New Items from 9/12/17 Patch Not Visible in Studio

Here's a screenshot of what I see in Studio right now:



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Those blank spaces you see are from content added in today's patch. I was actually able to figure out which item was what and make the override I wanted, which is working fine, but this is very peculiar. I've had Studio open several times this evening, because I had to update some mods I've made for myself - plus, I've been using it since 2015 (even though I never post here), so I know the basics of how things work post-patch.

Article about items from today's patch: The Sims 4: New Create-a-Sim & Build/Buy Items Added via Game Patch.

I just tried what you said MisterS and unfortunately that didn't work. I already uninstalled Studio and reinstalled it earlier this evening. That didn't work either. Very strange. I was able to extract tuning files to update my mods just fine; this is the only problem I've run into.

The override and items themselves work just fine in the game, but it seems strange that their thumbnails don't show up correctly in Studio (like I mentioned, I just had to click through and guess to get to the item I wanted).

Thank you both for your help though.

I just saw the patch hit too :P I hope this didn't break super affordances more (HORROR) because that would mean I have to go into the mod I'm making and....blah blah blah....which as you can see is an major annoyance on the other hand they might have fixed object tags hopefully, (PLEASE LET OBJECT TAGS BE FIXED). lol

I guess I wasn't clear: I went in-game and then saw what overrides I wanted to make, exited, opened Studio and found blank thumbnails. I managed to muddle my way through and find what I needed, made the overrides and they work correctly. The issue is only blank thumbnails.

Someone else has already stated there are blank thumbnails for the patch items in Harmony and Wishes. I don't use Harmony since it's outdated for the most recent packs. It would be helpful if someone in charge of updating Studio could take a look at this thread and verify what's going on with Studio.

To clear the air: If EA did not make thumbnails for the objects then they will not show up in studio until a member of the team goes into the game, generates and saves them, then passes them on to the development team to be included in the next update.

Like brujah said above, if EA doesn't include the thumbnails in the game, we have to manually add them to Studio in order for them to show up without being in the cache. We have stopped doing this since EA has started to include thumbnails for patches and DLC. They have now even included ones that we previously had to create manually, and we have since removed the manually created thumbnails to reduce Studio's file size. This patch is an exception to what EA has done in recent patches.

Studio will load thumbnails from the thumbnail cache if the game generates one. But the game does not generate and save all thumbnails by default. Hairs for example will only save the thumbnail for the first color. I loaded the patched game and viewed one of the hairs in CAS. Studio, as expected, was able to display the thumbnail for the first color of it, but the game does not under normal circumstances generate thumbnails for the other colors of a hair.



This is not a bug, but it is something that can be improved upon if EA does not provide thumbnails in an update as they have done in the past.

If you are not seeing the name of an item when you move your mouse cursor over it, make sure that your mouse cursor is over the pack icon. 

Also, you can use the search to locate patch content. Free patch content is usually named EF## where the ## are the number EA associates with the free content release. In this patch, EF06 is the CAS content and EF07 is the buy/build content.