modifying skin tone?

The only way I know to change a Sim for anything like that is with SimPE. Not sure what exactly the term is in that program but the only way in TS2 to edit Sims after creation and already in game.

Do you mean their face has a different skin tone than their body? If so, that's likely bad CC. And it would be hair, clothes, skin tone, eye color, or make up that would be the likeliest culprits. Or other CC that you would find in CAS.

It happens to me as well, and it did so before I had any CC installed. For some reason the skin tone on some head types is darker than that on the bodies, whether you use just the stock tones or add custom ones. Fortunately, unless you zoom in really close, it is not really visible during gameplay. One of those things I just learned to live with. Clothing styles help, too. A high neck top will be less of a problem than a low one.

Could you possibly list which Maxis outfits do this with which Maxis skins? I've never noticed this but I do use a lot of custom skins and custom outfits, and sometimes with those this is caused by the outfits having bumpmaps which can make the Sim skin too bright, discolored like whitewashed, (washed out) or too shiny, or glowing.

Wow, that's awful your game is doing that! I don't think I have that problem. It might be related to a particular video card? I recall Intel chips and cards have always had some weird effects on this game from long ago. Maybe that is still the problem or a driver problem for a video card.

What is the brand of your video card and have you updated the driver lately, or better yet, rolled back the driver version if this just started happening? It's really obvious and I would guess a video card problem since you don't have any cc on these Sims at all.

ETA: The only time I saw anything like this in my game is when kids (girls) would wear that puffy sleeve top, a moder had to fix that mesh it was a mesh problem by Maxis. But never like this on so many outfits.

ETA: The only thing remotely known about this from way back is using the shader cheats if you don't have any custom skins in game at all.

http://modthesims.info/t/202297

Or have you tried to make any outfits and have unfinished projects in game for recolors etc.?

hm... i haven't tried to create any outfits or have unfinished stuff.

about the card, your observation is accurate, because my computer *does* have an Intel one. i have tried the previous (older) driver before, but it didn't make a difference.

and i totally forgot about the useShaders thing. i'll give that a try today!

like the commenter above said, it's not that noticeable all of the time. it's just inconvenient because i *do* like to zoom in really close! ;)

thanks for your help!

Have learned over the years that Nvidia cards give the fewest problems of this type. Never had an intel card, but am less than pleased with ATI.

@fewlines a few days after this post I loaded my game and one of the townie DJs had a problem like this. He is a black guy ( I made him selectable to see what his natural skin tone was supposed to be) but he had a white face, white hands and though he is black this hair had a white scalp showing through his dreadlocks. I was like what?! I hadn't seen this sort of stuff in years when I had a really old Intel Chip. In my game it's probably some weird custom hair messing up the Maxis Mullet/dreadlock hair style but it shouldn't have changed his face and hands,when rest of body is black. :o Now, I have to go dig for bad cc. :'( (It's going to be hard to find that sort of stuff). ETA: Black face over a white scalp and white outline etc. It was crazy.

"fewlines;c-16601313" wrote:
so weird. i have since started over and created more Sims with different skin tones. seems like it's always the same outfits that cause the issue. and like you, i noticed it also happens to townies!

Darn I wish we could sovle this for you. Stuff like that drives me nuts and I don't give up until it gets fixed. :/

"fewlines;c-16603671" wrote:
thank you, @Cinebar! i know some of it is a graphics issue, because i also notice weird-looking ground sometimes. i tried to update the drivers (because things looked fine before) but i apparently have the latest ones. mine is not a very good computer for gaming.

I wonder if you turn down the graphic setting for the Sim themselves if that makes that line on their neck go away? But in truth some never saw the line on the kid's neck from the girl's puffy sleeve blouse because they didn't have very good graphic cards, those who did have a supported or better card did. It was a Maxis mesh problem not anyone's pc, so maybe you see something the rest of us don't because your shaders are better in some area? Maybe so. And it could really be a Maxis mesh problem (not unusal) and the rest of us aren't seeing it for some reason. I may go see if this is true in my game if I use the base game skin and those outfits. Most my Sims have cc skins so I will have to test it on a townie.