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7 years ago

Share Images of the Best Looking You've Made

One thing I heard all the time from people criticizing The Sims 3 (other than performance issues) is that Sims look awful. I think we can all agree default Sims in 3 don't look all that good. I can definitely see the "pudding" some people point to. However, with some custom content and custom sliders, I think Sims in 3 can look the best out of all Sims games.

I thought we could all share images showing how we changed ugly, vanilla, pudding-faced Sims 3, into gorgeous divinities of unfathomable beauty.

This is a Sim I'm very proud of, her name is Elena:
https://i.imgur.com/qv1WT8s.jpg

She's wearing a custom skin, custom default replacement eyes and custom hair. Everything else is Maxis, including her makeup and clothes.
If you have questions or want to know where to find this content, just ask me.

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  • @Naus , Thank you! I actually never thought of them as fantasy sims...well, no more fantasy than any other sims. But now that you mentioned it, I suppose they would fall under that category. :)
  • Zero custom content,zero custom sliders,Base game hair and her outfit is from Hidden Springs Sims 3 store

    https://i.imgur.com/prfcl7m.png


    @Amphora Your super cute avatar girl gets no mention?? :# she is angry with you right now.Look how adorable she is and you just mention your Supernatural guys.


    :bawling:


    And I like everybody's simmy ladies :love:


    @ZeeGee Your avatar is what Bianca Crumplebottom from Moonlight Falls would look like if she was hot.Should have hired you to make that worlds townies :love:

  • @cwaddell Sebastian and Gabriel are super handsome, especially those eyes... Nico looks great too. And your main female is gorgeous, I prefer the hairstyle in the first pic. The second female Sim looks great, I love her old school hairstyle.

    @MemoriiValentine Your Sim looks great! She reminds me of Ginnifer Goodwin as Snow White. I really like her clothes too, especially the aqua top and jeans.

    @Mikezumi I love him. His skin has so many little details... And what a definied jawline.

    @KaytayRoall Both of them look good, but they'll probably look better with a default replacement skin. I find the default vanilla skin too bland and lacking details (men don't have nipplz). Why don't you try the skin Pary uses, Mango Smoothie. Download a default replacement version, put it in the Overrides folder, delete cache files and done. All your Sims will have that skin.

    @Pary Great. I'm going to download that skin ASAP. I love it. Yeah, Medieval Sims look amazing. The perfect balance between realism and stylization. TS4 is too stylized in my opinion. Maybe if hairs didn't look like plastic and skin have more details...

    @GemSix I call them fantasy because those skin colors couldn't exist in real life.

    @CravenLestat Zero custom sliders? Wow, how did you manage to take the "pudding" out of her face without custom sliders? She looks amazing.
  • One of my NO-cc Sims.
    https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-feq97VjnveI/W-hYnWb6cyI/AAAAAAAAatM/pnjSCDvLi-wx8i0WtDXRPgJK-Qh_VgTMwCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-5.jpg
    The trick is knowing what the base sliders do to your sim's facial features...and utilizing them to its fullest extent. ;)

    oh...and yes, she's another redhead. :smirk:

    Oh...and well, this guy isn't what I'd call good-looking (in the conventional sense of the word), but he's also a "no-slider" sim with a bit of uniform cc...
    https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-saY3n9VmvuY/W04w30psaRI/AAAAAAAAVwI/HpvEVM1IR-YFZHjK3E4V3KmC2Z3P09g_gCLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-52.jpg
    Master Gunnery Sergeant Elmo Stacker, USMC, just your typical jarhead Master Guns who drinks molten aluminum and pees napalm.

    And of course, can't forget my JAG Sims.
    https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-09M_udi8Hj8/XGsqL1II-ZI/AAAAAAAAeGA/LwstuTR0XzIhZ_jNVrsEgASO2vd0Z-4fACLcBGAs/s1600/Screenshot-20.jpg
    Yeah...went a bit nuts in TSR Workshop making the USN (and USMC) uniforms. ;) If I could figure out Blender, I'd put the proper shield, crossed anchors and eagle officer's cap badge for the USN officer's caps.
  • @Naus Thank you :) Maybe some day I'll try replacement skins. I have my reasons for not using CC. I won't bore you with them, though. If I ever do decide to try using CC, replacement skins are at the top of my list.
  • I’ve never agreed with the statement the sims in this game need CC to look good, I loved them vanilla as well and actually these sims I prefer vanilla (probably because that’s how I played them, that’s how I grew attached to them):

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/1379460916.jpg

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/2190895_orig.png

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/6324830_orig.png

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/9241667_orig.png

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/silas-portrait2_orig.png

    I think pulling sliders is more important than covering them with CC per se. Glad with the custom skin I use now though as well, the details are just better:

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/2198599_orig.png

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/cameron3bb_orig.png

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/shayne2a_orig.png

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/screenshot-897a_orig.png

    http://kobayne.weebly.com/uploads/1/7/3/2/17320944/kurt-cobain-sims-3_orig.png

    Always Maxis Match for me though.
  • @JoAnne65 Agreed :p


    Can't remember who I gave this sim too but she is pretty with no special sliders or CC.Want to say Meerkattime??

    https://i.imgur.com/hXZIy5t.png

    https://i.imgur.com/ApCtqIP.png
  • Most of my sims are born in game, and I don´t use much CC - I like the Sims 3 sims very much like they are.
    These are some I actually made in CAS.
    Spoiler

    https://i.postimg.cc/pTgm3MPd/Screenshot-3175.jpg
    Ben (no CC)

    https://i.postimg.cc/SsXXZxF5/Screenshot-3232.jpg
    Connor (chin and freckles are CC)

    https://i.postimg.cc/ZKYwLNFz/Screenshot-x675.jpg
    Violetta (no CC)

    https://i.postimg.cc/L66n64RV/Screenshot1586.jpg
    Hana (no CC)

    https://i.postimg.cc/sxQ9YQyp/Screenshot-3243.jpg
    Forgot her name, shame on me (hair and freckles CC)

    https://i.postimg.cc/J47JsVjR/Screenshot-2773.jpg
    Victor (no CC)


    And a sim born in game.
    https://i.postimg.cc/YqCs7Sq7/Screenshot-3079.jpg
    Amanda (no CC)

    edit: ´cause I´m a scatterbrain.
  • ZeeGee1's avatar
    ZeeGee1
    Seasoned Ace
    7 years ago
    "CravenLestat;c-16982502" wrote:
    @ZeeGee Your avatar is what Bianca Crumplebottom from Moonlight Falls would look like if she was hot.Should have hired you to make that worlds townies :love:


    Lol, well I will have to go check out Bianca Crumplebottom. That is my same pink haired sim that you wanted to buy an ice cream! Just with a custom skin and normal colored hair. :smile: : And you KNOW you're the one who taught me how to make nice looking sims back in the day, so maybe they should hire you. :wink:

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