Hello everyone!

Recently I've stumbled upon a change in my face templates that I certainly did myself. No matter what I do the sims don't change that much which bothers me greatly. Now I want to get rid of the said CC and I would greatly appreciate any help regarding this issues.

Is there a program that would help me to identify the culprit CC that changes the face templates? I honestly don't remember at all which CC it was in my downloads folder. I've tried to search the "default replacement" keywords and variations of it inside my downloads folder and I sadly didn't find anything.


Many thanks to anyone willing to help!

I also attached a screenshot below to better illustrate my issue:

First try searching for the names of the Maxis face templates. Try the terms 'cper', 'elf', 'caus'- also look for 'arch'. If you look at some other face templates you'll see that the creators often use the Maxis names in the filename- see this download for example:
https://modthesims.info/d/239790

Thank you! I have gone through my download folder and even downloaded some CC templates to know what I'm working with. However, I found nothing in my downloads folder. I am officially lost, no idea what it could be.

Unfortunately I can't even pinpoint when exactly this change happened as I've been playing with families I wasn't creating. I first noticed this odd thing yesterday when I tried to give a townie sim my sim married a plastic surgery. That was the first moment I thought something was off and today in CAS it was confirmed.

Try the Clean Installer-face replacements should show up as a default replacement.

Ha! That actually helped me!

I found the culprit in no time. I cross referenced it with the creator and I found the face replacements.

Thank you so so much for you help.




Also, the names are the reason why I probably couldn't find it by searching for the names of the templates. This creator uses completely different ones.

Well done! Yes, they have the 'cper', 'elf', 'caus' bits that I mentioned in there, that's the Maxis face designation. Well done for finding them!

Putting a * in front of a search term in Windows Explorer will help pick up stuff in the middle like that. That is not really explained well XD, so, for example ...

I have a picture in my Pictures folder named '5greycats'. A search for 'grey' won't pick it up, because it's in the middle of the whole name without a space or - in front of it. A search for *grey will pick it up.

Also, it really helps to have a separate folder for default replacements!

Cat Tax. XD

I actually didn't even know about that. I was also confused because it WAS sometimes picking up stuff in the middle but I'll try to remember this to apply it in the future.

And I already made sure all of my default replacements have their own special folder. I have one for "behavior mods" aka gameplay mods but somehow forgot to group defaults together... Well, I have learned my lesson.

Once again thank you both for help and great tips!