Back of the head missing/invisible

[bumbklaatt]

Hi ya'll

I have a very irritating problem when recolouring a skintone, you see, the back of the adult-male head is invisible (teeth and eyelashes can be seen from the backside) in the "making of"-part. Then I bring the skin alive. I try it on a sim and, for example, put the bald hairdo on him, but then it's just black (head has its' shape, no teeth showing). On the other kind of hair, with a little bit of the scalp showing, there are some hairtextures on it.

I thought the problem were with the "amhair~hair~stdMatBaseTextureName"-files (sometimes they have black or blonde hair textures, usually the files are coloured like the tone of the skin), but it seems it's not it.

I have all the meshes which the skin requires.

HELP MEEEEEE!

[david maxx]

the skin tone comes in two parts, i am certain you know this, the body shop is much like the render progrma poser 7, the body and head are two separate instances, if you colour the body you have to open the head etc.
if your colouring the hair, i find that using photoshop is the best tool, you can load in the textures into photoshop then to a refresh in body shop to see exactly what and where the issue is, in most cases, the skin textuyre loaded has to be the one you have indentical in photoshop, or another program like photoshop etc, i have played with the hair through these methods and found that the actual black and white and grey file is the file that you can modify which means you can use black to remove the length and white is usually make it visible, the same works in the clothes. the other option would be to load the textures then modify them then rename them refresh and once you like then load int o the game. i hope this sheds some light.

[bumbklaatt]

Auuh, I hope you realize that you're talking to a _stupid_ person :--D

However!

I don't have photoshop, so I'm not all clear by what you mean in some parts. Do you mean alpha's with those black and white and grey files? Cos I thought there aren't any in skintone-making?

Hear me moar: the-back-of-the-head disappears when I load the skintone I want to recolour. So the head is visible when I pick and choose it, then it loads a while, then it's gone