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UnicornSlyme
Seasoned Traveler
10 days ago
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CC Pet Default Replacement eyes causing issues after patch

After the patch, I loaded up my game with my CC enabled and I noticed all my pets with custom painted coats had turned completely black. Replacing the pet with a fresh copy from the gallery didn't work - they were fine in CAS but once in gameplay mode, they'd turn black too. 

After some troubleshooting with CC, I discovered it was the default eye replacements for dogs and cats that caused it - specifically Wrixles' dolce eyes. This was the only dog and cat specific CC I had. Removing it allowed new pets to be created and not turn black in game but it didn't fix the ones already affected. I had to revert to an earlier folder save pre-patch and doing that restored all the painted coats in my saves (but I lost like 5 days of gameplay).

If you have default replacement pet eyes, I'd suggest removing them entirely before updating. Unknown if this affects horses that use Wrixles' eyes, I use a different default replacement with no issues so far. This only seems to affect cats and dogs with custom painted coats - it's fixed for me but I wanted to report it in case it pops up for others.

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  • UnicornSlyme's avatar
    UnicornSlyme
    Seasoned Traveler
    10 days ago

    From other reports, this isn't a CC issue. It's happening to players with no mods and on consoles. The only way to fix it is to not use painted pets. Every last one will break.

  • m1rra's avatar
    m1rra
    Rising Newcomer
    10 days ago

    Hi, i am having trouble with my animal sims. i created a two cats of my own and i added some paint onto one of them to make it more realistic to my actual cats irl. i realized i had some glitchy mods so i went to go replace them and when i re-opened my game, one of the cats were completely black (he's a beige/tan cat). i'm not sure what this is and i removed ALL of my mods including my cc. i opened and closed my game too many times to count, as well as to create a whole new save with the same sims. i restarted my game and it still happened. i looked up some solutions but i'm still a bit confused on how to fix it and this is the first this issue has ever occurred to me.

  • UnicornSlyme's avatar
    UnicornSlyme
    Seasoned Traveler
    10 days ago

    I thought it WAS fixed but apparently not. After playing for a bit, they started reverting to black again.

     

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