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HHEHHEHEHEHE this is gonna be my new main blog!!!

It's gonna be much more centered around my actual art :)))))

Will be posting my DCA AU on here called Dreamland

Okay, I've mentioned this in the tags of a couple of other posts regarding my Sims and what I've been doing in the game lately, but I think it's about time I gave the problem it's own post in the hopes that maybe someone will be able to help me. Now, you may have noticed that I haven't been posting Sims 4 stuff regularly anymore, and the reason for that is because my Chill Valicer Save unfortunately fell victim to an "infinite loading screen" issue and thus I can't actually play that version of my OT3 anymore. :( I have now come up with an idea for a new save file -- featuring me starting the trio as teens living in a house together in Copperdale, and taking them through high school, college, and becoming gainfully employed as adults (I'll do a separate post about this later in more detail) -- but I have one small issue that's keeping me from wanting to dive fully into getting the file set up and running:

Smiler's iconic glowing yellow eyes aren't glowing anymore.

Let me explain what I mean by this: when I first designed Smiler in Sims 4, I made them a vampire because I wanted them to get the "emotion control aura" power vampires get high up in their skill tree (it felt appropriate for them). This also gave me access to the special occult eyes available to vampires, and naturally I grabbed the bright yellow glowing ones as perfect for them. Those eyes became a key part of their look for me (as per my post on How To Write Smiler Alton, even if I did also give them a "natural" eye color for Smilers who logically COULDN'T have glowing yellow eyes), and even after I decided that any future Smilers in any future saves I made should be spellcasters instead of vampires to get access to alchemy (a key Smiler skill, as per the above linked post), I wanted to keep the eyes. Now, fortunately, I've discovered through CAS experiments that spellcasters get access to the same occult eyes that vampires do, so all I have to do is switch their occult status and they'll be allowed to keep their eye color!

Unfortunately, I have also discovered that, for unknown reasons, those bright yellow eyes just don't glow anymore. Let me show you what I mean:

Here's a headshot of my original-flavor vampire Smiler in CAS, sporting their iconic yellow eyes. Please note the shadow that rims their eyes, which is the visual sign that they're glowing.

Here's a headshot of a Smiler who, thanks to me experimenting with ways to cure their vampirism without losing the yellow eyes in one of my "building" saves, ended up with green eyes because doing it normal in-game way (aka, via vampirism cure drink) did remove the yellow ones, and I decided I might as well set their "natural" eye color if that was the case. Please note the lack of a shadow around their eyes, since the natural green ones obviously do NOT glow.

And HERE is a headshot of a Smiler I was playing around with in CAS a few months ago, trying to get a proper headshot of their "Valicer In The Dark" look, who I turned back into a vampire to make sure they had the right eye color...only to discover the eyes weren't glowing anymore. See the lack of shadow around their eyes? No glow!

I want to stress that this lack of glow is happening WITHOUT mods and CC too -- I've been doing a lot of vanilla building (mainly on the Polyheart OT3 House), and whenever I venture into CAS, I keep getting confronted with these non-glowing yellow eyes on Smiler. It's also not just the yellow eyes -- I looked through some of the others that are supposed to glow, and they're not glowing either! And while it's not HORRIBLE, because at least Smiler has their yellow eyes, the lack of glow keeps throwing me off! They just don't look QUITE right to me without the shadows from the glow. :( And I don't know WHY the eyes suddenly stopped glowing, or how to fix it. So my questions to all of you are:

One: What's the issue with the sudden lack of glow in Vampire eyes, and how do I fix it? Trying to search for an answer has left me high and dry -- I keep finding mods for REMOVING the glow from vampire eye colors, which, congrats folks, you apparently don't need a mod for that anymore!

Two: Failing that, does anyone have any recommendations for good glowing yellow custom content eyes? Because I'm more than willing to use CC to fix the problem, but I haven't been able to find a pair of glowing yellow eyes I like yet. They have to be the same color as the Vampires eyes -- I'm looking for that same bright electric yellow -- and I want them to look mostly like normal eyes with a white sclera (eyeball) and regular pupil.

- hero-of-the-wolf

I'M SICK OF GETTING SICK LIKE ALL THE TIME UGH!!!!!

*face first on the floor*

forty guaranteed eps, one nearly every week over a year was such a blip. :(