The eternal search...
Gwill:
I'd like a bit more variety in skin colours in my game, but skin files are massive! Considering the total size of my downloads folder, I guess I could afford to add a few more skins.
I'm not entirely happy with the range of maxis skins. The darkest maxis skin, S4, is barely African American black; I'd like the darkest skin to be something like what you'd expect to see on a farmer from Zambia. The colour of roasted coffee beans, not milk chocolate. The lightest skin isn't really light enough either. There I'd like something in the range of sun starved Scandinavian, the kind that burns or freckles in the sun; never tans, and would look completely out of place with black hair.
What's holding me back is mostly the way maxis distributes hair. I'm too lazy to make all townies manually these days, so I let the game generate a few, and I'm deeply frustrated at how many S4 townies with bright red hair I end up with. I wish there was some way to restrict hair colour to certain skin ranges. Given the maxis skin range, I'd like no red hair on S3 or S4, no blonde hair on S4, and no black hair on S1.
Arina:
Thanks for the answers :)
Gwill, that's why I like Lyran's skins - yes, the defaults are lighter, but there's an extra skin which is darker than maxis S4 and certainly darker than hers. It's not quite as dark as skin can be... but it wouldn't be too hard to just darken that one if you wanted a darker one (because it's already quite dark). There's a lighter-than-S1 skin (as in, lighter than hers, so really pale) too. Those all compress to 4mb or less apart from her freckled one which stays pretty huge at 7mb, I don't know if it's that the images weren't compressed initially or what :S I know some people don't like those skins, but I feel they've got the best variety for a non-shiny skin set. And I'm not being paid to say this, either XD
I don't know if it's possible to do that with hair colours :/ I'd like that too. I hand-make my townies, but if an npc ends up with hair that looks weird I just change it with a mirror. I don't bother changing their genetics because my sims rarely breed with non-townie npcs.
Weaver:
I found these a while back at MTS2: Maxis-match Skintones by Purplepaws.
The shades encorporates around the four basic Maxis tones available and may be useful for anyone who wants variety with Maxis defaults.
I'm interested in variances between S1-S2, S2-S3 and S3-S4 with the Lyran default skintones (completed by the S0 Ivory and S5 Ebony available).
Very much like what I mentioned above yet in Lyran's style. Does anyone know if this has been done and is available anywhere?
Ness:
I've looked... and searched... and I keep coming back to the fact that there's nothing out there that remotely compares to lyrans for me.
I'm currently pondering using some of the HP skins to fill in some of the gaps in the darker end of the spectrum, but I'm not so sure that it would work. It's very hard to see how they two different sets would compare in terms of tones.
Weaver, I've looked at those maxis-match skins many times. I've been tempted, but I just can't stand the grey-ness. If they could be pinked up a little, then that would work. But I'm effectively in the same spot as you - I want some skins to go in between the lyrans skins, but there doesn't seem to be anything even remotely similar.
notveryawesome:
The Maxis skins all look too yellow to me, and not grey at all (I'd actually prefer it if they were more greyish). Nothing else looks overly yellow on this monitor, so I think it's just the skins. I'm not sure why they look grey on yours. There are colour variances between different types of monitors. Perhaps you could tweak yours to look less grey.
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