Most NPCs (also known by the community as “Townies”) that are randomly created by the game will pull content to create said NPCs from any and all content that is available to the game; including custom content unless it has coded “flags” inside the custom content saying: “don’t use this on NPCs”. In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use the program Sims 4 Studio to do a simple Batch Fix to fix all of your custom content at once to set this “flag” to tell the game not to use any custom content on random NPCs.
You Will Need for This Tutorial:
This is a simple process, but it can take an extended amount of time to accomplish depending on the amount of custom content that you have in your Mods folder. Please be patient and be prepared to wait a bit. It may also take up some additional space on your hard drive if you choose the “backup your files” route. Make sure you have some extra hard drive space before proceeding, just in case.
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