No, I don't mean the weird tattoo vampires have. I got rid of that. But this is kind of strange.

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If you don't know what I'm referencing, I mean the weird stripe-y shadow under his chin. I'm using Aikea's face and body skin replacements... so maybe it's that. I haven't checked any other sims yet (didn't have time), but I'm going to soon. Just to make sure if it's just the vampires it's happening to or if it's the regular sims too.

It's not too much of a problem for me, really, but it's kind of annoying. It doesn't show up when the sim is in the CAS screen, but it's in live mode and when the little head pops up when you're picking actions. It's very dark there. So I dunno what's causing it. Does anyone else have this?


ETA: It shows up *only* on vampires. So maybe it's their skin overlay thing. I guess I'll contact Aikea about it. Still curious to see if anyone else has noticed this though! Also, I've only seen it on male vampires. Not the female ones.

ETA (again): I took all my mods out - including default replacements - it's still there. Hmm... I guess it's the vampire overlay on men? Or am I the only one having this problem?

Posting again because I installed the newest patch. Everything was running smoothly - including the water reflections - until today. Same problem. So... looks like I'll have to turn off the reflections. I don't think it will ever work right again. :\

I did reinstall when I got Ambitions about a week ago. That's when things seemed to be alright until just yesterday.

The lots it's happening to are both regular game lots and ones I've built. The lot it happened to yesterday was one of the pre-made ones in Twinbrook and I've never played it before. So I'm not sure that's the problem.

I'm gonna experiment a bit more and if it comes down to it - I'll reinstall again and stay away from the current patch.

Yeah, and it didn't before. That's what confuses me. I seriously think that EA might have messed around with the reflections in the latest patch since they seemed to mess around with the shaders for no apparent reason. So now my computer has decided it hates them. What makes it weirder is that it only happens on certain lots. And there's no similarities between the lots it's happening to either.

I would have replied sooner but the problem seemed to have fixed itself until just now. I had created a whole new directory and everything and it seemed to work great. Then I found one lot that would just crash the game if I tried to move the camera and a mirror happened to be in the way. Deleted that lot completely, built a new one and things seemed fine again until just now. It happened again.

My drivers and everything are updated so I know it's not those... this is just really annoying. Especially if I've forgotten to save. Which I did just now. 

Okay, so... my game is usually pretty good about not crashing on me. But all of a sudden it's decided it hates mirrors. Downloaded mirrors, base game mirrors... just mirrors. Every time I try to buy one, it crashes. If I turn reflections off, it seems to work. But I was always able to have the reflections enabled before.

If I go to a lot that's already had mirrors placed on it it seems fine, even if I have the reflections enabled. I have no idea what could cause this... Help?


PS: I did download a couple new things recently, but they were all loaded with the game launcher... and were CAS related. I can't recall if I've tried to buy a new mirror since I downloaded the latest patch though... maybe that's it?


ETA: I just took my mods folder out and tried to launch. Still having the same problem...

And just now I disabled all CC I've installed with the game launcher... same issue. I'm starting to think it's the patch... hjsadkahs Damnit.

Thank you so much! I tried looking it up on MTS2, but I guess I didn't search for the right terms.

Hey, this is more of an inquiry rather than a request... but I was wondering if it's even possible to create an odd eye effect on sims3. I used to have an odd eye mesh on sims2 that I LOVED, but the one problem with that was that it covered the actual eye so if the sim glanced to the side or blinked, you'd still see the mesh over it.

If someone could actually figure this out, I'd be so thankful! But I'm wondering if it's even possible. D: