Do you use default skin replacement mods?

I don't currently, but his thread makes me want to start! Figuring out which ones to go with will take some time though.

I currently don't use any, but I once had one in my game and it made the eyes look so anime-esque which just doesn't fit TS4s art style at all imo. They all either look too realistic or the difference to the default are so small that I don't even bother.

"luxsylvan;c-16976304" wrote:
I don't. It's too much work for me to try and keep things up to date. But I also don't like the inverse affects of using them. I think that's my biggest problem, if that makes sense? Like I've seen some sim youtubers use them in CAS and it sort of...glosses over any problems they couldn't fix. And there was one who took them off her adult aged Sims and yiiiikes. They got old fast lol ?

Obviously I don't think everyone who uses them does so in this way, it's jus the stark difference between with and without that causes me to not want to use them. I prefer the Sims 4 style over the hyper realism of some cc, but I really enjoy subtle cc when I can be bothered to download it. ?

This is actually something I hadn't thought about but I realize it now. One of the main reasons I don't like watching Let's plays with MM body replacements (Alpha is just a hard no, I won't follow anyone using that) is because many of them are very forgiving, or specifically shaded to be forgiving. It is very telling too when you download a Sim with CC and the game removes it? Often (and I am not meaning any Simmer specifically here! Not naming names or anything!) it turns out the Sim is ugly or weird looking or both, but the CC covers it up.

Anyway, In Sims 3 I refused to play without default replacement skins, but the Sims 3 Sims were just so ugly...!

Edit: Looking at the Default skin mentioned above tho it does look good... but of course the download server is down the one day of the year I want to try it...

I'm using Vanilla by Luumia, quite happy about it :)

For me it varies with what am trying for in any given game. Right now am mostly stock EA but with some experiments usning overlays and replacements, mostly by RemusSirion, but some others. Sims with CC skins also get CC hair as that seems to just look better. Since TS4 has only 4 skins (5 if you count Polly Tech's 'Martian Green') I've gotten CC, mostly from Parismonious (all sorts of great stuff on her site, but not sure if it's still around), for times when I want to add alien races of various sorts.

I fully agree with Beardedgeek that TS3 sims are ugly, with a capital U! And they all look alike. One of the reasons I never got into 3. Why have homogenous sims when TS2 is variety galore? Maybe it's worth following you lead on that.

No, I think they look a little weird. I'm not too crazy about the fact that TS4 Sims, as they are aren't very photorealistic, but also, dealing with the skins and keeping them up to date. I did have a few downloaded Sims that used and were packaged with them; even made a couple of them on my own. While I thought I deleted most of them (and reworked my own Sims to no longer need those skins), somehow I missed my versions of households that used those Sims. Since MCCC is set up for the game to only draw townies from my tray, I've gotten a few of those Sims without their CC. Some Sims look OK without these skins, others quite hideous compared to what they're supposed to.

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Faaeish's velvet orchid default skin

Obviously, yes.

Obviously, yeah lol

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