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I know this should be a simple fix, but for some reason it's eluding me...

Since installing Pets, my sims' accessories (necklaces and such) have started that annoying, flashing blue dance. I've tried deleting accessories.cache and rebooting, but the problem continues. Does anyone know what I'm missing here?

Thanks,
Liz

Nope...  but I've got the same problem with some of mine.

Weird thing is...  I only have ear rings installed, but the one particular set that keeps flashing at me, flashes as though it's a necklace as well as ear rings.

I have that same problem, but also have another item that is categorized as eyeglasses (but is actually a watch) which leaves a blue trail wherever my sim goes.  Weird but liveable. 

I have a similar problem where parts of a mesh I made for earrings don't display at all.  The gold part shows up, but the part that is supposed to be diamond doesn't show up unless viewed from the side.  It's like that part of the model/uv map just disappeared on me.

I had the falshing blue problem, but I used Christianlov's clothing rack to 'change appearance', and replaced the offending accessories, and no problem after that. (I'll have to do more testing to find out whether the specific items always act that way, but I suspect not, as when beds were flashing I replaced them with the exact same bed and it didn't flash at all. something to do with adjusting files or whatnot. Surprisingly little has been wrong so far.

I've had flashing blue stuff since OFB (haven't got pets)  I'm just changing them to something that works and deleting them in game.  I can't be bothered working out what has gone wrong.  It would take me forever to find the offending item in Downloads and it doesn't feel like something I could fix either.  Messing around in downloads takes for ever and Life's too short.

Could it be another case of missing content after installing Pests?

I have the same effect, but that happens because I intentionally deleted some accessories... :P

The mesh still appears because it's embedded in the sim's character file, but there's no texture for it.

I have those flashing accessories, too.

When I update the accessorie wearing sim's appearance everything's okay till I reload the lot.
Also, townies that I made wear those accessories reset to the blue flashing each time they enter the lot.

Weirder even, necklaces do not move with the sim's body - e.g. they stay put when the sim leans down to pick up the paper.

This all started after PETS was installed.

Having same problem with necklace/earring combos.  I'm running Pets with all the other expansions inc Glamour. I'm pretty sure all the custom content I have in the game have the proper meshes.  I'm wondering if there is a conflict with the way EA is handling the pet accessories.

Yep, that's exactly the problem, Vren. Rassafrassa Pets. I really an enjoying the hell out of the game, but the glitchy weirdness that always seems to crop up with each new EP seems to have hit a new high with this one. Or a new low. You pick. ;)

And thanks for the suggestion, Theo, but the content is all there. I actually wiped out all my neighbourhoods and started them fresh just a day or two ago, and these were sims just freshly CAS'ed. So the accessories were all there when the sims were made - and they show up in the thumbnail pics just fine (an like Vren said, will correct with a Change Appearance, so long as you don't leave the lot). But for some reason, since OMGPetz!!!!111oneone was installed, the accessories just won't stay put.

I'm confident this is a problem that will be fixed before too long, though. We have far too may brilliant minds in this community for it not to be. Still... *grumble*

Liz

I'm having the same problem.  It gets fixed after I go to a mirror and change appearance.  I didn't have to replace anything - I clicked the check mark and suddenly everything worked again.

I'm glad it's an easy fix, but damn, it's annoying.

One of my photo booth pictures started flashing blue and took over the floor tile in front of it so my sim could not stand on that floor tile at all. I moved the picture to another spot because I needed that particular floor tile to work, but the photo is still a flashing blue screen. Other photo booth photos on the same lot are fine.

Yea, that happened to a lot of the photos when you installed OFB for the first time too.  Didn't happen to all of them, and there was no way to fix it that I've ever heard.

I have problems with some accessory meshes, but not all.
They all show up and seem to work fine in Bodyshop and CAS, so it's not a matter of missing content, but in game they flash blue.

It's some kind of pets issue.  Hopefully maxis will fix it, because I don't look forwards to trying to hunt down all these items myself when I can't see that they're broken in CAS.

Yeah, I had a pair of earrings do that. Worked in CAS, but in game they flashed blue, and when my sim sat down, her earrings started floating over her head!

My game would periodically disassociate accessories from the Sim wearing them before Pets.  Don't think I've seen it since tho.

Perfectly describes a single pair of "dagger-cross" style earrings one of my sims wears wore. The third time I had to wait through the Change Appearance to load so I could take them off her then put them back on, I had enough. Took em off, leavin em off till there's a fix.

Same here...no nice accessories for my sims until someone (maybe even EA?) fixes this.

I don't have problems with my sims' accessories, but I did have with my vampires' fangs. Exactly the same : they were flashing blue, a trip to the mirror solved it, and next time I load the lot, again flashing blue. It seems to have corrected itself when I change my default replacement for vampire skin. It only happened on male vampires though.
I don't know if it's related or not.....

Pioupiou

Don't have the flashing blue problem - only thing that happens in my game is when a pet and cleanbot are vying for the same space, the cleanbot quite spectacularly erupts in a flash of multicolored light and lands back on its base.  Rather fun to watch and no harm done.

Anyway, am curious if installing the newest version of CEP might clear up the blue flashes.

In the CEP thread they remind you that CEP has nothing to do with accessories, hair and stuff - just objects, as it's only purpose is to add recoloring options to maxis objects. :P

I have the same problem with my jewlery accessories.   I tried changing appearance a couple of times but any time my sim put on the thinking cap or went off lot or showed up as a non playable on another lot, their jewlery started flashing blue.  Frst solution, took out the folder they're contained in.  Flowers for hair, veils, etc. all still work for me, just not earrings/necklace or earrings as a stand alone.  I'm storing the folder on my storage drive so hopefully I can put it back soon? (hint, hint)  :D

Dr Pixel has a working theory and a workaround.   It seems that the problem might not be easy to fix!
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=202762

I had the same problem. When I sent my sims to the mirror it was fixed untill I reloaded the lot, but it seems that after using Pescado's clothing tool the problem is now permanently solved.

That's why Dr Pixel says to save the lot with no accessories.  I'm glad he's going to try to fix the mesh tho.

Someone in another thread here said they upgraded the video card drivers and the problem went away too.

That would be me, and it was updating my nVidia drivers to 93.71. It got rid of most of the flashing blue accessories, even on my non-playables. Rings, earrings, cigarettes, and the like. I still get a flashing blue pirate hat, but only if I use a certain hair mesh with it - which makes no sense. Actually, the hat is the only thing that flashes blue now.

Your sims can smoke? Do they have working animations for that?

The other day I ran into the grand vampire on a community lot, and his teeth were doing the same blue flashy thing.
It's not a CC problem, so this is something maxis needs to fix themselves.

I think I've seen this.  They just walk around with a cig hanging from their lower lip or stuck to their hand.  No animations or anything.

ive had the problems with the earrings.. usually a change appearance works.   i had a problem with a livin worker i had from CL mirror...  her earrings kept flashing blue and i went to her home lot to update her, and she was the ONLY one i couldnt fix, and i couldnt fire her, at least i dont know how, on the lot she is working... very annoying.

now weirdly, i have the loft apartment from pets loaded and it comes with GL furniture.  the accent lines on the bed flash blue on SOME game loads, but other times i load the game and its FINE.  wierd.

I had the flashing blue lines on the GLS bed once, too!  I thought I'd gone mad!

lol!  isnt that funny!  well no crazier then me anyway, not that this is a huge challenge!  its the only one ive seen so far.

do you have the loft house loaded? on some of the marble floor there is  black square outlines.  but when i try to copy them, i only get the plain marble floor.

I have the house, but haven't used it.  I remember I fixed the bed by hitting it with the design tool and not changing anything at all.

cool, i'll try that when the video gods decree the blue line flash!