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    Months Later and we still have the bald head problem?

    simfanxxsimfanxx Posts: 53 New Member
    in The Sims 3 Mac Discussion
    Months after EA broke custom hairs with patches there still is not fix, and worse of all it has gotten worse. With the addition of Ambitions the bald head bug is also linked to numerous accessorize also not showing up in game. When are you EA guys gonna fix this so our games can actually be functional again?

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      BiggiesmallsBiggiesmalls Posts: 2 New Member
      edited June 2010
      Thats odd, I have ambitions and no problem with heads. on my pc when i made a sim larger it would cut the body parts away so it looked as if it was floating.
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      lolfailz94lolfailz94 Posts: 12 New Member
      edited June 2010
      I find that weird too, seeing as I play Sims 3 WA on a Mac and haven't had the heads problem for a couple months now.
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      LDoCampoLDoCampo Posts: 79 New Member
      edited June 2010
      I have it every once and a while with Ambitions. The head has hair then I zoom in too close and the head is bald and it's bald for a while then magically the hair is back.
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      simfanxxsimfanxx Posts: 53 New Member
      edited June 2010
      This problem occurs with hair that i have downloaded only, not hair that cam with the game. I think this bug is a Mac only one. On start up of the game, if the sim is bald, they will remain bald.
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      lorinlishlorinlish Posts: 21 Member
      edited June 2010
      It DOES affect everyone, as far as I can tell. If you're not having this problem, chances are you either don't use custom hair or you aren't using a mac. I don't think EA is going to fix it.
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      simfanxxsimfanxx Posts: 53 New Member
      edited June 2010
      If they don't plan on fixing it, than I think I will stop buying Sims games. I don't feel I can play without my custom hairs.... and this issue happens what seems to be 6 out of 8 times.

      Does anybody know of any temporary fixes?
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      SimGuruBrentSimGuruBrent Posts: 1,025 Member
      edited June 2010
      If you obtained the custom hair from a third party, you will want to see if they have released updates to support our updated framework.
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      simfanxxsimfanxx Posts: 53 New Member
      edited June 2010
      SimGuruBrent wrote:
      If you obtained the custom hair from a third party, you will want to see if they have released updates to support our updated framework.

      SimGuruBrent , this even occurs with hair that was installed from sims3packs
      this is a KNOWN problem that occurs on macs. Has EA began to look in to it yet?
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      SimGuruBrentSimGuruBrent Posts: 1,025 Member
      edited June 2010
      simfanxx wrote:
      SimGuruBrent wrote:
      If you obtained the custom hair from a third party, you will want to see if they have released updates to support our updated framework.

      SimGuruBrent , this even occurs with hair that was installed from sims3packs
      this is a KNOWN problem that occurs on macs. Has EA began to look in to it yet?

      Are these hair styles which you have downloaded from the exchange? If so, it is possible that they contain modified content.
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      sourlysweetsourlysweet Posts: 1,903 New Member
      edited June 2010
      SimGuruBrent wrote:
      simfanxx wrote:
      SimGuruBrent wrote:
      If you obtained the custom hair from a third party, you will want to see if they have released updates to support our updated framework.

      SimGuruBrent , this even occurs with hair that was installed from sims3packs
      this is a KNOWN problem that occurs on macs. Has EA began to look in to it yet?

      Are these hair styles which you have downloaded from the exchange? If so, it is possible that they contain modified content.


      simguru...

      almost all simmers that use a mac have problems with ALL third party custom hair. weather its from the exchange or modthesims or thesimsresorce they ALL dont work and no one has any answers as to how to fix it!
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      lorinlishlorinlish Posts: 21 Member
      edited June 2010
      SimGuru,

      Thank you for taking the time to look into this problem. There is another, longer thread documenting the history and details of this bug here:

      http://forum.thesims3.com/jforum/posts/list/80031.page
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      ChemicalwibsChemicalwibs Posts: 6,345 Member
      edited June 2010
      I've given up on the CC hair, except for alterations on hair in the base game. I found some adult hair converted into child/toddler hair. There are also some new hair in Ambitions that are quite nice.
      wibsandthesims.tumblr.com
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      KarinLKarinL Posts: 3,989 Member
      edited June 2010
      Yes, hair converted from Sims 3 meshes works fine on my Mac, too. It's hair that is converted from Sims 2, or new meshes, that don't work.
      I think the blame lies with the tool that the creators use - it doesn't play nice with the Mac.
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      firekitty500firekitty500 Posts: 102 New Member
      edited June 2010
      O_o where do you guys get that hair?
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      ChemicalwibsChemicalwibs Posts: 6,345 Member
      edited June 2010
      I found mine on TSR, but I'm sure other sites have them too.
      wibsandthesims.tumblr.com
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