Image quality, Super Duper Hugs, and writing.

[strangetomato]

Has anyone else noticed their images degrading in quality when they upload them to scrapbook now? For example, the image below seems like it gets sharpened considerably when I upload it, and you can see those lines in the background much more and the hair seems redder (it was taken with the in-game camera). I'm just curious to see if anyone else is experiencing this.

Ron Story, who lives in the House of Fallen Trees in Downtown Elsewhere, is now a teen. And cute. ^_^

I've also noticed I have the menu option for "DEBUG - Super Duper Hug" in the game when I play it right now. I'm reading this thread and see that it is/was hack related. I haven't added back many hacks yet (just MATY stuff and the no red lines mod as of last playing), so I'm assuming this happened when I removed a hack? Anyway, I'm following the advice linked above and I hope that fixes it.

I've also been thinking of setting a bit of a sim story writing goal for myself in the spirit of NaNoWriMo. I don't think I'll declare it publicly, since life can be hectic and my simming time follows my other priorities (in order of parenting, sleep, eating/washing myself, laundry, and maybe cleaning the house) but I have something in mind. We'll see how it goes. ;)

Comments

[simtopi]

I can attest that it does happen by removing social mods. I inadvertently discovered this when I removed my entire download folder to clear the CC out of a lot that I wanted to upload, and that included removing ACR. The glitch will stay in a lot that I'd upload. And the same thing can happen if you download a lot where the player who created it had a social mod like ACR and you don't. At least this is what I've gathered.

pbanda is right, putting in that hack will fix it. Once you noticed it's gone, you can remove the hack again if you don't want it. Preparing a lot for upload is a different story as you have to be careful to test for it along the way.

I don't believe it explodes your game but it can be really annoying and can tank sims relationships pretty fast. Hope you get rid of it! >_<

Also I love the idea of setting writing goals. I was thinking of that last night actually, except I may instead try my hand at drabbling to get my writing excercises in. Good luck if you decide to do it!

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly certain it was the removal of ACR for me, too. I didn't have that in the downloads folder when I first loaded up that neighborhood again. The hack mentioned in the thread above also fixes it. I am now Super Duper Hug free! :)

I'll probably restore from backup again once I'm done play testing and updating my hacks, just to be safe. Who knows what other little errors I'm causing. This game can be borked so easily, especially when you mod it to within an inch of its life. Ha!

I've never attempted to upload a lot for others to use, mostly because I assume it will be riddled with hacks and crap like that. To date, nobody has requested anything I've made over (not really much a builder, so...), so I haven't had to worry about it trying to figure it out.

Drabbling is great for that. I still have unfilled prompts from my drabble post, so I've been thinking about those as well. Best of luck to you and your writing goals! :)