Accessory Weirdness
IronBeard:
I've noticed some extremely weird things about accessories based on glasses in my game and in BodyShop. Something somewhere is definitely not right and I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on it.
I have installed Uni, OFB, NL and Pets.
The problems noted so far as follows:
• Some items appear in the game in their various categories (every day, formal, etc.) but might only appear in BodyShop once or not at all.
• One particular item from the adult site (by Bloom, rings for the female top figure, if you get my drift) won't appear at all in BodyShop and, get this, they only show on female Sims after their folder, including the mesh, is removed from my downloads folder to the desktop!
• Quite often, sandals and slippers turn blue in the game, though I think there's a fix-it tutorial for that somewhere by Numenor.
• There are also a couple of non-custom glasses items (ie. they don't have the little custom asterisk) that don't appear to do anything, one base game and another with the NightLife mark. They only appear in BodyShop and once selected, they stay selected irrespective of any other glasses/accessories I select.
Now, I don't have very much in the way of accessories, just Bloom's sandals and slippers, a few of his blah rings for the limited range of body shapes I use, and a few Tu-Tus. That's all.
There are no duplicated items to confuse matters either; my downloads folder is squeaky clean and spick-and-span!
I've tried all the usual things, removing items, re-generating the cigen.package and Accessory.cache, plus a recently performed periodic re-install of the whole game and EPs has not corrected anything.
It's a bit of a puzzle to me.
BlooM:
hey
Been a while but if i remember correct the rings are assigned to swim/undies and sleepwear only.
So if you want to view them in bodyshop you first have to dress the sim into one of those.
The blue accesoires often means a missing mesh or the link to it.
To check if your missing the mesh undress the accesoire at the mirror then go back to the mirror and repick them,
If the mesh is installed this will usually fix it.
IronBeard:
Thanks for replying, Bloom.
Quote from: BlooM on October 07, 2010, 12:42:15 am
hey
Been a while but if i remember correct the rings are assigned to swim/undies and sleepwear only.
So if you want to view them in bodyshop you first have to dress the sim into one of those.
That's true, but they still don't show in BodyShop or CAS. They don't actually show in the game until, as I say, I remove them from the downloads folder. I know that sounds totally off the wall, but it's a fact. I have to take the Sim to a mirror, select whichever size of ring they should have, though they won't show up as they should, save and quit, then take the rings folder out of my Downloads folder, go back into the game and the Sim will now be wearing the rings. How weird is that!!
Actually, I got that tip from someone who posted the same issue on the adult site.
Quote
The blue accesoires often means a missing mesh or the link to it.
To check if your missing the mesh undress the accesoire at the mirror then go back to the mirror and repick them,
If the mesh is installed this will usually fix it.
Yes, I usually change from the sandals to the slippers or visa-versa and that solves the problem for a while, and I know the meshes are all present and accounted for. I wish I could remember where I saw a tutorial for fixing the blue accessories glitch in SimPE. I will have a trawl around the tutes at MTS2 to see if I can find it.
BlooM:
The problem lays within the group names in the mesh itself.
All of those blue flashing accessoires are based on the glasses who has 2 or 3 groups, the frame or rims and the lenses.
With custom acc the lens group often will be deleted but the recolor file still contains a link to it, that is the error.
There are 2 ways to fix this:
Make a placeholder for the deleted lenses in the mesh file:
http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=283059
Think you need Milkshape and Simpe for this.
Or delete the link to it in the recolorfile:
http://www.insimenator.org/index.php/topic,79628.0.html
Done with Simpe
IronBeard:
Okay, thanks for the links Bloom. I have access to SimPE and can take a look, but am I likely to find errors with your Sandals and Slippers packages? These are the only accessories I currently have installed that turn blue.
I also wonder what is going on with those N***le Rings, as there is no good reason why they should work when they ought not to, and not work when they should.
Is it possible that data relating to accessories is somehow being stored, misinterpreted or corrupted invisibly by the game and/or BodyShop? That might explain why the rings appear when they are physically removed from the downloads folder.
Of course, the workaround is fine, but it really irks me that I don't understand why this is happening.
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