This happened to me just recently; after playing on a lot for a few minutes and moving the camera around a bit, the surrounding object meshes, textures, and even some of my sims would be replaced by these bizarre, kaleidoscope-like colors. Here's a pic of what I mean:

( Pic under cut... )

I've checked pretty far back into the community archive and couldn't find any answers, unless I missed it. If it helps to know I have all eps except for Free Time, no stuff packs. I do use hacks but only one or two of them are global. I'm working on a story and I hope to resolve this as soon as possible...

I hope this is a stupid question with an easy fix. I'm having trouble un-binning custom hairs (pinks wrongly binned as red, etc). Everything shows up in Bodyshop, with varying degrees of usability, but almost none of it appears where it should in CAS. The tealdeer version:

-Hairs binned back to custom are available* everywhere in Bodyshop. In CAS, they only appear in the elder custom bin (if an elder version is available).
--*Or rather, they show up, but are unselectable for all ages in BS - clicking one jumps to a random black/grey hair.
--When making an elder sim in CAS and choosing one of the hairs, then switching back to any other age group, the hair stays set, but still isn't visible in the non-elder bins.

-Three (of the set I'm working with) DO show as adult hair in CAS. These few are also selectable in BS. I have no idea how I worked this magic. They have family id=hairtone id, but this does not work for all hairs.

-To un-bin hairs, I at first just added some gibberish to the hairtone line (like 9999666b + all the 0s), then I tried using Wardrobe Wrangler's random family ids, and on some I tried recycling their BS-generated family ids as the hairtone. None of this has worked, although all of it keeps the hair visible in BS. I'm using SimPE for all of this.

-Never-binned custom hair (and colour-binned normal hair) works fine in all cases.

I have no idea if this is a new thing since an ep addition or if it's always been a problem, since I don't think I've used a re-custom'd hair on a CAS sim before. I've definitely have had the snap-to-black problem since forever.

Google/various forums and faqs have been no help, as they're about going in the opposite binning direction, and that I can do in my sleep. What can I do to make these hairs actually functional? I've just discovered I CAN export all of these from BS as new projects, strangely enough, but there has got to be a less time-consuming way to do this, right? ...Right?


(And if that wasn't tealdeer enough, one more hair question. Is there any way to make sims' heads not bend down after deleting a hair through CAS?)

The Orange Generation is born and with it, the fracking difficulties of finding orange clothes for kids. So yeah, babies this chapter.

Warnings: Swearing, gayness, lots of orange brightness.

Pics: 117

( Orange is a crazy color to work with. )

Previous chapters: Part 1.

94 pictures, with adult themes, sex, nudity, possible squick factor, and those pesky Caliente sisters.


Previous entries:
[part one][part two][part three][part four][part five]
[part six][part seven][part eight][part nine][part ten]
[part eleven][part twelve] [part thirteen] [part fourteen] [part fifteen]
[part sixteen] [part seventeen] [part eighteen] [part nineteen] [part twenty]
[part twenty one] [part twenty two] [part twenty three] [part twenty four] [part twenty five]
[part twenty six] [part twenty seven] [part twenty eight] [part twenty nine] [part thirty]
[part thirty one] [part thirty two] [part thirty three] [part thirty four] [part thirty five]
[part thirty six]
[family tree]



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I've just bought freetime and i discovered a cool thing which I can use in designing my gods and goddesses for the sims 2. When the sims get in the zone, their motives decay really slowly and a really awesome glow surrounds them. I was wondering if I could find a hack that would let me into the zone whenever I want, even when I'm not engaging in an activity.

If not, then do you know of any cool glow effects I can use without changing the skintone because I've used real life celebs as my gods and goddesses.

If you could help me, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks xx