Re: How to make Erwin Pries the Curio Shop Owner again?

I found a solution! At least it seems like it's working? It's a bit convoluted, but hear me out...

After reading through Sims 4 forums, I found someone wanting to clone a sim's looks over to another sim and I got an idea... Maybe it's not about making Erwin Pries into the Curio Shop Owner, but rather, making the Curio Shop Owner into Erwin Pries..?

Mods: MC Command Center, and Fogity Unlock CAS parts.

Cheats: testingcheats on , sims.get_sim_id_by_name (First Name) (Last Name) , sims.modify_career_outfit_in_cas [id] (replace id with the Sim-ID).

First I downloaded the original Erwin Pries to my library. You will also need to have testingcheats on.Using the MCC-mod, I clicked the current random NPC assigned as the Curio Shop Owner, named Toby, and opened MCC. You go MCC > MC CAS > Copy/Paste > Paste Tray Sim > Any Saved Sim. This opens up a list of all saved households. I clicked on the Pries household and chose Erwin. A menu opens up, and you choose what you want to copy. I chose everything except for personality (in a previos try I copied everything, which made a new Curio Shop owner spawn the next day). And lo and behold, Toby turned into a sorta Erwin looking sim, except for eyebrows, hair color, beard, and hairstyle,skin details and teeth. By using the shift-cheat Modify in CAS, I opened up the household and Toby looked more like "Erwin", but the unlockable colander hat and vest was missing. Ah, the household didn't have the items unlocked. For the time I added the right eyebrows skin details, teeth and remove the stubble, and confirmed my changes. When I confirmed the changes and went out of CAS, I also noticed that the work outfit hadn't changed, along with Toby still having short outdoor retreat hair. I figured it was marked as a career outfit, but I knew how to change this with a cheat. But first...

To fix the missing conspiracy clothing, I exited the game and downloaded the Fogity Unlock CAS parts mod, as this would unlock the right clothes for the new "Erwin" in CAS. Reentering the game, and once again using the shift-cheat Modify in CAS on Toby, I was able to give him back his colander hat and fancy vest. One of the best parts of the Fogity mod is that the clothing items remain even after you've removed the mod.

Now to change the work outfit. I used the cheat sims.get_sim_id_by_name Toby Ruthledge to get "Erwin's" Sim-ID, as I would need to add this to the cheat to change his work outfit. To change the work outfit, type in sims.modify_career_outfit_in_cas [id]. I had to type the cheat several times as I kept typing the sim id wrong (it's 18 digits long and you're seemingly unable to copy it...), but at last I got it working, and Work Outfit CAS opened up. I changed the color of the vest and colander hat, and was able to change his hair to the correct one, and I also changed the color of their converse to black. I also added his glasses and wristwatch, and changed his pants to black distressed jeans, but these didn't "stick" to the work outfit when he came back to work.

I stayed with a sim at the Slip 42 lot and watched Toby, or "Erwin", repawn three days in a row, and also had a successfull try when visiting the neghborhood with a sim from outside of StrangerVille. As a celebration, I changed Toby's name officially to Erwin Pries (changing the name doesn't seem to have broken his role). Using MCC I also added the right skills, MCC > MC Cheats > Cheat Sim Info > Skill Cheats... > Set Skills to Level.

I'm so happy to finally have this figured out, as complicated as it might be. Though I doubt there are that many people, except for me, this obsessed with getting the game *exactly* as you want, haha.