Can't alter sim's skin tone with SimPE

[mvs]

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I've stretched a bit and made an attempt to alter an existing sim's skin tone
with SimPE. I have the latest official patch and University, so I've made 3
backups of everything...

Problem is, the change will not take. The procedure I am following is:


Start SimPE

Start the Neighborhood Browser plugin

Pick Pleasantview, where my Sim resides

Start the Sim Surgery plugin

Select the patient sim, the one whose skin tone I want to alter, and press Use

Select the archetype sim, a specially created sim who possesses the skin tone I
want, and who was added to the family bin in Pleasantview, and press Use

check "only Skintone"

press Surgery

press Commit

select Save from the File menu


And then I start up Sims Uni... but my sim does not have the new skin tone.
I've seen suggestions elsewhere that I should use a mirror to change
appearance, alter the body type by making the sim get fat and save/reload the
neighborhood, but nothing helps. I can change the sim's face easily by
checking "only Face" in Sim Surgery, but the skin tone stays the same whatever
I do.

 

[Guest]

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"mvs" <mshane@alice.org> wrote in message
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> I've stretched a bit and made an attempt to alter an existing sim's skin
tone
> with SimPE. I have the latest official patch and University, so I've made
3
> backups of everything...
>
> Problem is, the change will not take. The procedure I am following is:

I don't think SimPE works with University...not yet, anyway.