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clpeters1's avatar
6 years ago
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Sim is turning into an ape character when going to work?!?

Anyone else having this issue? My sim is in the education career. Every time she goes to work she turns into this ape-looking character and it’s really bugging me (see pic)!!! When I have her change outfits she’s back to normal but I don’t know why this keeps happening!

Is this a Halloween costume? Some kind of bug? My sim doesn’t have any costumes in her outfits currently. Thanks for reading!

  • @clpeters1 There currently seems to be a bug that messes with work-outfits for sims. What your sim is wearing is indeed a costume that was recently added. The problem will very probably solve itself once your sim gets a promotion and the work-outfit is automatically replaced with the corresponding one for that career level. However, if you don't want to wait that long you can create your own work-outfit by selecting your active sim in live-mode and opening the cheat-console (press Ctrl + Shift + C), then enter the following:

    testingcheats on

    sims.modify_career_outfit_in_cas

    This will lead you to a special CAS-screen where you can assign the current work-outfit for that sim. Make sure that you ONLY change that particular outfit and not any of the others!

    Hope this helps!

13 Replies

  • RandomBuzziness's avatar
    RandomBuzziness
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago

    @DMDragonCTOh cool! Now I know this will work, thanks! :D I usually see several different Sims in bear costumes whenever I play in Granite Falls (my Sims spend lots of time there). Does the Bigfoot costume cause a Tense or any other moodlet like the Bear costume?

    In my most recent save the Hermit is also an elder female but I would be fine with her dressing up as a Bigfoot. After all, the most famous (alleged) Bigfoot is a female named Patti ;-D

  • DMDragonCT's avatar
    DMDragonCT
    Seasoned Hotshot
    6 years ago

    @RandomBuzziness I don't think that the bigfoot costume causes tense moodlets or enables any type of special interactions. That's definitely the drawback and also why my bear-guy only wears it as a secondary outfit. I was also a bit afraid that he might lose his special NPC-tag when his primary outfit wasn't a bear anymore. I've never tested this.

    On a side note, it's interesting how varied different games are, because in all my years playing, the game has only ever generated a single bear character for me. I know that there's even a mod out there that stops the spawning of more bears, but I obviously never had a need for it. And since I've always played with "age active household only", the hermit, the park ranger, the bear/bigfoot and the forest ghost have been the same characters for me since the very beginning. 

  • RandomBuzziness's avatar
    RandomBuzziness
    Seasoned Ace
    6 years ago
    @DMDragonCT I'm guessing all of the NPCs for Granite Falls are generated on the first time you visit that world & there does seem to be some randomness to it. I usually do my best to ignore the Bear sims & in some of my saves there may very well have been just one, but the one save where I specifically checked their names & tag info there was at least two. In several of my saves I have seen more than one Park Ranger as well. There has always been just one Hermit but I have seen them both male and female versions.

    I've never edited any of the Bear sims but I did use the Modify in CAS cheat to change one of the Rangers because I would see her in other worlds and her everyday outfit was ridiculous. Afterwards, she'd still be wearing a regular Ranger uniform when I would see her in Granite Falls. I've also changed the everyday outfit for one of the Raccoon sims from San Myshuno and she would still dress up as a Raccoon at night. Funnily enough, one time I saw The Hermit from that particular save in a karaoke bar in San Myshuno! I guess she was not so much of a Hermit after all? xD She was dressed in her regular Hermit clothes but it would have been hilarious to see her show up there wearing a Bigfoot costume! xDDD