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I seem to have a problem with my mannequins.  In bodyshop or in CAS or in the Wardrobe (basically whenever it shows skins) some of them are banded in black.  I tried pulling out all my CC clothing and it seems to have fixed some of it, but it's still showing up.  It's even showing up on Maxis clothing that came with the game.
Example 1: (http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f120/cheriem72/FunkySkin.jpg)

Eample 2: (http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f120/cheriem72/Funkyskin2.jpg)

Help please?

could you accidentally have 2 default skins replacements in your downloads folder?

I saw someone with a similar problem once, but they had been doing things they didn't really understand in Datgen.

I think you might be suffering from a variation of the "black silhouetted sim" problem. That problem has been linked to skintones (including both default replacements and custom ones) and CLOTHING. Incorrectly made clothing is the more usual culprit when an entire sim turns completely black, usually with all the manequins in the clothing catalog turning black as well. I haven't actually seen this problem looking exactly like the screenshots you have posted, but it seems similar. Yours is kind of odd... looks like it's molting or something. Anyway, try removing all skintones and clothing and see if the manequins are fixed, then add the stuff back a little at a time.

You might want to read this thread: http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=158419

It sounds similar but it's showing up even with maxis clothing, how can that be?  I did use Sim PE to fix some catagories on clothing, to make some of the clothing marked everyday/formal just formal, but none of that clothing is in my game at the moment.  I pulled it all out. 

I ended up with some blacked out teen male clothings, turned out that removing the default replacemnts I had for some male everyday outfits (t-shirts/jeans/sandels so they had sneakers instead and tighter t-shirts) fixed that problem.

I currently have some screwed up Uni EA clothes for young adults, both male and female. About 10 male everyday outfits have become a suit and for females about 12 everyday outfits have become that red shirt/short pants outfit, as if those young adult Uni EA meshs have gone missing. Adult clothes from Uni are fine. I double-checked them in Bodyshop after I removed all my CC, no change.

I'm not even sure when it happened, it's been awhile since I looked that far back in the clothes section for young adults but I think it most likely happened sometime after installing GL or Pets or HH.

I haven't rushed to reinstall but I plan to do it soon  :P

Can't be HH. Most likely Pets.

Pets did something screwy with clothes replacements. I have placed all mine in \Pets\TSData\Res\Overrides (I think that is the correct path) and that seems to have fixed it.

I don't believe I have any replacement things.  I'll check, but if I don't, the recommendation is pull everything and reinstall?

Pull everything and try the game.  If that's normal, put them back bit by bit.

If you do feel compelled to reinstall, drag out your Downloads, Neighborhoods, Collections, etc.

I'd try deleteing the cigen.package and maybe groups.cache and the CASthumbnails.package (in the thunbnails folder)

TY Sleepy trying that now. :D  Miros, appreciate the advice on uninstalling and reinstalling. :)

Ok, pulled all clothing from the downloads.  Yep, it's something in there.  Back to shoving in individual folders....

Glad you didn't have to reinstall!

I have found about five clothing files that were broken. :D  Looking at the rest.... *sigh

I'm glad your problem is caused by custom content and you didn't have to reinstall.

I did more checking in Bodyshop (again with CC removed) and discovered almost all of my EA Uni young adult clothes were screwed up with missing meshs, not just the everyday stuff  *sigh*  strange, Uni itself worked fine.

So I backed up all my stuff and uninstalled (did a disk clean and defrag) and then reinstalled. Took 2 hours just to get everything reinstalled and my stuff back in but my EA Uni young adult stuff is now fine.

Ugh!  So sorry Sleepycat!  Glad it turned out well for you.


*Edited to add:  I ended up throwing out all my formal stuff.  :P  Had to go and redownload.