Sims 3: Fun with default replacements

[strangetomato]

I think I've found an eye replacement that really speaks to me: this one by Rockermonkey at MATY. I've been playing around with different replacements (and anything is better than the completely flat default eyes), but these might stick around for a while. Don't you love how it's just one texture now and you can recolour it yourself in-game, to the exact hue you want? It's brilliant. Maybe even better than picking shoes to go with an outfit. You have no idea how many totally useable cc outfits I've passed on because of shoe choice. I'm serious about shoes.

Cute old geezer, isn't he?
 

I've also found these default replacements for the facial hair from Kitty Klan (shown above), which was something that was desperately needed. The default facial hair options were simply dreadful. It looked like iron filings glued to the sim's face. Granted, some guys actually have that, but it was a bit heavy-handed for what is essentially a cartoon face, don't you think?

As a sidenote, I'm still playing around with cc creation and some other things, but I'm working way too much these days. I have no idea when I'll have them ready to share. I hope everyone is having a nice summer!

Comments

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's a shame. I wonder if they'll ever give us that option? I suspect they'll add new hoods with EPs, but there should be some option to make a custom one.

[smjosh1218.livejournal.com]

TBH I wouldn't want to make my own hood. I'm lazy and it would be ugly and boring if I did it. I have no decorating skills. I'm not exactly happy with SV and RV but I'm not chomping at the bit to have a new hood, you know? I'm not big on complete customization. I just take things given to me, like premade hoods and premade families.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too, for sure, but it sucks that the option isn't there anymore. A lot of people do like making completely custom hoods.

And now that I can't, I'll probably want to. :P

[simsinthecity.livejournal.com]

That's my same exact stance on building houses. I spend enough time just waiting for houses, CAS, etc. to load.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

It takes me hours and hours to decorate a house, or even just one room, so I can't imagine making a completely custom hood, and I've only ever built a handful of houses from scratch. I usually try to find something close enough to what I want and then edit/redecorate it. It's the lazy way.

[smjosh1218.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, me too. I think we talked about this before- we try to find things that match the decorating taste of the Sims personalities, so we know what "fits" and what doesn't, right? Ugh, I hate decorating if only because it takes forever.

[strange-tomato.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy it, in a sense, and I love having it all decorated appropriately, but I get so lost in it and lose track of time. It takes forever.

It think we did talk about it before. We can't help it if we get sucked into things, right? We're just sensitive. :P

[smjosh1218.livejournal.com]

I know! Because this poster doesn't fit, this one does, this Sim would never own something this ugly, etc. I get so caught up in it.

That we are. It's a blessing and a curse.

[simsinthecity.livejournal.com]

I've got one custom hood where all of the houses are either downloaded or from EPs, and another hood (a recreation of the TS1 hood) that came with a bunch of houses. Both have at least one exception, I think, but only when I moved in families into empty lots and all of them were legacies that never really took off. A few other hoods have been downloaded completely (including my megahood <3). There are some other hoods in my computer made by siblings, and that's about it. I deleted all of the original hoods because I heard I'm not supposed to have the original Pleasantview with my megahood, so I just got rid of all of them (and besides I moved all of the families that came with them to a custom hood).

And I took a decent house and redid what I didn't like here. Mostly I when I take a premade house I make sure to, at least, update it if it doesn't have content from recent EPs/SPs.