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Re: Mermaids not transforming in water

@WhantSomeEggs

The problem with mermaids is that you won't see the NPC mermaids for so long until you make friends with one of them and she will admit she is a mermaid. From now on you will always see their fish tails in the water. It is set by design.
As for the disappearing packs, this is a small Origin bug that will disappear immediately if you fix the game on Origin.
Origin/My games library - right-click on TS4 - option: "Repair"
You have to wait until Origin will fix all packs, not only the base game.

I don't work for EA

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  • WhantSomeEggs's avatar
    WhantSomeEggs
    6 years ago

    Hmm, I was perhaps unclear, I meant that mermaids are NOT showing their tails in the water.  All the of the games premade mermaids are swimming like humans in clothes that aren't their swimwear at times.  In my old save from before my system was upgraded I played a custom mermaid, so I loaded it up to see if this was affecting my own played mermaids and it was not.  It may be that if I invited them to my household it might clear up whatever conflict is occuring with them, unfortunately thats not something I can do everytime this is a problem.  My current sim is dating Uku right now, but he still swims like a human and doesnt transform into his merself, just like the others.  I'll give a repair a try though, that may be all that is the problem, I wanted to see what anyone said first before wasting my time, in case it had something to do with the hard drive copy/origin doing something odd.  Thanks for your reply!

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    WhantSomeEggs
    6 years ago

    Just came to give an update.  I cleared my cache, and did a repair which didn't solve the issue.  I was about to follow your steps to a factory reset, but first wanted to test some things.  My sim married the merman Uku.  He still swam in human form even after joining household, but when I took him into CAS to view his mermaid form and exited it fixed the problem for all mermaids.  Something must have unblocked it or whatever!(sorry not very computer savvy but sometimes I get things done lol)  Thank you for your help!