Sciguy77 wrote:Hey all!
I've omly neem playing the Sims for about a month, but this particular problem drove me INSANE right from the start. It turned out in my case that someone created a piece of clothing and then set the options within it's package to both NUDE and RANDOM. When either the game puts that piece of clothing on the Sim by chance, or you use it yourself in CAS, that article becomes the default piece of clothing for the nude state. Getting rid of it is a LOT of trouble too.
First, you have toeither remove all of your installed custom content (CC) or identify the piece of clothing in CAS (Create a Sim). If you have a lot of mods installed this can be a really time consuming process. If the creator also marked it as "Hidden" in CAS (like all the in-game career clothing) it won't even show up. I had to extract all of the packages out of the sims3pack files I had installedwith Delphy's Sims3pack Multi installer. All it does is open your Sims3pack files and throw them into a folder -- it won't repack them. If you want to get rid of this problem for good you're going to either have to set up the mods/packages folder as described elsewhere on this site or stop downloading and installing sims3pack files. I got my bad clothing right off the EA Exchange.
Anyway, back to the problem at hand. Once all the package files are extracted, you'll see they're all named in hexidecimal code. You're going to have to open them one by one with something like the Cas Texture Unitool. It will open the package, display a 3D image of the contents, and allow you to change the conditions under which a certain piece of clothing shows up. Do you have a really cool piece of
lingerie you'd like to use for a swimsuit, but it isn't an option in CAS? This program will let you mod the files to do that. Find the troublesome piece of clothing, UNCHECK the nude box, save it back, and reinstall.
As a side note, it's almost scary how much bad content you'll find in a sims3pack file. About 1/4 of my files were broken, and I even found some sims2 files in
there.
There were also MANY duplicates of the same file in a LOT of my packs. When saving them back, go ahead and rename them with descriptive names so if you ever have a problem in the future you won't have to do this again.
There are also some problems being caused by modders who either by accident or ignorance are attaching adult clothing items to babies. When mom comes out of the hospital, the baby looks like a beam of light shooting up into the sky. When they age up into toddlers, they look like some kind of alien with the normal toddler head surrounded by a grossly deformed human body. I had several of these within my sims3pack files also.
If
there's any response to this post I'll track down all the links and instructions covering how to deal with it. I'm not a modder and have only been messing with the game for a fewf weeks. Most of that time has been resolving these issues!
Hope this helps someone, I had a miserable time tracking all of this information down solo.