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More info?)
Thanks Max! theres a bit more reading!
The way I figure it after looking in my logs folder is that the baby
offspring between PT#9 and created character wants a particular skin that
doesn't exist in the game and no substitute is used. Probably accounts for
why I read that all children of PT#9 and Johnny Smith look like the mother.
Ern
"Maxon" <jen.magson@NOSPAMntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> I've not heard that particular one before although sometimes births do
> crash
> because of missing parts from skins - my personal theory is that something
> changed with University. There are two reasons. First because some
> pre-uni
> skins do have parts missing, I know because I've been correcting all my
> skin
> tones. Secondly, because there was an acknowledged bug that had a baby
> skin
> that mapped wrongly giving the baby a third eye. I think this happened
> because something was missing from the skin (the baby face) and the game,
> pre-uni, would simply substitute another graphic which, in that case,
> didn't
> map the same. OTOH, there can be a problem with the genetics in that
> Maxis
> characters (PT9 included) often have only one set when most sims have two,
> as they inherited one each from their parents (though newly created CAS
> sims
> also only have one set). I'm wondering in this case, if when there's a
> part
> missing from a skin, there's nothing to substitute and that's one cause of
> a
> crash.
>
> Anyway, what you might do is simply find one of the substitute default
> skins. There are two that I know of. One at Allan Akbar's and one by
> Duddly but there are bound to be more. Be warned though, these are not
> the
> mannequin skins but are 'genetically correct' - i.e. they've got bits
> painted on. AFAIK, no-one has ever made a default mannequin alien skin
> because it's already in the game and there's no need to. You should ask
> georg here about alien births - she doesn't seem to have any problem with
> them and she's had lots and lots (and lots). You might check out
> Pescado's
> bad birth fix at More Awesome Than You - I can't remember what he said it
> was about now - oh, something about forcing the game to use the genetic
> material that was available if it ran into problems. It doesn't fix the
> problem, I think, but bypasses it; it means that the game can create a new
> sim baby with what it has. Finally, if you do use the substitute skins
> you
> will probably need to go into the lot of your alien and then exit again,
> saving the game, so that the sim changes to the new default - at least it
> should work that way. You can always tell if it's worked because the sim
> acquires body hair in the bath. If you prefer the non-hairy mannequin
> skins, I think your only option is the hack.
>
> Make sure you understand the difference between default (skins which will
> replace the original Maxis skins - they won't delete them, just be
> substituted for them) and genetic skins (custom skins).
>
> Duddly
>
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=30836
>
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=43646
> (There's also a default mesh here for the men)
>
> Allan Akbar
> http://sims2.mine.nu/
>
> Pescado
> http://www.moreawesomethanyou.com/ffs/alpha/
>
> You might also find this thread useful
>
http://www.variousimmers.net/vsimforum/showthread.php?t=1671&highlight=bad+birth+fix
>
> Best wishes
> maxon
>
>
>
> "Ern & Bella Station" <donNOSPAMdorrigo@thotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:43154c8e@dnews.tpgi.com.au...
>> It is mentioned in this thread...
>>
>>
http://www.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=70348
>>
>> That the game crashes when offspring of Pollination Technician #9 are
> born
>> because..."The maxis mannequin skin has no skin for infants, so it will
>> cause the game to crash on birth"
>>
>> As none of my sims ever got abducted I am wondering if anyone could
>> direct
>> me to an infant alien skin that would match the Maxis originals of #9 and
>> his son because between them they have managed to inseminate the entire
>> of
>> strangeville .... and I've had my first birth and yes it crashed at
> birth.
>>
>> Ern
>>
>>
>
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