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Spellcaster Ears
SeaDragonSong
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Does anyone remember if Spellcasters could have pointed ears??? I'm trying to make a Sim into a spellcaster by recreating him in CAS, except I can't give him pointed ears (not a big deal, the original doesn't have pointed ears, I just thought it'd make a cool addition to his character.).
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Bob Bobson (Updated August 12th 2019)
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If you try to create a spell caster they will not have the option to have the pointy ears, there are mods though that do have pointy ear sliders. I do have one work around if you want the pointy ears, start out with creating a vampire (you don't have to bother with the dark form). After you have completed the sim, take them into live play and use cheats or the MCCC mod can also turn them into a human. From there you can in game play turn the sim into a spellcaster. I have done this in the past, and was able to keep what I had put on the sim.
Someone else might have suggestion on an easier way of doing this.
You have to go into detailed edit mode to do so, the option doesn't come up in regular edit mode.
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Hello everyone!
Before the DU-patch spellcasters could have pointy ears. At the moment they only have pointy ears in CAS but not in gameplay.
https://forums.thesims.com/en_US/discussion/comment/17333204#Comment_17333204
Here is a thread about it on the EA Answer HQ
https://answers.ea.com/t5/Bug-Reports/OPEN-ROM-Spellcaster-s-pointed-ears-not-showing-up-in-Live-Mode/m-p/8493929#M113692
I myself had an entire community of spellcaster elves that I was building an medieval world for. That save is pretty much ruined now. If you miss your spellcaster ears don't forget to swing by and add your voice on the bug-thread.
Cheers.
thank you for the link. I skipped that thread because the title said mermaids. I will go check my spellcasters. It never occurred to me that cas might be different than the ingame appearance of my sims.
Harry Potter didn't have pointy ears. Lol. But there are other stories about magic too. This is a magic pack, not a Harry Potter pack. My current spellcaster definitely is not part of the Harry Potter universe, although my next save with spellcasters might be.
And pointy ears were available for all sims in sims 2 (one of the last face templates in base game) and sims 3 (with the patch for supernatural, a lot of the premade sims in dragon valley also have pointy ears) So pointy eared magical sims (and pointy eared non-magical sims) were possible in both sims 2 and 3. Sims 4 unfortunately started putting annoying restrictions on the pointy ears, and now seems to have messed up those restrictions with the last patch. I wish sims 4 would also just make pointy available for all sims.
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It depends on the kind of spellcaster you have in mind. Some people have stories in mind where normal humans can learn magic, while others tell stories where spellcasters have a inherently magical nature that sets them apart from normal humans. It purely depends on how you want to play them. I am not saying they all need pointy ears by default, you can play them in a totally different way than me. I just want to be able to give pointy ears to them if I choose to, it helps to tell some stories. And without actual elves or fairies in the game , spellcasters can also be used to play as elves and fairies. It is a bit pretend, but the best option we have so far.
I like giving them pointy ears to hint at their magical lineage, kind of a visual manifestation of the magical blood line trait. Spellcasters are not a totally different species in my game, but they are different from non-magical folk.
Yeah, humans are disgustingly boring...and rounded ears? That's so old and lame. I mean, who even wants rounded ears in real life?
/sarcasm
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For me a huge part of it is how they chose to change the appearance of existing sims. I made occult sims with pointy ears, a magical community in my save. Download a patch and all of the look different.
It was there in CAS, for me it was a selling point and I haven’t seen a single post prior to the patch or when buying the Game Pack that the feature that I really liked will be removed.
I liked those ears and bought a pack with them. Surprise - they are gone.
The magical life of a occult-sim-player.
Different players value different things and this really really bugs me. I don’t want to mod my game for every single thing but I can’t play those sims as they are because they look wrong to me.
I am just one little player so I guess it doesn’t make much of a difference what I think but this made me sad. I am getting CC-ears, clothes and mods like crazy because everything out now work with the current patch. I won’t stop playing, but I don’t feel like buying anything new. If I stop now at least I know what I have in my game. I don’t know if I want to risk another patch.
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Bob Bobson (Updated August 12th 2019)
My caster didn't have the choice of pointy ears when I tried earlier. I'm a sad simmer.
Edit: I went and tried again. Although the presets didn't come up as an option, I was able to restore his ears by going into detail edit mode. So yay!
Weird, I had the presets when I checked in a new game. Glad you were able to fix yours though!
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Bob Bobson (Updated August 12th 2019)
That would make me so so happy
I heard an excuse to take more screenshots of my boy. Night time but hopefully you can see ears and wand!
Checking my game now but I'm guessing that what happened is that all the sims had an ear reset to fix something that happened where a bunch of random sims that weren't supposed to suddenly had elven styled pointy ears
I'm happy to report that my sims are still pointy eared and glorious.
Wheee!!! This is like x-mas but better
Dunno why it bothers you so much.
It's not your game nor your sims. People play their stories out differently. If the option for pointy ears existed before for spellcasters, but has then been removed, that might bother some people.