baby skin colour change

Product: The Sims 4
Platform:PC
Which language are you playing the game in? English
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
What is your current game version number? latest update
What expansions, game packs, and stuff packs do you have installed? get to work, get together, city living, island living, discover university, all game packs but jungle adventure i think and a few stuff packs
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? have a baby, interact with it and it’ll glitch
What happens when the bug occurs? my baby is very dark skinned with two light- medium skinned parents, when the parents interact with the baby it changes to what i assume is it’s correct colour as it’s much lighter.
What do you expect to see? well the baby shouldn’t change colour, and it’s not the correct tone. this has been happening for me since the recent update on skin tones
Have you installed any customization with the game, e.g. Custom Content or Mods? Yes
Did this issue appear after a specific patch or change you made to your system? Yes
Please describe the patch or change you made. it was the big november skin tone update

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i don’t have any default skin replacements in my game just cc like hair and clothes etc. i also have mccc, ui cheats and SOL but made sure to update them all so i’m not sure why i’m having this issue. i also saw clare siobhan had this issue in her recent not so berry challenge.

Skaazilla
5 years ago
Do you, by any chance, have an outdated invisible bassinet mod, or other baby override?

That's what caused that issue in my game. No matter what skin the baby had, it showed as black skinned while in the bassinet, but it's actual skin color while held (aliens looked normal because I didn't use an invisible alien bassinet, but the alien baby's portrait was of a black baby). I tried a different invisible bassinet mod and it displayed the baby with the lightest skin while in it, and normal when held. I had to learn myself how to make a new invisible bassinet from scratch and it no longer does this.

18 Replies

Skaazilla
Rising Hotshot
5 years ago
Do you, by any chance, have an outdated invisible bassinet mod, or other baby override?

That's what caused that issue in my game. No matter what skin the baby had, it showed as black skinned while in the bassinet, but it's actual skin color while held (aliens looked normal because I didn't use an invisible alien bassinet, but the alien baby's portrait was of a black baby). I tried a different invisible bassinet mod and it displayed the baby with the lightest skin while in it, and normal when held. I had to learn myself how to make a new invisible bassinet from scratch and it no longer does this.
lily_wray330
5 years ago
ahhh this makes so much sense thank you! i didn’t even think about that being an issue as it’s not a huge mod, thank you so much i couldn’t figure it out x
laurenmariaa
5 years ago
i’m having the same issue but it happens all the time, no matter what the parents look like!
crinrict
Hero+
5 years ago
@laurenmariaa I moved your post over to a more current thread.

Are you using any mods ?
GirafHuntr
Seasoned Ace
5 years ago
I am having the same issue. I tried removing all mods from the game, repairing and starting a new save and it is still happening there. All babies born in the game have the darkest skin tone in their portrait, but look correct when in their bassinet or being held. Is this a known EA bug since the skin tones update?
crinrict
Hero+
5 years ago
@GirafHuntr that sounds like a different issue.
More like this: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-Baby-icon-household-picture-different-colour-than-Sim/td-p/9983440/jump-to/first-unread-message

The way I understand the mod issue it's not the icon that's different but the baby itself actually changes color.
JHSuperStar
4 years ago
Hi Skaazilla, Can you please attach a copy of your mod you made for the invisible bassinet.
Thank you.
110110m
4 years ago
I'm having the same issue and I don't use any mod.
I play with 4 households and had babies in all of them. All of them were black in the portrait, which isn't a big deal since the baby themselves were the correct color, except for the last two, and as toddlers the portrait was corrected. The second last was just a little bit darker than the parents, but I paid no mind to it. The last one, though, is clearly a white baby, but both parents have dark skin tones. I think the genetic is a little messed up.
JHSuperStar
4 years ago
@110110m There is no genetics in Sims 4, the skin color is populated by the original base skin color. Now that they have variations of skin colors the babies are random skin colors if they even show up. All my babies are white and black like in your pictures. They really need to fix this since baby play should be more realistic and not so broken.
AngleFire1991
4 years ago
They need to add genitics to the babies they generate as all the othere avitars have genetics and we are tired of playing with dolls. I can't evern use the cribs as they are broken and I must us the basinetts which I hate for my babies. When in the hell are they going to get it together and updat our babis to avitars instead of objects.I have paid alot of money on these game and I am not feeling that I am getting my moneys worth! EA needs to make th3e game more user friendly for us and our babies. I also would like to see motre walking to different places in the towns as in going to the grocery store to buy our food. Making the game more fun and realistic like 3 would be a great idea for an upgrade.