Custom content hair is grainy
Custom content hair turns very grainy after new update
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My Custom Content like hairs, skin etc have become grainy. Just seeing like all these little holes really makes me uncomftable/anxious/scared (Trypophobia). I know the new update did something with the graphic settings, and that might have been what messed up all the CC since they worked perfectly fine before. I know its not my mods since I've done the 50/50 method multiple times since this update.
Since this update is new I doubt that the creators will go back and fix all their previous content. I don't know if I can change my graphic settings or if Sims 4 Studio could be of help here, but i don't know how. If anyone has figured this out with some sort of Setting or via S4S. Please let me know. Thanks in advance!
Move your Mods folder to the Desktop and delete localthumbcache.package. Then test the game
If it works now check for updates to your Mods and CC. Add it back a little at a time while testing until you have found all that are broken.It's not a broken mod or something you can remove from the mods folder to fix. The creator of the CC needs to update the CC and then the CC needs to be deleted and replaced.
This is rather difficult to fix due to the fact that most mod/cc users have thousands of CC in their mod folder and this means tons of hairstyles. Finding the name of the hairs that are broken is a brutal task alone because when they are in our game they don't come listed by creator or name, they just show up. Sometimes there is a tag on the thumbnail for the creator, but still. This means having to recognize and remember the hair styles that are broken and checking if the creator updated it, if you use thesimsresource and have VIP you have a TSR manager to install and sometimes update the CC, which still may mean finding the hairstyle name in your mods folder, deleting it, reinstalling it. But this means remembering that the hairstyle is broken in the first place. Removing the mods folder isn't going to help.
What i usually do to identify cc is using Sims 4 Tray Importer. You can create a "test" family, give them the cc (clothes, hair, makeup or whatever), and the save the family. Open sims 4 tray importer, select the saved family, and it will list all the cc equiped, with a preview, where it is located in your mods folder etc... Very handy. I hope it helps 🙂
@Elltia_T Many CC skins and alpha hairstyles were broken by the werewolves patch, so it's not just you or your computer/graphics settings. I don't think changing your graphics settings will help at all. As far as I know, Sims 4 Studio does not currently have a batch fix to repair the broken files, but maybe that is something they'll add in the future.
CmarNYC is working on a utility mod called TS4AlphaConverter to repair broken alpha hairstyles and skins. I don't think I can post a link here, but you can find it on Mod the Sims. It's very new but it might be worth keeping an eye on to see if it's something you'd be willing to try after it's been tested more thoroughly.
Otherwise, keep checking back to whatever site you used to download your CC hairstyles and skins to see if they have updated versions, or if there is a new release of S4S that includes a batch fix.
I tried the Alpha converter on all my files and it worked. Only 7 S-club hairs didn't manage, but all my other hair, skins etc got fixed. I'm so greatful, thank you sm! I will say this, it took 36 hours straight for to convert all my files (30 000). But I can say that it was worth it.
I will keep checking S4S and updates by the CC creators
I have noticed tho that the S-Club black hair color has survived so if you want to use that until the mods are updated you could
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