Hair today, gone tomorrow

[Nepheris]

Hey all,

A bit ago I went on a download cleaning spree and chucked out loads of unwanted cc. A side effect of that is that some sims in bodyshop who were sporting a hairstyle that got deleted, now have a huge chunk out of their skulls where the hair used to be.

They work fine in CAS (I can just select another hair, though they show up with random hairstyles at first), but in Bodyshop I cannot change their hair anymore. Only the black-brown-blonde-red-custom options show up in the screen, but I'm not able to select a different hairstyle.

Is there anything that can be done about this? I've tried packaging them and reinstalling, but that didn't work, they still show up with half their skulls missing and I'm unable to change their hair.

Thanks in advance.

[Theo]

I'm not sure, but I had something like that happen in my game; see this thread: http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/smf/index.php?topic=5764.0
The cause for that glitch remains unknown

[Nepheris]

It's just because the game thinks the hair is still there but can't find the file or something, I suppose.

That still doesn't tell me how to solve it though  I really don't feel like redownloading all those hairs.

[J. M. Pescado]

Bodyshop sims will be unfixable if any of their genetic components are missing. Once in-game, they can be fixed in CAS or at a mirror.

[Nepheris]

Ack, dammit. Okay, thanks for the info

[abelle]

I have this happen a lot, too. I´ve not used any of those sims, because I was worried, that even I could fix their appearances in CAS, their genetics might still be borked. Mainly because when I select new hair in CAS, the maxis eyebrows won´t show up automatically.

Does anyone know, if fixing them in CAS will also fix their genetics?

[Marhis]

The mismatch between hair and eyebrows should be related to hair not binned, i.e. custom. What you do in CAS will became genetic, yes; that's why I would suggest to create the sim in CAS with genetic hair only and change them to custom (if you want them) only when in game, with a mirror, otherwise that custom hair will be genetically transmitted and will make a genetic mess in offspring.

[SaraMK]

I have this happen a lot, too. I´ve not used any of those sims, because I was worried, that even I could fix their appearances in CAS, their genetics might still be borked. Mainly because when I select new hair in CAS, the maxis eyebrows won´t show up automatically.

Does anyone know, if fixing them in CAS will also fix their genetics?

Yes, CAS will fix the genetics.

The sims will be perfectly normal, so go ahead and use them.

[abelle]

Thank you! That is really good to know. I´m glad I didn´t delete them. I really like the way the genetics work in the game and didn´t want to use messed up sims anymore.