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ajkalan
Seasoned Novice
3 years ago
Solved

Swatches of base-game clothing listed as part of expansion packs in Gallery

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? 1.91.205.1020
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? All expansions other than High School Years; all game packs other than Werewolves, My Wedding Stories, and Journey to Batuu; all Stuff Packs
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Enter Create-a-Sim and remove all clothes/hair/make-up/accessories from a test Sim. Use the knit cap and pants with the color swatches in the first two screenshots. (N.B. These are not the only clothes or swatches causing this bug, but I have not scrubbed through all base-game clothing to find others.) Save to your Gallery and check which packs have been used.
What happens when the bug occurs? The Gallery listing erroneously lists the use of the Get to Work and Dine Out packs for the cap and pants. When using the first swatch for each item and saving to the Gallery, it is correctly listed as not using pack specific content. (I also tried the light tan swatch for the pants, which also causes the incorrect listing.)
What do you expect to see? Base-game clothing should not be flagged as pack specific regardless of the swatch used.
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Neutral/Not Sure 

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I noticed this while creating base-game-only versions of households for the online Gallery. There are other clothes and swatches causing this issue, like mentioned above, but this was a little while back and I didn't note which clothes/swatches were to blame before removing them from the Gallery listing. It seems to be an issue with new swatches that were added in a recent update, but without checking all the clothes I can't confirm that. I had to disable the packs to find out which clothes were causing the issue, so it is a bit of a pain to diagnose.

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14 Replies

  • bond_with_bees's avatar
    bond_with_bees
    New Vanguard
    4 years ago

    Certain swatches of basegame CAS items flag as using packs in the gallery. Specifically:

    The brown/khaki swatch of the wide-leg trousers (default swatch: blue) flags as Dine out

    The gray swatch of the high-top sneakers (default swatch: neon green & blue) flags as Get To Work

    The default swatches do not flag as using the packs, this is swatch-specific (haven't checked all swatches, I just know these ones do, since that's the only thing the sim is wearing in any outfits when uploading, and removing them or changing to default swatch removes the flags). 

    Product: The Sims 4
    Platform: PC
    Which language are you playing the game in? English
    How often does the bug occur? 100%
    What is your current game version number? UPDATE 05/24/2022
    What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? 
    Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Create a sim with no CAS assets (hair, clothes, accessories, tattoos, makeup, etc). Add only the basegame high-top sneakers in gray swatch, and/or the wide-leg trousers in khaki/brown swatch (see attached screenshots). Upload the sim to the gallery. 
    What happens when the bug occurs? The sim is flagged as using Get To Work, and Dine Out. Removing those two assets, or changing the swatches to the default, removes the flag when uploaded.
    What do you expect to see? The sim is marked as "This gallery item does not use any pack-specific content"
    Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Not now. I've removed them.
    Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Not that I know of, I just identified this issue today.

  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @bond_with_bees Some swatches are from packs that is correct. Will need to check if that's true for the ones you flagged.
  • bond_with_bees's avatar
    bond_with_bees
    New Vanguard
    4 years ago
    @crinrict Ah, ok thanks! If that's the case, these should not be under the basegame filter, and should show up under the "items used from this pack" in the gallery (currently it has the icon for the pack, but doesn't show any pack items as being used, which is very confusing when trying to make a basegame upload for the gallery). Thanks!
  • crinrict's avatar
    crinrict
    Hero+
    4 years ago
    @bond_with_bees It's probably a technical issue that they can't flag them as packs or filter them but yes, there's always confusion for this.
  • MadameNordica's avatar
    MadameNordica
    Seasoned Ace
    4 years ago

    I'd like to suggest to EA devs that they could mark them the same way they mark the bg modern toilets - I forget what they're called - the black & white ones - that have island living swatches - when you hover over those island living swatches, an island living ICON appears. Why can't we have that in cas?

  • ajkalan's avatar
    ajkalan
    Seasoned Novice
    3 years ago

    Thank you! I didn't realize this was intended behavior.

  • ChrinnieSims's avatar
    ChrinnieSims
    2 years ago

    These shorts actually show up as Base Game in CAS, but they're from Parenthood. Spent way too much time having to figure out why I couldn't build a base game only Sim... and that was the reason. They need to be properly labeled.

  • jupkmn's avatar
    jupkmn
    New Ace
    2 years ago

    Yes, this is annoying, but some base game items have swatches that are exclusive to some expansions or game packs and it doesn't show on the CAS.

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