Experiments update: Outfits and hairs are working wonderfully well. The variety is enormous and the quality excellent. EA could well be history on that score. To answer Kinihokulani's point 2 question, the write-up for the skintone in queston says it is a full coverage skin and won't adapt to basegame. It claims to be anatomicaly correct and to have a custom thumbnail. There are supposedly 48 colors, all within the normal human range. In practice, in CAS none of that appears, only the usual set of EA colors in usual format. In a seprate test put in a overlay. This did wonders for the face but the rest of the sim looks muddy, as though seen through a layer of gauze or other such barrier. Something is clearly wrong on that score, which greatly reduces the liklihood of future use.
Further experiments and a comment by one of the CC makers led to the discovery that the 'missing' items were under a details tab, not the main one. The more learned, the better this approach is getting. Have also learned to be aware of packs when CC is based on a Maxis mesh. If I don't have the pack, the CC either does not show at all or does very strange things to the base sim.
