I changed from the Mr DJ Ultimate collection to the Legacy edition and it works fine. I have the latest CEP and Cepextra files installed and I know they are in the right folders as most recolours show up such as the potty and toilet stall etc, but I have Luvs10s magazine rack recolours from this site that changed the covers of the mags themselves and these no longer show up although two recolurs of the rack itself from another creator show up. I tried removing all downloads apart from the Luvs10s recolours and they still didn't show up so I know it's not a conflict with another download. I also have Retail Sims baby mag rack recolours that no longer show up yet their candle shop magazine rack does! These all showed up in the UC so I don't know why the Legacy edition doesn't let them. Do any of you clever cc creators know why? Is there something that needs changing in Simpe? Not that I would know where to begin with that as I'm not techy at all.

Which are the other recolours that do show up?

Liz Claybee recolours. They change the colour of the rack, doesn't seem to be a problem with that, just changing the magazine covers. Interestingly I downloaded a default magazine rack by diwasims just to see what happened and that just changed the magazine covers after a sim had bought a magazine and taken it off the shelf but didn't change the magazine covers on the rack.

Can you link to the downloads (download topics) you're talking about, just so it's a bit easier to figure out what the problem is?

Magazines sims read, and magazines on the rack, are two different entities ingame. One is a prop/accessory, the other is an object. Depending on whether they share textures (I'm not sure in this case), it's possible you need two different default files for them (but you often find them together in the same file and/or folder, often in the same topic).

Could be a missing CEPextra or CEP addon (one that isn't in the original CEP link).

The game also ignores files if the filepath is too long, so make sure you're not subfoldering too deep, or use long names for the folders.

Yesh, I have no idea where to find Liz Claybee, I need you to link me to the content that works, and the content that doesn't.

Here is the link:

https://modthesims.info/d/627938/cl...-community.html

A CEP from shastakiss seems to be needed for the OFB shelves (or a default by Liz). Can't see anything for the magazine racks, though.

https://modthesims.info/d/627938/cl...-community.html This is the recolour that works to change the colour of the rack and works fine.

https://direct.modthesims.info/d/11...zine-racks.html These are the recolours of the magazines on the rack that don't show up anymore since I installed Legacy edition.

I have the Huge Lunatic CepExtra for the game and magazine rack. It worked when I had UC installed but stopped when I installed Legacy.

luvs10s files probably won't work correctly with HL's CEP extra for the game racks. You need to have recolours made for the correct CEP.

It was a CEP extra for game and mag rack. I don't understand how they worked fine for years in the Mr DJ UC then and not now in the Legacy edition . Oh well never mind.

The main differences between the LC and UC are the missing IKEA pack and some edits to the game graphics/memory handling (mostly in GraphicRules and similar, as far as I'm aware). As far as I know, they didn't do much else. Most CC and mods should still work the same as long as they're not IKEA-related, or directly related to what was changed in the graphics (UI mods and similar). If you find CC or mods aren't working, it's most likely caused by the pre-setup (CEP and similar), or missing files (look closely through the download topic for any missing items/links to missing or recommended items).

Items can stop working because of file corruption (try downloading again), being placed too deep in a folder (shorten folder/filenames, cut down on subfolder layers), or because something else is overriding it (load order - game reads a different file that does the same thing after the file you want it to read. Ideally remove the file you don't want, but you can try moving the files to the base Downloads folder, and/or putting "ZZZ" in front of the filename, to make the game read the file last).

Yes, I tried the downloads folder with just the magrack recolours in and nothing else but they still didn't show. Most of my recolours and CC do still work but it was just the magazines that seem to be uncolourable now, a bit odd but not the end of the world. Maybe the way the recolours were set up doesn't agree with the way Legacy likes them.

If you mean this one: https://modthesims.info/d/627938/cl...-community.html
I'm fairly sure it just uses the regular CEP/CEPextras (make sure hose are installed properly), and doesn't recolor the magazines, just the rack.

https://modthesims.info/d/115256/mo...zine-racks.html
If you mean these, they only recolor the magazines in the rack. The download is from 2005, so it was made very much earlier than...

https://modthesims.info/d/660795/vi...-cep-extra.html
...HugeLunatic's CEPextra (2021/23), so I doubt those are compatible.

I think it's very likely Luv had the original CEP/CEPExtra for the rack. If you use a different one, those most likely won't be compatible.

You can make new recolors for your own game, by extracting the ones from Luv's recolors and using HL's CEPextra.

As I said, they worked fine in UC just not in Legacy so it must be something to do with Legacy's way of reading files.

Recolors for game boxes/magazines made without the CEP extra will no longer work with the CEP extra, only the rack portion will show. The game boxes/magazines use a subset name that doesn't exist without the CEP extra. Recolors for the magazine rack made without the CEP extra won't work at all. The rack is now repo'd to the game rack the magazine subset doesn't exist without the extra.

What was wrong with your UC that made you switch to Legacy?

Aaah ok thanks. Amazingly I just downloaded Lottes magazine recolours and now they have shown up again! So now I'm a happy bunny

I used to have to save regularly, if I was on a lot building and decorating for a long time things would start changing colour and it would crash. The Legacy one has been much more stable.