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Dannakyri
Rising Veteran
5 years ago

All the Baby Icons are black skinned

anyone else or just me? I noticed it first when looking through my unplayed households. Everyone who had a baby had the darkest skin tone baby in the pictures. Then I had twins with 2 blue skinned kids and wondered by from the icon they had dark skinned black babies but he babies were actually blue. A second set of twins were born and their icon was white but after a Sim hour or so their icons had also turned to black. They have black skin on the family tree too. It only seems to be in the infant stage right now but I am wondering why it's happening.
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  • l33tp33tNW's avatar
    l33tp33tNW
    New Ace
    5 years ago
    Haven't played with babies since the update, but now I have to see this.
  • Dannakyri's avatar
    Dannakyri
    Rising Veteran
    5 years ago
    "Pamtastic72;c-17785694" wrote:
    If you haven’t played the household since the skin tone update that’s why it looks like that. The game isn’t sure what tone to assign to the preview. Once you load the household your baby should look normal in game, and once you leave the household they will look normal in the preview.


    This was a household I was actively planning when the babies were born after the update, so I don't think that would have fixed the issue in that household.
  • Karamazov123's avatar
    Karamazov123
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    Same. The baby was black in its icon, but lightly-tanned in person. When he became a toddler, he was somewhere in the middle of those two tones.
  • Admiral8Q's avatar
    Admiral8Q
    Seasoned Ace
    5 years ago
    It's gotta be a fairly recent patch then. I had a very dark-skin baby that turned very pinkish-white (practically albino) when she aged up to toddler.
  • phoenixlady88's avatar
    phoenixlady88
    Seasoned Veteran
    5 years ago
    New bug with the update, there is an bug report for it. Just press the me too.

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Baby-icon-household-picture-different-colour-than-Sim/td-p/9983440
  • comicsforever's avatar
    comicsforever
    5 years ago
    "Pamtastic72;c-17785694" wrote:
    If you haven’t played the household since the skin tone update that’s why it looks like that. The game isn’t sure what tone to assign to the preview. Once you load the household your baby should look normal in game, and once you leave the household they will look normal in the preview.


    no its not that I had babies born in a new save no cc or mods and it still happened
  • smilepanda209's avatar
    smilepanda209
    New Spectator
    5 years ago
    Yeah I have had this too. I am assuming it is something to do with the skin tone update.
  • Scobren's avatar
    Scobren
    Legend
    5 years ago
    I wonder if it is because of the debug baby object changing having something to do with it that happened a few patches ago.
  • Simmerville's avatar
    Simmerville
    Legend
    5 years ago
    I'm having this, too. Babies look "normal" in crib, but the icon is one of the darkest skin tones available. I have not found a single lighter skin baby with a correct skin tone icon yet. I noticed for the first time 1-2 days ago, so yes, it might very likely be from the latest patch.

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