She finished them! She finished them! She finished them! *is excited*  I PMed her and gave her my email and told her I would do the default versions for her if she wants, haven't heard back yet *is impatient* *wants them!*


*laughs*

*drools* heh looks like I will be using custom skintones after all (was trying to avoid it) and I wasted my time making her others defaults because I will want her new ones as defaults instead *laughs*

those preview pictures are of other skintones she is working on, I'm gonna end up with all of them 


angelyne, I'll be happy to help    If I'm feeling up to it when she gets them finished then I would even be willing to do the whole S1 to 4 set, it's not work if I like the skintones *laughs*

specs for my  Alienware baby (bought last June)

Aurora 5500
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Chassis: Alienware Full-Tower Case - Space Black
Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling 510 Deluxe Upgrade
Processor: AMD Athlon 64 4000+ Processor with HyperTransport Technology
Motherboard: ABIT AV8 - VIA K8T800 Pro Motherboard
Memory: 2GB Alienware Dual Channel Low-Latency DDR PC-3200 at 333MHz - 4 x 512MB
Graphics Processor: ATI RADEON X800 PRO 256MB DDR3 w/Digital and TV Out
Chassis Upgrades: AlienIce 2.0 Video Cooling System with Acoustic Dampening - Terra Green
System Drive: High Performance - Serial ATA - 160GB Serial ATA 7,200 RPM w/8MB Cache
Optical Drive One: NEC ND-3520 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive
Optical Drive Two: NEC ND-3520 16x Dual Layer DVD±R/W Drive
Floppy Drive: 3.5" 1.44 MB Floppy Disk Drive - Black
Sound Card: Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS High Definition 7.1 Surround Firewire (IEEE 1394)
Network Connection: Integrated High Performance Gigabit Ethernet
Modem: US Robotics 56K V.92 Performance Pro
Display One: Alienware 20.1" LCD Display
Speakers: Klipsch ProMedia Ultra 2.0 Speakers

went with a basic mouse and keyboard at the time because the cost of my baby was already close to going over what I had set aside to spend, figured I'd buy better when I got around to it/had the money (my new gaming mouse and keyboard just came in this afternoon  my brother bought them for me as a late x-mas gift)

heh, being disabled has it's good points, I rarely go anywhere so my needs and wants are few so when I had back SSI money to spend - I could blow it on a kick ass computer and be happy *laughs* I did buy another (cheaper) computer with my first back check but couldn't stand sharing it with my daughter so now she gets to use that one and I get this one.

Renatus, I am really glad you nudged her and gave her some suggestions for fixing the nipples *laughs* 

I agree that her skins are perfect for otherworldly creatures *nods her head* I may or may not keep them in my somewhat normal hood, it does have a pointy eared slut who has a couple bastard children (atleast one has her mothers ears) and I may add more pointy eared sims cause I'm really getting tired of "normal" sims. For now, I plan to just enjoy these skins in my game and forget "realistic and normal" *laughs* I look forward to seeing the next ones she makes 




Thank you  isn't it just great? *laughs*

I'd rather Jeff spent his free time playing the game 

*giggles*


hey JM, shouldn't I be a "Loudmouth Catfish"?   

Well I checked Enayla's out in-game and decided to make standalone defaults out of them the way I listed above, figure I'll use them for awhile and see how I feel about them after I get a chance to really play for awhile 

Porcelain Doll is a tad bit too pale, looks abit goulish *laughs* but I really need a "different look" for atleast alittle while, I may end up fiddling with it    I did discover that quite abit of my custom makeup still looks good on these skintones 

I deleted her earlier skintones after checking them out in Bodyshop, the uhmmmm...nipples were just sooooooooo misplaced    It's bad enough they are all nueters(sp?) misplaced nipples was just too wrong *laughs*


Dusk is perfect for my aliens....you may not have seen my black alien default skintone over at InSIM  Out of all the colors I did for alien defaults, I perfered the black one but it is a tad bit too dark 

I've never been interested in odd colored sims (green, purple, blue, rainbow) and Enayla' come close to being "to unnatural" but I found myself laughing at how creepy some of my sims look now 

heh, 2 more hours and I'll have been awake for 24 hours *sigh* insomnia sucks!


I managed to get the game all confused regarding skintones tonight, after deleteing and ageing sims up and down and having one lose his face completely (I did manage to get it back for him) I decided restarting my computer would probably help so hopefully when I play tomorrow my sims will not be still trying to have a different skintone on their faces then the one on their body 

yup thats the one *still loves it* 

every so often I fiddle with it for different colors but I'm never satisfied with them so I go back to using the red abc one you did *laughs*

myskaal, thats great! I hope your enjoying your photoshopping spree 



angelyne, thats strange!    I haven't tried to change the zombie skin, I don't plan to have any of them *laughs*



I decided to try out Enayla's skintones as defaults, used the simpe shortcut for now 

so far I did
 
S1 = Porcelain Doll
S2 = Sweet Fall
S3 = Rich Gold
S4 = Deep Earth

Alien = Dusk

I may change them around abit, depends how the Porcelain Doll skintone looks in-game    Enayla's skintones are so vibrant(sp?) that all others kind of look blah *laughs* but I need to see them in-game (which I plan to do in alittle while) and if I like them then I'll make standalone defaults out of them.

I used GunMods lighting for awhile but ended up giving it up, it was just way to dark at night and made building a bitch 


MissDoh, yes the 2am "lights out" deal is how the game is but if you change the lights to always on then they won't turn off untill
1,you turn them off 
2, you switch them back to auto.

sorry I should have gone into more detail before 

Both "auto" and "always on" can be done by room or even by each light, so you can set some lights to always be on and some to be auto, if you want 

Sims don't care if the lights are on when they are sleeping either (I think leaving them on helps keep the room score up) Right now most of my lots are set to always on for all lights and a few have the bedroom lights set to auto. I like seeing the bedroom lights go out when they go to bed, lets me know at a glance that those sims are sleeping 

sagana, you could use a separate user account 

LFox, I tried getting alien defaults to work to (to fix the teen problem) but the only thing that worked was editing the eyes on the skintone   


myskaal, your welcome let me know if it does work for you (it should since it did for me)

ahhh... I got the alien eye info from a non-default alien eye package that Allan Akbar did, I trimed it down for using on my skintone "face" image files to replace the eye on them and managed to fix the teens alien eyes that way. You could try exporting all the "face" image files from your default alien skintone and edit them like I did to try and fix yours or if you like my dark default alien skintone shown on (teenage) Patty Curious (in the pic in my other post) I could send you it to you.




you can use simpe to export any of the image files ( or whatever they are called *laughs* ) in existing skintone (or eye) packages and edit them to your hearts desire and then import them back in (I suggest the build ddx thingymybob instead of import)

I've done that to the default override package I have for the babys diaper (gives the babys a nice sleeper outfit instead of the diaper)

ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

ahh but dose yours affect water also, JMs dosen't   

of course since his in still in "testing" I haven't downloaded it yet... *laughs*

MissDoh, in my game if I set the lights to "always on" (not auto) then they stay on all the time (but for community lots only for while i was there of course)

I bet it's a yellow piss hack...

angelyne, some of your comments about the skintones gave me a chuckle    I remember when I first started playing, got rid of the blur and then discovered my sims had no nipples    it just seemed so wrong! It didn't take me long to track down some nice realistic default replacements! heh, when I was a kid I used a pen/marker or a crayon or something to give my barbie dolls nipples 

I haven't had a chance to play with crammys *cough* errr...play the game yet... I ended up needing to go back to bed    I'm not sure if I'll be up to playing later, I should take a nap now but part of me wants to go on a downloading spree 

After I download a bunch of custom hair I might download Enyala's skintones (now that I have a nice shiny satellite connection) and edit them, they need atleast some hair "down below"  My skintone editing skill leaves alot to be desired but maybe I'll get lucky (or I'll just snitch the needed "parts" off another skintone hehehe) maybe I can get rid of the blush on the cheeks too    My graphics program can do so much, if only I had more "know how" and a memory *laughs*

I totally understand the feeling of not being able to do something and the joy of feeling that this is something I might be able to do!  I felt so empowered when my friend Grykon (aka Tim) was kind enough to make me a default alien file (and give me directions) so I could work off of it to make my own.



myskaal,  I had a problem of my teens not having the alien eyes, they had these brown maxis eyes (even though I have default eye replacements)  I managed to fix mine by editing the skintone files, on each face image file an eye is shown (hard to explain)
damn and for some reason I can't sign into my image host account hmmm I zip it and attach it, now you can see what I mean and you can copy the eye part if you want to try it on yours and see if that helps. I changed the eye part on every face image even though only teens were having the problem (for some reason the teen female face isn't even used)
I am also attaching a zip of the black alien eyes done up as a default replacement file (was testing with it) I don't know if it will work with the default alien skintone file you are using (I only checked it with Garn and his face lost its texture *laughs* but I think it was just his problem because he had the same problem with a different version of the file)

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same here, it works great (it's crammys hack)


force formal sounds great, I hardly ever see any of my sims in formal

force nude could be fun, could actually have a nudist resort club *giggles*

ya I got the matrix look *giggles* I ended up doing one the old way which gave me a chance to fiddle with the skintone, got it closer to the color I wanted AND I managed to get the alien eyes to work for teens by changing the eyes on the skintone images *is very pleased* 

now I must show off Patty Curious, Pascals teenage alien daughter (please excuse her makeup, she hasn't learned how to apply it properly yet)




I even tried making new default alien eyes, worked but old Garns (I think thats his name - the pollitech dude living in strangetown) face texture disappeared *giggles*

Doing the default skintone replacments the shortcut way is better then nothing and it's certainly faster and I may use it again now that I know that it requires the other file. I normally don't keep custom skintones in because the only ones I use are default replacements, I dislike custom anything being dominate (which is why I put the time in to bin custom hair, before I knew how to do it I wouldn't use custom hair) but I'm getting sick and tired of only seeing 4/5 skintones (my main hood only has 1 alien (still an infant) at the moment, no vampires yet and there will never be zombies) so I may go on a downloading spree soon and get a bunch of custom skintones and just use simpe to make sure they aren't always the passed on skintone, which will give me a reason to play with DNA 


Anyway hopefully I feel up to playing tonight, I've added a number of new things I want to check out (like crammys cock *giggles* ) and I to need to set up the lot sync timer too! *finally decided to try them out*

I found this comment odd, I hadn't had a chance to try my new default alien in-game but bodyshop was showing it properly when I checked (under create parts, change mannican(sp?) skin) but after reading your comment I checked again and it wasn't showing properly anymore (I guess because i took out the other file) so I fired up my game and checked in-game and...well lets just say the results were very odd    I'm going to redo my alien default the old way! 

I installed the new version of simpe alittle while ago but it keeps crashing on me so I couldn't really do any checking, wonder if restarting would help with the crashing...I'll try that soon, if not I'll reinstall the older version.





the default eyes I use are by sugarandcaffeine at mts2.com
http://forums.modthesims2.com/showthread.php?t=56315&highlight=sugarandcaffeine

They look really nice in-game and the green eyes are green!


I've tried Helaene's that GunMod made defaults but they seemed to dark to me and they creeped me out *laughs*

I've never tried to make default eyes so I can't help with that    I assume you could do it like skintones (the old way) by altering a package that is already a default eye package but I've never even attempted recoloring eyes in Bodyshop...


I hope Maxis eventually gives us more default skintones and eyes to choose from *cough*change*cough* I have more skintones I'd like to use as defaults without giving up the ones I'm using *laughs*  I dislike using "custom" skintones because they end up dominate(sp?) and at one point I had like 30 kids (of all ages) and they all "grew up" to teen and had tattoos (made me sick&tired of my own tattooed skintones really fast) *sigh*


I looked at Enayla's skintones, very beautiful but I didn't care for the blush on all of them (why "blush" the skintones anyway? thats what makeup is for) atleast one of her skintones would have looked great with my black blush.


hmmm time to download the newest version of SimPE and have a snack...


edit -
angelyne, goodness I don't need credit for that info *laughs*  I'm just glad I could help and get the word out about that feature of simpe.
I know how frustrating it can be to want to make a default skintone replacement and not know how to do it or have anyway of getting it done!! *cough* long story *won't go into that*

FinkTheFuzzy, did you happen to have JMs phonehack? 

I know I remember having try for baby come up for males with the changing booth ages ago but I'm pretty sure I had JMs phonehack (which made any invited sim controlable)

your welcome 


this time I opened simpe so I could explain better 

jmtmom, your very welcome 





To get the tabs, you have to scan folders first and then select the skintone file, look down and the tabs are

scanner settings, operations, cache

you want the operations tab, scroll down till you see "skintone scanner" Base skin - pick which you want your skintone to be as default ie; Light, Normal, Medium, Dark, Alien, Zombie etc...

then just click "create default skin override"