Do you prefer Alpha or Maxis Match CC? (Or a combo)?

As other have said, Alpha doesn't really fit in with the rest of the game's aesthetics, it's a little like trying to insert CGI into an otherwise hand-drawn cartoon, and much of it looks... fake, for lack of a better word, so it's Maxis Match for me as well. Most of my cc is for CAS (clothes and hair), and while I do have some Alpha items there, I only fall back on them reluctantly when I can't find a fitting original or Maxis Match item for what I have in mind.

I use alpha makeup and eyelashes but otherwise strictly use maxis match. Not because I like it necessarily. But because alpha cc doesn't fit the game's style. And when you have townies generating with alpha hair wearing maxis clothes it just looks wrong. It's a good thing I don't care about realism, the clean vibrant style of the sims 4 is great.

I use MM for hair; I think the in-game hairs are getting better and better and the cc available based on a lot of them work really well. For clothing and items, I probably have a mix because I don't really differentiate between them, I just download whatever I like at the time or whatever fits what I'm trying to do. (And then I use the same 10% of it over and over and ignore the rest, hehe.)

I dont use cc often, but when I do maxis match.

While I think there are some lovely items and some very creative and talented alpha cc creators out there, I prefer maxis match. It plays well with in game content (Detective career, I'm looking at you) where as some alpha stuff (mainly hair and clothing) can cause identification issues with certain game content (sigh, Detective Career). Also, because of the clean, cartoony, and vibrant design style of the game, I just feel like maxis match cc is a better fit for my personal choice.

combo, but i lean more towards maxis match these days. i feel like a lot of alpha cc looks weird against the squidgy aesthetic of ts4. they always have glossy af textures and the world is more matte. with hair i only use pure 100% maxis match, i'm more lenient with clothes tho bc they're not as jarring. just can't deal with those overly-shiny alpha hairs lmao.

Mostly I used Maxis Match, but with more alpha makeup and the occasional clothes (like jeans) or one or two hairs/skin overlays. But only if their pretty close to MM anyway. I do prefer the cartoon look so it matches the rest of the game. Alpha things always seem, idk, too flat or stiff? If that makes sense? It's probably my graphics card or something, but the Alpha hairs are always weirdly see-through near the top of the hair. Basically if it blends in and doesn't look too out of place, I don't particularly care if it's MM or Alpha.

Lol, well I have a mix of Maxis Match sims and Alpha sims roaming around in my game, so I would say I love a combination.

"ladysweettart;c-16857678" wrote:
For me I like Maxis Match hairs, Alpha makeup, and both types of clothing.

I don't like any "replacement" things (eyes, skin overlays, etc). To me it makes sims look too different from how they're supposed to look and I don't like that

I’m the complete opposite. I absolutely hate the Sims default skins.

MM, though it's partially laziness on my part. If I download a couple of Alpha things then I need to download a lot of Alpha so that I can make everyone Alpha and they aren't mismatched because it WILL upset me if two sims standing next to each other look like they belong in different games, and I just don't have the time for all that.

I do use Alpha eyelashes though because the default Maxis Lashes... ?