Spellcaster Ears

Hello everyone!

Before the DU-patch spellcasters could have pointy ears. At the moment they only have pointy ears in CAS but not in gameplay.

https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17333204#Comment_17333204

Here is a thread about it on the EA Answer HQ
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-ROM-Spellcaster-s-pointed-ears-not-showing-up-in-Live-Mode/m-p/8493929#M113692


I myself had an entire community of spellcaster elves that I was building an medieval world for. That save is pretty much ruined now. If you miss your spellcaster ears don't forget to swing by and add your voice on the bug-thread.

Cheers.

@SilentKitty
thank you for the link. I skipped that thread because the title said mermaids. I will go check my spellcasters. It never occurred to me that cas might be different than the ingame appearance of my sims.

"Nindigo;c-17338100" wrote:
Why would they have pointed ears? Harry Potter certainly didn't have them. Nor did witches and warlocks in Sims 3. Elves have pointed ears. Sometimes vampires and aliens do. And goblins.

Harry Potter didn't have pointy ears. Lol. But there are other stories about magic too. This is a magic pack, not a Harry Potter pack. My current spellcaster definitely is not part of the Harry Potter universe, although my next save with spellcasters might be.

And pointy ears were available for all sims in sims 2 (one of the last face templates in base game) and sims 3 (with the patch for supernatural, a lot of the premade sims in dragon valley also have pointy ears) So pointy eared magical sims (and pointy eared non-magical sims) were possible in both sims 2 and 3. Sims 4 unfortunately started putting annoying restrictions on the pointy ears, and now seems to have messed up those restrictions with the last patch. I wish sims 4 would also just make pointy available for all sims.

"Nindigo;c-17338820" wrote:
@Atreya33 But why would spellcasters have pointed ears? Are they a species to themselves or simply humans/whatever who know/learned magic? I mean, Elves as a species have pointed ears, but they don't necessarily know magic.

It depends on the kind of spellcaster you have in mind. Some people have stories in mind where normal humans can learn magic, while others tell stories where spellcasters have a inherently magical nature that sets them apart from normal humans. It purely depends on how you want to play them. I am not saying they all need pointy ears by default, you can play them in a totally different way than me. I just want to be able to give pointy ears to them if I choose to, it helps to tell some stories. And without actual elves or fairies in the game , spellcasters can also be used to play as elves and fairies. It is a bit pretend, but the best option we have so far.

I like giving them pointy ears to hint at their magical lineage, kind of a visual manifestation of the magical blood line trait. Spellcasters are not a totally different species in my game, but they are different from non-magical folk.

"JACKIEJOY;c-17339050" wrote:
Pointy ears look better. The ears in game are ugly to me.

Yeah, humans are disgustingly boring...and rounded ears? That's so old and lame. I mean, who even wants rounded ears in real life?
/sarcasm

"Nindigo;c-17338820" wrote:
@Atreya33 But why would spellcasters have pointed ears? Are they a species to themselves or simply humans/whatever who know/learned magic? I mean, Elves as a species have pointed ears, but they don't necessarily know magic.

For me a huge part of it is how they chose to change the appearance of existing sims. I made occult sims with pointy ears, a magical community in my save. Download a patch and all of the look different.

It was there in CAS, for me it was a selling point and I haven’t seen a single post prior to the patch or when buying the Game Pack that the feature that I really liked will be removed.

I liked those ears and bought a pack with them. Surprise - they are gone.

The magical life of a occult-sim-player.


Different players value different things and this really really bugs me. I don’t want to mod my game for every single thing but I can’t play those sims as they are because they look wrong to me.

I am just one little player so I guess it doesn’t make much of a difference what I think but this made me sad. I am getting CC-ears, clothes and mods like crazy because everything out now work with the current patch. I won’t stop playing, but I don’t feel like buying anything new. If I stop now at least I know what I have in my game. I don’t know if I want to risk another patch.

I mostly play human sims or human-looking spellcasters but I am absolutely saddened by this post. I like to play "elves" now and then so it's a real shame the pointed ears are gone for spellcasters.

@Mariefoxprice83 I'm happy to report that with the latest patch spellcaster ears are fixed too! :) However, mermaid eyes are now gone for them.

"CelSims;c-17341316" wrote:

"SeaDragonSong;c-17341309" wrote:
@Mariefoxprice83 I'm happy to report that with the latest patch spellcaster ears are fixed too! :) However, mermaid eyes are now gone for them.

My caster didn't have the choice of pointy ears when I tried earlier. I'm a sad simmer.

Edit: I went and tried again. Although the presets didn't come up as an option, I was able to restore his ears by going into detail edit mode. So yay!

Weird, I had the presets when I checked in a new game. Glad you were able to fix yours though!

Wow, the ears are back. In the game too and just not in CAS?

That would make me so so happy :smile:

Yes spellcasters could have pointed ears but you had to give it to them manually by adjusting their ears to be pointed, if they've taken that away I'm going to be livid quite frankly because it will ruin my inheritance series spellcasters and zelda characters.

Checking my game now but I'm guessing that what happened is that all the sims had an ear reset to fix something that happened where a bunch of random sims that weren't supposed to suddenly had elven styled pointy ears

I'm happy to report that my sims are still pointy eared and glorious.