Of course, you may want to download default replacement or custom clothing, furniture, objects, etc. You can keep adding to your custom content collection as you play and find things you want or need. The most important things you need are face templates, skin, and eyes. And truly, the face templates are the only things that are necessary before you start. Everything else you can add later. This ensures the most genetic variety in my neighborhood. I create a new tab on my spreadsheet so I can name my Sims and document their favorite colors, zodiac signs, aspirations, personalities, turn-ons and turn-offs as I create them.
This is where I start thinking about my individual Sims and who they really are. As I create them in body shop, I populate the favorite color field. Body shop is a utility that ships with The Sims 2. If you want unique Sims that never look the same, this is the way to do it. Double-click the Body Shop icon to open the program. Depending on how much custom content you have, it can take several minutes to load.
Give it time. Pooklet wrote a detailed post that you can read here about how she uses this method. Basically, we use random numbers to generate the faces. You can find them here:. First, create a new Sim in Body Shop. On the left panel, choose the gender, age, and weight. I start with creating all my females first, but you can do it in any order you like. I also create all my Sims as adults. I usually leave all my Sims thin in the beginning, but you can make some fat ones too if you want.
This gives me a random face template to start with. Then, choose your skin tone, eye color, and hair color and style. Use Generator 1 to roll the face. This will give you a list of numbers anywhere from to 10 for each feature available to you in Body Shop. If you get a negative number, click on the first picture. If you get a positive number click on the second picture to move the slider forwards and backwards accordingly. If you get a or a 10, you can simply slide the slider all the way to the edge with your mouse.
Each modifier has a total of 20 clicks, 10 to the negative and 10 to the positive. Then, go through the list and click on each modifier the number of times you rolled. This is how her features will be defined. Repeat for all the face modifiers — starting with full face and ending with the jaw — using the generator to roll for each area.
The generator will give you TWO numbers for each area of the face. Skin default replacements are exactly what they sound like. There are two types of skin defaults — Maxis Match and realistic.
I like Maxis Match, but there are beautiful skins out there in both styles. Here are some examples:. And yeah, I know this is a weird picture with Cassandra in her undies right next to Mortimer, Darren, and Daniel. But I needed Sims in all four skin tones to demonstrate the full range of the skin colors. As with hairs, you may have to try several different skins before you find one you like and that matches your default hairs.
This is why I recommend choosing your hair first. It makes finding a default skin much easier. Just like with face templates, you can mix and match default skins from different creators as long as you only have one for each of the four skin tones. You can also find defaults for supernatural skins including aliens, zombies, plantsims, genies, werewolves, etc.
The Maxis eyes just look so…dead and soulless. Eyes were the first defaults I ever experimented with. The improvement is undeniable. The Maxis makeup leaves a lot to be desired, and modern content creators have done a much better job. You can replace all the Maxis makeup in the game which is what I do and all the Sims currently wearing it will have a fresh, updated look.
The point is, this makeup itself looks a lot better. Just like with clothing and hair, you can also hide the Maxis makeup and just use custom stuff. After finding the hair, skin, and eyes you like, the next step is replacing the Maxis clothing. You have a few options here:. Replacing every single outfit in the game is tedious, but doable if you want to devote the time to it.
Another option is just replacing the clothing you hate the most with defaults. The later expansion and stuff packs did have some cute clothing. But if you just want to get rid of all the Maxis Clothes and start over, you can do that too with the help of hiders. Replacing clothing has an immediate impact on the appearance of your game. Townies previously wearing the Maxis outfit will now wear the replacement instead.
Adding skylines and a realistic sky is super easy and adds so much to the environment. It just takes a few mods and a placing two objects in your neighborhood to achieve this effect. All instructions are included in the video, and you can find all the mods you need here.
There are a variety of skylines to choose from including desert, snow, island, green hills, and more so you can match any neighborhood. The best place to find defaults depends on the type.
More matching non-default brows can be found here and here. You will need one set of defaults and you can add as many extra non-defaults as you want for more variety. Just put it in your downloads folder and start the game. You can safely remove defaults at any time and your Sims will go back to wearing what they were before — or random Maxis outfits, hair, etc.
The only thing that remains the same is any faces you created using default face. I use a system of folders and a spreadsheet for clothing and hair.
Find a system that works for you! I use a spreadsheet that I created with all of the outfits and hairs in the game. When I download a default for that specific outfit or hair, I mark it off on the spreadsheet with a check-mark. This helps me keep track of what I have and what I still need. If I download a fixed mesh or basic edit, I note that too.
The check marks are for outfits I have replaced with a completely different outfit. I also keep the files organized in sub-folders. Inside the folders for each type of default i. In the picture above, you can see my teen female everyday clothing defaults. I also save a picture of the default and a notepad containing the download link in case I need to find it again — mostly for sharing purposes. You can remove it from your downloads folder and your Sims will go back to normal. No harm done.
This can corrupt core game files. When you download default replacements, some of them modify the property set of the core game files. This will enable the trash button to show up in CAS and bodyshop. Removing them by using the trash button can cause problems — such as core game files being deleted or corrupted. If I ever decide to change my style again, I will update this post.
What style of defaults replacements do you use? Do you have anything to add to the information in this post? Leave a comment below and let us know! Only if you want ALL the hairs replaced in the game. Each game hair has to have a corresponding default hair or it will just remain the same. Hope that helps! So I deleted a default replacement in bodyshop before I knew not to do it. Do you know anyway to fix it? I deleted the eyes btw.
Hi Cindy! I cannot stress enough how thankful I am for this guide and for your overall contribution to the sims community!!! Can the default replacements be compressed and have spaces or other characters removed from their names? Thanks so much! Hope you can answer my question u. No, CC cannot corrupt your game that way. Hi, Valerie! I finally took the leap and began adding default replacements to my game, after 15 years of playing! The only problem I had was with the Correlated skins.
I read the comments on the download page, and it seems that it is a pretty common issue with that particular set of skins, and that it just needs edited in SimPE they tell you what exactly to do when you open the package file. Did you run across this issue with your skins? To make objects you'll firstly need knowledge of a decent paint program, SimPE and in a later stage of 3D editing.
Prepare to start fifteen times over on the same table and see this list to start:. Do you want to make careers? Majors and careers require good writing skills and advanced knowledge of Simpe. Roll up your sleeves and get to work. Do you want to make hacks? This is the most daunting side of modding, mostly cause it can break your game if you get it wrong. Advanced knowlegde of the complicated side of SimPE and probably some programming skills are needed to get things done here.
You'll be mostly on your own, but will find some starter tutorials here. Once you get past the beginner's tutorials, you're mostly on your own. If you have a definite idea of what you want to make, chances are slim you'll find a step-by-step tutorial to do it.
So improvise: read up on different tutorials that might get you a step closer, look at different packages in SimPE and if you're completely lost: ask There's plenty of people on the forums that will be willing to help you.
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You'll need to have gathered some skills here, or be prepared for long and complicated procedures.
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