I'm fiddling with beauty standards, and there are some things I can change, gender distribution, age, fantasy, etc.
But no matter what I do face shape does not change. I've tried changing all face shapes to 0 except one to 100, and all the faces are still the same.
Advice?
In the beauty standard section the faces are presets.
When an npc generated they have random stats, like the attractiveness, fittness, etc. It's values between 0 and 100.
After that the game try find a suitable face, body for the npc what it closest (what you set in standards) to but it has a random factor in this too.
So if you got a face presets what you like, you gave that face 100 and others down to 0. If npc generated with 49 or below attractiveness stat the AI look for the closest, more applicable presets (so will choose all other than your favorite).
I think you trying standardize your asian taste. Try set all other (non-asian) facepreset to 50 and rate all asian related presets between 0 and 100 (maybe its better if between 10 and 90, and yes you need define a ugly asian facepreset too).
With this i think when you add an npc and randomize face with asian preset and give a beauty value must be (mostly) generate what you like to see and depending on what you set in beauty standards. If it's work here this will be work during the gameplay too.