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yagwit
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6 years ago
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[BY DESIGN] Sim's Paintings/Photos Tagged As Custom Content

Product: The Sims 4 Platform:PC Which language are you playing the game in? English How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%) What is your current game version number? 1.63.133.1020 Wha...
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  • SimGuruNick's avatar
    SimGuruNick
    5 years ago

    Paintings and Photos By Reference are supposed to get tagged as having CC, this is by design. If anyone is getting stuff tagged as having CC and By Reference wasn't used, it'd be awesome if you could upload the lot to the Gallery and let me know so that we can take a look, thanks so much!

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stjmk
5 years ago
@SimGuruNick "Paintings By Reference are supposed to get tagged as having CC, this is by design."

Why?
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SimGuruNick
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5 years ago

@stjmk There used to be an exploit where players could use By Reference to insert custom pictures (like pictures from the web) and the painting/photo wouldn't get tagged as having CC. I think the trick was that you could take a photo of a photo and the new photo wouldn't get appropriately tagged, something like that. The solution was to make the entire lot/room get auto-tagged as having CC if By Reference was used anywhere on the lot. 

  • eustacecs's avatar
    eustacecs
    5 years ago
    @SimGuruNick

    > I think the trick was that you could take a photo of a photo and the new photo wouldn't get appropriately tagged, something like that.

    Insert the picture into modded painting frame of needed size. Place it at modded lot. Take the shot and/or make Paint from Reference off it. Place the result at unmodded lot. Voila!

    All sims in galleries should be tagged as 'using CC' then. Because they could use 'gallery thumbnail pose mods', you know. Which could be inappropriate, you know.

    Won't it be more... user-friendly just to strip such photocards and paintings off lots which are being published at Gallery? And/or upon download/lot placement attempt, as with lamps-for-Sims-3 and unowned DLC content?
    • yagwit's avatar
      yagwit
      Rising Vanguard
      5 years ago

      I just want to upload Picasso! I hope to see some kind of agreement in the future where "from reference" is allowed, and doing anything below board would mean being banned forever. I will try the visit lot thing to take photos of P's paintings. 

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