Hi,

I'm a long time TS2 simmer, I know my way around pretty well.
I got Ultimate Collection on my new computer and started working on my new Downloads folder. Body Shop content with downloaded Sims shows up fine, but NO CC shows up with lots. The downloaded lots are there in the bin, just no CC in them. All CC is just replaced with base game content.

CC that I have manually installed shows up fine too.

I have checked so that Clean Installer puts the stuff in the right place, and so it does. The CC for the lots are in the Downloads folder, in its neat little subfolder.
I've installed CEP.

Here's a crappy snapshot, just so you can see what it looks like. This is Allisas' 70 Middle Lane:


Notice the hillarious floating bookcase. I'm guessing it's the CC invisible placemats.

Anyone who recognizes this and can help?

I use UC and that has never happened to me, so UC is not the problem. I am going to assume that you have downloaded meshes where necessary and that you have the latest copy of the Clean Installer which is compatible with UC.

Because of that, I would guess that your computer does not read the cc for some reason. You say the cc is in a subfolder, so perhaps the path is a little long. Try to put the cc in its own folder and give it a short name. It is at least worth a try

A basic one but always worth checking - did you enable CC in the start up screen and restart the game?

Her other cc does show up, it is only those that included with lots.

Yeah but some CC turns up anyway even without CC enabled. EAxis set it to only exclude CC that does certain things (change game code behaviour for example, which is why nearly all hacks get disabled until you turn that on). Things like skins will turn up anyway because EAxis considered them 'safe'. I asked that because she was talking about UC and it sounds like a new install. People forget to enable CC quite often in that situation.

Hi!
Thank you very much for response!

It did work to move .package files from the sub folders to Downloads! ...sort of! Some items still flash blue, that usually don't have missing mesh problems, but I'm pretty sure I can fix that by re-downloading stuff.

It seems the game will only pick up 1 level of sub folder. At least when it comes to objects that come with lots Very strange, I never had these issues with my previous games.

Flashing blue meshes means they are slaved/repositoried meshes, and that they need the master mesh to work properly.

It might be to do with the length of the filenames - if the total filename (C:/Users/YourName/Documents/EA Games/The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection/Downloads/SubfolderName/Filename.package) is longer than 256 characters, the game won't read them.

That makes sense, especially as "The Sims 2 Ultimate Collection (tm)" is much longer than "The Sims 2"!

Glad it helped I have noticed with the UC that it pays to have shorter paths. (@maxon - I did not realise that, thank you for the info ).