Broken Tattoo CC's after latest update

[marcusdom]

Updated my game recently (it's been about three months since I last did an update) and got the Businesses and Hobbies pack and immediately noticed a ton of my sims have the red white broken cc issue which wasn't there before the update. I noticed all of the broken cc was coming from tattoos and even some of the tattoo cc that did work had a bug where once I put them on a sim in CAS I couldn't remove them without switching to a non-cc tattoo for the same slot (if I put a cc back tattoo, it would stay there even if I hit the X in the corner to remove it, but if I then select a non-cc back tattoo the cc one is removed and I can then X out the non-cc).

 

I've looked around and haven't really seen any discussion of broken tattoos except one brief comment on the official EA forums saying tattoos now need a new opacity slider and someone else here on another post suggesting CAS sliders in general are broken. Is anyone else having this issue and if so is this an issue that can be fixed in Sims 4 Studio (I have a mild amount of experience with editing mods in S4S), are my tattoo cc's just completely beyond repair, or is the other user here right and we need to wait for a patch (which is the same as being broken beyond repair because this is EA and Maxis we're talking about)?

 

 

Edit: I forgot to mention this also includes layering tattoos. I cannot layer any of the CC tattoos that do display properly.

Edited March 7, 2025 by marcusdom
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[GuiltyFantasy]

2 hours ago, marcusdom said:

Updated my game recently (it's been about three months since I last did an update) and got the Businesses and Hobbies pack and immediately noticed a ton of my sims have the red white broken cc issue which wasn't there before the update. I noticed all of the broken cc was coming from tattoos and even some of the tattoo cc that did work had a bug where once I put them on a sim in CAS I couldn't remove them without switching to a non-cc tattoo for the same slot (if I put a cc back tattoo, it would stay there even if I hit the X in the corner to remove it, but if I then select a non-cc back tattoo the cc one is removed and I can then X out the non-cc).

 

I've looked around and haven't really seen any discussion of broken tattoos except one brief comment on the official EA forums saying tattoos now need a new opacity slider and someone else here on another post suggesting CAS sliders in general are broken. Is anyone else having this issue and if so is this an issue that can be fixed in Sims 4 Studio (I have a mild amount of experience with editing mods in S4S), are my tattoo cc's just completely beyond repair, or is the other user here right and we need to wait for a patch (which is the same as being broken beyond repair because this is EA and Maxis we're talking about)?

 

 

Edit: I forgot to mention this also includes layering tattoos. I cannot layer any of the CC tattoos that do display properly.

Hey, I did a quick test and my CC tattoos apply just fine, no red and white skin. On another hand, I have the same problem as you when trying to remove a tattoo, the upper corner X doesn't do a thing, I have to switch to a non-CC tatt.

[marcusdom]

I feel like it has to be some sort of configuration issue because I tried equipping only broken CC tattoos and then checking CAS CC with Better Exceptions and not a single tattoo is listed as if the game can't find them despite the CAS showing them. All the other CC tattoos show up in a BE check just fine, though I still can't X them out or layer them. Thanks for confirming at least I'm not entirely crazy/stupid.

[Faolon]

The only way I've been able to remove CC tattoos is to create a new layer or delete a layer.

 

So my recommendation is to just create a layer for testing out Tattoos. Add what you want and when you get to the point where you want to remove a tattoo, delete the layer.

 

Be warned: This removes all tatts.

[marcusdom]

Quick update all, I posted about this issue over at the Sims 4 Studios forum and someone there found a solution to the layering and X out problems for tattoos and S4S has now been updated with a batch fix. I tried manually updating one of my tattoos and it worked fine including layering so that solves that problem, now my only problem is still the red and white tattoo's but I think I figured out the problem there as well (they all come from a single mod that is modifying non cc tattoos and EA obviously changed how tattoos work so some things got fucked up).

 

Mind you while doing research it seems like that LL user that said CAS sliders are fucked up might be right as it seems like EA made a change that completely destroyed how custom body sliders work and slider changes in CAS don't stick especially when you go back to live mode. Gotta love how every update this game gets worse and worse and EA always just does harm and little to no good.

 

Anyway TL;DR, update Sims 4 Studio they have a batch fix for tattoos.