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SinfulRoyal
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1 day ago

Shiny Sims What to do??

 

Hi everyone I’ve been dealing with a very frustrating issue in The Sims 4 where some of my Sims suddenly get a shiny / plastic looking effect on their entire body/Face. What makes this especially confusing is that the effect seems to come and go randomly depending on zoom level, camera angle, lighting, or sometimes for no obvious reason at all.

 

What I’ve already tried:

 

Removed all broken / red CC that Tray Importer listed me

Removed all makeup, jewelry, and accessories one by one for testing 

No skin overlays are applied on the particular sim

Cleared cache multiple times (localthumbcache.package, etc.)

Adjusted graphics settings (post processing on/off)

 

Better Exceptions reports no errors

 

The worst part ist it is completely random sometimes it appears after an hour sometimes 2 minute after i reloaded the save,

Sometimes not always it appears and disappear when zooming in and out

 

So what should i do? i have over 7000 CC tried the 50/50 method but since this bug appears randomly it's very hard to figure it out also i have 20 families in my neighbourhood it might be that the shiney effect on them is triggered by something else then the sim before them this....

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  • SinfulRoyal​  I've had this happen randomly on and off for at least the last 2 years.  It has happened with multiple sims, but only one at the time and it may last for a few minutes to hours, and it may happen across play sessions.  It happens with a sim wearing game attire or CC.  I haven't had it happen with the active household, only with NPCs.  I see it mostly when I travel away from home to another zone.

    To get it to go away, you can wait it out (which is what I do now) or you can go to CAS and change the outfit.  If it shows up when you arrive to a travel destination, it will usually clear up if you travel out and then back to that location.

    Hope this helps.