Oh, that, too .. didn’t see that when I wrote my little novel above =P

I was already wondering what "Has bypass" means when viewing my scorecard, but now I know.
Still 4 to go, before I can use that. Don't know if I want to do that...then I don't know if it's perfect!?! :P

You can opt out of bypassing! You'll get that option for each upload on or after the last upload wizard screen once you're on bypass.

On the subject again, I stumbled across this wallpaper from One Billion Pixels: seamless-graffiti-grunge-walls
But the graffiti isn't really seamless right? I think I see small yellow lines between the graffiti...

If it was seamless, I think we want to know how he did it...but they aren't... :p

I see lines in the walls.

Yeah the only way I found so far to make them seamless is override an EA wall (i.e. change only the diffuse, nothing else). But I'm still stumped as to what the difference is =(.

So how did you manage to get rid of the seams on floors now? Would that work for walls as well?

Ah, I see it -- the offending bits are copied to the opposite edge. Solves the visual artifact, but is not a solution for stuff like murals and such.

I've been making a butt ton of wallpapers and I haven't had any seams so far. They've all been seamless solids, patterns, and tiles though. Not mural type walls. I tried out a mural wall real quick with an image I just grabbed online. It looks pretty good and thought there wasn't anything wrong at first but if I zoom in there is a very small seam that you can see.





It was slightly more noticeable on the larger sized walls.

For the most part it's unnoticeable though. I use S4Studio. I always make sure to choose one of the solid basic walls that is just flat with no crown moulding or baseboards. The first recolor I did I also resized the crown moulding and baseboards and in S4S I used one of the maxis walls that had crown moulding and baseboards and when I put it in the game it looked all jacked up. Like there was still a crown moulding texture where it used to be. Once I switched to the plain flat one though it was fine.

ETA: Here's an example. On the left side I used a maxis baseboard/crown moulding wall as my recolor in S4S. On the right side is the exact same DDS file but with a plain flat wall as my recolor option in S4S.

Well yeah with that mural you won't have much of a problem, since it's pretty much horizontal stripes. But anything asymmetrical, corner pieces, flying turtles etc .. won't work before the seam issue doesn't have a solution.

Hello there!
Not owning Sims4 (stopped at 2) but still interested in seams and textures issues..
As said before, seams on mural can't be solved, due to the fact that part of the right side of the wall is reproduced on the left corner of the same wall it was already the case in Sims 2.
As possible workaround would be to create a mesh the size of the mural and make a wall overlay.

Haha, flying (Blue can be water too you know, or did you mean flying through the sea? )

Maxis have some sort of solution though, for their corners. See: siding. That is why it bugs me so much .. why can they have seamlessness and we can't?

I created a few mural-type walls in Sims 2, and for me it seems as if the problem was fixed in an EP. A mural (consisting of two or more walls) in my basegame installation has a seam, but the same walls in my installation with all EPs don´t.

Nevertheless, I made some attempts in Sims 4, and it seems that the texture sizes of 256x768, 256x1024 and 256x1280 aren´t obligatory. I created textures with the sizes 1024x768, 1024x1024 and 1024x1280 that show the whole mural for four wall parts, and changed the Data0 entry of the DiffuseUVScale field in each MATD to 0,25.
Result in game was a single wall that spreads over four tiles, and there were no seams, as far as I could see.
Disadvantage ist that you can not decide where the mural should start, it depends on the wall.
And I am not sure if there might be other issues.

Do you mean specifically custom murals with that, or EAxian ones too? (Asking because I had seam issues on and off in TS3 varying with patch level, but I don't remember whether that was custom walls only or Maxis too .. not sure whether TS3 is a good comparison base though, seeing as a lot of Maxis walls in that were all kinds of fucked up =P)



Ah that is a good tip, thanks! I believe this is how the maxis plaster wall works? (You know, that white one, kind of like peeling painted brick)

Maybe the trick is changing the UV scale, even on a wall with a smaller texture? Or would that stretch the texture? There's also fields for .. UV handle or somesuch I believe (don't recall the exact name now).

IAre you talking about EA's wide walls?
It sounds like it.

Simension wrote about those at Sims 4 Studio here awhile ago.

I tried working with clones of these wide walls and they're seamless alright but they just start their run wherever they want.

Also they change their order depending on wall height which makes them look great at one height and terrible at another.

Sims 4 Studio helped, thanks for posting.

Puh... it´s so long ago. I´m not sure if it appears on EAxian walls, too; maybe I can take a look at the S2 basegame later. But I´m not sure if there are any EAxians murals in the basegame.


I actually don´t know, but maybe it´s worth a look in the game files to figure out if there are any textures larger than the default size.


Yes, it´s the DiffuseUVScale field, there are two parts for the two axes. Any value different from 1 would stretch or compress your texture. Value 1 means your texture is used for one tile. Value 2 shows your texture two times on one tile, value ,.5 stretches the texture over two tiles (and so on).
You can have a look at the floors, e.g. some of the wood floors have entries of 0,5 for both fields, so the texture is used for four floor tiles (2 tiles wide and 2 tiles deep).



No, I made some new custom walls to give it a try.


Yes, that is what I mentioned above - you can not choose the starting point of the mural.


This did not happen with my test mural, it worked perfectly for all three heights.

The maxis plaster wall is one of the wide walls I was talking about. Simension has some good pictures showing how those work at Sims 4 Studio forum. My mural made on one of those looks very nice at all heights too but once it is placed if you change the wall height it needs to be placed over again because the order of the panels changes.

Seems like the UVScale thing would be the correct thing to fiddle with:



Source

So if we use "Urbanity" in The Sims 4 Studio, we can make seamless wallcovering? Or is it not that simple?
I don't know a thing about UVScaling. Or can someone explain how to change the DiffuseUVScale?

"Urbanity" might work well as a base when you have actual murals, yes (i.e. walls that are 4 units wide, like that one). .. or maybe not. see below.

Or you simply change that value in your existing package in s4pe and replace your texture/s (open package in s4pe, then edit the value in "Grid"; click on your IMGs and select "Replace").

Yes, I understood this. All I said is that this doesn´t happen with the custom mural covering four tiles I created from scratch. The panels don´t change when I change the height of the walls.


I explained it a few postings above, it´s quite simple. Just open the MATD with the Grid Button and loók for the field DiffuseUVScale. Data0 is for width (the one you need for walls), Data1 ist for depth/height, you can use it floors.

Right, I hadn't thought of that (in my answer above) -- so that means it would actually not be such a great idea to use the Maxis one as a base. Thanks for pointing that out again! =)

I was just trying to change the Data0 entry of the DiffuseUVScale field in each MATD to 0,5. For a 2-tile wallpaper, but I don't understand how to change it.
I opened s4pe, clicked on the first MATD then clicked on the grid button and got this window:


But now I don't know how to change the diffuse scale on the right.. Am I doing something wrong?

Click "Expand all" in that window.