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For some reason, when I go into CAS, the second option - the place where you can choose from the head templates - is completely empty. I admit I hadn't played for a while before I first noticed this, but I could've sworn there were some there before.

I have pets and uni, but nothing else, and I have a lot of hacks, but they don't seem to be conflicting (I ran HCDU a while ago, with only the expected problems that I'd already made sure wouldn't affect my gameplay)

I usually run with testing cheats on, and nothing seems to be erroring out- they apparently just aren't loading, for whatever reason.

Have you tried deleting the CASThumbnails file from the Thumbnails folder in (My) Documents and letting the game generate a new one? Just a shot in the dark here, but perhaps that file is borked.

Hum, I've never heard of such a thing. I shall try that!

Come to think of it, I once accidentally deleted cigen.package, and forgot all about it afterward. Any chance that may have caused it?
(Yes, as is very clear, I am, on occasion, entirely FAIL, as they say. [Way to many clauses there, no?])

The cigen.package is used with Body Shop and is another one of those files that will be regenerated if you delete it, so no need to worry about it.

Alright, that's good. I've removed the CASThumbnails.package file, and I'll see when I next play whether or not it fixes anything...

My heads disappeared at some point when I added custom default skin and eye replacements.

Yeah, I've a default alien skin replacement, and added a lot of non-default skins and eyes, but nothing else...

I'll be starting the game in just a few minutes, hopefully. (need to qexpress my download storage and then organize the downloads folder again, it's a long, labour intensive process when I've recently downloaded a lot... Which is to say, nearly every day.)

Just to make sure, the section that is blank is the one where you normally have 20+ face templates listed, with modifiers directly below, correct?

If not, if it's the section that typically shows roughly six faces with hair, makeup, etc, then it could be something you'll kick yourself for. That section pulls faces from your saved sims by skin color. If you've somehow deleted all your saved sims, or if you are using a custom skintone you haven't saved any sims with, you won't have anything in that section.

Yep, Zazazu put it so much better, and elaborated.

...Oh.
Well, fuck.
Now I feel stupid.
I don't think I've used any "normal" skins in CAS since I made a sim-Emma (for Torture Emma Day), and then I just saved straight after selecting the archetype from the bin.

Well, thanks anyway.
*kicks self repeatedly*

Doh, I was thinking it was the other face option where all the archetypes are stored. I hardly ever use CAS; I should have looked at which panel before posting. Sorry to lead you down the wrong path!

S'okay. I've done the same thing, more than once. I have 23 custom skins, including the default replacements.

Alright, thanks. I'll try not to ask stupid questions in the future. XD

So... How does one save sims so that their heads show up in that panel?

If you want heads to show up in that panel for a specific custom skintone then you need to make a sim using that skintone in body shop and then save it. Then it should show up in the head panel when you have that skintone selected in CAS.

Ah, OK, thanks.