Hi all! I'm having custom skin scalp troubles. Initially I thought the problem was that the scalp wasn't showing up for some of the hair and there was a pitch black texture instead. But upon closer inspection, it looks like the scalp is just... rotated in some hairs and not others. the scalp is fine when the sim is bald, but for custom hairs, it's rotated. It's also rotated for some (but not all) of the maxis hairs. For some other hairs, it's right. (The plant one is the one I actually want it to work for) I have no idea how to fix or even why it happens. Isn't there just one scalp texture for all hairs?

All hairs should use the underlying skintone's scalpt texture, but each comes with its own scalpt mesh. I imagine the later are sometime mapped differently from the bald 'hair's.

So, I imagine there's no real way to fix this then.

There are some accessory scalps you can use, but they may have some limits. Not sure if they're all-age.

https://maxis-continued.tumblr.com/...p-cap-accessory
https://deedee-sims.tumblr.com/post...and-a-scalp-cap
https://mrs-mquve.dreamwidth.org/39155.html

Would they help with my specific problem (putting the scalp I made, seen in the bald one, under my actual hair)? I only need it for the adult female one, this is all just for a single sim.

You'll have to make it as a recolor. If the texture covers the whole scalp, it could work for the hairs that have the bad scalp mapping. It is possible the scalp cover can work with transparency (depends on texture settings, but shouldn't be too difficult to fix).

I'll do a recolor of one of them to see how it goes!

So, I tried one, and it looks good in CAS and bodyshop, but there's a gap in sims I already made. I'll try doing it for other scalps! The gap also disappears sometimes.

Could be the scalps on those other hairs have some issues. I think the accessory ones really are meant more for fixing edges and/or transparency issues on older hairs that have missing or broken scalps.

Yeah, I think I'll settle for this ugly gap, too tired.