The eternal search...
Ness:
After a discussion a few days ago, it seems that people are never entirely satisfied with their default replacement skins.
It's been ages since there was any discussion on this topic, and I know there are a few people on the lookout for a new set to try, so I thought I'd ask if people have seen anything new lately?
I'm currently using Lyrans defaults, which I seem to keep going back to after becoming dissatisfied with which ever set I'm currently trying. They are a little too pale, but I've just not found anything better anywhere.
Helaenes I've found too hairy.
Enaylas I've found too shiny/oily.
I saw a set by hysterical paroxysm, but they seemed WAY too dark.
I can't stand the hyper-realistic skins, I'm quite happy with the cartoonish effect but find the maxis skins too grayish.
I've never bothered with removing the sensor blur, so realistic genitals wouldn't both me either way. I wouldn't see them, but the fact that they would be there also wouldn't stop me using a set of skins.
So... Any suggestions? Any amazing new finds that some of us may have missed?
jrd:
My options are limited, since I want skins that also have overrides in a similar style for aliens and zombies, and optimally even werewolves and plants.
Furthermore I play with a modified S1-S4 spectrum where base-S3 is my S4, and therefore I need a skintone set that offers a wider selection of choices (at least 4 or 5 choices ranging from pale to base-S3).
No sinister undertones: I just want a somewhat more realistic setting (as far as you can go in the eutopic suburbia that Sims live in, where supernatural events can occur!), so I use more realistic names (my mod), do not money cheat (loan paintings to represent morgages), and have no negroes with red hair and green eyes.
I don't know right now who the original author of the skinset I based my overrides on is: I didn't keep the originals in my game since I only play with my genetic spectrum (6 skintones in total, ranging from pale (under S1) to black (above S4). The set also has alien, werewolf, zombie, and plant overrides.
I think I got them from the adult inSim site, could be Louis.
I don't use crammyboy's penis mod, but an old mesh edit by duddly (what happened to him?) that just extends the bone there a bit, simulating the effect. My female Sims also have a slight boob job (also by duddly).
J. M. Pescado:
Death to all Nesses.
Ambular:
I use a set I modified, based on AllenABQ's hairy set #3, including a matching white/gray alien tone and a couple of in-between geneticized "hairless" tones for variety's sake. I've been gradually upgrading them piecemeal with eyes to match my defaults and some nice teeth I found somewhere. Unfortunately this means I can't share them with anyone else... :/
I also can't stand the hyper-realistic skins. Creepy-mannequin factor aside, I find that a skin that's too detailed makes every Sim that uses it look the same. If I need specific face characteristics for a certain Sim, I prefer to make custom face makeup for them (it takes up less space anyway.) And for some reason the musculature on most detailed skins, especially about the abs, just doesn't look quite right to me. Too much shine is also a rampant problem. I don't care for painted-on genitals--they never looks right. I just use Crammyboy's mod.
Mine are also in a lighter range than Maxis'. However, it wasn't the mismatched skintones and hair/eye colors that bothered me, but the fact that the game does a really crappy job of rendering dark colors (not just in skintones, either; desaturated blacks look absolutely awful in clothing, so I find everything black I make has to have a somewhat blue tint to help smooth things out.) I find this highly annoying, and if anyone has figured out a technique for making a properly dark S4 skintone that displays in-game without the ugly color striations and blotchy highlights I'd be really grateful to know. Granted, the lighter colors do reflect the ethnic variety in my area pretty well and it does prevent massive feature mismatch, but it makes me feel somehow morally deficient even though my motives have nothing to do with race...
Honestly, I think anyone who's at all fussy about skins is better off breaking down and making their own set. It's time-consuming, but not too difficult if you've got basic BodyShop, SimPE and Photoshop/GIMP/PSP skills.
Wild idea that just hit me: wouldn't it be nice if a bunch of skin makers got together and made overlays of various features (abs, knees, and so on) that we could download and mix and match/modify/share at will? I know AllenABQ has made overlays of his various body hair sets available...
Emma:
I use these by Knightskykyte Non-shiny and better colour than Maxis. My only gripe is the elders have smooth-skinned faces, but I usually put wrinkles on them to combat this.
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