HomeCrafter Plus: Textures Don't Show Up in Color

[lyndabirt]

I started using HomeCrafter Plus today. It opens fine, and I can clone and edit and make new content. I can scribble on part of the image and then save it and refresh the image in HomeCrafter and it shows up fine, but if I change the entire image it just shows up as black and white, no color. It's also only half the size it should be in the program. I've tried deleting my cache files, I've been making sure that I'm saving it properly, I've tried both creating a wall and putting it in the correct folder and opening it as a new piece of content, as well as editing the template itself. I've also tried cloning a piece of custom content already installed and editing that. I've restarted HomeCrafter, I've restarted Paint.NET, and I've restarted my computer. I found one post on another website where someone was having the same problem, but they never got a solution so neither did I.

I'm using Paint.NET to edit the images. I'm running Windows 7 on a pretty state of the art system. State of the art to the point that I know it's not my graphics card or anything like that.

I don't know if it's related, but a lot of thumbnails in my Bodyshop are showing up looking like they've been shredded or not showing up at all, and some of my custom content (hair and clothes, not makeup) won't work in bodyshop but works in my game. I don't really care too much about that, because I only use Bodyshop for face modifiers, but I thought it might be related...

[julianarosalia]

Have you looked at the Homecrafter tutorial (http://thesims2.ea.com/help/detail.php?help_id=165) on the EA site? Specifically note the dimensions and file type. Is the file that you're trying to work with 256x512 pixels and .bmp for the format?

[lyndabirt]

Yes, I checked all that, and it's all right. Like I said, it will let me edit most of the image, but there's a few spots on the image that I can't touch without the texture going black.

[julianarosalia]

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[cyberteach]

Hi, I was having a similar problem when creating floors and walls. My textures were showing up half their width and in black and white. Check when you save floor and wall textures that they're the right size (256x512 for walls, 256x256 for floors) and that the colour depth is set to RGB - 8 bits per channel. Worked for me.