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well that's no fun. . .

Not sure if this is a result of your mod or not, but I thought I'd mention it since I only recently started aging up my heroes children and discovered the problem.

In my current kingdom, I have 5 female heroes and 5 male heroes, so I had them all marry each other. I had them all begin having children. But before I'd gotten all the hero families to three kids each, I had begun aging them up. Now with my Physician and Spy, they can not seem to have another child since I aged up their one and only son. I tested things out with my other heroes, and if I let them go ahead and have all three of their children and THEN age them up, everything's fine. But since I aged up the Physician/Spy kid, it seems they are rendered sterile. LOL

I tried to have them adopt a child because I really needed more girl children, but then I did not get the "age child" interaction on the adopted girl. When I "assigned profession" without aging her up, she got really deformed. Luckily I hadn't saved my game yet, so I was able to back out of it and get rid of the deformed child spy.

Also, regarding the "blue-eyed bug," it seems that if you keep the blood lines clean, (meaning no marrying and editing NPCs) then your sims will retain their original eye colors and keep looking good. That's why I'm having my hero children also marry each other. Unfortunately, I don't have enough girls, so a couple of the guys married princesses from other territories, but I'm just not going to edit them.

EDITED TO ADD: I was finally able to get my Physician pregnant! For some odd reason, I had to turn back on the DEBUG options, then Woohoo in the normal manner with her husband, the Spy, and she became pregnant. I usually keep the DEBUG turned off unless I need it, and since the other heroes weren't having any trouble getting pregnant, it didn't occur to me that could be the problem. Still though, I say that if you want to age up your children, it's much easier to go ahead and have all 3 kids first, THEN age them up. (as opposed to having one child- aging up- and then trying to have another child) Otherwise, you'll need to turn on DEBUG to get the sim pregnant again.

And the BEST NEWS of all---she had two GIRLS! Woohoo! (needed wives for two of my monarch's boys)

Last edited by LittleBird64 : 30th Oct 2011 at 07:26 PM.

Did anyone ever figure out how to KEEP your sims thin after editing them in CAS? They keep reverting back to fat almost immediately.

I'm glad you figured out a workaround for the infertility problem.

As for the adopted child not having the age up interaction, a save and reload should add any missing interactions to sims. Not all interaction are added when a new sim is created, my fault, but since it can be worked around easily I haven't fixed it.

As for making modifications to a sims fitness in CAS, I believe it only changes the physical apearance, not the underlying factors that make the game decide your sim is fat. So as soon as the game recalculates your sims fitness any change made in CAS will disappear. It may be possible to make a mod to set fitness levels, but I'll make no promises.

I'd love to use this fantastic looking mod, but I am having troubles.
1) I installed it where I thought it should go (started with the highest number release and worked my way back by the way - all had the same problem) and the game hangs on the loading screen. The circular icon just turns with no progress bar movement. With the last release (I think), I got the P&N screen with "Grim's Core" on the P&N logo, so it saw it there.

2) Troubleshooting things like latest patch etc., I find that because I have a digital download from Steam (it was a gift from my son who lives on the bottom of the country and thought it would be nice... which it was huh? ), I can't tell what version of the game I have as I cannot see a version number ANYWHERE during the loading and play.

3) Even checking file locations I find that everything is different to EA's version it seems. e.g: I will read things like "the dll goes in your Program Files/Electronic Arts/The Sims Medieval/Game/Bin. The resource.cfg goes in the Sims Medieval folder." I don't have such folders, I have things like Program Files/Steam/Steam aps/????something in here???/Bin and no Sims Medieval folder. Actually, that is half true - I have a Sims Medieval folder somewhere in one of the steam files (I searched for it) but all it has in it is a pair of shortcuts, one for TSM and P&N.

4) I have the No Censor mod up and running just fine (where I put the Core mod both with and without the no censor mod in my troubleshooting) and I removed the core and replaced the no censor which is still working away. Mind you, there were two other mods I have tried to run since but do not show in game even when the game loads (a female nude skin and a male nude skin).

2) Steam automatically updates your game to the latest patch, so you basically always have the most recent one.

3) The game folders for me are in Steam/SteamApps/common/the sims medieval

That's about how far as I can help sorry !

Most likely, the problem you're having with my mod is due to a missing/misplaced/currupt d3dx9_31.dll. This file needs to be in the same folder as the game executable. In Windows, if you right click on the programs shortcut, and choose properties, there should be an option to find the target of the shortcut. Make sure that d3dx9_31.dll is in this directory, and that it is the one listed in the sticky How to Mod for Beginners, because I'm sure this one works.

I had problems with two really beautiful male and female nude skins when I updated to V2 that I had to pull because all I got was the loading screen. Don't know what the problem was. Don't know if it will help you at all, but I do know my problem stopped when I pulled out those 2 skin mods.

Thanks for the replies, I'll follow Grim's advice on it. I didn't have the skins in the first place LadySkye, I tried them after Core wouldn't work so I could have something neat other than the no censor - which I removed to see if that made any difference.

Thanks Happyopi, that is pretty much what I found. As general info about the shortcut; the only thing I get is that it is a link to steam://rungameid/<sting-of-numbers-here> and no option to find the target. But I shall keep poking about. Every other Sim product I own is on disk and are all heavily modded, the file structure of Steam has me a little perplexed.

Do you have this mod Happyopi? In what folder(s) did you stick it if you do??

Again, thanks ladies and gentlemen for your kind replies.

-- Roc

P.S: My son only bought them for me because they were ridiculously cheap at less than $AU30.00 each as opposed to in-store at $AU89.95 and $AU49.95. I would much prefer having the disks in my hands but hey, he does love his old dad.

can someone illuminate me as to why my male hetero sim has become pregnant...

well i guess a core mod had to cost me a 30 hour kingdom eventually...

if you're using grim's mod, you'll have to uncheck the female/male pregnancy option which allows for females to impregnate male sims. it happened to me once when i thought to have my gay sim experiment with heterosexuality.

Me thinks your Hero is Gay, what taverns exactly have you been visiting lol?

Just kidding, as DarthKitsune said, freaked me out as well first time as well.. I did the well thing and had a invisible body for awhile as my dude was prego lol

thankfully, now your sim either puts on strange clothes or gets full on nekkid when he gets knocked up. nothing like sitting your royal arse on the throne and flashing everyone who comes to beg for something.

How? I still have a invisible body when my dude goes to the well and wishes for a child?

Actually, with the stuff I've figured out, making "other" mesh changes, I'm fairly confidant that I could create an actualy 3D male pregnant mesh for some clothing.

The invisible bodies should befixed by adding the male maternity clothing posted along with this thread.

or having the male nude mod, which makes your sim go naked when pregnant.

conversely, you can use Grim's mod to make your guy give birth nearly instantly after conception, even before the nauseous buff shows up.

Thanks, I havent looked at the first post here since I first downloaded it, Ill grap that, thanks again for all your hard work grim!! Now make us more cool stuff!! lol (J/K buddy)

I thought that option meant a female NPC would become pregnant...

male pregnancy... i can't even comment on that.

thanks for the info.

I love male pregnancy, it allows me to have a purely male dominated society.

what can I say, I'm not a fan of women. :D

i do. i wish the world was populated only by lesbians...

hmm that gives me an idea...

our worlds will then be mirror opposites. one, a world ruled by men who love men and anyone without a penis is automatically fodder for the pit beast. the other, a land ruled by women, where having a penis is punishable by death.

The Angel of Death will be busy, Muhahahahahaha

*Side note, how can you disagree that *I* am not a fan of women? It's a fact.*

LMAO....ya'll are cracking me up!

Um, my game also hangs at the loading screen, and I have a decent amount of experience when it comes to installing core mods.