Ok so I know how important <albeit DAUNTING> the thought of meshes are...
But please be patient with the ole stupid one and answer a few MORE questions on them...
I DL a few hunky bodybuilders, from insimadult, and what I thought was the correct meshes. ANYWAYS... some of them wherent, so when ever the sim got naked, all that remained was a head and penis
Now, can anyone point me in the direction of a mesh that will prevent this from happening? Ive read somewhere about a shower skin
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You need to make sure you have the shower-proof version of a mesh and skintone for it to appear when the sim is nekkid. These should be on insimadult as I've got them there in the past. A lot of the mesh/skintones are supplied in both shower-proof and normal versions. Check the readme/thread info and make sure you only have the showerproof versions installed. That means both the mesh and the skintone that links to the showerproof mesh. If you have 2 versions of the same skintone and/or mesh whichever one loads last is the one you'll get in game. If it's the non-showerproof one then you'll ge the floating head + CrammyBoy's penis.
Also, now that im getting the hang of this mesh thing, can I place meshes in a seperate folders in my downloads dir and then obviously in subfolders named after the person Ive downloaded? ie : DL\Meshes\Persons Name
Yes, I'd definitely recommend this so that if you need to update/remove/replace content it will be easy to find. I normally put the custom mesh + skintones in it's own folder then create sub-folders under that for each associated clothing mesh + recolours.
I believe that DL sims CANNOT be placed in subfolders in the DL dir, but is the same true for the Saved Sims Folder?
I have all my downloaded MATY sims in a sub-folder under downloads and those that have custom content are in their own subfolder under this along with the CC. They all work fine in my game with all EPs installed.
Finally I thought I was clever in DL'ing ALL the meshes I could find on a site for body builders, and well, they conflicted and I had to delete them. NOW tho, some of my existing sims, have strange coloured skins and white hair with coloured numbers on it
Yet the "Skin and I presume Mesh" is still in my pre-made sims section when I go to create a new one...
Is there any way I can re-install default skins or do I have to re-install the entire game?
That sounds like your sim's skintone is the texture not found replacement. When I removed all my bodybuilder downloads (mesh + skintones) the affected sims simply reverted to the default EAxis S1 skintone/body type.
You do not have to reinstall the entire game. You have several options:
Fix the affected sims in SimPE (preferable if you plan on them having babies).
Delete the mesh and load the game/sims, let the sims revert to normal body S1 skintone/bodyshape and save the game.
There is a mod on MTS2 that allows you to switch skintone (and therefore linked mesh) NB this will not affect the DNA used to determine baby skintone so you may be storing up future problems.
Ultimately what you need to do is decide on the bodybuilder meshes that you want to use.
Install those meshes + skintones that use those meshes.
Install clothes that match the meshes + any recolours you want.
NB there are several flavours of bodybuilder, make sure the meshes match otherwise they will change size/shape when changing clothes.
(You could also check out the comments on the original thread where you got the meshes as you're probably not the only person who's had these problems.)
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