🎁 [EP20] CASO (Limited): Adventure Awaits -- [10/8] 🌠 Just a tiny change: I unrestricted the Child-Only bandages for all ages.
⚔️ EP20: COMPETENCE AWAITS ⋆ 🚀 10/6/25 ⋆ 🌠 10/8/25 ⋆ ☄️ 10/8/25
🔄 Always compatible [🌐], unless EAxis modifies resources post-release [🌐].
☆// ⋆ TOTES "SIMPLE" CASO DESCRIPTION:
"CASO" (CAS Overrides) is a collection of BUGFIXES for CAS items.
Each "CASO" project is a MERGED PACKAGE containing numerous individual CAS overrides that aim to fix the mess EAxis continues to make in CAS with their improper use of their own PARTFLAGS and TAGS, especially the "Restrict Opposite" PARTFLAGS that plague "transframe" (transgender) Sims.
The goal is to fix everything, but "everything" takes time, so I have started doing "(Limited)" releases to fix the worst offenders as quickly as possible. The rest will be added in feature updates.
Fixing CAS isn't rocket science - re-configuring CAS to be as inclusive and as unrestrictive as possible for everyone, is not rocket science - is all just PARTFLAGS and TAGS, baby.
I'll finish this post later™. Cheers!
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☆// ⋆ NOTICE MY POST ATTACHMENTS, SENPAI:
🎁 GDrive Folder -- PENDING™
🎁 SFS Folder -- PENDING™
☆// ⋆ EP20 BOOTY:
😾 CAS Review -- https://../posts/140405746
🗺️ CAS Add-Ons -- PENDING™
🗺️ CAS De-Bloat™ -- PENDING™
🗺️ CAS Resource Overrides -- https://../posts/140597137
🧠 EAxis Screwed Up "Head Decorations" -- https://../posts/134140317
☆// ⋆ EVEN MOAR BOOTY:
🗺️ All-in-One Live Event Rewards Unlocker -- https://../posts/120588981
🗺️ Batty Bat™ CASMenu Override -- https://../posts/107958333
🗺️ SGFX Patch: More Columns × Batty Bat™ -- https://../posts/135116776
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☆// ⋆ TABLE OF ANGRY KITTY:
THIS LIMITED CASO INCLUDES -- A summarized list of changes.
TBC...
☆// ⋆ THIS LIMITED CASO INCLUDES (77) OVERRIDES:
Every item I override now includes a special "Sejian's C.A.S.O.™" CAS Filter. This CAS Filter is not available in the current release of CAS Filters, but it's coming in the next feature update.
"CAS perfection" means all Tops, Bottoms, Full Body, and Shoes are unrestricted for all Sims aged Teen and older of all "Gender" and "Physical Frame" combinations - Female/Feminine, Female/Masculine, Male/Masculine, Male/Feminine.
EAxis knows how to do "CAS perfection" but choose not to, except in specific situations where they want to pretend that they made a feminine and masculine variant of an item, when in fact they only made one and then unrestricted it for both.
I used to refer to "CAS perfection" as "the Endgame", but maybe "CAS perfection" is better.
STUDIO FIXES (PARTFLAGS):
Allow for Random -- Removed for CAS perfection (where applicable).
Most feminine frame Tops, because most are Bloated™ trash.
All Accessories including Hats.
Restrict Opposite Frame -- Removed for CAS perfection (where applicable).
Restrict Opposite Gender -- Fixed for all affected items (where applicable).
☢️ Which <GRUMBLES> ROG'd two arm guards, and ROF'd the other two?! Maybe I should apply to EAxis after Jared (Trump) and Saudi Arabia take over. I'll just have to work remotely to y'know, not get [REDACTED] by the violent anti-LGBTQIA+ brigade. Is been TEN (10) YEARS, fam! How dey still muckin' dis up?!
STUDIO FIXES (TAGS):
Age & Gender -- Fixed that one full-body item for children.
Fashion Choice -- Fixed for CAS perfection (where applicable).
Occult (Randomization) -- "Fairy" and "Mermaid" removed from all items.
Outfit Type -- Tweaked for CAS perfection (where applicable).
Fixed that one shorts that EAxis slapped the "Nude" tag on.
I thought we moved past improper "Nude" tags on EAxis items and we were just breaking the "Nude/Bathing Outfit" directly now, but looks like we doin' errthang!
☢️ Update 10/22/2024 broke our "Nude/Bathing Outfit". We're approaching ONE (1) YEAR and they still can't be arsed to fix it, but we've had multiple DLC releases.
WAREHOUSE FIXES:
Display Index -- Modified to match Pack ID.
SortLayer -- Fixed that one "Equestria Girls" ponytail for Female / Feminine Frame.
They only screwed up the "SortLayer" for this one hairstyle variant, but now that I've seen it, it becomes Yet Another Thing to add to my list of things to check when I'm going through these CAS items. I had hoped I could stop bothering with hairstyles (unless it's a critical thing) now that I've fixed the CAS category filtering, but no!
UNLOCKED / UNRESTRICTED:
🌠 cuAcc_TightsEP20Bandaid -- Unlocked for all ages.
I did a thing here. If you use this and it randomly disappears (as in randomly turns invisible on your Sim), please inform me in the Comments below.
To do this without CASA ("CAS Add-Ons" a.k.a. creating a duplicate configured for other ages), I had to modify this item to remove the tiny, floating, "triangle" mesh that EAxis has started including in these "texture-only" CAS items that appear to have no purpose other than making the items incompatible with other ages (because you'll see the little mesh floating around). I did some troubleshooting and saw no difference with or without the mesh when LOD zooming or on Ultra v. Lowest GFX settings. If someone knows a valid reason why this "triangle" mesh exists, sound off in the Comments and enlighten us all.
☆// ⋆ TBC...
Comments (4)
thank you as always <3 <3 if the sims team knew what was good for them they would consult you for every pack and update, at the VERY least. it really is inexcusable that a company raking in billions for half baked packs cant even fix simple errors like this (or, heres a thought, just not making and releasing these mistakes and errors in the first place!)
Indeed! I really don't understand how we're still "here" after all these years and the numerous Bug Reports over those years (on Answers HQ / "Ideas" on EA Forums), and the numerous fixes they've released in official updates over those years. Even if they're rotating staff and they've got inexperienced folks working on basic stuff like this... white boards exist, right? Post-it notes exist! Paint exists! Just write it on the wall and paint it over later! The only way I'd accept the state of the game (and every update and every content release) is if EAxis were doing it intentionally, in protest of poor working conditions or something. This is not competent game development! There is absolutely no excuse for a multi-billion dollar company that has been in game development and game publishing for more years than I have been alive, to be putting out half-arsed trash like this. It'd be less ridiculous if every first patch following a half-arsed content release included all the fixes for basic stuff like this, but we don't ever get that - we get a handful of fixes every few months. At least half of EAxis CAS is half-arsed like this, and it's been in the state it's in for years! C'mon! 😾😹💀 And these are just the critical fixes + the Tops that I really needed to disable "Allow For Random" on 'cause I don't want Bloat™ randomly generating in my game. I intend to override all CAS items from this content release (and all others), to bring them in line with how I FLAG and TAG CAS items.
The sej_STROvrd_Polygot_LoadingScreenTips Is yours, correct?
Indeed it is, and it likely needs an update because I'm sure the new EP added new STRINGS. That's why you're asking, yes? Also, I'm the only creator with my creator_name_prefix. All "sej_*" files are mine... unless you got it from somewhere else. 😹