I have a question about a weird graphics issue, maybe someone knows why this happens? Luckily I have found a solution already. But I'm so curious as to what can cause this?! Thought I'd ask you guys, in case someone knows...
The other day I finally managed to get my sims 3 running properly on my Linux PC, and yesterday I created a sim and started a game in order to do some testing to make sure everything is working correctly. But when I entered live mode, my sim seemed to look a little weird:
Was this how the sims 3 had always looked, I wondered? Or did I have some weird graphics issue?! She looked so blurry to me... I thought maybe I had just forgotten how this game looks, after playing sims 2 for several month?
I tried tweaking sim texture quality, made double sure I had done the necessary changes to graphicsRules.sgr. But still, she didn't look good (I mean, she's very pretty, if I may say so myself, that's not the problem. But her skin looked so weird and blurry).
I decided to try out a different skin, gave her some makeup, and placed her in better lighting. Lo and behold, she looked much better!
But I still thought it was weird. I had used that same default skin from the first screenshot for years, and I had always loved it. Even when I tried other skins I eventually always returned to that one. So I decided to make a side by side comparison:
I paused the game, took a screenshot, saved, quit, changed back to the old skin, loaded the game up again, and took another screenshot:
Left side is the "new" skin, right side is the "old" skin, the one from the very first screenshot. The skin default replacement was the only thing I switched out! And with the old one it looked like the whole world had this odd grey tint!
Can a skin replacement really impact the whole lighting like this? Or is this some other weird issue? Has anyone else ever experienced this?
