolor tutorial that I still found very helpful on S4Studio: https://sims4studio.com/thread/12/tutorial-standalone-recolor-custom-thumbnails

That did the trick.  Thanks a ton.  Now I can finish all these shirt projects I abandoned.

[Oops19]

Just read about mip maps at https://www.imageconverterplus.com/news/convert_images_to_dds_926/ This seems to affect only DDS. So next time I hopefully remember how to fix random CC.

[deathbywesker]

7 hours ago, SimsLewds said:

That did the trick.  Thanks a ton.  Now I can finish all these shirt projects I abandoned.

Np, glad it helped you out.

40 minutes ago, Oops19 said:

Just read about mip maps at https://www.imageconverterplus.com/news/convert_images_to_dds_926/ This seems to affect only DDS. So next time I hopefully remember how to fix random CC.

I just recently fixed other cc items that had the same issue and still have a few more to go, but at least I know now that it's just a quick and easy fix.