More Awesome Than You!

I used SimPE in the approved manor with that little engine that makes default skins out of customs for you.  Now I'm getting two-tone Sims with neck-lines and invisible lower halves (which is actually kind of amusing when a Sim that's glitching is streaking).  Sometimes the skins will behave as they should, other times they won't, and I can't seem to figure out a rhyme or reason to why they decide to act as they do.  Is there anything I can check to see what part's screwing up?

(In other words... HELLLLLLLLLLP!   ;D)

As far as I know, you must keep the original skintone in your Downloads, as well as the one generated by SimPE. If you just keep the file generated by SimPE, you get the two-toned glitch. Of course, I've never used that particular option in SimPE, so this is all hearsay.

You could try downloading already created defaults and replace the texture it has with your skin tone.

the only time i had this promblem . was when i had more than one default set in my downloads , it looked as if the head was using one set . and the body anther

The moral of that story being that you shouldn't have more than one default at any given time... heh heh

I've had tons of problems with skins using SimPE to change things (my fault, I know and accept it) and though they're always entertaining, it can be frustrating when the Sim you want to play suddenly has a green head and tone 1 body or anything else that doesn't match.
I did use SimPE to make defaults once and was not happy with it. The files were ginormous and keeping the original skin in the game seemed more than a little redundant. It would probably just be easier to copy and paste over an already working default skin.

You should be careful what dumb thing you admit to doing here. It might get named after you, like Ness.

well it wasent really my fault , the sim vault instructions told me i needed to have both file sets ,

Yeah, I read up on it and kept all the sets.  Though, the thought just occurred to me... I have a seperate folder for skins (default and not)... I wonder if that might be causing the problem....



Nah, I keep my skin files nicely segregated, and the only new defaults I have are these, an alien, and a vampire.  I'm pretty careful about that sort of thing.

Don't use the built-in default maker, it is a lot better to open an existing default skin package in Bodyshop, create a project from the skintone, go to plugin view, right-click on the image, choose Build DXT and select the corresponding image that you exported from Bodyshop. There is a tutorial on MTS2.