#materialising materials

[baufive]

Hi Eric! I saw you had a post on LivingSims about how to identify and remove bad pattern packages using s3pe. Well I'm having that exact problem but the images you had screenshoted on the post are no longer there so I can't figure out how to do it. If you could, can you perhaps email those images to me? I'd really appreciate the help and thanks!

I have updated this tutorial with more information and all new photos. Hopefully it reads clearer.

I knew shooflee had recently created an awesome CAP pattern set (and specifically alerted everyone to not convert them - doubleplus awesome!) so I have used one in the example to show how a CAP pattern will appear in S3PE. Read the tutorial here

[simsfaq]

[Windows+sims 3] Help! When i go to CAS and when i attempt to change the colors of the clothes, it loads for ages, saying "materialising materials". I left it on overnight and it was still loading lol... It's still like that even though i removed all mods and cc. Do you have any ideas?!

"Materialising materials" is usually a sign of a bad pattern. If patterns are made with EA's Pattern Making Tool and then converted to package files, they can cause this problem. If you convert sims3pack patterns to package files, this can happen. If you download a pattern that was not created properly, this can happen. Remove/uninstall any patterns you downloaded recently and then clear your cache and try again. Let us know if that doesn't work and we can figure something else out. :)