#ts3 default skin

[chinsims]

Hello Everyone! I’m sorry this update took so long to get out to everybody.

Default Skin + Dark Tone Addon 2.0

This is my updated version of the skin I made here. It is far from perfect, however it has major improvements in the eye and nose areas. It also adds age detail to adult and elder sim faces. Children and toddlers also look better now (and the child life stage should be included in the file this time, so sorry for not including it before!!). 

I also reduced the texture size. For most users this change shouldn’t be noticeable, aside from the game running a bit smoother. Current textures should be 1K faces and 2K bodies. If I have time, I might make a version with smaller textures for players who need it.

Downloads are links to google drive.

All credit goes to @sims3melancholic, @smallsimmer, @annoyinglydarkblaze​, and @sketchbookpixels. Thank you all for your amazing work!​

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS:

Put these in the Overrides subsection of your Mods folder. Make sure you don’t have a default replacement skin in your game already. You will need BOTH the Default Skin and the Tone Ramp Replacement files for your skin to display correctly. The other two files are non-default, but still highly recommended as they provide a wider range of skin tones.

If you have the old version installed, make sure to remove that before using this one.

KNOWN ISSUES:

Scalp on the dark tone for default replacement/light tone for the addon has seams near the forehead. I tried my best to make it less noticeable, but with the skill and technology I currently have, this was the best I could do. I may go back and fix it later, and of course if someone more skilled wants to do it in the meantime, feel free to do so and tag me so I can use it too lol.

TOU:

Just follow the other creators’ TOUs. Feel free to tag me if you use these or make something with them! I’d love to see it.

DOWNLOADS:

Default Skin (titled Essence 2.0)

Tone Ramp Replacement (you will need this AND the above download for the replacement to display correctly, this changes the tone ramps)

Non-Default Addon Skin (this is a separate skin that allows for darker tones without sacrificing detail)

Extra Tone Ramps (extra tone ramps for the default skin, not a separate skin)

@katsujiiccfinds​

[nectar-cellar]

i rly caught the cas bug 🤧

@sourlemonsimblr aster skin

@elitisim xxblacksims curly braids hair

[sulsulzukohere]

Findis. Cannot believe how good she looks.

[faeriefrolic]

Stiles McGraw was busking at the park! Sable and some other locals watched him play 🎶

[sdmsims]

dios mio

sims 3 anime head progress report:

fixed the ascending verts, added seam between the neck and scalp (back scalp seam sucks still but i CBA rn). re-uv'd the brows to work with the stock brow alignment, and then spent the entire rest of the day trying to make the fucking ear morph work (which i finally succeeded at, see elf ears)

i still gotta figure out the weird scar-like shading artifact and the messed up shading around the neck , but i think once i iron those out i'd be in the clear to start slogging through overriding every single vanilla morph

because ts3 lacks perma-bound slots like ts4's skindetails (tattoos and universally applied makeup seem to be textures only?), i was planning on using the slider system now that i have it figured out for things like eyelash and eye shape

and then i have to do the lods and the morphs for the lods but im pretending REALLY HARD not to think abt that. and also the rest of the age groups [i shudder in fear]

[mikurulucky]

Captain Harlock characters in The Sims 3! I'm gonna need to find good alien eyes for Miime and either a better hairstyle for Tochiro or a better texture for the hair, but I'm happy with the results so far. ^_^

[mxadrian779]

Ugh, yesterday I downloaded a ton of CC for Sims 3 to try to get back into it. Loading time in CAS was painful, but even still, I'm already tempted to rip it all out and challenge myself to play vanilla.

But then I'm gonna be right back where I started and go "Why can't I love TS3 again? And I hate the faces."

[simnostalgia]

You know, I really like downloading default skins for TS2/3 but I'm always worried I'll find something that I like better and it'll make all my screenshots look crazy as sims wildly fluctuate between default skins.

Plus when I put makeup on sims it's almost always on default maxis or a slightly modified maxis and I just don't want to have to redo all that makeup. 😩

Default recommendations? I'm leaning towards Lilith's honey skin defaults for ts2. Any similar skins for 3?

[simolemons]

Danielle/Dani found her new home in Sunset Valley 🏡

✅ Start/Move to Sunset Valley +2 points

✅ Have the Athletic trait +0.5 point

[nerdupthesims]

Another two residents of the random town I'll use for some saves.:D

Mel & Noel Rudolph from @alas-i-cannot-sim Rudolph

Im so excited how story progression will proceed.:D

[erasabledinosaur]

What’s in my Game:

GRAPHIC TWEAKS

The Sims 3 GPU Add-on Support

Tweaked my GraphicRules.sgr Shadows Quality to 8k

Step 5 - Limiting FPS (Essential)

MODS:

NRAAS: Master Controller with MC Integration, Overwatch, Errortrap + Saver

simler90’s Gameplay Core Mod WITH Nraas Overwatch Compatability File (found in step 4)

The Sims 3 Smooth Patch 1.2.1

[TS3] Catalog Search Mod

No Intro

No “Mod Scripts Found”

No Drift/Lower Level Free Cam Camera Mod

Subtle Build Grid Active Level Only

Annoyances Disabler

No More Gloves with Outerwear Mod

Twoftmama Route Fix Flavor 3 v9

No (or fewer) automatic memories

xiasimla Higher Quality Default Replacements for TS3 Headline Effects

Sims 3 Decorating Tools mod (or S3DT)

Get to Know Fix+

Interaction on sloped terrain enabler

No Mutated Hair/Eye Colour

Replaced CAS animations - three flavours

Pick Up Toddler Fixes

New UI Poses (3 Flavours)

User-Directed Scolding + Other Punishment Tweaks

University Life Visual Fixes (Send Insulting Text, Texting Idle, Heat of the Moment Kiss)

No Autonomous Pet Toy Cleanup

Let Me Take a Selfie (Update 9/3/23) - Pets Fix

University Student Union / Library Shell Overrides to help with Crowding Issues

ENVIRONMENTAL/LIGHTING:

Improved Environmental Shadows

[TS3] Shadow Extender

Reworked & Improved EA Lights

TWEAKS:

Welcome Matt Deshined Rug

University Life Alpha Omega Door Fix

No more ugly snowprints

Hanging Lantern Fix

Tileable Items Shader FIX

Base Game Halfwalls FIXED!!!

Pet Tombstone Shadow Fix

Wonderfully Woven Hanging Chair Fix

Bonehilda Coffin Default.

Chillgood Fridge Re-Masked

CAS:

CAS Monotone: additional colors + Replacement CAS for single color

CAS Sim Bin Genetics as Presets

40 New Face Presets (CC Slider Free)

NRAAS: MasterController ExpandedTattoo + cmar_XCAS_TattooLocations_V2.zip

DECOR + MORE

Sims 3 Hidden Stencils Unlocked

ISLA PARADISO

Reduce/Remove Lag caused by Houseboats

Isla Paradiso Fixed World by ellacharmed

EA DEFAULTS

SATELLITES - A SKINBLEND BY SIMAREX

cute feet for children and toddlers

Default Feet Replacement by Bloomsbase

missy harries Face Overlay Lips Lip Overlay Only

Default Replacement Wildflowers

[Chisami] BLUSH BABY (default) Baby Skin

oneeuromutt’s maternity defaults

NOT QUITE EA DEFAULTS

Memories Mirror from Generations Default Replacement 4-in-1

Season’s wall hook de-starified

2 Supernatural’s rugs - DR preset addition

STORE ITEMS & COLLECTION FILES

Phantom__99 EA Store Content

Collection Icons and Files

Store Collection Filests

cc in my game: pleyita+marthasimbookcc, TSR+David Mont+everlasting garden, dewofthesea+bioniczombie, teekapoa+HYDRA, tots+tiny, omsp+omsp resizers, skin defaults+hairs

[cozygirlsimmer]

Fresh Primer - A SKINBLEND FOR TS3

hello everyone! I am so happy to finally upload Fresh Primer, I know it was a more anticipated project of mine! this skin is a mix of Ephemera’s Fresh Skin and Kurasoberina’s Primer Skin...two out of three of my favorite skins to exist for TS3! as mentioned in this post, this concept was made sometime last year right before my first PC died on me and I am happy that I could finally get back around to it!

the name itself is self-explanatory of how it came to be, but I had this idea of thinking of a "fresh" coat of paint for skins that are so loved in this community! but enough of me rambling on, that tends to happen, especially because I am sick right now with a cold.

Information about Fresh_Primer

for all ages (except for babies non-default (four-tone ramps; purple icons) 2K face and body textures

DOWNLOAD

SFS | MF | MEGA

@pis3update @simfluencer-network

[nectar-cellar]

neroli - a skin blend for TS3

Ok no more group pics because I got sick of posing all my sims together.

This skin is a mix of Ephemera's Freckle R skin, Realistic skin, Fresh skin, Buffy's V4 skin (used as the base), and a hint of Noodlesim's Apple Cider Vinegar V2 skin. Yeah, a real concoction, I know.

It favours a more realistic sunkissed look, and has freckle details on the teen, adult and elder faces. Male textures have very subtle freckles on the face and some light hair on the body; female textures have stronger freckles on the face and the standard smooth Ephemera body texture.

It reminds me of a carefree day spent in the sun...

I think Ephemera's realistic skins are gorgeous but I found it hard to make them work for my sim style. So this blend is my way of adapting those realistic details for my own aesthetics. Personally I love how it came out.

Thank you @sim-songs for encouraging me to finish this up and get it ready for general use, because after I finished the adult stages I was ready to leave it hanging in forever-wip-purgatory. And thank you to @tau1tvec @descendantdragfi for testing an early version of this skin blend many months ago - it's finally done now. 🤪

Details:

for all ages

default and non-default in the 3 EA tone ramps

baby, child and toddler stages are the same as Gardenia's (credit to Kurasoberina, Noodlesims, and Ephemera)

1K face textures, 2K body textures (adult stages)

dark versions of all textures remade by me

anatomically correct adult textures

Download: simfileshare / mega

[sulsulzukohere]

Finished all of Celebrimbor's kids. They're not supposed to be in the same universe (Half Vala Tyelpe vs Gil-Maeglin AUs), but I gave Elach the benefit of the doubt. And then she started flirting with Sauron and I had to move her out.

[hiddencowplant]

Sim (defaults)

Eyes

Sim (toddler-elder) - No glowing eyes (vampire) - Cat - Dog - Horse

Eyeballs

Sim (teen-elder) - Sim (toddler-child)

Skin

Sim (toddler-elder) - Baby - No glowing skin (vampire)

Facial hair

Beard - Eyebrows

Skin details & makeup

Freckles & Moles - Eyeshadow - Eyeliner - Lipstick

Mods / overrides

Lighting mods / environment

Fresh cut day 3.0 - Wasset enchanted environment - Snow but better - Sky lighting - Shadow extender

Gshade presets

Midna (TS3)

Gameplay fixes / overrides

Simler90's gameplay core mod - Fast camera change - Xiasimla HD bubbles - Protectus HD headline - Clean UI - Harvestables matching tree - Smooth patch 2.1

NRAAS

Master controller - Errortrap - Dresser - Retuner - Traffic - Consigner - Decensor - Register - Saver - Traveler - RelationshipPanel - Overwatch - Relativity

Other stuff

Strawberry acres

The most recent save file version can be found here!

Social media

Tiktok

[simbouquet]

TS3: re:Cerberus – Default Replacement Eye Mesh & Textures

This is a little project I’ve been working on for the past month: a complete default replacement for the eye mesh and textures for Sims of all ages and genders. I realize it’s a bit niche and very specific to my personal taste, but I’m very happy to share it. 🙂

The name is a callback to an old piece of CC I made back in 2022, my first eye texture replacement, which I wound up disliking for a number of reasons and ultimately deleted from my blog.

More info and download under the cut!

Overview

I prefer for my Sims’ eyes to have smaller, more realistic looking irises. There are quite a few options out there, but I’ve never been 100% satisfied with how they looked.

On one hand, the vanilla EA eye mesh tends to stretch smaller eye textures, making them look slightly squared, and the occult eye glow creates an unsightly outline where the original texture would be.

On the other hand, aWT’s default replacement mesh does a good job at reducing the textures, but comes at the cost of sacrificing things like catchlights and occult eye effects. Buhudain does have a version of this mesh that restores them, but the catchlights can look a little wonky or jagged at times since the mesh wasn’t really intended to be used with them anyway.

Moreover, those defaults only had a LOD0, so in some cases where the game would use LOD1 in a few situations such as generating certain thumbnails, the vanilla EA eye mesh with massive irises would show up.

With all this in mind, I decided to try my hand at making my own version and ended up with a new mesh based on aWT’s eyes, which features the following:

A natural looking globe-like shape as opposed to a perfect sphere, which @justmiha97 helped me massively with. Though not 100% realistic, I do like the effect it gives and it doesn’t look weird or out of place.

Reduced iris size, pretty much the same as aWT’s mesh.

Slightly smaller catchlights, which I find pretty cute.

Available for all Sims, Toddler to Elder.

Includes LODs 0 and 1, allowing players on lower settings to use these replacements as well besides being cohesive where the game uses LOD1.

Lower poly than aWT’s mesh, but still a little higher than EA’s, thanks to @thornowl nearly halving the poly count from 608 to 320 triangles. See a comparison below.

EA’s mesh: 192 poly for Child thru Elder; 72 poly for Toddler. aWT’s mesh (+ Buckley’s Toddler & Child conversion): 540 poly for all ages. My mesh: 320 poly for all ages.

For the textures, I edited escand’s beautiful Tiffany Glaze eyes, which I’d already been using on EA’s mesh for quite a while. I made the texture a bit larger, similar to EA’s default size, so that it won’t look too small on my mesh, and made some other small modifications to the texture.

I’ve included a replacement for the face overlay for all ages, which combines textures from @potatobuttcheek’s Eyelashes N1, @aikea-guinea’s teeth and missy harries’ sclera. The overlay also gets rid of the lip tint for female Sims and the sclera has a tiny bit of transparency that blends in subtly with the Sim’s skin color. It’s a neat little effect EA used with their own sclera texture, but I hadn’t seen it replicated in many other defaults.

Previews

CAS preview of EA eye colors on the re:Cerberus mesh and textures.

In-game previews of the eyes in light colors, dark colors and with occult effects.

All previews use my Eye Shader Tweaks and VirtualHugs’ ColorLash + Judson’s Bottom Eyelashes.

Compatibility & Known Issues

The mesh and textures are currently default replacements only. I don’t use contacts in my game, so I haven’t made a non-default version.

You can mix and match by using my mesh with other textures, or using my texture on a different mesh. For reference, my mesh reduces eye textures to about the same size as aWT’s mesh.

My mesh uses SimEyes shaders because I wanted to retain the catchlights and occult effects. I haven’t made a SimSkin version, but you can easily change the shader of the GEOM resources using s3pe if you really want to.

My mesh is incompatible with aWT’s eye sliders; they will not look right if you use them because they’re made specifically for aWT’s eye mesh. I’ve never really used these sliders so I haven’t looked into making them compatible.

My texture is incompatible with Gruesim’s heterochromia eye mesh. It will look bad if you try to use them together.

The occult eye glow is a mess by EA’s design. The effect is slapped on the eye mesh without any awareness as to where the iris is actually placed; in fact, it’s not even aligned correctly on their own eyes. I hope to be able to fix this one day and make it work properly with any eye textures, but shader modding is not an easy or fast task, so please bear with me.

Download: SFS / MTS

Place the .package files in your Packages or Overrides folder.

Credits & Thanks

s3pe: Exporting/Importing resources, creating the package file.

Blender: Creating the eye mesh.

Adobe Photoshop 2024: Editing the texture, creating the preview images.

aWT’s Eye Mesh: Basis for my mesh edit.

Buckley’s Toddler & Child Conversion of aWT’s Eye Mesh: Used as a reference for the positioning of my toddler and child mesh.

escand’s Tiffany Glaze eyes: Basis for my texture edit.

potatobuttcheek’s Eyelashes N1: Used in my face overlay.

Aikea Guinea’s Multifoiled eyes: Source for the teeth texture used in my face overlay.

missy harries’ EA Face Overlay fix: Source for the sclera texture used in my face overlay.

Thank you to @justmiha97 and @thornowl for their contribution to the mesh. ❤️

Thank you to @probablyzora’s Zoe Saora for modeling the occult eyes! 💋