Recolored train set not working properly; hot tub texture won't fully show up.

[twisted FATE]

Arrrrrghhhh. I'm having some serious issues here. You ever hate it when you work on something, put it in game, and go to get some screenshots, only to have it not work properly? Well, that's happening to me here.

One: I recolored the train set from Free Time, including all the houses and water tower, so I was pretty excited about it. Everything looked pretty good until I had my sims add to the table. I think pictures will speak better than words here.
Picture of Problem (http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii206/KirstenDe/Problem--TrainSet.jpg)
Picture next to Original (http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii206/KirstenDe/Problem--TrainSet2.jpg)
Whaaat? :blink:

Two: I grunged up the hot tub as well, except one section of it retains the original Maxis texture. I've tried replacing the textures multiple times, and nothing's helping.
Ingame Picture (http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii206/KirstenDe/Problem--HotTub.jpg)
Texture (http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii206/KirstenDe/GrungyHotTub.png)
See how the "fence" part of it is so much brighter than the rest of the tub? I have no idea why!

I am so bewildered. Can anyone help me out?

[Jasana_BugBreeder]

Of the trees:
- make sure you import your texture in DXT3 or DXT5 formats
- make sure corresponding TXMT contains stdMatAlphaTestEnabled = 1, not 0

As fot the hot tub fence, not sure - could it be simply tied to light direction? If you rotate the tub, which areas are shadowed - the same?

[Rapsheba555]

did you save the texture for the train table as a .png? It should be, otherwise it'll do what you saw. Make sure it's not a .gif or something.

[twisted FATE]

Ach, still no dice. D; Despite trying all those methods, the train table still won't build properly. And the hot tub's still baffling me too -- I tried viewing it from all different angles and lighting, and it's definitely not the light direction. It's bizzare.