It seems that about five pair of of maxis base game glasses are showing up as black, semi-transparent, square earrings. I assume those are UV maps, but I dont' know. Now, I know enough to know that this means there's a conflict with something I've downloaded, or something has corrupted. What I can't figure out is what that might be.
I've had Dr. Pixel's earring mesh, simchic's, and a few others for quite a bit now and nothing new is connecting with me. Actually, I first noticed this problem after I downloaded a self-sim for a contest on the sister site. Said self-sim dislayed with these earring placeholders instead of glasses. That was back in October or November. I didn't really worry about it, because I don't often go that far into glasses to get at maxis crap. But, now when I go to that particular page in CAS, the game crashes. It doesn't crash in bodyshop of course.
Everything custom seems to display correctly and I've gotten rid of duplicate/empty packages using Clean Installer. Any suggestions? Or should I just remove all custom contest pertaining to accessories and try the one at a time method(something I have been studiously trying to avoid.) I have all expansions except holidays stuff, and the problem was extant before Pets and Season.