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mutskeSep 27, 2020

Hi!, Thanks for letting me know, but TSR did the batch fix on the site. I am working now on all the sets, checking each one every time. It is a lot of work but the Shingle Windows will also be updates by me personaly. Just be a little patience with me. Anja aka Mutske

SIMcredible!May 30, 2020

Hello Willow! Thank you for take the time to check other packages $\:\)$ However, we have no free time enough to spend learning a new tool for this already old game. Sorry. Workshop was our first choice because we use it since Sims3 and we already knew the basics plus a bit more $\;\)$ Even if we upload a 116 thumbnail on workshop, when export, it creates 256,128,64 and 32 resizements. It's how this tool work but still is the tool we chose. Wish you a nice weekend with your sims!

SIMcredible!May 29, 2020

We tried some different approaches on thumbnail matter, and then decided checking on other artists work. We saw that each swatch thumbnail becomes 3 or 4 resizes, even the ones who keep same thumbnail as we do. And their images show exactly like ours (32,64,128,256 and others 35,78,116), which is a pattern, meaning it is regarding the programs. Checked both, creators who use workshop and also some who use s4s. What I noticed also is S4S artists use 116x116 thumbnails and TSR workshop artists use 128x128. It produces a 256x256 resize but the original is 128. But thumbnails act the same, so seems there's nothing we can do to reduce that, since it happens with us all $\:\($ We tried also delete other resized images on S4s, but if we remove that resized images,it acts weird in game because the catalog uses more than one size to show up, when you grab it or use the recolor tool... sorry to inform you the thumbnail thing is dead end. After 3 hours of tests, gotta go for now. Hope you understand we tried. Had no success, but tried. Take care.

SIMcredible!May 29, 2020

Regarding the thumbnail... I've made a 116x116 sized image, uploaded only once on my work file(with no thumbails at all) and the workfile is OK, just one 116x116 thumbnail and its resized 3 images. But when I export as package, it produced 4 new thumbnails to each swatch. The sizes are 32,64,128 and 256, although I only uploaded once a single 116 file. It is clearly a glitch. Will try to upload thumbnails on S4S from now on, to see if it works... $\:confused\:$ Well... I guess it is all covered now. Only thing that may be caused confusion... when we export packages seems we uploaded the same image to all swatches several times. But the truth is we only upload one single image 128x128 sized. And the export action causes mess and produce all that useless images. That's why I will take my chances uploading thumbnails on S4S, although I am not familiarized with. Hope it works. Thank you for your comments, sorry for the several messages and misunderstandings. English is not my mother tongue. Stay safe and happy simming!

SIMcredible!May 29, 2020

OK. I just checked the string table. TSR Workshop has 23 languages (even the ones which were removed from the game as Portugal's portuguese) and S4S only show 17 little flags. The other 6 shows up as unknown, because the game itself removed them. Just check it out: https://imgur.com/a/wbjBUVC

SIMcredible!May 29, 2020

BTW, just found your answer at Erebus set. It is showing up to me as usual, not banned at all.

SIMcredible!May 29, 2020

Hello WillowR! No! We did not block you, we even don't know how to do that! TSR is not our own site, we are featured artists here, we have how to delete messages (although we only do this on SPAM cases) but block a member, really don't. People are free to contact us, we just don't usually answer toooooo rude people who just come and blame, but it was not your case at all. You just made critics, and you're free to. We create for The Sims for 17 years and we would not be here without tips, critics and comments. Anyway, we did not ban you or anyone else. Don't know what prevent you for commenting. Again, my thumbnail is 128x128, don't know why s4s is exporting 256x256. I uploaded one yesterday 116x116 and it acted like my original 128 size, recreating another 3 resizing "slaves". I don't use s4s, I use TSR workshop and really don't know why the export is 256x256 but is clearly a resize. You can see for yourself the print I've just made of our thumbnail resolution: https://imgur.com/a/PqdC4Ht Sorry if all this annoys you so much, but our thumbnail is not that big. Never was. Take care and happy simming!

SIMcredible!May 28, 2020

Hello! We are sorry you don't appreciate some aspects of our work but we have no intention to "inflate" our packages with several thumbnails to show different swatches. Some of our files have 20 variations and we will not ever add 20 thumbnails in one package. We only do this for paintings. If we already change the swatch colors, we see no reason to make each package so much bigger for this. You're not correct when you say our thumbnail is 256x256. Actually its size is 128x128 And regarding the "unknown" we really don't know what you mean. At our both computers, portuguese BR language, there's not one single "unknown" description. There were some *debug* issue in the past, but we fixed it. We do pay attention to details and we fix every single piece with correct name before upload (although some may pass through these years). But we will not add more thumbnails so, I guess it's all $\:cool\:$ Thank you for your comment though. Stay safe and happy simming!

Summer_SimsJan 12, 2020

Thank you so much for the information about the : Belaloallure_Sergio pants It should have been the artist that should have fixed or found out the problem. But thank you for dedicating your time and energy into this♥♥