Messed up neighborhood thumbnail/preview

[kytyngurl]

Soon after backing up my newest 'hood in Sim PE, I noticed a strange error: The neighborhood preview/thumbnail (the one you see when you are asked to select a neighborhood to play) looks strange. Specifically, it now looks like a mostly-white grid.

I can still play in it just fine, it looks perfectly normal once you are in. Still, I'd like to get the thumbnail to look normal again.

How can I do this?

[miros]

Take a screen shot of the most important part of your hood.  Paste it into an art program and save it as PNG, named N004_Neighborhood.png (use correct neighborhood number, not 004).  Copy or move that file to the My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods\N004 file (use correct neighborhood number, not 004).

[kytyngurl]

Thank you!

[kytyngurl]

Errrr, actually now that I've tried doing the above, it's still not working. WTH.

I'll try it again a few times, but with different images. This is really quite annoying!

[witch]

It's the pixel size of the image that matters as far as I know, google the right size and resize your image. I can't remember what it's supposed to be but I had trouble getting my pic to show up initially.

[Marhis]

It should be 400x300 pixels at resolution 100 (not 72 or 96, which is usually the default Photoshop and other graphic programs suggests)

[SaraMK]

You're sure you changed it to a PNG? When you take snapshots, they're JPG, so that would be an easy mistake to make.