💔 [EP16] BUGFIX - Lovestruck's Costume Box is STILL busted. 🔄 11/7/2024 ✔️

────⋆⋅🎉 RELEASE NOTES:

🔄 Compatibility - 10/1/2024 ✔️

☄️ Updated - 10/5/2024 - Clothing Preference Update (Custom Interaction Requires XML Injector)

🚀 Initial Release - 8/7/2024

🔗 Required Dependency - CAS OVERRIDES for EP16 and other packs. In the near future I will include the necessary CAS Overrides in this bugfix.

🔗 Required Dependency - XML INJECTOR - https://www.curseforge.com/sims4/mods/xml-injector

🗺️ Download & Discussions - https://www.patreon.com/posts/109667885

🗺️ Modding Announcements - https://www.patreon.com/posts/109291501

────⋆⋅👹 THIS THING IS A MESS!

The Costume Box shipped with incompetent coding, locking some costumes to your Gender (Sex) or Clothing Preference. This is a problem for transframe sims and cisframe sims wanting to wear opposite frame costumes. This problem is exasperated by EAxis' continued use of improper Restrict Opposite Gender flags on TEEN+ clothing even after numerous Bug Reports.

Fixing the Costume Box does not fix the improper Restrict Opposite PartFlags on CAS items, which contributes to the incompetence of this thing. If you've got a transframe sim, you need this modfix + CAS Overrides for this to work properly. In the future I will include the necessary CAS Overrides and make this an all-in-one modfix.

────⋆⋅☄️ UPDATE CHANGELOG:

For the full CHANGELOG and other NOTES, please see the linked Download & Discussions Post.

The Clothing Preference Update reconfigures all trait-dependent costumes to match your Clothing Preference, allowing you to swap between feminine and masculine costumes by switching your Clothing Preference without bloating the pie menu with even more costume interactions.

To make switching your Clothing Preference a simple process, I've coded a new custom interaction for the Costume Box that allows you to do it on the fly. This custom interaction requires XML Injector.

I initially argued (and stand by the argument) that clothes should first and foremost MATCH YOUR PHYSICAL FRAME to avoid body distortions. However, with my encompassing gender variance theme in mind and my love of player choice, re-configuring this to match Clothing Preference instead of Physical Frame was a no-brainer. My big passion project (AnimXGenWear) also uses Clothing Preference to determine your animations, so it fits in nicely.

Additionally, I've removed some restrictions for which outfits you can apply specific costumes to and I've increased the costume duration time from 6 hours to 12 hours, which should give you enough time to boogie down. Keep in mind that any action that forces your sim to switch outfits will remove costumes.

There's a lot more to do here. Fixing this thing properly requires reconfiguring almost every costume buff because almost all of them are incompetently coded, and also requires at least 51 CAS Overrides siphoned off from my larger CAS Overrides projects to address the improper Restrict Opposite Gender flags. I can do it, but I also have other projects I'd like to complete, so this can wait a little longer.

I've added FIFTY-ONE (51) additional screenshots detailing just how broken this thing still is even with this modfix.