Who is this Fugly Pudding, and why is he in my portrait?

[Blech]

This is Jared Marley.


This is not Jared Marley.


Anyone else seen something like this, or know how to fix it? Every sim who knows Jared has him show up like this in their panel or when they have a thought bubble about him. As far as I know, this fake Jared does not even exist, or I've never seen him at least.

[J. M. Pescado]

Clear your cache?

[Blech]

Which one?

[J. M. Pescado]

Wipe them out. All of them.

[Blech]

There's only one file under Caches...Sunset valley.objectCache.

Edit: Oh, wait, duh. Under My Documents not Program Files. I'm so used to going to Program Files instead of Documents now.

[keirra]

In your My Documents/Electronic Arts/The Sims 3 folder there are 4 cache files. They are the files Pescado is talking about.

[Blech]

After I recovered from my temporary stupidity, and deleted all 4 cache files, The Fugly is still hijacking my sim's portrait.

[J. M. Pescado]

Does the portrait correctly refer to your sim, or is there some other cloned Jared Marley?

[Blech]

Yeah, that's him, except for the picture.

Edit: There are no clones of this sim, that I'm aware of, and I'm getting the panel picture from his live-in girlfriend.

[J. M. Pescado]

Well, I'm completely baffled, so meh.

[Blech]

Yeah, so is my programmer boyfriend. He says that it would probably help you to know that his own profile pic is working properly, it's just how everyone else views him.

Edit: He also says that since deleting caches didn't fix it, the data on this sim is probably corrupted. Does this mean he's just a lost cause?

[infamy]

I guess he's the "default" Sim who shows up when portraits get corrupted?  I've had him stand in for several of my Sims, that exact same guy.

[J. M. Pescado]

Try regenerating a sim's portraits by using a mirror?

[Blech]

Try regenerating a sim's portraits by using a mirror?

I'll try this in a few hours and report back. Right now, my turn on the gaming computer is up.

[laylei]

I've had this happen to a number of sims, but only when they are off at work. When they come home and change out of their work clothes, the portrait goes back to them and not Mr. Mustache.

[Tyyppi]

This seems to be a "feature" that just sometimes happens. It seems to fix itself after some time.

[Blech]

I've had this happen to a number of sims, but only when they are off at work. When they come home and change out of their work clothes, the portrait goes back to them and not Mr. Mustache.

This. When I noticed this my sim was on call, when he first got home, Fugly was still in portrait. Making him change into his Everyday clothes fixed it. This has to be the most retarded bullshit ever.

[J. M. Pescado]

I don't think it's a retarded "Feature", I think it's just a placeholder because the game doesn't freeze the game while mere thumbnails are being processed, so it just throws something up. The alternative is that the entire game freezes up ala TS2 while the thumbnail and textures are loaded. You can see this effect at work when you suddenly zoom to a random spot in town and everything is first monochrome, then in low-detail, and then finally sharpens out into how it normally looks. Splotch did this also.

[MissKitty]

I've had this problem also. A placeholder image is all well and good, it's not the first game I've played where that happened, but it really bugs me when this guy shows up for my FEMALE sims. Holding an autograph session with my sexy (a.k.a. slutty and wearing skimpy outfits) female sim and having everyone think of her as Mr Pasty Moustache Guy is... wrong. -_-

Regenerating the thumbnail does seem to work, though, so... *shrug*

[Blech]

I don't think it's a retarded "Feature", I think it's just a placeholder because the game doesn't freeze the game while mere thumbnails are being processed, so it just throws something up. The alternative is that the entire game freezes up ala TS2 while the thumbnail and textures are loaded. You can see this effect at work when you suddenly zoom to a random spot in town and everything is first monochrome, then in low-detail, and then finally sharpens out into how it normally looks. Splotch did this also.

Well, if freezing is the alternative, I guess I prefer Mr. Pasty Moustache Guy.

[Gus Smedstad]

Splotch did this also.

I strongly suspect that the two share a common library.  Which gave us both the elaborate options for textures and pudding faces.

 - Gus

[bloodredtoe]

I don't think it's a retarded "Feature", I think it's just a placeholder because the game doesn't freeze the game while mere thumbnails are being processed, so it just throws something up.

How come it shows empty portraits/bubbles in my game then when it's processing?

[Zazazu]

This is not Jared Marley.

Yes. That seems to be the default thumbnail used when the real sim's thumbnail doesn't set. Clearing caches does nothing. This happened for me with a black, balding sim named Scot Williams. I eventually killed him, since he obviously was a spy.

[Tyyppi]

EA obviously should've made a better default thumbnail than that to avoid confusion.

[Lorelei]

EA obviously should've made a better default thumbnail than that to avoid confusion.

EA obviously should've made a better default thumbnail than that to avoid confusion.

That reminds me of something, but I'm not sure what.