Skins Disappear From Sims
MellissaSue:
I did a few searches for this issue and found nothing specific so I'm hoping I can get some help. Sometime over the weekend, when I loaded my game, a lot of my female skins had turned black and by that I mean, that inside of the arms and chest being the skintone they'd been the last time I played, they were black or a combination of colors.
I went through my Downloads folder and removed some of the game mods that I had downloaded. Problem still there. I removed half of the folders, still there. I removed just my clothing folder and the problem disappeared. I thought it was solved -- a weird mesh or file had been included. Not a huge deal. Instead of worrying about narrowing it down any further, I went a head and just started my folder over.
I downloaded a bunch of clothes just from SimChic, some Elder outfits, some Adult Female Designer, Celebrity and Everyday files and of course all their meshes and just like that the problem was created again. I can't imagine it's actually a SimChic file, but maybe a hack that's conflicting with the file as weird as that might sound. Does anyone have suggestions?
Edit: I should mention that I did not install the FreeTime patch.
snabul:
I tried to download the FT Patch, but it is said to be corrected and was not available anymore.
MellissaSue:
Yeah, I heard it was messing things up and I read a few places that people had this problem after installing the patch so I mentioned it to say that I had the problem even though I had never touched the patch.
Zazazu:
Try this, MelissaSue. Sounds like the poster in that thread had a similar problem.
Quote from: Atom_Bunny on 2007 September 30, 09:21:38
Numenor found the problem. I'll copy/paste the text here:
Quote from: Numenor on MTS2
1. Open the folder where you have installed your game: I mean the PROGRAM folder, not the Documents!
2. Browse to: EA Games\The Sims 2\TSData\Res\Catalog\Skins
3. If you see a small file named Skins.package, with size 1Kb only, delete it.
4. RENAME the file Skins.disabledpackage to Skins.package.
(If you DON'T see the .disabledpackage file or the Skins.package is NOT only 1Kb, then this solution is NOT for you: don't delete anything!)
That's all. All the crashes in the CAS, or changing appearance, or entering the lots should immediately stop; the unexpected hair colour or skin tones over your sims should also revert to normal.
NOTE: if you HAVE SAVED a lot while the sims were showing unexpected hair or skin colour, I'm not 100% sure that the hair or the skin in that lot will automatically revert to the right tones.
Of course I'd already gone down the road of uninstall/reinstall before he came up with this, but it may be of help to someone who still has the problem.
If not, try binary search with your cc outfits and any custom skins you may have. Take out recent downloads first.
MellissaSue:
Unfortunately, the first solution didn't apply to me. (It's never that easy *sighs*) and I'm not entirely sure how to go about doing the second. Can you point me in the right direction?
Thanks so much for your help :)
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