Hello from a stranger who has tons of questions

Hello simtress ! Welcome to back to TS4 :D. Let's start with fixing CC that was broken with patches. You will need to run 3 batch fixes if you haven't played since June-July. You need to fix lamps (EA changed tuning for the lamps back in June in pre-restaurants patch). Also, if you want to make your CC compatible with Dine Out (make it available for restaurants) you need to run batch fix for chairs and tables, it adds necessary tags. Also EA changed tuning for mirrors with the patch with toddlers. You will need to run this batch fix as well, otherwise your CC mirrors will give "script error" and you won't be able to place them.

To fix lamps go to Tools -> Batch Fixes -> Objects -> Fix CC Light Tuning
To fix chairs and tables go to Tools -> Batch Fixes -> Objects -> Fix Dining tables/chairs for restaurants
To fix mirrors go to Tools -> Batch Fixes -> Objects -> Fix Mirror Tuning

Pretty much all mods are broken with patches so you will need to search for your favorite mods and check if they were updated for the latest patch.

You can make your CC eyes available for toddlers when you change tags in studio. You can do the same for custom skin tones but be aware that many CC skintones have boobs and other parts. I highly doubt that you want toddlers to get C-size boobs... I would search for custom skintones made for toddlers.

If you purchased City Living and have custom TVs, you may want to run another batch fix for TVs to make them compatible with game console. Go to Tools -> Batch Fixes -> Objects -> Update CC TVs for game console.

Regarding the mods, you might want to install Neighborhood Protection - No Vampires! to protect your neighborhood from bloodsucking creatures

simtress , you need to download the newest version of Studio (it's Harmony 3.0.1.2) to run all batch fixes. Regarding whether creators updated their CC, I doubt that everybody did that. Some creators did, some creators left the community, so you never know if CC was fixed. You can either check every single package by hand, wasting a few hours on this, or run batch fix. I suggest running batch fix. The newest CC will be compatible with the game.

simtress, sorry, I don't know how this mod works.

thanks i brought up the cheat window and typed in cas.fulleditmode and was able to bring her into cas to add new skin.

Now I'm having another issue though. Many of my townies are wearing underwear. I don't have any cc clothing in game. Just one cc skin and one hair and one set of eyes. Oh and that mod.

Ugh I didn't realize it was going to be so much trouble going back to ts4 lol!

Great questions simtress and answers Feyona and Mathcope. I understand what you're going through as I haven't been playing Sims4 nor tried to create any recolors in a long time. Hopefully we can get everything all cleared up again soon with our games.

dltn43 I'm quite overwhelmed tbh. All I want to do is play but I had to take all my cc out and wasnt sure where to begin when it comes to putting all back in. So what I did was take everything out and then put some hairs back in. I figured cc hair wasn't broken by the toddler patch right (?) But now I'm looking for my old skins and skin details (never could tell what was the difference between skin and skin details lol! I'm just going to my favourite cc creator's tumblrs and downloading 'new' stuff.

Sometimes, I swear this game is going to break me!

We'll figure it out :D

orange I think I know why the townies were in their EA underwear. I guess my game still has my old sims in it. Because when I click on the sim I can see they're my old sims. But all my cc clothes are not in the game anymore so I guess they just walk around in their underwear. I figured out how to edit them in cas so that's how I got them to put on some clothes lol!

Thanks very much for your reply. Happy Simming!