faceless sims
cwykes:
I have two sims who lose their faces shortly after they age from child to teen (on the hour). You can use "change appearance" as a temporary fix, but it doesn't stick. At the first change appearance you get an inappropriate default, second change sim gives a face with the correct family characteristics. The face disappears again not too long after, haven't noted when. They were CAS made a long time ago with alien skin and extreme facial characteristics - I wanted an alien look. Problem is they are in Sedona which is up for download and I really need to fix the files. Please can anyone help?
Jordi asked if I had faceblending on or off. I had never heard of that til yesterday, so I guess it was set to whatever the default was in CAS in base game. DK if that sparks any ideas.
This old thread "faceless guy" talked about missing, blue and other facial disasters a year ago, but I can't see any solutions.
http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=2570.50
Mine are completely missing not blue - pics here http://thesims2.ea.com/exchange/story_detail.php?asset_id=136911
Sedona is an alternative default subhood for people who are sick of Bluewater and is up for download on my website http://users.telenet.be/cwykes/ - lots of aliens and palm trees.
jrd:
By default it is on. Presumably (if it is related), the face blending fails because of your extreme faces, and randomness appears: faces disappear, or get set to a random template.
Don't know if disabling face blending can help at this point though, AFAIK it is only called at age transition or creation. What you can try is to disable it, use the agesimscheat to set them to the previous age group, and have them age transition with a set to birthday cheat. Hopefully this will call the normal face readjustment and not fail.
I play with face blending off, and have never had a blank face even when merging extreme faces in Sim kids.
cwykes:
Thanks for explaining a bit more Jordi.
I went away and tried aging the two kids with faceBlendLimits off They both turned faceless fairly quickly. So even if that's the problem which isn't proved I think, this isn't the solution. I say not proved, because of all the other reports on the old thread which didn't seem to involve extreme features.
Are there any in-game tools people could try on their faces? I don't have Uni or NL, but I think there's a career reward in Uni that might help isn't there? Otherwise, should I try and clone them and change them a bit in bodyshop? I've never cloned sims and I have used bodyshop precisely twice, but I'll learn if you think it will work. I don't want to make a new family for the 'hood and delete the Jones' family, but I'm beginning to wonder if I should.
Am I safe to say that, "the problem is almost certainly restricted to those 2 sims and won't affect every sim in the 'hood". I mean, surely this thing doesn't spread like an epidemic so that your whole 'hood turns faceless?
jrd:
M sister had the problem with one Sim (not using your 'hoods), I solved it for her by applying full facial make up to her Sim and removing it again. This forces a repaint of the entire face and therefore may help.
Also try making the affected Sim a vampire and curing them again.
cwykes:
VCline already has them in warpaint I think and it's not helping, but she could try the vampire thing. Thanks for the ideas. :)
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