Wanna know what failed bone assignment looks like? Neither do I, but you still get to see!

Also, I strongly advise to never open your game if you have one of the defaults still open in sp3e....

I was so happy when I found this hair was a low poly one and somewhat matched the hair I wanted to replace. But nope, the hairstyle really does not want to cooperate with me. I can’t for the life of me figure out what is going on, her hair shows up all black in CAS and in live mode. I even redid the whole thing to make sure I didn’t make a mistake somewhere in the process, I even tried creating new lods for the first time, but got the exact same results. Why, hair, why? What is different about you? What makes you special? (I’m going to pick a different hair I think, this one cost me a few hours to many)

And this one, unintentionally pretty in pink. While she does look somewhat fabulous, this wasn’t what I was going for. But ah well, I reached a bit to high with this one (I tried to frankenmesh a hair and accessory, but since I have zero experience with that it is not really a surprise it didn’t go well.) 

@plumdrops was so kind to point me in the right direction and explained about textures overlapping. That was why my sim was so pretty in pink on the first attempt. So, I tried a few different things and a few different hairs - but I didn’t had much luck.

Yikes. The pink was better! I actually really love the hair when it’s normal textured, but when I found out it was 33k polys I decided to choose a different hair (I can always try with this one in the future if I really want it!)

The flower is from @aroundthesims​ by the way, the accessory hibiscus flower. I’m trying to default it with a hair, so that I can replace the flower hairstyle from basegame. 

For the new hair I tried it with a hair I already used (and really like). First I tried to keep the EA accessory to see if that would work, but to no avail. 

After a lot of fumbling around and watching tons of tutorials about semi-related things, I finally decided to open blender and try to change the UV map. Never done that before, but it seemed to be working. Silly me only forgot to import the lods for the hair into the new package. 

0/10 - would not recommend. 

But my last and (for this day) final attempt finally resulted in a win:

I GOT IT TO WORK! I’m so happy. I need to redo the recolorable channels because I messed up with those, but for the rest everything works as intended. After fixing the channels I’m going to playtest it a bit longer before releasing it, because it was the first time I had to do bone assignments etc. and I want to make sure everything is working properly.