Sims all look the same!

@rabidgummibear I like to make sims occasionally but I don't have a problem with wanting to collect them ;)

I love creating sims and I find it hard, sometimes. I don't use CC, but I try my best to make every sim different from the next.

I think the best advice I can give you is to play with ALL the sliders. Don't be too concerned with how they look from male to female or teen to adult. You really just have to experiment and don't be too picky about which sim premades you start with because, if you do it correctly, they should look nothing alike!

The features I like to play with the most are the jaw/chin area and the nose. These two areas of the face make the MOST difference from sim to sim, imho. Adjusting the width of the face, the size of the eyes and even sometimes using wacky makeup from supernatural can be similar to contouring.

So, really, you just have to be open to trying new things. Sometimes, I look up interesting faces that inspire me. You can see the pictures of my sims in my showcase thread in my signature, if you'd like to see. First page, second post, has links to each sim for quick and easy find.

@Mikezumi LoL i know, right? the worse thing is when i want to PLAY but end up DESIGNING the sim family all night. arrrrrgh!!!

@rabidgummibear I forgot to mention that although I like making sims, I don't like to share them. Sorry :(

@Mikezumi They could live on forever in your save :heart:

(Well, if you didn't have such short life spans :smiley:)

LOL @Auroraskies I don't always play short life spans, although I do prefer them for getting through the generations.

I get what you’re saying here. I’ve been playing since Sims 1... (technically. I was super young when i discovered it and even then, when I did discover Sims, Sims 2 was already more than halfway through. But I digress )

...and to be honest I think that when first starting out with a Sims game, no matter the iteration, your sims will indeed look like crap. At least mine did. But this is based on my own opinion and my own experience with the game. There will always be others with better looking games than me but here’s what I think would help:

To start with, get default replacement CC. Items like default eyebrows, hair, eyes and skins are HUGE game changers when it comes to the look of your simmies.

Also, getting lighting mods will bring a whole new aspect to the game you never would have imagined. I know it’s just simple lighting but dang if it doesn’t make things look prettiful <3
https://66.media.tumblr.com/5321ea02fb725e1526f783f55284d684/tumblr_phagx9Xrfo1xq9hdmo1_1280.jpg

You don’t need a whole bunch of CC, really. Like others smarter than me on here have already pointed out, playing around with the sliders is the key to having interesting looking sims. But admittedly, having default skins, eyes, and whatnot does help. Just my two cents :)

@Amphora
Beautiful photo.What lighting mod do you use?

"Springfairy556;c-16801940" wrote:
@Amphora
Beautiful photo.What lighting mod do you use?

Thank ya!

Here’s what I use: http://nilxis.tumblr.com/post/146704527436/uranesian-weather-this-is-the-weather-ive-created

I’ve been playing around with my in-game lighting lately trying to find a new look and so far I’m liking this one. Very clear and crisp and bright without being overly cartoony.

A CC skin may help if you don’t like the vanilla look, it won’t help to solve the OP’s problem imo. I see a lot of CC covered sims looking alike as well (and a lot of skins I find uglier than vanilla myself, so that’s clearly a matter of preference). Where it comes to creating variety it does come down to pulling sliders. I disagree a vanilla sim will automatically look like plum (which isn’t what the OP is adressing by the way).