faceless sims
notveryawesome:
Yeah, I only use the coffee machine for my poor sims, and upgrade to espresso as soon as they can afford it. I do have a 'more energy from coffee' hack, though, which is actually more realistic, since IRL coffee contains more caffeine than espresso (longer brew time = more caffeine). If you steeped your tea for 10 minutes (ewww), it would have quite a high caffeine content, as well.
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VacantBlue:
I have this exact same issue with one of my Sims. He is a born-in the game Sim - son of Brandi's third son & Marylena Hamilton the grocery delivery person - no alien genetics in either of their history, no CAS Sims involved.
When I loaded the household, the teen was sitting and studying - his face was blue and floating above his head. He had an empty space where his face was supposed to be. After I cancelled out the study action - the floating blue image disappeared and only a hollow head was there - hair and nothing else. I went to the mirror to change his appearance and all of his facial features changed - they did not look like a default face template to me, but I could be wrong about that. I thought it was bizarre that his facial features changed - so, I went back to the mirror again - his old face popped up. I cancelled the action because his new face looks much better.
This Sim has now aged to a Young Adult and is about to graduate. He still has his new facial features and he has not lost his face again. However, if I go to change his appearance - the old face pops up - so, I have been just cancelling the action.
He has custom hair that was selected immediately after he aged to teen. He was a couple of days into his teen years when this happened; so, it was not due to the age transition. He did not have acne nor do I think that he was about to get acne - very few of my Sims get acne - I make them take frequent showers. This household did not have a coffee/espresso machine of any sort and I have no coffee machine hacks. He does not use any facepaint, facial hair or makeup.
I have also seen this problem posted with pictures on the BBS. Nina was the affected Sim. She did not have custom hair or clothes at the time and was still in the adult stage. The poster went to the mirror and stated that it fixed the problem.
So, I have no clue why or how it occurs. Like you, I hope that it does not spread.
edited to add:
I do not have the insim nor did I use the ageSims cheat to age this Sim at anytime. I did use the debugging tool to "set to birthday" and aged him to a teen with the birthday cake.
witch:
I see syberspunk comments in another thread that aging sims by any means other than default can cause problems and I'm inclined to agree, I've only had these faceless sorts of problems since I started mucking around. The aging on the debug menu doesn't bring up the aspiration choice screen for my teen sims, users of insim have discovered floating blue faces - that's how I discovered the issue - I think my sims will have to be 'set to birthday' and see if that works better.
VacantBlue:
Quote from: witch on 2007 January 26, 10:45:37
I see syberspunk comments in another thread that aging sims by any means other than default can cause problems and I'm inclined to agree, I've only had these faceless sorts of problems since I started mucking around. The aging on the debug menu doesn't bring up the aspiration choice screen for my teen sims, users of insim have discovered floating blue faces - that's how I discovered the issue - I think my sims will have to be 'set to birthday' and see if that works better.
I don't have the insim - I've never had it. I "Set to birthday" and then aged the Sim to teen by having him blow the candles out on a birthday cake. So, I think that there must be more to it than aging cheats.
notveryawesome:
Yes, I have had the floating blue faces without InSim or aging cheats, though in two cases I think it was from having aspiration reward objects in the sims' inventories, specifically the Renu-Yu Senso Orb (or whatever it's called).
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