Removing non-default skins - how bad is it?
nekonoai:
This happened to poor Notovny when I removed skins. He turned white! A quick trip to Simpe fixed him up nicely, though.
Quinctia:
It's not that big of a deal, it's just a pain in the ass, especially if you've bred them.
For skins, you just need to change their DNA (you could just change it to S2, or you could pick another skin and change it to that), and the DNA of every one of their relatives that could have a gene for that skintone. For eyes, you need to fix the DNA of sim and relatives, but you also have to fix the agedata in their Character file for their "new" eye to show up.
I've always had geneticized skins in my game, and my problem came from my downloading of the first "townified" skins that were floating around, made using a method that wouldn't allow them to show up in CAS. I eventually switched them out for versions that could be townified and be in CAS at the same time, and I had a bunch of DNA to fix up. It's worth it for me to have tons of variety in my genetics, and nowadays I do all the file modification myself. I just make sure to boot up bodyshop and check the quality of new custom genetics before I townify it and let it randomize itself into my game. Just make sure you only put in stuff that is up to your standard of quality, and it shouldn't be much of an issue.
professorbutters:
When you say "internal data messed up," how badly do you mean, and will it make a difference if you *can't* fix it with SimPE?
I've only removed one custom skin, and I can't say I'm sorry. The mother was a Marilyn Monroe sim, and I never once thought about changing her to male and back to see what happened. The male version of the skin was EW. Lots of badly-drawn body hair and EW. I could not stand to see that bred in over and over. I took the skin out last July and no big problems so far. (And he looks WAY better as an S2.)
Otherwise, with custom skins and hair, I just check it first, or learn to live with it. I'd edit it, but I can't (see above.)
PB
BastDawn:
As an alternative, I just replaced the internal textures the last time I changed my s3.5 skin. That way I retained the original file and all of the data that went with it. You can also geneticise in-use skins and they will not break for the sims using them.
J. M. Pescado:
Quote from: professorbutters on 2009 February 18, 00:00:40
When you say "internal data messed up," how badly do you mean, and will it make a difference if you *can't* fix it with SimPE?
This is unclear, but I am not going to recommend any course of action that will inflict ANY damage to the files.
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