Re: Sims 4 Vampires, The Mystery of the White Bat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qx2qMYhgp8

You can see the two different colors in the Gameplay Trailer when two vamps Woohoo as Bats at 1:43. The male sim turns into the white bat.
But I've had my sims do that and they were always the same dark grey bats.

I've gotten my sim to where all the vampire aspirations are achieved (using no cheats) and that seemed to do nothing. I don't think I've tried making a vamp with a good trait, yet. But I somehow feel that won't be it either. :/

I did once think that maybe your sim needs to have "x" amount of offspring/underlings or a ton of vamp experience, but I didn't test that yet.

Edit: Made a Good Traited vamp, and no white bat. Then I thought what if it was a good vs evil thing, maybe the sims in the trailer were good and evil?

Made an Evil Traited Vamp and had them Woohoo, no white bats...

@DeskCoffee, well, it was worth a try! 🤭 😳 Thanks for your update! 😇  I think maybe it then just must be random.  In real life this would mean the lighter bat has a recessive gene and the darker bat has a dominant gene, but I do not know if there is any genetic component to this or not.  But that could explain why the lighter bat is rare. 🤔

If I find anything out, I will tell you!  Please do the same, since I am now wondering how to get different colors.  🤓

@DeskCoffeeyes, it could be genetic, or based on exp points and genetic, or how long your lineage is, or completely random. 😃  But thanks to your research, the one thing we do know is that it is not based on Aspiration or Personality traits! 😉  The info about Wolf Quest is interesting, and might shed some light, so we will have to see!  

The only other thing I can think of is it might have something to do with whether your Vampire was created in CAS or got turned in-game, but that seems like a long shot.🤔

I'm sorry your master Vamp family got deleted! 😢  And I bet you will be paying attention from now on! 😇

Update:  I tested 3 different Vampire families (2 with 3 members and 1 with 2 members), with a total of 8 Vampires tested.  There wasn't a difference in the color of the bats between a Vampire made in CAS and a Vampire turned in-game.  Also, while bat-color might still be genetic, it is not linked to the human form's  hair, skin, or eye color.  All of my 8 bats tested were the darker type.  If the white bat color has anything to do with genetics, it is a recessive trait and probably randomly generated (as if it were a mutation.) 🤨   Also, all bats had aqua-blue glowing eyes, like the one in your picture. 😉

Again, if I find anything about different color bats and what causes them, or if I see a different color bat, I will tell you! 🙂

@DeskCoffee, you might be right about that (but I hope you are wrong! 😇 )  It would be cool to have the bats come in colors, from black to white with several grays in between. 🙂  But it was either something they abandoned, or they just changed the color for the video to make it easier to tell that there were 2 bats, and therefore 2 Vampire Sims. 

I usually see these kinds of artistic touches to still photos, and concept art, and sometimes trailers, but when the actual EP, GP, SP or game comes out, certain features are no where to be found.☹️  I remember some toys in TS2 that were in the trailer, but not in Buy Mode.  Fortunately it turned out they were in the game, you just had to take them out of the toy box, so if you wanted to sell them in your retail store you had to take a bunch out of the toy box before you could put them on your shelves to sell. 🙂 There was also a case in TS2 where a person on the forums was looking for the exact female young adult to put in her game that was shown on the cover of the base game or one of the packs, but the cover to the base game or pack (I don't remember which) was concept art, and that exact Sim was not a Maxis pre-made Sim.  We gave her suggestions since the hair and clothing were in the game, but she wanted that exact face. 😞  Then there was the case where in TS3 there was a trailer to a pack and it featured a beautiful modern beach house with lots of stories and balconies, but it wasn't put into the game and a lot of people were sad! 😢

Everytime I think I see a bat that is a different color, it just turns out that it looks lighter next to certain walls or lighting, or at certain times of the day.  In the end they all turn out to be the same color. ☹️

Well, if either of us miraculously happen to see a different color bat in-game, we well tell each other! 😉

Happy Simming! 🥳

Still trying to figure this out...

I don't know if anyone has tested this but I had an idea so I thought I'd try it.

Killing a vamp and bringing them back to life via Ambrosia did not make them a white bat.

(The book of life did not seem to work in my game.)

Made a ghost vamp turn another sim into a vamp, no white bat.

When I get home or when I can I will next test of turning a ghost into a vamp will work or turning a ghost into a vamp and then reviving them.

(Not sure if ghosts can become a vamp as ghosts tho.)

.n.

Hello
i am a big fan of vampires  and im trying to findout how to have the with bat too
I tried to send a ticket to EA support but they never respond ...
if u have had any news about the white bat i thank you very much.