No face

[ChibyMethos]

I'm having an issue with sims who's faces are either not there at all and they have a black space, or it looks like their wearing a ski mask so they have no features. This is happening with the NPCs as well as a baby my sim had.

I killed the kid and bascially cloned her a new baby and this one had a face, but his brother, who's father was an NPC with a face had no face.

I have all the packs except OFB

[yetyak]

I had something similar, and fixed it by changing eyebrows at the mirror. 

[ChibyMethos]

That was the first thing I tried, but it didn't help.

[sewinglady]

Reminds me of Sims1 when you had a bad hair file...

shudder.

I can't imagine what could be causing that...any recent downloads that might have affected it? I'd remove anything you put in your downloads folder in the last oh week or so...

[gynarchy]

Are you using custom skintones or default replacements? I can't see the pics but it kinda sounds like what happened with the skintones I had been using.

[Venusy]

Pescado, please disable .DOC uploads. You have said before that you can't open them, and the image could easily be placed on a service such as Photobucket, or ImageShack (in other words, .JPG and .PNG uploads aren't allowed, so DOCs shouldn't be used to circumvent this feature).

Now that I think about it, there's no reason to allow .PDF uploads either. Especially because most PDFs will go over the 640KB limit immediately.

[KellyQ]

I had the same thing happen when I was using custom skintones that I had made into default replacements. No idea what I did wrong but when I removed the skins, their faces came back.

[ChibyMethos]

I could see it being the skin for the baby, but that doesn't explaine the NPCs. The paper boy looked like the baby when he cam onto my lot and half the people in the phone book have no face.

[BitterStar]

I had something similar, and fixed it by changing eyebrows at the mirror. 

That's what I ended up doing ... I didn't think of it to start with and ended up having to kill my Sim ...  ... but I haven't had that problem for a while.

[gali]

Did you try to create a baby in CAS? May be you have there some corrupted skin.
Sometimes, when I create a sim in CAS, I have to throw to the trash many hair styles and outfits, because the sim is shown without hair, or without a body.
It happens to me, when I use hair style or outfit which belong to an EP I don't have, or the mesh is missing.

[BastDawn]

Did you make this a default skin using the tool in one of the earlier versions of SimPE?  I know they discontinued that tool because it had issues.  Defaults made the long and tedious way shouldn't be a problem, although I suppose any file can become corrupted.

[morriganrant]

read several reasons for this.
faulty Custom eyebrows and default custom eyebrows
custom skins and default of same.
corrupted game file ...can't remember which one though.

[prattle]

read several reasons for this.
faulty Custom eyebrows and default custom eyebrows
custom skins and default of same.
corrupted game file ...can't remember which one though.

I've also heard "video card under the minimum requirements for TS2", though this seems to be a common excuse for every graphic problem anyone has.

[Khan of Wyrms]

I have had a very rare similar problem save my missing faces were replaced with a shimmering prismatic blob which left tracers and often appeared slightly out of place with respect to the head.  Going through a 'change appearance' action at any mirror always brought it back.  It is my assumption that it was a problem with an older, inferior graphics card, and I have yet to have the same problem since upgrading to a new computer.

[notveryawesome]

I've had this problem, and it turned out that it was caused by teen sims keeping certain aspiration rewards in their inventory. Specifically, it was the reward that allows you to change your sims' aspiration (can't remember the name of the damned thing - Renu-Yu Senso Orb, or something like that). I don't think this is your problem, however, since infants don't have inventories. Sorry that wasn't much help...

[GayJohnScarritt]

I've had this problem, and it turned out that it was caused by teen sims keeping certain aspiration rewards in their inventory. Specifically, it was the reward that allows you to change your sims' aspiration (can't remember the name of the damned thing - Renu-Yu Senso Orb, or something like that). I don't think this is your problem, however, since infants don't have inventories. Sorry that wasn't much help...

Hi, I was also having that 'blue' mask floating/replacing an empty face, for me it turned out that if my teen's used the ReNuYu Senso Orb to change their asperation, they'd eventually get that Blue floating face.  A quick trip to the mirror after using the Orb seemed to lock their faces back to normal. 

[notveryawesome]

Ah, that could have been my problem, then, too. Yet another reason to just use the Lot Debugger.

[ChibyMethos]

Did you make this a default skin using the tool in one of the earlier versions of SimPE? 

No, I don't know how to do that. The last SimPE I have was the ZOMGPETZ edition. I went into the CAS to see if this was an issue there and the first sim that popped up had no face, just like the baby. Also, several sims in the bin that I had made weeks ago were faceless.

Since I have a 4 day weekend coming up, I guess I'll have to search the entire DL folder and see what comes up.


The video card I'm using isn't even a year old yet, so that shouldn't be a issue. 

[Khan of Wyrms]

The blue/shimmering face does not really seem to be the issue here.  The skintone does not look Maxis;  Perhaps the skin file download was corrupted.  The large file size of skintones in general leaves more possibility for error when downloading.  Maybe you should try downloading again and replacing the skin files?

[ChibyMethos]

I deleted the skin tone and the sim reverted to the maxis/ea skin. However, the issue hasn't gone away. It has now infected my university as well. The CAS sims show up randomly without faces.






This is what most of the NPC's look like. An imporovemnt for some, but now my Legacy sims have no-one to marry.

[SimulatedDork]

Sometimes, if you have the inSIMenator, then the blue-mask can be an issue. Luckily, they have included a "fix appearance" option. Try that?

[Spicey]

 

i had a somewhat similar problem when i resurrected lyla grunt and had her start procreating with general buzz.  every single one of their get had what looked like a cleft palate.  as they aged i could see that it was the center part of their faces that were twisted, and you could see right through the heads to the hair, if they had any.

i had to kill lyla all over again, and buzz married some random woman walking down the street instead.


 

[Orikes]

This is what happened to me:



It was a sign of my neighborhood imploding. I had to kill everything and pretty much start over. If I'd known then what I know now, I'd have extracted my favorite sims via simpe and then recreated them in the new neighborhood. Ah well.

[morriganrant]

my game is doing this now, black faces, numbers for faces or icons, strange clothing color thing, the colors of the clothes are the skin color, the skin is fucked, i pulled the compressed zip out of my cd and repaced my object package and all the rest, will see if that solved it.

edit: i forgot to comeback and report ...yeah it worked fine

[ChibyMethos]

When I bought Celebrations, it automatically patched Seasons. Maybe that's what's causing this. Is the a way to remove the "fix" with out FUBARing my game?