What's up with all the boys showing up with dresses on? I'm not talking about NPCs. I'm talking about characters in my households, that I dressed, but are suddenly wandering around wearing something completely different that does not fit their character. I'm playing a different household, and suddenly see a little boy from one of my other households wander around wearing a dress that I never put on them. I think, "I didn't put that on him." Then I see another little boy doing it, and then a toddler boy in a dress. (No grown men though, just kids.) Why don't they wear the clothes I assigned to them? At first I thought it was a bug related to the mod that lets kids do magic, because I thought it was only happening in the magic world. But lately I noticed they're showing up like that in other worlds too. BTW, when I check CAS to see if they're supposed to be wearing a dress, I see that they do not have one assigned to them. The game just puts it on. It's been doing that for about 2-3 weeks. Since I noticed all the boys in dresses, I started noticing other characters in things I don't remember assigning to them too, but didn't really notice it before the majority of my little boys started wearing dresses when I wasn't playing them.

Situational outfits. Gotta love ‘em. You can use MCCC to replace situational outfits with something from one of the planned categories, or you can mod out the situational outfits altogether with Bienchen’s Situational Outfits Be Gone mod. No idea why the boys are wearing dresses, though. Maybe something flipped the gender clothing prefs in CAS?

I knew there were situational outfits for jobs, but they change their clothes to go to the magic world? I didn't know there was a mod for stopping the clothing changes. I have used MCCC to change work outfits. (One of my daughter's werefoxes started showing up for work naked one day, probably due to a cc outfit being deleted. So we changed her "work outfit".) I might have to look into that if it gets annoying. It's a little jarring, especially if it doesn't fit the character; but my daughter thinks it's hilarious. What "situational outfits " do they have for kids though? (I know kids wear school uniforms for school in Komorebi, which makes sense. I can't imagine any other situations for them to change their clothes though.) Speaking of kids in school uniforms, I'm gonna have to check to see if I can assign school uniforms to children in certain households outside Komorebi! I do have a couple households that would send their kids to private schools.

Have occasionally seen the basic problem with own sims while not played, though not the dresses. Perhaps the game considers everything other than direct play a situation.

"Tammors;c-18135595" wrote:I knew there were situational outfits for jobs, but they change their clothes to go to the magic world? I didn't know there was a mod for stopping the clothing changes. I have used MCCC to change work outfits. (One of my daughter's werefoxes started showing up for work naked one day, probably due to a cc outfit being deleted. So we changed her "work outfit".) I might have to look into that if it gets annoying. It's a little jarring, especially if it doesn't fit the character; but my daughter thinks it's hilarious. What "situational outfits " do they have for kids though? (I know kids wear school uniforms for school in Komorebi, which makes sense. I can't imagine any other situations for them to change their clothes though.) Speaking of kids in school uniforms, I'm gonna have to check to see if I can assign school uniforms to children in certain households outside Komorebi! I do have a couple households that would send their kids to private schools. The Magic realm does indeed generate Situational outfits. Sometimes they're actually cooler than anything I put on the sim... most of the time they're as eye-searing as any other random outfit.Kids can sometimes wear costumes if you have Seasons and a holiday with the Wear Costumes tradition. I have both Halloween and Summer Geek Con as Costume Wearing holidays, and I'll see mostly kids and teens wearing costumes throughout the worlds. If you happen to have Spooky Stuff, one of the costumes in there is a princess dress.

@Tammors There are situational outfits for The Magic Realm, the festivals in San Myshuno, special venues and some walk by situations. I don’t play kids much, so I’m not sure about specifics there. MCCC allows you to designate situational outfit substitutes. I usually set mine to everyday clothes instead of game generated ones. You still get sims wearing lightweight clothes at the festivals in cool weather, for example, because the game is pulling from the everyday bin. But, even that’s better than the weirdness. I have no idea why they change to go the The Magic Realm. I edit game generated Spellcasters when I catch them there in some crazy get up, and give them something in their everyday outfits that’s appropriate for a student Spellcaster. Then, with MCCC making the substitution, it’s okay. Bienchens mod eliminates situational outfits. I use both it and MCCC settings, just to make sure they’re gone. ?

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viola-illyria
4 years ago
Spellcasters have situational outfits (and they tend to be horrible. Bella, just because you're a witch doesn't mean you lose your sense of style). The game is putting the kids in the spellcaster walkabout outfit.
Moridhus
New Ace
4 years ago
Here's a question for people with City Living.

One of my households was living next to Salim Benali, and one day he was hanging out wearing a maid's uniform like Bonehilda. Does he normally do that? Or was this another example of the game randomly putting a dress on a guy that doesn't have one in his wardrobe?
RoseQuartz724
Rising Veteran
4 years ago
"Tammors;c-18144781" wrote:
Here's a question for people with City Living.

One of my households was living next to Salim Benali, and one day he was hanging out wearing a maid's uniform like Bonehilda. Does he normally do that? Or was this another example of the game randomly putting a dress on a guy that doesn't have one in his wardrobe?

CL apartment dwellers showing up in a maid outfit or towel is tied to them having had a "door with hearts" woohoo-related event at their own apartment. It can happen with any apartment neighbor sim. It's like the "door with loud music notes" event where you get to complain to them about their noise, because you can complain about the hearts too.
SilentK008
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Situational outfits is one of the things that I am so happy to mod away. Zero has one for the Magical Realm and I don't remember if there are any more. It is just so jarring to see sims that I have spent so much time to give several different outfits and then they show up in something hideous. Wish we could turn that off.
keekee53
Seasoned Ace
4 years ago
Since adding this neighborhood stories thing, I wish there was a no randomizing outfits choice.

I also wish we could say use only styled outfits for townies and then we were able to create a few styles of our own.

For the love of my sanity, I wish we could turn off accessories and hats for allll townies.
RoseQuartz724
Rising Veteran
4 years ago
"keekee53;c-18144983" wrote:
Since adding this neighborhood stories thing, I wish there was a no randomizing outfits choice.

I also wish we could say use only styled outfits for townies and then we were able to create a few styles of our own.

For the love of my sanity, I wish we could turn off accessories and hats for allll townies.

A toggle for that would be great.
mightyspritesims
Legend
4 years ago
@keekee53 I was going nuts during the first couple weeks of my San Myshuno save trying to figure out why there seemed to be some sort of Striped Tights And Leprechaun Hat/Wrestling Mask Club going on. Then someone clued me in to the fact that there is a hidden trait called something like "isWeirdo" that's part of the City Living design just like the living statues and buskers. That trait is responsible for the striped tights and leprechaun hat or wrestling mask outfit.
https://i.ibb.co/j3F1VZN/keep-myshuno-weird.png
Ennasus60
New Traveler
4 years ago
"keekee53;c-18144983" wrote:
For the love of my sanity, I wish we could turn off accessories and hats for allll townies.

Bienchen has a mod called norandomhatsaccessoriesandmakeup

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