Edit: I'm not going to be working on this set of skintones anymore. Feel free to blend them yourself, fill in any holes, do whatever, but I don't really care for these skins anymore, and don't have much in the way of motivation to continue working on them. Sorry guys.
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Happy end-of-Valentine's Day, everyone! I have a positively enormous bag of goodies for you guys! All the eyes I've been promising you since my first post here, plus a full set of skin blends! These would not have come to be if not for the lovely and tolerant
Genevieve, who took the time not only to code these skin blends but also put up with my n00bish flailing over glitches that were 9 out of 10 times entirely on my end.
The editing done to these skins is
very minor because I love Ephemera's original Soft Edition Simple skintones. I didn't set out to make entirely new skintones, just to make the originals usable by my own personal nitpicky standards (hence why the title of this post is "Compulsion"
).
LIST OF CHANGES-Upper eyelids, upper lip and nose from Ephemera's Spicy skintones
-Lower eyelids and part of cheeks from @stefan's Realism skintones
-Part of mouth and cheeks from Enayla's Angelic skintone
-All skintones darkened slightly
-Tone 5 and 6 made more rosy and realistic (the originals looked so
green to me!)
-Body texture is not changed but fat and fit states were removed due to some irksome color differences between them.
Thanks to
Genevieve, you can get these skintones in three different forms: a default set, a geneticized set, and a regular old custom skintone set. You can also have all three of these sets in your game at the same time without any glitchiness or conflicts. How cool is that?
DEFAULT SET:Light:
Tone 2Medium:
Tone 3Tan:
Tone 5Dark:
Tone 6I've also included the geneticized versions of Tone 1 and Tone 4 in the zip file, so that townies will still generate with these skintones and children can still be born with them even though they're not defaults. If you don't want them, you can just delete them!
EDIT: MeadowThayer made an
alternate default set of the last four tones, for those of you that would like a slightly darker set of defaults!
GENETICIZED SETI'm pretty sure everyone here knows what geneticized skintones are, but just in case:
this explanation by Madame Mim is very, very helpful. Anyway, this set has all 6 skintones geneticized and is best for folks who want townies/babies to generate with these tones, but don't want to ditch their current defaults.
Genevieve had the good sense to add a little double helix to the icons in bodyshop so you can tell them apart from the custom ones, should you decide to get both sets.
REGULAR OLD CUSTOM SETYup. Not much to say here. These are the same skintones as above but plain old school custom ones. For those of you that want to use these skintones, but don't want them as defaults or in your genetic pool!
What, you thought the post was over? NO, SORRY. Now it's time for the remixed eyes! Five sets of them! All of these eyes are basically the original textures with some slight color enhancement, adapted to fit on Bruno's Kylie sclera. For one reason or another, the existing scleras did not gel with me (too dark, too light, off center, hugemongous, face-eating irises ENAYLA I AM LOOKING AT YOU) so I gave them a new coat of pain and slapped them onto Bruno's sclera. Recolors and default sets to come soon! To keep this post from overflowing with images, you'll have to click the set titles for the preview image.
CREDITS: Ephemera, @stefan, Enayla*, Icedmango, Rensim*, Kamikitten. All of these creators, excluding Icedmango, have terms of use that allow for fiddling-without-asking (unless I'm reading them wrong o_o) and Icedmango gave me permission to use her textures.
THANKS: SO MUCH THANKS TO
GENEVIEVE. THESE SKINTONES WOULD NOT BE HERE WITHOUT HER, SO YOU HAD BEST BOW AT HER FEET, MAN. Also to the sim models (all unreleased sim-incarnations of some of my novel characters) even if it took like half an hour just to get those six shots because they would not stop PILLOW FIGHTING ALL OVER MY BEAUTIFULLY DECORATED LOT. >:{
POLICY: Standard policy can be found
here.
... Yeaaaaaah. That was a huge post. SORRY GUYS. D: I probably should have split it up but I didn't want to spam the heck out of the board with six different posts.
edit: *Due to misunderstanding regarding the policies of these creators, I won't be modifying their content in any future uploads, which unfortunately includes those default eye sets I promised so very long ago. Apologies for any confusion, just a case of ultra!n00b on my part.
