faceless sims
vcline:
cwykes, I followed your suggestion of "changing appearance" a second time, and that worked on Dee and Eee. I didn't hang around to see if and when they changed back (they're at Uni and I am involved with the main neighborhood right now). I've never made a vampire or werewolf or zombie, and I'm not ready to experiment right now. I'll just keep my eye on them and see what happens when I breed 2 aliens. This may take some time as I'm currently involved with your Green/Foster/military families. Many thanks for those, although running an 8-sim house keeps you on your toes. I may have to install TJ's ACR and see the havoc that ensues.
cwykes:
Facepaint! wonderful stuff! never seen any use for it until now.
Take one faceless sim, change them into facepaint. They get a default face, but never mind. Change them again out of facepaint and they have the correct face and no face paint. AND the change sticks. No more sudenly turning up faceless when you take your eye off them. At least not in the couple of days I watched them. Thank you Jordi! you rock!
If the kid is wearing facepaint while transitioning, they don't lose their face at all. However that hasn't actually fixed the problem, just hidden it. When you take face paint off as a teen, the problem comes back.
I had left the Jones family in the lot bin in Sedona, but I might move them into a lot to give Dee and Eenie face paint. That way, simmers who leave the facepaint alone will be OK when they transition to teen. Dee can have fairy face paint to go with the dress. Eenie the toddler will end up with two black stripes or football paint. I have to say, I hate the idea of face paint on a toddler all the time!
RainbowTigress:
Are you using any default alien skin replacements? Or even a default skintone replacement such as paradise sims who have the alien included with the regular skintones? Someone else had this problem a while back, and that turned out to be the problem, because there were missing textures for the teen faces.
cwykes:
I made this family in CAS when I was a total newbie, so I'm pretty sure it's the maxis alien skin. I thought I was so clever knowing how to get to it in CAS. ::) I suppose it's possible, something had crept into downloads that is since gone, but if that were the case, all the family would have problems surely?
I made mum and Dad and then generated children for them in CAS: a teen, a child and a toddler. Dad and mum age to elder fine. The teen ages to adult fine. The child ages to teen fine then loses her face on the hour but she seems to age to adult OK. The toddler is fine as a child, ages fine to teen, but then loses his face. I'm not sure I bothered to try him as an adult. three kids born in game grow up to child and teen with no problems at all.
The fact they age OK and then lose their faces on the hour might be a clue to someone as to what is going on. Change appearance once sticks for a bit, but they have lost their faces again when getting off the shool bus etc.
Jordi said you just needed to really force the game to redraw the face - which is what facepaint does.
Avalikia:
I have a theory - but I may be totally off the mark with this - I came up with this when I had an alien sim with the same problem. Have you ever seen an alien sim with acne? I haven't, and I suspect that as teenagers the game is trying to give them acne but there's something about that particular skin tone that's broken. My alien teen's features weren't as extreme as yours - only to the extreme of being almost, but not quite, identical to the PT's. His face disappeared on a regular basis until he was a young adult, and though the mirror fixed it it was always temporary. Does this seem plausable or is it just me?
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