This is a Mac specific problem, it is caused by non-standard image sizes being imported into Homecrafter during the creation of walls & floors. The template default size for a wall is 256x512, and 256x256 for a floor, if a size other than these are used for the wall and floor graphics then the result isn't displayed properly in the Mac version of The Sims 2, but instead shows as a plain grey image.

The reason for using non-standard images is because they do not always produce the best quality results for some designs, many creators will use an image that 256x768 for wall images because it gets a cleaner looking result in game, also when creating 2x2 and 5x5 floor images and of course terrain paints which use a 9x9 base image size, using larger textures will make the resulting file look much better.

If you are familiar with SimPE you can fix this problem yourself, by opening the wall or floor file in SimPE, exporting the texture image to a graphics program and resizing it (you may need to turn off anything which retains the aspect ratio - please consult your program's help files if you are unsure of how to do this), and then importing it again in the correct size and saving the file.

Although we will endeavor to try and avoid this situation in the future it may be the case that some of our new additions will still use the non-standard sizes where the design looks noticeably poor quality using the default template size.