retired.

Hi All, Studio is updated for the new expansion pack, Life & Death and Cozy Kitsch & Sweet Slumber Party Creator Packs.

The update includes small improvements and bug fixes for both versions (detailed in the changelog for each version).

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coming out of my unannounced break to share this cool new free UV tool for blender🤩 (may require v4.2) (gifs are taken from the documentation site)

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There is a new (huge) game update for The Sims 4, preparing the game for the upcoming Life & Death Expansion Pack and bringing several bug fixes.

If you have auto updates enabled in Origin’s “Application Settings”, the game will auto-update once you open Origin. If you have auto-updates disabled, you will need to manually update by clicking the game in your library.Advertisement

To ensure your game is up to date, check the game version found in Documents > EA > The Sims 4 > GameVersion.txt. Your game should now read: PC/Mac: 1.110.265 / Console: 2.01

Update 10/22/2024

Boo-tiful Changes Await!

Sul Sul, spoopy Simmers and specters! This Halloween season, we're summoning delightful surprises alongside the release of The Sims 4 Life & Death Expansion Pack. A hauntingly huge thank you to those special ghouls who took time to report issues via Answers HQ.

Prepare for a ghostly array of fixes and updates. No tricks, just spectral treats!

What’s New in The Sims 4 ?

Base Game Updates

Sims will react uniquely to others' deaths based on traits and relationships. Experience everything from sobbing for a loved one passing to retching at a stranger’s death.

Ghosts can now be created in Create a Sim for Child through Elder ages.

After passing on, Ghost Sims gain a new set of needs in place of the classic, living Sims ones: including Goo Waste, Ethereal Sustenance, Otherworldly Slumber, Spooky Diversions, Ethereal Bonding, and Apparition Cleansing.

At the moment of death, Sims are now given the option to “Become a Playable Ghost“ or “Become a Freeroaming Ghost.“

Upon the death of a marriage partner, two married Sims will no longer be married, they'll be widowed. However, there is a new interaction that will allow them to “Ask to Stay Married“ so they can reinstate their marriage status.

Sims can WooHoo with the Grim Reaper again.

Improved autonomous ghosts behavior such as reducing the frequency of ghosts breaking things and creating annoying ghost 'byproducts', i.e. puddles.

Added a new Outdoor picture category in Build Mode called “Life Event Activity“ to help players find content for Funerals, Weddings, and more. 

Infant, Toddler, Child Sims taken by Social Workers go to Household Menu in Manage Worlds, rather than being deleted.

Added a new bonfire object called the Fieldstone Bonfire Pit to Base Game.

There is an option on Gravestones/Urns to manually swap to the other one whether you are indoors or outdoors. Before it would always auto-change when brought in or taken out.

We added 10 new “true black“ color variants to 10 different BG Shoes:

(ymShoes_AnkleOxford)

(yfShoes_AnkleBoots)

(yfShoes_PumpsLow)

(ymShoes_SneakersSlipOn)

(yfShoes_PumpsHighPointed)

(ymShoes_OxfordFringe)

(ymShoes_AnkleCombat)

(yfShoes_AnkleBootsCuffed)

(yfShoes_PumpsHighOpenAsym)

(yfShoes_PumpsMediumOpenJewel)

New Base Game Content That’s Cross-Pack Compatible

If you have Get to Work (Aliens), Vampires, Werewolves, Realm of Magic (Spellcasters), Island Living (Merfolks) or the upcoming Life & Death Expansion Pack, you can click on a Sim’s urn or gravestone to choose from a selection of which gravestones to use. That Sim who wasn’t a Vampire but was a little too obsessed with Vampires? Yeah, they can rest eternally with a bat-themed gravestone now.

There is now a Merfolk Urn and Tombstone for players with Island Living.

Players can swap occults while in Create a Sim if they have the necessary occult packs. This doesn’t remove progress on a Sim that’s currently being created (within reason).

Players can create Elder Dog, Cat, & Horse Ghosts in Create a Sim with the Cats & Dogs or Horse Ranch Expansions.

DirectX 11 - Improved GPU Detection on Hybrid Systems

We’ve addressed an issue affecting players with hybrid GPU laptops, where the game was defaulting to DirectX 9 on devices with NVIDIA and AMD graphics cards instead of the expected DirectX 11.

Bug Fixes

Console

[AHQ] Cottage Living - Images for crafted Cross-Stitch objects on PlayStation are no longer in grayscale.

[AHQ] Growing Together - Puzzles are no longer in black and white on PlayStation.

Base Game:

[AHQ] Sims will not eat spoiled food autonomously.

[AHQ] Plants that have enough water will stop dying.

[AHQ] Interactions will no longer jam and prevent progression through the interaction queue when caused by stuck chickens on the lot.

[AHQ] Sims will fully close their eyes when they are supposed to (like when sleeping).

[AHQ] Parent Sims will no longer get stuck standing idly in front of the crib when trying to interact with their sleeping baby.

[AHQ] NPC Sims no longer enter the lot without knocking on the door.

[AHQ] Skill books are now available at all libraries; not just the Willow Creek Library.

[AHQ] Most recently interacted with Sim will appear at the beginning of the Relationship panel.

[AHQ] Pizza delivery Sim can now be tipped and interacted with after delivering pizza.

[AHQ] Invisible Nannies have had their superpower removed and will now remain visible.

[AHQ] Sims will no longer incorrectly age up when adjusting game age options.

[AHQ] Stopped issues where a held baby tries to perform an interaction that requires an adult to put them down, but the adult can't so it just spins in a loop.

[AHQ] Textures will now apply on one-Tile gable roofs.

[AHQ] Curved Fences will now cast shadows.

[AHQ] Small black shadows on lots in Manage Worlds map can be removed by loading into the affected lot and exit to regenerate the thumbnail.

[AHQ] Blue squares no longer observed in lieu of empty Lot Traits when saving the lot in Build Mode.

[AHQ] Modify career outfit cheat now works for part-time careers.

[AHQ] Male tank tops are no longer observed after selecting Feminine fashion choices for previous SDX assets.

[AHQ] Mourning moodlet will not appear when a stranger Sim dies in front of the active Sim. The moodlet is only displayed if they are at least acquaintances.

[AHQ] Previous SDX Ponytail's texture will no longer distort around pulled out ear shapes.

Non-binary Sims are now properly referred to as “Birthday Sim“ during the birthday party event.

[AHQ] Guerdon Goods Nano Can 2.0 is now tagged as off-the-grid.

[AHQ] Fixed an issue that could occur during the “Adopt a child“ flow while off lot.

Affecting Multiple Packs

[AHQ] Cleared situations where Build Mode objects and houses placed with ‘moveobjects on’ would appear in the sky.

City Living

[AHQ] “Game failed to load“ error no longer triggers when to visit apartments with placed pools (Error Code 132:dad724e4:16f19fc6).

[AHQ] City Living Festivals and other festivals now always appear properly in the calendar.

[AHQ] NPC Sims in San Myshuno will no longer experience sudden unexpected weight gain. NPC Sims’ bodies should only be susceptible to change if they are inside an active residential lot.

Seasons

[AHQ] Flower arrangements will look the same when placed from the Library or the Gallery.

Island Living

[AHQ] Merfolks now have their own tombstone and urn.

[AHQ] My Wedding Stories: Island Living canoe no longer gets water inside of it when navigating in Tartosa world.

Eco Lifestyle

[AHQ] Vertical gardens now count towards the Freelance Botanist Aspiration.

High School Years

[AHQ] Packed lunch boxes from inventory are eaten by teen Sims during lunch hours.

[AHQ] Rocks will respawn a few hours after digging in 'Water Tower Way' in Copperdale world.

Growing Together

[AHQ] Reduced clipping issues when Child Sims Practice Riding Bike near a building.

Horse Ranch

[AHQ] ‘Bad Ranch Product' moodlet no longer observed upon Harvesting Excellent/Magnificent/Perfect Quality Plants.

For Rent

[AHQ] Property Owner will not be charged along with Eviction settlement after Tenant breaks lease.

[AHQ] Event Failed TNS no longer triggers after completing the Tenant Revolt event by performing “Promise Better Conditions“.

[AHQ] Lot Challenges and Lot Traits of a lot downloaded from gallery reflect correctly in-game. 

[AHQ] When a tenant Sim bulldozes a unit in a Residential Rental, the rent for other hidden units won't reset to zero.

[AHQ] The asset (yfBody_EPLongTunicPants_darkpink) pairs properly with all the Nail Assets.

Lovestruck

[AHQ] The asset (yfAcc_PediContrast_ContrastOrange) now has orange swatches.

Vampires

[AHQ] Infants will no longer teleport to outside of the Crib when Resuming Game right as the baby transitions to sleep.

Realm of Magic

Spellcaster animation will run less frequently in Create a Sim.

Werewolves

[AHQ] Werewolf Sims howl less frequently in Create a Sim.

[AHQ] Turned Werewolves will no longer occasionally lack color on their nose.

Vintage Glamour

[AHQ] Globe bar drink platter now fits on accent/end/coffee tables.

Paranormal

[AHQ] Lights no longer revert to auto mode in Haunted Houses.

Crystal Creations

[AHQ] The Crystal Tree will not become invisible or transparent and the crystals will be collectable.

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somewhere on the SMRT (San Myshuno Rapid Transit) , 8:57am

ben, the towel stealing ex, and least likeable character in all of this, cannot escape this watcher’s wrath….

(transcript)

ben: are you going to the gym after work?

mass: yeah why?

ben: wanna meet up afterwards?

ben: your choice.

ben: anywhere but shenanigans please.

mass: ???

mass: you’re letting me pick?

mass: you MUST be in distress

Heads up, today's (8/8/24) update broke CC lashes. They no longer sit correctly on the lash line.

For one time, one time only, I’m going to use this amazing posing-platform as a call for action. July 23 we had an update, the Lovestruck update. We all know updates come with things that are being solved, but mostly, we know how this goes, new bugs. With this last update, we as posecreators and you, the user of poses are sadly affected by a little change affecting the eyes/eyelids.

We can only assume what caused this change but suspect that it might be related to the new eyelashes that were added with this update. In quite a few poses where a sim needs to have their eyes closed, they are not closing entirely. So the sim still has their eyes slightly open. In some cases it can work, but in many cases it's a very noticeable and deforming change. We have noticed that it's also happening in EA animations where a sim sleeps but their eyes would stay slightly open. Some people have also noticed the issue in CAS where they can see a difference in the blinking animation.

It’s a very minor and small thing, but it can really make a difference in a pose.

A very good example is the below Gallery pose from @simplyanjuta. It shows the same pose before and after update. You can see that for the male sim, the eyes don't fully close as they used to, while for the female sim the eyelids look different too and seem tighter than in the original picture.

I want to ask you, because it’s the only way we can address it to the sims team, is if you also have seen this bug happening in your game after you updated the 23 july update, to hit ‘me too’ in this topic or even if you have examples, to add it in the topic.

Hi All, Studio has hotfixed several bugs that emerged in the last update. The fixes primarily deal with issues that affected object meshing and tuning extraction. Thank you to everyone who reported these problems.

All fixes are listed in the changelog for each version that appears in their respective download threads.

Again, thank you to everyone who reported a bug. Studio can't keep improving without you!

Hi All, Studio Star (Windows) & Aurora (Mac) are both updated for the Lovestruck expansion pack. Both versions are now compatible with Blender 4.2. Both also include improvements and bug fixes (see the full changelog in each version's download thread).

Thank you as always to everyone in the community for reporting bugs, suggesting improvements, providing updated translations, and creating amazing content.

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Hi all, Studio updated to fix a bug that caused CAS items to look wrong in the game. If you use Studio to make new CAS mesh items, please update.

Update notes are in the respective download threads.

This version (3.2.1.6) will fix the slot editor, which was inadvertently broken in the last version.

Please note, no update is needed for Aurora, as this problem did not occur in the Mac version.

In the last update several issues were inadvertently introduced that caused crashes and vertex color problems when working with meshes. These issues have been addressed in both Studio versions.

Both versions also include support for the new CAS texture introduced by EA in the last patch (color shift mask).

Changelogs are in the respective download threads.