Specific package files (skins) only half showing up

[saijan_bulma]

I'm a pretty new Sims 3 player (played a LOT of Sims 2) so the CC I'm using is all stuff I've recently downloaded.

My game info first:

Game Version: (Base game - no EPs) 1.34.27.016002
Resources.cfg file contents:
Priority 500
PackedFile Packages/*.dbc
PackedFile Packages/*/*.dbc
PackedFile Packages/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*/*/*.package

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/saijan_bulma/Sims3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/saijan_bulma/Sims3Mods.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/saijan_bulma/Sims3ModsPackages.jpg

And the skins folder itself:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v496/saijan_bulma/Sims3ModsPackagesSkin.jpg


My Problem:

Of the skin files I've downloaded only four show up in game, the pallete that shows up when I click skin has six in total. Three of the skins showing up are from Lady Frontbum and on men they only show up as recolours of the maxis skin. The fourth behaves as a recolour of the maxis skin for both genders. Everything else I've downloaded works perfectly. EDIT!: Except for some hairCC in mens, which for some reason come up bald and have an error on the back of the skull (either a square of misassigned texture/skin or strange characters) but as I don't do bald sims I can live with that.

Why won't my game display more than 6 skins?

Please help!

[Whiterudder]

Have you tried scrolling the skin panel with the mousewheel?

What do you mean by a recolour of the EA skin - that the skins act like default replacements?

[saijan_bulma]

Have you tried scrolling the skin panel with the mousewheel?

What do you mean by a recolour of the EA skin - that the skins act like default replacements?

I mean that all the details are the same as the maxis skin; only the hue is different. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not. I'm on a laptop without a mouse wheel. I'll attach a mouse and get back to you.

EDIT: Yes! I tried it and it worked. There are all my skins. And the stuff about maxis recolours was nonsense: they were meant to be that way :D Thank you mystery internet man! And here I though it would be complicated *redface*

[saijan_bulma]

I mean that all the details are the same as the maxis skin; only the hue is different. I'm not sure if this is intentional or not. I'm on a laptop without a mouse wheel. I'll attach a mouse and get back to you.

EDIT: Yes! I tried it and it worked. There are all my skins. And the stuff about maxis recolours was nonsense: they were meant to be that way :D Thank you mystery internet man! And here I though it would be complicated *redface*

Sigh ...I take it back. The skins all look lovely on the women but they're just flat and ugly on the men. They all look different on the females but on the male sims it's just the EA skin in different colours. But now at least I know whre to find them all!

[saijan_bulma]

Sigh ...I take it back. The skins all look lovely on the women but they're just flat and ugly on the men. They all look different on the females but on the male sims it's just the EA skin in different colours. But now at least I know whre to find them all!

Never mind. It's fine as it is. Thanks for your help!

[tllc]

Might I suggest a different resource.cfg that contains the following?

Resource.cfg

Priority 501
DirectoryFiles Files/... autoupdate
Priority 1000
PackedFile Overrides/*.package
PackedFile Overrides/*/*.package
PackedFile Overrides/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Overrides/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Overrides/*/*/*/*/*.package
Priority 500
PackedFile Packages/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*/*.package
Priority 499
PackedFile Test/*.package
PackedFile Test/*/*.package
PackedFile Test/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Test/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Test/*/*/*/*/*.package
Priority -50
PackedFile Probation/*.package
PackedFile Probation/*/*.package
PackedFile Probation/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Probation/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Probation/*/*/*/*/*.package
Priority 500
PackedFile DCCache/*.dbc

This way your Overrides folder will actually do some good if you ever use it...

[saijan_bulma]

Might I suggest a different resource.cfg that contains the following?

Resource.cfg

Priority 501
DirectoryFiles Files/... autoupdate
Priority 1000
PackedFile Overrides/*.package
PackedFile Overrides/*/*.package
PackedFile Overrides/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Overrides/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Overrides/*/*/*/*/*.package
Priority 500
PackedFile Packages/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Packages/*/*/*/*/*.package
Priority 499
PackedFile Test/*.package
PackedFile Test/*/*.package
PackedFile Test/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Test/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Test/*/*/*/*/*.package
Priority -50
PackedFile Probation/*.package
PackedFile Probation/*/*.package
PackedFile Probation/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Probation/*/*/*/*.package
PackedFile Probation/*/*/*/*/*.package
Priority 500
PackedFile DCCache/*.dbc

This way your Overrides folder will actually do some good if you ever use it...

Before I do something like that would you mind telling me what that does?

[Whiterudder]

It enables the Mods/Overrides folder, which is needed for some hacks and retextures of custom meshes. You have an Overrides folder already, but it's not enabled in the Resource.cfg, so anything you put in there won't work (unless you change your Resource.cfg as tllc suggests). :)