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Re: [FIXED] [GRO] Teens change appearance (Related to loose tooth)

I had a look at this, and it appears to be tied to some hidden buffs that a child sim gets when they have a loose tooth:

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buff_Lose_Teeth_Missing_Tooth_AppearanceModifier
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These buffs apply an appearance modifier (something which alters CAS parts for the duration of the buff), to children (which works fine), but since these buffs don't get removed when they age up to a teen, the game tries to apply the same modifier that is meant for children, but on the teen, which causes the visual issues we see here. Also, these buffs have an accompanying commodity (which is basically a statistic, kind of like motives) with the same name as the respective buff, and from my testing, removing these buffs alone is not enough to clear the glitch, you also have to remove the commodities, which in the vanilla game is not the easiest thing to do (in theory it is possible with testingcheats, but the cheat is quite long).

However, even after removing the buffs and their commodities, the sim may still have an odd appearance (have very big eyes, something that is usually from very broken CC but not in this case) but it is easily fixed by editing them in CAS (full edit mode) and randomizing their face preset - then edit the sim as normal; the bug should not return when you leave CAS, provided all the aforementioned buffs and commodities have been removed. I have also made a workaround modfix that does this, which should prevent the issue happening on any future sims, but it's not retroactive for Sims which already have a bugged appearance - you would still need to edit them in CAS as mentioned above to get them back to normal, or roll back the save to a point before you got the glitch.

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  • LazyDandelion's avatar
    LazyDandelion
    Rising Rookie
    3 years ago
    @thunder11433 Thanks for that, I went into my household, and I wasn't able to save the appearance of the first sim since her buff had already disappeared, but I removed the "Loose Tooth" buff from my second sim in time to save her. Hope this gets fixed soon.
  • EeveeTinn's avatar
    EeveeTinn
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago
    @thunder11433 I aged my teen down to child to remove the buffs "naturally" and aged up the child after the buffs and it seems to be fine now.. but not sure if something else will break it.

    I noticed after all of that that my sims just randomly started cancelling actions and doing other things
  • unicornpiggiez's avatar
    unicornpiggiez
    Seasoned Veteran
    3 years ago
    @thunder11433 Is there any way you can release your workaround mod fix so players have something to correct this issue in the meantime?
  • EeveeTinn's avatar
    EeveeTinn
    Seasoned Ace
    3 years ago

    @unicornpiggiezthey released a hotfix but if your sim is already affected you will need to "fix" them on your own I believe

    CM Edit: Do not link directly to mods on AHQ. 

    Edit: Sorry, completely slipped my mind about the links. You can google Thunder1143´s patreon to find a hotfix until EA releases an official one.

  • BrookeIsph's avatar
    BrookeIsph
    3 years ago

    This is really helpful, thank you. Is this a bug that the sims creators have to fix? Do i need to wait for that? or should i save my teen sim to gallery, delete sim in world, then import the saved one from gallery? would that work?

  • Hi! Since this issue is happening with children for personal use I added the child trait to your tuning underneath teen. I was wondering if you were working on a mod to fix the issue with children as well? I’m not all that great of a modder. 

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