Is anyone else having this much problems with flashing blue accessories in pets?
Gwill:
OK, I know other people have been having problems with flashing blue accessories since the install of pets, I've seen enough topics about it, but I haven't heard the outcry I'd expect if everyone was having as much problems as me with them.
The solution is "Just go to the mirror and change appearance and the accessories will return to normal.", but that's not something I'm willing to do every fucking time I enter a lot, and it's not something I can do when I run into non-playables on community lots all covered in blue squares.
Also most people I've talked to seem to only blame Dr. Pixel's necklace mesh, but I'm having problems with all custom accessories and a few of the maxis ones (including the grand vampire's teeth).
I'm very fond of glasses, and other decorations, and I really want them back. I have been completely unable to use anything of the sort, except for a few very basic maxis eye glasses, ever since I installed pets. The only reason I installed the pets patch was hoping against hope that it would fix this problem, which of course it didn't; it only caused worse problems.
So my question is: Is it just in my game it's this bad, or do other people just live with it?
And: Does seasonI come with the same problem? I'm more than willing to uninstall pets when I install seasons just to be able to give my sims horns and elf-ears again.
J. M. Pescado:
Haven't seen this problem in Seasons, although I have seen it once or twice in Pets, generally on lots I haven't loaded before. It probably goes away when you install Seasons. Mostly. That, or it's a purely fat, Gwilly problem.
nocomment:
There was a pretty big outcry at the time, if you checked different boards. However, more serious problems soon cropped up, like the mysterious bird death (which TwoJeffs fixed.) So the flashing accessories weren't discussed as much.
Also, the problem is extremely sporatic. It ranges from Pescado-like "only saw it once or twice" to people who have everything flashing everywhere, up to vanilla games with vampire teeth flashing!
I have had it in varying degrees. I have the game in two different user accounts on my computer. After installing I played my test neighborhood, and it has lots of flashing. My regular neighborhood, in a different user account, has very little flashing. Don't know if that's significant, but I thought it was interesting that the first neighborhood was affected more.
I have also seen a werid thing that I never saw anyone else mention. An accessory in my game can go from flashing to normal without any intervention. I have a business lot, and one of the regular customers has demon wings. One visit they will flash, the next visit they will work properly. Then later they'll be flashing again.
I also can't go the "just change their appearance" route. I have accessories on dozens of townies, and some townies are wearing four or five accessories. So if they flash, I just let them flash.
I know none of that really helps you, but you're not alone. Lots of people have this problem. It's not just Dr. Pixel's mesh.
maxon:
I'm one of the lucky ones then - I've seen it exactly twice and fixing in the mirror seemed to fix it permanently. In the process of sorting it out, I did discover a free earring mesh from Peggy Sims wasn't working properly and I deleted that. It was interfering with the appearance of other meshes in the accessories section. Also, Dr Pixel did update his mesh though I can't remember where it was posted (I don't think it was Blarneystone Sims at first though it might be there now). However, if you can't find it, I do have it still I think and could send it to you.
Gwill:
Dr. Pixel updated the mesh in a thread in the creator section on MTS2. I have that update, and it still flashes.
I really like dressing up my townies (proffesors need glasses!), so this is a massive annoyance to me, and I seem to have a bad case of the flashies.
Anyway, my copy of seasons just arrived in the mail (like, two minutes ago). I'm wondering whether to install it right away, or wait until I have time to do a full re-install and re-create of neigbourhoods.
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