Hair Mesh Gender Conversion Weirdness

[akatonbo]

Ok, first of all, just so this is clear,

a) I ALREADY KNOW that many hair meshes don't convert from one gender to another without actually changing the mesh, and that this is especially true of trying to convert female hair meshes for males to use,

and

b) I have no intention of mucking around with altering meshes, period. Probably ever, definitely not now.

However, I have found that some female hair meshes with bangs will work at least passably well on male heads if the bangs cover up the gap. I know this because I've managed to get at least one female hair working on a male Sim who I have played for a while in-game, by opening up the file in SimPE and changing the Gender setting. That worked out very well; it's for a specific manga character, and I managed to find a female style that looked a lot like the character's hair, whereas a mesh that someone made specifically FOR their Sim of the character looked nothing like it at all.

Trouble is, most of the time, when I try to do that, I change the gender setting, open Body Shop, see whether it looks ok or not, and if it does, open up the game and see how it looks there... in the game it doesn't work. It comes up as some other hair instead, and doesn't even give me the option to delete it.

What on earth is going on? It worked perfectly in-game once. Anybody have any bright ideas why it wouldn't work a different time?

(Or else I'd settle for some decent long, curly meshes for men. It's hard enough to find remotely useable ones for women.)

[Lyall]

Is it just in CAS that it's not working? Does it work fine when using Change Appearance? If so, then it might be the same thing I had not too long ago. What I did was start a project in Body Shop with the hair that wasn't working and import it into the game. Then I just deleted the one that couldn't be deleted in-game from the Saved Sims folder.

I don't really know why this happens, though.

[akatonbo]

I hadn't tried that, but I will, and I'll let you know if it's any help.

[Lyall]

All right then. I hope it does help.

[akatonbo]

Bah, I figured it out -- I had forgotten that there was one more place where I needed to change the gender property. This time around I noticed it, changed it, and it worked just fine in the game without my doing anything extra this time.

At least my From Eroica With Love Sims have some decent hair now!