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In EA rugs and books (and possibly other types of objects too), thumbnails are generated differently from regular objects -- they are top down, so that one can see the object better. With flat objects that really makes quite a difference.
The game needs two additional resources to do that, which apparently the current CC tools do not generate (all of the custom rugs I've seen so far have the same kind of thumb as objects): THUM 0x16CA6BC4 and TMLT 0xB0118C15 (see also this post). I recently added these to all of my own rugs, i.e. copied them from Maxis rugs and renumbered them (they need to have the same ID as the MODL they are for). Attached here is a bundle of the original Maxis resources for various rug sizes, so if others want to do the same they don't need to export them all over again.
How to edit:
s4pe does not have a wrapper for these (yet), so for now you need to hex edit them. Is not very difficult though, since all one has to do is change the instance number in the file to the instance of your MODL. -- Has been added in 0.4.3, see https://github.com/s4ptacle/Sims4Tools/releases
1. Open the files for the size you need in the hex editor of your choice
2. Bytes 04-0B in the second line are the instance; you need to change this to the instance ID of your MODL in both files (little endian, i.e. "backwards" in pairs):
3. Save as new files with the instance ID changed to the ID of your MODL (so that it matches what's in the file now)
4. Import both to your rug package, save package.
You need to delete localthumbscache.package so that the game can regenerate the thumbnails, as well.
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8th Feb 2016 at 1:59 PM
Last edited by plasticbox : 26th Feb 2016 at 1:06 PM.
Sensible rug thumbnail resources
